Feb. 24, ipooiT 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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tog-ether to see if I am correct. Here is an extract: 
"While the quantity is increased in the finer over last 
season, the reduced amount of the heavier grades more 
than counterbalances it; and, as I have had to repeat now 
for several j'ears, the supply of very fine trout gut and 
the heaviest salmon gut will not meet half the demand. 
* * * It is therefore by no means improbable that as 
the season advances an increase in prices may take 
place." There is also a warning that care will have to 
be exercised in making selection of gut, because of a 
considerable admixture of inferior qualities. There is 
comparatively little of the very fine gut used in this 
country, such gut as is most common in England, and, of 
course, there is not great demand over here for the 
thickest salmon gut, because there is so little salmon fish- 
ing. In spite of the annual report of the gut crop_ which 
always seems to report about the same condition of 
affairs in the gut trade, the anglers of this country get 
about the same gut each year for about the same price. 
Salmon gut is always very high and scarce, and never, in 
my experience, of the very high quality to be obtained in 
England or Scotland, and the ordinary grades cheap 
enough and plentiful enough, with so little demand for 
the very fair natural gut. and not at all for the drawn 
gut, that the price, quantity, produce or the quality makes 
very httle difference to American anglers. 
A. N. Cheney. 
The Lattfentian Club* 
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Lauren- 
tian Club was held on Feb. 10 at the Windsor Hotel, 
Montreal. 
The report of Mr. William H. Parker, the managing 
director, showed that the past year was one of the most 
successfttl, in the attendance of members and financially, 
in the history of the club, now in the fifteenth year of its 
incorporation. 
Mr. Parker's report was of general interest in showing 
the success attained in the transplanting large, square- 
tailed, speckled trout from one lake to another system 
of lakes hitherto without trout. 
The fish were taken by guides in the autumn from their 
natural habitat, Lac Fou, a secluded, rarely visited lake 
in the forest, where they abounded, and deposited in_ a 
few hours in their new home. Lac Edouard and Lac Foin, 
both apparently adapted to trout life and reproduction, but 
which nature had mysteriously ignored when the original 
fish distribution took place in the Laurential waters. 
The transfer of the trout was made about four years 
ago, and Mr. Parker states in his report that one hundred 
or more trout, running from to pounds, were 
taken from Lac Edouard the past season. Mr. Parker 
might have added as matter of fact that these trout were 
only fished for experimentally.'^ for the purpose of ascer- 
taining the result of the planting. 
His report also states that red deer are gradually in- 
creasing in the club territory. It is a curious fact that 
until within a very few years red deer have been virtu- 
ally unknown in that section of Canada. 
jean Pierre McGill, a well-known Indian guide and 
trapper, a man of superior intelligence, who was my 
guide for several summers, and whose recent decease is 
deplored by many a sportsman, stated to me that he was 
once on a special service for the Hudson Bay Company 
to the Indians in that country to induce them to bring 
their furs to the company's post for sale, that while on 
that service he talked with some of the old Indians about 
red deer, and they told him there was no tradition among 
them of the existence of zny red deer in that country, nor 
could they give any sufficient reason for their absence. 
Moose and caribou have always been, and continue to 
be, denizens of the forests there, and the red deer are 
plentiful in the adjoining Ontario, and also south of the 
St. Lawrence River. J. W. H. 
New YoitK, Feb. 14. 
Fred Mati r. 
New York. — Editor Forest and Stream: I am very sad 
to-night, for I have just seen the report of the death of 
Eko-Kay, Major Fred Mather, at Lake Nebagomain, Wis. 
There were many traits of character, and especiallj' our 
early experiences that bound us together as closely as 
brothers. He was a lover of wild life in all its various 
phases, could build a comfortable camp, drop a deer or 
lure a fontinalis equal to any, and he knew how to pre- 
pare them to perfection by the camp-fire. I say our ex- 
periences were singularly alike, for while he was knocking 
around in Bad Axe county, now Vernam county, Wis., 
laying the foundation for much of that wood lore that he 
could and did so well and graphically depict in Forest and 
Stream, I was building deadfalls for martin and mink 
away up on the headwaters of the Black River in the same 
State. 
We did not know that then, but we have often compared 
notes since. Last year toward the close of the Sports- 
men's Exposition, we shook hands (he' was then hold- 
ing in his mind his western trip), and agreed to meet at 
the fish department of the exposition the present year. 
But if I am there I shall be alone, and I shall miss his 
cheery voice and quaint humor. He had a rich vein of 
it, and it was always harmless, a keen appreciation of 
the grotesque, \ovcd a good story and could tell one, and 
tell it well, and he had bags full, and was an astonishing 
delineator of character, as seen so often in his "Men I 
Have Fished With." I think his article on Chas. Ray- 
mond was very felicitious. and so true to the life. 
His work as a fishculturist, to which he devoted his later 
years, attracted attention and gave him a front rank 
among the ichthyologists of the country and the world, as 
the compliments bestowed at Berlin will amply show. But 
other and abler heads will do justice to his many virtues 
and nobility of character. He has left us, and another of 
the distinguished contributors who have made Forest and 
Stream what it is to-day — the foremost -sportsman's ex- 
ponent of the world — has gone to the long list of departed 
sportsmen ; and I have bidden a long farewell to a dear 
friend. 
Good-bv, Ego- Kay I Th?re are but a few like yoa left 
The New York Protector Service. 
In reply to the fantastic statements put out by the 
ofticials of the League of American Sportsmen, Chief 
Protector Pond writes to the New York Sun as quoted 
below. If the League officers made those misrepresenta- 
tions, Major Pond is quite right in exposing their un- 
truth; he owes it to himself and to his force. There is, 
however, in these wild assertions of the League's "war- 
den" nothing so grotesque as some of the impudent mis- 
statements indorsed in a recent official annual report of 
the League's president: 
To the Editor of the Sun: Sir. — In your issue of Feb. 
15 you give a report of the second annual meeting of the 
League of American Sportsmen, which was held in New 
York city Feb. 14, If the report of the proceedings, as 
published by you, was a fair one, Mr. A. E. Pond, the 
league's chief warden in this State, is either densely ig- 
norant of the matters he speaks of, or else willing to 
misrepresent. 
In his statement he says that the game wardens of the 
State receive $1,200 per year and mileage. There is no 
such office in this state as game warden. We have a num- 
ber of fire wardens in the x\dirondack districts, but in- 
stead of their being paid $1,200 per year they are paid 
$2.50 per day while actually on duty at a forest fire or in 
connection with the prevention of fires, and their bills are 
audited and paid by the town where they reside, and a 
rebate of one-half of such bil's is afterward refunded to 
the town by the State. 
The fish and game protectors and Foresters of this 
State are paid $500 per year, and they are allowed travel- 
ing expenses not to exceed $450 per year. 
The assertion of the League's warden that one member 
of the Forest Commission is a lumber dealer, who cuts 
600,000 feet of spruce annually, is simply untrue. 
His assertion that any member of the Commission has 
a brother in the Legislature is also unfounded. 
His statement that he knows of a game warden who is 
drawing his $1,200 a year and mileage, who deliberately 
got out of the way that a friend of his might hunt with 
dogs is also false. There was one of the protectors in 
Hamilton county who had been receiving a salary of $500 
per year, who was charged with this offense, and as soon 
as the charges were filed, on Oct. 26, the protector was 
suspended, and on proof of the charges being produced 
the protector was dismissed from the force. His dismissal 
took effect on Nov. 15. 
In regard to the statement that the protectors and for- 
esters failed to perform their duties, I can only refer to the 
report of this department for the last fiscal year. This re- 
port shows, according to the sworn statement of the pro- 
tectors, that 1,708 nets and illegal devices, valued at $17,- 
168, were seized and destroyed by them; that 328 persons 
were prosecuted for violations of the law during the year, 
resulting in the conviction of 305 persons and the imposi- 
tions of fines and costs to the amount of $9,539.28. of 
wliich $8,148.47 was collected and has been turned into 
the State treasury. The balance, $1,390.71, was disbursed 
to attorneys, justices, constables in cases where recov- 
ery was had and fees deducted before remitting to the de- 
partment. These figures speak for themselves. 
As to the efficiency of fish and game protectors, the 
statement of Mr. Pond that the League warden in Essex 
county had arrested nine men for killing game out of sea- 
son, who were convicted and fined $545, is, I believe, ab- 
solutely unfounded, as all justices are bound by law to 
report such cases and turn over money so collected to this 
department. But no money has been received and no 
information whatever has been given to this department 
of any such cases. The State protector in Essex county, 
however, F. S. Beede, has prosecuted several cases since 
Nov. I. and has secured judgment amounting to $655, of 
which $543.10 has been turned into the State treasury, and 
$111.90 is in a judgment pending an appeal. 
I cannot believe that the gentlemen who are members 
of the League of American Sportsmen would intentionally 
say or publish anything that would be unjust or unfair to 
this department or to any of its employees; but it is tv\- 
dent to me that the League has been imposed upon, 
J. Warren Pond, 
Chief Fish and Game Protector. 
Balloons, Kites and Ligfhts {or the Lost* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Much has been written about getting lost in the woods, 
and many ways of extricating oneself from such a pre- 
dicament have been advocated. Now, I was lost a few 
hours in the Maine woods in December, and there is no 
fun in it. 
Mr, Charles Hallock, whose wide experience in camp- 
ing entitles him to a place in the front rank when he 
speaks on things connected with camping, says : "Make 
a smoke," and this is sound advice. But in the case of 
those permanent camps which are patronized by many 
sportsmen, it would seem there should be little need of 
getting lost. 
Mr. Hallock rightly says' that one is apt to misjudge 
distance in the woods, and think he is further from 
camp than he really is. Therefore, if each permanent 
camp was provided with a large box kite, or small bal- 
loon, to be flown 1,000 feet in the air, that camp could be 
located from a tree top for miles. Then, colored lanterns 
could be attached at night, or rockets sent up at camp 
could guide the lost one home. Such signs should guide 
the Nimrod, as the lighthouse guides the marines, pro- 
vided there is no fog or the weather too thick. 
W. H. Avis. 
New England Fishing, 
Boston, Feb. 17. — Ice fishing has been almost entirely 
suspended lately, first by the deep snows that fell in 
northern New England a couple of weeks ago, and later 
by the rain and freshets in many sections. All the Maine 
and New Hamnshire ponds and streams have been swollen 
to freshet pitch this week, while the larger lakes in both 
States have been greatly raised. This has kept the ice 
fishermen at home. Fishing parties had been planned 
here for the present week, but were given up. Later the 
fishermen may go to Winnipesaukee, and some of the 
ponds in New Hampshire. A fishing excursion is planned 
for Newfotiod Lake some time this spring, and Don Hole 
Pond is also mentioned. According to the Maine papers, 
the Commissioners of that State have lately opened sev- 
eral ponds to ice fishing that have been closed, either by 
direct statute, or edict of the Commission. Among them 
may be noted Harmony Lake, with several ponds in that 
vicinity. Fishing through the ice on Sabatis Laki' and 
the ponds in that section, is popular with Lewiston and 
Auburn fishermen. The other day a party of four were 
on Sabatis Lake with five traps apiece— all the law al- 
lows — and, though the men were havesting ice not many 
rods away, the boys took some very handsome strings of 
bass and pickerel. Special. 
Fixtures. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Nov. 18.— Newton, N. C— Eastern Field Trial Club's twenty- 
second annual field trials. S. C. Bradley, Sec'y, Greenfield HIU, 
Conn. 
Nov. 13.— Chatham, Ont.— Twelfth annual field trials of the In- 
ternational Field Trials Club. W. B. Wells, Hon. Sec'y. 
Points and Flushes. 
The Kan.sas City Kennel Club, of Kansas City, Mo., 
calls attention to the closing of entries on Thursday, 
March 8, of its third annual dog show to be held in Con- 
vention Hall, March 14 to 17, inclusive. For premium 
lists, etc., address the superintendent, Mr. S. H. Slifer, 
1604 Grand avenue, Kansas City, Mo. 
"The Beagle" is the subject of No. i Volume of "Popu- 
lar Dogs of the Day," and is by the eminent authority, 
Mr. Bradford S. Turpin, of Roxbury, Mass. It gives a 
quite complete history of the beagle in America, the 
organization of clubs, the beagle trials, field work, etc.. 
with sixteen illustrations. There are 102 pages in all. 
Dr. S. K. Johnson, 117 West Twenty-fifth street, New 
York, in our business cohmms calls' attention to his 
"Book on Dogs," in health and disease, management, 
feedmg, etc., which is mailed free on application. 
The Canoe Exhibit at the Sports- 
men's Show. 
Every canoeist who visits the coming Sportsmen's Show 
wdl discover one spot in the amphitheater that will ap- 
peal especially to lovers of the paddle. For the first 
time, the Sportsmen's Association will give well-deserved 
prominence to the sport of canoeing and to all that con- 
tributes to the comfort and pleasure of the canoeist, both 
m the water and in camp. 
To those who have not closely watched the condi- 
tions prevailing in canoeing during the last three or four 
years, the progress which has been made in canoe models 
tents and camping equipments will be in the nature of a 
revelation. Many of the old canoeists who dropped the 
sport years ago, as well as those unfortunates who have 
never experienced the pleasures which accompany the 
ownership of the little craft, will find much to interest 
them at this exhibit. 
_ The particular interest which attaches itself to this por- 
tion of the show comes from the fact that it is not a 
trade exhibit of one or more dealers who are endeavor- 
ing to sell goods, but is an actual bona fide loan collection 
of boats, tents, rigs, cooking and heating utensils, fire- 
arms, etc., that have been tried during the past years by 
their owners, and have been found to be about as close 
to perfection for their specific needs as it is possible 
to procure at the present time. 
There will be four different models of boats, the Flirt, 
a httle 13 X 26 smooth streak paddling canoe, fitted with a 
moderate rig to take advantage of favoring winds ; a 15.6 
X 31 double centerboard cruising sailor, whose size makes 
her seaworthy in the rough chop of the Hudson or in 
the Lower Bay, and gives plenty of room for tandem sail- 
ing and stowage of duffle for two. There will also be a 
16 X 30 smooth streak boat, the Bee, with a moderately 
large rig. This boat illustrates the type of the fast sail- 
mg cruiser, in which the stowage and sleeping facilities 
have been somewhat sacrificed to meet the requirements of 
speed. There will be one of the 17ft. open paddling can- 
vas-covered canoes which have been so popular during the 
last couple of years, and in which a crew of two may 
make a long cruise, with camp equipment, which would 
pretty nearly furnish a moderate size flat. 
Each of these boats is accompanied by the tent of 
its owner, with the exception of the double centerboard 
canoe, the owner of which sleeps aboard in a canvas canoe 
tent, which will be pitched, and the bed made up, for the 
purpose of illustrating how a boat of this model may 
serve as craft by day and house by night. 
The exhibit, which is the idea of the Amateur Sports- 
man of New York city, will be under the charge of its 
canoeing editor, Mr. E. T. Keyser, who believes that it 
will do more to make canoeing popular in this section 
than any amount of books that have been published on 
the subject. 
A large attendance has been promised by the officers of 
the American Canoe Association, the Atlantic Division 
of which will hold its executive meeting in a room loaned 
them by the managers of the show, and it is to be hoped 
that all the canoeists within traveling distance of New 
York will be able to attend the show, making the camp 
their headquarters. 
A. C. A. Membership 
Eastern Division — Samuel H. Capen. Edwin Ester- 
brook, F. N. West, Frederic H. French, Edward S. Baker, 
Reginald E. Daniels, Robert K. Rodgers, Fred W. Not- 
man, Edgar Ward, John Ward, Henry^M. S. Aiken, Harry 
A. Ames. 
Atlantic Division — Fred Furman, Trenton, N. J. ; W. P. 
Kent, Trenton, N. J. 
Western Pivisiop — ^Joseph A. Toppio 
