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Province in the open season' and spends five times the 
worth of what he kills. They always do their howling 
behind your back. 
After we left Nova Scotia on our first trip, these 
howlers began. It was said that we hunted without a 
license, and that, had we not skipped out in a hurry, we 
would have been arrested. This was absolutely untrue. 
We were hung up on our way home in that lively town 
of Digby for nearly two days waiting for a steamer for 
Boston. Why didn't the howlers arrest us? In Decem- 
ber of the same year I went back to Digby and hunting 
with the same document (as a license) I killed a moose 
and brought part of it home. Why didn't the howlers 
arrest me? . . , 
I' was told on my last trip to Nova Scotia (I went to 
headwaters of Shelburne River) of an instance which 
would indicate that the blue nosed lawyers (or barrusters. 
as I believe they call them) of the Province do not get 
very much legal work. I was told that on the opening 
o'f a certain term of court in Shelburne there were nq 
jurymen present when his honor the judge took his seat. 
He did not like it. and ordered the sheriff to hunt up 
the jurymen and bring them in. Just then a lawyer spoke 
up, saying: "Perhaps I can explain. There is not a 
case to come before this court and no jury has been 
drawn, as there was nothing for them to do." It looks 
as though when the legal fraternity of Nova Scotia 
get a chance at a non-resident they make the most of it. 
Now, I will say something in favor of a trip to Nova 
Scotia. I wish to praise all the following officials: Those 
of the steamboat lines, custom house, railroads, stages 
and hotels. I never received better treatment from the 
above cla9s. One and all were most courteous and ob- 
liging in every way. They said: 'We are very glad to 
see you; we wish you good luck; we will do all we can 
to induce you to come again; we do not believe in mak- 
ing you pay a hunting license ; we suppose you have such 
a license, but if anyone bothers you while under our 
care, just call on us and we will back you up." And I 
am sure they would. C. M. Stark. 
Dunbarton, N. H., Jan 22. 
Eighth Annual Sportsmen's Show. 
The eighth annual show of the National Sportsmen's 
Association is now but a few weeks away, and with 
characteristic energy and enterprise, Manager Dressel and 
his assistants are working overtime, to have everything 
in readiness for the opening date, Wednesday, March 5. 
With each succeeding year, the Association has planned 
in addition to new exhibits in the realm of sport, a main 
feature that would distinguish the latest show from its 
predecessors, and in accord with this policy, the show 
of 1902 will furnish a spectacle presented upon lines 
radically different from those of last year. Instead of a 
small lake at the eastern end of the Garden, one great 
wooded island will rise from the center of the amphi- 
theater, with the waters of a trout brook winding their 
way along the south shore to the Madison avenue en- 
trance. Bendins? northward, the stream will flow back 
along the north shore to its point of outlet. The source 
of the stream will be a tumbling cascade in the Adiron- 
dacks. or rather so much of the Adirondacks as will have 
been transported from northern New York for the pur- 
pose of lending realism to the scene. This will be repro- 
duced with all of the skill of well-known scenic artists, 
and when completed will represent as delightful a view 
from the Empire State's magnificent playground as any 
ever enjoyed outside of the Adirondacks themselves. 
Upon the island, which will be reached from the "main- 
land" by rustic bridges, there will be walks and paths 
leading to the big-game inclosures, which this year will 
be so cleverly designed as to give the impression 'at first 
glance, that the animals are no more confined than they 
would be in their native wilds. Along shore will be lo- 
cated the camps and cabins of Maine, Adirondack and 
Canadian guides, equipped and constructed just as they are 
along the shores of the Fulton Chain, Moosehead Lake, 
the Rangeleys or the St. John. The entire island will be 
wooded with pine, hemlock and spruce, and the visitor will 
walk, not upon a board flooring as at past shows, but over 
earth and rocks and moss as though in the woods them- 
selves. 
Upon the stream surrounding the island, a canoe ride 
may be enjoyed with guides and Indians plying the 
paddle, and the show thus be viewed under conditions 
that will bring back memories of one's experiences in 
camp all the more vividly. As in past years, the arboreal 
decorations will be most profuse and elaborate, it being 
the purpose of the management to transform the amphi- 
theater as nearly as possible into an ideal sportsman's 
camp. 
At the Fourth avenue end of the south promenade will 
be located the fish exhibit, and in a corresponding loca- 
tion on the north promenade will be found what must 
prove one of the most attractive and interesting features 
of the show. This is the most complete and valuable 
collection of birds', eggs and nests, as well as mounted 
specimens of the birds themselves, in the world. The 
owner, Mr. John Lewis Childs, of Floral Park, Long 
Island, has been engaged for the past two years in adding 
to his rare collection by purchasing outright, other valu- 
able collections, until to-day he boasts of a display that 
can be equalled by no other collector. Some idea of its 
- value can be arrived at, when it is learned that one single 
lot of specimens, many of them being eggs of rare or 
extinct birds, was acquired at a cost to the purchaser of 
$22,000. 
The exhibit of sportsmen's supplies and equipment, and 
of mounted game heads, birds and animals, will again 
occupy space facing the broad promenade to extend 
around the arena, twelve feet above the main floor. 
One of the features' will be the presence of a party of 
typical Long Island baymen. Their duck shooting hut 
will- be brought piecemear from its present location on the 
south shore of Long Island -near the famous duck waters 
of the-G.reat South Bay, and reconstructed in'the Garden. 
It will then be fitted up" in the "style familiar to all duck 
hunters. The baymen will also bring with them a com- 
plete duck hunting outfit, and will show during the after- 
noon and evening, in a realistic and novel manner, how 
the birds are decoyed and bagged. In tins connection a 
number of trained geese and ducks for decoy purposes 
will be used. 
Another interesting feature will be the presence of an 
old half-breed Canadian trapper, who has, during his 
long career, caught hundreds of all fur-bearing animals 
known in the Dominion. He will come to the show with 
a full set of the devices used for trapping all species of 
animals, from the mink, the muskrat and the otter, to the 
lynx, the fox and the bear, and will give demonstrations 
of his methods and the capacity of many of the animals 
whose hides he makes a business of securing. 
The fly-casting contest, in view of the excellent facilities 
which the 250-foot stretch of water will provide for the 
sport, promises to be a most interesting competition this 
year. It has been several years since fishermen have 
enjoyed this privilege at the New York Show, and since 
the announcement that it would be made a feature of this 
next exhibit, many letters of approval have been received 
from well-known fly-casters of this and other Eastern 
cities. 
Scenic artists are now, and have been for some time, at 
work upon the model for the interior of the Garden, which 
will be far more elaborate than anything yet attempted by 
the Association. Judged from these models, now about 
completed, the illusion of a great composite camp for 
the hunter, the fisherman, the trapper, the guide,_ the 
canoeist, the duck shooter and the lover of nature, will be 
most striking and complete. 
New York Game Interests. 
Watertown, N. Y., Jan. 22. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: This question of protection of fish and game is 
one of great importance to all lovers of the rod and 
gun, and it seems to me is one that should be governed 
to a great extent by the sportsmen of the several counties. 
I have always been a strong advocate for uniform game 
laws for the entire State, with this exception: That when 
any one or more counties want a shorter open season 
for the better protection of fish and game than the general 
law allows they should be permitted to have it. 
The conditions are not alike in all counties. , In some 
counties, by reason of over shooting or other causes, 
game is rapidly decreasing,- while in others it may be 
plentiful. To say, for the sake of uniform game laws, 
that the sportsmen in the counties where game is rapidly 
disappearing must continue to shoot, simply because some 
other county still has game in plenty, is unjust. In some 
of the counties there are still good breeding grounds for 
wildfowl, where, if spring shooting was prohibited,, the 
black duck, mallard, teal and woodduck would breed in 
lareg numbers. In other counties there are no such 
breeding grounds, but by reason of high water in the 
spring a few ducks are killed, and these are the counties 
that are, and always will be, opposed to any law stopping 
spring shooting. We have read in Forest and Stream 
more than once that the private game preserve is a ( good 
thing not only for its members but for the surrounding 
territory. If the sportsmen of Erie, Niagara, Cayuga, or 
any other county want to make a duck preserve of their 
counties as Jefferson has done, why should the sports- 
men of Oswego, Onondaga or any other county object? 
If the counties which are directly interested, who have 
good breeding grounds, stop spring shooting, which I 
believe they soon will, there will be very few ducks shot 
in this State in the spring, and we will not have these 
other counties seeking the repeal of this law each year, 
for it_wifl be none of their business. 
At the request of the sportsmen laws are passed, and 
with a great majority of us that ends it. We have sixty- 
one counties and we expect our thirty-eight protectors 
to enforce this law. If anyone steals your favorite gun 
or dog you say nothing; it might hurt your business. 
The fellow might burn your house, poison your stock or 
give you a black eye; but if you see this same fellow kill 
a game bird in the close season, or spear a bass or trout 
on its spawning bed, you at once notify the nearest pro- 
tector. Do you? A demand has been made for twelve 
more protectors; we need them, but unless they have 
the support and aid of the sportsmen in each county, they 
will accomplish little. Why is it that the average man 
will see his favorite cover cleaned out a month before 
the open season by some unprincipled sooner, and yet, if 
this same unprincipled sooner should steal one of his 
hens he would prosecute him quicker than a flash? What 
we need more than prot'ectors is a public sentiment for 
the strict enforcement of the game laws, and one way to 
secure this is for the sportsman to obey them himself, 
and to give his aid and support to our protectors in pun- 
ishing those who do not. Get the people interested 
through the local press. Few editors will refuse to ad- 
vocate good game laws and their proper enforcement, and 
our success in securing good laws and their enforcement 
in Jefferson is due largely to the local newspapers. With- 
out them we could have accomplished little. 
If the sportsmen of each county would give a small 
fraction of the time, money and energy that they ex- 
pend in the pursuit and the killing of game during the 
open season to the proper enforcement of the game 
laws during the close season, there would be fewer viola- 
tions of the game law, and by the term sportsman I 
mean every man and boy; black or white, rich or poor, 
country or city bred, who loves to hunt for the pleasure 
or profit it brings him. I say profit, for as long as we 
permit the sale of game, just so long is market shooting 
a legitimate pursuit, and the market shooter, of all others, 
should be the most interested in the protection of game 
during its breeding season. The sportsmen of Jefferson 
have stopped spring shooting of wildfowl. Why? Be- 
cause we have the water and feed, and we believed that 
the birds would stay and nest here, and the result has 
been such that we want no more spring shooting in 
Jefferson. 
The gray squirrel, ruffed grouse, and woodcock are 
growing less each year, _ and in many of our woods and 
covers where a few years ago they were abundant, few 
or none can be found to-day. If the sportsmen of Jeffer- 
son should ask for a close season for one or two years 
to allow the few remaining animals and birds to multiply 
and restock our woods and covers, what valid objection 
can any of our sister counties have? 
A bill has been introduced in the Assembly to stop 
the sale of ruffed grouse, quail and woodcock in this State 
at any time. The game dealers have a strong lobby at 
Albany working against this bill, and unless the sports- 
men who believe in "the Forest and Stream plank 
make a united and determined effort, we cannot pass it. 
The sportsmen of each county are responsible for the 
action of their representatives. 7 If this law is worth hav- 
ing it is worth asking for, ai/l if you and your friends 
don't ask for it you may rest assured you will not get it. 
W. H. Tallett. 
Commissioner Carleton's Figures. 
Augusta, Me., Jan. 24.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
My attention has been called to various editorials and 
communications, in the last few issues of your paper, re- 
flecting more or less upon the opinion I have held for 
many years relative to the licensing of hunters of big 
game in Maine, and more particularly upon my Bangor 
address before the Maine Sportsmen's Fish and Game 
y^.s s oci ci 1 1 on 
Assuming that you desire to be fair, I wish to point 
out a few of the errors you have given editorial utter- 
ance to. 
In your last issue you say: "Meanwhile, it appears tc 
be up to Commissioner Carleton to prove his $15,000,06 
estimate of revenues from the Maine woods." 
Now, if you desire to be fair, you will say as con- 
spicuously as you have made the assertion, that Commis- 
sion Carleton has never made any such "estimate of 
revenues from the Maine woods;" nor, indeed, any such 
estimate or revenues from the Maine woods, Maine in- 
land waters and the summer vacationists combined. 
What I did say in my Bangor address was as follows: 
"The result has been that tourists, fishermen, hunters 
and recreationists have been flocking to our State in ever 
increasing numbers for twenty-five years or more, and 
now a vast throng visits us annually, attracted primarily 
by our unparalleled facilities for fishing and hunting. 
"It would be of great importance if we were able to 
count them correctly, so \ that our people might know 
definitely just how many there are who come to us each 
year. 
"Considerable effort has been made to ascertain 
definitely this number, and the figures given run up into 
the hundreds of thousands, and the amount of money left 
with us by them as fifteen millions of dollars. 
"This vast sum is the amount as estimated by the 
Boston Herald, according to a statement I saw pub- 
lished in it last year, and favorably commented upon by 
many of the papers in Maine." 
From our annual report for the year 1900 I take the 
following: 
"The number of people who came to Maine in 1900. 
and amount of money expended by them, is variously 
estimated by those best qualified to judge as from fifty 
to two hundred and fifty thousand. Col. F. E. Boothby, 
general passenger agent of the Maine Central Railroad, 
writes: While of course we cannot give you a definite 
statement as to the number of summer visitors, fishermen 
and hunters who passed over this road from out of the 
State the past season, yet from figures which we have 
previously made, I should say that two hundred and fifty 
thousand (250,000) would not be very far out of the 
way; certainly as many as that number.' 
"Fifty thousand would seem, in view of Mr. Boothby s 
letter, as much too small an estimate; two hundred and 
fifty thousand may be too large an estimate. It is clear, 
however, that not less than from four to six millions of 
dollars were expended in Maine by these visitors; cer- 
tainly nearly double this amount if Mr. Boothby is 
correct." . . _ ... 
Now, if you do me the fairness to print this, I will, 
with pleasure, call attention to other errors and mislead- 
ing misstatements which have appeared in your paper. 
L. T. Carleton, Chairman. 
Non-Resident Licenses. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The recent agitation of the hunting license question m 
the State of Maine shows the utter selfishness, that 
prompts the enactment of non-resident license laws. The 
motive is usually read between the lines; but Commis- 
sioner Carleton bluntly admits that the object would be 
to keep the non-resident of limited means out of his 
State, and thereby make it easier for men of wealth to 
find game in sufficient abundance to induce them to come 
again. He seems to take especial objection to the pres- 
ence of Ohio and Indiana hunters, for which I am very 
sorry, for I had hopes of seeing that much-talked-of game 
country in the near future. It goes a little "ag'in the 
grain" to tramp over a preserve where the watchmen 
look upon you as a trespasser or poacher. I feel_ better 
while accepting an invitation, than I do while being in- 
formed that I am not welcome. > 
I have often wondered if those who are responsible 
for the present Michigan game law ever feel the least bit 
of remorse, now that they have practically shut non- 
resident sportsmen out of their State. These Michigan 
statesmen, however, inadvertently paid Us aliens a com- 
pliment. We can pay $25 railroad fare and $25 license 
fee, hunt deer three weeks and kill three deer for con- 
sumption within the State. 
That, in brief, is the substance of the law. Now that 
certainly is complimentary in more ways than one. We 
are first accredited with being able to pay the $50. That 
is a mere nothing for desirable sportsmen. Secondly, we 
are supposed to be able to kill our three deer within the 
specified time, and have enough time left over in which to 
eat, devour or dispose of our three deer without either 
selling or exporting any portion of them. Now. serious- 
ly, the compliment comes, in the supposition that a visiting 
sportsman not being allowed to sell nor export any part 
of the three deer he pays for, will kill no more than he 
can consume during his stay. But where is the compli- 
ment to the father of such an unjust law? 
There was once in common practice such a thing as 
consistency, and it was referred to as a jewel, but it 
does not find favor with some of our lawmakers. 
I was in Michigan one trip when I did not kill a deer. 
