POREST ANt) STREAM. 
see 
American Game Parks. 
The "Forest and StreamV Fifth Annual Report on Game 
in Preserves. 
(Conii7iued from page 248.) 
Blue Mountain Forest Park. 
Chief among the fenced preserves, by reason of its 
size and importance, is the Corbin Blue Mountain For- 
est Park, near Newport, N. H., soutli of the White 
Mountains. The tract includes more than forty square 
miles, surrounded by a fence, and there are at the present 
time more than 300 large game animals included in its 
limits. Tlie park has always been intended for a hunt- 
ing preserve, and more or less game has been killed in 
it of recent years, but the hunting idea is developing, and 
tlie club feature promises to be more prominent in futu/e. 
The park enjoys special laws relative to its game. 
Exotic game can be killed or shipped at any time, and an 
extended season is provided for hunting deer and moose. 
The game is especially protected against poachers. Some 
four j'cars ago the State of New Hampshire passed a 
law making it a misdemeanor to kill deer in the park. 
Mr. Corbin at the same time stipulating that the area of 
ihe park should never be increased in size more than 
1,000 acres additional. 
A year ago the State passed a law making a five year's 
close season on deer. Two counties were excepted, and 
also by special amendment, Blue Mountain Forest Park. 
The big game open season in New Hampshire, where 
hunting is permitted, extends from Sept. 15 to Nov. 30. 
The laws of 1899, passed two weeks ago, contain an 
amendment in favor of the park as follows : 
"Except that the Blue Mountain Forest Association 
\wa.y kill deer and moose within the confines of its game 
preserve, as established by Chapter 258 of the Laws of 
1895, until Jan, 15 of each year, and may ship them to 
points without the State at any time when accom- 
panied by a certificate of the Fish and Game Commis- 
sion that they were legally killed, and the Fish and Game 
Commission shall provide such rules and regulations as 
are necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of 
this paragraph without any expense to the State of New 
Hampshire." 
In 1898 twenty-five deer and six elk were killed in the 
preserve. We are indebted to Mr. Austin Corbin for the 
following additional particulars: 
■'The stockholders of the Association have done little 
during the past year except keep the property, including 
roads and fences, in general repair. All classes of game 
are thriving as well as could possibly be desired. No 
dead animals are found except such as apparently die 
from old age; and a few wapiti that have been killed 
by lice or ticks. The wapiti, and indeed all the game, 
are getting wilder and afford better sport than ever 
before. 
"The park has been visited by Canada lynx, and I am 
inclined to think, a big family of pumas, during the past 
year. They seem to come down from the North to the 
forest in the fall, and return in the spring. 
"The number of foxes is being kept down, but in spite 
of that the small game, grouse and h^re, do not seem 
to increase. 
■'The 'Cony' rabbit has secured a foothold in the for- 
est (and in all that part of New Hampshire), and, as 
usual, is driving out the hare. We should, incidentally, 
be very grateful for any suggestion that would help us 
in exterminating these small pests. 
"The buffalo in the original herd have increased so 
that they now number some seventy. They are in fine 
condition, and are being taken care of during the winter. 
The boar are also being fed. The buffalo which were 
returned from Van Cortlandt Park have never complete- 
ly recovered their health, and we have thought best to 
keep that herd apart from the other. 
"I can give you no figures of the number of game in 
the forest, as it is utterly out of the question to form any 
estimate of that." 
Wm. C. Whitney. 
Besides his Berkshire game preserve of 10,000 acres 
on Washington Mountain, near Lenox, Mass., Hon. Wm. 
C. Whitney has secured a lai-ge tract of land in the 
Adirondacks. This lies in the neighborhood of Little 
Tupper Lake in the northern part of Hamilton county, 
N. Y. 
G Lake Preserve. 
"The G Lake Preserve is situated in the town of Ariet- 
ta, Hamilton county, N. Y., comprising parts of Lots 231 
and 233, and all of No. 234, Oxbow tract, 620 acres, owned 
by E. Z. Wright and John D. Collins, of Utica;_E. B. 
Salmon and J. W. Black, of Syrcause, N. Y. It is kept 
as a hunting, fishing and timber preserve, in charge of a 
special game protector keeper. All timber is to be kept 
intact. None is to be removed or cut. All of the lake is 
embraced. Two cottages are erected and other buildings. 
Lake covers about 175, water." 
William Rockefeller, 
Mr. William Rockefeller, of New York city, is one of 
the most recent additions to the ranks of Adirondack 
preserve owners. In August last he purchased 25,000 
acres of forest land in Franklin county, abutting on Paul 
Smith's preserve. The property has been lumbered for 
pine and spruce, but it still has ample standing timber. 
Mr, Rockefeller's intentions regarding the tract are not 
definitely known. 
P. H. Flynn. 
Mr. P. H. Flynn, the Brooklyn trolley magnate, has 
bought a large tract of wild land, including a lake at 
Emmonsville, Sullivan county, N. Y., wath the intention 
of creating a game and fish preserve. It is said that he 
will put up a handsome summer residence on the pre- 
serve and stock with native and exotic game birds and 
animals. 
C. Tielenius. 
Mr. Tielenius writes of his preserve : "My deer park is 
getting along satisfactory in regard to breeding elk. Same 
is situated near Mt. Pocono, Monroe county, Pa. ; an 8ft. 
fence encloses about 1,200 acres of woodland, rocky or 
stony and rolling, watered by two small streams. Four 
years ago I stocked these streams with about 30,000 small 
trout and placed twenty-eight young elk from one to two 
years old, from Wyoming (four bulls and twenty-four 
cows), in the park. The first year the did not breed; the 
second year I had six young one; the third year thirteen, 
and this year from twenty-four to twenty-eight, so that the 
herd consists of about seventy-five head at present. Dur- 
ing the summer they are hard to be found or seen, as they 
hide away in the woods with the exception of the even- 
ing, when they come from the mountain tops to the 
streams for water. During the winter, in severe weather, 
they are fed with hay at two feeding stations ; only then 
I have a chance to see them all and to find out exactly 
how many young ones I have from the past summer; 
they deliver them during June or July. I have no shelter 
for them in form of barns against frost or rain. They 
seem to be weatherproof, and rather lay down on the 
snow than in a barn. Of the bulls, I had four shot, two 
four and five years old, and two yearlings; dressed, but 
in their skin, the old ones weighed about 4Solbs., and the 
yearlings 268 and 2761bs. each. I ought to have lots of 
ruffed grouse and rabbits; however, I am sorry to say 
that there are too many foxes who destroy them ; and the 
trout are destroyed by mink. I certainly am trying to 
keep the vermin down in numbers, but it is very hard to 
follow the foxes through the thick underbrush and a 
rocky mountainous district, where they hide and breed. 
I would be very much obliged to you for your kind in- 
formation in how far the State game laws interfere with 
private parks. To protect the cows at the coming breed- 
ing season I ought to kill four more bulls. But I am not 
permitted to do so and to bring them to New York now." 
''Concerning an Epithet/' 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
My modest little scrawl relative to immoderate garne 
killing and matters pretaining thereto, seems to have 
brought down a call-down or two in addition to the 
mild expostulation of Forest and Stream. It also 
brought out a few stray flings at alleged use of intem- 
perate language in dealing with the subject. 
It strikes me that no unselfish, reasonable sportsman 
can feel otherwise than "hot" after seeing as we dO', 
week after week and month after month, the pages cf 
nearly every one of the papers devoted to field sports, 
besmeared with the bloody records of intemperate, in- 
"human, wanton slaughters; records that make one's trig- 
ger-finger itch with murderous intent, or cause him to 
hanker for the enactment of a law that would land some 
of these evildoers into the penitentiary. Even Forest 
AND Stream — that great literary mecca of the sports- 
man — is an occasional o'ftender in this line. Only a few 
weeks ago one of its brightest and most entertaining 
correspondents told us that he was especially fond of a 
certain shooters' club because the members thereof lim- 
ited themselves — a club rule I believe — to a daily bag of 
fifty ducks, and in the same item we are also told that 
several of the club members played the limit on many 
consecutive days, with the addition of a few geese and 
turkeys on the side. Ye gods! what a transcendentally 
beautiful Hmit; three hundred ducks in a week barring 
the Lord's day; about three-fourths of a ton of game 
birds slaughtered in one short week by one "sportsman" 
(limited). 
One shudders to think of what such a "sportsman" 
might do with the limit off, and there are "several of 
him" in the same club. Armour or Swift ought to throw 
open wide their abattoir doors and doff their hats to 
such wonderful talent. Do you wonder at the use of in- 
temperate language by any one of your readers who has 
a spark of sportsmanlike decency in his makeup after 
having partaken of such an item as the one referred to? 
My private views on the subject would not, I fear, look 
well on the pages of Forest and Stream. 
Usually the parties who take most delight in having a 
fling at the poor devils, who, through ignorance, some- 
times scoff at the immoderate shooters are themselves 
confessed ofiienders in the unlimited killing line and they 
always offer as a plea for their want of moderation in the 
field that same old threadbare story "none of our game 
was wasted, all was used." Robin Hood, Jack Shepherd, 
and several other celebrities are recorded as having made 
the same plea; none of the proceeds of their little pleas- 
antries went to waste, all not used b)' themselves went to 
feed and clothe the worthy poor. In this connection I beg 
leave to recall an incident that occurred at Shinnecock 
Bay a few years ago, where two shooters in a single day 
killed four hundred shore birds — a large percentage 01 
which were dowitchers — and tipon being upbraided for 
their action pleaded that "none of the birds were wasted, 
the hundred and odd guests at the hotel ate them all and 
would have eaten as many more had they been available. ' 
Just such work as this has made the dowitcher a rara 
avis, comparatively, on the shores of Shinnecock Bay. 
Of what possible use would be the enactment into law 
of that most excellent Forest and Stream platform 
plank, relative to the prohibition of the sale of game, if 
unlimited killing is to be permitted to so-called sports- 
men who might desire to win applause by catering to the 
never-failing appetites of countless hordes of gourmands 
at the seaside and mountain resort hostelries? Of what 
possible use is a law putting restraints on the willful 
overcrowding of the game bag? Any one who has had 
aught to do with the enforcement of the game laws knows 
that the bag limit statute, especially that pertaining to 
small game, is a dead letter law from way back, and 
that the only way to prevent unlimited killing by "sports- 
men"- — prohibition of game selling will fix the market- 
shooter — is to educate them up to a higher plane. 
Whether this education can best be instilled by means 
of moral suasion or with an axe. is a matter I leave to 
those more experienced than I in the moral suasion or 
hardware business, and will merely say that I have no 
desire to pursue this controversy further except to re- 
iterate my firm belief that the "game hog" is utterly 
unfitted for the company of the grand army of Forest 
AND Stream readers, the vast majority of whom are 
gentlemen and sportsmen in every sense of those badly 
abused terms, and the sooner he, the g. h., is brought 
to a realization ef this view of the case, the better for all 
concerned. 
One of your correspondents, Mr. L. A. C, takes ex- 
ception to my argument, because it seems to remotel.'sr 
connect the crime of larceny with immoderate game 
killing, and holds that, while there are statutory provi- 
sions governing the one, there is no law to govern opin- 
ions as to what should constitute a reasonable bag for 
a day's shooting; in fact, he in effect holds that in this 
matter every man is a church unto himself. I beg leave 
to differ with the gentleman; the great unwritten law of 
"common honesty" governs in these premises as perfectly- 
as does any law on the statute books relative to larceny, 
although it does not perhaps affix quite so severe pen- 
alties. If the unwritten law named is not sufficient to 
cover tlie ground, the "golden rule" indirectly applies, 
as do many other of the teachings relative to moderation 
and temperance, of the Great Teacher whom your corre- 
spondent quotes. Forbearance in dealing with the im- 
moderate game killer has ceased to be a virtue and the 
day of retribution is at hand. 
In conclusion, permit me to have a word at the item in 
Forest and STREAJ^^ that hints that want of skill in ihe 
field is perhaps what ails me, and suggests "sour grapes," 
I have been on earth fifty years, a shooter for forty, and, 
pardon a little egotism, a fairly good wing shot for up^ 
wards of thirty, and can hold my own in the field with 
any of the mighty killers — barring none — who air their 
exploits in the columns of the shooting and fishing 
papers. I can work the slaughter racket, but I won't; I 
have learned better ways. 
M. SCHENCK. 
■Iroy, N. v., M-arch 31. 
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Editor Forest and Stream: 
The stand taken in your paper toward that class of 
sportsmen who are inclined to call every other one (able 
to hit his birds) a game hog, etc., finds my hearty approval 
and also of thousands of others. The best way to make a 
market-shooter see into the error of his ways would be, to 
let the well-to-do sportsmen buy unlimited numbers of 
Forest and Stream and distribute the copies to them, 
which would tend -to educate and refine them into the ways 
of true sportsmanship. Chas. F; Brockel. 
The Fox (Wis.) Representative, as quoted in your 
issu-e of April i, says : "Two dozen ducks a day is enough 
for any man to shoot^ and a man who is not satisfied with 
that many is no sportsman." Should any of Forest and 
Stream readers be "shy" on what constitutes a reasonable 
bag limit, this might help him out. I had no idea until 
recently that there was such a want of knowledge on the 
subject. I was foolish enough to think that every sports- 
man knew about what constituted a decent limit. 
M. Schenck. 
ADVERTISEflENT. 
D. N. & Co/s Department Store. 
spring Opening — ^Special Announcement. 
We have an entire new list of spring goods laid in at 
very low figures, and which, owing to our enormous capi- 
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the live stock on this continent, and also of vast importa- 
tions froni Mexico, Central and South America, we can 
oft'er at prices beyond competition. We have departments 
in every county, in every State and Territory in the 
Union, and send to each department such stock as has 
been proved to be suitable to the locality. 
, Tfout. 
We can offer this season a fine line of brook, brown, 
rainbow, Dolly Varden and lake trout, in our different 
departments. Our trout purveyor was among all the State 
and private hatcheries two years ago, and secured the 
entire output, in addition to what we produced in our 
brooks and lakes. The first fruits of his journeys are now 
confidently offered to the public as the best that can be 
found on the entire globe. 
Trout of 3 and 4oz, per dozen 2 artificial flies. 
« same quality per dozen..., 1 doz. angle worms. 
a u ^"^^^ under lib 4 artificial flies. 
„ ,, same quality , 3 doz. angle worms. 
above lib special rates. 
Note. — No worms received at par that have not been 
well scoured in moss for three days. Flies must be up 
to the standard of the best makers. We will have a 
splendid assortment of black bass, pike, pickerel, masca- 
longe, crappies and other fish later in the season, when 
we will have a full line of minnows for bait. 
Wildfowl. 
In some of our departments our customers can obtain 
a full line of ducks, geese, brant and swans at this time 
of year, but the goods are no longer fashionable in many 
States during the spring months, and we do not care 
to do a big spring trade in this line, nor in fact in any 
bird line in the spring, for economical reasons, which, 
however, affect our customers more than ourselves. 
Every sale w-e make of a pair of birds in the spring les- 
sens our fall trade by a dozen. The same reasons which 
govern the poulterer in reserving his spring stock are 
sound, and we wish to follow them. As some customers 
demand wild fowl in the spring, we quote : 
Swan, per single bird 3 days' labor and 100 cartridges. 
Geese and brant, per single bird...! day's labor and 10 cartridges. 
Ducks, per dozen 1 day's labor and 60 cartridges. 
In the interests of our customers, as well as our own, 
we hope that the demand for spring goods of this descrip- 
tion will become as unfashionable in all of our depart- 
ments as it is at present in the best of them, where cus- 
tomers realize that our interests are theirs. 
Our firm having been established so far back in the re- 
mote ages that its records are incomplete, is too well 
known from the equator to both poles, wherever man in 
either savage or civilized condition exists, to need refer- 
ences by the transient people now occupying the earth- 
we have supplied their forefathers for more thousands of 
years than they can reckon, and are still doing business 
