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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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The New Brunswick Convention. 
THE inefficiency of the game and fish laws of the State of 
New Jersey, to properly protect the game and fish of that 
State, has induced the sportsmen of New Jersey to take steps 
to remedy the evils alluded to. The publishing of the fol- 
lowing notice in the issue of Forest and Stream for Dec. 8 
sounded the call: 
For many years there has been general complaint of the inefficiency 
of the game and fish laws of New JerBey to protect the game and fish 
to any appreciable extent. In spite of State and individual efforts to 
stock forests and streams, pot-hunters and other unscrupulous indi- 
viduals have been able to disregard the laws with practical impunity. 
The New Brunswick Gun Club at a meeting recently held took the 
initiative in a movement looking toward the adoption and enactment 
of adequate laws. It was decided to hold a convention in this city in 
Voorhees HalL, at 12 o'clock noon Dec. 15. An invitation will be sent 
to each gun club in the State to send two delegates. The Brunswick 
Club will bear all the expense except the transportation of delegates. 
It will be the purpose of the convention to recommend to the commis- 
sion recently appointed by the Legislature such changes in the game 
laws as will serve to protect the game and also to provide means of 
detecting and punishing infractions of the law. The local club has 
elected W. S. Gummere, of Trenton, and George A. Viehmann as 
delegates. 
Delegates from 8 out of the 21 counties in the State were 
present, the roll call showing 25 delegates in attendance at 
the convention. A committee of one delegate from every 
county represented, with Mr. J oseph Fisher, secretary of the 
New Brunswick Gun Club, as chairman, was appointed, to 
present the views of the sportsmen of the State to the Game 
and Fish Commissioners, who meet at Trenton on Jan. 5 
next. This committee was enlarged so as to include one 
delegate from every county in the State, so as to insure full 
representation. 
The convention was badly divided on the question of the 
open season for woodcock. The northern section wanted it 
to open not later than Oct. 15, the southern section holding 
out for Nov. 1. 
It was the unanimous opinion of every delegate that deer 
hunting should be forbidden until Nov. 1, 1897, and that it 
should then open for only 15 days in that year, and in every 
alternate year thereafter. 
The most important business was the formation, of a per- 
manent organization to be known as the New Jersey Game 
and Fish Association, an organization whose duty it should 
be to look after the propagation and protection of game birds, 
animals and fishes within the State. 
THE PROCEEDINGS IN DETAIL. 
In response to the call given above, the following gentle- 
men were present when the convention at New Brunswick, 
N. J., on Saturday, Dec. 15, was called to order: George A. 
Viehman and Henry H. Stevens, New Brunswick Gun Club, 
New Brunswick, Middlesex county; Harry L. Stout and Jos. 
L. Chamberlain, Flemington, Hunterdon county; W. S. Saw- 
yer, Middlesex Park Gun Club, Middlesex county; E. P. 
Dicky and J. V. D. Ten Eyck, Somervile, Somerset county; 
C. W. Winter and George H. Cramer, North Branch, Somer- 
set county; George Hooker and Charles Lowe, East Side Gun 
Club, New Brunswick, Middlesex county; George E. Snook, 
Kingston Gun Club, Middlesex county; S. G. Smith and S. 
F. Lillig, Seaside Gun Club, Atlantic City, Atlantic county; 
R. C. Griscom and J. W. Clark, Atlantic City Gun Club, At- 
lantic county; Jas. L. Smith and Nelson S. Mitchell, Hack- 
ettstown, Warren county; J. L. Crowell and A. B. Cook, 
Rahway, Union county; W. R. Hobart, South Side Gun Club, 
Essex county; B. S. Wrightmyer and Richard Farr, Dayton, 
Middlesex county; John Jelleman and A. Totten, Passaic 
City Gun Club, Passaic county. The list shows a total of 25 
delegates present, representing in all eight counties. 
In the absence of W. S. Gummere, Mr. Viehman was made 
chairman, with Harry L. Stout as secretary. 
The following characteristic letter was then read: 
New York, Dec. 11.— New Brunswick Gfun Club: Gentlemen— I see 
in the Forest and Stream that you have called a meeting for the 15th 
at your place to get the different views before framing a law for the 
coming season, and for enforcing it. My home is in a place where 
we have no club and I have been obliged to fight alone against the 
law- breakers, so as to protect what little game there is left. I have 
personally stocked our streams and have let go thousands of quail, 
and yet I am obliged to go away from home to have a little sport 
when the open season comes, as all is killed during the September or 
October shooting. My home and farm is located in Parsippany, 
Morris county, and there ought to be lots of game there but for this 
killing out of season. In the summer I am there a good deal and I 
have given a good portion of my time to bringing those to trial whom 
I have caught: when my busy season comes then is when they get in 
their unlawful work. 
If I could have a little help from a gun club, or from the State, I am 
sure I could protect this natural place for game and have the finest 
shooting that there is in the State. I only wish there was a club in 
my vicinity so that I could join it and have some one to help me to 
do what any true lover of the gun should do. I am perfectly willing 
to do all in my power, both in time and cash, to improve our game 
laws and enforce them; you have my hearty wishes in your good 
work. Yours truly, E. E. Baldwin. 
Considerable applause greeted the reading of Mr. Bald- 
win's communication. Letters from William Elder, Sec'y 
of the Chatham Game and Fish Protective Association; 
Andrew B. Brickner, Sec'y Newton Gun Club; W. F. Bailey, 
Newark, and others were also read. The convention here 
adjourned to the Mansion House where they enjoyed dinner 
as guests of the New Brunswick Gun Club, 
On the convention reconvening a committee consisting of 
one delegate from every county present, was appointed to go 
before the Game and Fish Commission at their annual meet- 
ing on Jan. 5, at Trenton, and acquaint them with the views 
of this cenvention as to the open seasons on game and fish in 
this State. 
The following were chosen from the counties represented 
at the convention to form that committee: Harry L. Stout 
(Hunterdon), E. P. Dickey (Somerset), R. C. Griscom (Atlan- 
tic), Jas. L. Smith (Warren), Fred'k. C. Marsh (Union), W. 
R. Hobart (Essex), John Jelleman (Passaic), and Wm. S. 
Gummere (Middlesex). 
The committee was empowered to add to its number one 
delegate from each county that might hereafter join in the 
movement. 
The chairman stated that he would now entertain the 
views of each delegate on the present open seasons, and as 
to what he desired these open seasons to be changed to. 
The chair appointed a committee of three to draw up an 
order of business for the convention to act on. 
The committee made the following report, adding their 
suggestions as to the open seasons it recommended: 
1. Consideration of open season for quail, rabbit, ruffed 
grouse, squirrel, woodcock, English pheasant and English 
partridge. Dates recommended by committee, Nov. 1 to 
Dec. 15. 
2. Open season for deer. Recommendation by committee, 
that open season for deer in this State close until Nov. 1, 
1897; then to be open for fifteen days until Nov. 15 inclusive; 
open seasons of fifteen days in every alternate year there- 
after from Nov. 1 to Nov. 15 inclusive. 
3. Spring shooting. Committee recommended that the 
open seasons for duck, English snipe and baybirds be left as 
at present. 
4. Out-of-State sportsmen. 
5. Permanent organization. 
An expression of his opinion upon the open season for 
quail, rabbit, ruffed grouse, squirrel, woodcock, English 
pheasant and English partridge, as recommended by the 
committee, viz., Nov. 1 to Dec. 15, was asked for from each 
delegate in turn. Messrs. D. G. Smith, Lilly, Griscom, 
Clark, Hobart, Stout, Joseph Fisher (who voted for the chair- 
man), Hooker, Lowe, Wrightmyer, Farr, Stevens, Ten Eyck, 
Crowell and Cook, expressed themselves as favorable to the 
above close time. Mr. Chamberlain said he was in doubt as 
to what they were voting upon, but said that so far as he was 
concerned he would vote favorable" if that vote was not 
considered final. Sawyer (Middlesex) thought the open 
season was too long; he voted Nov. 15 to Dec. 15, Messrs. 
Jelleman, Totten, James L. Smith, Mitchell, Snook, Dickey, 
Winter and Cramer all went on record as opposed to the 
season opening as late as Nov. 1. The first expression of 
opinion thus stood, 15 in favor ol the uniform season com- 
mencing Nov. 1 and ending Dec. 15; 9 against, and 1 (Cham- 
berlain) practically non-committal. 
In explanation of their votes several of the delegates 
addressed the chair briefly: 
Mr. Jelleman — I am against the open season on wood- 
cock and quail not commencing until Nov. 1 for two reasons. 
In the first place it would rob us in the northern part of the 
State of almost all our woodcock shooting, as the birds begin 
to move south before that date. A delegate from south 
Jersey has said that some quail are often too small to shoot 
by Nov. 1. In our part they are ready by Nov. 1 at the latest; 
that is my second contention. 
_ Mr. Totten — All the northern part of the State will coin- 
cide with us and demand an earlier date on woodcock than 
Nov. 1; otherwise we won't get any woodsock shooting to 
amount to anything. It would be pretty rough on us to 
expect us to raise the birds, take care of them all summer, 
keep pot-hunters off, and then for you people in the southern 
part of the State to have all the fun. 
Mr. Dickey — If you'll only knock squirrels out of that 
recommendation I'll vote in favor of it, If you put squirrels 
back until Nov. 1 you're putting them way too late; squirrel 
hunters can't do much with them after the nuts are off the 
trees. I think they should certainly come in not later than 
Sept. 1. Squirrels are my particular game, I'm fond of 
hunting them either with shotgun or rifle, and I don't go 
much on your grouse, quail or woodcock. Give me my squir- 
rels and I'll vote "favorable." 
Mr. Teneyck — I want to see woodcock protected, but 
Nov. 1 is too late for us, still I'll vote "favorable" if it'll help 
matters. 
Mr. JAS. L. Smith. — I'm a northerner, and as such am not 
favorable to shutting off woodcock shooting until Nov. 1. 
It's far too late for us; such fall shooting as we've had this 
year during the month of November doesn't occur once in 10 
years. Still I'm not favorable to woodcock shooting; birds 
shot in the heat of the summer months often spoil before 
they are gotten home. As for squirrels, once the nuts are 
off the trees it's no use going after them; occasionally one 
gets a dog that will tree a squirrel, but not often. I don't 
want the season on quail, grouse or rabbit shortened. With 
a season of 6 weeks, a man who can only get out once a 
week, which is as much as most of us can spare, has but six 
days shooting during the whole year; surely that's little 
enough. 
Mr. Mitchell indorsed his fellow delegate's remarks. 
Mr. Cook, who voted "favorable," said — "There ought to 
be a uniformity in the open seasons for the game mentioned, 
I am, therefore, in favor of the dates recommended by the com- 
mittee. All squirrel hunters are unfortunately not like Mr. 
Dickey who I fully believe does not shoot, and would not shoot, 
any game bird or animal out of season; but there are hund- 
reds of pot-hunters, who go out into the woods to shoot 
woodcock in July and squirrels later in the season, and 
shoot everything that gets up before them, whether it's a 
quail, rabbit or ruffed grouse. If the pot-hunters are de- 
barred, by means of a uniform open season, from carrying a 
gun in the woods or swamps until it is lawful to kill any 
game bird or animal, then I believe it will do away with the 
majority of this killing of game out of season." 
Mr. Smith (Warren) — We do not propose to have the north- 
ern part of the State shut out to suit merely the southern 
part. 
Mr. Crowell— Would Oct. 15 be a suitable date for com- 
mencing your open season on woodcock? 
Mr. Smith — That would certainly be better. 
Mr. Chamberlain — Mr. Chairman, I don't see that we've 
accomplished anything at ali by our meeting here to-day. 
For my part, I don't understand at all what we are propos- 
ing to do. Recommending things to the Game and Fish 
Commissioners won't do us much good. The State has 
appropriated year after year large sums of money to be ex- 
pended on the fish and game of this State; Mr. Stout and 
myself have been trying for years to get some information as 
to where this money goes, but we can get no information at 
all. Our laws, too, I am told, have been tinkered and tam- 
pered with until no lawyer can tell us where we're at. If we 
really want to accomplish anything, let us move in the direc- 
tion of a large appropriation for the propagation and protec- 
tion of game birds, animals and fishes, and let us see to it 
that that money is spent on the object for which it is appro- 
priated. Cutting out summer woodcock shooting and still 
leaving gunners free to hunt upland plover, is going to do us 
very little good, if any. I think we ought to consider the 
open season on plover; if we leave the close season on them 
until Nov. 1 we won't get any of them. (A Voice — "No, you 
won't be able to get near them.") No, sir, there won't be 
any of them for us to shoot at; they will have gone south 
long before Nov. 1. 
Mr. Dickey— When I was a boy at school we used to be 
taught that we couldn't do two things well at once, yet that 
is what Mr. Chamberlain seems to want us to do. Let us 
settle one thing at a time, not two; let us settle this question 
of fall shooting. If the majority of shooters in this State 
want to keep us from hunting squirrels before Nov. 1, I'm 
with them, and won't kill a single squirrel until the law says 
I may, (Applause). 
Mr. Chamberlain — It seems to me that this matter of 
summer shooting properly comes up before fall shooting. I 
want to begin at the top, not half-way up, or at the bottom. 
What I want to know is what we're going to have before I 
vote finally on this question. Personally I've done a lot for 
game and game protection in this State, and have turned 
down quantities of quail (loud applause), but what I want 
to know is what it is proposed to do in the way of stopping 
summer shooting so as to protect the quail, etc., that it is 
suggested shall not come in until Nov. 1. 
Mr. Totten (Passaic) moved to amend the report of the 
committee by making the open season from Oct: 15 to Dec. 
15. The amendment was lost by a vote of 6 to 17; the follow- 
ing voting in the minority: Messrs. Fisher. Dickey, Winter, 
Mitchell, Jelleman and Totten. 
Mr. Smith (Warren) then moved to amend the report of 
the committee by striking out the word "woodcock." On 
Mr. Dickey's suggestion the words "gray squirrel" were also 
added to the amendment. The roll call showed 10 for the 
amendment and 14 against; this amendment was also lost. 
Yeas: Messrs. Stout, Chamberlain, Dickey, Winter, Cramer, 
Smith (Warren), Mitchell, Jelleman, Totten aud Stevens. 
Nays: Messrs. Fisher, Sawyer, Hooker, Lowe, Snook, Smith 
(Atlantic), Tillig, Griscom, Clark, Crowell, Cook, Hobart, 
Wrightmyer and Farr. 
The original motion was then made that the report of the 
committee be adopted; the roll call showed fourteen yeas to 
ten nays; those who voted yea for the amendment voted nay 
for the original motion. 
Mr. Chamberlain then made a motion that the open 
season for upland plover should be during the months of 
August and September. Mr. Totten moved to add, as an 
amendment, the names of rail and reed birds. The amend- 
ment was accepted by Mr. Chamberlain and the motion was 
duly carried. 
Mr. Sawyer introduced the question of the open season for 
wood-duck, which birds he claimed were not fit to be killed 
at the time the season now opened. The motion not being 
seconded it fell to the ground. 
The recommendation of the committee in regard to the 
open seasons for deer was unanimously adopted. 
The chairman then addressed the convention. He said 
that it seemed to him that everything should be carried out 
on an amiable basis, and added such was the wish of the 
New Brunswick Gun Club, which had called this convention 
together. From what he had heard Messrs. Smith (War- 
ren), Chamberlain, Jelleman, Totten and others from the 
northern part of the State, say to the convention, it appeared 
to him that there was a good deal to be said on behalf of an 
earlier season on woodcock at least. The delegates present 
should remember that it must necessarily be a give and take 
matter. 
A motion to reconsider the action of the convention'in 
regard to the vote on the committee's suggestion, with a 
view to open the season on Oct. 15 instead of Nov. 1, was 
made; the motion was lost by a vote of 12 to 11. 
Mr. Fisher— From what I've heard I think it would be 
better for the committee of eight already appointed to try 
and get a delegate from every county to join them; then let 
them meet and discuss this matter prior to Jan. 5, on which 
date let them meet the Game and Fish Commissioners at 
Trenton and tell them what New Jersey shooters want; I 
make a motion to that effect. 
The chairman, in support of Mr. Fisher's motion, thought 
it a very proper suggestion as only eight out of twenty-one 
counties in the State were represented in the convention. 
The motion was put and carried unanimously, as was also 
Mr. Hobart's motion to make Mr. Fisher, as secretary of the 
New Brunswick Gun Club, chairman ex officio of that com- 
mittee with authority to call it together as soon as con- 
venient after he should have called for a delegafe from each 
county to be present at this meeting. 
The chairman then left the chair for the purpose of making 
a motion that the convention proceed to form a permanent 
organization under the title of "The New Jersey Game and 
Fish Association." The motion was seconded all over the 
hall, and was carried unanimously amid applause. 
The following officers were plected to serve for the ensuing 
year: President, Jas. L. Smith, of Hackettstown, Warren 
county; First Vice-President, G. A. Viehman, New Bruns- 
wick, Middlesex county; Second Vice-President, R. C. Gris- 
com, Atlantic City, Atlantic county; Secretary, Harry L. 
Stout, Flemington, Hunterdon county; Treasurer, W. R. 
Hobart, Newark, Essex county. 
Convention adjourned to meet at the call of the president 
for the purpose of adopting a constitution and by-laws, the 
secretary, Harry L. Stout, being instructed to prepare same 
for submission to the delegates at the next convention. 
Edward Banks. 
The Pennsylvania Fish Protective Association. 
Philadelphia, Dec. 15.— The regular monthly meeting of 
the Pennsylvania Fish Protective Association was held Sat- 
urday evening, Dec. 8, at the rooms, 1020 Arch street. 
While the elements were not particularly inviting or con- 
ducive to a full meeting, they failed materially to dampen 
the spirits of these beneficiaries of Waltonian principles, as 
attested by the usual large attendance. A special commit- 
tee, intrusted with the duty of seeming more desirable quar- 
ters for the Association, submitted several available locations 
for consideration. 
The wide dissemination of the work of the Association 
throngh the continued co-operation accorded by the press, 
was commented upon by the press committee. 
The movement inaugurated by the Association for the 
establishment of a city aquarium and lecture hall for the 
education of public school children upon the propagation and 
protection of food fish, continued to meet with public ap- 
proval. 
The committee on ichthyological and biological instruc- 
tion, having same in charge, reported that the necessary aid 
from the State would proably be accorded at the next session 
of the Legislature. Philadelphia, like London, Brussels, 
Naples and New York, should maintain a public aquarium 
and lecture hall, made attractive with aquaria and other 
facilities, where public school children could attend lectures 
of a practical kind, not so much upon the scientific bearing 
of the question as its domestic side. Teach the boys how to 
fish properly and the girls how to cook them. In this we 
verge upon higher ground. The lad who is taught to com- 
passionately release fish too small for the table, will not be 
long in recognizing wanton cruelty wherever seen. With 
such a general knowledge of their value extended, much may 
be predicted for the future protection of food fish. 
The prospective location of a government hatchery near 
the Zoological Garden was again discussed aud commended, 
the location being particularly valuable in consideration of 
the fact that 50,000 school children visit the garden yearly. 
Prompt measures were takeu to render such assistance to 
fish wardens as may be necessary to secure the conviction of 
several reported violators of the fish law. 
The subject of the codification of the fishery laws was then 
considered at length aud placed in the hands of the joint 
committes of law and protection of fish to formulate a bill 
embodying such changes or improvements as will secure 
the better protection and preservation of food fish in this 
Commonwealth, suggestions that, may be submitted by the 
general public will meet the careful consideration of this 
committee, and it is hoped with the co-operation of the State 
Board of Fishery Commissioners to secure the favarable at- 
tention of the Legislature to this work. 
Nominations as follows: President, H. O. Wilbur; Vice- 
Presidents, Edwin Hagert, Dr. Bushrod W. James, Howard 
A. Chase; Secretary, M. G. Sellers; Corresponding Secretary, 
J. Penrose Collins, Treasurer, Wm. S. Hergensheimer; Ex- 
ecutive Committee, Henry C. Ford, Geo. T. Stokes, C. H. 
Fitzgerald, W. P. Thompson, Cyrus S. Detre, J. A. Sypher, 
Col. John Gay, Henry A. Ingram, F. W. Brown, Dr. W, W. 
McClure, Geo. W. Reader; Trustees, Collins W. Walton, R. 
M. Hartley, Bernard L. Douredoure. 
M. G. Sellers, Sec'y. 
Stockings with Rainbow and Brown Trout. 
Caledonia, N. Y.. Dec. 5.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
On Nov. 20 I captured hi our wild stream a rainbow or Cali- 
fornia trout weighing 91 bs., and it was a splendid specimen 
of the Salmo iridcus, as cleau and bright as a fresh run 
salmon. 
There are a great many clear, cold lakes in our Eastern or 
Atlantic States, without an outlet, or even with a very small 
stream as outlet, readily screened, that can be stocked with 
this variety of trout to good advantage. 
I have communications from different persons, from Mary- 
land to Newfoundland, telling me of the splendid specimens 
they are sometimes taking from their waters, and the fine 
game qualities they possess This 91bs. rainbow trout with 
three brown or Von Behr trout captured this summer and 
fall in our stream, make the combined weight of the four 
fish 39>£lbs., which speaks volumes in behalf of the small 
brook trout they had eaten in the last six or eight years. 
As we try to keep our stream well stocked with the native 
brook trout, we feel very glad that they are out. The stream 
contains nothing in the minnow line and will not average 
over SOin. deep. In this connection let me quote from a let- 
