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"That rfeport of special committee on clause No. i — 
harmonizing of laws of the Provinces and States — be de- 
ferred until next annual meeting of convention." 
Some regret was expressed that more progress was not 
made in this direction, but the general feeling was that 
much had been done to promote this desirable end, and 
that the question was so great as to need further study. 
Mr. C. H. Wilson moved, seconded by D. G. Smith: 
"That this Association form itself into a committee of 
the whole to promote membership and report to the joint 
secretaries whenever a member signifits his intention of 
joining." 
A committee was appointed to draft a constitution and 
by-laws for the new Association. All who attended the 
meeting wished to be entered as members, and they in- 
tend to get to W'Ork and bring in new members. Mr. W. 
H. Parker and Mr. Courier favored fixing a membership 
fee, but this question was left to the committee on the 
constitution and by-laws. 
As the business of the meeting was finished, a motion 
was made that Hon. S. N. Parent leave the chair. 
Mr. James Dickson, on the part of Ontario, moved a 
hearty vote of thanks to Hon. S. N. Parent for calling this 
meeting together, for the able manner in which he had 
presided, and for the hospitality and courtesy with which 
he had treated all present. 
Mr. J. McCrombie also added his tribute to the merits 
of the honorable president, 
Mr. D. G. Smith saw in this meeting a happy example 
of the haiTTiony which should reign among all races and 
creeds in this country and the neighboring republic, and 
heartily seconded the motion. 
Mr. J. W. Titcomb, on behalf of the Vermont delegates, 
wished to offer thanks to their chairman and other Cana- 
dian gentlemen for their kindness and courtesy in invit- 
ing representatives of the States and the hospitality ex- 
tended by the President since they arrived. 
Mr. John Fottler, Jr., of Boston, on behalf of his grand 
old State, wished to reiterate the sentiments expressed by 
the other speakers. 
Mr. C. H. Wilson, of Glen Falls, N. Y., said he had 
come as a Canadian clubman, but found himself resolved 
into, the sole representative of the Empire State. Next 
year he pledged a full representation. He sincerely agreed 
with all said in praise of the president. 
Mr. W. E. Davis, on behalf of the Grand Trunk, 
thanked the president for inviting the transportation com- 
panies. It would give them a new impetus, and they were 
ready to aid in the good work. 
Mr. C. E. E. Ussher, on behalf of the C. P. R., thought 
the work of this convention would be of great assistance 
to the railways by preserving important freights for many 
years. He thanked the president for inviting so many rep- 
resentatives to meet and discuss. 
Hon. A. T. Dunn, as a representative of New Bruns- 
wick, wished to thank the chairman for the opportunity af- 
forded of meeting so many gentlemen interested in the 
preservation of fish and game, and for the splendid hos- 
pitality extended to. all. 
Mr. E. T. D. Chambers paid a high tribute to the presi- 
dent, whom he knew as a man wlio respected not only 
the rights, but even the susceptibilities of all classes. The 
honorable gentlemen had also paid much attention to fish 
and game protection. ' 
The vote of thanks was passed amid the singing of "For 
He's a Jolly Good Fellow." 
Hon. S. N. Parent, on rising to reply, said he hardly 
knew what to say. He considered his thanks Avere due to 
the gentlemen present for leaving their occupations to ac- 
cept his invitation, and he considered they had done good 
work. He had done his best to make the meeting profita- 
ble and agreeable, and he was pleased to hear that they 
were satisfied. He wished to convey his thanks also to 
to the press, which had given them great assistance al- 
ready in making their work known to the public. The 
greatest work lay before them still, and he hoped to see 
them all again next year with many others. 
The meeting was adjourned until next winter, to meet 
on two weeks' notice from the President. The next meet- 
ing will also take place in Montreal. 
Before, parting, "God Save the Queen" wa.s sitttg^ bv 
the audience, as was also "The Star Spangled Banner." 
and the meeting dispersed with cheers for the president. 
Senator Telle/s Game Bill. 
We reprint the^text of Senator Teller's game bill. It 
has been read twice and referred to the Interstate Com- 
merce Committee: 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives of the United States of America in Congress as- 
sembled, that it shall be unlawful for any railroad com- 
pany, express company or other common carrier, or its 
officers, agents or servants, to receive for shipment, or 
for transportation, or for any person or corporation to 
ship or offer to any common carrier for shipment from 
any place within any of the States or Territories of the 
United States, or District of Columbia, to any place with- 
out.any of the States or Territories of the United States 
or District of Columbia, or to any foreign country, for 
sale, or for market, or for storage, any moose, elk, deer, 
buffalo, or venison, caribou, antelope, mountain sheep or 
mountain goats, or any parts thereof, or any wild turkeys, 
prairie chickens, or pinnated grouse, sage hens, Mongo- 
lian or ring-necked pheasants, grouse, pheasant or par- 
tridge, quail, wild goose, duck, swan, woodcock, snipe, 
rail-plovcr or other water fowl: Provided that nothing 
within contained should prohibit the shipment of any wild 
game, animal or birds or parts of the same, that may be 
especially authorized or permitted by the laws of the 
State in and from which the shipment is made, if the 
same is conspicuously labelled wild game, animals or 
parts of same, and the date and place of shipment, and 
the name, or names, of both the consignor and consignee, 
a copy of which should be kept on file by the common 
carrier at the place from which said wild game, animal, or 
birds, or parts of the same, are shipped. 
^Section 2, That any person, or corporation, guilty of 
violating the provisions of this section shall, upon con- 
viction, be punished as provided in Section 10 of the act 
to regulate interstate commerce, and the Interstate Com- 
merce Commission is hereby given jurisdiction in the 
matter of the transportation of game as in other matters 
j^ff^ting traiEt: between States. , , - 
Adirondack! Guides'fAssodation. 
Sabanac Lake, l^iTY^'Feh^S.—Eaitor Forest and 
Stream: _ The seventh annual convention of the Adiron- 
dack Guides' Association was held in this village last 
evening. The large hall was well filled with guides from 
nearly every portion of the Adirondack wilderness, while 
sportsmen representing many of the States of the Union 
were m the audience. Among the prominent speakers 
were Professor Moorhead, a sportsman of the old school, 
who has hunted much throughout the far West, in Maine 
and Canada, as well as in the Adirondacks; the Rev. 
Walter H. Larom, the Rev. Mr. Corkran, from Virginia. 
The meeting was called to order by President E. E. 
Sumner, and after the secretary's report was heard, letters 
from the honorary president, Mr. J. J. Broome, of New 
York, and Hon. Verplanck Colvin, of Albany, were read 
by Seaver A. Miller. The honorary president's letter was 
heartily applauded, and was as follows: 
"I sincerely regret that other engagements prevent my 
attendance at this season of the year, but I shall never 
cease (o be in full sympathy with your organization, and 
particularly interested in the special object of this meet- 
ing, when a general canvass of all matters pertaining to 
the interests of the guides and their prospects and wel- 
fare are to constitute the principal object of your com- 
ing together. 
"In taking a retrospect of the past year, we are led 
to a consideration of the efficacy of our legislation bear- 
ing upon the preservation of the forests, and the game 
and fish that heretofore have been, and even now (al- 
though not as they formerly existed), make up the 
fascination that has drawn the patronage and furnished 
the guide an opportunity to make his bread and meat, 
and provide for the maintenance and comfort of his house- 
hold. _ 
"While this is a matter for serious consideration to 
the guide, it strikes home with equal force to the 
sportsman in contrasting the conditions at present, and 
those existing a decade ago. The interests of the two 
are identical. The guide finds to a certain extent the 
fiald for his qualifications as to woodcraft, etc., has nar- 
fowed greatly on account of the apparent scarcity or 
remoteness of the game or the difficulty of running it 
down. The sportsman feels a disappointment in re- 
sults that were obtainable under more favorable condi- 
tions, and both are upon inquiry as to what can be done 
about it, and a remedy found satisfactory to all con- 
cerned. At this stage it might be well to recognize to 
what extent other diversions have entered as factors of 
mountain life in the Adirondacks. Mighty few of the 
guides but what have noticed and commented upon the 
inroad of other pastimes than hunting and fishing, which 
formerly filled in the whole vacation time. In certain 
localities they have relentlessly crowded out the neces- 
sary knowledge of woodcraft the guide possessed and 
depended upon to secure congenial and remunerative 
employment, a great portion of his time, and called into 
requisition a much lower grade of service which he 
can certainly render, but not with the same self-respect 
or sense of manhood. 
"It is not within the province of common sense to 
bewail this change of conditions, but all the same we 
cannot avoid a reference to therri ; especially in view of 
the fact that they have apparently come to stay, and we 
as every day men must confront the situation, and 
adapt ourselves to it and work out the best results we 
can, as to outlining the best methods to adopt in the" 
future and suggest what would meet the requirements 
and needs of those personally interested as guides ; 
frankly, I must say the present legislation does not 
supply the demand, and we are thrown back for further 
effort. To me and many others with whom I have 
conferred, the 'sense of your last meeting.' as embodied 
in the preamble and resolution offered by your worthy 
president, and unanimously adopted, would, if energetic- 
ally persisted in, bring about a more satisfactory state 
of things. 
"I am aware this involves time, tact and money, and 
as a nucleus of a fund to provide for the expense of 
repeating the efforts already made, I herewith inclose 
my contribution of one hundred dollars toward the ex- 
pense—if such a movement is started and carried on 
with good judgment, it seems to me, it must tell in time. 
"The allusion to further exhibits here in the coming 
spring, such as was made last year, is a most com- 
mendable one, and would reawaken and help maintain the 
interest of a large proportion of the great number who 
attended the last demonstration of that kind. 
"It is evident the great need in carrying out these 
two projects is an adequate sum of money, and I 
would recommend an appeal to the generosity of your as- 
sociate members or honorary trustees, for their contribu- 
tions to help the cause along. There are able men 
am.ong them, and a small sum from each one would pro- 
vide such an amount that would go far in defraying the 
expenses of competent and economical men intrusted with 
the task of making it their business to see that your 
resources in that way were worked to the best ad- 
vantage. 
"With sincerest wishes for your prosperity and wel- 
fare, and regretting my inability to join you at this 
meeting, very truly yours, 
"J. J. Broome." 
Hon. Verplanck Colvin's letter was then read. Mr. 
Colvin assisted in organizing this association, and was 
the honorary president from the time of its inception 
until last year. 
"I do not know that I can add any suggestions, or 
offer any advice, in addition to the views already ad- 
dressed to the Association in former letters on similar 
occasions. The old guides, so many of whom were with 
me in my first explorations of the remote sections of 
the wilderness over a quarter of a century ago, are nearly 
all gone — many of them upon that long journey which all 
must take — into a country from which none has yet re- 
turned. Those strong woodsmen, quick and vigorous, 
keen-eyed for the track of deer, bear or panther, quick- 
sighted for the rifie shots that brought bird or beast 
to earth— have most of them passed away. Civilization 
has thrown lines of railroads and highways across the 
wildest parts of the wilderness: and the whistle of the 
steam.boat takes the place of the cry of the loon, the 
feonk of the wild goose or tlie tiotes oi the trumpeter 
swan upon the lakes. Far up, close to the timber line,, 
among the highest mountains, the lumberman's axe has 
felled the forest in so many places— and fire has so 
often swept afterward, destroying the very soil, that! 
many of what were once the most beautiful sections of 
t'ne forest are now tangled wastes of brush and dead 
wood — save where the State has held, in true preserva-. 
tion, great sections, or private clubs have inclosed pre- 
serves. These private parks are not open to the public. 
The ancient trails and Avaterways, which were in use 
by the Indian natives, and since by whites — from a time 
to which no man's memory runs — are now no longer 
thoroughfares, but are closed alike to guide and traveler, 
so that many of your number have wandered forth — like 
the ancient huntsman from Kentucky — westward into 
wilder lands. 
"Some of the old guides went long since to the forests, 
of the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific slopes. Many a' 
grizzly or cinnamon of the snowy range has fallen 
before their deadly rifles. On the desert plains of the. 
far West the 'bones of some of the old guides may be 
found with tLose of the bison; both fallen before Indian, 
arrows. Others, I know, are ranchers of Colorado or 
New Mexico, or hunters still among the giant redwood 
trees ,of Oregon. Others have killed big game amid 
the ice and snows of Alaska — or have frozen beside the I 
golden pebbles of its glacier brooks. They were brave 
men ; men who fought their way to the front of civiliza- 
tion and with their rifles and their axes compelled 
obedience to a high command. Theirs was the privilege 
of being first everywhere. Theirs it was to see the 
secrets of the forests and mountains and to tell of their 
discoveries. They were the advance guards of the pres- 
ent great array— once so few. They took every hazard.] 
every risk, dared every danger and conquered every j 
difficulty. If savages opposed, they swept them away, j 
If the forests had no paths, they made them. If rivers 
and lakes hindered, they built their own boats and went ' 
onward. Summer's heat did not stay them, or winter's 
cold stop them. Such were the pioneers; your an-* 
cestors ; men of whom the nation has a right to be proud 
— ancestors whom you should honor. Throughout the 
vast forests of this Commonwealth they laid the founda- 
tion of the present empire. That is a woi'd to conjure 
with ; and there is an incantation in words, to those who ' 
understand them and take them into their souls; in ■ 
true, profound meanings. The empire built by your an- 1 
cestors was not— is not — a top; they made no play I 
ground, they built no marble palaces, but they cleared 
farms, built homes and toiled like honest mm for honest 
livings. This is something to be proud of; especially to- 
day, when the leaders of England's army cry aloud 
against the degenerate men who have wasted their lives 
m social follies and now, in the day of need and trial, are 
found wanting; wanting in true manhood— that com- 
bination of intellectual and physical strength which is 
the evidence of virility and worthiness. 
"Be proud that you are the sons of guides; the pioneers 
of civilization and founders of this greatest nation which 
the earth has so far seen. Beware that yon envy not— 
imitate not the luxury of weaklings; the vices of the - 
worthless. Choose high aims; difficult marksmanship, 
which is worthy of you. Remember that stern courage 
and hard work alone, has won for this great nation the 
blessings it possesses, and honor work and workers as 
you do your parents. Be missionaries for good as op- 
portunity offers; preserve the forests; preserve the game; 
take no life of even the -humblest beast needlessly; let 
the forests teem with beasts and birds, and the streams 
and lakes with fish— unless you need them then and there 
for food, and remember that you are the pioneers, or 
children of pioneers; the founders of the State, that your 
descendants may proudly say, 'My father was a guide'— 
one of those from which the fanner, lumberman, lawyer 
and preacher of the present day descended — a founder 
of the United States." 
The Rev. Mr. Larom made an exceptionally strong 
speech, which was applauded fre'quently. He asked them 
to be absolutely loyal to the laws of the State, to their 
organization and to each other. He thought they should 
have an influence in the making of fish and game laws, 
and that the game wardens should be appointed from 
the membership of the Association — good, honorable, 
competent guide's and woodsmen, and not, as is now the 
case in some portions of the mountains, men who scarce- 
ly know a "salt lick from a lily pad." Mr. Larom was. 
followed by the Rev. Mr. Corkran, late of Virginia, who 
was in turn succeeded by Professor Moorhead. Mr. 
Moorhead told some interesting experiences of his in 
different portions of the country, as a sportsman. He 
said he loved to be upon the track of deer and fox; to 
tramp through the forests; to cast his flies over the rapid 
waters for speckled trout or troll the lakes for larger 
ones, and then to sit around the blazing camp-fire at : 
night, telling stories and enjoying his pipe with the 
guides. He said he had little patience with a man who 
came to a hotel with seven or eight packed trunks, and 
played golf and lawn tennis. Mr. Moorhead spoke about 
twenty minutes, and his remarks were thoroughly en- 
joyed and appreciated. 
The secretary's report was as follows: 
To the Members of the Adirondack Guides' Association. 
Gentlemen: As secretary of this organization, I re- 
spectfully report that, owing to various causes, the mem- 
bership, both active and associate, has materially de- 
creased during the past year. One of the causes is 
the difference of opinion which prevails in the different 
localities in regard to the method of hunting deer. In 
some sections hounding is denounced most emphatically, 
while in others it is advocated for thirty or sixty days, 
and in others yet, it is argued that the sportsmen and 
hunter should be permitted to hunt deer during certain 
portions of the year in any manner he chooses, with 
certain restrictions. This question undoubtedly has had 
the strongest influence in disuniting the guides of the 
Adirondack wilderness. 
Another reason is that on account of bad roads and 
heavy hotel and traveling expenses, it has been im- 
possible for all the locahties to be fairly represented at 
the annual meetings, the far-away branches feeling that 
their views are disregarded and voted down by the 
members who can with little difficulty and expense, at- 
tend the annual conventions. All these things combined 
have resulted in the -wdthdrawal from the organization 
of several of the branches, so that oow it can ssarcsly. 
