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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Atro. 8, 1896. 
THE OLD HUNTER'S RIFLE. 
Now rest, old friend, the chase is done; 
No more this eye, now dimmed with age. 
Shall glance along thy burnished steel; 
No more shall bill and valley reel. 
And echo back thy furious rage; 
So rest in peace, thy work is done. 
How oft I've rammed the bullet down 
Thy ribbed throat, and primed the charge 
Together we have spent our day, 
Alas ! a day now passed away. 
Together now we near the verge 
or flnal rest, our labor's crown. 
The chase at lest is done, 
Our course is fully run. 
Thko. F. Brookins. 
ONTARIO GAME PARKS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I was much pleased with the report on American game 
parks which appeared in your issue of July 18 last, not 
only because it furnishes the evidence of success in the 
way of preserving and increasing the large game of the 
continent, but also because it teaches many lessons as to 
the foreign animals which may be introdueed into this 
country with success. 
The report of the Blue Mountain Park is a wonderful 
story of the increase of the different animals when pro- 
tected and givfen a fair chance against their many 
enemies. The enterprise of the late Mr. Austin Corbin 
cannot be too highly commended on account of the many 
lessons it teaches, for no doubt his example will be fol- 
lowed to a greater or less extent by governments and 
private individuals with wonderful advantage to the 
country. 
Under the impression that some of your readers might 
be interested in a short account of what we are doing in 
the Province of Ontario, Canada, in the same line, I am 
induced to send you a short report of the Algonquin 
National Park and the Rondeau Provincial Park, which 
the Government has set aside, as the act says, "as public 
parks and forest reservations, fish and game preserves, 
health resorts and pleasure grounds, for the benefit, ad- 
vantage and enjoyment of the people of the Province, 
subject to the provisions of this act, and of the regula- 
tions hereinafter mentioned." 
The great object is for the propaeation and preservation 
of the original animals belonging to the Province which, 
as in other parts of the continent, are fast becoming 
things of the past. In the northern portion of Ontario 
we have now probably the best natural hunting grounds 
for large game on the continent, if not in the world, but 
each year such numbers of deer are killed by the destruc- 
tive methods of hunting hitherto allowed that it was felt 
that something bad to be done to prevent the great waste 
and perhaps total annihilation in the near future of our 
game animals and birds. 
To this end the Government, by act of the Legislature, 
set apart in 1893 an area comprising the townships of 
Peck, Hunter, Devine, Biggar, Wilkes, Canisbay, Mc- 
Laughlin, Bishop, Osier, Pentland, Sproule, Bower, Fres- 
wick, Lister, Preston. Dickson, Auglin, Deacon, and por- 
tions of McCranev, Butt, Paxton, Ballantyne and Boyd, 
containing 993,489 acres of land and 115 894 acres of 
water, in all 1,109,383 acres, equal to 1,733 square miles. 
The park is thus approximately forty-four miles in length 
from north to south and forty miles in width from east 
to west, and is to be known by the name of the Algonquin 
National Park. It lies between 45° 30' north latitude and 
78° and 79° 8' west longitude. 
In this tOTritory, which is in the Nipissing District, there 
is a varied character of country, consisting of lakes, rivers, 
Bwampa, marshes, hills and valleys, the latter all densely 
wooded with pine, birch, maple, hemlock, cedar and 
tamarack, and at present a great resort for moose and 
deer. All the animals, birds and fish of this section are 
here in their primitive abundance, such as moose, deer, 
bears, beaver, wolves, mink, marten, fisher, otter, musk- 
rat. Ruffed grouse are exceedingly plentiful, and Canada 
grouse or spruce partridge are also found there. The waters, 
which comprise rivers and lakes, are well stocked with 
gray or lake trout, salmon, and brook trout, and it is in- 
tended that, although this fine game preserve is unfenced, 
it will be thoroughly guarded by an efficient force of 
game wardens, who will prevent any disturbance of the 
existing state of things by hunters and others. It is also 
intended by the Governtnent to allow the Game Commis- 
sion of the Province to introduce as an experiment a num- 
ber of capercailzie, black grouse and ring-necked English 
pheasants, which it is thought should succeed there. In 
the waters, too, desirable forms of fish will be tried, and 
wild rice is being sown largely to encourage the ducks 
and other aquatic birds. Everything is to be kept in its 
primitive condition as nearly as possible, except that the 
streams will be cleared of all obstructions and trails will 
be made on land, so as to facilitate the journeys of the 
wardens and tourists from one point to another. A tele- 
phone system may in the near future be established for 
the convenience of the superintendent and his staff of 
protectors. The only possible drawback to the introduc- 
tion of foreign game birds will possibly be the length and 
severity of the winters, for the snow often reaches 4ft, in 
depth and the thermometer ranges as low sometimes as 
30° or 40° below zero. The commission is nevertheless 
sanguine that the birds named will live and thrive, as all 
the other conditions are perfect; and if the experiment is 
successful it will be of incalculable benefit to the country; 
for, while the park will be a harbor of refuge for hunted 
animals and birds, which they will soon appreciate, the 
overflow of game to the surrounding country will be great 
and will undoubtedly postpone almost indefinitely the 
time when it will become extinct, more particularly now 
that the amendments to the Game Act prohibit the tak- 
ing of deer in the water. 
Section 7 of the act of establishment of the park pro- 
vides that carrying or using firearms or explosives within 
the said park, except as provided by the regulations for 
the government and maintenance of the park, hunting 
with or without firearms or explosives, or trapping or 
spearing within the limits of said park, is prohibited under 
a penalty for each offense not exceeding $100, except 
under special license for the killing of wolves, bears, wol- 
verines, wildcats, foxes or hawks, to be issued by the 
Commissioner of Crown Lands upon the recommendation 
of the Superintendent. Fishing is also prohibited under &, 
penalty not exgeeding f ICQ for each oflfeuae, 
The Rondeau Park is smaller, and is situated on the 
north shore of Lade Erie, It is the peninsula known as 
Pointe aux Pins, contains about 5,000 acres, and is well 
wooded and very suitable for stocking with such birds as 
wild turkeys, Mongolian pheasants, prairie chickens, 
quail, etc, and of these a start has been made with one or 
two hundred, under the care of the Superintendent, Mr, 
Isaac Gardiner, Morpeth, Oat. The Pointe has long been 
a favorite resort for summer camping parties, being ad- 
mirably situated for summer residence in a cool and 
healthful locality. Dr. G. A. MAcCAtiLUM, 
Ontario Game and Fish Commissioner, 
DuNNviLi-B, Ont., July 28. 
MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION. 
St, Patjl, Minn,, Aug, 1. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
The first annual meeting of the Minnesota State Game 
and Fish Protective A8socia,tion was held at the Windsor 
Hotel yesterday afternoon. The Association was formed 
one year ago, for the purpose of assisting the State game 
warden in the protection of the game abounding in Minne- 
sota's forests and streams, and has at present an active 
membership of 200, including representatives from every 
county in the State, Its members are all devotees of the 
rod and gun, but they do not believe in the indiscriminate 
slaughter of game out of season in mere wantonness, and 
the efficiency of their Association may be judged from the 
following extract from the report of the State Game and 
Fish Commissioners for 1895: 
In all its efforts the board has been ably assisted by the 
citizens, who are beginning to realize that it is to their 
advantage to have the game and fish preserved. No other 
agencies have done so much for the protection of game 
and fiah as the different clubs throughout the State, which 
have been formed for this purpose. Perhaps none other 
has done so much as the State Voluntary Game and Fish 
Protective Association, These gentlemen have spent their 
money and time, with no hope of reward except to see 
that our game and fish were protected. The executive 
agent of the Commission feels personally under a deep 
obligation to each of the officers of this club, and the Com- 
mission as a whole take this opportunity of thanking the 
members and officers of the State Voluntary Game and 
Fish Commission for the splendid assistance rendered 
them. Perhaps most of the work fell on W, L. Tucker, 
the secretary of that Association ; but the others have all 
worked faithfully, and reported everything that came 
under their notice to the executive agent. It would tnake 
this report too long to go into detail and mention all the 
members and officers' names; it is enough to know that 
they have worked faithfully and in harmony with the 
Commission, and had only one object in view, and that 
the preservation of our game and fish. 
The chief subject before the meeting was a proposed 
amendment to the constitution providing for the admis- 
sion of clubs through the State whose cooperation, it was 
considered, would be of vast good in furthering the ob- 
jects of the Association, Heretofore there has only been 
provision for individual membership, and the memlsers 
of clubs in the different country towns did not seem to 
desire an affiliation with the State organization, as their 
objects were the same, and a union would only increase 
their individual assessments. This objection was, how- 
ever, done away with by the adoption of an amendment 
to the constitution of the State organization, which now 
provides for the issuance of membership certificates to 
clubs of more than ten members upon the payment of an 
annual assessment of $5; clubs admitted under the amend- 
ment will be regular members of the Association and 
enjoy all of the privileges heretofore extended to indi- 
vidual members, with the exception of having but one 
vote in the meetings. It is hoped by the new plan to gain 
an additional membership to the State Association of 
nearly 400. 
By a unanimous vote it was decided to enlarge the ex- 
ecutive committee from nine to fourteen members. The 
five additional committeemen will be appointed from St. 
Paul and Minneapolis, in order that, in case of the need of 
a special or hurried meeting, a quorum may be more 
readily gotten together. 
With one exception the officers were all re-elected. C. S. 
Benson has become a member of the State Game and Fish 
Commission, and his place as first vice-president was filled 
by the selection of L. Theilman, of St, Cloud, The 
officers of the Association for the ensuing year, therefore, 
are the following: President, Uri L. Lamprey, St. Paul; 
First Vice-President, L Theilman, St. Cloud; Second Vice- 
President, F. F. Davis, Minneapolis; Third Vice-President, 
E. S. Palmer, Duluth; Secretary, William L. Tucker, St. 
Paul; Treasurer, William L. Wolford, Minneapolis; At- 
torney, H, P. Goodenow, St. Paul, 
On motion President Lamprey was instructed to select 
the five additional members of the executive committee. 
Three will be chosen from Minneapolis and two from St, 
Paul, 
The report of Secretary Tucker was brief, but encour- 
aging. He cited the excellent and practically unrequited 
work of the volunteer wardens of the Association, and 
said that poachers were becoming afraid to violate the 
law because they did not know at what moment they 
might be xmder the watchful eye of one of the members 
of the Association, This, Mr. Tucker explained, was one 
of the benefits derived from keeping the names of mem- 
bers a secret. They could thus work in the dark, and 
were better prepared to catch poachers. With the change 
in the constitution, which will be taken advantage of by 
about seventeen rod and gun clubs in the State, Mr, 
Tucker said the membership of the Association would be 
greatly increased, and he predicted that next season it 
would be in a position to make its name and influence a 
wholesome check to evildoers. 
President Lamprey commended the Association on its 
good work in his address, and he also spoke a good word for 
the State Game and Fish Commission, and said that great 
credit was due Executive Agent FuUerton for the prompt- 
ness with which he follows up cases presented by the 
Association, securing convictions and promptly suppress- 
ing violations of the law, W. L. TucKBE, 
[A description of the Tucker cup and report of the 
tournament are given in our trap columns.] 
A Roedeer Hunt in Crermany. 
SVom a private letter. 
Glatjchatj, Oct, 21, 1895.— ilfy Dear Elmer: I have only 
time to give you a few lines of the hunting trip^wheh 
I made the double on deer. 
Arrived here 2 A. M. and found my faithful friend 
Carl Guiither at the station. Went to bed at 2:30. Was 
called at 8 and donned a hunting suit furnished by the 
same friend, and after breakfast drove into the country 
about three miles. Nine gunners— fancy such a crowd. 
This was not all. We had ten sturdy farmers with sticks 
and they were the drivers. In brief: the gunners sur- 
round a patch of timber, about 75 to 100yds. apart, and 
the drivers go in and try to frighten the deer and hares, 
which we were after. They invariably run out straight 
and cross a field to the next timber, and in this way they 
are hunted. It is seldom a hare gets away from these 
Germans, It is seldom that deer are killed here, as they 
are so scarce, but we brought in tbree deer and eight 
hares as the result of four hours' hunting, 
I had a 16-bore hammer gun loaded with No. 3 shot. 
Fancy my disgust to be armed with such a weapon. 
Well, after missing five good shots on hares, I became 
disgusted with the gun, and said I would throw it away. 
One man had killed a deer. I was envious and mad; said 
I wouldn't fire my gun if I saw game. Well, we bad sur- 
rounded the last little strip of timber, and within sight of 
a country tavern, where we were to dine. The drivers 
began their noise, and behold, 20yds. in front of me not 
one, but two deer jumped out and started tandem fashion 
across the field, running as only deer can run, I think I 
had been asleep all the morning, but this sight opened my 
eyes. My gun spoke twice and two deer lay dead, 10ft, 
apart, and both died without a struggle. 
I was surroimded by hunters and drivers, and congrat- 
ulations from all. In fact, they wanted me to drink a 
barrel of beer at the inn, but two glasses satisfied my 
thirst. I am the talk of Glauchau, and thev point to me 
and say, "The American who made a douNetta on reh" 
(double on deer). To shoot a deer here is not strange, but 
to make a double on deer is extraordinary, and to have 
the opportunity, even once in one's life, is more than 
extraordinary. J OE. 
Have Sportsmen Degenerated? 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I wrote you a letter which you were kind enough to 
publish in FOREST AND Stream of Aug. 1, but which ow- 
ing to a mistake in the heading switched the whole thing 
off at a foreign tangent, I put for a heading, "Have 
Sportsmen Degenerated?" and it comes out ''How Sports- 
men Originated," My penmanship has often been the 
subject of much sarcasm, the crow tracks and inked cat- 
erpillar comparisons doing noble service in that respect. 
But I feel a just pride in being able to write an article of 
such merit that it will fit any heading as nicely as a glove to 
the hand. My purpose was to show that we had no gen- 
uine sportsmen of the present day, but only flimsy imita- 
tions, and not to show their origin; for the dudish speci- 
mens we meet on their way to a day's outing for the pur- 
pose of playing hunter or fisher could not have an origin 
in the class of Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Kit Carson 
and others, Dick of Connecticut. 
[Our correspondent must of course have formed his no- 
tion of the old-time sportsmen (if the men cited were 
sportsmen) from his reading; and he appears to have 
drawn his notion of the sportsmen of to-day from hear- 
say.] 
A Birch Bark Woods Note. 
Mr, Wm, W. Bliven sends us a birch bark letter in- 
closed in a birch bark envelope, sent to him from Rainbow 
in the Adirondacks, and telling of the deer there. "Al- 
most any evening," writes James M. Wardner, "one may 
see four or five deer by paddling up the stream. One 
evening I went up the stream with a gentleman who 
wished to see a deer; we saw nine and heard many more 
on the way back, when it was too dark to see. During 
one forenoon six deer were seen just across from the 
house." ' 
New York Protectors. 
PISH AND GAME PROTECTORS AND FOKESTKRS. 
J. Warren Pond, Chief Protector, Albany. 
William Wolt, Clerk to Chief. 
John E Leavlt, Assistant Chief, Johnstown. 
M. O. Worts, Assistant Chief, Oswego. 
Sebastian Hesbach, Oyster Protector, Ozone Park. 
Edgar Hicks, Oyster Protector, West New Brighton. 
John Ferguson, Assistant Oyster Protector, Patchogue. 
J. L. Ackley. Penn Yan, Yates county. 
F. S Beede, Keene Vallpy, Essex county. 
George Carver, Lyons, Waj-ne county, 
S. T. Clock, Bay Shore, Suffolk county. 
T. H. Donnelly, Perry, Wyoming county. 
L S. Emmons, Oneonta, Otsego county, 
Ira Elmendorf, Brodhead, Ulster county. 
Eugene Hathaway. Harrisville. Lewis county. 
Spencer Hawn, Cicero, Onondaga county. 
James Holmes, Apalachia, Tioga county. 
Carlos Hutchins, Indian Lake, Hamilton county. 
Willett Kidd, Newburgh. Orange county. 
A. B. Klnck, Herkimer, Herkimer county. 
J. D, Lawrence, Bloomville, Delaware county, 
J. H. Lamphere, Weedsport, Cayuea county. 
J. W. Littlejohn, Loon Lake, Franklin county. 
E J. Lobdell, Northville, Fulton county. 
B. H. McCallum, Oswegatchie, St. Lawrence county. 
Joseph Northup, Alexandria Bay, Jefferson county. 
J. H. O'Brien, Plattsburg, Clinton county. 
O. 8. Potter, Sandy Creek, Oswego county. 
F. M. Potter, Chautauqua, Chautauqua county. 
S. M. Prouty, Whitehall, Washington county. 
D. N. Pomeroy, Lockport, Niagara county. 
W. L. Reed, Panandaigua, Ontario county. 
R. M. Rush, Camden, Oneida county. 
Bernard Salisbury, EUicottville, Cattaragus county. 
Nicholas Shaul, Middle Grove, Saratoga county. 
George B. Smith, Horseheads, Chemung county. 
Alvin Winslow, Stony Creek, Warren county. 
E. I. Brooks, Brookmere, Monroe county. 
E. A. Hazon, Protector lor- the Thousand Islands, Hammond, St. 
Lawrence county. 
James Green, Caldwell, Warren county. Custodian of l4ake George 
Islands. ■ 
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