Jan. 23, 1897.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Let forest flres with fury rage, 
All elements a battle wage. 
Let the dire havoc bring disease, 
But don't prevent my cutting trees. 
The woods are priceless to the State, 
'Tis well to see this ere too late. 
Think these things over at your ease, 
But don't prevent my cutting trees. 
After the hearty applause with which the above was 
received had subaided, Mr. Wolcott offered the following 
resolution, which was unanimously adopted: 
Resolved, That the New York State Association for the 
Protection of Fish and Game hereby signifies its cordial 
approval of past legislative enactments which have en- 
abled the State to obtain title to Adirondack lands, estab- 
lish a forest preserve and protect the timber thereon. It 
Strongly urges the Senate and Assembly to take such fur- 
ther action along this line as in thpir judgment may be 
most expedient, with a view to the ultimate acquirement 
' of the whole wilderness region. It is our belief that in 
• the future purchase of lands in the Adirondacks special 
{efforts should be made to secure title to the watersheds of 
J»the State reservoirs. 
J G. H, Strougb, of Clayton, offeredthis following, which 
'^was adopted by a rising vote: 
•1 Resolved, That as the representatives of a large major- 
ity of the various associations in the State of New York 
M for the propagation of food and game fish, and for the 
' protection of fl^h and game, we are in favor of the estab- 
lishment of parks and pleasure resorts in such places in 
our State as nature baa favored and made desirable for 
moh purposHp; and 
Resolved. Tbat we cordially approve of the efforts made 
and now being continued to establish an international 
park on the St Lawrence R ver, and that we join in the 
request to have our national government suspend the en- 
forcement of our foreign contract labor law as to oarsmen 
or guides on the St, Lawrence River. 
On motion of Ordn, BruTOt'aesecrf^tary was instruct'^d to 
send copies of these resolutions to the different members 
of Congress in this State. 
R B. Lawrence, of New York, addressed the conven- 
' tion in regard to Section 24y of the gamq laws, and stated 
the result of a conferenr« which a committee from the 
New York city Association had had with marketmen 
concerning it. Under certain conditions the latter would 
consent to the repeal of the law. Mr. Lawrence explained 
I what the marketmen wanted. This included making the 
I open season for quail from Oct. 1 to D c. 31, possession to 
be allowed until March 1; the killing and possession of 
wildfowl to be allowed from Sept. 1 to April 1; the pos- 
session of grouse, woodcock and venison to be allowed 
until March 1; dealing in and possession of bay birds to 
be allowed the entire year. 
The convention decided to endeavor to have Section 
249 repealed without indorsing the changes referred to. 
Assistant Chief Protector Manniatee Wertz and Protec- 
tor Carver spoke briefly concerning the work of the State 
force. 
William A. Butler, of Syracuse, read two articles from 
fche Forest and Stream in regard to deer hounding. 
A report from the Niagara County Anglers' Club, set- 
ting forth the good work accomplished during the year, 
was read. 
The auditing committee reported that the receipts f<^r 
the past year amounted to $150; disbursements, $73.10; 
balance on hand, $76 90. 
The nominating committee reported in favor of the fol- 
lowing officers for the ensuing year, and the same were 
duly elected: President, W. S, Gavitt, Lyons; Vice-Presi- 
dent, George H. Strough, Clayton; Secretary, E G. Gould, 
Seneca Falls; Treasurer, A. C. Cornwall, Alexandria Bay. 
Mr. Amsden thanked the members of the Association 
for the cordial support accorded him during the year, 
and introduced the new president. Mr. Gavitt, in assum- 
ing the duties of that office, thanked the As ociation for 
the honor conferred. He said he was proud of the As- 
sociation and the work already accomplished. He was 
sure there was a growing sentiment in favor of protection. 
He believed the Association should stand by its action in 
opposmg the section permitting the sale of game the year 
around. He was in tavor of a uniform season for game, 
and believed the resolution regarding nets was in the 
right direction. Tbe game law should be advertised. He 
said he would appoint the legislative and auditing com- 
mittees in a few days, 
George R. Perk, of Auburn, said he would like to have 
the State do something toward the propagation of game, 
and after some discussion a resolution was adopted to this 
effect: That the officers of this Association at '^nce serve 
upon the State Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and 
Forests suggestions and measures for the establishment 
of a State hatchery for all game and game birds that can 
be propagated. 
While this subject was under discussion it was stated 
by different members that Mongolian pheasants had been 
successfully propagated in the western pirt of the State 
and in the CatsRiUs. Charles Curtis said he had kept a 
ruffed grouse in confinement a year, and believed these 
birds could be propagated under proper conditions. 
Messrs. Lapham, Bierhardt and Peck were appointed to 
arrange for the printing of the by-laws, and the legisla- 
tive committee was directed to see if the Association was 
incorporated, and if not, to have it incorporated. Ad- 
journed. 
The .30-30 Shells. 
Kansas City, Kan., Dec. 25 —Editor Forest and Stream: 
I would like to know the experiences of some of the 
shooters of the , 30 30 smokeless rifle cartridge in regard 
to the cartridge case breaking at the neck when fired. In 
two of the rifles of this city the shells break off at the 
neck, leaving the small neck in the barrel, preventing 
another cartride from entering the barrel. 
It is very trying to have a large buck running straight 
ahead in tUe open for 300yds, and then have a rifle in his 
hands that can't be uped, as was the experience of one of 
the party using a . 80 30. 
The rifle is one of the most powerful and accurate arms 
made. Toree deer killed witli this rifle were dropped in 
their tracks, and prairie dogs were hardly recognizable 
after being shot with this rifle, they being torn in shreds 
■ H. M. C. 
The FoRKax and Strkam ia piit to press each week on Tuesday 
Oorreepondence intended for publication should reach t« gti the 
tatfit by Mon^y, umi much earlier a« prqcticablt. 
BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB 
MEETING. 
The tenth annual meeting of the Boone and Crockett 
Club was held on Saturday, Jan. 16, at the Metropolitan 
Club, in this city. Among those presput were: Messrs. 
Theo. Roosevelt, W. A. Wadswortb, Winthrop Obanler, 
George Bird Grinnell, Owen Wister, Charles E, White- 
head, W. B. Devereux, Lewis R. Morris, John L. Cad- 
walader, James S. Watson, Elihu Root, C. HartMerriam, 
C. Grant La Farge, Madison Grant, William Lord Smith, 
W. A. Chanler, Royal Phelps Carroll. Cispar Whitney, 
Da Forest Grant, H. C Pierce, D M. Barringer, R. H. M. 
Ferguson, W. Milne Grinnell, L^wis S Thompson, Frank 
Edwards, James T. Gardner, Albert B erstadt, Thomas 
Pd,ton, J. E Roosevelt, J. J. Pi^rrepont, J. L, Seward, 
H. N Munn, Henry L. Scimson, Walter B. James, S. D. 
Warren, Frank Lyman, Aid en Sampson, John Rogers, 
Jr,, W. K. Draper, F. S. Billinerf, H C de Rham, Alex- 
ander Lambert and J. Walter Wood. Jr. 
The guests of the evening wert : Mr. A, P, Low, of the 
Canadian G8ologic^l Survey; Mr. C larles A. Dana, Prof. 
Henry S, Oaborn, E E. S. Thompson, Hon. Wm. Carey 
Sanger and Gifford Pmchot. 
Owing to the death of Gen, Brietow, its president, it 
was necessary to elf ct a chairman for this meeting who 
should preside at the dinner, and Hon, Theodore Roose- 
velt was chosen. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and ap- 
proved. The report of the treasurer showed a comfort- 
able financial (jonHition for the club. 
The report of the secretary dealt largely with the work 
which the club has done and hopes to do, and showed that 
the efforts made by the club looking toward securing 
legislation prohibiting the unsportsmanlike and destruc- 
tive methods of hunting deer allowed under the laws of 
New York in the Adirondack region have been in some 
d^gr^e au'OiHS'ul, and that a greater measure of success 
is hoped for during the coming y^ar. Whatever has been 
accomplished is due very largely to the efforts of the 
Hon. William Carey Sanger, who is now a member of the 
club. Attention was called again, as it has been before, 
to the wide territory over which the small membership of 
the club is spread, and this very fact seems to imply great 
possibilities for the influence of the Association. The 
plan adopted this year for the fir t timn, of having read 
before the club a formal paper, such as will be worthy of 
permanent record, would seem to make the meetings of 
the club more representative of its purposes. It was 
recommended that the club should take a more positive 
stand in regard to the manner of pursuit of our large 
game animals, and that every effort should be made to dis- 
courage improper practices in connection with big-game 
huating. 
Following the report of the secretary, which was ac- 
cepted, that officer read some correspondence from mem- 
bers and other persons in the West advocating the en- 
largement on the south of the Yellowstone National Park, 
and a committee to consider this question and to take 
such action in the matter as might seem necessary was 
appointed, its members b°ing Howard Melville Hanna, 
George B rd Grinnell and W. Hallett Phillips. 
Mr. Theodore Roosevelt reported for the editorial com- 
mittee, urging members to send in material for the next 
volume of the club's publication and indicating what the 
character of such material should be. 
Mr. Madison Grant reported for the committpe on game 
legislation. In the New York Legislature of lb96, Senator 
Malby introduced bills ia the Senate to stop the hounding 
and jacking of deer. These bills passed the Senate with- 
out amendment, but in the Assembly, notwithstanding 
the efforts of Mr. Sanger, the bills were altered and be- 
came law. This new law reduces the time for hounding 
from one month to two weeks, and the time for jacking 
from ten weeks to two weeks, a substantial gain. 
The election of officers followed, with this result: Pres- 
dent, W. A. Wadsworth; Vice-Presidents: Chas. F Deer- 
ing, of Illinois; W. B Devereux, of Colorado; Howard 
Melville Hanna, of Ohio;Wm. D. Pickett, of Wyoming; 
Secretary and Treasurer, C. Grant La Farge; Executive 
Committee: Winthrop Chanler, L, R. Morris, A. Rogers, 
H. L. Stimson and Madison Grant; Editorial Committee: 
George Bird Grinnell and Theo. Roosevelt. 
It was resolved that the chairman should appoint a 
committee, to consist of the chairman of the executive 
committee, the secretary and three others, who should re- 
vise the constitution and report to the executive com- 
mittee, and that the executive committee be empowered 
to approve such revision, and that the business of the 
club should be conducted thereunder pending the ratifi- 
cation of the committee's action by the club at its next 
general meeting, 
Mr. Henry L, Stimson introduced the following resolu- 
tion: 
Resolved, That the Boone and Crockett Club condemns 
the use of steel trapa and the killing of game while help- 
less in water or deep snow as cruel and most unsports- 
manlike. And in view of the rapid decrease in the game 
of this continent, the club regards the making of large 
"bags" and the killing of females of any species of horned 
game as selfish and objectionable practices inconsistent 
with the objects of of the club. 
Resolved further, That the committee on the revision of 
the constitution be and the same hereby is empowered to 
incorporate the substance of this resolution in the Consti- 
tution and By-laws of the club in such form as it may see 
fit. 
A resolution commemorative of Gen. Benjamin H. Bris- 
tow, its late president, and alluding to his services to the 
country and to the club, was passed. 
After the adjournment of the business meeting the club 
dinner was held, and this was followed by the reading of 
an extremely interesting paper by Mr. A. P. Low, of the 
Canadian Geological Survey. Mr. Low has spent a num- 
ber of years in exploring the Peninsula of Labrador, and 
the present paper, which was illustrated by lantern 8lide», 
dealt with tbis almost unknown territory. 
Few people realize that this peninsula is about 1,000 
miles in length and has about the same width at its south- 
ern end. It is roughly triangular in shape, and contains 
about 550,000 square miles. Its temperature ranges from 
north temperate in the south to arctic in the north, a con- 
siderable portion of it being absolutely without timber. 
Mr. Low's paper dealt with the physical characteristics of 
the country, its inhabitants, and its quadrupeds, birds and 
fish. From it we learn that the moose is hardly found in 
the ^eninsul^, but that botli woo^l^jjd and barren ground 
caribou occur there in very considerable numbers. The 
black bear is abundant in the southern part, while the 
polar bear occurs on the northwest coast and on islands 
in the Hudson's Bay. The wolf is extremely scarce. 
There are some fur-bearing animals, and foxes are 
extremely abundant in some places, the common fox in 
the south and the arctic fox in the north. The propor- 
tion of black foxes found is unusually large. Waterfowl 
are not abundant in Labrador, but are most so on the 
shores of Hudson's Bay, and especially on the rocky islets 
of that water. Broods of geese, however, are found in 
almost all the little lakes which dot the interior. There 
are some wading birds found along the shores of Hudson's 
Bay. Five species of grouse — the ruffed, the spruce, the 
sharptail, the willow ptarmigan and rock ptarmigan — are 
found therp; the sharptail grouse occurring on the shore 
of James Bay. The occurrence of the last-named species 
in Labrador will be news to many ornithologists. 
Mr. Low's very interestine: paper was listened to with 
the closest attention, and at its close a vote of thanks was 
passed by the club for the entertainment he had given 
them. 
Mr. Thompson was called on to speak about the wolf, 
of which he has made a special study. His remarks were 
of very great interest and were very warmly received. 
They are printed elsewhere in this issue. 
The meeting broke up at a late hour. 
OREGON NOTES. 
Kla-h6w-ya, Podgers! Kar-ta-roi-ba, Podgerf-? Glad 
to see you home again in tbe columns of Forest and 
Stream. Of course you growi a little at ua fellows once 
in a while, but then I suppose that it is all for the best, 
for it is the fear of the "Commentaries'" that limits the 
length and breadth of some of our hunting and fishing 
yarns. However, let us trust that you will be as liberal 
as Mark Twain was in the matter of limits. You know 
that he believed in having a limit to everything, even to 
smoking. "Limit yourself to ten cigars a day, and if you 
find that ten isn't enough, why, raise the limit." By the 
way, I wonder if Fred Mather has ever fished with Pod- 
gers? If not, it would please the boys mightily if he 
would take a day off with him and then write him up. 
Speaking of fishing, there ia just now a great run of 
salmon trout in the Columbia and its tributaries. Possi- 
bly it may be a surprise to many Eastern anglers to know 
that there is no more gamy trout than the salmon trout. 
They dearly love salmon eggs, of course, but I have taken 
them at all seasons of the year on the fly, and let me 
assure my angling friends that a couple of two-pounders 
hitched to a 6oz split-bamboo make things very interest- 
ing. They take the fly as greedily as do the rainbow, 
Dolly Varden or black-spotted trout, and fight just as long 
and hard as either. 
And again, speaking of fish, that report of the New 
York Fish Commission with its sixteen colored litho- 
graph plates of fishes must be a magnificent work. I am 
truly glad that it fell to the lot of Dr. Tarleton H, Bean 
to describe the rainbow trout, and I hope and believe he 
has done the subject justice. He certainly can, Eastern 
sportsmen will find it a valuable acquisition to their stock 
of game fishes. 
I see by the columns of Forest and Stream that Judge 
Cheney has done me the honor of permitting me to say 
something about the ring-neck or Mongolian pheasant in 
that report, and has accompanied my remarks with a 
lithograph plate of the bird drawn by Mr. Sherman F. 
Denton, artist of the United States Fish Commission. 
Feeling assured, as I do, that Mr. Denton has done his 
part far better than I, it is more than probable that 
neither of us have done the bird full justice, for he is a 
great, grand, beautiful bird. 
Speaking of birds reminds me that the boys have not 
had the duck shooting in our waters this winter that they 
had anticipated. 
While waiting for ducks the other day down at the 
Jewett, my old friend, J. Roberts Mead, killed a magnifi- 
cent bald eagle, and captured without injury (to the bird) 
a beautiful snowy owl. He presented the latter to the 
city park and it is doing nicely. Another old sporting 
friend of mine, Mr. Frank Thorn, made rather a remark- 
able record on swans recently. He caught two on a lap 
with his right, killed a third with his left, slipped another 
shell in and got a fourth before they got out of range. 
This would be something to be proud of were not the vic- 
tims swans. For my part, I think the killing of swans 
should be prohibited by law, and I doubt not Frank will 
agree with the sentiment. 
Our legislative Assembly is again in session, and Editor 
Reynolds, of Game Laws in Brief, has my sympathy. He 
may rest assured of one thing, however: the aiforesaid 
Assembly will sustain the well-earned reputation of its 
predecessors and "make confusion worse confounded.", 
S. H. Greene, 
PoRTLANi), Ore., Jan. 13. 
New "Fork Game Law. 
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 16 — Editor Forest and Stream: 
In the article headed "New York Game Protection," 
signed by 16 -Bore, I notice the first sentence, "The non- 
shipping game law is good as far as it goes, but it does 
not protect us." It seems as if 16-Bore wanted "us" pro- 
tected a great deal more than the grouse. I think all he 
is crying about is that he cannot get twenty or thirty 
birds a day himself. 
I have been in northern New York twice this year with 
friends who knew the ground thoroughly, and we never 
any one of us killed more than five birds in one day, be- 
cause we couldn't find them, though our party included 
one of the best brush shots in the country, and we had 
three and sometimes four almost perfect dogs. 
If a bounty were placed on foxes in the grouse counties 
it would help the shooting very much, as we found a 
great many places where foxes had caught grouse and 
rabbits. 
Col. Sanger's bill is perfect in my estimation, except 
that Nov. 15 is rather early; for a great many years we 
would have no open shooting, that is, after the leaves are 
off, but while he is at it why not put in a clause stopping 
the sale of game, and then it would be indeed perfect. 
R. C. F. 
