FOHESt AKD STREAM, 
tongue-^it must be because they see there a means oi 
advancing their own interests, their passenger traffic. And 
if they enter the lists for this purpose it will be in tlie 
eold-blooded, level-headedj masterful way that has char 
acterized their undertakings in the past. They have the 
Capital, the brains, the unity of purpose, the persistency 
required by business interests, that make them determin- 
ing factors in legislative halls; factors that have thus 
far been lamentably absent in tlie past consideration and 
promotion of these matters. 
When they realize that it is to their advantage to push 
along these liries it may be taken for granted they, .will 
do so. They will see that our streams are stocked; that 
our game birds are artificially replenished; that our big 
game is granted the rest that alone can save it from 
positive extinction; and above all, that our open seasons 
are determined less by State boundaries than by common 
sense; and that politics — as pernicious in the enforce- 
ment of game laws as in the prosecution of railway busi- 
ness — ceases to wield so large and detrimental an in- 
fluence in the matter of wardens. 
Total divorce of these matters from the States will 
never occur. They are matters the constitution has given 
into their charge, and they cannot drop them. State 
hatcheries there will always be, and by the State legisla- 
tures all codes will be contrived. Railroads cannot, and 
will not try, to oust the States from this control. But 
they willj sooner or later, take such effective steps in 
quietly and unostentatiously influencing the legislatures, 
interesting and uniting sportsmen, that there will appear a 
•consistency between State codes that is now so markedly 
absent. And there will cease most of the pernicious 
political influence and, intrigue that makes enforcement a 
contemptable farce. This is the nature of the compromise 
that is almost certain to be struck. 
Still, it is reasonably certain that it will not be struck 
until the railroads become convinced that artificial attrac- 
tions are less attractive, therefore less productive of re- 
sults — of profit in passenger traffic — than are the attrac- 
tions such a compromise would conserve. Proof that this 
conviction is forcing itself upon them lies in the constant 
and increasing vigor with which they are and have been 
for some time past advertising contiguous fish and game 
territory — advertising that is more constant and effective 
than that turned toward any other feature of attraction. 
Of the nature of artificial — or made — attractions it may 
be said that they seek either to amuse or instruct. They 
are quaint old towns, fairs of major or minor impor- 
tance, picnics, conclaves, reunions, a hundred and one 
things evolved from fertile brains. Few are of universal 
interest ; few demand more than a passing attention. They 
are seen once, twice, perhaps, and the visitor passes them 
by thereafter. They pall, grow stale— thej'^ are artificial. 
But the stream that turns the mill wheel — the great Yel- 
lowstone National Park, and all of camping, fishing, hunt- 
ing and tramping that lie between — ^these are ever alluring. 
They always call and beckon tis from a narrow life to an 
exi.stence that seems to have no limits. Yet the call is 
weaker, fainter, and the realized pleasures fewer, smaller, 
for every bullet-bitten stag that leaves a lair unwarmed 
at night, for every leaping fish drawn from dim retreat, 
for every bird cut short in flight. It is life, intense and 
quivering, that adds the greatest beauty, that calls most 
potently. It is the friend, with his bright eye, cheery 
smile and warm hand clasp that draws us again and 
again to the mansion. We do not call repeatedly merely 
to admire the architecture. Santa Fe, without her quaint 
population, becomes a glaring stuccoed grave; the forest, 
bereft of life, a boundless tomb of shade. 
Beyond our little world of humdrum daily life we find 
new worlds throbbing with sweet unfamiliarity. Take 
away the life that is the heart of it and much that drew 
tis there is gone. So we go less often. 
For this reasoii artificial attractions are less attractive 
than those of virgin nature, or even of those assured by 
compromise. Logically, therefore, the benifits accruing 
to the railroads from them are less, and it is only a matter 
of time until they clearlj? see it. A¥ith that discernment 
will come action along the lines defined. 
On the surface this ma}^ seem a long way off, for 
scarcely a move has yet been made. A few isolated in- 
stances have occurred, but so far either of uncertain 
character or local importance, A California railroad has 
established a hatchery of its own, is stocking the streams 
along the line, or contiguous thereto, and is active in the 
enforcement of piscicultitral protective laws. A moun- 
tain raihvay is about to interest itself in rectifying and 
strengthening the Montana code. Heretofore they have 
made little effort to conserve the virgin qualities or to 
create artificial ones. They have been content to take 
them as they found them ; to accept, unquestioned, their 
growth or decadence. 
But below the surface there is a force at work that will 
ere long show itself; how soon no one can say. It will 
he because business interests, not sentiment, demand 
it; and it will be the more effective because of that. Let 
us hope it will not be long delayed. 
Norman N. Spear. 
Opening Day in Massachusetts. 
"Three o'clock! Are you Up?" 
"Yes; I'll be right down." 
And it didn't take long to dress, for the old hunting 
clothes were out ready to hand, the lunch was put up, 
and the coffee pot was on the stove in the kitchen. 
In just an hour everything was stowed away in the 
buggy, and I was clattering down Main street to meet 
George and Tom, Sept. 15, and the law off woodcock and 
partridges in Massachusetts. 
At about the same hour two members of our party 
were off out of town by another road. We had an eight- 
mile drive to the covers we had selected, but a more 
glorious morning one could not imagine — cold and clear, 
with the sky as full of stars as a good pattern from a 
choke-bore gun. 
Just as daylight was making the stars creep back into 
the sky we drove up to an old barn and unhitched. A 
bite from the lunch basket was next in order, and then 
with shells in our pockets, guns in hand, and dogs whin- 
ing their impatience to begin, we crossed the road and 
entered a birch cover. 
• Gboirge started the birds first, a bunch of five, but failed 
to get a shot. 1 swung around the lower edge of the 
cover and Lee pointed just as we went through a gap in 
the stone wall — the little T6-gauge grassed its first bird 
in great shape, and we scored one partridge. 
Swinging around up the hill, Lee pointed, a woodcock 
flushed, and I missed with both barrels, as the cover was 
very thick. I marked her down well, and George soon 
had her pinned, but she flushed wild. After a short 
search George had another point, Tom pinning his bird 
in great style, and George scored. 
Two birds, 6 o'clock! 
From here we went back across the road, and Lee 
made a grand point on a pine knoll, and I killed 
jjartridge number two. A few moments later I heard 
George shoot, and when we came together we each had 
a bird. 
The cover being pretty thick and the birds well scat- 
tered we went back to the team and drove on to an- 
niher cover. 
This proved to be worse than the one we had left. 
The country was very dry, and the birds were in the 
thickest swamps, and it -was almost impossible to see 
them. George, however, secured two partridges before 
we got back to the team. It Avas now" nearly noon, and 
as we had agreed to eat lunch with Bob and Cutler 
we started for the appointed place. As we were nearing 
the farmhouse we heard shots, and soon saw the boys 
hunting in some pines just under the hill. They had 
bagged five birds — two woodcock and three partridges. 
We spent about an hour at dinner — and such a luncheon. 
US was demoUshed at that gathering, and how we talked 
over each shot of the morning and compared notes I The 
camera came in handy then, and we were all photo- 
graphed about the remnants of our feast with the guns 
and dogs. 
Our next move brought us to a fine bit of cover, but 
it didn't pan out well. Bob and I tried a likely looking 
place along the road, he and Jake on the inside and I on 
the outside. I heard his call of "Mark!" just as a fine 
partridge came out to cross into another cover, but she 
never got there, and that made one more. George killed 
one more partridge, and then in the darkness we drove 
home again, tired but happy, with a bag of thirteen 
birds. 
That may not seem so many, but to one who knows 
partridge shooting in the early season, when the leaves 
are thick in the trees, it was a good bag. 
And then again that is not all; the day afield counts for 
as much more — the company of such good fellows and 
such good dogs, the old age and cares you leave in the 
woods— all is worth the going for. And when you he 
down good and tired and sleep— what is there more? 
N0XAIi"L. 
New Brunswick Notes. 
America'N sportsmen hunting in New Brunswick this 
season seem bent upon surpassing even the phenomenal 
record of success made last year. Among those who went 
on tl e hunting grounds Sept. i, a large number have 
returned, and up to the present I have not he^rd a, single 
case of failure. 
No record heads have as yet been reported. One of the 
best 30 far brought out was the property of Sumner L, 
Crosby, of Bangor, who shot his moose in the Nictor 
Lake country. This head had a 53in. spread. Mr. Crosby 
also brought down two deer. Writing to a Fredericton 
friend, Mr. Crosby states that moose are as plentiful on 
the Tobique as deer are in Maine. Mr. F. W. Ayer, of 
Bangor, who, with his two sons, hunted in the Tobique 
country, secured two moose and a very fine caribou. 
Mr. Fred P. Townsend, of Cooperstown, N. Y., has re- 
turned from McKeil Brook, where he has been sojourn- 
ing with his friend, Billy Chestnut. During the fortnight 
they were camping out they saw seventeen moose, three 
deer and one caribou. Air. Townsend secured the best 
specimen of the moose, ivhile Mr. Chestnut gathered in 
the caribou. 
The historic Jim Paul is now in the Canaan country 
with Dr. G. J. Van Vechten, of Oneonta, N. Y. Jirn's 
first patron, Mr. James Mason, of Boston, secured a fair- 
sized moose. This party saw altogether about forty moose 
in the Canaan country. 
Messrs. H. L. Batterman and H. F. Whitney, of Nev/ 
York, came in Wednesday from a fortnight's hunt in die 
Rocky Brook country, with Ed Church as guide. They 
secured one fine moose and two deer. Ed is a con- 
verted Maine guide, and a great favorite in this Province. 
He leaves again to-day for the Imnting grounds with Mr. 
Loomis, of Victor, N. Y. 
Mr. B. D. C. Foskett, of New York, would have been 
one of the happiest of men but for a trilling incident that 
occurred in the Keswick country. Mr. Foskett secured 
two deer and had his chance for moose, but on the mo- 
mentous occasion wdien his bull hove in sight and Mr. 
Foskett had fastened the ivory bead on his shoulder there 
was no cartridge in the barrel, and the hammer came 
down harmlessly. Mr. Foskett takes his medicine like a 
man, and blames no one but himself. He thinks it was 
the only half-hour on the whole trip when his rifle wasn't 
ready. In November he will go in after that big bull 
again, and there will be nothing the matter with his gim. 
Mr. E. S. Steinam, of New York, arrived to-day and 
goes into the Keswick country with Rainsford Allen as 
guide. With Adam Moore, in the Nictor country, are 
now Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Tower and Mr. Drear, of New 
York; Mr. L. Biddell and J. Biddell of Philadelphia, and 
H. R. Hatfield, of Boston. Adam has a way of accom- 
modating a good many guests at a time and making all 
hands happy. 
An unusually larger numbet of sportsmen are going Hp 
the Nor'-West Miramichi by way of Newcastle. These 
include Whitney Smith and C. J. Mcllrain, Jr., of Phila- 
delphia; Fred B. Rice, J. Schenkelberger, E. W. Grew, 
Theodore Hoague, E. A. Pease, Dr. F. Boyden and Harry 
Pitman, of Boston; I. W. Morton and daughter, of St. 
Louis; Wiliam Crawford and W. G. Peckham, of New 
York. 
Mr. J. H. Graham, of Boston, who has been moose 
hunting upon the Miramichi, with Henry Braithwaite as 
guide, arrived this afternoon. Mr. Graham got a fine 
moose head, and states that he saw seventeen moose upon 
the trip. Mr. Fowle, who was hunting with him, will re- 
main in the woods another week. 
Mr. Percy N, Graham, of GdddmiMgj England, v. ho 
hunted with Braithwaite last year, arrived fo-day for 
another m-oose hunt with the accomplished woodsman. 
Messrs. L. G, Loomis and S. W. Hill, of Victor, N. Y.. 
left to-day for the Miramichi hunting grounds with Ed 
Church as guide. 
Messrs. H. M. Neale, of LTpper Lehigh, Pa., and John 
Neale, of Norwich, Conn., came in upon the Canada 
Eastern train this afternoon from a moose hunt on Cain's 
River. They had Chipman Bartlett, of Doaktown, as 
guide, captured a large moose and say that they will re- 
turn for another next year. 
Visiting sportsmen are not obliged to give a $100 bond 
as in former years. It is still in the law, but the Govern- 
ment is not enforcing it this year. 
All American sportsmen wishing to hunt in New 
Brunswick should buy the Forest and Stream's sporting 
map of this Province, It shows at a glance where the big 
game is to be found. Frank H. Rtsteen. 
rRBBBRiCTOls, N. B., Sept. 28. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST, 
The Mianesota Expeditioot 
Chicago, Sept. 22. — By the time this number of the 
Forest and Stream is in the hands of its readers there 
will have started from the city of Chicago, bound for 
northern Minnesota, the most remarkable expedition of 
discovery which has ever assailed the head waters of the 
Mississippi since the time of strong-legged Zebulon Pike. 
Honest Zebulon had somewhat the advantage of these 
modern explorers, though much of his journey lay 
through a land of wild rice, wild pine and wild Indians, 
and he had no railway to whisk him along. All Minne- 
sota was then a wilderness, and not even Zebulon could 
give a coherent account of all the features of the paradise- 
he had seen. To-day we have changed much of that. We 
have farmed and logged most of Minnesota. Yet this ex- 
pedition, which goes by rail directly into the country" 
which honest Zebulon penetrated on foot or by boat only 
after the utmost hardships, will present to the eyes of this 
expedition very much the same aspect that it did to the 
hardy early explorers. There are parts of the Cass Lake 
and Leech Lake region which are to-day primeval. The 
lumberman has not yet reached them, and not even the 
hunter and the fisher have yet made them common. The 
members of Congress going now to see in person the 
region to which an earlier Congress sent Lieut. Pike 
for the purpose of spying out the land, will observe it 
to-day as then, a goodly land to look upon. It is the 
earnest hope of very many men and very many States that; 
these members of Congress will set the seal of their ap- 
proval upon this region and keep it forever as it was. 
when Zebulon crossed it wearily by snowshoe and paddle., 
This is too glorious a part of America to throw away. 
The lumbermen want the pine and it has been fate that 
they should have it. The ways of commerce are not to be- 
denied. Yet it would not establish the lumbering inter- 
ests one whit further nor settle the question of supply 
one whit more definitely were the lumbermen to include 
this last million acres of land with the other hundreds of 
millions of land that they have denuded of the timber. 
We are all hoping that the lumbermen will say to each 
other, and that the Congressmen will say to the lumber- 
man: "Come, now, let us keep this last bit of the virgia 
forest as it was when the agent of the United States found 
it when he first went there and pulled down the flags of 
foreigners and put up over all the trading posts the Stars 
and Stripes! Let us leave this wilderness forever under 
the protection of the Stars and Stripes!" 
That this expedition will be a success is to-day a fore- 
gone conclusion. At g o'clock this morning there were 
thirty-six acceptances from Congressmen on hand at the 
office of the recording secretary. Col. Cooper. There 
were twenty-two States represented. A large number of 
Congressmen have not yet been heard from; indeed, but 
little more than a hundred replies have been received. It 
seems likely that there may be fifty Congressmen who 
will make the trip, and possibly this number may be ex- 
ceeded. Should there be only twenty-five or thirty there 
would be plenty to accomplish every purpose of the expe- 
dition. The acceptances come from pretty much all parts^ 
of the Union, from Vermont to Montana. The South is, 
also well represented, and there will be members fromi 
Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Mississippi, Maryland, 
North and South Carolina. In addition to the member^ 
of Congress there will be a limited number of men dis- 
tinguished in public affairs and scientific attainments,-) 
There will be a small number of newspaper men admitted,, 
and a few persons will go for the purpose of assisting in 
making the party comfortable for whatever stay they may 
make in camp. Out of courtesy to the Minnesota mem- 
bers of the association the Chicago delegation will be but 
small. Invitations are in the greatest demand, and the 
trouble is now rather that the party will be too large tham 
that it will be too small. 
There will be a general rodeo of Congressmen and. 
other members of the party in Chicago, Sept. 28. These* 
gentlemen will be the guests during Thursday of the Chi- 
cago Athletic Association, and in the evening the start 
will be made by special train over the Chicago, Burling- 
ton & Quincy Railroad to the city of St. Paul. The first 
stop after St. Paul will be made at Walker, Minn. On 
Sunday, Oct. i, the party will be on the shores of Leech 
_Lake._ They will be asked to take boats to a small island, 
in which island there is a beautiful little lake, which ha.s 
as yet received no name. On the shores of this lake amid 
surroundings impressive and beautiful, divine services will 
be held by Archbishop Ireland, of Minnesota. This pro- 
gramme ought hardly to be announced, as it has not been 
arranged fully, but it will be in process of carrying out, no 
doubt, at the time Forest and Stream for the. we-dc cur- 
rent is on the street. 
The early part of the first Aveek of October will be spent, 
it is hoped, by maiiy members of Congress in the sport 
of shooting and fishing, for which such grand opportunity 
will be at hand. Unless present intentions should be 
changed, the party will pass through the cities of Duluth 
and Grand Rapids without making any stop. It is con- 
ceded by both of these cities that the "compromise site' 
for the National Park will meet the approval of Congress 
and that the proposition wiU go through without any 
