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A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Terms, $4 A Tear. 10 Cts. a Copy. 
Six Months, $2. 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1894. 
VOL XLTH.— No. 6. 
No. 818 Broadway, New York. 
For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page viii. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial. 
The New York Deer Season. 
Snap Shots. 
The Sportsman ToUrlst. 
Forest and Stream Yellowstone 
Park Game Exploration. 
Wil'um and Booze. 
A Wyoming Remembrance. 
A Reminiscence of Cobb'slsland. 
Natural History. 
What Becomes of the Deer 
Antlers f 
What a Trapper Told. 
Sierra Nevada Foothill Birds.-n. 
Game Bag and Gun. 
NewDuPontSmokelessPowder. 
On Their First Moose Hunt. 
Chicago and the West. 
Mad Hens. 
Sea and River Fishing. 
Notes from the Salmon Waters. 
Something About the Ouana- 
niche. 
Too Hot for Fishing. 
Catflshing in the St. Francis. 
Angling Notes. 
Maine Waters and Woods. 
Canadian Angling Notes. 
Fishculture. 
St. Lawrence Anglers. 
The Kennel. 
The Big and Little Kennels 
Field Trials. 
Toronto Dog Show. 
The Bell-Martin Case. 
Moral Sense In Dogs. 
Curious Psychic Manifestations. 
Dog Chat. 
Kennel Answers. 
Yachting. 
"Vigilant's Races. 
Valkyrie -Satanita. 
A Famous Racing Skipper. 
Abuse and Excuses. 
The Other Side. 
Yachting News Notes. 
Canoeing. 
A. C. A. Membership. 
Canoeing Notes. 
Rifle Range and Gallery. 
Rifle at San Antonio. 
Zettler Shoot. 
New York Central Prize Shoot. 
Rifle Notes. 
Trap Shooting. 
The Eastern Tournament. 
Close Scores at Saratoga. 
The American Shooters 
England. 
Drivers and Twisters. 
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Answers to Queries. 
THE NEW YORK DEER SEASON. 
This is the statement of the New York law as to deer 
seasons given in the Game Laws in Brief revised for 1894: 
Deer.— Act of May 5, 1893.— Seo. 40. Wild deer shall not be killed 
between the 1st day of November and the 15th day of August follow- 
ing. No person shall kill more than two deer in any season. In the 
counties of Ulster, Greene, Sullivan and Delaware no wild deer shall 
be killed at any time within five years from the passage of this act. 
Hounding. — Seo. 44. Deer shall not be hunted with dogs between 
the 11th day of October and the 10th day of September following. 
Deer shall not be hunted with dogs in the counties of St. Lawrence, 
Delaware, Greene, Ulster at any time, or in Sullivan county between 
the 1st day of December and the 1st day of October. 
Deer in Sullivan County.— Seo. 56. No person shall kill, pursue with 
dogs, chase or take alive any wild deer in the county of Sullivan, save 
only from the 1st day of October to the 1st day of November. 
Deer on Long Island.— Sec. 170. Deer shall not be shot at, hunted 
with dogs or otherwise, or killed, except from the 10th to the 16th day 
of November inclusive. 
According to the Brief, then, the open season for the 
State at large will begin on Aug. 15, Wednesday of next 
week; and will close on Oct. 31, Nov. 1 being the first 
close day. 
Sec. 56 was added by the last Legislature; the full text 
of Sec. 20 of the amending act of 1894 (Chap. 627) reading 
as follows: 
Sec. 20. Article three of said act is hereby amended by 
adding a new section at the end thereof, to be known as sec- 
tion fifty-six, to read as follows: 
Sec. 56. No person, corporation, association or company, shall hunt, 
kill, pursue with dogs, chase or take alive any wild deer in the county 
of Sullivan, save only from the first day of October to the first day of 
November. No person, corporation, association or company shall 
have in his or its possession or expose for sale after the same has been 
killed, any wild deer or venison, save only from the first day of 
October to the fifteenth day of November in each year. Any person, 
corporation, association or company offending against any of the pro- 
visions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and in 
addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars 
for each wild deer so killed, hunted, taken alive or pursued. 
This new Sec. 56 appears to have afforded grounds for 
an erroneous report, widely circulated of late, that the 
general open deer season throughout the State is only 
from Oct. 1 to Nov. 15. 
The authority for the report is found in a decision, 
which was rendered last week by Attorney-General Han- 
cock, to the effect that the provision of the second sen- 
tence of Sec. 56 — 
No person, corporation, association or company shall have in his or 
its possession, or expose for sale after the same has been killed, any 
wild deer or venison, save only from the first day of October to the 
fifteenth day of November each year — 
is general, and that it was the intent of the Legislature 
that it should apply to the entire State. We are free to 
say that this opinion is one which we believe would not 
hold for a moment if put to the test of the courts. It 
appears to us to be founded upon a strained construction 
of the section and upon a manifest misapprehension not 
only of the natural reading of the text but of the intent 
of the Legislature's enactment as well. 
Our opinion is that the entire section is confined to Sul- 
livan, and that it cannot be construed to change the 
general deer law. Let us apply a little common sense 
to the muddle. 
1. By natural and reasonable implication, the second 
sentence of Sec. 56 refers only to the particular county of 
Sullivan designated in the first sentence. The first 
sentence prescribes the season for taking in Sullivan - 
county; the second sentence prescribes the season for pos- 
session there. It allows fifteen days for possession after 
the close of the county season for killing, just as Sec. 41 of 
the general law allows fifteen days for possession after the 
close of the State season for killing. 
2. Had the Legislature intended to change the general 
deer season, it would have followed the usual and cus- 
tomary method of amending specifically that particular 
section (Sec. 40) which has to do with the general season. 
In particular would it have followed this method in 
adopting an amendment of such importance as is this 
one. A radical alteration of the deer seasons like this 
means change of outing programmes for hundreds of 
Adirondack visitors; and involves thousands of dollars to 
the hotels in that region. A designed amendment of the 
law would have been put into clear and indisputable 
terms. 
3. Even if we assumed that the second sentence of Sec, 
56 relates to the State at large, it would limit only the 
possession or sale of venison, but not the killing of deer; 
and would not even then repeal Sec. 40. We would then 
have a law, which in one section permitted the killing of 
deer from Aug. 15 to Nov. 1, and in another section forbade 
during six weeks of this period the possession of venison 
at the very time when it might lawfully be taken. The 
Legislature could not have intended any such ridiculous 
complication as that would be. No game protector in his 
senses— not being guided by the Attorney General's 
opinion— would presume to interfere with a hunter for 
taking into possession in August and September the deer 
which the law says he may kill in August or Sep- 
tember. Again there would be a conflict with Sec. 41 
with respect to possession and sale; and it is not to be 
presumed that the Legislature intended any such conflict. 
We repeat that according to the reasonable and natural 
interpretation of the law, the general deer season in this 
State will open on next Wednesday, Aug. 15. We believe 
that the Attorney General's opinion to the contrary would 
not hold if tested in the courts. If the game protectors 
act in conformity with that opinion — as of course they 
must — and enforce the law as interpreted by it, the 
Forest and Stream will provide for an immediate test in 
the courts of the points at issue. 
|| The one to whom is due the credit for the happy carry- 
ing out of the plan of a "Nessmuk" memorial is Mr, 
(George T. Brewster, one of the younger sculptors of 
^America, who is already well known by his completed 
■works, such as the "Indiana," of the Soldiers' and Sailors' 
•Monument at Indianapolis, Ind.; and is destined to be 
better known by other works now in progress, such as the 
admirable symbolical figure of the "Mother of .the Re- 
public," designed for the Soldiers' Monument at 'Maiden, 
Mass. 
Mr. Brewster was one of the "Nessmuk" school. He 
had read the writings of Mr. Sears in Forest and 
Stream, knew "Woodcraft" by heart, and was familiar 
with "Forest Runes." Like so many others, he had 
formed an attachment for the veteran woodsman; and 
when the memorial project was broached, he offered to 
furnish the design for the work. This he did, giving the 
design as his personal contribution to the enterprise, and 
devoting time and attention to the work as it progressed. 
His portrait medallion of Mr. Sears is a likeness wonder- 
fully true to the original; and the design of the memorial 
is both the product of excellent taste and the fruit as well 
of loving personal interest. 
There remains, however, one perfectly clear contradic- 
tion in the deer law as contained in sections 40 and 56, 
for while Sec. 40-forbids the killing of deer in Sullivan 
county for five years from the passage of the act (1892), 
Sec. 56 provides that deer shall not be killed in Sullivan 
save only from Oct. 1 to Nov. 1. Sec. 56 has been con- 
strued by some person as repealing Sec. 40 with respect 
to Sullivan county. Our opinion is that it cannot be in- 
terpreted in that way; but that notwithstanding Sec. 56, 
deer are still protected in Sullivan county, and that the 
open season prescribed in Sec. 56 can have application 
only after the expiration of the -five-year term (i. e., in 
1898), unless Sec. 40 shall be otherwise amended at some 
future session before that time. Similar apparent con- 
flicts of certain sections prescribing annual seasons and 
long extended close times are found in some other States, 
and in such cases the long-term close time prevails. It 
would be a tremendous shame to open Sullivan county to 
deer hunting now during the progress of the work of the 
Forestry Commissioners in restocking the district with 
deer brought from the Adirondacks. 
THE NESSMUK MEMORIAL. 
The Nessmuk memorial stone has for some time been 
in place in the village cemetry of Wellsboro, Pa. ; and we 
reprint from a previous issue the portrait bronze, which 
forms a part of the monument. The bronze is set into a 
granite shaft, which stands on a hewn natural boulder. On 
the cut face of the boulder is the name "Nessmuk," with 
the design of a broken camp axe. The entire piece is 
artistic and beautiful, yet modest and appropriate to the 
purpose. It is in design and character such as "Ness- 
muk" himself might have chosen; and in providing it the 
Forest and Stream has endeavored to carry out what 
was thought to be the wish of the subscribers. We have 
sent to the individual contributors to the fund a financial 
statement of the receipts and expenditures; and we take 
this occasion to express anew publicly our appreciation 
their co-operation. 
A PROPOSED SPORTSMAN'S EXPOSITION. 
Sportsmen's expositions have been given in Europe 
with decided success. They have proved interesting to 
sportsmen, naturalists and the general public. They have 
been given on a large scale, have received generous 
patronage, and we believe have been not unprofitable to 
their promoters. Certainly they have proved of immense 
benefit to all those classes which can profit by a stimulation 
of public interest in the sports of the field. What they 
can do in Europe we can do in America. Why should we 
not have in the United States, say here in New York, a 
sportsman's exposition, not equaling but excelling those 
of Great Britain and the Continent? The possibilities 
surely are generous, and the enterprise of improving them 
is an inviting one. 
Mr. Armin Tenner, who is known to be enterprising, 
has come to the front with a plan for an American sports- 
men's exposition, and we hope that he may receive the 
support and co-operation required to put the project into 
effect. 
The scope of such an affair should be broad enough to 
comprise all that is of interest in the several branches of 
what we may term field sportsmanship, shooting, fishing, 
camp life, and the allied branches of yachting and boat- 
ing. The European expositions have included ancient 
and modern weapons of the chase, illustrating the history 
and development of the past and the perfection of the 
present; all varieties of sporting explosives, projectiles and 
ammunition; fire-arms in all stages of construction; the 
thousand and one appliances and tools connected with 
shooting and fishing; modes and methods, field equipment 
and practice; trophies ■of rod and gun; collections of game 
and fish. If the proposed New York exposition shall be 
laid out on broad lines, gathering its displays not from 
America 'alone but from the world, we shall have a col- 
lection which will call out cordial and ample support, 
and whose influence will have a stimulating effect on 
American sportsmanship for years to come. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
It is a pleasure to publish Capt. Money's assurance that 
the American shooters who visited the Hurlingham and 
London Gun Club grounds this summer had no ground 
of complaint because of the treatment -they received 
there. Capt. Money pertinently points out that the clubs 
concerned are of a standing which would utterly pre- 
clude any suspicion of unfair play. The charges brought 
against the Englishmen by the one disgruntled individual 
are specifically repudiated by other members of the 
party, who are indignant that their English hosts should 
have been thus maligned. 
The Supreme Court of Minnesota has rendered an im- 
portant decision upholding the game laws of the State. 
The salient points are that the provision of the law which 
declares game and fish to be the property of the State is 
constitutional; and the State has an undoubted light to 
prescribe that game and fish may on capture become 
only qualified property of the citizen, to be used for cer- 
tain designated purposes only. We shall review the oasa 
in our next issue 
