July 31, 1897.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Park, Few York city, does not, strictly speaking, come 
under the head of a game preserve, it deseryes mention in 
this connection aa a breeding center for American game 
animals. Here will be found elk, antelope, deer, buffalo and 
all the principal varieties of our b'g game living under con- 
ditions as nearly lite as it is possible to make them those 
with which they were familiar in their wild state 
The plans of the Zoological Society, as stated by Director 
William T. Honraday, mclude a buffalo range of twenty 
acres and like spacious enclosures for the other important 
animals. A herd of twenty or twenty-five buffalo will be 
kept, including both sexes and all ages. It will be a "show 
herd," composed of animals selected for their beauty and 
perfection of type. 
Similarly the elk group will be thoroughly representative of 
the species Here len or twelve animals will be enough for 
the typical herd. No attempt will be made to secure a large 
number of any one species, but on the other hand the 
greatest care_will be taken to present a series of strong, 
healthy animals at different ages. Whenever possible, the 
enclosing fences will be sunk so that spectators can look 
directly at the animals from above. The present plans in- 
clude at least a mile of enclosures for large animals that can 
be so overlooked. 
The Bear Swamp Game Preserve. 
The Bear Swamp G-ime Park, located In Sussex county, 
N J. , contains about 1 000 acres of woodland, the timber 
consisting ef oak and chestnut principa'ly. A sveamp of 
about 100 acres, thickly covered with pine, hemlock and 
laurel, near the center ot the tract, adds beauty to the park 
as well as protection to the game. vThis is known as the 
Bear Swamp, and from it the park derives its name. The 
tract was purchased in 1894 by Dr. E S. Daliymple, of 
Branchville, N. J., with the view of farming a private game 
pre&erve The park was fenced about a year ago with 8ft. 
Page woven wire. There has been no shooting allowed 
since 1894, and as a result the nalive game, consisting of 
grouse and rabbits, has increased rapidlj'. Quail are also to 
be found, though they are not very abundam. 
The park is not yet stocked toils full capacity. A num- 
ber of Canada hares were liberated in the spring of 1896 and 
have made a good showing, as have also s-omf English 
pheasants turned out at the same time. Thirty or forty 
Belgian hares, liberated last summer, have not been heard 
from, having probably falkn victims to gray foxes, which 
were at one time quite numerous, and which'have destroyed 
considerable small game. The foxes are now, we think, 
practically exterminated. 
A number of Virginia deer were turned loose in the park 
last year. They have been seen occasionally since, and 
have prospered S me fawns have been seen this summer. 
The park is watered by a stream and tributaries which 
empty into Lake Owassa. TM% lake, which is some two 
miles in extent, lies along the western side of the park. It 
affords excellent bass fishing, and is free to the public. 
Hon. F. Dancombe. 
Hon. J. F. Duncombe, Fort Dodge, la., writes: "I have 
had in my deer park from twelve to thirty deer until last 
March, for twenty-nine years, or about that time. Unfortu- 
nately in two nights the dogs got inio my deer park and de- 
stroyed all of them except two. I have now, I am sorry to 
saj, hut two remaining." 
In Northern Montana. 
Columbia Falls. Mont., June 16 —Editor Forest and 
Stream: 1 would say in regard to the information which you 
desire, that the elk captured by Christensen Brothers, Eogers 
and myself in 1896, and those previously caught by us, are 
doing well in the parks of Messrs Howell & Eyther in this 
valley. 
They are very prolific; in fact, three of the four cows 
which we brought out la^t spring rai.sed calves that season. 
While-tail deer In the parks mentioned do not seem to do so 
well. Deer, iu my opinion, sl^ould not be confined in parks, 
unless of large area, as their temperament and delicate con- 
stitution is such as will not warrant their being safely 
handled to any extent, and they do much better when left to 
shift for themselves. 
Mr. Rogers and I have for the past seven months spent 
most of our time in the mountains in the eastern part of the 
valley and north to the Canadian boundary, a distance of 
about sixty miles from Columbia Palls. 
Our work was looking up the game and making an esti- 
mate — comparing it with what I knew of the game in the 
vicinity seven years ago, Mr Rogers also did some photo- 
graphing. 
We found that the while tail deer had increased wonder- 
fully. We saw a great many every time we passed through 
their winter quarters. Their increase is readily solved when 
the fact is known that no hunter can get at them after win- 
ter sets in without a good deal of hard snowshoeing, for 
there is a high divide to be crossed before one can get at 
them. Furthermore, a few of us who are interested in that 
section of the country, by vigorous efforts have kept the In- 
dians (Stony Indians, from Canada) out of there. They 
nearly cleaned the country of game ten years ago; in fact, 
the black tail deer got tuch a blow that they never recovered, 
though a few wintered on the North Fork of the Flathead 
River, near the boundary, and a few wintered further south 
on the other side of the river The remnant of a band of 
moose that the Indians left have increased fast. We esti- 
mated that there were from thirty to forty moose in that sec- 
tion, judging from the amount of >igu we saw. We were 
not in the elk region this winter, eo cannot vouch for them, 
but from inquiries made I did not hear of any being killed 
by hunters or otherwise. As the winter was excepuonally 
mild, I don't think they could have decreased in numbers. 
The mountain goats do not seem to have decreased in 
numbers in our vicinity. We could have captured several 
had we wished to, as they came down into the timber to 
feed, when the deep snow came. Fishing is good. Trout 
were taking the fly when we left camp, June .'5. 
Mr. Rogers caught two bull trout, weighing 3 and 61b3, 
respectively, while trolling one morning — the last of May — 
on Cleveland Lake, a beautiful sheet of water eight and a 
halt miles long \)y one quarter to three-quarters of a mile in 
width. Waterfowl are not worth mentioning, as the flight 
is short and but few birds come this way. Partridges and 
fool-hens are as plentiful as one could wish, and blue grouse 
are by no means scarce. 
We finished our winter's campaign with a bear hunt this 
spring. Though not successful in making a large catch, 
we iare perfectly satisfied with the quality. We got two 
large silver-lips; the larger skin measures 7ft. 6ia, in length 
by Gift, in width. 
The other bear is a trifle smaller. Both are well furred, 
and are rare specimens. The weather so far has bee n cool 
and dry this season, which is favorable to young birds and 
game in general. Hoping this may be of interest to your 
readers, as there is seldom any communication from this 
part of Montana. C, A. Bktant. 
MAINE GAME AND GUIDES. 
State of Maine, CoMi\iissioNER.s of Inland Fisitkries 
AND Game, Augusta, July 22. — Editor Forest and Stream: So 
many contradictory statements are being published rela- 
tive to the hunting, killing, etc., of our h\g game, and the 
"guides' registration bill," that I venture to send you an 
editorial taken from the Bangor News of July 21, the lead- 
ing newspaper in northern and eastern Maine, where our 
big game is. It is a well considered article, and hits the 
nail on the head squarely. L. T. Cableton. 
Hhe News says: Lumbermen, river drivers and tourists 
who have lately come down from the up-river woods tell 
difl'erent stories about the big game which they have seen, 
and concerning which they have heard reports. While 
individual testimony differs widely, the majority of re- 
ports are agreed upon several things. Moose and caribou 
are rare and shy. They seem to grow less plentiful every 
year, a fact which is no doubt due to persistent hunting 
in open season. Though moose and caribou are 
occasionally killed out of season, the cases of viola- 
tion are not at all common and grow less frequent 
ever}'^ year. The considerate, yet rigid, enforcement of 
the game laws which the Commissioners have undertaken 
and carried out successfully has made the life of the pro- 
fessional poacher very sad. He boasts of what he has 
done and is going to do in the line of slaughter; he tells 
how easy it is to get a deer or a moose in close time; he 
calls the wardens fools and cowards, and he makes a lot of 
verbal warfare which sounds very brave. He does all of 
this before strangers and tenderfeet who have come to the 
woods for big game regardless of the law. When a warden 
comes along he cowers, stammers and pleads for mercy, 
like an unweaned calf. He never killed a deer; the deer 
which the warden has found dead with water on its hide 
and a bullet hole in its neck committed suicide, and finally, 
to prove that he is honest, he boldly asserts that there are 
no deer in his region; therefore he could not kill any. The 
men of this class lived on short commons for two years, 
and most of them have gone out of the business. 
Everybody says that deer are unusually plentiful this 
year. They are in all parts of Maine, showing themselves 
boldly at midday and despoiling the planted crops in the 
fields until the farmers are raging mad. Reports of illegal 
killing, while common and bloody enough to satisfy the 
readers of dime novels, are mostly inventions gotten up to 
vex the wardens and annoy the Commissioners. No doubt 
that a good number of deer have been dogged during the 
present summer. A dog running at large is not a respon- 
sible animal and does not comprehend the law against 
dogging deer. While dogs have been cha.sing deer in sev- 
eral parts of eastern Maine, it is hard work to prove that 
they were put upon the chase by men, and a community 
can hardly be blamed for the voluntary crimes of a few 
curs. This question of dogging deer is a hard one to settle. 
Those who have visited the sporting camps in the Maine 
woods have no doubt noticed that nearly every camp sup- 
portsone or more dogs. W^hen the dogs are hounds, beagles, 
harriers or mongrels of these breeds, the presumption is that 
they are kept for the purpose of chasing deer, and thusaff' )rd 
sport for the patrons of the camps. It is an actual fact 
that most any kind of a dog will follow a deer, and the 
dogs of the hound kind are not the only offenders for 
which the wardens should be watchful. The beautiful 
curly-coated water spaniel, which many men keep for the 
purpose of treeing partridges, is also a most industrious 
animal when following the tracks of a deer or a rabbit. 
It has a sharp, clear voice and a steady wav of following 
which generally ends in success. While it is not argued 
that all or half the Irish spaniels kept in camps are there 
to chase deer, it will be safe to keep these animals in view 
when they run loose in. the woods. In fact, a dog is an 
irresponsible animal that is never safe among game unless 
it has been thoroughly trained, and is accompanied by 
some person to regulate its conduct. The tendency of 
modern legislation is to restrict the liberty of dogs. Should 
the dogging of deer increase to an alarming extent in 
Maine, a law compelling owners of dogs to keep them 
under restraint will be demanded, and if the next Legisla- 
ture has the same temper of the last one, such a law will 
receive a triumphant passage through both houses. 
Upon the whole, the Commissioners are making a brave 
effort to stem the tide of tradition and prejudice which 
still prevails in the far backwoods. They are enforcing 
the laws much better than they were ever enforced before, 
and they are making a good fight to preserve the fish and 
game of Maine, so the great sporting grounds may be a 
perpetual source of income and pleasure to the people of 
Maine. No doubt the warden service can be improved, 
though it is better now than ever before. Most of the 
wardens who work on salary under orders from the Com- 
missioners are wide awake and earnest men. Some of 
them are rather too aged for active service in running 
down poachers, but their minds are alert, and their wide 
knowledge of mankind makes their services valuablp. 
The trouble lies in the local wardens, whose duty it is to 
guard certain streams and ponds near their homes. These 
men, having friends and enemies, are prone to reward the 
former and punish the latter more than actual justice de- 
mands. But this cannot be remedied until the State 
grants money enough to keep all the wardens under sal- 
ary. 
It is too early to predict the result of the new guide 
license act, for which Commissioner Carleton made such a 
great fight last winter. The guides, who oppose the bill 
and who threatened to shoot, burn and destroy, have 
nearly all come up and taken out licenses, as the A^^cs said 
they would do. To refuse a license and attempt to guide 
is an open declaration of outlawry — a hoisting of the black 
flag of piracy. Such threats simply cast suspicions upon the 
guides who made them, and did not for a moment hinder 
the enactment of a just and long-needed law. Since 
the act was passed the Commissioners have been firm and 
most generous to all their old foes. No competent man 
has been refused a license because of his former opposi- 
tion. All that is asked of him is that he observes the 
laws from now on. His past talk and his past acts are all 
forgotten, wiped out as if they had never been. The 
guides are now placed upon their honor. So long as they 
deport themselves correctly thev will receive the cordial 
support and encouragement of the Commissioners, and 
whenever one of them steps over the boundary the Com- 
missioners hold his punishment in their own hands. In 
theory the guides' license act is one of the best laws -ever 
passed by any Legislature. Up to date it is working 
beautifully. Should the fair promises of to-day be fulfilled 
in the autumn the new law will save Maine many thou- 
sands of dollars every year and- will do more in the line 
of game preservation than an annual appropriation of 
$100,000. 
The fish and game interests of Maine are in good hands. 
Let the Commissioners follow up the worlc they have 
started so well. 
' BILL CHADWICK'S. 
I had been sent home to recover from a severe illness 
contracted in a camp before Yorktown. While debating 
what I should do and vvhere best to go to hasten my re- 
covery and escape from the heat, some friend suggested 
"Bill Chadwick's," on Squan Beach, near the head of Bar- 
negat Bay. I had often heard of this spot as a famous 
place for bay snipe, wildfowl and beach parties, to say 
nothing of soft shell crabs, bluefish and applejack. 
I was not long in finding a shooting chuni to join me, 
and so it happened that one warm July day found us driv- 
ing along the deep, sandy I'oads and through the lonesome 
pines that lay between Red Bank and oiir destination. Our 
driver was a good-natured Jerseyman, very jolly, but with 
a great weakness for stopping at every tavern to sample 
the appfejack, which proceeding, as much as the sandy 
roads, lengthened our journey to such an extent that it was 
quite dark before we reached the hard beach along the 
ocean, which formed the last stage of our journey. This 
part of our drive was most delightful. The cool sea breeze, 
blowing fresh off the ocean, was charming after our hot, 
dusty drive, and banished entirely the clouds of mosquitoes 
that had tormented us for several hours past. The waves 
pounded on the shore, sending the salt spray almost into 
our faces, and the line of foam hissing and curling up 
to our horses' feet. Plover and bay birds innumerable 
whistled and called high up in the air, giving promise of 
glorious sport for the morrow; and in the East the great 
round face of the full moon lit up the wrinkled surface of 
the rolling sea; while far away to the south Barnegat Light 
blinked and flashed its warning to all mariners. We 
supped heartily and well at Charley Moxon's and resumed 
our drive. Presently the twinkling lights of Chadwick's 
hospitable tavern w^as sighted, but it was fully 9 P. M. 
before Quango, the Newfoundland, welcomed us with noisy 
barking and Bill had us out on the long, low-roofed piazza, 
shaking us by the hand. We were at once ushered into 
the cozy little bar-room, so thick with tobacco smoke that 
it was almost impossible to recognize any one across the 
room. Here a goodly company of gunners and sportsmen 
were assembled, a m ist cosmopolitan crowd. After the 
usual New Jersey welcome we adjourned to the dining- 
room, where we enjoyed a cup of Mrs. Chadwick's excel- 
lent coffee, and then returned to listen to the fishing and 
shooting talk going on around Bill's bar, to say nothing of 
ghost stories, tales of shipwrecks and the like, while off in 
a corner a couple of young men were loudly arguing over 
the rival merits of the Hong Kong and Yokohama beau- 
ties. Tired and sleepy, we were soon shown to our re- 
spective apartments by Bill, who promised to call us in 
time for the early morning shooting. 
It seemed to me to be only five minutes after when the 
flash of Chadwick's candle awakened me. "Half past 3, 
Major," said Bill;' "time to get up." And up I got. We were 
provided with a bag of stools, as the wooden decoys are 
called in that locality, and directed to a blind made of green 
bushes and weeds only a couple of hundred yards from the 
house. Urged by the distant calls of passing flocks of yellow- 
legs and dowitchers, we were not long in placing out our de- 
coys on a convenient sand bar and seating ourselves com- 
fortably in our blind. Both my chum and myself were fairly 
good callers, and as there was a steady flight of the various 
kinds of bay snipe we soon had a goodly string of birds, not- 
withstanding many villainous misses. After a couple of hours 
of good sport the welcome sound of Chadwick's breakfast 
horn recalled us to the house. Leaving our guns in the 
blind we started back to breakfast, for which Mrs. Chad- 
wick was justly famous. Coffee, bluefish, clam fritters 
and flap jacks appeared and disappeared in quick succes- 
sion, and back we went to our blind. We now regretted 
having left our guns in the blind, for a flock of fine marlin 
passed us within easy range in answer to our whistle, but 
seeing our helpless condition went their way rejoicing. 
Shortly affer a fine bunch of willet swirled over our 
decoys and departed, leaving a number behind them. By 
10 o'clock the sun grew too hot for comfort, so we ad- 
journed to the beach and enjoyed a refreshing dip in the 
surf in company of a jolly party of young people from 
Tom's River, piloted over 'by the veteran Capt. Gulick. 
Toward sundown there was another good flight, and when 
we returned to supper we were able to decorate Bill's 
piazza with a noble string of birds. 
To make a long story short, we spent a happy week here 
enjoying good shooting, and once or twice we varied our 
sport by a sail down the bay to -Barnegat Light, where we 
enjoyed elegant weakfishing and blueifishing. At the end 
of the week we returned to the city much belter for our 
trip, and distributed our birds among our admiring and 
grateful friends. 
A villainous railroad now runs down the beach and the 
bay birds know it no more, so let no sportsman go down 
there expecting to find shooting. There is nothing left but 
the mosquitoes, and the glory of Bill Chadwick's has de- 
parted forever. Wakeman Holberton. 
Virginia Game Prospects. 
Pjne View, Va. — Editor Forest mid Stream: The call pf 
Bob White is again with us almost in the old-time plenty.' I 
think I am safe in saying that there are 120 pairs nesting 
(some are out with the brood) within three miles of this 
place. It will be a close season with them again this year — 
then for sport that will awaken the sluggish blood of the 
sportsman. There are about eleven broods of wild turkeys 
in same scope of country. Pheasants are doing well. Rabbits 
were never more plenty, with a few deer. W. L. C. 
