Forest and Stream 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1894 
No. 
VOL XLHL— No. 19. 
318 Broadway, New York. 
Editorial. 
CONTENTS. 
Sea and River Fishing. 
Sportsmen, Judges and Wardens. 
Vermont Deer. 
Snap Shots. 
The Sportsman Tourist. 
Three Days on Long Key. 
Woodlands. 
Natural History. 
Color Variation of the Gray 
Pquirrel. 
Breeding Hatits of the King 
Penguin. 
Game Bag and Gun. 
Chic ap o and the West. 
Days Afield 
Texas and the Southwest. 
That CaBtilla Grouse Hunt. 
Cuban Shooting. 
The Big Buck of Walden's Ridge. 
A Day With the Birds. 
Boston and Maine. 
The Sportsman's Exposition. 
Down in Maine. 
Sea and River Fishing. 
In Quest of Ouananiche. 
A Day with the Flatfish. 
Good bye, Sweet Stream. 
The Loch Leven Trout. 
Angling Notes. 
The Kennel. 
National Beagle Club F. Trials. 
New England K 0. Terrier Show. 
Foxhounds at Providence. 
Whippet Racing. 
Dog Chat. 
Yachting. 
The Schooner Yecht Sverige. 
Model Yacht Building. 
8teel Shio Building. 
Yachting News Notes. 
Rifle Range and Gallery. 
Rifle Shooting in England. 
A Bullseye That Did Not Count. 
Trap Shooting. 
The Townsend Benefit Shoot. 
Keystone Shoo' in? League. 
Iowa Championship. 
Drivers and Twisters. 
Asnwers to Queries. 
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SPORTSMEN, JUDGES AND WARDENS. 
We certainly have no intention of giving undue prom- 
inence to the affair of the New Jersey judges, who stand 
charged by Game Warden Charles A. Shriner with a 
violation of the game law in having unlawfully shot 
ducks from a steam launch on Greenwood Lake, but the 
case has assumed a phase which merits attention. 
The approved standard of sportsmanship has been set 
so high in these days that not all who take part in field 
sports may lay claim to recognition as genuine sportsmen. 
They may be good shots or expert fly-casters, and yet lack 
those qualities which are requisite for admission to the 
ranks. Tried by his part in the Greenwood Lake inci- 
dent, may Chief Justice Dixon be classed as a sportsman? 
As in this country at least all sportsmen are on one 
footing in the field, and men of the gun recognize no class 
distinctions, so, too, all are equal with respect to the game 
laws and their observance or want of observance. When 
Warden Shriner swore out his complaint for Judge Dixon 
and his companions, two courses were open to the accused, 
either of them perfectly honorable for citizen, sportsman 
or judge. If guilty, he might have answered to the 
charge, pleading in extenuation an inadvertent offense, 
and have paid his fine. If guiltless, his was the privilege 
accorded as of right to every wrongly accused person, to 
declare his innocence and prove it. 
When this duck-shooting charge was first brought, 
one of the party, Judge Inglis, seemed inclined to adopt 
the first mode of dealing with the case both for himself 
and for Judge Dixon and the others. Not denying the 
unlawful shooting, he averred that before going out in 
the man DeGraw's launch, the duck hunters had con- 
sulted a copy of the statute and had failed to note in it 
any prohibition of the practice, and that their violation 
of the law had therefore been unintentional. This, it is 
true, was a lame excuse for a, jurist, nevertheless if the cir- 
cumstances were as related, and if the accused persons 
had stood by Judge Inglis and had paid their fines, they 
would have come out of the affair with comparative 
credit. One of them in fact — a layman — manifested a 
desire to adopt this honorable course, for before the 
Paterson magistrate he put in a plea of non vult. (which 
was to say that he had not intentionally offended), and 
expressed a readiness to pay his fine; but none of the 
others joined him. Now, if Judge Dixon did shoot ducks 
unlawfully, and is yet unwilling to settle promptly and 
cheerfully for his infraction of the game law, may he be 
classed as a sportsman? 
If, on the other hand, the Chief Justice did not shoot 
the ducks, it would have been, when the case came up 
last week, the part of a genuine sportsman, a good citi- 
zen, and a judicial officer jealous of his honor, to have 
denied the charge and made his defense on the facts. 
Did he do this? On the contrary, as reported in our game 
column, the eminent jurist avoided the plain issue of fact, 
and asked for the dismissal of the action on the ground of 
a defective complaint. Failing to accomplish this, he. 
took the case on purely technical points to a higher court. 
The presumption is usually against a defendant who, 
instead of meeting the issue of fact frankly and fear- 
lessly, skulks behind a plea of technicalities. When one 
is charged with shooting ducks unlawfully and answers 
the accusation by saying that the complaint is defective, 
is he to be regarded as a sportsman? 
As a matter of fact, we suspect, that whether he may 
be regarded as a sportsman is perfectly immaterial to the 
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey; he 
probably is concerned with weightier subjects of thought. 
The point is indeed of little consequence. 
But it is of consequence, and of the very highest conse- 
quence, that we should have a clear understanding, in 
New Jersey and every other State in the Union, that men 
of all grades and stations, whether in public life or private 
citizens, are without distinction all alike amenable to the 
game laws. There are those who appear to think other- 
wise. The Under Sheriff of Passaic county, for instance, 
is quoted as saying in comment on the Greenwood Lake 
affair that it was "a gross outrage that a miserable fish 
warden should be so presumptuous as to prosecute a Jus- 
tice of the Supreme Court." That was a foolish and 
impudent remark to come from a peace officer. If the 
extraordinary sentiment it embodies is held and acted 
upon by the other under-strappers in the office of the 
Sheriff of Passaic county, we advise that official to rid 
himself of the whole lot of them. 
If anybody in New Jersey or out of it doubts the per- 
fect propriety of Game Warden Shriner's course in 
prosecuting Judge Dixon, let him reflect that there are 
particular reasons why a Justice of the Supreme Court 
should observe the game laws, or failing in this, should be 
prosecuted by a game warden, "miserable" or otherwise. 
In the first place, by reason of his position, a judge 
should be as a shining light, and exemplar in all that 
pertains to good citizenship. That means that he should 
scrupulously respect and abide by the law of the land, 
the game law included. 
When charged with a violation of law, a game statute 
or any other, if guilty he should promptly pay the penalty; 
if innocent he should as promptly prove his innocence, 
without resorting to avoidance and technical pleading. 
In other words, a Justice of the Supreme Court stands 
with respect to law just where any other citizen stands; 
he is under precisely the same obligations and has no 
immunity from them. 
Moreover, since game laws are so often and so mis- 
chievously regarded with disfavor as "class legislation," 
it is the duty and should be welcomed as the privilege of 
a high-minded judge, when occasion offers, to correct 
this mistaken prejudice by showing that the game 
statutes make no distinction of persons, but apply to all 
men, the highest as the lowest. In the present case, for 
example, Chief Justice Dixon should improve the oppor- 
tunity to rebuke the un-American and contemptible ser- 
vility manifested in the sentiment of the Under Sheriff of 
Passaic county, by himself making cheerful and ready 
reparation for his own deliberate or inadvertent violation 
of a game statute, or else he should clear himself of the 
charge precisely as he would expect of the humblest 
citizen in the land. 
If these are good reasons for a Supreme Court Justice's 
conformity to the game laws, they are likewise reasons 
quite as cogent why a game warden should enforce such 
obedience; and they not only warranted Game Warden 
Shriner in taking the course he did, but compelled him to 
adopt it. If he shall now permit himself to be swerved 
from his plain duty by the silly pratings of under-sheriffs, 
he will be faithless to his oath of office, for that oath was 
to enforce the laws against all men, without any excep- 
tion in favor of judges who shoot ducks from steam 
launches. 
VERMONT DEER. 
In Vermont deer are protected all the season through, 
and have been for many years, ever since some public- 
spirited citizens of Eutland bought a herd of Adirondack 
deer and turned them out in the Green Mountains. The 
imported animals have multiplied and are growing more 
numerous every year. So too are the native deer in the 
western part of the State, which have enjoyed a certain 
amount of immunity under the law. 
The guileless Yankees and the artless Canucks of the 
agricultural districts where the deer are found have been 
vying with each other in telling pitiful stories of the dep- 
redations of the game upon their crops. To listen to their 
tales of woe is to be told that their condition is more 
desperate than that of the poverty-stricken and deer- 
devoured crofters; and now they have appealed to the 
Legislature for relief. All they ask is permission to de- 
fend their altars and their fires and the green graves of 
their sifes by repelling with clubs and guns the cabbage- 
cropping deer and potato-blighting partridge. A bill to 
this effect has been introduced at Montpelier, along with 
another one offering a bounty of a dollar a head on rattle- 
snakes. 
We notice, however, that in their biennial report to 
the Legislature the Commissioners of Fisheries and Game 
aver in substance that this talk about the destruction of 
crops by deer is nonsense; but then the Commissioners are 
not hankering after deer meat. 
They explain that among citizens of the three counties 
of Essex, Orleans and Lamoille, there is a special demand 
for a short open deer season. In these counties violations 
of the law have been numerous, but now the residents 
promise that if they shall be given liberty to hunt deer a 
part of the time, they will rigidly obey the law for the 
remainder of the year. This is as if a man who was 
making away with his neighbor's hay should propose to 
him: If you will let me take a load or two openly I will 
no longer steal it at night. That is not a very exalted 
stand to take, neither for Y r ankee nor Canuck; and it 
would be a pity if the Legislature should sacrifice the true 
game interests of Vermont in concession to such a high- 
way robber style of argument. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
Happy indeed is the sportsman who is mated with just 
the right companion for a shooting chum. In such a 
union the rules of mathematics are thrown to the winds; 
for while twice one is two, and two guns may secure 
twice as much game as one, the satisfaction two friends 
can get out of an excursion is ten-fold or a hundred-fold 
what may be given to one alone. To begin at the very 
beginning — and that is where the fun of an outing begins 
if at all — there is a deal more pleasure in planning and 
discussing the campaign with another who is to share it 
than there is in figuring it out alone. And to go on to 
the end of it — if the end ever comes while memory holds 
— recollections are fresher and clearer and dearer if there 
be two to remember and talk together of the field days of 
the past. In all these three phases of one's outing — the 
anticipation, the realization and the retrospect — one needs 
a friend to share them, and by sharing each to increase it. 
Thus much of the satisfaction of field sports consists in 
the companionships they create and foster and cement. 
Take away from an outing this element of social inter- 
course and often there will be very little left. Some of 
the pleasantest and firmest friendships of a lifetime have 
been formed in the field. Some of the friends whose 
absences we most deplore, for whose deaths we sorrow 
most sincerely, are the friends and companions of the 
camp and field and stream and shore. For more than one 
gunner old or young the charm of his once favorite 
sport has vanished, because he can no longer enjoy it in 
company with one whose personality lent to it its chief 
fascination. 
Abundant promise is given in the prospectus of the 
Sportsmen's Exposition sent us to-day by Secretary 
Webster. The scheme has been developed to meet the 
requirements of an affair worthy American enterprise. 
The promotors should have prompt and generous co- 
operation and unstinted support. If the Exposition shall 
be in actual attainment a half of what is here outlined, 
it will prove an event of incalculable benefit to the in- 
terests concerned. 
