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FOREST AND STREAM. 
itEti. t, 1847. 
claimed the attention of the company, and proceeded to 
present ex- President B. C. Clark with an exceedingly life- 
like oil portrait of himself, by artist W. W. Churchill. Mr. 
Clark made a feeling response. Brief speeches were made 
by Hon. Mr. Williams, Pish Commissioner of Connecticut; 
Arthur M. Robinson, president of the Megantic Club; Geo. 
H. Lyman, Esq., and Dr. Ueber Bishop. The afiair would 
not have been complete without some surprises sprung 
upon the party by Dr. Bishop, and they came in due 
course. First, what purported to be a big pie was brought 
in and placed in front of the president. Upon the cover 
being removed a couple of baby lions from the Zoo were 
taken out and led up and down the table, apparently won- 
dering what it was all about. Next the Mexican midget 
Princess Chiquata appeared and made a tour of the head 
table, shaking hands with each guest. She requested the 
Governor to name her pet wolf cub, and he promptly said 
"Massachusetts." Tlie whole affair was a most enjoyable 
one, and the evening was well advanced before the festivi- 
ties were brought to a close. Wm. B. Smart. 
ADIRONDACK GUIDES' ASSOCIATION. 
S ARAN AC Lake, N. Y., Feb, 1.— On Wednesday even- 
ing, Jan. 27, the fourth annual meeting and banquet of 
the Adirondack Guides' Association took place at the 
Opera House in the village of Saranac Lake, the metrop- 
oliB of this mountain and lake region, now famous as a 
resort of health and pleasure seekers. No such interest 
has before been manifest in matters pertaining to the 
Adirondacka as was shown at this meeting. The large 
hall was packed with men and women from throughout 
the entire wilderness, and representatives from Malone, 
Plattsburgh, Albany, New York and Boston were also in 
attendance. The speakers included clergymen, lawyers, 
doctors, hotel men and railroad men, all of whom have a 
mutual interest with the guides in the preservation of the 
woods and waters, the game and the fish. 
The Adirondack Guides' Association is an organization 
composed of competent, well-equipped and trustworthy 
guides of the Adirondack wilderness, and, as associate 
members, of men who are interested in the protection of 
the game and the fish of the Adirondacks.' This organi- 
zation guarantees to the tourist and sportsman, if he en- 
gages as a guide a member of the Association, a man who 
has a thorough knowledge of the vast Adirondack forest, 
of its various routes from place to place, and of the 
habits of its denizens of game and fish; who shall be prop- 
erly equipped and trustworthy in every respect. Not 
only this, but such employer is aiding, by his employment 
of a member of the Adirondack Guides' Association, the 
most practical means of protection to the Adirondack 
forests ever yet proposed. The forests can best be pro- 
tected by those residing within their borders, and 
especially by those who are interested in their pre- 
servation, that their means of livelihood may be 
retained. Long before the tourist or sportsman 
reaches the Adirondacks he will have been informed 
through newspapers, magazines, circulars and no- 
tices that such an organization exists; that its mem- 
bers are men who are content to perform the duties 
devolving upon them, and that they are pledged to the 
protection of the forests and all that pertains to them. 
They will know also where to find these members, and it 
is but natural that a pportsman or tourist should engage, 
in preference to all ottiers, a man backed by a guarantee 
like that of the Association. Thus membership in the 
Adirondack Guides' Association is in itself a credential 
than which no man can have a better. Guides only are 
admitted to membership. The associate membership is, 
however, open to all those interested in the objects and 
jmrposes of the Association. Many of the most promi- 
nent citizens of New York State have been enrolled. 
Among them are State officials, hotel men, prominpnt 
physicians and attorneys, members of the press and of the 
various Adirondack clubs. 
The president of the Association, Mr. Oatman A. Covill, 
of Saranac Lake, called the meeting to order. After the 
minutes of the last annual meeting were read and ap- 
proved, and the reports of the secretary and treasurer 
were accepted, letters from the honorary president, Hon, 
Verplanck Colvin, of Albany, were read by Mr, Seaver 
A. Miller. Mr. Colvin in his letters made a number of 
valuable suggestions, and among other things spoke of a 
new method of hunting in the Adirondacks which he 
believes greatly increases the destruction of deer. This 
is the free importation of hounds and dogs from all por- 
tions of the settlements. At the beginning of hounding, 
if not earlier, a great number of strange dogs are turned 
loose in our great deer preserves in such a manner as to 
secure the greatest results for "pot-hunters," or men who 
are more desirous of destroying the deer than of enjoy- 
ing some weeks of camp life, with its rest and health, in 
the exhilarating atmosphere of the woods. A party of 
men from the settlements, loaded with guns and ammu- 
nition, leading a pack of dogs, and staying but a 
few days in the wilderness for the purpose of 
killing deer, are not beneficial to the country, 
but are destructive not only to the deer, but to 
the business in which the guides themselves, the ho- 
tels, railroads, etc., are engaged. He said there are 
plenty of hounds now in the Adirondacks, indeed it is 
quite likely there are too many for the good of the deer, 
and believed that the importation of hounds from the 
settlements for the purpose of wholesale slaughter is one 
deserving earnest consideration and correction. Parties 
thus coming and going in a hurry often lose their hounds 
and the dogs are left in the woods. If they are not 
picked up by a guide, or do not starve, they may run to 
and fro from settlement to settlement, hunting whatever 
they can find and doing much harm. In some sections a 
pack of hounds have been found in the woods away from 
settlements and without known owners. Such wild dogs, 
caid Mr. Colvin, may become as injurious as wolves. He 
BUggefated that the remedy probably consists in placing a 
tax, to be collected at each railroad depot where dogs are 
imported, and believed that if this tax could be appropri- 
ated, to the improvement of trails and to an old age fund 
for disabled woodsmen, from $1,000 to $10,000 might be 
obtained from this tax on imp jrted dogs and applied to 
good purposes. 
Anotutr matter which Mr. Colvin believed should be 
urged upon the State authorities is the importance of 
acquiring large areas of forest land in the central portion 
of the wilderness, and particularly the reservation by the 
State of the shore lines of all the beautiful lakes, so as to 
prevent their disfigurement and the destruction of the 
timber by lumbering along such shores. He said also 
that it was essential that the guides in all the several sec- 
tions of the Adirondack region should act together, and 
that only those who are reliable men and thoroughly 
good guides should be on the list of membership; that to 
be a first-rate guide is to be thoroughly acquainted with 
a large extent of the country; to have and to furnish 
a good boat and rifle, fidhing tackle, tents, and 
a hound; if need be, while all should be skill- 
ful and capable cooks; that there are many men 
in these days who claim to be guides and yet have 
not the local knowledge or any knowledge of woodcraft, 
or of the forests, streams, trails or carries, and do not 
furnish either boats, guns, fishing tackle or tents, and 
cannot cook or chop wood, yet they claim to be guides 
and demand the same compensation as guides. Ha be- 
lieved this to be unjust, but it is a situation which the 
guides are forced to meet, and it seemed to him that it 
would be proper for them not only to make up their list 
of regular guides, fit to be employed by sportsmen, travel- 
ers and tourists, and receive a daily compensation of $3 
due a guide, but that they recognize and designate other 
classes of labor, noting that the mountain guides, though 
not furnishing boats, are thoroughly regular in their 
employment, inasmuch as they carry heavy packs and all 
the baggage of their employer over the mountain ranges 
and to the summits of the high peaks, a work fully 
equivalent in labor to the use of a boat. 
Mr. Colvin suggested that they designate this secondary 
class of labor as: First, packmen; strong, healthy men, 
who can carry burdens and do the heavy work under the 
direction of the guides. Such inen can generally be hired 
at about half the pay of the guides, and should be selected 
by the guides with a view to the labor which they are 
called upon to perform. The packmen need not neces- 
sarily know the trails, nor have any special training in 
woodcraft, but should be physically men of strength and 
endurance. Sjcond, axemen; in a large party in camp, 
where much wood is to be cut for the camp-fires or cook- 
ing, or where log camps are to be built, the guides can 
generally hire for their parties good axemen who are not 
members of the Guides' Association, and will not claim 
the same pay as members, and thus will not create the 
idea among many men that they are guides simply be- 
cause they are employed at the same time with guides to 
help them in their work. In a similar way other labor- 
ers, boatmen, etc., may at times be hired by the guides to 
assist in the labor of the camp; and probably by making 
definite these positions of packmen, axemen, boatmen 
and laborers, the attempt on the part of untrained, un- 
skillful and incompetent men to take parties into remote 
sections of the wilderness to procure for them deer or 
trout may be avoided. 
In accordance with the authority vested in him by the 
constitution and by-laws, the honorary president named 
the following from among the associate members as hon- 
orary trustees: R. Babcock, W. S. Durant, Dr. A. G. 
Gester, Col. A. G. Mills, J. J. Broome, G O. S^iields, of 
New York; A. N. Cheney, Glens Falls; Hon. Verplanck 
Colvin, of Albany; Ulysses S. Grant, San Diego, Cal. ; R. 
H. Kissell, Morristown, N. J. ; Senator G, R. Maiby, Og- 
densburgh; Schuyler Merritt, Stamford, Conn.; Hon. 
Warner Miller, Herkimer; Samuel J, Tilden, New Leba- 
non, N. H.; W. C, Witherbee, Port Henry; William R. 
Weed, Potsdam. ' • 
Dr, John C. Russell, president of Saranac Lake village, 
then delivered an address of welcome to the Association. 
He congratulated them upon their healthful growth and 
prosperity and the influence for good they were exerting 
iO. Adirondack affairs, and expressed the hope that they 
would continue to hold their annual meetings and ban- 
quets in this village. The doctor then introduced the 
Rev. Walter H. Larom, who delivered a strong and prac- 
tical address, which was listened to with close attention. 
The reverend gentleman said that in his position he was 
often thrown among guides and also with their employ- 
ers; that it had been his privilege to obtain either perma- 
nent or temporary employment for many of thei^ num- 
ber, and that he had yet to hear of a dishonest Adiron- 
dack guide. He suggested that the Association adopt 
some sort of a dress for its- members, which would be en- 
tirely representative of the region arid of their vocation. 
Mr. Larom spoke about thirty minutes, and his remarks 
were frequently punctuated with applause. Frederick G. 
Paddock, E sq. , district attorney of Franklin county, was the 
next speaker of the evening. The Association has made 
application for incorporation, and Mr. Paddock proceeded 
to explain the effect of the corporation laws as to the lia- 
bility of members and the responsibility of officers join- 
ing in such reorganization. The district attorney said 
that in his official position hundreds of violations of the 
fish and game laws were presented to him annually, but 
that a medaber of the Adirondack Guides' Association had 
never yet appeared before him as such an offender. 
The Hon. Geo. A, Stevens, ex-Member of Assembly 
from Essex, was introduced, and spoke in a particularly 
pleasing manner twenty or thirty minutes, Mr. Stevens 
said that there was a peoulair fascination for him in that 
word (guide), for had not he hinaself for several years 
guided the sportsmen across lakes, over carries and 
through woods in search of the deer and fox, and to the 
favorite haunts of trout to lure from their deep abode the 
wily fish? He spoke of the Adirondacks as the "Ssvitzsr- 
land of America," and the need of wise and practical leg- 
islation and careful guardians, such as the members of 
this Association had proven themselves to be, to preserve 
them forever in their present beauty and grandeur, Mr. 
S tevens believed that the guides were better fitted than 
any other men for game protectors, and believed that it 
would be a step in the riglit direction shotdd the Legisla- 
ture or the chief game protector appoint them as such. 
Dr. Carter McV. Tobey, of Boston, was also one of the 
speakers. Dr. Tobey spoke particularly of the movement 
on foot to increase the Naw England tourist travel in the 
Adirondacks this coming summer. He said that the 
Boston & Albany R, R. had promised to put on a through 
sleeper to Saranac Lakeif the N. Y. C. would agree to take 
it from Albany; that the Fitchburg Co. have, promised 
to put on a day chair oar to run direct to Plattsburgh via 
Rutland and Whitehall if the D. & H. will take the car 
from Rutland. 
The D jctor requested that a letter, general in its char- 
acter, signed by the members of the Association, be ad- 
dressed to H. Walter Webb, of the N. Y. C, asking that 
the Adirondacks be given a through sleeping car from 
New England by connecting with the B, & A, at A. 
Should the enterprise succeed, he believed It would add 
thousands to the number of tourists who will be in the 
mountains during the summer of 1897, and put many dol- 
lars into the pockets of the Adirondack guides. 
The Rev. C. J. Savell, of the Bajjtist Church, spoke of 
his pleasant experiences with Adirondack guides, and 
said he had never met a more worthy and honorable body 
of men. There was a diversity of opinion regarding the 
game laws, but the majority believed it would be for the 
best interests of the Adirondacks, the sportsmen and the 
guides should hounding be entirely abolished, and the 
open hunting season be extended into October. 
An adjournment was made to the rooms below, where 
a sumptuous banquet was prepared, in which some 200 
guests and members of the Association participated. 
After banqueting and story-telling for an hour and a half, 
the meeting was again called to order by the president. 
A resolution was unanimously adopted to incorporate the 
Association, and a committee appointed to attend to the 
necessary proceedings. 
The election of officers and reorganization were taken 
up and the following were regularly and duly elected 
officers of the Association for the ensuing year: Honor- 
ary President, Hon. Verplanck Colvin, of Albany; Presi- 
dent, Warren J. Slater, of Saranac Lake. Vice-Presidents: 
Thomas Healy, of Saranac Lake; Douglas Martin, Paul 
Smith's; Albert Billings, Lake Placid; Warren Cole, Long 
Like; C. C. McCaffery, Saranac Inn; James McBride, 
Moody; E. L. Scrafford, Fulton Chain; C. W. Blanchard, 
Blue Mountain Lake; and John Hinkson, Child wold. 
Secretary, E. E. Sumner, Saranac Lake; Treasurer, Oat- 
man A, Covill, of Saranac Lake. Executive Committee — 
For Saranac Lake: Marshall Brown, Wm. Ring, Geo. 
Mussen; for Paul Smith's: Ross Hays, Ezra Bruce and 
Tom Redwood; for Lake Placid: Miles Kennedy, Geo. 
Alford; for Saranac Inn: Justin Farrington; for Blue 
Mountain Lake: Espen Jansen (Denmark); for Long 
Lake: Charles W.Robinson; for Duane and Meachem Lake: 
Halsey Sprague; for Fulton Chain: Ban Parsons, Wm. 
Burke; for Childwold: H. B. Marden. Local Committee: 
Marshall Brown, Hiram S. Moody, Gao Mussen, Peter A. 
Solomen, Benj. Moody, Gao. Johnson, Wm. Ring, War- 
ren Bryant and Calvin Brown. 
A motion was carried that the offieers compose the 
board of directors for the year. Among the names added 
to the list of associate members were: Francis S. Bangs, 
Landon Carter, W. Dallas Goodwin, J. S. Ebrich, John 
H. Sprague, R. Babcock, Edgar Logan, all of New York; 
William Linton Landreth, M. C. Paul, Phila.; Rev. Shel-. 
don M, Griswold, Hudson; Robb, T, Wilkinson, Pough- 
keepsie; Francis K. Kyle, Troy; Rev. Walter H. Larpm,, 
of Saranac Lake; Washington Wilson, Elberon, N. J., and 
Henry C. White, New Haven, Conn. 
It was a late hour when the convention finally a,d- 
journed, after voting to hold its fifth annual meeting at 
Saranac Lake on the third Wednesday in January, 1898.. 
Seavbr a. Miller. 
MEN I HAVE FISHED WITH. 
Francis Endlcott. 
Concluded. 
Going down Broadway last week I met an old angling 
friend, who asked: "When are you going to write up Frank 
Endicott?" 
"The sketch of him is now in the hands of the printer; 
just left it with the editor, but there was so much material 
on hand and so many reminiscences in memory that some 
were left to be told afterward. If you have an anecdote or 
two of him let me have it; you knew him so well that you 
mupfc have some of his stories of fishing adventure.*' 
We stepped into Conroy's to get out of the roar of the 
street, where conversation was hard labor, and after assur- 
ing the salesman that we did not need iishing tackle in mid- 
winter, my friend said; "Some years ago, after a day of 
good bass fishing on Qreenwood Lake, we were comparing 
notes by the hotel fireplace and talking of the successful 
flies, baits and places where the black bass were most likely 
to be found in that famous water, when Mr. Endicott came 
in from the supper table, for he had been fishina; at the 
farther end of the lake and was late. Harry Pritchard was 
there and asked: 'Wha' 1-1-luck tt to-day, M-m-mr. Eadi- 
c-c-cott ?' He said : 'Harry, If you were as drunk as my boat- 
man was, you would be able to talk better than that. I 
thought we never would get home to-night; I found a bottle 
half lull of whisky, emptied it overboard and replaced the 
liquor with water,- but he had a reserve somewhere. 1 was 
casting a minnow with my back to him, and noticed that he 
fumbled long in the bait car alongside the boat for a live 
minnow, but thought he might h i selecting a bait of a medium 
size, as I had requested. Then while replacing a lost hook 
and getting a knot out of the leader, I was dimly conscious 
that he was using the tin cup as a bailer, and after getting 
ready and waiting what I thought a reasonable time 1 again 
asked for a bait. My boatman replied: "All ri', Mis'r Endi- 
cott, they's sca'ce, an' I'm bailin' out the wasser so's to fin' 
'em;'. and I'm a sinner if he wasn't trying to bail out the 
bait car!" 
That reminded me, and I said: "You know how Frank 
loved a good dinner and what a judge he was of one well 
cooked and served. He was an authority on a mayonnaise 
dressing for a salad and once said to me, as I essayed my 
'prentice hand at mixing one: 'Fred, that is good; it is moie 
tfian good, it is excellent. Call the waiter and have him 
send it up to Bellevue Hospital, where they need mustard 
plasters; but, my boy, you forgot that what we need is a salad 
dressing. Vinegar and mustird are useful things in their 
way, especially when the object is to raise a blister as a 
counter irritant, but in a dressing of this kind you should 
bear in mind the fact that the object is not to dress leather, 
but to tickle a human i^alate and help a human stomach to 
digest those difficult things which we call vegetables. Pour 
on the oil. but drop on the vinegar, that is the first grand 
rule for a salad dressing." And that is a rule which I never 
forgot, and which years of practice has confirmed, and I can 
now distinguish a salad dressing from a mustard plaster. 
Tom Couroy had listened to these stories, and after some 
reflection remarked: '"Mr. Endicott came in here many 
years ago with a friend from a far-oflf region whom he had 
often visited and shot and fished with, and now wished to 
entertain on his first visit to New York. His friend selected 
what he needed and they went away. Tne next morning 
Mr. Endicott came in the store and he looked tired and dis- 
gusted. Naturally, I asked after his ftiend and he said; 
'He's all right; I took him to the theater, and in remem- 
brance of the many courtesies he had shown me in his home 
among the trout streams and the quail grounds I thought I 
