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morning, I guess we Avill try and see if there is any 
moose about here." One had been up wtihin ten yards 
of their tent the night before. 
So as soon as their breakfast was over, out they went, 
and when onlj' a short distance from the tent Mr. Crooker 
gave one call, and in a very few minutes he got an 
answer, and heard him coming tearing through the 
woods, making more noise than any steam engine on a 
railroad, and in a few minutes more the moose was killed. 
Within half an hour from the time of taking their last 
cup of tea in the tent, they stood alongside his dead 
bod3^ 
He is a beauty, weighs about 750 pounds dressed, with 
a fine head and antlers with a spread of fifty inches. 
Mr. Crooker is now in the seventy-fourth year of his 
age, and this is the sixth year in succession that he has 
got his moose the first day out, although he has never 
failed to get from one to five moose every year since 
he was twenty-one years of age. 
Our local sportsmen have also had remarkably good 
luck this season. There have now been about twenty 
moose killed quite near here, some bringing home one 
and some two, and hardly any of them over twenty-four 
hours from home before they were enjoying a good 
fresh steak with their families. ~ 
Moose are very plentiful this season. I have not heard 
of any bears being killed yet this season. Partridges are 
very numerous. George Seaman. 
New Yofk Game. 
PouGHKEEPSiE, N. Y. — For the past three years quail 
shooting in Dutchess countj^ has been excellent — so good, 
in fact, that many old sportsmen say that they never 
knew when quail was so plentiful. The coming season, 
judging from the number of Bob Whites that one sees 
sitting on the fences and hears in adjacent fields while 
traveling the country roads this summer, will be a record 
breaker for abundance of these gamiest of birds. A 
sportsman and friend of the writer whose business takes 
him to all parts of the county, says that he has see-i 
plenty of birds in every part of the county. x\nd recently, 
while driving over a country road, he noticed a male 
bird sitting on a stone wall. The bird was very much 
interested in something on the other side of the wall. 
Not wishing to disturb the quail, the gentleman drove 
past. Returning in a short time to the place, he still 
saw the old bird there, and all around him on the wall 
were a dozen or more little fellows. The young birds 
were just able to Ry, and the male bird was probably 
looking after them. Snaniweh. 
Cuttituck Ducks. 
• Waterlily, N. C, Oct. 10. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
We are having a northeast storm to-day, blowing 
about sixty miles an hour, and wild ducks are coming 
into the sound in countless thousands. They seem to 
be of nearly all kinds, except canvasbacks and ruddy 
ducks; it is too early for them. I notice a very large 
number of widgeon and quite a sprinkling of redheads 
and blackheads. On Sept. 28 I saw the largest flight 
of bluewing teal I ever saw at Currituck. They came 
in bunches of from haU a dozen to 200. They came 
from the northwest and seemed in a big hurry to get 
south. We have the brightest prospects for good duck 
shooting. Our season opens Nov. i, instead of the 
loth, as formerly. We have a non-resident tax of $10, 
too, I'm sorry to say. 
Our quail shooting will be up to the average. 
^ We have had some fine yellowleg shooting, from 
Sept. 15 up to date. I made a bag of 145 in one day 
and several bags of from 50 to 90. I bagged, perhaps, 
SO golden plover, more than I have shot in ten years 
before. More Anon. 
Essex Association. 
^ A well-attended meeting of the Essex Fish and 
Game Protective Association was held Oct. 14, in its 
headquarters at 137 Belleville avenue. Twenty-six new 
names were added to the roll. The annual election of 
officers took place and the selections made met with 
the hearty approval of all present. The officers chosen 
are: Walter H. Parsons, President; Frederick Felder, 
Vice-President; Alvin E. Ebie, Treasurer; Joseph 
Crawford, Secretary; William Waltzinger, Charles 
Liming and Victor Hess, members of the Board of 
Governors. Regular meetings will be held hereafter 
on the third Thursday of each month. A determined 
effort will be made by the association to have the next 
Legislature pass a bill prohibiting pound net fishing in 
New Jersey waters.— Newark Sunday Call, Oct. 18. 
Maine Summer Deer KtUers. 
The office of the fish and game commission in 
Augusta is the liveliest place in the building lately. 
Big hunting stories, illegal killing of deer, moose and 
partridge and notices of arrests come in almost "every 
day. Word has just been received at the office that 
warrants have been issued by the Farmington Munici- 
pal Court for the arrest of Frederick White, of Brook- 
lyn, N. Y.J for hunting and trapping fur animals with- 
out a license. This same party was arrested some 
time ago, for camping and kindling fires on wild land 
near Eustis, without being accompanied by a guide. 
A warrant has also been issued for the arrest of Dr. 
C. B. Parker, also of Brooklyn, for camping and build- 
ing a fire on wild land without a guide, and for killing 
deer in close time. — Bangor Daily News, Oct. 13. 
Pennsylvania Q«aili 
York, Pa.. Oct. 17. — The York Gun Club held a meet- 
ing last night and decided to issue an appeal to York 
county hunters to refrain from slaughtering partridges 
that are not fully matured. Partridges have been on the 
increase in York county for the past six years. Birds 
from Kansas have been extensively introduced and propa- 
gated, and if the coveys receive the proper protection the 
county Mill become an excellent section for quail 
ghooting. 
Nebraska' Notes. 
The Omaha Gun Club's annual autumn tournament will 
be held this week— October 13, 14 and 15. It will be 
live birds and targets, and the prospects are fine for a 
large attendance. 
The fifth annual coursing meet of the Friend, Neb., 
Coursing Club will be held October 13, 14, 15 and 16, 
with two grand stakes, the Puppy and All-Age. 
Clarks, Neb., Oct. 12.— Friend Sandy: Was down 
on the Platte yesterday and there was a big flight of 
ducks. I bagged twenty-five, twenty-two of which were 
mallards. Some Canadas are in. The river is in fine 
shape, water low, and you can drive right out to the 
blind. We are going to have great shooting from now 
on till winter. Better run out and get a little of it while 
this beautiful weather lasts. Sam Richmond. 
Game Warden George Carter and Fish Commissioner 
O'Brien are kept pretty busy these days. They have just 
secured 10,000 yearling and six-months-old black bass 
from Langdon, Kansas, in exchange for a lot of gold 
fish they have had on hand at the State hatcheries. 
These bass will be deposited the coming week in likely 
waters throughout the northwestern part of the State, 
'i'he Government has also just allotted Nebraska 10,000 
fingerling rainbow trout from the Government fisheries 
at Neosho, Mo., and the Nebraska fish car will go down 
after them November ro. These trout will also be dis- 
tributed throughout our western and northwestern 
waters. 
Charlie Hi.ghsmith, of Omaha, and Messrs. Slusser, 
Orr and Coots, of Grand Island, returned from a three- 
days' chicken shoot near Burwell last evening. They 
killed the limit, each man, every day, shooting but a 
couple of hours mornings and evenings. 
Sandy Griswold. 
Personal Notes. 
Mr. B. W. Sperry, of Jacksonville, Fla., one of the 
most enthusiastic and best known sportsmen of his Stale, 
is in the city, and has been renewing with his many 
sportsmen friends here memories of Florida days in their 
company in the quail fields. Mr. Sperry says that the 
outlook for game in the winter of 1903-4 is very favorable. 
Mr. A. S. Reid, of Victoria, B. C, is reported as at 
the present time hunting big game in the Rocky Moun- 
tains of British Columbia on Sheep Creek near Field. 
Not far from Mr. Reid, Mr. C. A. Moore, of this city, is 
also hunting. 
Mr. John J. White, Jr., who, with Mrs. White, leff 
New York early in September for the Jackson's Hole 
country, is expected back shortly before November i. 
It is understood that Mr. White intended to visit a sheep 
country, the precise location of which is not generally 
known. 
Mr. Madison Grant, the Secretary of the New York 
Zoological Society, has recently returned from a trip into 
the mountains of British Columbia. The region which 
he visited is one hitherto untouched by sportsmen, but 
is apparently only a summer range, and winter set in 
just as Mr. Grant reached the ground. The trip was 
undertaken more for exploration than for actual hunt- 
ing, nevertheless four specimens of the mountain caribou 
(Rangifcr montanus) were secured, and will no doubt 
go to the American Museum of Natural History, toward 
the increasing of whose collections Mr. Grant has done 
so much. The precise locality visited on the trip is not 
given. 
Another trophy brought back is the head of a goat 
(Oreamniis montanus) of extraordinary size, since its 
horns measured 11 inches in length. Such a length for 
horns of the male goat is, we think, quite unexampled. 
Mr. Grant is perhaps the first sportsman who ever cap- 
tured a specimen of R. montanus knowing what it was, 
and he is to be congratulated on his good fortune. 
Sharpshootingf Snipe. 
Freeport, Long Island. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
The Brooklyn Times printed from its Far Rockaway cor- 
respondent the other day this report of shooting condi- 
tions there : '"There are plenty of snipe to be found, and 
sportsmen with their rifles can be seen daily hunting this 
bird on the grounds surrounding the Edgemere Hotel and 
at Rockaway Point." 
We shall soon see our German friends with 'coon dogs 
and air rifles shooting the festive snipe. This is the way 
the sporting column of the Times is marred. 
E. K. L. 
Amos Green, a worthy colored man, who conducted 
a farm in the vicinity of Alachua, decided he wanted to 
eat some gopher, and accordingly went in search of 
his game. This was on Friday morning, and when he 
did not return on the following day, his good wife and 
family naturally became alarmed; and, with a few neigh- 
bors, instituted a search. 
After a couple of hours, one of the searching party 
discovered the man's legs extended from the ground, 
his body and head being buried. With the shovel, which 
Green had carried with him, the earth was soon re- 
moved, and when he was released from this bondage it 
was discovered that one hand was still tightly grasping 
a gophers leg at the bottom of the hole. 
It is supposed that Green attempted to dig his game 
out of its abode, and when a sufficient quantity of earth 
had been excavated, he had gone in after the game head 
first, expecting to capture it and pull it out. The earth, 
being soft, at once gave way, and the man suffered the 
lerible experience of being buried alive. It is supposed 
he had been dead about twenty-four hours. — Florida 
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the ISrief. 
Camping at Fort Washington, 
Several summers back, Dick Gibson, then of Alex- 
andria, and I started down the river early one morning 
to camp for a few days at Fort Washington, about eight 
tjiiles below Washington, D. C. We had been planning 
this camping trip for some time, and in the meantime had 
built a sailboat, and this was her first trip. She glided 
through the water to our entire satisfactioti, and with a 
.siiff^ breeze behind us we were soon at the fort. Anchor- 
ing our boat we unloaded her and put up camp. We 
had everything in order by 12 o'clock, and after tliimer we 
decided to try the fish. 
We started out to try our luck with the channel cats, 
which have been caught off this point weighing eight and 
ten pounds. There are plenty of other fish, such as white 
perch, ring perch, reck fish, clc, and by 4 o'clock we had 
a nice string, but the channel cat was missing. He was 
not biting to-day. We started back to camp. After sup- 
per and a good smoke we turned in and were soon off to 
the land of dreams. 
We were awakened the next morning by the hoarse 
whistle of a tugboat towing a big schooner to Alexandria. 
It is a pretty sight to watch the different craft going up 
and down the river. Along about 7 o'clock in the morn- 
ing you can see the palace steamer Norfolk coming 
around the bend in the river. At first she looks like a 
mere white speck, but as she noiselessly glides through 
the water, you can presently distinguish her identity. 
Later in the day the excursion boats begin to come down 
on their way to River View and Marshall Hall. In the 
distance we can hear the band playing and see the flags 
flying. On past us they go, and what a merry crowd 
it is- — all glad to get away from the hot city for just 
one day. 
After dinner we got into the boat and went up to "Hell 
Hole," a favorite place to fish for white and ring perch. 
Here the water shoots off from the main river and 
goes on down to the dyke below New Alexandria, at 
wUich place, on Sunday, scorces of fisherm.en from 
Washington can be seen catching a species of perch 
which they call "tobacco box." Sometimes you see a 
man with as many as 150. We caught a good string of 
white perch at "Ilell Hole," and spent part of the after- 
noon swimming and watching the big four-masters go by. 
In the distance we could hear the ferry boat blowing, 
which told us it was 6 o'clock, so we put up sail 
and started for camp. Soon the blue smoke was curling 
up through the trees from our camp stove, and it was 
not long before the odor of frying fish pervaded the at- 
mosphere arotind us. Dick is a fine cook, and as I am 
not a good hand at anything in that direction, I always 
got the fish in shape for the skillet. 
We had planned a frog hunt on this trip, and we were 
told by a gentleman who lives near the fort that right 
back of us a short distance were plenty of frogs as big 
as our hats. We made a date with this gentleman to 
meet him there some night and we'd take a hunt. 
The next day we were going down the river to Hennecky 
House, the exquisite romance of which has been read by so 
many Virginians. The morning dawned clear with a stiff 
breeze blowing, although it was rather changeable, which 
necessitated our making many tacks before we rcnciicd 
our destination. It was great fttn riding the swells from 
the steamers passing along the river. Somcti:ne-. ii 
seemed, we would go nearly out of sight in the hollow 
of the waves, only to rise again and go down wish 
another one. Right below where we anchored are the 
great herring grounds of Plum Tree Gut, where cacli 
spring thousands and thousands of herring are caught 
every day. Some of the nets are four and five hundred 
feet long, and are hauled out by horses and engines. All 
kinds of fish are caught — anything from percii to stur- 
geon, and sometimes a shark, following a schooner, at- 
tracted by the continual throwing out of refuse, is cap- 
tured in the nets. Near where we landed was a higli 
plateau, from which it seemed you could see al nost inlu 
Chesapeake Bay. In the distance were the wlute, mo- 
tionless sails of the craft, which grew larger as they drew 
nearer. It had gotten along to the hour of 12, and after 
eating our lunch we put up sail and started back up tlic 
river for Fort Washington. We had not gone far before 
we heard the blowing of a steamer behind us, and look- 
ing around we discovered that we were right in the 
course of the excursion boat Samuel J. Pentz, and she 
was coming along at a good rate, too. We threw oitr 
sails around and got out of her way, but somehow or 
other the swells struck us broadside and nearly swamped 
us, filling our boat half full of water. We finally got 
straightened out, and after that hugged the shore a little 
closer. 
We reached camp about 4 o'clock, and y ere somewhat 
surprised to find that a party from Washington who had 
come down the river on a pleasure trip had stopped to 
see us, and finding no one there had waited until we 
returned. We made them stay to supper, promising them 
plenty of fried fish and good coffee. They stayed, and 
it did us good to sec those fellows eat. They had never 
eaten in this way before, out in the pure fresh air, and 
they all declared they did not know when they had eaten 
a meal that had tasted half so good. They came down 
to see us again before we left, and seemed glad when 
they had their feet under the old camp table once more. 
After our visitors left, we got ready to take the long- 
talked-of frog hunt. We rigged up in old clothes and 
shoes with a bicycle lantern apiece. My friend Gibson 
had never hunted frogs with a lantern and laughed at 
me when I told him that all you had to do was to walk 
jlong and thrpw the ligjit or\ \h,^ ffog an^ th?" pick hivn 
