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grizzly bear skin to be sent with our trophies, and un- 
less this article is read by some members of our re- 
spective families, our loved ones will revel in the pos- 
session of a bear skin that "Pop shot." At Livingston 
we made the acquaintance of a prominent business 
man, Mr. Miles, and his "silent partner." This silent 
partner is a petrified man who was found in the mud 
flats of the Missouri River by a cowboy, and is sup- 
posed to be the petrified body of an ex-Governor of 
Montana who disappeared suddenly. There is a bullet 
hole in the head and the arms are tied with thongs. 
The entire body is of stone or concrete; and is almost 
absolutely true to nature. It will be exhibited at the 
St. Louis World's Fair, and it is well worth seeing at 
two "bits" a see. In discussing the anatomy of the 
liuman body, the Doctor demonstrated to his compan- 
ions that three spans of the hand will reach from the 
chin to the pubic arch. The "silent partner" was not 
up to the standard in this, as well as in a few other 
anatomical landmarks; but as a work of art he is a 
howling success. 
As stated before, our trip was de-^oid of accident, al- 
though the Doctor had elaborately prepared himself 
for all kinds of surgical emergencies. At Livingston, 
however, we struck a snag. The Count received a 
small cut in the face from a razor in the hands of a 
local barber, and the bleeding from this little wound 
was so profuse that the services of three local practi- 
tioners and two apothecaries were needed on the spot 
to cheek the hemorrhage. In this emergency, of course, 
Iowa was nowhere to be found, and so missed the 
chance of his life of getting an oflicial decoration. The 
presence of our noted German w^as recognized where- 
ever we went. In the woods a ranchman traveled 
miles to shake the hand of "Prince Hohenlohe"; and 
at the railroad station at Gardiner a delegation of Ger- . 
mans were waiting to shake hands with "Prince 
Henr}'"; and in Livingston a patriotic Austrian 
butcher whose elegant shop we inspected as we 
strolled through the town, was so delighted when our 
Count's cognito was revealed to him on the quiet by 
the foxy Ben that he presented each one of us with a 
fine Bologna sausage, which we devoured, all but the 
string, in a neighboring restaurant, where we were 
able to get ale and crackers. Before traveling East 
we visited the mining town of Butte, the noisiest place 
outside of New York. The miners work in three 
shifts of eight hours each, and the town is open all 
night. The political fight between the Heinze and 
Clark factions was at its height when we were there 
and good whiskir is 25 cents a drink. We were 
shown through one of the mines and descended twelve 
hundred feet. Before we entered the mine we were re- 
quired to sign a slip exonerating the companj^ in case 
of accident. After we were shot down twelve hundred 
feet and had stumbled over any quantity of dynamite in 
our passage from one ledge to another, we were able 
to understand why the company had taken such inter- 
est in our welfare. 
We also visited the various smelting works. Butte 
is a great town, not one blade of grass grows any- 
where, coppery water from the mines flows all over, 
and little boys in the streets, instead of playing 
"craps" as they do in New York, hunt up old tomato 
cans and dip them into the copper water for pastime. 
After a little while the can comes out the color of an 
Indian. On our way East we were delayed five hours 
by a hold-up, the engineer was killed, and the express 
car blown to pieces by dynamite, and rifled. The 
passengers were not molested. 
We stopped at Livingston long enough to gather up 
little Catharine and her satchel. She was now in regu- 
lation dress, and had already acquired the jaunty walk 
and manners of little girls. We delivered her in good 
shape to her protectors in Chicago, and some day 
perhaps this little waif will shine in the drawing-rooms 
of fashionable people and will be presented at court. 
After taking in a theater and the Horse Show at 
Cliicago, we boai^ded the Pennsylvania Limited, and 
got to New York over a track saturated with crude 
oil and lined wdth hundreds of coal trains heading 
East. Evei^ything has its end, and so has this trip and 
this stoi-y. But the Livingston sausage had two ends. 
Here are a few parting reflections. 
If you are downcast, go hunting. 
Ditto if you are jolly. 
If you are thin and lean, go and out-climb the moun- 
tain sheep. 
If you are fat, purchase a pound of Carlsbad salt and 
go to Wyoming instead of to Carlsbad. 
If .your wife or daughter has nervous prosperity, take 
her along. Ben Sheffield has accommodations for 
man and beast, both sexes, and Wyoming is Nature's 
sanitarium. A. C. 
Adirondack Summer Business. 
From the report of William F. Fox, Superintendent of New York 
State Forests. 
The business done each season by the hotels and 
boarding houses in the Adirondacks contributes large- 
ly to the development and prosperity of northern New 
York, fairly approaching in its magnitude that of the 
great industries which are dependent on the forest 
product of that region. In the management of this 
business employment is furnished to thousands of peo- 
ple, trade is stimulated by the large purchases of sup- 
plies, building operations increase the demand for 
skilled labor, while the railroad and steamboat lines 
reap the benefits accruing from the large passenger 
and freight traffic. Of more importance, however, far 
greater in its humane aspect than mere commercial ad- 
vantages, are the sanitary benefits afforded by the Adi- 
rondack forests to the thousands who there find re- 
lief from disease and enjoy a new lease of life. The 
healthful climate is due largely to the pure air which, 
carried by mountain winds over great forest areas, is 
freed from dust, smoke and miasmatic influences, 
while in its course it is charged with, balsamic exhala- 
tions that carry healing to the lungs of invalids. 
The statistics published in the annual reports of the 
Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium show a remarkable 
percentage of cures effected in patients suffering from 
incipient consumption; and a large proportion of the 
population in some of the Adirondack villages is com- 
posed of people who enjoy comparatively good health 
in that climate, although they could not live long else- 
where. Of this class many find employment in various 
vocations, while others, whose incomes will permit, 
niaintain a permanent residence there Avithout engag- 
ing in any business or occupation. 
Summary of Hotel Capacities in the Adirondacks. 
Clinton County, 2,153; Essex County, 7,799; Frank- 
lin County, 4,626: Fulton County, 410; Hamilton 
Count}', 2,395; Herkimer County, 2,415; Lewis County, 
510; C3neida County, 180; St. Lawrence County, 1,223; 
Warren County, 2,151; Lake George, 3,640; total, 27,- 
502. 
In August the hotels and boarding houses, with few 
exceptions, are filled to their utmost capacity, and the 
total just given — ^27,502 — indicates closely the number of 
guests in the Adirondacks at that time. With these 
figures must be kept in mind, also, the equally large 
capacity of the private "camps" and cottages, each oc- 
cupied during the season by some family and its 
guests. But the summer boarders are coming and go- 
ing from June to September, staying on an average 
about two weeks each. In the White Mountains, an 
exhaustive census of the summer people and the hotel 
business shows that sixty-two per cent, of the arrivals 
remained less than one week. A careful estimate of 
the total number of summer visitors from the begin- 
ning to the end of the season, as reported by the Adi- 
rondack hotels and boarding houses, to which are 
added the occupants of private camps, shows that 193,- 
681 people went there last seasoiT for recreation and 
health. This includes, also, the sportsmen who went 
there in May for the fishing, and in October or No- 
vember for deer shooting. 
That this number is not an overstatement is evident 
from the information kindly furnished this office by the 
general passenger agents' of the New York Central 
and Delaware and Hudson railroads, from which it ap- 
pears that 225,000 passengers were carried on the Adi- 
rondack divisions during the summer season. These 
figures do not represent the entire, passenger traffic 
during that period, but the difference obtained by de- 
ducting from the total summer traffic an amount equal 
to that of the winter months, the difference evidently 
showing the number of summer boarders, hotel em- 
ployes, and sportsmen on their way to and from the 
w^oods. 
The following statistics are based on the returns 
made to this office by each hotel and boarding house 
in the Adirondack region: 
Volume of Adirondack Business. 
Capital invested in buildings, furniture, 
boats, horses, carriages, etc., not includ- 
ing land: 
Hotels and boarding houses $7,037,923 
Private camps and cottages. 3,846,500 
- $10,884,423 
Number of male help employed — clerks, por- 
ters, cooks, bell boys, musicians, boatmen, 
stablemen, drivers, laborers, etc 3,461 
Number of female help employed — wait- 
resses, chambermaids, cooks, laundresses, 
musicians, telegraph operators, typewrit- 
ers, etc 9,846 
13,307 
Total ; wages paid $993,530 
Total number of hotel guests, boarders, fish- 
ermen, hunters, and occupants of private 
camps or cottages 193,681 
Cash received for board, carriages, boats, 
etc , $5,213,210 
Cash received for railroad and steamboat 
fares 875,000 
It is not claimed that the foregoing figures are ab- 
solutely correct, as the statements made by some of 
the hotel proprietors and boarding house keepers in 
filling out their returns were at times somewhat con- 
fused and indefinite; but they will give a fair idea of 
the stream of wealth that flows into northern New 
York each summer, and which conduces so materially 
to the development and prosperity of the State. It 
is well to note, also, that a good share of the patron- 
age comes from people w^ho reside in other States, and 
that the profit derived from their business furnishes a 
revenue that is especially valuable in that respect. And 
the continuance of this business, with all its accruing 
benefits, is dependent on the preservation of the Adi- 
rondack forests. 
The average wages received by the employes, and 
the average amount paid by guests, may seem too 
small unless one keeps in mind the short season dur- 
ing which it is necessary for the Adirondack hotels to 
employ their help, and the short stay -of a very large 
proportion of the summer boarders. In connection 
with the preparation of these statistics the following 
letters containing interesting and valuable information 
were received: 
Gen. Pass. Agent J. W. Burdick, of the Delaware & 
Hudson Co., writes: "A careful examination of our 
passenger traflic statistics made with reference to as- 
certaining, as nearly as possible, the number of pas- 
sengers carried and the revenue derived from strictly 
pleasure and recreation travel to the Adirondack re- 
gion (in w'hich are included Lake George and Lake 
Champlain) during the season of 1902, discloses that 
this traffic approximates closely to 175,000 passengers 
and $475,000 passenger revenues to the company. We 
estimate that about 60 per cent of this traffic origi- 
nates in other States. These estimates do not include 
the freight and express companies' earnings. 
"It is apparent to those who have kept in touch with 
the remarkable development of the health and pleasure 
resort region of northern New York during the past 
ten years that the State has in that country an asset of 
almost incalculable value to its citizen in its power to 
attract revenue to its farmers, its merchants and its 
hotel and transportation interests. As one who in 
connection with his avocation has made a life study of 
the best means of developing health and pleasure- 
travel resorts, I would suggest that the best invest- 
ment the State could make in this direction would be 
the construction of a model system of highways 
through its Adirondack domain, affording means of 
easy communication between points of interest to the 
tourist, somewhat after the policy adopted in Switzer- 
land, in the Austrian Tyrol, in the mountainous tourist 
region of Norway and through the White Mountains 
of New Hampshire. If this were done it would result 
in a great increase of travel, not only from other 
States, but from Europe as well, and I believe that the 
roads could be properly maintained by toils without 
further expense to the State than their initial cost." 
Gen. Pass. Agent George H. Daniels, of the New 
York Central, writes: "Our auditor has made an ex- 
amination of our reports, and approximates the fol- 
lowing figures covering business for three months of 
the summer; 
Passen- 
Railroad 
gers. 
fares. 
, 100,000 
$400,000 
50,000 
160,000 
,160.000 
170,000 
, 85,000 
155.000 
395,000 
$885,000 
"This information, of course, can only be given ap- 
proximately; but this will aflford an opportunity for 
the people to get some idea of the development of the 
Adirondacks and other resorts, and what it means to 
the transportation and hotel interests in the State at 
large. A large amount of this business comes from 
outside the State. 
"The aggregate number of tourists carried by all 
lines, and the amount of money spent by them for rail- 
road fares, hotel and boarding accommodations and 
incidental expenses, amounts to a large revenue to the 
transportation lines and residents of the State. It is 
worthy to be recognized as a business, and its pos- 
sibilities of development should command attention." 
The large amount of summer business done in the 
Catskill region, as indicated by the figures in Mr. Dan- 
iels's letter, is also worthy of consideration in discuss- 
ing the great advantages accruing to our State from 
its forest districts. 
Protective Coloring:^ 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
In your number of Jan. 31, Mr. Francis Moonan 
quotes Mr. Paul Fountain in a discussion of the ques- 
tion, "Is protective Coloring a Myth?" in which Mr. 
Fountain pronounces an adverse decision on the ques- 
tion. Mr. Moonan thinks that Mr. Fountain "has 
made out a very strong case" in his argument contra, 
but also thinks "he has not gone deep enough or far 
enough." . 
. While Mr. Moonan's observations on the question 
at issue are interesting, and true as far as they go, it 
strikes this writer that neither has he "gone deep 
enough or far enough" in handling his subject. 
The difficulty in the case of Mr. Fountain, and per- 
haps of Mr. Moonan also, is that the subject is con- 
templated from a fundamentally wrong standpoint. Mr. 
Fountain still adheres to a view that was once uni- 
versally held, but which has now become obsolete 
among the generality of advanced thinkers and edu- 
cated people; which is, that nature, as we find it, with 
all of its _ vast array of ramifications, interrelations 
and variations, was foreordained and prearranged, and 
has crystallized in its present forms and attitudes for 
all time, which forms, indeed, have been maintained 
from_ the beginning of mundane affairs; that all ter- 
restrial existences were so arranged by the Creator 
with a view to perfect harmony throughout, and the 
inharmonies we observe in nature's domain are not so 
in reality, but only so in appearance, as a result of the 
dullness of our perceptions, etc. Moreover, the most 
important feature in the scheme was the homopo- 
centric idea, that everything was so arranged with a 
special view to man's presence and dominion over all. 
This doctrine of foreordination was preached by Col. 
Alexander several years ago under the symbolism of 
the "blue print" theory. 
All of the obfuscations and perplexities in the in- 
terpretation of nature's ways disappear at once when 
we dismiss the Hebraic theory of sudden creation with 
its homopocentric implications, and fully grasp the 
ideas of life development that are now generally ac- 
cepted by the enlightened world as axiomatic, that of 
the gradual evolution of all life forms, under the con- 
trolling law of "the survival of the fittest." 
The keynote to a comprehension of the whole sit- 
uation is to be found in the recognition of the prin- 
ciple that everything to be found in the animate 
world, is as we now find it, simply a result — a result 
of the action of a multitude of agencies of environ- 
ment during countless generations of development. 
The rattlesnake's fangs and venom were developed 
without reference to the destinies or fortunes of man, 
but purely for the snake's purposes; so were the claws 
of the feline families and the talons of the hawks. The 
pulp that surrounds the peach kernel was not evolved 
especially for the delectation of man's palate, nor the 
meat that envelops the egg germ for his nutriment, 
but for that of the embryonic chicken. Myriads of 
these things grew and perished long before historical 
man appeared on the scene. 
Any sportsman who has looked in vain for a covey 
of partridges before a pointer's nose, on nearly bare 
.ground, or has had a coiled rattlesnake pointed out to 
him and looked straight at it for fi^^e minutes before 
he could see it, must recognize the existence of pro- 
tective coloring in these and many other cases. 
