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tecrcd by law at all seasons, ihey are reported to be quite 
plenty. On the borders of Sebago Lake they are very 
ircqucndy sten. Uvcr ihe ±<ranKi.n & Megan cic Railroad 
ttw a^cr nave been shipped tlic past weeK. m spue of 
the fact that there has been one good tracking .-,now. 
Mr. C. F. Jones, of Newton Highlands, secured a buck m 
the Dead R-ver region lasi. week, and Air. H. B. Jones, of 
the same place, a buck weighing about 200 pounds. 
Boston smelt fishermen continue to practice and enjoy 
the sport. Mr. Frank A. Rein is a lover of smelt fi:;hing. 
He took a week ago fourteen dozen at one trip, and 
the week before twelve dozen. Fie takes a gocd string 
about every trip he makes. Oft Quincy and around the 
bays and inlets m that section arc favorite smelting 
grounds. A good many Boston smelt fishermen go down 
after business hours Saturday and come back Monday 
morning with some good baskets of smelts. The curious 
feature is that these fish are all caught Monday (?) morn- 
ing. There is a law against fishing Sunday. A liitle 
spurt was made about enforcing it a year ago, but it has 
scarcely been heard of since. Perhaps Sunday shooting 
in some sections might get a man into trouble, but Sunday 
smelt fishing goes right along undi.'^turbed. 
Special, 
New York League Meeting. 
New York, Nov. i. — ^The annual meeting of the New 
York Fish, Game and Forest League will be held at the 
Yates Ho. el, Syracuse, N. Y., at 10:30 A. M., on Dec. 6, 
1900, and a full attendance is hoped for. 
The objects of this Association are to create and foster 
a more general public sentiment in favor of fish, game 
and forest protection, to procure the enactment of laws 
for the protection of fish and game, and for the preserva- 
tion of our forests, and to promote the observance of 
such laws. 
In order to carry out these objects, we must earnestly 
ask the co-operation of all fish and game clubs and asso- 
ciations within this Sta^e who are not already enrolled in 
the League, and urge upon them the great desirability of 
joining forces wnth us in order to secure yet more united 
effort in attaining these objects. 
The initiation fee of $5, including as it does the dues 
for the year commencing on the first Thursday after the 
first Monday in December, when our annual meeting 
takes place, gives to each club the privilege of sending 
two delegates to the annual meeting. 
The game laws of our State are at present in much 
better sltape than they were a few years ago. 
The constant tinkering by the Legislature with the game 
laws is, however, a serious menace to fii-h, game and 
fore.=t protection. Bills are constantly being introduced 
which, aiming to grant exceotional privileges to certain 
localities, create a general feeling of distrust, and seriously 
■interfere with the enforcement of good measures. 
The careful weighing of the merits, or faults, of pro- 
po'-ed game legi--lation,'by the persons most interested, the 
•indorsement oi what is deemed desirable, and the oppo.si- 
tion to what i« deemed objectionabfe is the main business 
'that comes before our meetings, and after the election of 
officers for the ensuing year, and the adjournment of 
the said meeting, our Legislat-ve and Law Committee 
keeps careful watch during the entire session of our State 
Legislature of all proposed lesri'^btion affecting the game 
laws. In order t'-'at they may be fully discussed at the an- 
nual meeting, all proposed amendments to the present 
game laws shouM if possible, be forwarded to the chair- 
man of the Legi'--lative and Law Committee. Mr, WaHer 
S. Ma'-p-reg'-ir No, --ii Wall s'reet, New York city, prior 
to the first dav of Decpnib^r. IQOO. 
y^rlT^^icatir'f^s frr iripmi-iersluo shonid be made to the 
secretary who will g'adly give any further information 
which irs&y Ite ■desirpi'l 
UmtKVT B, Lawrence, President. 
Ernest G, Gdt'Lft, ?pcretarv. 
Seneca Falls. 
Mr. Martindale's Moose. 
"I WAS just a thousand miles northeast of Philadelphia, 
in the wilds of northern New Brunswick when, after a 
wait of three days and three nights, I killed the 'Big 
Moore of the Little Tobique,' said fhomas Martindale. 
"We were out all \\ ednesday night, Thursday and 
Thursday night. My guides had shown me some enor- 
toous footprints on the shore of the lake. I said they 
were caribou tracks, that no moose ever had such a big 
foo., and that the stories of 'The Big Moose of the Little 
Tobique' were mere hunters' tales, without any founda- 
tion. Friday we were out all day and evening, again on 
the banks o'f Muddy Lake. Out on a little cedar point 
we wa ted for hours and hours, with the thermometer 
down to the freezin.g point. 
"A good- sized bull moose and a cow came down to 
feed. I could have killed .he bull, but I was waiting for 
larger game. As the night fell Love, the guide, went up 
around the head of the lake and repeated his 'call,' imita- 
ting the cow moose perfectly with his birch-bark horn. 
Night had fallen and the darkness aws almost inky, when 
1 saw a monster form come doAvn the trail near where I 
lay. Then it got so dark that I couldn't see mj' hand 
before my face, I heard something flounder into the 
water, and I was sure that a big moose was in the shal- 
lows feeding. We half crept, half walked back to camp, 
reached there at ii P. IM., and at 3 A. M. were back at 
the lake watching and waiting. Just as daylight broke, 
when I was lying on my sleeping bag and rugs, nearly 
fro/en, my long-awai'ed opportunity came, 
"A monster moose, such as I had never seen before, 
came up out of the lake and stood on the bank, parti}'- 
outlined a.gainst the sky. I gave him one shot with my 
Mannlicher. It went throuerh h"s heart and he rolled 
down the bank into the water dead. Then my guide and 
I executed a kind of war dance in celebration of onr 
victorv. and we went back to camn. Ear'y Saturday 
morning we took our other guides to the lake, dragged 
the b'sr fellow out of the water and cut him up. He 
we'-<^hed 1.200 pnmds: his antlers were 55 inches across 
and his h.-^ofs itj^ inehe,"? in length from the tip of the 
toe t-o 'Hp h^H. 
"TJie big h\U>vf litifj ev{<l^ntly been shot at m^ny tipies, 
He had a bullet hole through his antlers, several bullets 
and buckshot m his body and many scars on his feet. 
Since coming home 1 have received two letters, one from 
a New York broker and another from a Lonaoner, who 
say they are quite certain that I succeeded in killing a 
moose that they had shot at several times. I sent the 
hide to Fredericton, N. B., to be made into moosehide 
boots, and the head to a taxidermist in Boston. When 
mounted it will be sent to Philadelphia. The feet are at 
the Academy of Natural Sciences in this city." — Phila- 
delphia Press. 
A West Virginia Association. 
MoKGANTOWN, W. Va., Nov. 16. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Up to this tmie there has been no organized 
move toward the preservation of fish and game in our 
locality. The local sportsmen are now tak ng steps to 
form a fish and game protective association. A call will 
be issued in a few days for a meeting, which will form a 
permanent organization. It is the intention to get from 
twenty-five to fifty people in the organ zation which will 
include people of the surrounding country as well as of 
the town. They will do all they can to prpevent hunting 
out of season, and in an illegal manner in season. Re- 
wards will be offered for the arrest and conviction of 
olTenders, and every effort used to make it hot for those 
who have no more sense and sportsmanship than to vio- 
late the laws which are founded on common sense and are 
for the protection and preservation of our game. A score 
have already signified their intention of joining the society 
and the rest will soon be canvassed. 
The mistake is sometimes made in forming associa- 
tions of this kind, of confining the membership to citizens 
of the town or city in which it is formed. One good live 
member living away out in the country is of more prac- 
tical value to the association than a haIf-do;^en who live 
in the city or town. Make the farmers feel that it is their 
interests that are being protected, and not that of merely 
saving the game for the town people to go out and shoot, 
and not that it' is only done in the interests of the town 
people, as manj' farmers are led to think. 
A few days ago while out for a short walk I flushed a 
covey of at least a dozen quail within five minutes' wa'k 
of the court house. Very few bird dogs are kep*- here, 
and the birds have a good chance to live. Hounds are 
the favorite dogs in these parts. Many of the peonle 
through the country and in town own hounds, and fox 
chasing comes to the front as a sport, not for the Fake of 
killing, for many of the hun's are at n-'ght but just to 
hear the dogs. In chasing foxes in the day time anv red 
one wh'ch may be started is shot at the fir«t opportunit3^ 
but a gray one is left to pass by unharmed. 
Emerson Carney. 
A Parisian's Plight. 
The Lake of Cazeaux in France is surrounded by 
marshes, where snipe, ducks and water fowl are always 
to be found. There high rubber boots are a necessity for 
in these marshes there are some places where the inex- 
perienced sportsman may get a very unpleasant mud 
bath. Let him beware of spots where green grass seems 
to invite him to place his feet. They are very decei.ful, 
for that grass is only a crust of earth 6 inches thick, under 
which is black mud. If unfortunately you sink in such 
a place do not move, yell for help keep still, for the 
more efforts you make to get out of it the deeper you will 
sink. The guide vised to such accident- will he p you otit. 
Speaking of this reminds me of a very funny event. Four 
of us were at Cazeaux snipe shooting ; one of our friends 
had invited a young Paris'an sportsman, who was a regtt- 
lar dude, to join us. The first morning we went out he 
was dressed in a beautiful white flannel suit, better for 
tennis playing than for snipe shooting. His friend told 
him he had bet er put on an old shooting suit, and advised 
him to take a gu'de. He laughed, saying that he knew a'l 
aboitt shooting dresses, marshes, meadows and snipe 
shooting. We started and instead of keeping company 
with us he went hy himself. At first we did not pay 
attention to it but after a while, not seeing him and not 
hearing any gun report, we began to feel uneasy about 
him, knowing that some places were if not exactly dan- 
gerous;, bad enough for an inexnerienced man. So we 
hunted for h'm, and finally fotmd him in a mud hole, try- 
ing to extricate himself but unab'e to do so, and too 
proud to call for help. We came just in time, for he was 
quite exhausted. Our men took him out of his bad situa- 
tion. But what a sight! Black from foot to head, he 
looked as if he had been cleaning stovepipes. — London 
Field. 
Ducks Under Water. 
In Camp on Union Lake, Minn.. Nov. g. — Editor 
Forest and Stream: Ly'ng in my tent the other day I 
read in a recent issue of your paper in your Chicago 
correspondence an account of a sawbill duck being held 
under water for an hour by a dog, and then com ng out all 
right. Next day while I wa^ out hunting a sawb'U with 
broken wing fell in shallow water, and I re rieved it 
alive. With the duck in hand I resolved to .see how long 
it could hold out under water, and thrust 't under and he'd- 
it there. At the end of four minutes, before which it lay 
very contented with its head thrust under a b't of 
moss, it made a desperate effort to get its head above 
water, and, I not being prepared for its sudden effort, suc- 
ceeded. I then let it get fully recovered and thrust it 
under again. At the end of four minutes, as before, it 
again made efforts to get its head out. but I heM it 
under, and ^n one minute more it was dead. After be- 
ginning to show distress it died as quicklv as it would 
had its head been severed with a hatchet. I can 'et mo'^t 
any kind of duck nass unchallenged but these "fish hogs" 
always get a call from me. 
If any sportsman lo'^ps a duck bv divmg which stav? 
under water more than five minutes, t^e can re'"t assured it 
is winking at him from some «afe hid'nsr. Neither will 
they drown themselves by hanging on to 'he rnncs. 
E. P. Jaques. 
The FonEST AND -Stream is put to press each week on Tue.iday. 
Correspondence intended for puhlicatinn should reach 9t tftf 
latest by Msndajr snil 4a mupt) wUit |)rftct>e»ble. 
Long Lland Shooting. 
Wednesday of last week, the 14th inst., closed the 
Long island deer season. The number of hunters out 
was not great, and comparatively tew deer were killed. 
One of tnese, however, was captured by CapL Geo. 
Green, of Sayville, a veteran of seventy-eight years, who 
on this occasion killed his firsc deer. Ihree or four other 
deer were killed near Sayville, and it is said that Mr. 
Chas. Cheshire, of Riverhcad, killed a good buck near 
Ronkonkoma. Two or three of the deer killed were 
does. 
The cold weather of last week, though it lasted for 
only a few days, brought with it great numbers of ducks, 
so that it is said that Jiis is one of the greatest flights of 
fowl known here in the last fifty years. The ducks which 
came are of the usual sort.s — coots, broadbills, some ruddy 
ducks redheads and black ducks. These birds have given 
excellent sport to the battery shooters in the western part 
of the bay, but in East Bay the shooting is all from 
all points, batterj' shooting being illegal there. There are 
places where the blinds are so thickly placed along the 
shore as to be not much more than a gun shot apart. 
The news of the gre.at number of birds here spread 
rap'dly and brought together a great number of 
.shooters. There has not lately been any real good duck- 
ing weather, but 'f this should come as it is likely to, great 
bags will undoub ediy be made. Even as it is there has 
been shooting good enough to satisfy most people, three 
gunners having killed loo broadbills in one day about 
two weeks ago. Rereads are renorted to be more 
numerous than U'^ual. and have ca'led out the market- 
shooters in numbers, since these birds spH at $1 50 a nair. 
The abundance of ducks here has called to the water's 
eds"e almost all 'he gunners, so thpt qnnii and other nn- 
land birds have been neglected. The fowl mnv rnmnin 
here until freezing wpat'-'er comes, which w'll close the 
watpr- of Grpflt South Bay and force the ducks further 
southward. We do not hp,ir a" v^t of a^v con<-''^"rab'e 
mtm.ber of geesp being seen in the bay, a ■fact which may 
be ^'-counted for by the continued m.'M and pleasant 
wpaf'->pr. - Long Islander. 
Sayville, L. I , Nov. 16. 
Vermont Lcag'tic. 
At the annual meeting at Montpelier la^t week the 
election of officers resulted in the follow'ng choice: 
President. J. W. Titcomb, of St. Johnsbury; Vice-Presi- 
dents, W. R. Peake. Bristol; N. W. Fi-k, Isle La Motte; 
E. A. StTiith, St. Albans ; T. N. Vail. Lyndon ; Dr. W. S. 
Webb, Shelburne ; Hon. Red'^eid Proctor Proctor; 
Gen, J, J. Estey, Brattleboro; Secretary. E. T. Brad- 
ley, Swanton ; Treasurer, C. F. Lowe, Mon':pelier. 
Execut've Committee — T. M. Chapman, Middlebury; 
E. W. Bartlett. East Dorset; T. R. Stites St. 
Johnsbury; F. H, Wells, Burlington; P. N. Da'e, 
Island Pond; H, J. Rtiblee, Montgomery; George^ W. 
Squire, South Hei-o ; H. G. Thomas, Stowe ; H. W. 
Bailey, Newbury; C, N. Brady, NewDort; Ira R. AHen, 
Fair Haven; L. Bart Cross, Montpelier; F. W. Chiids, 
Brattleboro; J. E. Pol'ard, Chester. Member^hp Com- 
mittee — M. C. Berry, Burhngton ; George C. Fisher^ Lyii- 
donville; L, S, N-^rton Bennington. 
More than sixty new members were elected. 
A banquet followed he bu'-'iness meeting. It was past 
midn'ght when the gathering broke un. Every one present 
expressed the utmopt satisfaction and the meeting is con- 
sidered one of the best the League has ever had. An 
interesting and valuable feature was the exhibif'on of 
s ereopticon views showing methods of fishculture, with 
explanations by President Titcomb. 
M issachussetts Prospects. 
Danvers, Mass., Nov. 17. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Shooting has been very good for this part of the State. 
More quail than last year. Partridges fairly plentiful. A 
good flight of woodcock about Nov. i. Foxes are scarce, 
so mivch so that the fox hunters are discouraged. Coast 
shorting has been good on the coast. Haven't seen a wi d 
goose this fall. J. W. B. 
Florida Quail. 
Tallahassee, Fla.. Oct. 2,3.- — Open season for quail in 
this State begins on Nov. i and lasts until March 15. The 
crop of birds is good. Numbers of Northern shooters 
are obtaining quarters for parts of the season. 
R. C L. 
A Bear Fam ly. 
Cumberland B. C. Canada, Nov. 7. — Editor Forest 
and S'ream: Mr. Frank Jaynes of this place, is the suc- 
cessful hunter this week. On Saturday, Nov. 3. he 
killed four black bears, an old male and female and two 
cubs. A. B. 
William Smith, of Merrick, L. I., went hunt'ng in com- 
pany with Ernest Miller. While ihe young men were 
walking across a field Smith .stepped on the handle of a 
scythe which was concealed from view by underbrush. 
The long blade flew up with force, indicting a terr b'e 
wound in Smith's right leg, above the knee. The blade 
penetrated the flesh to the bone, nearly severing tlie leg 
from the body. 
I DON'T SHOOT I 
I Until you see your game, and t 
1 see that it is game and | 
1 not a man. 1 
