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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 28, 1896, 
The animal was shot by Robert Mann on Burns Run, 
Centre county, The editor of the Gazette has sent the 
head, to Charles Eldon, taxidermist, Williamsport, for 
mounting, who writes under date of Dec. 2: " It is with- 
out doubt the finest head, considering points, I have ever 
seen. It is simply magnificent." 
Ohio Pheasantry. 
At Celina, Ohio, is located a pheasantry. This pheas- 
antry is the property of Ohio and became such through 
the efforts of the Ohio State Fish and Game Commission. 
It is the first case on record where any effort has been 
made by a State to propagate any kind of game birds for 
the public. On account of a very low appropriation the 
Commission could not go into business to any great extent, 
but the success attained the past year will cleraly show 
hat this bird can be raised in large numbers in confinement, 
and when raised and released in the woods and unculti- 
vated ground of the State it will thrive and do as well as 
our native pheasant* 
The birds at this hatchery were confined in a space of 
100ft. square, and on this account a great many young 
birds were lost that would have become full grown if they 
could have had a proper place to run. At this hatchery 
are confined at present 50 old birds and about 325 young 
birds hatched this season. With a liberal appropriation 
next year, the Commission can raise 10,000 of these birds 
with what stock they now have on hand. The Legislature 
will be asked to pass a law to prohibit the killing of this 
new game bird, and also the native pheasant, or ruffed 
grouse. The Commission has also released a dozen of these 
birds on Rattlesnake Island, and, although it is very hard 
to get the correct number raised there this season, it is 
fair to estimate that at least 75 birds are there. The name 
of this acquisition to the game birds of Ohio is the ring 
neck and mongolian pheasant. In the State of Oregon, 
where this bird was placed by Judge Denny, of Portland, 
only a few years ago, the birds are as plenty as were the 
native pheasants here a few years ago. — Crawford County 
(O.) News. 
Razor-billed Auk on Long Island. 
New Yoke Cixy, Feb. 12.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have in my possession a male razor-billed auk (Alea 
torda), shot on Montauk Point, L. I., Feb. 7, 1895, during 
a snowstorm. James Nicholson Gallatin. 
'mti? j§(ti$ and %wu 
FIXTURES. 
March 16 to 21, 1896.— Second annual Sportsmen's Exposition, undor 
the auspices of the Sportsmen's Association, at Madison Square 
Garden, New York city. Frank W. Sanger, Manager, 
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. 
Chicago, 111., Feb. 13.— The annual meeting of the 
National Game, Bird and Fish Protective Association was 
held last evening at the Sherman House, this city. The 
question of credentials was not urged. There were only 
ten men present, namely, the president, Mr. M. R. Bor- 
tree; the secretary, Mr. A. L. Lakey; the treasurer, Mr. 
W. H. Thompson; the attorney, Mr. F. S. Baird; the Illi- 
nois game warden, Mr. Charles H. Blow; the Michigan 
game warden, Mr. Chase S. Osborn; Mr. Jas. V. Barnum, 
of Prairie du Chien, Wis. ; Mr. J. C. Burkett, of Chicago, 
and two representatives of the sporting press. The con- 
stitution says that ten "delegates" shall constitute a 
quorum for the transaction of business; so the meeting 
was called to order. Reading of the minutes was dis- 
pensed with. Several new members were admitted. 
Calling of the roll of members was omitted. 
Under head of reports of standing committees, Mr. F. 
S. Baird reported for both the executive and law com- 
mittees, speaking of his work with Mr. Bortree in the 
Kewanee freezer case, and reading his draft of a proposed 
amendment to the Interstate Commerce laws, which lat- 
ter has been previously published in Forest and Stream. 
Mr. Thompson moved the report be accepted and a copy 
of the bill and a circular letter of indorsement be sent 
each member. No second came at once to this, and some 
discussion ensued, Mr. Osborn, of Michigan, enthusi- 
astically claiming that so good a report and so good a 
measure deserved something more than mere adoption. 
At this juncture it developed that no member of the law 
committee had labored on the draft of the bill except Mr. 
Baird, no other member having had interest enough in 
his duty to contribute assistance. Mr. Baird made some 
comment on the conduct of certain gentlemen, and said 
he had done alone what no one would help him do. The 
objector would not be appeased with this, but insisted 
that Mr. Baird's bill was faulty, and that it should be put 
before all the members of the law committee, and submit- 
ted for approval to al 1 the members of the Association before 
it should be allowed to go before Congress. (There was 
evidently a nebulous idea in his mind that Congress would 
at once pass in its crystalline entirety any bill which had 
gone through this process of preparation). There was 
evident impatience at this waste of time in idle talk. 
Mr. Baird said it was now or never for this bill, and that 
if any such dilatory and circumlocutory process were 
gone into it would mean the loss of a year's time at least. 
The Forest and Stream representative moved that a 
printed copy of Mr. Baird's bill, together with a circular 
letter of its indorsement by the Association and a circular 
letter suitable for individual indorsement by members for 
transmission to their respective members of Congress, be 
inclosed to each member of the Association. Mr. Thomp- 
son seconded this. Wrangling among the little national 
body still continued. At 10:15 o'clock Mr. Thompson 
arose with disgust and said he had to leave to catch his 
train home. He tossed on the table his brief treasurer's 
report (which showed a balance on hand of $35 34) and 
started to leave, saying he was sorry the Association found 
nothing better to do than rake up the past and wrangle 
over unimportant quibbles. Mr. Thompson was besought 
to remain half a minute, and the question for the twenti- 
eth time was called for. On vote the Hough-Thompson 
motion was carried, the matter of the printing being re- 
ferred to the law committee, with the president and 
secretary added, said committee being further instructed 
to "take all proper measures to push said bill in Con- 
gress." 
The president, Mr. Bortree, suggested action against the 
iniquitous New York game law, which kept an open mar- 
ket the year round to swallow up Western game. Mr. 
Osborn, of Michigan, moved that a committee of three, 
Mr. Bortree to be chairman and to name his associates, 
be appointed by the president to memorialize the New 
York Legislature for a change in the statutes now stand- 
ing bo that the New York selling season shall be limited. 
This was carried. Kalamazoo, Mich., was chosen for 
the next annual meeting. Some talk was had of going 
to Waco, Tex., for the next meeting, the Mayor having 
sent an invitation which was supported by a letter from 
Mr. M. B. Davis, of that city. The date of the next 
annual meeting is to be fixed by the officers of the Asso- 
ciation and announced duly. Mr, Barnum thought that 
Chicago would be a good place, if the date could be set 
for the week of the big dog show. Mr. Bortree thought 
Chicago was a poor place for a meeting at any time. 
In the election of officers Mr. M. R. Bortree, of Chicago, 
was continued as president; Mr. A. L. Lakey, of Kalama- 
zoo, Mich., was continued as secretary ; Mr. W. H. Thomp- 
son, of Wauzeka, Wis., was continued as treasurer. The 
law committee will consist of Messrs. F. S. Baird, of 
Chicago; Blair Lee, of Washington, D. C. ; De Forest 
Paine, of Detroit, Mich., and two others, to be appointed 
later. The executive committee for 1896 will be Mr. F. S. 
Baird, of Chicago; Mr. Chase S. Osborn, of Sault Ste. 
Marie, Mich.; Messrs. J. C. Burkett, E, Hough and G. W. 
Strell, of Chicago. The finance committee will be 
selected later. On Mr. Barnum's motion the addresses of 
the president and secretary were ordered printed and 
sent to the members. The president, Mr. M. R. Bortree, 
then read his annual address at the request of those 
present, and the meeting then adjourned. During the 
evening Warden Blow found occasion to speak somewhat 
of ancient history, and liberally roasted Mr. Mott, of the 
law committee. Warden Osborn, of Michigan, spoke en- 
tertainingly of game and fish protection in his State. As 
State game and fish warden he has charge also of the 
great lake fisheries. Mr. Osborn remarked that he had 
destroyed $60,000 worth of illegal nets and gave other 
data of a work which has been of great interest and 
value. 
Comment. 
A few things seemed to be proved by the 1896 meeting 
of this national association. One of these is that Chicago 
is the poorest place possible to hold such a meeting. Chi- 
cago men are too busy and will not attend protective 
meetings. Still further proof also is offered of the gen- 
eral apathy in the matter of game protection. An annual 
national meeting which calls out only ten men is of course 
not truly national, and there can be but little weight in 
such news as it can create under the assumed character of 
a national quality. Yet the spirit which animates even a 
less body of men maybe of a sort which, rightly directed, 
may be worthy of a national emulation — a spirit of unsel- 
fish interest in the protection of our disappearing game. 
Some few individuals have that spirit, ana when that is 
established, it matters not under what name it goes, for it 
is good under any name and on any line of effort. We 
shall never see a truly national body of such men joined 
together under any name or under any plan, because there 
are not enough of such men; but the work of the few who 
will work unselfishly is none the less worthy of commen- 
dation. 
I make bold to say — without discourtesy intended to any 
others — that the national association for 1895 has con- 
sisted of just two men, M. R. Bortree and F. S. Baird, of 
Chicago. It is all very well to speak of the benefits of 
"agitation," but agitation looks to results, to execution, by- 
some one, somewhere. The trouble with national associ- 
ations has been that they left the when and the where and 
the how of this executive part of the agitation too charm- 
ingly indefinite. They left it still a question of "some one 
else." Just this much could be said of this national asso- 
ciation to-day, were it not for the personal efforts of Mr. 
Bortree and Mr. Baird, and it is out of these efforts that 
has come the only real news of the association for the 
year — the prosecution of the Kewanee freezer case, and 
the drafting of the proposed Interstate Commerce law 
amendment. Both of these gentlemen have preferred to 
tack the long name of a national association to 
their individual work, and I see no reason why 
they should not be humored in this, though the 
actual truth still remains that they have done 
this work individually, without instruction, unselfishly, 
and at their own expense, under difficulties and discour- 
agements, and certainly without much loyalty of sports- 
men behind them. In doing this they have had a curious 
kink in their minds. They thought the National Game, 
Bird and Fish Protective Association was an honor to 
them. The truth is, they are the honor to the National 
Game, Bird and Fish Protective Association. The latter 
deserves credit just in so far as it can produce just such 
men. Mr. Bortree and Mr. Baird are a peculiar pair. 
They have always been friends and have always worked 
together in protective matters. Mr. Bortree is what they 
call a "crank" on protection. If we bad more such 
cranks we might perhaps some day have a real national 
association. Mr. Baird has given readily and gratuitously 
his services as an attorney whenever a game case was to 
be fought. These two men have made mistakes, like 
everybody else, and sometimes perhaps they have made 
the mistake of mistaking their friends, but it none the 
less remains true that they have been almost the entirety 
of the amateur or sportsman protective effort of Chicago 
for the year. As to "agitation," they have been two 
among others. As to execution, they have been tLe 
"some one else" to whom all amiable but aimless agitation 
of the national sort usually is helplessly turning. Now, 
there is your National Game, Bird and Fish Protective As- 
sociation as it really is on its executive side — and the ex- 
ecutive side is the only side which ever has any real news 
in it. The "agitative" side, consisting of speeches and 
resolutions, has no news value whatever. It is nice to see 
one's name in a newspaper, but, to use the blunt speech 
of the populace, that cuts no ice in game protection. 
I take so much space in mention of these facts — the 
only real news of the association — because, being here in 
Chicago, I have heard comment on the editorial criticism 
made by Forest and Stream upon this association. For- 
est and Stream editorially hit the nail on the head, as it 
always does. Forest and Stream, as already becomes 
apparent, had gotten at the facts of the case and taken its 
position without any grotesque gambolings intended to 
decoy a few possible subscribers within reach of its 
counting room. E. Hough. 
909 Security Bch-ding, Chicago 
HUNTING IN MANY LANDS.* 
Two years ago the Boone and Crockett Club, an asso- 
ciation of big-game hunters, issued the first of its publica- 
tions, a handsome volume entitled "American Big-Game 
Hunting." We have now to welcome the second volume 
of the club, under the title which heads this article. The 
first of these volumes, as implied in its title, confined 
itself to the large game of this continent, and the articles 
which it contained, with one or two exceptions, had to 
do with little else than the actual pursuit and capture of 
game. It was a good book, its chapters were well writ- 
ten, enthusiastic and full of life, but the volume now in 
hand is better than its predecessor. In this one much at- 
tention is given to the big game of America, but there 
are in addition accounts of hunting in other continents — 
in Africa, in China and Tibet — written by well-known 
explorers who are members of the club, and possessing 
an exceptional interest for men whose use of the rifle has 
been confined solely to the North American Continent. 
The present volume is larger than its predecessor. It 
covers a broader field, and in its literary excellence it 
fully maintains the high standard set by "American Big- 
Game Hunting." 
"Hunting in Many Lands" contains fourteen articles 
that are signed by members, two that are editorial, and 
some matter personal to the club and its members. The 
first article is by Mr. W. A. Chanler, the young African 
explorer whose^splendid work about Mount Kilimanjaro 
is so well known. It deals with many sorts of East Afri- 
can game, from elephants down to small antelope, and 
paints not a few graphic pictures of the difficulties en- 
countered by the African explorer who has to deal with 
great bodies of uncivilized negroes. 
Following this is an admirable sketch full of local color 
from the pen of Mr. George H. Gould. It describes a trip 
into Lower California in search of mountain sheep, and 
incidentally tells much of that wonderful desert and of 
the people who inhabited it when the white men came, 
It is admirable not only from its descriptions, but as a 
piece of pure English. One of the remarkable events 
which it records is the killing of two mountain sheep 
by a single ball. The head of the largest ram secured 
by Mr. Gould is singularly symmetrical and handsome, 
and is spoken of ia the article in the volume on "Horn 
Measurements" as "on the whole the finest head of which 
we have any record." It measures 42iin. in length and 
has a girth of 16jin. 
In a Canadian moose hunt Mr. Madison Grant gives 
a vivid account of the difficulties and discomforts to be 
passed through by the hunter who starts out into the 
Canadian wilderness to track down the moose. These are 
the things often forgotten or omitted by men who write 
on big- game hunting, but they are the touches which 
give life to the picture. 
Mr. Elliott Roosevelt's article, "Hunting Trip in India," 
possesses exceptional interest for all the members of the 
club and for its author's many friends from the fact that 
he is no longer living, the account having been written 
by Mr. Theo. Roosevelt from his brother's diary. It tells 
of hunting in the jungles, and also of work done on the 
high slopes of the Himalayas in Cashmere. The story 
is given with great simplicity, and the incidents show 
unconsciously how keen a sportsman and how plucky a 
man the hunter was. 
It is a far cry from India to Manitoba, but in the next 
article Mr. D. M. Barringer tells us of a dog sledging 
trip made in winter after moose and caribou into the 
country lying between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Win- 
nipegosis. This trip, of course, was made on Bnowshoes 
and in the face of the bitterest cold, the thermometer 
going as low as 45 and 50° below zero. Much curious 
information about travel in the far north is given. 
From Manitoba we are carried across the sea to Russia, 
in the long and interesting article on wolf coursing in 
Russia, from the pen of Lieut. Henry T. Allen, who for 
several years was military attache at St. Petersburgh. 
The account of Russian hunting methods and of the dogs 
will prove extremely interesting to all persons who take 
pleasure in the use of greyhounds in this country. 
One of the most admirable articles in the series is Mr. 
Alden Sampson's "Bear Hunt in the Sierras." It is 
charmingly told, is full of excitement, and withal con- 
tains much interesting information about the forests of 
the Sierras, and the way in which they are being de- 
stroyed by the sheep and the sheep herders. 
The ascent of Chief Mountain, a deservedly noted peak 
of northwestern Montana, is well described by Mr. H. L. 
Stimson, who, with two companions, one of them a mem- 
ber of the club and the other an Indian, accomplished 
the feat of reaching the summit, something which no civi- 
lized man had hitherto achieved. Mr. Stimson is full of en- 
thusiasm for the mountains and happily describes the 
country, the peak and its difficulties. He gives most 
charmingly an ancient legend of the Piegans, which tells 
how once before this mountain had been climbed by an 
Indian, who was about to take his medicine sleep; and 
singularly enough, when these climbers reached the peak 
of the mountain, they found there, half buried in the 
weathered debris of the rocks, in a place to which no 
four-footed animal could possibly have climbed, a very 
old buffalo skull, just such an one as tradition said the 
Indian had carried with him. 
Mr. Caspar W. Whitney, whose writings are well 
known, and who some years ago prospected for gold in 
the mountains near the Rio Grande, tells some exciting 
stories about the mountain lion, with which he has had 
large experience. This animal is one that few hunters 
know very much about. 
Perhaps the most important chapter, because it treats 
of the country that is least known to any of us, is Mr. 
Rockhill's "Big Game of Mongolia and Tibet." He de- 
scribes most of the large mammals of this country, of 
which he has an intimate knowledge, obtained during his 
explorations among the Mongols; but the conclusion that 
he draws is that Corea, Mongolia and Tibet are not 
countries for the sportsman, and that unless one has some 
other hobby to take him there, he would better seek his 
fun in some more accessible quarter of the globe. 
Mr. Theo. Roosevelt's paper on "Hunting in the Cattle 
Country" is full of facts and experiences which when 
pondered will be useful to the young hunter. He writes 
in a chatty, interesting way, and does a good deal for 
science too when he urges upon members of the Boone 
~* Hunting in Many Lands. The Book of the Boone and Crockett 
Club. Editors: Theodore Roosevelt and George Bird Grinnell. Vig- 
nette. New York; Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 1895, 
Price ?3.50, 
