Forest and Stream. 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1900, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1900. 
J VOL. LIV.— No. 26. 
I No. S46 Broadway, New York 
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Many of the most eminent men this country 
can boast — philosophers, poets, divines, painters, 
sculptors and scientific men — have made angling 
one of their main recreations, and of one of the 
oldest men that this country ever produced, Henry 
Jenkins, born at Bolton, in Yorkshire, in the year 
J 500, it is recorded that he fished much of his 
time for 140 years and died at the good old age of 
i69 — thus proving the healthfulness of angling 
to prolong life, — Joseph "Wellsj The Temperance 
Fishing Book. 
ThfE AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 
The attendance at the special summer meeting of the 
American Forestry Association held in this city on Mon- 
day and Tuesday of this week, and the interest mani- 
fested in the proceedings, afforded an encouraging evi- 
dence of the growth of forestry in public appreciation. 
The Association deserves a much wider support than has 
been given to it, and this, we cannot but believe, is due 
only to want of information about the society and its 
aims. 
The objects of the Association are to promote a more 
wise and conservative treatment of the forest resources 
of the continent; the advancement of educational, legis- 
lative and other measures to that end, and the diffusion 
of knowledge regarding the conservation, care and re- 
newal of forests, the proper utilization of forest products, 
and the methods of restoring denuded forest lands. It 
is above all things working for the public good, and is 
deserving of warm indorsement and support. It invites 
all who are interested in its aims to join its ranks as 
members, appealing not only to owners of timber and 
woodland, to lumbermen and foresters, but to every one 
who believes that there is a better way than the wasteful 
methods we have pursued with our forest resources 
in America, and to every one who sympathizes in the 
effort to find out and apply that better way. Forest anu 
Stream readers as a class are interested in forestry, and 
should be allied with the Association in its works. The 
movement deserves their support. We are doing nothing 
more than what is due to both when we urge that our 
readers may give their active co-operation to the Asso- 
ciation by joining its membership. The headquarters of 
the Association are at No. 202 Fourteenth street S. W., 
Washington. The Secretary is F. H. Newell. 
MALARIA AND THE MOSQUITO. 
A most interesting experiment is now in progress, to 
determine the truth of the theory that malaria is conveyed 
by mosquito inoculation. The scene of the trial is the 
Roman Campagna, a district notorious for its malaria, 
which has been attributed to the vapors rising from the 
ground. Two members of the London Tropical School 
of Medicine, Dr. Luigi Sambon, a lecturer of the school, 
and Dr. D. C. Low, one of its distinguished students, 
have volunteered to live through the summer in this 
unhealthy region, under conditions which will give a 
practical test of the mosquito malaria theory. They have 
had constructed a hut made mosquito proof by wire 
screening. During the day, at those hours when the in- 
sects are not active, the experimenters are free to go 
abroad and do what they like, but at the approach of 
night they retire into the hut and make all secure against 
the pests. Their one business, from June to October— 
the malaria season — is to keep themselves free from the 
sting of a mosquito. 
As another part of the experiment, two well-known 
Italian physicians have undertaken to send to England 
consignments of large live and vigorous Roman mos- 
quitoes, which will be given opportunity to bite certain 
healthy Britishers who have volunteered to serve as sub- 
jects. Now if Messrs. Sambon and Low in their hut in the 
malaria marshes shall get through the summer unbitten 
of mosquities and unshaken of malaria, and if on the 
other hand the subjects in England who have been bitten 
by the imported Roman mosquitoes shall have had ma- 
laria, these facts will go far to establish the theory of 
the mosquito origin of the disease. 
PURE AIR AND PURE WATER. 
A Bayonne, N. J., farmer has recovered damages out 
of court in settlement of a suit for $5,000 brought against 
a chemical company for the destruction of 6,000 tomato 
plants by fumes from the chemical works. This is an 
isolated case, so rare and remarkable as to provoke news- 
paper comment. The usual course is to endure the fumes 
of chemical works, the odors and gases and smokes and 
stenches of factories, to gulp down the polluted air and 
make no protest.. All over the country whole commu- 
nities are imposed upon in this way to an extent and with a 
degree of unresisting abjectness which would fill a 
visitor from another planet with astonishment. We go 
away from town and flee to the mountains for pure air, 
get a full breath and come back again to the noisome at- 
mosphere poisoned by permitted nuisances. The better 
way would be to abate the abatable stenches which defile 
the atmosphere where congregated humanity must live. 
The only reason this is not done is found in the ignorant, 
unthinking indifference and lethargy of the community. 
The easy complaisance of the public in permitting these 
nuisances of poisoned air is of a piece with the astonish- 
ing want of spirit which has permitted hundreds and 
thousands of streams to be converted into open sewers and 
the drainage of factory waste, tannery and dye works 
flow. There is no excuse for permitting the pollution, 
neither of air nor of water. At this stage of progress and 
development there are practicable and available ways 
of disposing of the deleterious matters in a harmless man- 
ner. The one only element wanting to discover these 
ways and compel their operation is public sentiment. And 
public sentiment depends on education. The fact is that 
the community has endured the abuses so long that it 
has come to regard them as inevitable elements of civiliza- 
tion ; and has no conception nor dream of anything better 
than the slovenly, wasteful, destructive and polluting 
methods which have been so long employed. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
Another legal decision worthy of comment has just 
been rendered on the Pacific Coast. The Washington 
game law forbids the sale of quail at any time of the 
year. L. M. Davenport, a Spokane restaurant man, was 
prosecuted for having sold on March 10 a consignment 
of quail from St. Louis. Davenport petitioned the court 
for release on habeas corpus proceedings, and after hear- 
ing extended arguments Judge Hanford has sustained 
the writ and ordered the case dismissed. As the grounds 
upon which this decision is based are unknown to us, 
comment would be pi^emature, but it is perhaps not too 
much to say that if the case was so decided because of 
any defect in the wording of the statute, a remedy for 
the inefhciency of the law may readily be found by adopt- 
ing the proper phraseology at the next session of the 
Legislature. If anj' one principle in the game protection 
may be said to be surely established, it is that the State 
ma}' prohibit tlie sale of game whether killed within its 
borders or imported from outside; and it is a simple 
matter to give the principle operation by providing for 
it in a statute properly worded to this effect. Mean- 
while, the finding of Judge Hanford is regarded by the 
sportsmen of the Northwest as a blow to the game in- 
terests. Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane are large con- 
sumers of game, and the decision removes all xestrictions. 
The continually growing interest in the preservation of 
birds has led to strong efforts in Great Britain toward the 
protection of certain species that have become very rare. 
Among these are the white-tail eagle, osprey, kite, honey 
buzzard, common buzzard, chough, golden oriole, hoopoe, 
ruff and bittern. At a meeting of the British Ornithol- 
ogits' Union and Club, held last month, a resolution was 
unanimously adopted "that any member of the Union 
directly or indirectly responsible for the destruction of 
nests, eggs, young or parent birds of any species men- 
tioned below should be visited with the severest censure 
of the Union and Club." The birds referred to in this 
resolution are those already mentioned. 
It is greatly to be desired that in this country similar 
action might be taken in such a way as to put an end to 
the killing of some of our rarer birds. The case of the 
heath hen, recently instanced in Forest and Stream, is 
one where action taken by the American Ornithologists' 
Union might carry some weight and do some good. 
The American Fisheries Society will hold its annual 
meeting this year at Wood's Holl. Mass. Many well- 
known experts in the field have promised papers, and the 
proceedings promise to be such as will well repay at- 
tendance. The Society invites the active membership of 
all persons who are interested in the study of fish life and 
the increase of the fish supply. The membership fee is 
one dollar a year. Mr. J. E. Gunckel, of Toh do, O., is the 
Corresponding Secretary, and Mr. John AY Titcomb. of 
St. John.sbury, Vt.. is the President. 
July woodcock shooting is still practiced in New Jersey. 
Pennsylvania and several other States, notwithstanding 
the efforts of those who condemn the shooting to secure 
its abolition. Most all sportsmen experienced in New 
Jersey summer woodcock covers must have had in their 
own observation abundant demonstration of the fact that 
young birds are at this season still in need of maternal 
care, and that both mother and young should have im- 
munity from the gun. 
One of the individuals who will be directly affected by 
the new Massachusetts anti-game sale law is a partridge 
shooter, reported to be worth over a half-million, who 
has for years made it a practice to ship to the Boston 
market from twenty to fifty birds a week, the fruit of 
his own individual prowess with the gun. This would 
be quite a matter of course in Great Britain, where it is 
the universal custom to send to market the vast supplies 
of pheasants and partridges killed on preserves. There 
the supply is artificially renewed. Here where we have 
to depend on the scanty native stock, we have equally as 
a matter of course adopted a different code of ethics, and 
our attitude toward the game marketing sportsman- is 
hostile. 
.And by the way, what is to be done in behalf of those 
who having eyes see not the game, and having guns kill 
it not, but having game bags must have them filled with 
birds, and who have in times past, according to the law 
and the precedents, acquired their birds from the more 
expert small boy or the more crafty old man, to take 
home to town as evidence of their skill ? A system under 
which it will be impracticable for these well-meaning 
sportsmen to return laden with trophies of the chase is 
certainly one to discourage the art of sportsmanship. 
The charms of hunting without a gun have often been 
described in Forest .a.nd Stream, and there are many 
people who believe that the camera is a more attractive 
implement for an outing than any description of firearm, 
and that photographing the wild creatures of the forest 
and the stream is more interesting than capturing them. 
Certainly it seems as if the camera were a safer weapon 
than the gun. If by mischance it goes off accidentally 
only a plate is spoiled. If you shoot your companion with 
it he may be made to appear ridiculous, but he suffers no 
physical discomfort. 
The Cuvier Club, of Cincinnati, is a live organization, 
which deserves the abundant gratitude of the citizens of 
Ohio for its continued and effective work in the cause 
of defending public interests and public rights against 
selfishness and greed. Just now the club is paying atten- 
tion to the fish seiners, and has succeeded in securing a 
number of convictions. 
Men lose a great deal of healthy enjoyment when they 
do not know how to catch trout. On this fishermen are 
all agreed, and they should be competent to judge. 
Because of the Wednesday holiday next week, July 4. 
the Forest and Stream will go to press on Monday, 
July I. 
