Oct. -j, 1899 ] 
The! Start^West,, 
The start West was made at 6:25 yesterday evening. 
Mr. P. S. Eustis, General Passenger Agent of the Chi- 
cago, Burlington & Qftincy road, had provided with royal 
hospitality, free of charge, one of the most beautiful trains 
ever pulled out over that splendid road. There were four 
cars, sleepers, buffet car, etc., etc., all lighted by elec- 
tricity, and each an edition de luxe of the highest railroad 
art. Mr. Eustis himself went with the parti^ and the 
best of care was taken of everj^body in every respect. 
Mr. T. P. Shouts, president of the Indiana, Illinois & 
Iowa road, was master of transportation for the party, 
and all the details of baggage, etc., went on without a 
hitch. Nobody was left, and everybody had his dunnage 
on board when the smart special rolled out of the Chicago 
union station. 
Personnel of the Party, 
After the start was made, and after Col. Cooper had 
been reduced to a state of semi-tranquillity, a general 
count of noses was made and the personnel of the party 
was discovered to be as below: Hon. Jos. G. Cannon, 
of DauAdlle, 111.; Hon. James R. Mann, of Chicago; 
Hon. J. D. Bowersock, Kansas; Hon. Oscar Turner, 
Louisville, Ky.; Hon. Roswell P. Bishop, Ludingcon, 
Mich.; Hon. j. W. Fordney, Saginaw, Mich.; Hon. Wm. 
S. Mesick, of Mancelona, Mich.; Hon. James A. Tawney, 
of Winona, Minn.; Hon. Chas. F. Cochran, of St. 
Joseph, Mo,; Hon. John M. x\llen, Tupelo. Miss,; Hon. 
Frank G. Clark, of Peterboro, New Hampshire; Hon. 
Fremont O. Phillips, Medina, O.; Hon. Athelston Gas- 
ton, Meadville, Pa.; Hon. Wm. IT. Graham, Allegheny, 
Pa.; Hon. Theobold Otjen, Milwaukee, Wis.; Hon. James 
H. Davidson, Oshkosh, Wis. A number of Members of 
Congress will join the party at St. Paul. The following 
are other members of the party, and complete the entire 
' i:st of those actually present upon the train: 
W. F. Snyder, W. H. Synder, Sidney L. Wright, 
Eugene S. Pike, H. C. Robinson, Fred N, Stephenson, 
C. L. Bailej', R. P. Bishop, George A. Schilling, Henry 
White. Elbert Hubbard, H. P. Williams, Everett Sisson, 
J. A. Campbell, Theo. P. Shonts, Henry O. Fitch, L. W. 
Pitcher, Col. John S. Cooper, P. S. Eustis, .D. K. Clink, 
John E. Williams, Dr. C. A. Schenck; K. T. Harris, 
Record; F. N. Wood, Tribune; John S. Spargo, Times- 
Herald; E. Hough, Forest? and Stream. 
Eo Route. 
The evening — and indeed one might add part of_ the 
I morning — en route on the Burlington, was spent by the 
\ party in very pleasant fashion. It was an easily dis- 
I coverable fact that the great North American Congress- 
man is not only a splendid fellow, but also a splendid 
story-teller. It was no ordinary assemblage of minds 
\ which met on this train, and it was very much a privilege 
to be present. When the entire party is evidently out for 
pleasure, and no one is above a laugh and a joke, there 
is no triviality or flippancy in the general tone, and one 
.may hear a great many things he is apt to remember. 
One of the best story-tellers of Congress is Hon. John 
M. Allen, of Mississippi, otherwise known as "private 
Allen," who in his long career in public life has never 
been known to be without a story, nor ever been known 
to repeat himself. The venerable Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, 
' is one of the most respected members of the party. Hon 
Athelston Gaston, of Pennsylvania, is another gentleman 
well on in years. Hon. Chas. F. Cochran, , of St. Joseph, 
Mo., may be called a Westerner or a Southerner, as you 
like, for he was born in Missouri and has spent his life 
in the West. Mr. Cochran saw Kansas in the "bleeding" 
days, and needs no one to tell him about the Western 
frontier. Mr. Cochran was formerly a newspaper man, 
and by this reason alone might be called not only great, 
but good. Minnesota is not new for him, for he has 
fished all of Iowa and Minnesota, including Spirit Lake 
in Iowa, the Alexandria chain in Minnesota, etc., etc. 
He is a shooter as well as fisher, a man of experience 
in the better sporting regions of the West. To show 
the stuff of which sportsmen are sometimes made, I 
might cite one instance in Mr. Cochran's life. He was 
thrown from a buggy at one time, far out in a prairie 
country, and distant from any surgical help. His leg 
was fractured in three dififerent places, and the spUntered 
Ijone protruded through the flesh, plowing into the 
ground where he fell. Mr. Cochran called for some 
water, sat up, and himself washed the ends of the bone 
clean, occupying himself in this way for fifteen minutes 
until he could be put into a wagon. Four times the doc- 
tors made ready to amputate the limb, but his own first 
aid to the injured had been so efficient that the wound 
healed, the limb was saved, and is to-day nearly as good 
' as new. 
Dr. C. A. Schenck, supervisor of the Vanderbilt forests, 
of Biltmore, North Carolina, is an interesting character. 
A German of fine family and of finished scientific educa- 
tion, he is by instinct and education not only a sports- 
man, but a lover of the woods for their own sake. As we 
strolled about the rooms of the Athletic Club in Chicago 
yesterday. Dr. Schenck would run his hand lovingly up 
and down the great oak panels, looking with absolute 
love upon the great planks of oak in the wainscoting. 
"T have told Mr. Vanderbilt," he said, "to use all the 
hardwood he could in his house, and to have all the 
carving done that he could. You Americans do not know 
how priceless is this wood, which you waste. In twenty 
years you will not be able to cut any sucTi great slabs 
of wood as you see here. Your forests are passing away. 
In fifty years these panels, these carvings will have a 
priceless value." In person. Dr. Schenck is tall and 
slender, with European polish of manner and an open 
afltability which is cosmopolitan. The party has a little 
fan vnth him now and then, because the l3octor thinks 
we ought to have a monarchial form of government here, 
where everything else is so nearly quite what it ought 
to be. 
Col. Cooper and his friend Mr. Henry Fitch, of Chi- 
cago, kept an interested crowd convulsed with stoi-y- 
telling untU a most disreputable hour this morning. I am 
quite sure that we should all be there yet liad not the 
chief actors grown too hoarse to talk. The actual boms 
of rest were somewhat brief, for the BurlinjTton special 
made no stops, and we ran into St. V^vX about T o'clock 
this morning. _ 1 _ 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
Atist. Paul. <^ r::r 
The party was met at the train by a large reception 
committee of St. Paul gentlemen, who went into charge 
with pleasant authority. The Merchants' Hotel was 
made headquarters, and after breakfast the reception corn- 
mittee took out all the visitors for a carriage tour of this 
beautiful city. There is a touch of fall in the air here in 
St. Paul, but the clear, cool atmosphere is like v«ne in its 
efifect. This Minnesota country is a healthy land. It is 
a land of reserved power. The men here are hearty and 
strong looking, and you feel that they are able to accom- 
plish, and accomplish without strain or efliort. Of all 
cities in America, Chicago is the highest geared. Busi- 
ness life there goes on at higher pressure than it does at 
any point in the world. The streets of Chicago are filled 
with men hurrying, almost running, and their faces are 
strained, anxious, nervous. Here in St. Paul the streets 
are not so full; the men do not gallop, their faces do not 
look troubled. Yet as you meet them you feel sure that 
if they have not arrived" they will do so. As to St. Paul 
itself, it has arrived distinctily. 
This afternoon the Congressional party will be enter- 
tained in divers fashions. Among the features of the 
dajr will be a visit to the quarters of the Women's Federa- 
tion, to which organization there must be given credit for 
the actual inception of the movement for a Minnesota 
forest reserve. It was something like ten years ago that 
the Federation of Women's Clubs of Minnesota filed 
their petition for such a reserve in the State of Minnesota. 
More rapidly than they dreamed there has grown the 
necessity for some such great playground and health- 
ground in our middle Western country. The best place 
for such a reserve — indeed the only place for such a re- 
serve, unless we go into the abandoned and ruined 
pineries which the loggers have left behind them — is this 
region around Cass and Leech lakes. Now we are 
going up there to look at that country. I doubt not it 
will seem very beautiful to all who see it. Let us all 
hope that something may be done which will keep it 
forever beautiful, unhurt, unspoiled. 
There will be a banquet here in St. Paul extended to 
the party this evening, and it seems likely that more 
than one hundred persons will be seated at table. Here 
we shall see the great North American Congressman in 
a different Ught, and one in which he shows to ad- 
vantage, not only at table, but after table, and on his 
feet. 
It is the intention to keep everything as informal as 
possible, and to cling closely to the idea rather of a pleas- 
ure expedition than of a public function. After the 
banquet the party will start north, at about midnight, and 
will reach Walker to-morrow morning. 
Air. F. I. Whitney, General Passenger Agent of the 
Great Northern Railway, will in his turn take charge in 
person of the special train which will carry the party north 
over the Great Northern. He tells me that there will be 
at least thirty or forty additions to the party at this city. 
We should reach the lake country something like seventy- 
five strong. This will mean that the expedition will not 
be unwieldy, and will yet be large enough to be success- 
ful. 
Boats. 
Word has been received from Mr. H. G. McCartney, 
advance agent of the expedition, now at Cass Lake, 
stating that twenty-five or thirty boats can be obtained, 
The largest steamer on that lake cannot run up the 
Turtle River, but the smaller can. There will be oarsmen 
enough to take out all the boats. Mr. L. W. Pitcher, of 
the camp committee, says that all the supplies are now on 
the ground at Walker. 
The Weather. 
One very important factor in the pleasure of this ex- 
pedition will be of course the condition of the weather. 
To-day at St. Paul the sun is shining brightly and the 
weather may be called simply delightful for the purposes 
of this trip. Mr. McCartney wires that there was 2in. 
of snow at Cass. Lake yesterday, but this blizzard which 
crossed Dakota and Minnesota earlier this week has now 
passed on rapidly to the east. It is very likely that by the 
time we reach Walker the weather conditions will be all 
that can be asked. 
Plans at "Walker. 
Among the plans for the entertainment of the party 
will be a gathering of the population, white and red,_ at 
Walker to-morrow. There will be outdoor festivities, 
Indian dances, etc.. etc., and it is certain everything will 
gp merry as several marriage bells. 
From Duluth. 
The party is joined at St. Paid this morning by Hon. 
Page Morris and Mr. Gilbert Hartley, of Duluth, two of 
the most formidable enemies which this forest reserve 
enterprise has had. The general impression is that we 
have taken both these gentlemen into camp; and whether 
we have done that or not. they are both pleasant 
eiiongh to take into the car and to classify as very 
worlby members of the expedition. At present it is 
thought there will be no stop made at Duluth or at 
Grand Rap^id?. 
Friends of the Eoterprisc. 
At the last moment there came,_ of course, word from 
several gentlemen who had earlier signified their ac- 
ceptance of the invitation, stating that urgent business 
prevented their attending. Forest and Stream in an 
earlier issue printed the names of a few gentlemen who 
had accepted their invitations. 
The Afternoon in St. Paul. 
During the afternoon at St. Paul, the Commercial Club 
took the entire party in charge and entertained them roy- 
r.lly. The spacious club rooms were thrown open for a 
reception at 2 P. M., and the ladies of the Century Club, 
the Women's Federation and the Civic League acted as 
hostesses. A number of addresses were made by ladies 
prominent in these organizations, and here was had a 
history of the very earliest movement for this forest 
reserve. Suitable responses were tnade by members of 
the touring party, and adjournment was had late in the 
afternoon. Many of the parties scattered about the Twin 
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Cities, and some visited Fort Snelling ami other pointi; 
of interest. 
The Banquet at St. Paul. 
At the banquet this evening at the Merchants' Hotel 
St. Paul, over 150 persons sat at table, many of the 
most prominent men of the Northwest being present. 
The occasion was rather informal, as first planned- There 
is no better test of public opinion than the drift of 
thought on an occasion like this. It would appear that 
the adverse elements have been largely reconciled. Even 
Duluth, mollified by the concessions ofifered in the com- 
promise site for the National Park, is essaying to clamber 
into the band wagon, which seems to be attaining an 
ominous and omnibus size. 
At mid-banquet Mr. George Schrieber, of St. Paul, 
rose and proposed a toast to Admiral Dewey, which was 
drunk standing and with riotous applause. 
Judge J. C. Flandreau, of St. Paul, was in the chair 
this evening, and he proposed the toasts most felicitously. 
Among others who responded were the following; Hon. 
Jos. G. Cannon, Illinois; Hon. John Allen ("Private John 
Allen," of Mississippi) ; Hon. C. F. Cochran, of Missouri; 
Alderman Henrv S. Fitch, of Chicago; Hon. John S. 
Cooper; Emerson Hough, of Chicago, representing the 
Forest and Stream; Congressman James R. Mann, of 
Chicago, and Frank G. Clark, of New Hampshire; Henry 
White, of New York, and George A. Schilling, represent- 
ing the Knights of Labor; Rt. Rev. Archbishop Ireland 
and Rt. Rev. Bishop Gilbert, of St. Paul; Governor 
John Lind, of Minnesota; Mayor A. R. Kiefer, of St. 
Paul; Congressman Fred C. Stevens; Judge Page Moms 
and Judge Walter Sanborn, of the Court of Appeals. 
Paddy Doran, of Duluth, a tenor of fine timbre, sang 
patriotic airs. Mr. Cannon spoke of Minnesota as the 
"ideal commonwealth." Archbishop Ireland, of St. Paul, 
made an eloquent addi-ess, instancing the greatness of 
America in all ways of world-thought. Mr. John M. 
Allen, of Mississippi, was received with tumultuous ap- 
plause, and made a witty and characteristic address; 
Hon. C. F. Cochran, of St. Joseph, Mo., spoke on the 
American habit of wastefulness of resources, and the vast 
change. Mr. George A. Schilling, of the Knights of 
Labor, was introduced as an able controverter of the 
erroneous first impression that the movement for a forest 
reserve in Minnesota was a rich man's movement, and 
not one in which the poor man had had any part. He 
spoke on governmental and labor problems. Col. John 
S. Cooper, of Chicago, was given an ovation, and spoke 
cloquentlv of the origin of the reserve and its develop- 
ment. He said that the Members of Congress came here 
with free minds. He would ask nothing of them.' He 
was glad the party was here to see for itself. It was not 
the intention to injure any private interests. 
Gov. John Lind, of Minnesota, expressed his confidence 
in the success of the enterprise in all good ways. He ap- 
proved a modest beginning, but a large eye for the 
future, and hoped to see eventually a large reserve. In 
this same country he had seen many deer, had caught 
many fish. He wished the party equal success. Gov. 
Lind's address closed the addresses of the evening and 
the hospitality of St. Paul, with sixteen minutes left to 
catch the train, northbound special, aver the Great North- 
ern. . . . 
At 11:38 o'clock the special tram, consisting of five 
sleepers, two dining cars and one buffet and baggage car, 
left over the Northern Central for Walker, where to- 
morrow night members of the expedition will be enter- 
tained bv a banquet. 
Sunday and Sunday night will be spent at Walker, ^and 
on Monday morning the expedition will arrive at Cass 
Lake, where a unique entertainment is in store for the 
visitors. The Pillager Indians, who a year ago rebelled 
against the authority of the Government and caused a 
miniature Indian war, will entertain the members of the 
expedition with war dances, scalp dances and a general 
powwow. Hough. 
New Brunswick Notes. 
Fredeeicton, N. B., Sept. 30. — A favorite camping 
site for sportsmen who tarry at Fredericton on their way 
to the big woods is the Barker House, one of the lead- 
ing hotels of the Province. Mr. Coleman, the proprieto!. 
is a man of imposing appearance and unique personality. 
Both Mr. Coleman and his hotel, however, are over- 
shadowed and relegated to the' rear in public esteem by 
a huge frog, which has been Mr. Coleman's playmate 
for the past twelve years. The frog was discovered at 
Lake Killarney, Mr. Coleman's summer residence, in 
the year 1S87. It is alleged to have then weighed gibs. 
Mr. Coleman then began to train the frog to respond tc 
his call, and by feeding him a mysterious cornmeal mix- 
ture from a pail with a shovel is said to have fattened the 
frog until he reached the phenomenal weight of 42lb.s. 
Strangers came from far and near to see so great a prod- 
igy. Mr. Coleman had completed all arrangemenfs 
for shipping the giant frog to the Paris Exposition, when 
the huge batrachian was found one day this summer float- 
ing wrong side up in the lake. The hide of the animal 
was removed at once and expressed to Mr. Crosby, of 
Bangor, by whom it was mounted in a most lifelike man- 
ner and returned to Mr. Coleman. A bewildered sports- 
man, who arrived on a late train the other evening, was 
set upon by half a dozen stalwart coachmen, who shouted 
at him the names of the various houses they represented. 
"Gentlemen," said the stranger blandly, "I don't know 
one hotel from, another; take me to the man that has the 
big frog!" 
Just three days' hunting in the Canaan country en- 
abled Dr. J. G. Van Vechten, the genial coroner of 
Oneonta, N. Y., to make the acquaintance of the biggest 
moose that has been seen in that region for some years. 
The Doctor, being licensed to officiate as coroner in the 
moose woods of this Province, at once proceeded to hold 
an inquest. By means of a timely combination of Jim 
Paul's birch horn and a .4.S-70 rifle the Doctor was able 
to ascertain that the antlers of the moose contained eight- 
een points and measured just S2in. across. It has al- 
ways been the proud boast of Jim that he could call a 
moose "half a mile furder ofif" than anj'body else. In 
this declaration he would seem to be quite justified, for 
the Doctor relates that this moose was so far away that 
