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w yards to find the carcass. It was now getting late, 
id, as it was imperative that we should secure our 
ig, and induce the frightened villagers to corne down 
om theii^ trees before it grew dark, I started into the 
iver alone. As I crawled cautiously in a man called 
It something I could not catch, but which was a warn- 
g that there were two tigers. 
An instant later the brushes to my front were shaken 
liolently, and, with a terrifying roar, a smaller tiger, 
obably the female, sprang out at me, knocking me' 
>wn backward. With the brute standing right over 
e, I doubled myself up, covering my body with my 
ms anl legs, and, after biting me several times below 
e knees, the animal sheered of?, and I crawled back 
the open. The tiger had won the second point and 
e rubber, for this ended our amateur tiger hunt. For 
anie days after bringing me back P. was laid up with 
nstroke, while the villagers refused to go near the 
ver. For all I know, the mouldering skeletons of 
enty-nine beaters may yet hang in the trees of the 
kma jungle. At least, somewhere hidden in the 
dergrowth lies a tiger, whose skin is destined never 
: grace the hearth of his enemies. Some day, when I 
Ive recovered from the effects of big-game shooting, 
'am going to take possession of what is left. — F. 
VYLEY Bell in London Field. 
License in Massachusetts. 
This bill (House Bill No. 336), sometimes called the 
pringfield bill," has been the subject of much dis- 
jsion by the sportsmen and farmers of Massachusetts 
■ several weeks, and on Wednesday the most largely 
ended hearing of the season was held upon this 
asure before the Fish and Game Committee. 
Dn Tuesday evening the Board of Management of 
Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Associa- 
n met to consider what should be the attitude of the 
te Association at the hearing. At this meeting all 
, -eed that the section exempting the landowner and 
rfmbers of his family from the necessity of obtaining 
icense to shoot on his own land, was open to serious 
ections. The section limiting the bag to five ruffed 
)use in one day was declared to be one of those 
asures so. difficult to enforce, that it would prove of 
le value as a protective measure. At the same time, 
general opinion of most of those who participated 
athe discussion was that the bill had some merit, but 
e vas finally decided that the Association should take a 
'fiition as against the bill, and Mr. C. W. Dimick was 
nested to appear in behalf of the Association, at the 
■.ring. 
'\)rmer Commissioner Edward H. Lathrop, Esq., of 
•ingfield, opened the case in favor of the bill. He 
i thirty-five States require a license of some sort, 
1 he thought it time for the old Bay Stat to fall into 
: with the others. He believed such a law would 
ve to protect song and insectivorous birds, as well 
ij game— a matter of much importance, as there had 
Ml more prosecutions for the killing of such birds 
u for killing game birds in his section of the State. 
said more money is needed to carry on the work 
stocking with quail and the strict enforcement of 
ne laws. Legislators are reluctant to impose heavier 
dens by increasing the appropriation for the work 
the commission, and sportsmen should be willing to 
itribute at least one dollar a year for the enjoyment 
their favorite recreation. He urged that many States 
ce a limit upon the bag, and every hunter should 
satisfied with five birds for a day's shooting. Birds are 
imated more by natural causes than by the gun, which 
thought responsible for not more than 10 per cent, of 
killing. To keep up the supply of quail, which, about 
;e in five or six years, are destroyed by a severe 
iter, it is necessary to procure them from other 
tes, and the bill provides for doing this — one-half 
income from license fees to be used for this purpose. 
:he bill shall become a law, funds will also be pro- 
ed for the enforcement of protective laws. Repre- 
tative George M. Poland, of Wakefield, representing 
Game Association of Eastern Massachusetts, said 
nbers of that society were a unit in support of the 
. , and many of them are farmers. 
H on. Charles A. Gleason, of Springfield, chairman of 
the Board of Trustees of the State Agricultural Col- 
lege, said he was greatly interested in song birds, which 
had been decimated in the neighborhood of cities. "The 
hiu does not go far enough," he said, and the objec- 
tions raised against it he declared to be "petty." 
Mr. S. D. Sherwood, of Springfield, claimed that the 
bill would be of great value to fishermen by "bracing up" 
the enforcement of fish laws. Support of the bill, he said, 
is based on the principle that any business or following 
subject to abuses should be regulated by licenses. The 
men who favor the bill belong to a class that is always 
considerate toward the "fanners' rights," and not to be 
regarded as in the same class as pot-hunters. 
The committee took up in connection with this House 
Bill No. 288, which provides for a license fee of $10 for 
unnaturalized foreigners, and Representative Woodhead, 
of North Adams, spoke in its favor. J. M. Van Huyck 
said the Protective Association of Berkshire County, of 
which he is secretary, approved both bills, but especially 
No. 288. He said there are no quail in his county, and 
there are many Syrians, Greeks and Italians living in the 
towns who slaughter everything. The quail planted by 
W. C. Whitney on October Mountain a few years ago 
have disappeared and their only game bird is the ruffed 
grouse. 
Dr. J. W. Bailey, of Arlington, said the Middlesex 
Sportsman's Club was heartily in favor of the Springfield 
bill. Prof. W. L. Underwood, for the Massachusetts 
Audubon Society, upheld the bill. Mr. Ellerton James, 
of Nahant, was specially desirous the bill to license un- 
naturalized foreigners should be passed. 
In opposition to the bill, Hon. Ledyard Bill, of Paxton, 
made a rather lengthy argument, apparently omitting no 
valid (?) objection he could think of. From his stand- 
point his position was impregnable. "No new arguments 
have been presented since the Legislature of last year 
kicked it out," he said, and the Worcester Fox Hunting 
Club could see no merit in the bill. "Cut the open season 
for shooting in halves," is what he prescribes as a remedy 
for a scarcity of game birds. Representative Gleason, of 
Pittsfield, presented a lengthy petition against the 
measure from his constituents in the Pittsfield Gun Cluk 
The testimony of Representative Ward, of Buckland, 
House chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, 
was _ very emphatic, and was important as voicing the 
sentiment of the farmers of his section. He spoke "as 
a man from the farm," he said. "All the freedom of farm 
life is to be taken away by this measure, the smallness of 
the fee having nothing to do with the question. Pass the 
bill and every farmer will post his land." He said it 
would inaugurate a radical departure from the established 
usage of the Commonwealth in the disposal of funds, tak- 
ing from the Legislature "all control over appropria- 
tions." Appropriations for specific purposes and a direct 
accounting are the rule in Massachusetts, he declared. 
Senator Gerrett, of Greenfield, Chairman of the Commit- 
tee on Agriculture, gave the movers for the bill credit 
for an "honest purpose," but did not think it would ac- 
complish the desired result. Mr. C. W. Dimick entered 
the objections of the State Association. Senator Burns 
expressed the opinion that such a law would be a hard- 
ship on the common people for the benefit of city hunters. 
Mr. George L. Ladd, Master of the State Grange, entered 
a protest in behalf of thousands of farmers in the State. 
Other remonstrants were ex-Senator Wm. A. Morse, of 
Boston; Representatives Bodurtha, of Blandford, and 
Chapin, of Bernardstown. 
The writer draws two conclusions from the testimony 
presented: First, the sentiment in favor of a license has 
gained much since last year. Second, the feeling in the 
western part of the State among farmers toward city 
sportsmen is not as cordial as in some sections. 
Central. 
Henry Nofcross M«nn. 
Henry N. Munn, for many years one of the publishers 
and proprietors of the Scientific American, died on Friday, 
March 10, at his home, 281 Lexington avenue, this city. 
He was nearly 54 years old. 
Although for the last ten years a great sufferer from the 
painful disease which finally caused his death, Mr. Munn 
was for a long time a keen sportsman. He was a good 
cross-country rider, having been master of the Essex 
County Hunt, and was an enthusiastic hunter, and years 
ago spent every hunting season in the Rocky Mountains 
in pursuit of big game. He owned a large preserve in 
New Jersey w-hich was admirably kept up and veiy fully 
stocked with native and foreign birds. Before ill health 
compelled his retirement, he whs a member of the South 
Side Club and the Blooming Grove Park Association. He 
was also a member of the New York Association for the 
Protection of Game and of the Boone and Crockett Club, 
as well as of social clubs such as the Union, Riding and 
Merchants clubs, and of the Society of the Sons of the . 
Revolution. 
Mr. Munn was a more or less frequent correspondent 
of the Forest and Stream, and an account of an old pow- 
der horn descended to him from a prerevolut ionary an- 
cestor will be remembered as having appeared in our 
columns a few years ago. He was devoted to sport, and 
when the time_ came when he could no longer enjoy the 
recreations which had meant so much to him, he tock his 
pleasure largely in the recollections of the good timei he 
had had out of doors, and in reading about the good times 
of others. 
Death of "William W. King. 
Mr. Wm. W. King, General Superintendent of Norfolk 
& Southern Railway and a keen field sportsman, died last 
Wednesday in Norfolk, Va., at the home of his brother 
Morris K. King. Mr. King was born in Geneva, N. Y., 
and early undertook railway work. He assisted in build- 
ing the Manhattan _ Elevated Railway in New York city, 
and later in Virginia was occupied in the construction of 
the Norfolk and Southern Railroad. Mr. King was in- 
terested not only in quail shooting and duck shooting, 
but was also a big-game hunter and had made more than 
one trip to the moose country of the Northeast. Per- 
sonally he was a man of great charm. He was 51 years 
old. 
Albany Legislation. 
Albany, March 14.— The Hubbs spring duck shooting bill has 
been amended in the Assembly out of all semblance of its former 
self. As it now stands it permits the shooting of ducks in the 
spring, not only on Long Island, but in a dozen or fourteen 
ccunties up State. It is to be reprinted for further consideration. 
Governor Higgins has signed Assemblyman Wade's bill (Int. 
No. 249), amending Section CS of the game law so as to provide 
that_ the meshes of nets used in Lake Erie shall not be less than 
1% inch bar. 
The Assembly has passed the following bills: 
Assemblyman West's (Int. No. 469), in relation to the placing 
of carp in certain waters. 
Assemblyman Gray's (Int. No. 265), in relation to taking fish 
through the ice in the town of North East, Dutchess county. 
Assemblyman Yale's (Int. No. 771), relative to the close season 
for lake trout in Putnam county. 
Assemblyman Bisland's (Int. No. 476), relative to the close sea- 
son for hares and rabbits in Sullivan and Schenectady counties. 
Assemblyman Gates' (Int. No. 651), relative to the protection of 
beaver. 
The Assembly has advanced to third reading the following bills: 
Assemblyman Gray's (Int. No. 266), in relation to the close 
season for grouse, woodcock and quail in certain counties. 
Assemblyman Gray's (Int. No. 264), in relation to the close 
season for trout in Dutchess county. 
Assemblyman Gray's (Int. No. 263), relative to the close season 
for squirrels in certain counties. 
Assemblyman Gates' (Int. No. 651), for the protection of beaver. 
Assemblyman F. C. Wood's, in relation to the compensation 
of game protectors. 
Additional bills have been introduced as follows: 
By Assemblyman Miller, by request (Int. No. 970), amending 
Section iOl so as to allow the hunting of deer in Nassau county 
with fox or staghounds, where deer are owned by residents of the 
county and are marked so as to indicate their ownership, from 
Oct. 1 to April 31, both inclusive; but if the dogs kill any deer 
the offense shall be punishable in each case by a fine of $100. 
By Assemblyman Plank (Int. No. 958), amending Section 6 so 
as to provide that pickerel, pike and muskallonge shall not be 
taken in the St. Lawrence River below the city of Ogdensburg 
from Jan. 1 to April 30, both inclusive; nor elsewhere in the 
river from Jan. 1 to June 9, both inclusive. 
By Assemblyman Stevens (Int. No. 1206), amending Section 47 
so as to provide that the close season for trout in Rensselaer, 
Warren and Washington counties shall be from Sept. 1 to April 
30, both inclusive. 
By, Assemblyman Miller (Int. No. 994), amending Section 52 so 
as to forbid the pollution of streams inhabited by fish in Oueens, 
Suffolk and Nassau counties. ~ 
By Assemblyman Whitney (Int. No. 1019), amending Section 
59a so as to permit the use of tip-ups and set-lines in fishing 
through the ice in Big Sandy Pond, Oswego county. 
All communications intended for Forest and Stream should 
always be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 
New York, and not to any individual connected with the paper. 
be Anglers* Casting Tournament. 
etd ia MadJson Square Garden, New York City, in 
Gonaection with the Motorboat and Sportsmen's 
Show, Febuar7 21 to March 9, Inc.osive. 
{Concluded from page 196.) 
HIS interesting event came to an end with the casting 
of Event 28 on the last night of the show, and our 
•es are completed in this issue. Taken altogether, the 
■nament was a success, and in view of what is said 
her on, it must be inferred that while tournament 
ing and fishing are two somewhat different proposi- 
iSj the one is of immense help in the other, provided 
angler gains all the information he can through ex- 
ence on the casting platform and the friendly advice 
criticism of tournament casters and anglers of the 
school, to whom these affairs are like water to a 
k — almost a necessity to their complete happiness 
mghout the year. In all thirty-six persons took part 
:he different events, and of this number thirty won 
dsome medals -which they can wear as watch fobs or 
g up in their rod cabinets as pleasant reminders of an 
ir in which only good will and friendly rivalry ruled. 
>bjcciio«s v.-?re uuhIv to the tnanagenient of the 
events, and the decisions of the judges were accepted in 
the same spirit of fairness in which they were given out. 
In the fly-casting events the rods and reels and lines 
were about the same as are generally found in tourna- 
ments of the kind, and while it must be admitted that 
the extremely large and heavy enameled lines used in 
some events were not adapted to fly-fishing, still they were 
employed as such things generally are in tests of skill in 
which there are no restrictions against them. The 
featherweight rods for which the United States rod 
makers are becoming famous ever3rwhere were used with 
success in this tournament, as they have been in others in 
recent years, and the criticism of English writers for 
some of the fishing papers — that they are mere toys, and 
therefore impractical for fishing — was certainly not borne 
out in these severe tests. It is an easv matter to make a 
fo ur-ounce split bamboo rod that will prove worthless, 
but our rod makers do not stake their reputations on stuff 
they cannot warrant to be as near perfect in workman- 
ship as it is possible for human beings to make it. Most 
of the rods used had solid metal reel seats, but as the 
rules admitted 4^>^-ounce rods so fitted as four-ounce, an 
allowance of ^-ounce being given for such reel seats, 
those which weighed four ounces, but had tiny reel bands 
instead of German silver reel seats, were in no wn'se 
lian.di'-apped. . 
The bait-casting contests attracted no little attention, 
d^ue to many causes too well understood by readers of 
Forest and Stream to be mentioned further; but it was 
noticeable that freak rods and fittings were conspicuous 
by their absence, and the conditions were almost identical 
in the more important respects to those found in actual 
fishing. It is true that finer lines were used than in fish- 
ing, but lively old bronze-backers would have their work 
cut out for them should they attempt to break such lines 
as were employed. If their use served no other purpose, 
it proved that the bait-casters are getting in line with the 
procession which favors finer weapons and greater skill 
on the part of the man who shoots or fishes. The rods 
were 5^ to 7 feet in length, fitted with sensible guides 
in which agate was largely used. In fact, the implements 
used were all equal to service conditions. 
A few Garden records were broken. R. C. Leonard 
made three new ones. The first was when he cast 143 
feet 7 inches with a half-ounce rubber frog; the second 
when he cast a quarter-ounce rubber frog 115 feet 7 
inches, although credit must be given for a longer cast 
that was not inside the tank and made on a very dark 
afternoon; and third, for his cast of 96 feet 8 inches with 
a four-ounce fly-rod. H. W. Hawes deserves mention in 
connection with this quarter-ounce frog event, for he made 
a cast that was almost, if not fully, 125 feet in length, but 
