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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March 5, 1898. 
ISfew York Zoologfical Society. 
The amount stipulated for in the bill appropriating 
$125,000 of city money for work on the grounds of the 
New York Zoological Society has been subscribed, and 
work on the park will begin with the opening of spring. 
At the last meeting of the executive committee of the 
Society, held at the residence of tlie president, ex-Gov. 
Morton, it was announced that the subscriptions to the 
special fund for buildings, collections, etc., now amount 
to $103,550. 
Of the sum of $250,000, which the Society is obliged 
to raise for buildings and collections in order that the 
grant of the land may be permanent and the collections 
maintained by the city, $100,000 was required to be in the 
Society's treasury by March 24, 1898, and everyone in- 
terested in the work will be_ gratified to learn that this 
condition has now been complied with. It is hoped 
that the park may be open to the public, and that collec- 
tions of animals may be on exhibition there a j^ear from 
the coming spring. 
All plans are in readiness for active work on the build- 
ings, and the Park Department, is expected to make 
the ground improvements necessary to prepare the park 
for the erection of such buildings and for the reception 
of the public. Additional funds, however, are greatly 
needed by the Society, and it can hardly be doubted 
that the many wealthy men of this city who have not 
yet subscribed will be glad when their attention is called 
to this matter to add their names to the list given below. 
Besides such larger subscriptions the li.st of annual mem- 
bers of the Society ought to be markedl}'^ increased, and 
this will unquestionably grow as the Society and its 
work come to be better known. A gift of $5,000 en- 
titles the donor to be called a founder of the Society ; 
the giver of $1,000 or more becomes a patron; the gift 
of $100 entitles one to life membership. The subscribers 
to the building fund are as follows: 
O. Ottendorfer ,...$5,000 Mrs. W. H, Osborne $1,000 
P. R. Pyne 5,000 Samuel Thorne 1,000 
W. K. Vanderbilt.. ........ 5,000 Henry W. Poor 1,000 
Levi P. Morton 5,000 George Crocker 1,000 
W. E. Dodge ? 5,000 C. W. Harkness 1,000 
Robert Goelet 5,000 George T. Bliss 1,000 
T. P. Morgan 5,000 W. C. Schermerhorn 1,000 
T. H. Schiff 5,000 J. Howard Ford 1,000 
W. D. Sloane 5,000 W. C. Osborn 1,000 
W. C. Whitney 5.000 Abram S. Hewit 1,000 
C. P. Huntington 5,000 Mrs. J. B. Trevor 1,000 
H. A. C. Taylor 5,000 H. McK. Twombly 1.000 
George T. Gould 5,000 Tames C. Carter 1,000 
J. L. Cadwalader 2,700 H. O. Havemeyer 1.000 
Tohn S. Barnes 2,500 Henrv H. Cook 1,000 
Philip Schuyler 2,500 George F. Baker 1,000 
F. A. Schermerhorn 2,500 Walter H. Burns 500 
Tiflfany & Co 2,500 E. G. Blackford 500 
Morris K. Jesup 2,500 T. H. Higginson 500 
Henry F. Osborn 1,000 S. D. Babcock 500 
A. N. Morris 1,000 W. G. Langdon 250 
E. J. Bervvind 1.000 T. M. Marc 100 
William H. Webb........ 1,000 
C. T. Barney 1,000 Total $103,550 
Linnaean Society of New York. 
Otr March 17 a public lecture will be given in the 
lecture hall of the American Afuseum of Natural His- 
tory, on "The Mammals of North America," by Mr. 
Ernest Seton Thompson; illustrated by views from na- 
ture and from original drawings b}'^ the lecturer. 
Walter W. Granger, Sec'y. 
The Jackson^s Hole Game. 
Jackson, Wyo., Feb. 15. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
I am much gratified that I may report that our winter 
here seems to be broken, with not more than 4in. of 
snow in the valley at present, and with a great portion 
of the foothills bare. The elk, which a few weeks ago 
were within sight all around the ranch, are already 
working back into the hills out of sight. They are still 
in good condition, with no loss whatever from the win- 
ter. If it should turn on and storm, the condition of 
the elk is such that they could stand a great deal of 
rough weather without sufTering any loss; and the 
chances are favorable for them to increase to their old 
numbers two years ago. I inclose report from a recent 
News-Register, relating to the Glidden outfit. 
S. N. Leek. 
The News-Register reports: 
The people of the valley, with few reputed exceptions, 
are jubilant over the recent actions of the State Game 
Warden, upon request of Gov. Richards, in the revoking 
of the permits to capture and ship elk, etc. This ques- 
tion is one which has solidified the people upon its being 
carried out as was indicated it would be when the ques- 
tion first came up. As matters progressed it looked 
favorable to the game. The stand taken by the game 
warden in the first instance, followed by the opinion of 
the Attorney-General, indicated that we as a people were 
more directly interested than any one, and would be com- 
pelled to take a stand. Then came the news that 
the game warden had issued a permit to ship forty head 
of elk. The fact of the elk being shipped, and the asser- 
tions of one Glidden (which threw an unjust suspicion 
upon the Governor of the State as well as the State 
Game Warden), and the fact of his having obtained 
three separate permits to capture and ship game, so de 
termined every person in the valle}'' to make a request 
for at least a modification of the orders granting permits, 
which now remains to have been issued tipon misrepre- 
sentation; 95 per cent, of the people of the valley made 
a demand that Glidden's commission of game warden be 
revoked, and substantiated the petition with affidavits 
as to Glidden and his practices, which connected him, 
and justly, as being a person with whom misrepresenta- 
tion was a part of his stock in trade. The Jackson Hole 
Gun Club, in behalf of the game interests, made _ a 
st ong • request for the revoking of the permits 
to capture and ship elk. The action of the 
game warden, accompanied in a letter to the people 
from Gov. Richards, revokes absolutely the permit to 
H. K. Glidden to ship fifty head of elk, the permit of 
Margaret Adams to ship five head of elk, out of a prior 
permit to ship forty head of elk, thirty-five of which had 
been shipped; and the permit to M. W. Pettigrew to 
ship two head of elk. Also the revoking of the commis- 
sion of a deputy State game warden, issued to said Glid- 
den in December last, and the further statement that 
under no circumstances would any more permits be is- 
sued to capture or ship wild game from the State. This 
makes us feel glad. We feel that the game interests have 
not been subserved to any personal end,s. It is evi- 
dent that the Governor was misinformed in some re- 
spects as to the condition of the game interests in this 
locality; it is evident that Glidden and others in his 
employ disregarded the truth, and under numerous 
promises to be good, etc., got something which is now 
granted as lost. The people of this valley thank the 
State officials for favors in this regard, and appreciate 
the full and complete actions taken in behalf of the game 
interests of Uinta county. 
Foxes and Grouse. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
7\mong the many enemies oE small game the fox has — 
and perhaps unjustly — been condemned as one of the' 
most destructive. In tliis part of New liainpshir.e the 
ruffed grouse is what we to a great extent depend upon 
for our shooting. We also have a good many red foxes. 
During the past twenty-five years I have hunted pretty 
steadily in this vicinity. Following up tlie birds from 
the opening of the season until snowfall, and then turn- 
ing to the foxes in our New England style of hunting 
them, I should not care to form an estimate of the num- 
ber of miles I have tramped when after them, or the 
hundreds of tracks I have seen. It is enough to say 
that I havc^liot a good many, and am now on my third 
hundred. 
I have never as yet shot a fox which could be called 
thin in flesh, and many were ciuite fat. I have often won- 
dered what they lived on, particularly daring the winter 
months when the ground is covered with snow, as in 
all my tramps after them (and I have taken pains to 
observe) I have seen not more than five or six places 
where they had caught grouse or any other birds. I 
have followed their tracks on deep snow when they went 
quite close to where grouse were lying under the snow, 
and I can recall but one instance where I saw where 
. a fox had tried to catch one under such con-ditions. The 
fox made quite a long leap, landing apparently fairly 
over the bird, but the grouse was too quick, and got 
away, leaving a few tail feathers. I have followed many 
a fox track through swamps Avhere the snow was com- 
pletely trodden down with rabbit tracks, and the foxes 
took no notice of them. I occasionally see where one 
has caught a rabbit, but not on an average once in each 
winter. I saw once a fox following a rabbit. I had 
shot a fox that day, and was on my way home when I 
saw one of our large white rabbits running fast toward 
me. When a few feet away the rabbit saw me and 
turned to one side. I waited to see what was coming 
next, and in a few moments a fox came trotting along 
on the rabbit's track. At the rate he was going he 
would never have caught up, and he seemed to think so. 
When some 30yds. from me the fox stopped and smelled 
of the track he was on. I watched him for a moment 
and gathered him in. 
I have often cut open the stomach of a fox when it 
appeared fuller than usual, and almost always have found 
remains of mice; and if early in the winter, when there 
was but little snow, there would be quite an amount of 
chewed-up apples, A fox which my dog holed a few 
minutes after starting, I found, had just eaten a grouse. 
I know well that foxes are great mousers, and that 
the squeak of a mouse is very attractive to them, as 
I have shot quite a number by calling them to me, even 
when a dog was after them; they would always come if 
the dog was not too close. 
I know that foxes are very destructive to poultry, and 
the people about here have long since given up raising 
turkeys on account of the foxes. Last fall a fox came 
with unfailing regularity every night into my yard, tak- 
ing a duck each night until the ducks were shut up; 
then he would come within 50yds. of the house and bark; 
and I would let my hound out, and he would chase him 
all night. I have that particular fox's skin hanging 
with some others I have. 
During the breeding time foxes may do considerable 
damage both to eggs and very young birds, although I 
have never seen any evidence of it. I have often found 
grouse nests full of eggs within a few feet of cattle 
paths near the edges of the woods, and there were sure 
signs that foxes had traveled those parts, apparently 
never suspecting the presence of the nests. I have heard 
that a grouse when on a nest gives out no Seent. I 
never knew of a dog's pointing one under such condi- 
tions. 
I think your correspondent, Mr. Sullivan, is correct 
when he says that a certain class of sportsmen, in blam- 
ing the foxes for the decrease of some kinds of game, 
wish to find a scapegoat for their own deeds. 
When I first began shooting about here, twenty-five 
years ago, I could start fifty grouse where I would do 
well now to find a dozen. Foxes were also many times 
as numerous. My neighbors then, men and boys, nearly 
all went gunning more or less; and when any of them 
shot a grouse it was out of a tree or on the ground. 
Should a bird get up right at their feet, they never 
thought of shooting. To-day almost every one owning 
a gun shoots on the wing; and many do^ it well. My 
nearest neighbor, a young man who previously to last 
fall had killed but one grouse on the wing, shot last 
season, using a $6 gun and no dog, sixty-five grouse; 
and the way in which he would drop his birds, even in 
very hard places, shoAVS why the game is growing 
scsrccr. 
In the times past when game was plenty not much 
attention was paid to the game laws. Never have they 
in this section been so well enforced as at present. With 
the exception of five grouse killed this winter by a man 
living some six miles from here, and for which I hear 
he was promptly fined, I do not know of a single in- 
stance where a game bird has been killed in close time 
since last spring; and this is more than I can say of any 
previous year. 
Of course foxes, skunks, mink and such animals do 
destroy some game; but the very worst enemy our 
game has is the market shooter. Almost invariably he 
is a rattling good shot and an untiring worker, hunt- 
ing from daylight to dark, day after day. He wants 
every bird he starts, and sticks to it until he gets most 
of them. His dog is a genuine meat dog, and knows 
well how to do his work. Next to the market shooter 
comes the sportsman who shoots for sport, and never 
thinks of selling any of his game. He is seldom any- 
where near as good a shot as the market hunter, nor 
is he such a worker; yet he will kill all he can. His 
dog, although of bluer blood, is not "in it" with the 
meat dog. Considering the numbers both of market 
shooters and of sportsmen who are daily in the field 
during the season, it is a wonder the game lasts as 
well as it does. C. M. Stark. 
DuNBARTON, N. H., Feb. 24. 
Maine^s Game Revenue. 
In his address before the recent Tampa Fisheries 
Congress Commissioner L. T. Carleton said of Maine's 
fish and game resources, their magnitude, value and 
administration: 
You will pardon me, sir, when I declare to you that 
Maine in this respect, as in many others, leads the 
world. In her limitless forests roam countless numbers 
of the monarch of the forest, the gigantic moose, the 
bounding caribou and the graceful, beautiful Virginia 
deer. 
In her more than 2,000 inland seas and lakes are 
found in greater abundance than elsewhere the square- 
tailed trout and the landlocked salmon. 
The great dailies and sporting papers of the Ameri- 
can continent are in the habit of referring to Maine as 
the "Paradise of the Sportsman," and this is a very ap- 
propriate title, and nowhere is there such spoi t to be 
had for either rod or rifle. We have an area of about 
30,000 square miles in extent, and from the nature of 
the soil and climate afifording food and cover for num- 
berless herds of deer, caribou and moose, not to speak 
of the countless flocks of birds, both indigenous and 
migratory, including the rufl^ed grouse, woodcock, snipe, 
wild geese, black duck and wood duck, and an endless 
variety of sea birds, and the whole world is fast learn- 
ing of our advantages in this respect. 
In her majestic rivers, those great highways from 
the mountains to the sea, is found, in ever increa.sing 
numbers, the best fish that swims the ocean blue, the 
Atlantic salmon. Wise, well-considered laws we have, 
and an enlightened public sentiment. 
Ten thousand citizens of other States during the open 
season last year, now just closed, came to Maine to 
fish and hunt, employed our 1,300 registered guides, 
skilled guides, and spent $4,000,000 in shining gold 
among our people, and killed 10,000 deer, 250 moose, 
230 caribou and 160 bears, while $6,000,000 more were 
spent there by non-residents last year, by visitors to 
our seashore and inland summer resorts, making $10, 
000,000 expended in Maine last year by non-residents 
for pleasure. 
Do you wonder that the people of Maine are mar- 
velously interested in fish and fisheries? We folhjw the 
example of the great Apostle Peter — we go a-fishing 
and invite everybody to come and do likewise. 
We have a health-giving, invigorating climate, won- 
drously charming and enchanting scenery. There's not 
to be found a poisonous reptile, nor ravenous beast, nor 
poisonous insect, in all her borders, and in her u'ountain 
streams, numerous as the sands of the seashore, are the 
protected nurseries of our lakes, wherein are millions 
of speckled beauties, the brook trout, and these feeders 
are so numerous, so well protected and re-stocked h-y 
artificial propagation as to give assurance that fisiiiug 
in Maine will be better and still better as the years go 
and come in an unbroken, endless procession. 
Something has been said here about the constitu- 
tional right of a State to enact restrictive and pro- 
tective laws, regulating the times in which and the cir- 
cumstances under which inland fish and game may be 
taken. That question has fortunately been settled for 
all time in the United States. The United States Su- 
preme Court in a late decision has declared that the 
people of a State in their sovereign capacity own the 
fish and the game within its borders, and may say 
through its Legislature how, when and where it may 
be taken, and what may be done with it after it has 
been taken; in other words, the Legislature may give 
a qualified property right or ownership to fish and 
game lawfully taken. 
We have found by experience that protective laws 
are necessary, and that these laws must be enforced. 
Why, do you know that down in Maine if a person 
is shot by another while hunting it is called an acci- 
dent, but if a person shoots a moose or a caribou un- 
lawfully we imprison him four months in prison "with- 
out the benefit of clergy." 
As true disciples of Izaak Walton we propagate arti- 
ficially the trout and the salmon, -and aided most greatly 
by the United States Fish Commission, we are con- 
stantly making the fishing better, and the multitude is 
constantly growing larger of those who come among 
us. And let me say, though I am no prophet, or the 
son of a prophet, but only a down East Yankee, that 
in these time of wages growing less and still less, and 
the army of unemployed constantly being augmented, 
that the Congress of the United States can display wise 
statesmanship by giving earnest attention to the im- 
provement of fishing, better fishing to those who go 
down into the sea in ships, better opportunity to secure 
this good, wholesome food, greater opportunity to will- 
ing hands to engage in this great industry. 
Dollar wheat may be a blessing to the farmers of the 
West, but it means dearer bread to the toiling millions; 
but better than dollar wheat would be a great abun- 
dance of fish and game and enlarged opportunities^ to 
our laboring people to engage in this great and im- 
portant and growing industry. . , , 
