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cold storage warehouses carry in the aggregate millions of 
Inrda for use in the close season and for the private use of 
their customers at all times. Note the Chicago cold storage 
case, -which is not so long ago as to be out of memory. The 
game warden found 2? 000 birds stored away in Eewanee in 
summer, and that warehouse was but one of several in Chi- 
cago, and those in Chicago are but a few as compared to the 
total number in the United States And who furnishes the 
vast supply for the consumpiion of 70,000,000 of people, or 
such percentage of it as can afford to eat it? And out of the 
total number the percentage must be very great. Of course, 
it is the ' 'club member" and the "yacht owner." 
As the PoKEST AND Stbeam has often pointed out, our 
American game laws aie for the benefit of rich and poor 
alike. Law is more for the benefit of the poor man than it is 
for the rich, for the latter can have his shooting whether 
there is any law or not ; that is to say, he can travel into the 
wilderness and find sport in the unsettled sections, or he can 
establish a preserve of his own. When a poor man decries 
the passage of game kws he is fighting his own interests; 
for he is the greatest beneficiary of them. The rich man is 
but a demagogue's bugaboo at the most, for by far the great- 
est number ol shooters are men of moderate means. 
Mr. McCain writes as follows: "The fortunate class, who 
can enjoy shooting privileges at their pleasure, who invest 
small fortunes in club membership and shooting preserves, 
are continually deriding the poor and less fortunate class of 
gunners, who from grim necessity must occupy a lower 
sphere." 1 deny this in toto. The whole is based on false 
assertions, a narrow and ungenerous imagination, commer- 
cial interests, and a selfishness which is paramount to all 
considerations of what is just to others. 
William Henrt Athekton. 
THE PENNSYLVANIA GAME LAW. 
Habrisburg, Pa., April Editor Forest and Stream: 
The article appearing m your last issue, opposing the enact' 
ment of the Baldwin bill, is as misleading and evasive as all 
previous ariicles have been on this subject. I fail to find a 
direct answer to any section of the reasons given for its en- 
actment. Drawing upon the imagination to paint a pen 
picture of prejudice and fiction is not argument, but is 
contrary to the provisions of every section of the act, creating 
as well as defiuiug the dutios of the proposed officers. 
It can have but one object, that to excite public animosity 
•against the proposed officer acting as chief by misrepresenta- 
itian. The answer to all such imputations, as well as all the 
pretexts advanced, can be found in the facts and figures 
taken from the report of the Stale Game and Fish Warden 
.of the State of Michigan, and contained in section 8 of the 
article of explanation. 
Fortunately the provisions of the Baldwin Act are such as 
to define the' duties of the chief and his subordinat.s, and 
gives ihem the power and authority to act with promptness 
iQ all cases of violation, and thus balk the opportunity for 
the violator to remove the evidences of guilt 
Impossible as it may appear to some, it will not require 
more than $6,000 per annum, as a State appropriation, to 
properly patrol this Commonwealth i or fish and game viola- 
tions. Tne facts contained in the reports of the operations 
of this act in another State have convinced me that the sum 
named is adequate, and if certain sections of the codified 
game and fish laws are enacted, and the Baldwin Act passed, 
it will be abundant, and no part of the State will suffer the 
extent of ills to which it has been subjected in the past by 
violations. 
The objector is evidently ignorant of the fact that the 
system wuich he proposes is the same old inoperative one 
\\hichha& been carried on in this State for the past ten 
years by the Boaid of Fish Commissioners. It nas never been 
a success or abated violations, and they are to-day as com- 
mon as though there was no appropriation for this purpose. 
I would lecommend that the opponent first read the 
article and the Baldwin bill. Inform himself as to the 
ptovisions of the general fish and game bills now before the 
Legislature, what has been appropriated in the past, its pur- 
pose and Jesuits; also secure and examine the protective 
systems now in operation in other Slates, and feel sure that 
he will find less time tor the occupancy of downy chairs for 
ihe chief warden, and to criticise the supporters of this 
practical act. 
In this conect'on T desire so make a statement, based on 
facts, that the sole purpose of this act is to protect the game 
and fish reserve of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, con- 
trolled by its individuals and citizens, an organization 
composed of all its people, Delaware, Dauphin, and Erie 
counties alike, as well a^i all others within its wide domain. 
Tne imputation that Mr. Worden had conspired to assist 
a measuie for the special benefit of some certain reserve is a 
gross injustice to him. I have known him personally for 
twenty years, positively know that he does not belong to 
any such organization in this or any other State. 
J further know that he has done as much to awaken as 
well as maintain an interest among the people of this State 
in game and 'Ish protection as any one citizen within its 
bjrd( rs. He needs no def> use in this community, and ne 
introduction to the editors of Forest and Stream. He 
has manifested a spirit of fairness lu indoising the Baldwin 
Act by setting forta his reanons for doing so, with an able 
presentation of the facts as they exist. 
1 desire personally to add my indorsement to the act, and 
believe it one of the most practical ever introduced in our 
State for the enforcement of our game and fisn laws. I trust 
that it may speedily be enacted into law. 
Akson S. De Vout, 
DiLLiNGERSviLLE, Pa., April 9. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Just a few words, please, in reply to Mr. McCain's article 
uf March 28. I uphold neither the rich nor the poorer 
class of sportsmen. I believe in equal rights of all men. 
But is it honest, is it sportsmanlike, is it American in prin- 
ciple, to see our game exterminated? Does Mr. McCain 
wish his army of market-shooting friends to have full 
sway of our fields and forests, and continue, as they have 
in the past, to destroy our game in and out of season? 
These men sell their game to their friends, the game 
dealers, who always take the deepest interest incur furred 
and feathered iriends; and the vast multitude of law-abid- 
ing sportsmen must, according to Mr. McCain's views, be 
deaiedall rights to use their voices in their grand fight 
against the extermination of game, because there are some 
more fortunate sportsmen who own a few silken-haii-ed 
setters, wear a good suit of corduroy, are not dressed in 
"yaller overalls," and shoot a 12-gauge gun instead of an 8- 
. gauge brush-mowing cannon, Such a man is dubbed » 
"city dude" by Mr. McCain. This is certainly veiy con- 
siderate for one who loves legitimate field sports. 
I say again that field sports were made for a gentleman's 
recreation. A man need not have a large bank account to 
be a gentleman sportsman. I have gunned many and 
many a day with men who could not well afford to lose the 
time and money to enjoy a good day's sport, yet they were 
gentlemen sportsmen in my estimation in the fullest sense 
of the word. To these men no greater insult could be of- 
fered than to ask them to part with their game for cash. 
Such men I have found kind and generous to a fault; ttey 
would share the last crust of bread in camp with their 
fellow companion; but as poor as they were, money could 
not tempt them to part with their game. 
Let the market-hunter find other employment to sup- 
port himself and family than by the extermination of 
game; and if his love for the dog and gun be of the right 
stripe he will, I am sure, be able to save enough from hia 
hard but manly earnings by fall to spend a few days afield. 
I believe in protection in all matters pertaining to the 
pleasures of mankind, and a limitation even in the killing 
of ganae. _ If we cannot stop the sale of game, let us at 
least limit its taking by an individual to so many head of 
game in a season; in fact, have passed most any bill that 
will protect our game in some way from extermination. I 
know several station agents on tbe line of the D., L. & W. 
E.R. in Pike county, Pa., who informed me last fall that 
they had each shipped between 1,400 and 1,500 ruffed 
grouse to New York and Philadelphia markets. In con- 
versation with Mr. George 0. Swab, of Harrisburg, regard- 
ing the decreasing of our game birds, he told me that a 
stage driver in Sullivan county, Pa., had informed him 
that he had, during the season of 1896, carried 1,900 ruffed 
grouse for shipment to different points. How Mr. McCain 
or any sound-minded person can imagine this sort of 
butchery of our game will continue forever is beyond my 
comprehension. L. W. Mazurik. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Your correspondent W. W. McCain speaks of your edi- 
torial remarks as "captious, but considerate." How could 
they be captious, which his dictionary defines as "peevish, 
fretful and perverse," and at the same time be considerate, 
a synonym for "careful, discreet, prudent and deliber- 
ate"? 
He refers to the remarks of Mr. Mazurie and myself as 
rancor, defined as "malignant enmity, inveterate hatred." 
Whether there was anything to justify the use of such 
terms I am perfectly willing- to leave to your many readers 
to decide. They will also form their own conclusions as 
to their efficiency in supporting his position. 
He also speaks of "gross misstatements." If they had 
been as flagrant as represented he should have able in a 
full column to have pointed out at least one. I do not in- 
tend to handle that kind of goods. If Mr. McCain will 
show me wherein I have erred in any statement I will re- 
tract, and do it most heartily. The case needs no false 
props. Bon Ami. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Spring at Chlcaeo. 
Chtcago, 111., April 10. — We are threatened with spring at 
Chicago. A few of the larger lakes of Illinois. Indiana and 
Wisconsin are beginning to break open and offer the wild- 
fowl a chance to wet their feet. Chicago sportsmen have 
already vi ited Lake Koshkonong and the Bingham canvas- 
back hatchery in the hope of an early canvasback or two, 
and a few small bags of ducks are reported from various 
quarters, one of thirty-two by Prof Woodruff, at Liverpool, 
Ind. Some irquiries are coming in for jacksnips ground. 
The Kanliakee bottoms at Koutts, Ind., nave been as fine 
snipe ground as existed in the United States. The high 
meadows near Water Valley, Ind., are the first grounds to show 
jicksnipe in the spring in this section. I should say that my 
friends would be apt to do well at these localities, and on 
the marshes that run to ihe north and northeast of these in 
Indiana, as those near Warsaw, the big marsh near Swift's 
Siding, etc., etc. Of course all this is said with reserve, as 
no man knoweth the habits of his majesty the jacksnipe. 
In the Northwest. 
The heavy floods which have caused such devastation m 
the JSTorthwest within the past two weeks will to some extent 
affect the game supply of the season, probably in a bene 
ficial way, more especially as regards the wildfowl. Many 
lakes which have recently been dry will be filled up again, 
this more especially in Minnesota and Dakota. Wisconsin 
wattrs are higher than for many years. The sportsmen of 
Horicon Marsh report more water than for ten years. Wild- 
fowl have made their appearance in Minnesota, Dakota and 
Montana. Last week 1 saw cumbers of geese in Montana. 
In the larger waters of Minnesota, such as Big Stone, Mille 
Lacs and Lac Qui Parle, ducks appeared this week in con- 
siderable numbers. Lake Minnetonka is beginning to break 
loose about the edges. The fish are beginning to run in the 
Northwestern walers, and I saw an occasional fish spear in 
evidence from the railway car windows as I passed through. 
The whole Red River Valley was a vast sheet of water, and 
tor miles the wheat lands were submerged It was not 
unusual to see farmers punting about in rude little boats over 
what nad once been their grain fields. 
The dale of the appearance of wild geese in Montana, 
near the British line, is March 13 to March 18, there being 
but little variation tiom that time. 
The Floods In the South. 
For many days the press dispatches have been filled with 
accounts of the devastating floods which have been raging 
along the Del a country of the South, from Tennessee to the 
mouth of the Alississippi River. The loss of properly and 
life through these .floods is of so serious a nature as almost to 
preclude a lesser concern, yet these high walers will have a 
pronounced effect on the game of that country. 'The bears, 
deer and turkeys will be driven to the high ridges, where 
they will be helpless .md without food and easily slaughtered. 
The deer will be obliged to wade m the water so long that 
the skin of their legs will rot and slough off. All species of 
game will suffer from the swallowing up of their food 
supply. 
The Delta floods have been serious along the Yazoo and 
Sunflower districts, and I think that much or most of our 
Bobo bear country must at this writing be deep under water, 
though Capt. Bobo's plantation is situated upon the highest 
grbund of that region, and is ho doubt far from the edge 
the flood. 
Chicago Mayor a Sportsman. 
Carter H. Harrison, Jr., this week elected mayor of Chi- 
cago, is the sixth son to bear that name, and the second to 
carry the name into the Mayor's oflice of Chicago. Readers 
of FoRRST AND STREAM wlll be interested to know that Mr: 
Harrison is an ardent admirer of that paper, and a strict be- 
liever in its doctrines. There are few more ardent and en- 
thusiastic sportsmen than he. His tendencies run perhaps 
rather to the rod than to the gun He has for a series of 
years been thoroughlv acquainted with the best of the gray- 
ling streams of the Michigan South Peninsula, and has also 
fished the best of muscallonge wateis of Wisconsin. Con- 
nected by marriage with one of the best families of New 
Orleans, Mr. Harrison is thoroughly acquainted in the State 
of Louisiana, and indeed in all the South. The family ia 
originally a Southern one, and perhaps naturally turns to 
the sports of the open air. Mr. Harrison is a skillful ama- 
teur photographer, an enthusiastic bicyclist, a traveler of the 
world, a good shot with gun or rifle, and an expert with the 
fly rod. In angling he is fond of tying his own flies. All 
these things show that he is a fit man to be mayor of Chicago. 
And I will bet $1,000 that the first thing he does when he 
gets rid of that job will be to go a-flshing. 
North Dakota Game Licenses. 
Reference to the report of the State Qame Warden of 
North Dakota shows that during the year 8,502 resident li- 
censes and sixty non-resident licenses were issued. There is 
a disparity here which seems to be more than obvious, I 
fear the non-residents did not all register as such. 
Wild Possum In Chicago. 
A live wild opossum was caught last Sunday morning in 
the dooryard of G-eorge Pullman, the sleeping-car magnate. 
The beast showed great shrewdness in thus picking out a 
place to go to sleep, but I'll bet it had lo pay $2 and a tip. 
The origin of this, the last of the wild animals to be discov- 
ered in the environs of Chicago, cannot be traced, but it is 
believed that the creature was endeavoring to escape from 
the clutches of Possum Bill Werner. 
Illinois Warden Candidates. 
Friends of Harry Loveday, of Chicago, have for somedaya 
been earnestly urging his appointment as State Game War* 
den. some of these friends having joined Kepiesentative H. 
D. Nicholls at Springfield for the purpose of laying Mr, 
Loveday 's name before Gov. Tanner. Mr. Loveday is a 
member of the Cumberland Gun Club, of Chicago, and a 
shooter well known around this city. His nomination, how- 
ever, is not made by action of the Illinois State Sportsmen's 
Association, and indeed members of the executive committee 
of that body this week telegraphed a protest to Gov. 'Tan- 
ner, asking that action be delayed until the Association 
shall have made its recommendation. This protest was sec' 
onded by F. S. Baird and M. R. Bortree, of the National 
Association, who also wish a different man, it seems. Mr. 
Loveday's nomination is said to be satisfactory to Mr. Geo 
Sloan, who in a way takes the place as king of South Water 
street, if any one man can be said to occupy the throne since 
the time of Col. E. S Bond. The Illinois State Association 
has as yet come out lor no man for State warden, and has 
made no secret recommendation to the Governor; but the 
claims of two or three men are being quietly investigated, 
and before many days have passed there wiU be a choice 
made to place before the Governor, with what resnlt is of 
course problematical. 
Nothing has occurred as yet at Springfield in the way of 
legislation which deserves extended comment at this writing. 
Mention was made earlier in these columns of the somewhat 
remarkable game warden bill drafted by F. S. Baird. Not 
long ago Mr Baird, with Messrs, W. P. Mussey and R. B. 
Organ, of the Illinois State Association committee, went 
down to Springfield in the interest of this bill. Billy Mussey 
said to-day when interviewed in regard to this: "Well, after 
a prolonged effort on behalf of the bill, we at length suc- 
ceeded in getting it killed in the committee room. It is not 
every sportsmen's committee that does so well as that. 
Sometimes one of our bills gets clear up to the House." It 
is thought that the efforts of a gentleman of the name of 
Blow ha'l something to do with the demise of this bill, but 
of this no definite word is known. Warden Blow would, if 
pressed, take the otiice of warden again just as it is, and 
would, I doubt not, continue towage relentless warfare upon 
the farmer boy who shoots a bird. What we need is a 
warden who will find some way of getting into the big 
game freezers of Chicago. That is a question which affects 
the sportsmen of the entire West. The killing of Illinois 
game does not affect any one outside this State and very 
lew inside of it, certainly almost no Chicago shooter, for no 
Chicago shooter hunts in Illinois nowadays. It really makes 
no difference what sort of law we have about open seasons 
and not very much difference about the question of spring 
shooting, although the latter is the main point to be consid- 
ered in any new law. The game dealers know this fact if 
the sportsmen do not, and they are wilhng to give us almost 
any kind of a law we want for the Illinois game. But when 
it comes to a question of an act that will really do some 
good, an act which will force the marketmen of South 
Water street to be law-abiding citizens, such as the rest of 
us are supposed to be in our business pursuits — then it is a 
horse of a different color. One year of legality on South 
Water street in Chicago will mean ten years "more of shoot- 
ing for the law-abiding men of the West, Northwest and 
Southwest who love a day out of doors now and then. 
Col. C. E. Felton. pivsident of the Illinoio State Sports- 
men's Association, has to-day written and telegraphed to 
Governor Tanner asking delay on the appointment of a State 
warden until his association has made report. Col. Felton's 
illness has been earlier mentioned, but to-day it is expected 
that his recovery will be steady from this date. 
Guns Out. 
A great many guns came out of the cases to-day, and a consid- 
erable number of our shooters are out of town for a couple 
of days after snipe and ducks. Most of these shooters have 
gone to Indiana. Within a week, if all goes well, we shall 
hear of snipe near at hand. To-day we had snow and a 
cold rain, the glorious climate of Chicago being very jealous 
of its reputation, and always paying for a bright day with a 
dozen bad ones. This climate is simply sinful m the winter, 
and it is winter until the Fourth of July. E. Hough, 
ISOe BovcE Bmi,DiNQ, Clilcago. 
