FOREST AND STREAM. 
tjAN. 22, 1898. 
on outstretched paws, while the cub., sitting on its 
haunches, is staring out at the front of the cage. In 
both figures the anatonpy is well worked out, and the ex- 
pression excellent. The face of the tigress especialh' 
shows a repressed viciousness that is quite remarkable. 
True artistic feeling is expres.sed in this work. 
Bridgeport Gun Implement Company. 
In the space of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., 
manufacturers of billiard tables, are to be seen a number 
of fine tusks of ivory, as well as a cleaned elepliant skull, 
in which the tusks are still in place. Some of these tusl<;s 
are long and heavy. 
The Fly-Casting Tournaments. 
If the number of people who sat on the hard seats 
which rose above the fly-casting platform, and who 
waited each day until the fatiguing detail of enrolling and 
assembling the contestants was gone through, repre- 
sented the patience of the angler, as pictured by Walton, 
it should serve to illustrate to the world that those who 
love the sport of angling are patient people — for the de - 
lays were many and long. Mr. Gonzalo Poey was there, 
as active as a ilea, in assisting the contestants, but even 
he could not hurry some men. 
There was a zinc-lined tank in the gallery filled with 
water. It was about 8ft. wide, a few inches deep, and 
from the caster's stand reached out to iisft., the stand 
being about ift. above the floor. So far all was good, but 
back of the stand was a coarse wooden floor, into which 
several hooks caught, and we saw Reuben Leonard 
smash the tip of his rod by being thus caught on the back 
cast. 
The rules and regulations were printed last week, and 
.in >cc.or.^auce.„3!pth „ those -the. Stst . contest took place 
|on Jan.;i3, latB P. M. 
' Class A.— Black bass fly-ca'sting contest. Distance, only to count. 
A No. 4 fly to be used which will be furnished by -the GOitimittee. 
Open only to those who have never cast more tnan 75ft." in aiiy 
similar contest. Judges,, D. P. Kennedy, Lodv Smith. , Referee, 
John G. Landman. 
W. N. Goddard, S6ft. 9in.; N. C. Thorne, 77ft.; W. H. Ham- 
mett, 70ft. 6in.; Eddie Mills, 68ft.; Daubeney Brandefh, 65ft.: 
Victor R. Gtiniwood, 54ft. 6in. 
The casting of Eddie Mills was a surprise. Here was 
a. bright-cy$d boy of fourteen, in knickerbockers, who 
was erroneou.sly reported in some of the daily papers as 
only ten, who exceeded the records of Reuben Wood 
in his first trials in Central Park in New York city. In 
this, as in all his subsequent casts, the lad received 
rounds of applause. 
Friday, Jan. 14, at 3 P. M. 
Class H. — Fly-casting contest. .Vccuracy only. Distance 40ft. 
Open to ail. After the contestant has signified his readiness, he 
shall make five C9nsecutive casts. at a buoy. The contestant will 
then commence to cast witii his back to the buoy, and at any 
moment, at his option, shall wdieel around and make a single ca^t 
at a buoy. Five of these casts shall be made. The distance in 
feet and inches at which the fly drops from the buoy at each 
cast shall be noted, and the sum of all these distances, added to- 
gether and divided by ten, shall constitute trie score. The con- 
testant having the lowest average shall be declared the winner. 
Judges, I. B. Stewart, Fred Mather. Kcferec, H. C. de Rham. 
P. C. Hewitt, 189in„ 18.9 per cent.; E. R. Hewitt, 204in., 20.4 per 
cent.; D. Bi-andcth, 210in., 21 per cent.; W. N. Goddard, 219in., 
'2t.9 per cent.; R. C. Leonard, 231in., 23.1 per cent.; C. M. Roof, 
246in., 24.6 per cent,; W. H. Hammett, 285in., 2S.5 per cent.. 
This was a Very pretty contest, and all the casters 
showed some delicacy while casting, although that was 
not a condition required by the rules. Mr. Hewitt, the 
winner, and Mr. Roof are especially graceful casters, 
and the accuracy of the former was uniform. Mr. Roof 
made one wild cast of 5ft., which injured his otherwise 
good score. Similar stray casts of 3ft. spoiled the 
chances of Mr. Brandeth, and they all made one or two 
wild casts, Mr. Hewitt having one of 4ft. 
Friday, Jan. 14, at 8 P. M, 
Class C. — Light fly rod contest. Distance only. The rod must 
not weigh more than 5oz., with an allowance of %oz. for solid reel 
seat. _ Open only to those who have never cast more than 75ft. in 
any simitar contest. Judges, R. N. Parish, Lody Smith. Referee, 
C. G. Levison. 
W. N. Goddard, 83ft.; Eddie Mills, 74ft. 6in.; C. M. Roof, 
74ft; W. H. Hammett, 67ft. 6in. 
Here little Eddie Mills came out second, atid beat his 
record of the day before by over 6ft., but did not appear 
half as proud of it as his father did. 
Saturday, Jan. 15, at 3 P. M. 
Class D. — Light fly rod contest. Distance only. The rod must 
not exceed 4oz. in weight, with an allowance of %oz. for solid reel 
seat. Open only to those who have never cast more than 7.5ft. in 
any similar contest. Judges, I. B. Stewart, R. B. Lawrence, Ref- 
eree, Fred Mather. 
P. C. Hewitt, 88ft. Gin. ; W. N". Goddard, 86ft. ; F. N. Peet, 79ft. ; 
Eddie Mills, 69ft. 
As there bad never been a similar contest the rule 
barred none except those who are excluded by Rule 2, 
which says: "No one shall be permitted to enter any con- 
test, except those 'open to all,' who has ever fished for 
a living; who has ever been a guide or has been engaged 
in either the manufacture or sale of fishing tackle." 
Saturday, Jan. 15, at 8 P. M. 
Class E.— Obstacle fly rod casting. Distance only. Open to all. 
Rods and length of leaders unrestricted. A horizontal bar, under 
which th.e cast mvist be made, will be placed in front of the con- 
testant at a distance of 30ft., and 6ft. above the level of the tank. 
Judg.es,. Joseph Wilcox, R. N. Parish. Referee, Hon. Daniel 
O'RefUy,' ; 
R. C. Leonard, Tift ; P., C. Hewitt, fiSft.i' .E. R. Hewitt 62ft.; 
C..M. Roof, 61ft.: FvN, Peet, 59ft.; W,. N. (Joddard, 54ft. 
This is a, i^emarkablei record of distance under the dif- 
ficult conditions. Some of the contestants dropped on 
one knee,- others on both knees, and they assumed vari- 
ous postures. To their right were deer heads and horns 
on a level with their feet, part of an exhibit on the main 
floor below, and this prevented swinging the roti low 
down to make the back cast ttpward and the forward 
one with a horizontal, rising swing, and so there was an 
obstacle not provided for in the rules. The platform 
had been removed or there would have beeri more lines 
and leaders festooned on the bar than we saw,, for this 
was not infrequent. 
An incident of Saturday was the appearance of a lady 
who practiced .' for the contest on Monday afternoon, 
but the hour of going to press forbids a report of the 
work of the ladies. 
The Camps. 
Maine is represented this year by two camps. One 
is of the Maine Central Railroad, in charge of Miss Fly- 
Rod Crosby and Capt._ F. C. Barker; with them are 
Russell Spinney, Ben Guild, James Wilcox and Will 
Douglas. The other exhibit is of the Bangor & Aroos- 
took Railroad, in charge of G. M. Gray, of Oldtown, 
with whom are William Atkins, of Oxbow; Jo Francis, 
of Oldtown; Clarence Morris, of Kineo; Charles Nick- 
lus and wife, of Kineo; B. J. Woodward, of Dover. 
The Adirondack representation is headed by Sec'y E. 
E. Sumner, of the Adirondack Guides' Association, from 
Saranac Lake; and with him are Fremont Smitli and 
W. L. Ring, of Loon Lake; A. H. Billings, of Lake 
Placid; Warren Cole, of Long Lake; Chester McCaf- 
frei', of Paul Smith's; E. J. Chase, of Newcomb, and 
Chris Goodsell, of Fulton Chain. 
The Indian Belle at the Sportsmen's Show. 
We have received frorn a contributor, whom diffidence 
has prompted to withhold his name, the following lines, 
evoked by a visit to one of the Maine camps. Though 
somewhat lame in measure, they are marked by a true 
and poetic, not to saj^ tender, feeling which entitles them 
to place here: 
Hair like- the wing of a raven ; 
Eyes twin diamonds of coal. 
Burning brightly, yet tender. 
Piercing the innermost -soul. 
Lips of the color of rubies. 
Hiding those pearly teeth. 
Unable to utter a falsehood, 
True as the heart beneath. 
Called by thy tribe "The Beauty," 
Well dost thou bear thy name; 
From Maine's evergreen forest 
Widely has spread thy fame, 
Famed alike for thy skill in dancing 
The "Micmac," with its intricate whirls, 
And the work of thj' nimble fingers — 
Thou fairest of Indian girls. 
By thy *«ray^, so winning and graceful, 
Thou hast captured the liigh and the low ; 
And most surely none will deny 
TJiat the.u art the- bejle -of the Show. 
Noble maid of the forest, 
Child of an Indian chief. 
Though thy race has heavily suiTered, 
Mayest thou never know grief! 
'■Forest and Stream." 
Illinois Ptotective Interests. 
Warden l.oveday, of Illinois, is back frbni his trip in 
the southern part of the State. His deputy, J. E. SlocUm, 
has commenced thirty-five prosecutions at Mt. Vernon, 
luostly for illegal shipping of quail. They found the 
birds shipped in egg cases under a layer of eggs, found 
them shipped in butter tubs, in barrels of dried apples, 
barrels of hickory nuts, and even, as I stated last, week, 
sewed up in the carcasses of rabbits. The countrj'' dealer 
would seem to be not withotit his canniness. 
At Staples, Minn., last week a warden seized 2,20olbs. 
of illegal partridges. Agent Fullerton seized still an- 
ther shipment at the same point, this consignment of 
three boxes of venison, one which contained ten saddles, 
another eleven saddles, and a third five saddles, besides 
twenty-five partridges. The number of illegal partridges, 
seized by the Minnesota Commission now runs into the 
thousands. More than a ton of confiscated game has 
been received at St. Paul after seizure at the single town 
of Staples. 
The Ohio trespass law was put iftto effect last week at 
Tiffin, when Dr. J. W. Hayford was arrested on a war- 
rant sworn out by W, H. Davidson, charging him with 
himting oil lands of another person. The farmers of 
that locality are in arms against shooters, and are urging 
their arrest. Dr. Hayford was bound over in the sum of 
$100. 
The Banner Record. , 
The report of Warden Chase S. Osborne, ^f Michigan, 
for 1897, shows a total of 579 cases brgught under the 
game and fish laws. This record is thought to exceed 
that of any warden in the United States. 
The Banner Seizute, 
The heaviest seizure of illegal game recorded for this 
year, or perhaps for many previous years, was made by 
Agent Fullerton at St. Paul on the morning of Jan. 9. 
Mr. Fullerton and his assistant tuade a, midnight search 
in the railroad yards, and ordered opened a sealed car 
which they had reason to believe contained illicit game. 
The yardmaster accommodated them, and they discov- 
ered that their biggest expectations were more ' than 
realized, for the shipment was found to contain more 
than 100 dozen ducks, billed out to Chicago. Fifteen 
boxes were opened, and each was found to hold seven 
dozen birds. At ?io a bird the figures would run up to 
some $10,000 on this take. 
