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Forest and Stream. 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
kr.ms, $4- a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. I 
Six Months, $2. \ 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER lO, 1898. 
J VOL. Li-No. 11. 
) No. 346 Broadway, New York. 
^The Forest and Stream is the recognized medium of entertain- 
ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen. 
The editors invite communications on the subjects to which its 
pages are devoted. Anonymous communications will not be re- 
garded. While it is intended to give wide latitude in discussion 
of current topics, the editors are not responsible for the views of 
correspondents. 
'Subscriptions may begin at any time. Terms: For single 
copies, $4 per year, $2 for six months. For club rates and full 
particulars respecting subscriptions, see prospectus on page iv. 
PRIZES FOR AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHS, 
The Forest and Stream offers prizes for meritorious 
work with the camera, under conditions which follow: 
The prizes will be divided into three series: (1) for 
live wild game; (2) for game in parks; (3) for other sub- 
jects relating to shooting and fishing. 
(1) For live game photographs three prizes are of- 
fered, the first of $50, the second of $25, and the third of 
$10. 
(2) For live game in parks, for the best picture, a 
prize of $10. 
(3) For the best pictures relating to Forest and 
Stream's field — shooting and fishing, the camp, camp- 
ers and camp life, sportsman travel by land and water, 
incidents of field and stream — a first prize of $20, a sec- 
ond of $15, a third of $10, and for fourth place two prizes 
of $5 each. 
There is no restriction as to the time nor as to where 
the pictures have been made or may be made. 
Pictures will be received up to Dec. 31 this year. 
All work must be original; that is to say, it must not 
have been submitted to any other competition or have 
been published. 
There are no restrictions as to the make or style of 
camera, nor as to size of plate. 
A competitor need not be a subscriber to the Forest 
and Stream. 
All work must be that of amateurs. 
The photographs will be submitted to a committee, 
who, in making their award, will be instructed to take 
into consideration the technical merits of the work as 
a photograph, its artistic qualities, and other things be- 
ing equal, the unique and difficult nature of the subject. 
Photographs should be marked for identification with 
initials or a pseudonym only, and with each- photograph 
should be given, answering to the initials, the name of 
sender, title of view, locality, date and names of camera, 
and plate or film. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
The recent action of the Canadian Privy Council in 
placing the administration of the fisheries of Ontario 
in the hands of the Provincial Government will undoubt- 
edly do much to promote the protection and increase 
of food' and game fishes, and at the same time contribute 
to the further development of the important fishing re- 
sources of the Province. The privilege of controlling 
their own fisheries has long been desned by the Ontario 
people, who are now preparing to give a good account 
of themselves. It is understood that the fishery com- 
missionership under the new order of things has been 
tendered Dr. G. A. MacCallum, who was chairman of 
the board that some years ago did such active work for 
the fish and game interests of the Province. Dr. Mac- 
Callum has for many years given much attention to fish- 
ery matters, has been active in securing the passage, of 
measures for preserving the supply of fishes in the lakes 
and rivers of the Province, and is an ardent advocate of 
joint action on the part of the United States and Canada 
jor the regulation of fishing in the Great Lakes. Owing 
to the very small compensation which the authorities 
have attached to the commissionership, it is reported 
that Dr. MacCallum has not yet seen his way to accept 
an appointment which necessitates the neglect of his 
professional duties without adequate compensation. It 
would seem to be incumbent on the Provincial author- 
ities to recognize the importance of this position by 
assigning to it a suitable salary, so that intelligent, 
energetic and competent persons can afford to assume 
the responsible duties of the office. 
trout in sixty minutes. The Doctor discovered a pool 
which had been unmolested, and took advantage of the 
situation to make the fishing score of his life, rounding 
out the full hour with count fishing, keeping the big 
fellows and throwing back the smaller ones. Incidentally 
he furnished a new illustration of the principle which 
governs in all sports, that one is likely to do in excess 
that which is done easily. Some time ago we printed 
a story written by an Iowa contributor, who told how- 
he had gone out for rabbit shooting, and finding the 
game extremely plentiful and the shooting easy, he 
had been unintentionally and quite unwittingly led by 
the combination of favorable conditions to kill many 
more rabbits than he had intended. 
As a rule excess in the pastimes of hunting and fish- 
ing is due to the ease with which a big bag may be 
secured or a large string of fish counted. The shooter 
shoots when birds are plenty and fiy to his gun; the 
fisherman keeps on reeling in the fish so long as there 
is no tedious wait between bites. The staunchest and 
most uncompromising censor of big bags might himself 
surrender to temptation when conditions fell right. 
There are few sportsmen who do not tell with en- 
thusiasm of that red-letter day when they made their 
record score. Discuss as we may the evils of excessive 
killing in its effect upon the game supply, the fact re- 
mains that when chance offers the score is made; and it 
is the recital of a wonderful run of luck that interests and 
challenges the envy of those who listen. The most fish, 
the biggest fish, the greatest catch in the shortest time, 
these are the themes which engage attention at fishing 
resorts; they are the vouchers of "good fishing" heralded 
by hotel proprietors, fishing camp keepers and trans- 
portation lines. It is the string of fish painfully sup- 
ported by the staggering achievers, and stretching well 
across the dock or completely across the side of the 
porch, that is put forth in photographic attestation 
as a signal for others to come and share the good luck. 
Among the people in such resorts, in particular among 
those who are not fishermen, one hears the character- 
istic comment, "He must be a smart angler to have 
caught so many in such a short time." This is the 
popular and conventional gauge of good fishing and 
good sportsmanship. That it is also the mistaken and 
improvident attitude with respect to fishing, and one 
to which may be traced the ruination of fishing resort 
after fishing resort, goes without saying, and is beyond 
the purpose of these paragraphs, which are intended 
merely to note facts and conditions. 
We print to-day further communications from Mr. 
Chas. Stewart Davison respecting the conditions of 
Canadian salmon rivers, and the remedies which must 
be devised by the authorities if the streams are to be 
rescued from ruin. The salmon fishermen of this coun- 
try owe a large debt of gratitude to Mr. Davison for the 
intelligent manner in which he has dealt with the sub- 
ject, nor would it be too much to say that Canada also 
will be under obligations to him if his good offices 
shall result in leading to the restoration of these im- 
portant resources. 
On ten thousand farms the quail have been calling 
through the summer, cheering with their welcome notes 
the farmer in the field and the farmer's wife at home. 
It is not uncommon for the men and the women who 
own the land and live and work upon it, where Boh 
White whistles, to think of the quail and speak of them 
as "our birds." Doubtless the town sportsman who 
comes in the autumn to shoot the bird"-> would also 
have this feeling of ownership and right if he too were 
the farmer in whose fields they had been bred and 
reared. How the landowner may feel about the birds 
one may understand if one will try to put himself in 
the landowner's place. Most of the clashing, when there 
is a clashing, between farmer and sportsman might be 
avoided if the man who seeks the privilege of shooting 
would consider the. subject from the farmhouse stand- 
point. 
The New York Times of last Sunday chronicled the 
feat of Rev. Dr. James H. Hoadley, of this city, who on a 
recent occasion in the Adirondacks took one hundred 
Indeed the entire sportsman's creed respecting con- 
duct in the field and on the stream may be summed up 
in the three words, consideration for others. It is this 
consideration which lies at the basis of our game laws 
and at the foundation of our rules of voluntary adoption. 
that in using the good things which nature yields we 
shall so enjoy them as not to hazard nor ruin the en- 
joyment of them by others, and to make the most of 
our privileges without infringing the rights of others, 
whether sportsmen or those upon whom sportsmen are 
dependent for the privilege of shooting or fishing. In 
these, days of restrictions, growing annually more con- 
fined, it is no longer excusable for the individual selfish- 
ly to blunder ahead without heed to his fellows in the 
guild of rod and gun. 
It is said that the penny-wise-pound-foolish policy in 
game protection, common in thinly-settled countries, 
now prevails in Wyoming. The region south of the 
Yellowstone Park, being a rough timbered country, and 
receiving annually the overflow of elk and deer from 
the Park, is to-day perhaps the best game section in 
the United States. The Wyoming Legislature has passed 
laws to protect this game, but these laws, it is alleged, 
are not enforced by the local authorities. No game 
warden patrols the country through which Snake River 
flows, and the deputy warden refuses to act on the 
ground that no salary attaches to the office; the county 
commissioners refuse to appoint a warden under a sal- 
ary; so there is no one to look after the game, which, ac- 
cording to reports, has been killed off at a great rate 
this summer. This condition of things concerns chiefly 
the residents of the region where the game is found, for 
they are the ones who are benefited by the visits of the 
outside public. This public pays the residents money 
for time, horses, board and other services. If the game 
hereabouts is destroyed to such an extent that it be- 
comes inaccessible or very hard to find by the visiting 
hunters, the occupation of the local guides will be gone, 
and a very neat slice cut off their annual incomes. 
Mr. C. M. Stark, who is well informed on New 
Hampshire game, writes in another column of the press- 
ing need of adopting for his State the Forest and 
Stream's Platform Plank — "The sale of game should be 
forbidden at all seasons." In this declaration Mr. Stark 
voices the conviction of those citizens of New Hamp- 
shire who are most familiar with the conditions there 
prevailing, and most earnest in providing the remedy. 
It is the old, old story, illustrated by scores of dis- 
tricts where the birds once were abundant and would be 
in fair supply to-day had the traffic in game been re- 
stricted to reasonable limits — which means abolished. 
Mr. Stark's proposition that New Hampshire shall put 
'an end to the destruction of its game for market is 
sensible and timely; we trust that the subject will be 
taken up in earnest by the protective associations, and 
that a non-market statute may be among the measures 
striven for in the next Legislature. 
In central and western New York there is much 
newspaper comment on the working of the new law 
which provides bounties for the destruction of illegal 
nets. The sums paid out in bounties are declared to be 
excessive, and a loud cry is raised that the burden on 
the counties is not to be endured. Doubtless there art 
some frauds, and money is paid that should not be paid; 
on the other hand the system is actually destroying nets, 
or in other words is accomplishing precisely what it 
was meant to accomplish; and the bounty funds, instead 
of coming out of the county treasuries, are eventually 
paid by the State. There are mistakes in the law, but 
these are not inherent in the system. They can be and 
will .)e corrected. The net bounty is all right, and it 
has come to stay. 
By the vast majority of fishermen the grayling is re- 
garded as a rare fish, with which they have no imme- 
diate concern; they have never had an opportunity to 
fish for it, and its race they deem doomed to extinction. 
If the artificial propagation of the grayling shall prove 
a successful enterprise, all this will be changed; and 
Dr. Henshall's report of the work already achieved in 
this field gives happy promise for the future of the 
fish. 
Some- Indian tribes are exempt from, the game laws. 
The average white man, however, should be sufficiently 
civilized to abide by the rules of civilization, and not 
to class himself with the savage. 
