Jan. 31, I903.J 
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proved to be a fat arid jnicy.niduritaitt lioili sMt On 
from Wj'oming by Thomas Eiw6oci Hcifet. . 
Among those who sat down were Major Austiri Wads- 
worth, Senator Burton, of Kansas; Maj. Jno. Pitcher, 
Superintendent Yellowstone National Park; Col. Geo. 
S. Anderson, for many years superintendent of the Na- 
tional Park; Hon. Jno. F. Lacey, of Towa; Admiral 
Willard H. Brownson. Mr. Owen VVister. Dr. Lewis R. 
Morris, Mlt. Robeft Hill Pfentice, Mr. Whiteliouse, Dr. 
A. Doiiaidson Smith, Mr. Arnold Hague. Mr.^ W. j. 
Soardman, Mr. D. M. l^arrillger. Mr. GeO. BhesteiH, 
Mr. Winthrop Chanier. Mr. Paul J. Dashieil, Mr. Geo. 
Bird Grilmell, Mr. Madison Grant. Mr. Geo. H. Ly- 
lilai1. Mr. Henry May, Mr. ti. A. t. Penrose, Jr., Mr. 
A. P. Proctor, Dr. Jno. Rogers, Jn,, Dr. J. L. Seward, 
Mr. Philip Schnyierj Mi". Heiiry L. Stiilson, Mr. M. 
G. Seckendorff. Mr. Aldeii Sanipsoti, C0I. Walter S. 
Schuvler, Dr. C. Hart Merriani, Prof Heiiry S. Os- 
born,"^ Col. Cecil Clay and Mr. Gtiford Pirichot. . 
An interesting address was made by Mr. A. A. All-- 
derson, of New York, supervisor of the Teton. Forest 
Reserve, who told of the reorganization of the forestry 
force of the reserve and the work done in the short 
time since he had takeii office. He spoke of the rav- 
ages of the sheep arid of the forest fires, and of the 
difficulties met witli itt his wdrk, but fllso of the im- 
proved local sentiment for ganie arid forest protection 
among the people of jacksoil'.s Hole arid yiciriity. 
Maj. Jiio. Pitcher, the Superintendent of the Park, 
told of the conditions there, especially in wlriter,_ of 
the starting of the new buffalo herd, which consists 
of 18 cows and 2 bulls, the last from the Goodnight 
herd of Texas, while the coWS are from the Allard 
herd of western Monlaria. There £li:e thus two distinct 
strains of blood arid hopes arfe entertairied of seCuririg 
a third strain. Maj. Pitcher also spoke ril warni terms 
of the changed sentiment among the populatiort adja- 
cent to the Park in regard to game protection. These 
people now feel a distinct pride and interest in the 
reservation and its prosperity, and will do anything 
in their power to assist the superintendent in his work. 
Maj. Pitcher spoke with absolute coilfidcilce of the 
abiiitv of the Park authorities to protect the.ganle 
while' it was in the Park, but alluded to the sriiall area 
of the winter range within the reservatioH and to the 
territory controlled by Mr. Anderson, as that espe- 
ciallv needing protection. 
Prof. H[enry Fairfield Osborn, the eminent paleotl- 
tologist, spoke next. He alluded to the millions of 
years that it had taken nature to develop_ from much 
more generalized animals the big game which We know- 
to-day on the North American Continent, and yet 
here was civilization armed with its improved rifles 
undoing — by the extermination of these animals — in a 
century the'work that had been going on for uncounted 
ages. 
Prof. Osborn was followed by Mr. Gifford Pmchot, 
who has just returned from an examination of the 
Philippine Islands. He spoke encouragingly of the 
change of feeling in regard to game and forest pro- 
tection that had recently taken place. During much 
of our nations history the forests had been regarded 
as the enemy of civilization and of progress. Now the 
view taken is a different one. We must keep on work- 
ing hard for a few years longer, and there is great 
hope that a proper system of laws and means for car- 
rying them out, will be set on foot and so firmly estab- 
lished that they will endure. 
Senator Burton, of Kansas, made an interesting and 
somewhat humorous address, alluding to the fact that, 
as chairman of the forestry committee of the Senate, 
he had that morning favorably reported Senate Bill 
6689, which the club strongly advocates, and express- 
ing his hope that it might pass the House, as well 
also as the bill for the Appalachian Park. 
Hon. Jno. F. Lacey, of Iowa, made a ringing speech 
alluding to the various bills that he had introduced 
with the purpose of preserving natural objects in this 
country, whether living or inorganic. It was a splen- 
did and eloquent effort. 
In response to certain questions Maj. Pitcher gave 
further information about the Yellowstone Park, and 
the abundance and taraeness of the game there in win- 
ter, and later Col. Geo. S. Anderson, that sturdy friend 
of the Park and gallant soldier, who has made for 
himself so superb a record in the Philippines, told 
something of the time when he was superintendent of 
the Park, and of the difficulties that he met and over- 
came. He paid a splendid tribute to the late William 
Hallctt Phillips, whose untiring devotion to the Park 
is .still fresh hi the minds of those who knew him best. 
Other speakers made interesting remarks. 
The meeting is, by many of those present, regarded 
as one of the most interesting that the club ever held. 
A War Cry. 
Edit of' Forest and Stream: 
There isn't a man in this State handling a gun or a 
fish-rod who does not know that the game laws of 
the State are inadequate, contradictory, and in some par- 
ticulars absurd. 
Why don't you get up some enthusiasm, have a general 
round-up of evils to be corrected, and picking out a small 
number for treatment, enlist the united efforts of all 
sportsmen for their passage? 
No firing into the "brown," however, We must pick 
our marks. Two or three sound, well-considered 
measures solidified into law are worth any amount of 
random, disjointed discussion and grumbling over exist- 
ing conditions. 
FniiE.ST AND Stre.\m IS the best medium for the con- 
solidation of interests. 
I think you represent the best thinking, believing and 
acting body of sportsmen. 
You do not attempt to boost your circulation by form- 
ing a more or less useful protective league, making 
Forest .\nd Stream the club mouthpiece and organiza- 
tion register, nor do you lampoon manufacturers and 
dealers whom you cannot induce to advertise with you, 
.though for the matter of that, I believe your advertising 
|-:olumns will show all standard goods. 
^ jVlightj^ good reading you have, too. 
With the exception of my own stuff, I think I enjoy 
reading thg Stories signed Cabia Blanco more than 
dthgrS,- 
One evident policy Of your paper I admire. 
It is the intention to throttle anything that looks hke 
a long-winded discussion oVef some never-to-be-satisfac- 
torily-answered problem, as, "How does the Woodcock 
Produce its Whistle?" or, "Setter vs. Pointer/' and so 
on. There are a number of old fossils that corruscate in 
your columns occasionally, to whom a never-ending dis- 
cu,^sion would mean the indefinite prolonging of their 
lives, so great would be their interest and so determined 
their purpose. 
You undoubtedly have the unexpressed thanks of hun- 
dreds of nervous readers for sidetracking these old 
smoothbores. 
To come back to oUf mutton, however. 
If I were the Forest AnIj Stream (and Rod and Gun 
thrown in), I'd publish something every week during the 
sili:ing of the Legislature tending to awaken and main- 
tain interest in the game protection problem and publish 
t^^'iee as mueh during the close season for Legislatures, 
when Senators and Assemblymen are hibernating and 
candidates are aWakentiig. 
There must be some power in concerted action, and 
you are the medium for developing and transmitting. 
Port Richmond. N. Y. War-CrY. 
tAnd now that the subject of zoological classification is 
before the house, will War-Cry kindly tell us where to 
place an old "fosSir' that "corruscates," or a "smoothbore" 
that eatt be "sidetracked?"] 
Washington's New Game Law. 
SeATTlS, Wash. — The sportsmen of Eastern and West- 
etn Wafihiiigton are in harmony regarding the new 
game law Wnldh Will be presented to the State Legisla- 
ture in the near future. It is hoped that there will be no 
amendments, because past experiences in this direction 
have proved that the result was a general upsetting of 
conditions rather than a settling of important questions. 
There are few hunters who will object to the payment 
of a dollar gun license. .A.11 they desire is that the 
money derived from this source be applied properly to the 
protection of game, The old objection to the license that 
it wa.^ necessary to take out a license in every county 
has been avoided by a provision that one license covers 
the entire State. 
Changing the date of open season on grouse, quail and 
ducks from August 15 to September i is a good move. 
La.Ht fall the young grouse were very strong on August 
IS; but as a rule they^ are too weak during the iiiiddle of 
August to have a fair show with the expert wing shot. 
It is only fair to give them a little chance. 
It seems almost useless to protect Mongolian pheasants 
until 1908, because these beautiful birds have been ex- 
terminated, so far as I can learn, on Whidby Island and 
in the White River Valley. The last time I was hunting 
in the vicinity of Oak Harbor on Whidby Island there 
were very few Mongolians, and I have been told that this 
fall witnes.sed the extinction of those remaining. 
Harr)' Pauley, who is well informed on conditions in 
the While River Valley, told me recently that the little 
band of Mongolians that had been protected by the resi- 
dents of the valley in hopes that they would multiply and 
eventually afford good sport, had been wnped out of exist- 
ence by an unknown hunter from either Tacoma or 
Seattle. 
Elk will be protected until 1908 if the law passes. 
There are none too many of these magnificent creatures 
in the Olympic Mountains now, and while it is extremely 
doubtful if a protective law will keep the Indians on the 
west side of the mountains from killing, it may be that 
the destruction of the bands which work up into the Hub 
or Second Divide country and the First Divide section, 
will be materially decreased. From what I have heard 
and known personally about the hunters at the head of 
Hood Canal and around Lake Cushman they have always 
shown good judgment in killing elk. As they have ob- 
served the law, generally speaking, they will probably 
object to the cutting off of their favorite sport. 
PoRTUs Baxter. 
A Crippled Doe. 
Massachusetts papers published the other day a re- 
port of deer suffering from the foot and mouth disease 
which it was feared they might communicate to domestic 
stock. Commissioner Collins, in reply to an inquiry on 
the subject, writes as follows, showing that the whole 
agitation came from the peculiar actions of a crippled 
doe : 
Boston, Mass., Jan. 19. — There was really little or 
nothing in the story that deer in Dracut or vicinity w^ere 
suffering from foot and mouth disease. I think it was 
the day before Christmas that Commissioner Wentworth. 
of New Hampshire, who chanced to be in Low^ell on other 
business, telephoned me that the people along the 
northern border of this State, where the deer move 
across the boundary line between Massachusetts and New 
Hampshire, claimed there W'Cre one or two lame deer 
which it was feared had the hoof and mouth disease. In 
the condition of public feeling at that time, it was con- 
sidered wise to settle the question, if practicable. 
Authority was therefore given Mr. Wentworth to kill any 
deer found on this side of the State line which appeared 
to be in a condition that might cause people to believe 
it was afflicted with the dreaded hoof and mouth disease. 
Mr. Wentworth acted promptly. On December 25 he 
wrote me as follows : 
"I went to Tyngsboro to-day and made inquiries and 
looked the section over where they claim the diseased 
deer were seen. They all agree there- is one deer, a doe, 
that is lame in one hind foot. One woman said she saw 
deer there often ; that last Sunday they saw two deer, 
a buck and a doe. The doe was lame in one hind leg. 
They looked it over carefully with an opera glass. One 
of the toes seemed to stick up into the air; the leg was 
swollen and quite black. They thought it a gunshot 
wound. I did not find these deer, but did see a very large 
buck and within easy rifle shot of it. I started it and the 
first few jumps it made was from 12 to iS feet long. If 
I ever saw a well deer that was one, and if signs count 
for anything, there are a number there. I don't believe in 
this sick deer yarn. But as this section is wthin a mile 
of the New Plampsliire line, I am anxious to know the 
truth of it." 
The accuracy of this conclusion, so far as hoof and 
mouth disease is concerned, was demonstrated next day, 
January 26, when the lame doe — a large one — was shot 
Writing on that date, Mr. Wentworth reported as f ol- - 
lows : 
"I have cleared up the foot and mouth disease in Mas- 
sachusetts that they thought was among the deer. There 
came a good tracking snow last night, so I went to Tyngs- 
boro this morning. Started a buck and doe. The doe 
did not go all right. I started her up three times. Shot 
her then. I could have shot her either time. The trouble 
was she had been shot, breaking the hind leg, so that 
every time she stepped the [ankle] bone went into the 
ground. * * * I got Dr. Eaton there and he pro- 
nounced the deer all right, except for the tvound." 
Mr. Wentworth sent me the broken leg, which was 
broken just above the fetlock, and the bare bone was 
pushed through the skin. A fistula was formed below the 
fracture. 
The leg was turned over to the State Bureau of Ani- 
mal Industry, as the gentlemen of the bureau thought 
it a rather interesting specimen. 
New Brunswick Gwides' Association* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The annual meeting of the New Brunswick Guides' 
Association was at the Barker House, Fredericton, 
January 13. In the absence of President Sanson, Henry 
Braithwaite occupied the chair. There was quite a 
number of the prominent guides present. Officers were 
elected for the ensuing year: President, Geo. E. Arm- 
strong; Vice-President, Arthur Pringle; Secretary- 
Treasurer, A. R. Slipp. Membership Committee : Heniy 
Braithwaite, Adam Moore and David Pringle. Execu- 
tive Committee: H. Braithwaite, W. H. Allen, Charlie 
Cremins and the officers. 
Some time was spent in discussing the game law, and 
all present seemed to be of the opinion that it would stand 
some amending. The meeting favored increasing the resi- 
dent hunting license from $2 to $5 and having the big 
game season open on September i instead of September 
15, as now. 
As a means of keeping out non-resident guides the 
association thinks that an amendment should be made to 
the game law, making it compulsory for the holder of a 
non-resident license to employ none but resident guides. 
The association does not favor increasing the non-resi- 
dent license fee at the present time. 
The guides all spoke of the game season just closed on 
December 31 as tlie most prosperous they had ever ex- 
perienced, and they considered the outlook for the future 
ti; be exceedinglj'- bright. During the evening the guides 
were treated to a liberal supply of fruit by G. T. Whelp- 
ley, the well-known grocer, and adopted a resolution 
thanking him for his kindness. 
It was unanimously decided to hold the next annual 
meeting at Perth, with a view of encouraging more of the 
Tobique guides to become members. 
There will be seven of the association guides at the 
New York Sportsmen's Show. They expect to leave 
Fredericton February 21. G. E. A. 
Canadian Camp-Fife CI«b* 
The Canadian Camp-Fire Club will give a dinner to 
sportsmen in Madison Square Garden, N. Y., on Febru- 
ary 20. 
The Canadian Camp-Fire Club is a very strong organ- 
ization and is composed of some of the best known sports- 
men and writers in the United States and Canada. Its 
President is Dr. G. Lenox Curtis, of West Fifty-eighth 
street, New York. 
Forest Reserve Game Reserves* 
Senate Bill 6689, introduced by Senator Perkins, of California, 
reads as follo-ws: 
A bill for the protection of -wild animals, birds and fish in the 
forest reserves of the United States. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Presi- 
dent of the United States is hereby authorized to designate such 
areas in the public f( rest reserves as should, in his opinion, be set 
aside for the protection of wild animals, birds and fish, and be 
recognized as a breeding place therefor. 
Sec. 2. That when sucli areas have been designated as pro- 
vided for in Sec. 1 of this act, hunting, trapping, killing or cap- 
ture of wild animals, b-'rds and fish upon the lands and within the 
waters of the United States within the limits of said areas shall 
be unlawful, except under such regulations as may be prescribed, 
from time to time, by the Secretary of the Interior; and any per- 
son violating such regulations shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and shall, upon conviction in any United States court 
of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000, 
or be imprisoned fcr a period not exceeding one year, or shall 
suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. 
Sec. 3. That it is the purpose of this act to protect from tres- 
pass the public lands of the United States and tlic wild animals, 
birds and fish, Vv'hich may be thereon, and not to interfere with 
the operation of the local game laws as affecting private. State or 
Territorial lands. 
At the annual meeting of the New York Zoological Society last 
week the following indorsement of the bill was adopted as an. 
expression of the sentiment of the Society: 
Whereas, The greater part of the big game, especially wapiti or 
elk, remaining in the United States is now gathered in and around 
the -Yellowstone National l^ark; and 
Whereas, The number of wapiti or elk and other game animals 
is rapidly decreasing owing to the killing for elk tusks and for 
meat; be it 
Resolved, That the Board of Managers of the New York Zoolog- 
ical Society respectfully urge upon Congress the enactment of 
Senate Bill No. 66S9, introduced by Senator Perkins, of Cali- 
fornia, empowering the President of the United States to desig- 
nate such areas in the public forest reserve as should, in his 
opinion, be set aside for the protection of wild animals, Ijirds and 
fish. And be it further 
Resolved, That the Board of Managers of the New York Zoolog- 
ical Society respectfully request the President, in the event of the 
passage of Senate Bill 6689, to set aside the Teton Forest Reserve, 
or such part thereof as may be advisable for a game reserve, and 
to establish therein the same principles of absolute protection of 
animal life as are now in force in the Yellowstone National Park. 
And be it further 
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to this 
President of the United States, and to the proper officials ia 
Congress, ^ijd in the States of Wj'oming. 
