Forest and Stream. 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1900, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co, 
Terms, $4 a Ykar. 10 Cts. a Copy. I 
Six Months, $2. f 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1900. 
1 VOL. LV.— No. 19. 
1 No. 846 Broadway, New York 
The Forest and Stream is the recognized medium of entertain- 
ment, instruction and information between American sportsmen. 
The editors invite communications on the subjects to which its 
pages are devoted. Anonymous communications will not be re- 
garded. While it is intended to give wide latitude in discussion 
of current topics, the editors are not responsible for the views of 
correspondents. 
Subscriptions may begin at any time. Terms: For single 
copies, $4 per year, $2 for six months. For club rates and full 
particulars respecting subscriptions, see prospectus on page iii. 
YACHTING AND CANOEING. 
After long connection with the Forest and Stream, as 
editor of the yachting and canoeing pages, Mr. W. P. 
Stephens has resigned the conduct of these departments 
into other hands. As a yachting editor Mr. Stephens 
possessed the qualifications of thorough technical knowl- 
edge and wide, information in the several branches of the 
sport, and to these was added a high spirit of sportsman- 
ship, a combination of qualities, which, as reflected in the 
columns of the Forest and Stream^ have given the paper 
a pre-eminent place among the yachting journals of the 
world. Mr. Stephens is succeeded by Mr. Albert B. Hunt, 
whose equipment for the work is such as amply to warrant 
the confidence that under his direction the Forest and 
Stream will continue to give the best possible service to 
the promotion of the interests of yachting and canoeing 
in America. We have only to add that the intimate and 
uniformly pleasant relations, which have been sustained 
between Mr. Stephens and his fellow workers in this 
office for so many years are severed not without sincere 
regret on the part of his associates. 
A QUESTION OF CLOTHING. 
One would imagine that the question as to what cloth- 
ing a man should wear when going out after game was 
one that need never be asked. Yet it frequently is asked, 
and is not infrequently answered in an unintelligent 
fashion, which is likely to mislead the inquirer. 
Obviously light clothing is needed for warm weather 
and heavy clothing for cold. A man expecting to spend 
the summer in Alaska or among lofty mountain peaks 
should not carry with him light outer garments. It is 
easy enough to lay off coat, waistcoat, sweater and even 
a flannel shirt if necessary, but he who finds himself 
lightly clad in a snow storm on a mountain top, or obliged 
to lie out over night where fuel is scarce, is likely to 
suffer. It is better then always to carry heavy clothing, 
even though sometimes it does make the wearer uncomfort- 
ably warm. In mountain climbing, where the long con- 
tinued exertion causes one to perspire, where he is con- 
tinually ascending into air that is colder and colder, and 
where, when his labors are done, he sits down to rest on 
the mountain peak where it is cold, where the wind is 
blowing, a dense fog often sweeping along, and a cold 
rain or snow storm likely to come up at any moment, the 
man requires more protection than he had when climbing. 
Under such circumstances many men carry a keavy 
sweater tied to the belt, to he assumed on reaching the 
mountain top ; others carry a coat in a pack sack. Both 
plans are good, but lighter to carry and quite as warm 
to wear is a shirt of buckskin, which can be slipped on 
when the mountain top is reached and is quite impervious 
to wind. The suffering from cold and the danger of im- 
pleasant after affects are much lessened if the evapora- 
tion from the skin and damp clothing is made very 
gradual by some such body covering as the buckskin. 
Leather coats, of course, answer the same purpose. 
For the ordinary work of field and water shooting, sev- 
eral kinds of cloth are commonly recommended. Cordu- 
roy, mole skin, fustian and duck or canvas of one sort 
and another are the ones most used. All these have 
their good points and most of them their bad ones. 
Corduroy is capital if properly made and well fitting, ex- 
cept that it is very cold when wet, it very readily catches 
fire and it is quite noisy. Moreover, if it should get 
torn it is really a difficult matter to mend it, for it 
cuts the thread used in sewing up a patch or in bringing 
together a rip, so that the sewing does not last long. If 
in lighting your pipe or in standing near the camp-fire a 
spark should happen to stick in your corduroy trousers, it 
will smoulder and sp-read and Uurn, until you become 
unpleasantly aware that a conflagration is in progress. 
A hole half as big as a man's hand may be burned in a 
trousers leg before anybody recognizes what is hap- 
pening. Any of these cotton goods, when they become 
wet, are extremely cold and disagreeable to wear. 
Canvas is good and useful. It is extremely durable, 
never tearing. It has, hiowever, the disadvantage that 
it is noisy, so that a man's trousers as he walks along 
scrape and rattle against each other, and the bushes and 
branches against which he may be obliged to press scrape 
against the clothing with a sound that can be heard fifty 
yards away. 
The best wear for out of doors is, undoubtedly, ordinary 
woolen clothing of some subdued or neutral tint. A gray 
coat and trousers are as good as anything. They wear out 
easily, brambles cut them, stubs of branches tear holes 
in them, and after a season or two they have to be thrown 
away, but they are noiseless, they do not catch fire, they do 
not attract the eye of game, and they can be mended. It 
is well enough therefore for the man who is going 
shooting to wear out his old clothes. This he cannot 
do, however, with those that are dark in color. Hats, 
coats and waistcoats that are black or blue are likely ro 
catch the eye of bird or mammal at once and render it 
alert, watchful and ready to take the alarm. 
While grays, pale browns and sedge colors are useful 
everywhere, they are nowhere more so than in the 
ducking blind, where often a man is plainly exposed to 
view or at best is hidden only by a thin fringe of reed 
through which a quick movement can readily be seen. If 
you are wise, therefore, you will not wear in the blind 
dark browns or dark greens, as has recently been recom- 
n\ended, but will have your clothing as nearly as possible 
the color of the sedge among which you are to sit. 
After all, however, we must all of us remember that 
it is not the color or shape of man or his clothes that alarms 
the birds and the mammals. If he will sit perfectly still 
and the wind is right, a deer or an antelope, a mountain 
sheep or a goat, may walk up almost within arm's length 
of him without being alarmed. Or the ducks will come 
up and alight among his decoys even though he be in 
plain sight. But let him make the slightest movement as 
the shifting the direction of his gun, or the quick turning 
of the head, and the game recognizes that he is alive, and 
that is quite enough. As was said some years ago, in a 
publication on field sports, these animals recognize danger 
only in life and life only in motion. 
If the shooting of men for deer continues the approved 
color for hunting coats will be a bright, fiery red, chosen 
for protection, that the wearer may not be mistaken for 
anything wild that roams the woods. 
GAME GALORE. 
It has been for some time supposed that all the' game 
pockets of North America were exhausted, except those 
protected by private ownership or by their inaccessibility 
to the general public, but it appears that this is not the 
case. We have just received, under the seal of con- 
fidence, a private letter telling of a country easily acces- 
sible, abounding in big game and small, where the hunting 
is easy and the way smooth, but a§ we hare remarked, we 
are not at liberty to divulge where this country is. This 
makes us feel very badly, and we extend to those who 
read these lines our heartiest condolences for the chance 
that they are missing. To learn of a country where no 
less than four species of big game are so abundant that 
the correspondent writes that there is '-no end to them," 
and to be unable to visit that country or even to tell any 
one else where it is, causes us acute suffering — quite as 
acute, we may say in all modesty, as that likely to be en- 
dured by any of those who read of it. 
Here is a region close to a railroad, easily reached by 
wagon or canoe, abounding in game birds, in ducks and 
geese, with possible swans, with fish in the wate-rs to vary 
the menu, and as we- are assured with i6xit different 
soecies ©f big game feeding in the valleys, clambering up 
the hillsides or perched on the pinnacles of the highest 
elevations, all of them apparently waiting the convenience 
of some ardent hunter; and yet there is no hunter there, 
and none going to be there, at present, as |a|; ^s. nye can 
learn. li- 
We presume that ther^ are many who would be glad to 
visit this attractive and accessible region. We should lil^ 
to visit it ourselves. But for the present it is closed. 
The game birds may still search for food, the ducks with 
their heads under their wings may float undisturbed on the 
quiet waters, and the geese may feed in the shallows or 
nip the tender grass, without alarm. The four species 
of big game may rest unscared on the higher lands and go 
to the water and drink and stand about, and then feed 
hillward again, wriggling their short tails, without fear of 
alarm from the huoter's shot. It is a temporary paradise 
regained. 
THAT ADIRONDACK MOOSE. 
Last spring Dr. W. Seward Webb released from his 
game preserve at Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park in the Adirondacks 
a herd of five moose, and announced his purpose to put 
out more moose and a herd of elk. if those liberated this 
year should do well. Dr. Webb's action and his inten- 
tion were well known throughout the woods, and one 
might think that under such circumstances, whatever 
other obstacles there might be to the successful stocking 
of the Adirondacks, the moose and elk would at least 
be safeguarded against the hand of man. The event 
has proved the contrary. A Saranac Lake correspondent 
tells us that one day last week a guide brought into the 
village the carcass of one of the Webb moose which he 
had killed and was intent upon peddling like so much 
beef. The game pi-otector promptly confiscated the meat 
and arrested the guide, Charles Martin, for violation of 
the law which forbids the killing of moose. 
This leaves four of the Webb moose to be accounted 
for. They will no doubt duly be potted and converted into 
merchandise, and Dr. Webb will have been taught the 
lesson that if he is ambitious to stock any public game 
districts with moose or elk he must look up some other 
country than the Adirondacks. There are regions where, 
even if respect for the law is not suflicient to give im- 
munity to imported game, the hunters are restrained from 
potting it on sight by the dictates of common sense and 
every dav decency, but the North Woods country is not 
such a district. 
SNAP SHOTS: 
It is a repugnant topic and one which we would gladh' 
ifrnore were it not forced upon the attention daily by 
the reports in the daily papers of the maiming and mur- 
dering of human beings in mistake for game. The cases 
are multiolying with horrible frequency. Instead of learn- 
ing caution, as might reasonably be expected, from the 
casualties due to the criminal carelessness of others, big- 
game hunters aopear on the contrary to be growing moro_ 
and more reckless. The prevailing spirit of haste and 
carelessness which impels .sportsmen to shoot their fel- 
lows had a melancholv illustration in Torrington, Conn., 
the other day in the funerals of two victims. One was a 
Torrington man who had gone to Colorado, and being in 
the country with a woman companion, had put on her 
hat. The hat was ornamented with a stuffed bird skin. 
A hunter took it for a real bird, fired and killed the 
woman. The other Torrington victim had been in Maine. 
where his companion had taken him for a deer, with fatal 
effect. a f 
A novel suit' has been brought by a Watertown, N. Y., 
father to recover damages for the loss of his son, fifteen 
vears oM, who was drowned off Carleton Island, last 
.Tuly. The boy was at the time acting oarsman for a 
fisherman, and the complaint sets forth that when a 
storm came up and other boats sought shelter the em- 
ployer of the boy persisted in remaining in an exposed 
situation, although warned in time of the approaching 
peril. In the storm the boat was capsized and the boy was 
drowned. The father is suing for $5,000. 
Sunday deer hoiinding is a common practice in the 
neighborhood of Saranac Lake, a correspondent writing 
from there tells us, and the game warden "doesn't care ; 
they all do it." If this report of the situation is correct 
there is something here which should have the immediate 
attention of Chief Pond. A protector who doesn't ca^g 
should make rooni for another one yrho c&f^ 
