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him here at the office not later than May i/' Even this 
delayed date will enable Mr. Coleman to take a hand in 
the trade of the coming year, which bids fair to be one un- 
precedentedly large. 
Mr. E. D. Updike, a prominent Board' of Trade man, of 
Chicago, left this week for San Antonio and the Texas 
coast. I regret that I did not meet him to add my 
mite to his information regarding the Southwest coun- 
try, but if he once gets there he cannot help having a 
good time. E. Hough. 
1200 BoYCE BuiT-DiNG, Chicago, 111. 
Decf in Town, 
GloversvixlEj N. Y., March i. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Kingsboro is a suburb of Gloversville. Every 
year deer come from the mountain, three miles north of 
our city, and are seen by the inhabitants. The Leader 
reported the other day : 
"The residents of Kingsboro and Marshall avenues and 
adjoining streets were considerably surprised yesterday 
morning by the appearance of a young deer strolling along 
the thoroughfares. The deer did not seem to be worried 
by the environments of civilization, and after spending 
some time about the portion of the city mentioned, the 
deer crosed East Fulton street, juniped a fence about the 
cemetery, and while it was standing on top of one of the 
vaults it was noticed by several persons. No attempt was 
made to capture the animal, although a number of boys 
who saw it on one of the streets gave chase, but were 
easily distanced. After remaining in the cemetery a 
short time the deer went toward the southeastern part of 
the city and disappeared in the woods near Cold Spring." 
J. H. D. 
Gloversville^ March 4. — ^Here is a sequel to the note 
sent you a few days ago: "Residents of the city who 
arose at an early hour this morning had the pleasure of 
witnessing the decidedly unusual sight of a wild deer run- 
ning about the streets in the business portion of the city. 
The creature was a doe, evidently quite young, and was 
not very large. It was first seen on King.sboro avenue by 
two hounds, which immediately gave chase, and pursued 
the "deer ovei- the avenue and down Prospect street, until 
they attracted the attention of Druggist Robert Baird, who 
was walking down town. He very promptly stopped the 
dogs and prevented further trouble to the deer from 
that source, but the little creature continued its flight 
toward the center of the city, and finally entered the Key- 
stone Hotel barn on South Main street in a very ex- 
hausted condition. This morning James Kathan, who 
has charge of the barn, went to Johnstown and found 
Game Protector Leavitt absent from home. The posses- 
sion of the deer was reported to his family with a request 
to notify the protector as soon as possible. An effort was 
also made to notify Game Protector Lobdell, of North- 
ville, but it was reported that he was ill and could not 
be seen, As a result, the deer will be kept in the barn 
and cared for until Game Protector Leavitt determines 
what is to be done with it." 
Maine Venison Shipments 
Boston, March 6. — I met a Boston sportsman on the 
street Saturday, who was much pleased over a bit of 
information he had received from Maine. The same 
story he also told me had been telegraphed to the Bos- 
ton papers. It concerned a lighter which came ashore 
at a well-known Maine port, where shipping to Boston 
is easy. On board the lighter was a number of barrels. 
These a game warden happened to spy, and became 
suspicious of them. He detained the captain of the lighter 
and opened the barrels. In them he found the saddles 
and hides of seventeen deer, each one tagged to a Bos- 
ton firm. He seized the venison and put the captain 
of tlie lighter under arrest. The fine will be $40 for 
having each deer in possession, besiaes attempting to 
ship them out of the State. I hope that this story of 
arrest is true, for I have seen eleven more saddles of 
deer, just received at a Boston commission house, since 
last writing the Forest and Stream, If it is true, one 
of the outlets of the underground railway lor shipping 
deer out of Maine in close season may be stopped at 
last. 
The ideas of the ordinary New York prtss reporter 
are crude, if not laughable. I was shown a clipping 
yesterday from a city paper, which went on to give an 
item of news concerning one of the live moose now in 
the Madison Square Garden sportsmen's .show. It told 
of the ugly nature of the moose and of his attack on 
the men who helped put him on the train at Lewiston, 
Me., "where he was trapped." Well, the citizens of the 
city of Lewiston will smile when they read of trapping 
wild and savage moose within their borders. Tlie truth 
of the matter is that the moose comes from a game park 
in that city, and that he was taken up and haltered in the 
yard and led to the car that was to take him to New 
York. He went into the car rather unwillingly, but 
there was about as much trouble about it as there would 
have been concerning a balky horse under like circum- 
stances. 
Later: It comes from perfectly reliable sources that a 
seizure of seventeen deer saddles was made on Thursday 
last ; the game en route for the Boston market. 
Special. 
Weight of Quail. 
Lockport, N. Y., March 2. — By a sad misfortune of a 
few sportsmen here, who are trying to restock a portion 
of the farms near the city with quail for next season's 
shooting, I am enabled to give Didymus some informa- 
tion as to the weight of Bob White that was supposed to 
have come from Montana, although the parties received 
them from a New York dealer, which was a great mis- 
take, as they have no knowledge of how long they had 
been in confinement. 
Of 120 shipped on Feb. 15, eleven were dead when re- 
ceived the next day. The rest were divided into three 
lots and taken to different farms to be liberated when 
the weather was favorable. Of one lot of .twenty-seven 
seven died within three days, when the party turned the 
remainder out of the building where they were con- 
fined; and they went directly to a straw stack m the ad- 
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joining field ; since when I have not heard from them, but 
as there has been no snow on the ground and the weather 
has been mild and pleasant, I do not doubt that they are 
doing well. I secured the eighteen dead birds, eleven of 
which were females, and weighed each bird separately. 
With the exception of two of the males, I found them 
in fair condition. The aggregate weight of the seven 
males was 360Z. : an average of little over 50Z. ; the eleven 
females weighed 6ioz., a trifle over 5J4oz. each. I 
should think that these birds when caught would have 
averaged at lea.st 6oz. ; which would be light for Montana 
birds. I have a female in my collection taken eighteen 
years ago in this country (Niagara) that weighed 90Z. 
when I took it from a bunch of birds in the market, where 
it attracted my attention by its large size and light color, 
it being much lighter colored than two other females 
taken here. J. L. Dawson. 
[The quail of course did not come from Montana, where 
there are no quail ; but were probably from West Virginia, 
North Carolina, the Indian Territory or Kansas.] 
Teton Guide and Game Protective Association 
Jackson, Wyoining, Feb. 28. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The game is wintering fine, except as to a few 
calves. The winter has been comparatively open. 
An organization was completed here this month, known 
as the Teton Guide and Game Protective Association. 
The officers for the first year are as follows : S. N. Leek, 
President; Webster La Plant, Vice-President; Andy 
Watson. Treasurer; Wm. Simpson, Secretary and Clerk 
to Board of Managers. 
The objects are to furnish sportsmen with reliable in- 
formation and the names of competent guides, and to 
protect them in their hunting rights and privileges in the 
Jackson Valley country. With a view of making the asso- 
ciation a reliable institution, representative residents who 
are not engaged in guiding tourists, are members. 
The past year has^ indicated that an organization of 
this kind is a necessity. Several tourists have complained 
of unfair treatment at the hands of incompetent persons 
representing themselves as guides. 
The changes in the game law made by the present Legis- 
lattire, are new to most people in the State. As soon as 
the law is printed and distributed, it will be time to com- 
mence their enforcement. As we are not familiar with 
the features of the law as passed, only in a general way, 
we will not attempt to criticise or commend them. Suf- 
fice to say that the first duty of the State game warden 
will be to enforce the law in the community where the 
game ranges. W. L. Simpson. 
Maine Deer and Lumbermen.. 
Jackman, Me., March i. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your publication of Feb. 25 you misquote me in your 
article. "A Maine Winter Robin." What I really wrote 
was: "There are several large deer yards in the vicinity 
of camp, and so far they are all doing nicely, and none are 
being killed "by the lumbermen or anyone else." While 
you quote me as saying, "and were all being killed." 
ICindly correct this error and greatly oblige 
F. W. Lawton. 
The Sportsmen^s Exposition. 
The fifth annual ' exposition of the Sportsmen's Asso- 
ciation in the Madison Square Garden, of this city, sur- 
passes all that have gone before it in the provision of at- 
tractions strictly within the scope of such an exhibition, 
and apart from the purely trade displays. The show has 
been closely modeled on that of Boston last year, with 
respect to features and their arrangement. The immense 
floor space of the Garden is almost entirely given up to 
the attractions. There are a game paddock for live game, 
an aviary of game birds, "an artificial lake for aquatic 
sports, on the shore of which the Indian tepees are set 
against a magnificent scene-painting of the great glacier 
region of the Selkirks. 
The paddock is enclosed with Page woven wire fenc- 
ing, and in it are buffalo, caribou, moose, elk and Vir- 
ginia deer; while in cages and pens are bears, gray 
wolves, mountain lions, raccoons, opossums, beavers and 
game birds. There is a large and admirably arranged 
aquarium display of fishes by the Ne\V York Fisheries. 
Game and Forest Commission, under the immediate 
direction of Mr. A. N. Cheney. The fishes shown in- 
clude a series comprising sleelhead, red-throat, rain- 
bow, brown, brook and lake trout, pike, perch, and black 
bass. Among the trout are mature specimens and year- 
lings and two-vear-okls. There is also a model hatchery. 
Among the birds novel to most visitors are two trained 
falcons, imported from Europe, 
Hunters, Trappers and Guides. 
Again the sons of Nimrod have gathered from the four 
winds to the place of meeting, where Diana stretches her 
golden bow. Under one roof are men who know the 
hunting countries of the continent. The big game sec- 
tions of the North are, however, best represented among 
the hunters, trappers and guides, and particularly the 
moose countries, from Maine on the east to the Rockies, 
on the west. 
The Quebec Exhibit. 
Half of the north side of the floor of the 
Garden is given up to the Quebec exhibit, and the at- 
tractions of woods and waters are represented by game 
animals and birds, some living and some stuffed, placed 
in front of a''cycloramic background, and by hunters who 
are there to explain about the birds and beasts. The 
Quebec exhibit is in charge of Mr. L. Z, Joncas, assisted 
by Mr. N. E. Cormier. Mr. J. W. McNicol has charge 
of one section, and with him are Alfred Lanoie, George 
Frazar and Beebe Lirette, who are guides. Messrs. 
Turcotte and Jackson are also connected with the ex- 
hibit. 
Mr. W- H Parker represents the Laurentian Club, of 
which he is manager. He is accompanied by three noted 
guides, Bazile Maurice, who was with General Wolseley 
on the Nile expedition, and Anne Beaulier and his 
brothex, Narcisse._ Mr. Parker organized rJrie Winches- 
tci, Shaiyinegaii l^aurentian and St. Maurice clubs, and 
[March 11, 1899. 
has the further distinction of having been one of the ear- 
liest subscribers to Forest and Stream, having sent 
Charles Hallock a check for $25 for subscriptions while 
the first issues were fresh from the press. Mr. Parker's 
Laurentian guides sing Canadian boat songs, and have 
voices of wonderful sweetness and power. 
Mr. Cormier invited the Forest and Stream man to 
take a little six weeks' trip next summer up the St. Mau- 
rice to the headwaters of its southwest branch, and then 
downstream either by the Gatineau or Ottawa to civ- 
lization. The three streams mentioned take their rise, 
according to Mr. Cormier, in a pond about the size 
of the amphitheater of the Madison Square Garden. Mr. 
Cormier is Superintendent of Fisheries and Game at 
Avinner, Quebec, and among the many other things he 
does, he arranges to supply park owners with wild game, 
from beaver to moose. He could have brought a car- 
load of moose and caribou to the Sportsmen's Exposition 
if they had been wanted, and he has at the present time 
several contracts on hand for supplying big game for 
parks. 
The Adirondacks. 
The Adirondack exhibit occupies the other half of the 
space on the north side of the Garden, just east of the 
Quebec exhibit. There are some neatly finished camps, 
interesting game trophies, and a still more interesting 
collection of husky woodsmen. The great hotel keepers 
are represented, and George SteveiLS, Jr., who is said by 
his friends to be one of the best living still-h'unters, is 
there in person. The men Connected with this exhibit 
comprise the finest aggregation of sturdy manhood to 
be found in the Garden. Among the guides who are par- 
ticularly Avorth talking to arc Warren W. Cole, of Long 
f^ake; F. C. Chase, Newcomb, and Fayette Moody, Sar- 
anac. 
The Canadian Pacific. 
The Fourth avenue end of the Garden is devoted to a 
scenic and very successful representation of an Indian 
hunting camp in the Selkirks. The background is a 
gigantic painting of the great glacier of the Selkirks, and 
is a remarkably good representation of the actual land- 
scape. Timbered hills are shown in the middle distance, 
and the stream which drains the glacier. In front arc 
the tepees of the aborigines, and moving about at their 
various tasks the Indians themselves. At their feet is the 
swimming pool, and the canoes are drawn up on the 
bank. 
Mr. L. O. Armstrong, has general supervision of the 
exhibit, assisted by Mr. C. C. Farr. The canoes shown 
in the cyclorama setting are of Eastern manufacture, and 
the majority of the Indians never saw a glacier in their 
lives, but that doesn't spoil the effect. Nesodaro. the 
Mountain Cree, is at home in the shadow of the tower- 
ing Selkirks, but for all practical purpo.^es Willie Paul- 
son, from the Upper Ottawa, fits into the picture and 
plays his part just as well. 
The Quebec & Lake St. John Railway has an interest- 
ing exhibit next the C. P. Ry. on the south side of the 
Garden, and then comes the State of Maine, with a 
great exhibit, reaching almost to the Madison avenue 
entrance. 
Maine. 
The Maine exhibit is divided into different section.^. 
At the west end is the camp of the Megantic Fish and 
Game Preserve. 
In the Patten section is Natey Fogg, equally ready 
to tell a good story or to post sportsmen on the advan- 
tages of the Jack Darling camps, on the Sebois Chain, 
of which he is the present proprietor. At his elbow is 
John Jackman, the Patten photographer, some of whose 
game pictures have been printed in Forest and Stream, 
and somewhere in the neighborhood may be found \V- 
S. McKinney, who is a very unpopular man with the 
bears of the Pine Tree State, His brother Frank is the 
man who killed a moose with a .22cal. pistol and the 
short cartridge loaded with smokeless powder. Mr. 
Howe, of Curren & Howe, represents the Trout Brook 
farm. Moose, deer and caribou are the principal live 
stock. Some of the deer are so obliging that they walk 
right up to the door when their turn comes to be shot. 
Mr. Sumner L. Crosby, tlie taxidermist, is in evidence, 
as usual. What Maine Avould be without Mr. Crosby is 
not plea.sant to think about. Wm. E. Cushman, of 
Sheoman, has a collectioji of trophies that would pain f 
sensitive bear to contemplate. He has a cigar-box full 
of claws and teeth, and other relics of victims to the steel 
trap habit. In making this collection, Mr. Cushman 
is following in his father's footsteps, the only difference 
being that his father used a set gun. 
Capt. Barker, of course, is here, and if he had time 
between greeting old friends and answering questions 
about Maine hunting resorts, he could give some inter- 
esting observations on his recent trip to Santiago and 
other war points. 
A University Course in Woodcraft. 
If anybody has any puzzling questions to ask about any 
subject of simon-pure woodcraft or natural history from 
the hunter's and trapper's standpoint, which treats of the 
science from the point where man and beast rub shoul- 
ders, he will find some professors here ready to elucidate 
the matter for him. These professors know little of kid 
glove methods of imparting knowledge. Some of them 
handle their grammar after trade-marked fashion of 
their own that defies parsing and the commonly accepted 
rules of construction, and which w.ould be as much of a 
puzzle to the New England college professor as was 
Scotty Briggs' chewing of the language to the rever- 
end gospel sharp. Yet there is a force and directness 
about what they say that carries conviction, and when it 
comes to driving home an argument and clinching it on 
the other side for keeps with the fewest possible words, 
the college professor has to give way to the woodsman. 
Many of these wilderness-rover professors supplement 
spoken language with sign language. Cut off tlie 
courier des bois' hands and he cannot talk, and for a 
similar reason, if Nesodaro. the Mountain Cree, were to 
be fastened to his chair, he could never properly make 
_vui-i .^ee the final .short-range struggle with the grvzzly. 
