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VOL. XLIV.-No. 24 
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THE DONALDSON REFRIGERATOR LAW. 
The game bill passed by the Legislature of New York 
was signed by Gov. Morton last Saturday. Its general 
provisions as to seasons are given on another page. 
The measure has many good points, among others an 
abrogation of the absurd supervisors' laws. But all the 
good there is in it cannot counterbalance the positive evil 
contained in the section which, formerly constituted the 
Wilks bill, and which was in the closing days of the ses- 
sion incorporated in the Donaldson bill at the instance of 
agents of the game dealers of this city. This new section 
reads: 
Section 349. -No person or persons shall be deemed to have violated 
any law or ordinance by reason of his or their selling, exposing for 
sale, transporting or possessing, or attempting so to do, the body or a 
part of the body of any wild animal or bird in the close season for 
such animal or bird, provided it be proved by him or them, by produc- 
tion of proper invoices and freight or express receipts, that such wild 
animal or bird was shipped from a point at least three hundred miles 
distant from the State of New York. For the purpose of the proper 
enforcement of this section the package containing this wild animal or 
bird shall be marked plainly "game," and the place of shipment and 
destination shall also be plainly marked. All transportation com- 
panies which shall transport the same shall keep books plainly show- 
ing the receipt and delivery of such packages of game, and dealers in 
the same shall keep books of account showing the number of birds or 
animals received, sold or delivered by them, and shall, at all times, 
permit any authorized agent of the commissioners of fisheries, game 
and forest to examine their books of record for purpose of establish- 
ing the right of such possession or transportation in close season. 
This section makes a farce of all other parts of the law 
relative to the sale of game out of season; it gives New 
York city a game market not quite wide open, but open 
wide enough, to take in all the game that can be shipped 
to it in any month of the year. The first and immediate 
effect of this legislation will be to bring out for sale the 
oversupply of last season's refrigerated game now in cold 
storage, and to stimulate the traffic in immature woodcock 
and grouse to be killed here and in neighboring States by 
market-hunters as soon as they may be taken. The next 
step will be the unloading upon New York of refrigerated 
game from other markets where it is now held in cold 
storage and dealt in clandestinely. When the legitimate 
open season comes around, the receipts of game at this 
point will be enormously increased; for, as there is no 
longer any limit to the period of open traffic, there will be 
no necessity of restricting the supply as heretofore. Prior 
to this year the dealers have been obliged to reckon that 
for a part of the year — that portion when the law declared 
that game should not be sold at all — they could only carry 
on their trade secretly, selling on the sly, not openly and 
above board. The free traffic now provided for will far 
exceed in volume this illicit sale of former years. To 
meet the increased demand there will be renewed activity 
among those who kill for market. 
The New York market will now take its place with that 
of Boston as a dumping ground for the game of the coun- 
try. The game sold here the year around will come from 
New York State, as well as from all other sources of sup- 
ply. That provision of the statute which says that 
dealers must show papers to prove that the game they 
sell has come from points three hundred miles from New 
York is moonshine. The dealers know this perfectly 
well. They can have no objection to the little formality 
of showing papers. It will not conflict with their trade 
in the least. 
For the plain fact is that in dealing with game commis- 
sion merchants we are as a rule not dealing with men 
who let the game laws trouble them, beyond keeping 
within actual safety from their penalties. Burke said 
that it was impossible to indict a whole people. It would 
not be just to declare that all game dealers are dishonest 
in respect to the game laws; but so many of them are that 
the class is open to the indictment. There has never been 
a time when illicit game traffic was not carried on in this 
city. Now that the Donaldson refrigerator bill has be- 
come a law that illicit trade will be increased a thousand- 
fold. The law is a disgrace to New York, a rank injustice 
to other States, a menace to the game supply, and a 
statute which should be rescinded. In the name of the 
sportsmen of the country at large the Forest and Stream 
declares war upon the Donaldson refrigerator law; and it 
will not give up the campaign until the law shall have 
been repealed. 
Let no one be so simple as to imagine that the market 
men will surrender without a strong fight the advantage 
they have gained in their demand for an unrestricted 
game traffic. To remove a wicked statute from the books 
is more difficult than to prevent its being put on them. If 
the game protective forces of this State have been ineffi- 
cient in 1895 to thwart the scheming of this man Donaldson 
and his fellows, they will require increased energy and 
activity to undo his work in 1896. 
DEBAUCHED JOURNALISM. 
The Florida Legislature of 1895 failed to provide better 
protection for birds of plume, but it did two things worthy 
of unstinted commendation. It abolished prize-fighting, 
and made away with the Honduras Lottery, which was 
the old Louisiana Lottery in new guise. The Supreme 
Court of Louisiana has given a ruling which will prevent 
prize-fighting in that State. These developments mark 
the practical end of legalized lottery robbery and ring 
ruffianism in the United States. 
It would be interesting to determine what actually has 
been the part taken by the press with respect to the prize 
ring and the lottery, their survival and end. 
The newspapers of New Orleans were notoriously the 
debauched slaves of the Louisiana Lottery thieves, until at 
last the power of the ring was broken by an uprising so 
mighty that the boasted influence of the press arrayed in 
opposition to the uprising was as of soap bubbles to can- 
non balls. There was, we recollect, a deal of fine scorn 
for these New Orleans journals on the part of their con- 
temporaries in other States; but it must be remembered 
that the daily press of this country was ready to back up 
the lottery against all attacks so long as the laws allowed 
the managers of the press to print and receive pay for print- 
ing the lottery's advertisements. If in the end the press 
was outspoken against the lottery, this attitude was 
assumed only when the newspaper proprietors were no 
longer permitted by the laws of the land to draw a rev- 
enue from the lottery ring. The lottery curse has, then, 
really been ended in this country in spite of the "power 
of the press." 
As much may be said of the passing of the prize ring. 
The action of the Florida Legislature and the decision of 
the Louisiana court have been received with positive dis- 
gust in the editorial offices, that is to say, the counting 
rooms, of the "great dailies." There is not one of them — 
where the rule holds that anything is good news that sells 
papers — but has heard of the Florida legislation with a 
disgust quite as deep and sincere as is that of the toughs 
and sluggers in the dives. The genius of the representa- 
tive daily journalism of the times is shown by the record 
to have upheld the lottery and the prize ring, and to have 
given over its encouragement of the lottery thieves re- 
luctantly, and then only when the lawsof the land ren- 
dered their further support fruitless. 
How persistently the great dailies are making the most 
of what little is left of the prize ring in this country was 
exemplified by a ridiculous piece of journalistic enterprise 
the other day, when throughout the length and breadth 
of the land rival news purveyors wired their competitive 
specials, to appear the next day in columns of type under 
the scare head "Corbett was Mad." And what was it all 
about? Two blatant bullies, whose wordy quarrels had 
been reported day by day and week by week in those 
papers, had finally come together to arrange the prelim- 
inaries of a fight, and during the negotiations one of them 
had lost his temper. This was the petty event that Mod- 
ern Journalism recognized as fit material for specials 
north and east and south and west. The vulgar brawling 
of two prize-fighters was considered to be of national im- 
portance. Thus was windy pugilism outdone by windier 
journalism. Great prize-fighters and great newspaper 
editors should thank their stars that, come the worst, leg- 
islatures can never make laws to abate wind. 
CANADIAN ANGLING LICENSES. 
A Washington letter in the daily press last week re- 
ported that a certain New York politician had given out 
that as for him he would not go fishing in Canadian 
waters so long as the Dominion exacted a five-dollar 
license fee of American anglers. The letter went on to 
say that the politician had a wife who was worth a 
million dollars in her own name. This was added pre- 
sumably to show that this particular citizen of the United 
States could afford to fish in Canada, license or no license^ 
and that so deserved all the more credit for thus resolving 
to stay home and wave the American flag. 
As to one specific section of Canadian waters such self* 
denial is no longer demanded, not even from the most 
patriotic fisherman, with or without a million-dollar wife. 
Minister of Marine and Fisheries Costigan advises us that 
the non-resident license fee will not be exacted during 
this season in those parts of the St. Lawrence River which 
lie between Kingston and Prescott. This is a concession 
that will afford much satisfaction to St. Lawrence River 
visitors, and we trust that the exemption may be made 
permanent. A wish might be expressed also that all re- 
strictions on American anglers in Canada should be re- 
moved; but that would be too much to expect in these 
days of protecting fish and game by the Yorkshire 
device of heaving rocks at strangers. Citizens of the 
United States cannot decently ask Canada to open its 
arms to receive them as friends and brothers, when one 
State after another is imposing non-resident taxes upon 
visiting sportsmen from other States. If we cannot be 
brotherly to one another, we should not look for brother- 
hood across the border. 
DOES A DEER CHALLENGE? 
Among the pieces of taxidermy shown in the Sports- 
men's Exposition was a deer head in the Forest and 
Stream's exhibit, entitled "The Challenge." It showed 
the deer with head raised and stretched forward, and the 
mouth open, as if to bellow for battle; and being a work 
of art the subject was much admired. 
But does the Virginia or white-tailed deer challenge? 
In his very interesting paper on the habits of this species, 
found in another column, Mr. A. Y. Walton says that of 
all wild animals familiar to him the deer is the most 
silent; and he tells us that in an experience extending 
over forty years he has but once heard a deer make use 
of the voice in seeking a lost mate, and the sound was 
then a low, muttering noise. They do also, as he says, 
sometimes cry out in pain. But does a buck ever give 
voice to a note of challenge? If such a cry has ever been 
heard by any reader of this paragraph he is invited to 
send us a note of the occurrence. 
In camp or on the trail it is wise to provide that some 
one member of the party shall be in authority, and shall 
on occasion have the responsibility of deciding what 
should be done, The whole pleasure and satisfaction of 
an outing may be marred by wrangling, indecision, pull- 
ing at cross purposes and bitterness of heart, because 
there are too many in command. An officer of the day 
is quite as important on an outing as in military life. 
And then, when the whole outfit is stuck in the mud, 
there is rich satisfaction in having some one officially to 
bear the blame. 
President David S. Jordan, of Leland Stanford, Jr. , 
University, is preparing a large work on the fishes of 
North America. Having come to the ouananiche he rec- 
ognizes it as a new sub-species of the salmon worthy of 
recognition by a distinct varietal name; he proposes to 
call it in honor of Mr. Eugene McCarthy, and in recogni- 
tion of his exploitation of the fish, Salmo salar ouanan- 
iche McCarthy, var. nov. 
