Forest and Stream. 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1901, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1901. 
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We give a very complete and well-written report of the 
September outing of the Vermont Fish and Game League 
at Isle La Motte^ Lake Champlain, on Friday of last week. 
The meeting was one which under any circumstances 
"would have been notable for the speakers, chief among 
whom were Senator Proctor and Vice-President Roose- 
velt; and it was made an historic o.ccasion by the tragic 
climax of the day, when the news was received of the 
would-be assassin's shot at Buffalo. 
THE AMERICA CUP RACES. 
On Saturday, Sept. 21, Shamrock IL and Columbia will 
meet off Sandy Hook in the first of a series of races that 
will imdoubtedly prove to be the closest and most interest- 
ing ever known in the history of internatioiral yacht 
racing. 
Since the arrival of Shamrock IL in American waters 
and her racing rig was put in place, she has been out in 
.the lower bay for a number of trials. Her performances 
have been watched closely, and her sailing has deeply im- 
pressed every one. But the old saying that all boats sail 
fast when alone applies well in this case; and further 
than the conclusions one can draw from watching the de- 
tails of the boat's performance and the way she is handled, 
no comparisons can be made. That she sails very fast, 
leaves the water as she finds it and is superbly handled, is 
generally conceded. Her trials with Shamrock I. in Eng- 
lish waters mean little or nothing, for it is not known 
whether Shamrock I. is sailing faster or slower than she 
did in 1899 ; but the natural inference is that she is show- 
ing greater speed. In the latter trials against Shamrock 
I. the challenger bars on every point of sailing shown her 
superiority to quite a marked degree. We would expect 
this to be the case, for aside from the advancement made 
by designers in two years' time, here is a boat which is 
the result of the combined forces of the two greatest de- 
signers in Great Britain, namely, Watson and Fife; and 
in the matter of handling she is to be under the direct 
supervision of Mr. William Jameson, acknowledged to 
be the best amateur in England. The selection of Capt. 
Sycamore as sailing master was a wise one, for he is easily 
the most intelligent and ablest yacht sailer in his country. 
The crew is a good one, and is well trained. In addition 
to all of these factors, a superior suit of sails has been 
provided, which, together with a boat built in the lightest 
manner possible consistent with necessary strength, 
promise a splendid showing on the part of Shamrock II. 
The designer of Columbia and Constitution enjoys a 
most enviable reputation, and is acknowledged to be not 
only a skillful designer, but also a thorough engineer. He 
has always profited by past experiences, and his progress 
has been rapid as well as substantial. Having the design 
of Columbia as a basis to work from, and knowing her 
peculiarities, Mr. Herr.eshoff turned out a boat of im- 
proved design when he built Constitution. But perfection 
of design is by no means the only requisite to make a 
boat a winner. In the history of yacht racing the tre- 
mendous value and importance of perfect sails, spars and 
handling was never before so clearly demonstrated as it 
b.as been in the case of Constitution. The selection of 
Columbia was due largely to her perfection in these par- 
ticular features. Added to this was the fact that her 
skipper and crew had had the valuable experience of the 
hard racing of 1899. and were thereby capable of getting 
all there was out of her. Thus Columbia will meet Sham- 
rock II. better prepared and in far better condition than 
any defender of the America Cup has ever been; and if 
she shall lose to Shamrock II. , the j^achting world will 
be entirely satisfied that she has simply met a faster boat 
and will have no excuses to offer. 
The boats are apparently so evenly matched that a pre- 
diction as to the winner would be very difficult. 5ham- 
rock II. will probably make her best showing in light to 
moderate winds and a smooth sea; while Columbia will 
be at her best in heavier weather. But we are satisfied 
that Columbia will give a .splendid account of herself 
under all the conditions she will have to meet. 
Cold Storage. 
THE NEW YORK FISH' CULTURIST. 
The death of A. N. Cheney made vacant the office of 
State Fish Culturist. The position is one of great respon- 
sibility and importance, and one of which the good or 
bad conduct has a direct bearing upon the material pros- 
perity of the State. There are not many men in New 
York, nor, indeed, in the country at large, who are 
equipped to fill the place. A man in every way capable 
is to be found, however, in Dr. Tarleton H. Bean, whose 
name lla^ long been familiar to the public by reason of 
his connection with the United States Fish Commission, 
and various other p.ositions of importance. Dr. Bean was 
for several years ichthyologist of the United States Com- 
mission ; he has had charge of the Government fishery 
department in important expositions at home and abroad, 
and he was for a time the very capable and efficient 
director of the New York Aquarium, until put out of 
office to make way for a political heeler. Dr. Bean has an 
extensive and practical knowledge of fish, fishing and 
fishculture, a knowledge which is not confined to the in- 
habitants of the fresh waters alone, but extends to the 
fishes of the brackish waters and the sea coast. His range 
of experience in all these branches has been extensive, and 
might now with gi-eat advantage be employed in the in- 
terest of the State. His many equipments make Dr. Bean 
well fitted for the position of State Fish Culturist, and 
it is hoped tliat Governor Odell may recognize this when 
he comes to fill the vacant place. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
Rev. Moses Harvey, of St. John's, Newfoundland, died 
on Sept. 3, aged ninety years. Mr. Harvey had been a 
resident of St. John's for a half-century, and was gi'eatly 
beloved by the people of Newfoundland. He was widely 
known as an author of an historical work on the island, 
and as a writer on natural history. He was among the 
early contributors to the Forest and Stream, his most 
notable paper being a description published in this journal 
in 1874 of a new species of cuttlefish of gigantic size, the 
first announcement of the discovery of which Mr. Harvey 
made to the world of science. The creature surpassed in 
reality the fictitious "devil fish" of Victor Hugo's "Toilers 
of the Sea." Its body was between seven and eight feet in 
length, and the arms measured twenty-four feet, their 
extremities when spread out being fifty-two feet apart. 
Afterward Mr. Harvey secured specimens of the fish and 
sent them to Pi-of. A. E. A^errill, of, Yale, and to the 
National Museum in Washington. 
The third annual meeting of the Appalachian National 
Park Association was held in Asheville, N. C. Sept. 10. 
This was the last meeting to be held before the park 
project shall come before Congress, and measures were 
discussed looking to a proper presentation of the matter 
to Congress. Senator Pritchard recently wrote to the 
president of the Association, urging that every member of 
Congress should be addressed by letter and made fully 
acquainted with the plans and purposes of those who are 
looking for the establishment of the park. This scheme 
is one which should commend itself unreservedly to 
Congress, and to the people of the United States speaking 
through their representatives in Congress. 
Vice-President Roosevelt went right to the pith of it 
when he said at the Vermont League meeting last Friday 
that the game of the land should be preserved "by the 
people and for the people." That is sound doctrine. It is 
the doctrine we have been preaching in these columns for 
many years, both as to game and as to the fish in "the home 
waters. The men who can afford to travel far into a game 
or fish country, or to fence in their game and fish pre- 
serves and employ kee-pers for them, may be left .to look 
out for themselves. They will always have game and 
fish. But if the fisherman and the gunner of moderate 
m^eans does-not look out for the preservation of the gam.e 
in the home fields and the fish m the home waters, he will 
be obliged to go without shooting and fishing, "The 
preservation of the game of the land by the people for 
the i>eople." That is the pith of it. 
How many of the readers of Forest and Stream have 
ever been inside of a cold storage warehouse? Not 
many, we fancy, and yet it is a most interesting place. It 
shows the growth of the economies of the present day, as 
well as almost anything can. In its cold rooms are hung 
vast quantities of perishable meats, preserved day after 
day, week after week and month after month, from the 
possibility of ferrnentation and decay, and beside,? this 
too often there _are piled up in it boxes and barrels con- 
taining such vast quantities of game as almost to stagger 
the imagination. 
The usefulness of the cold storage warehouse is great, 
but, like many another good thing, it may be employed for 
evil purposes. This was done in the case of the Arctic 
Free^.ing Warehouse, in which last May and June a 
seizure of game out of season was made by Mr. J. E. 
Overton, one of the New York State game protectors. 
The account given in another column presents facts which 
are of the very greatest interest and which, if their full 
significance be taken in by the reader, should arouse all 
-Sportsmen to a sense of what is becoming of oiir vanish- 
ing game, and of the importance of showing more active 
interest in the matter than is usually displayed. Here is 
an object lesson the like of which we perhaps have never 
had before. 
The sportsman will do well to ponder the facts which 
. have come to light in connection with this seizure. He 
should try — if he can bring his mind to do so — to con- 
sider what 6.000 grouse mean, 5,000 quail, 7,000 English 
snipe, 9,000 golden plover, 1,000 or more wild ducks, and 
nearly 10,000 song birds. Let him try to think how many 
ruffed grouse or pinnated grouse or sharp-tailed grouse 
may be found in the shooting country with which he 
is familiar. How many broods of quail it would take to 
make up 4,500 birds; how many English snipe or golden 
plover he sees in a whole shooting season. Let him con- 
sider that each large city of the country has many of 
these cold storage warehotises, in which perhaps there 
may be illegal game: in numbers almost as large as was 
found by Mr. Overton, and that besides the warehouses 
in the large cities there are many others in the smaller 
ones. All through the shooting season and long after 
it is over these places wait, like insatiate monsters with 
jaws ever open, always ready to receive more, and more, 
and more. They are never satisfied; they would not be 
satisfied if the last bird or the last beast had been killed 
and was in a box and frozen. They would feel ill used be- 
cause there was not more game to come to them. 
From sportsmen all over the land we hear constant com- 
plaints of the constantly decreasing supply of game. Gun- 
ners of Indiana and Illinois declare that in their States 
•the prairie chicken is almost extinct. A like statement 
is made about the sharp-tailed grouse in parts of Mimie- 
sota, Nebraska and South Dakota. The quail is vanishing 
from over the land, and the duck shooters lament con- 
tinually that where once the fowl darkened the air they 
are now hardly seen at all. 
But here in the cold room» of the Arctic Freezing Ware- 
house we see very clearly where the birds are going. A 
single storage warehouse contains, let its say, 50,000 head 
of game. What is the number of cold storage ware- 
houses in the coimtry which deal in illegal game? Is it 
fifty, and does each one contain 50,000 head of game — or 
•2,500,000 head in all? Or, is the number double that? We 
do not know. What we do know beyond controversy, is 
that here in a single building in New York city was 
gathered game enough to have stocked a State, or two or 
three States, that it had been slaughtered for gain, was 
held illegally, and not only this, but was probably in large 
measure killed and shipped illegally. 
As elsewhere stated, the mere number of birds, or the 
number of boxes, containing so many birds each, conveys 
little meaning to most of us, but if any one will sit down 
and count up the good shooting days that he can remem- 
ber and then will add together the bags of all those good 
jdays and finally will compare that total with the number 
'^f birds seized by the New York protector, he can make 
himself comprehend in some degree what this seizure 
represents. 
The matter is ope which the courts must now act on. 
There is no doubt that the storage warehouse people will 
fight hard, for the principle at stake is one which touches 
their business very vitally. Nevertheless, in view of past 
decisions by the sQUfts and the growing sentiment in ifavo^; 
