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Sept. 23 , 1905.I 
In New England* 
I Boston, Mass., Sept. 16 . — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Bast evening I had the pleasure of meeting the members 
of the Sportsman’s Protective Association of Eastern 
Massachusetts at their annual meeting. Officials for the 
ensuing year were duly elected. The club was started a 
year ago and is in a very flourishing condition, having 
210 names enrolled on its list of members. Mr. Charles 
H. Nowell, a member of the Legislature from Reading, 
ivvas re-elected to the office of president, Mr. Vinton W. 
Mason, of Cambridge, who has served as treasurer-sec- 
'retary the past year, was chosen to that office, and the 
'Same names were placed on the list of vice-presidents as 
last year with others added. The constitution provides 
for one vice-president from each city and town repre- 
sented in the membership list, and of these there are 
twenty-five or more. Among the vice-presidents are 
Messrs. James A. Baxter, Reading; A. S. Aborn, Wake- 
field ; Martin F. Holt, Wilmington ; David T. Strange, 
Stoneham; Dr. Robert Chalmers, Woburn; N. F. Ives, 
Malden; Dr. F. S. Belyea, Brookline; Dr. R. H. Morris, 
Everett, and Dr. J. W. Bailey, of Arlington. The meet- 
ings have been held in Reading, that being the most easily 
accessible from the towns having the largest number of 
members. George M. Poland, Esq., of Wakefield, the 
:hairman of the State Central Committee for Protection 
of Fish and Game, and a member of the Legislature, was 
chairman of the Committee of Arrangements, by which 
those present were amply provided with refreshments. 
President Nowell, in reviewing the work of the year, 
alluded tO' the various bills before the Legislature last 
winter, and the fact that in appearing before the Fish and 
Game Committee his testimony had much greater weight 
as voicing the sentiments of the Association than if he 
(lad spoken simply as an individual. There wa"s an at- 
tendance of seventy-five or more members and the meet- 
ing was a decided success. 
For hunting without a license, under the alien-license 
|law, Andrew Lozzari, of Rome, was fined $20 and Joseph 
Longone, of Chelsea, $10. The case of J. Leo for the 
same offense is still pending. A Providence man, for 
hunting woodcock and partridge, has been fined $20. 
On Thursday morning what may be called an auto 
hotel started from Harvard Square, Cambridge, for Se- 
bago Lake, Me. Your readers will remember the trip of 
last year reported by the writer. The auto furnishes liv- 
ing accommodations, cuisine and all. Messrs. F. M. 
Young, F. E. Thompson, R. A. Faye and Dr. Tuttle con- 
stitute the party. A wireless telegraphic equipment is 
taken along, and Mr. Thompson proposes to instal a 
station on the summit of some hill with the purpose of 
communicating with some station on the coast. They 
will combine fishing and hunting sport as the spirit 
moves. 
Our brush shooters who go to Maine for partridge and 
woodcock are not a little surprised at the interpretation 
of the new bird law as expounded by the commission. In 
fact, they are only just beginning to find out where they 
are at. They are really astounded by the declaration that 
after Oct. i, the time when they can expect to> get full- 
growm partridges and before the time to find the fiight- 
w'oodcock shooting, -which is all that amounts to much, 
they must provide themselves with a $15 license. This is 
a state of things they had not dreamed of. They had 
supposed the $5 license would be good for bird shooting 
during the whole of the open season. 
Those among thenr wdio wish to hunt big game are 
taking the matter philosophically, but not so the bird 
hunters. The result will be not a few_ who would under 
the former conditions go to Maine will plan to go else- 
where or content themselves with such game as may be 
had in our own State. This, of course, wdll be bad for 
Massachusetts birds, which will also suffer to some ex- 
tent from the New Hampshire law that requires a license 
for bird hunting. I hear from several who have been 
accustomed to go to Maine or New Hampshire that they 
will cotnent themselves with what birds they can get in 
Massachusetts covers. 
It is claimed that the interpretation of the commission 
is not in accord with the intent of the law, and that it 
puts he State in the position of exacting a fee for bird 
shooting, which is only good at a time wdien thp-e is.no 
good shooting. As a protective measure as against non- 
residents, it seems to me the law as expounded should 
prove a success. 
Since I last wrote our State has lost one of its most 
zealous advocates for fish and game protection by the 
death of George H. Palmer. Esq., of New Bedford and 
Fair Haven. He was one of the original members of the 
i' Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Central Com- 
1 mittee for Protection of Fish and Game, and until pre- 
vented by ill-health never missed one of its meetings. 
Prior to that he had done royal work as an officer of the 
Southern Massachusetts Fish and Game League in the 
protection of the waters of Buzzard’s Bay against the 
menhaden seiners. May Mr. Palmer’s mantle rest on 
I some one equally able and zealous. Centr.\l. 
A Bear* 
Keller, Wash., Sept. 5, 1903.— Editor Foresf_ and 
Stream: Yesterday morning a couple of my friends 
went out for some grouse, they were armed with a .22 
caliber rifle, and a No. 12 shotgun. They went up a 
branch of Copper Creek and crossed the divide, and 
were coming down Silver Creek. They had got seven 
birds, and on coming down the creek, which is dry in 
places, they ran a bear out of the brush. It started up 
the mountain near George; he shot it in the rear with 
the shotgun. The bear then ran back to the brush and 
Mr. Santee shot at it with the .22, and George fired at 
it as it passed. It then climbed a very big pine tree 
and went near the top, so near that the men thought 
it would break off the limbs; but it did not. George 
then took the .22 and shot at its neck twice, and not 
getting any satisfactory results, then shot at the butt 
of its ear. At the crack of the .22 the bear rolled out 
and struck the ground so hard that it broke one of its 
thighs. The men then dressed it and loaded it on to 
one of the horses and started for home, much pleased 
at the thought of securing a bear with a .22 long rifle 
cartridge. As they passed my cabin they called to me 
to coine out and see what kind of chickens they had 
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killed. I complimented them on their success. They 
wanted to know what kind of a bear it was, and what 
would it weigh. I told them it was a yearling past 
brown bear, and would probably dress 120 pounds. 
“What are you giving us?” the old gent replied. 
“The weight of that bear,” I said. 
They thought it would weigh at least 200, They 
took it over to their cabin, and their women folks were 
very much pleased. They dressed it, and it weighed a 
little over no. It was in fairly good condition, and the 
hide was the best I have ever seen for this time of the 
year. They offered me a roast; but I cannot eat bear, 
no matter how hungry I might be. It is predjudice I 
know, but I can’t help it. They took what they did not 
keep for themselves down town and readily sold it for 
10 cents a pound. They are going to have the hide 
mounted for a rug. Several bears have been seen 
around here lately, they are down gathering choke 
berries, which will be the last berries they harvest this 
season. 
A few days ago I left Spokane very early m the 
morning, and had not passed the last house near Hang- 
man Creek more than 100 yards, when a coyote ran 
across the road just ahead of the team. I put my dog. 
Grouse, after it; he ran the coyote into the small pines 
that line the road, and I heard them haying a_ scrap. 
Soon Grouse came running out of the pines with the 
coyote right at his heels, and it ran him to within less 
than twenty yards of the wagon. I stopped, and then 
the coyote ran back and Grouse close after it. Soon 
out came Grouse and the coyote at his heels, and there 
Large black bear trapped near the carcass of a moose upon which 
he had been, feeding. 
riioto by Guide C. L. Barker, Riley Brook, Victoria County, N. B. 
was a young coyote after him as well. That morning 
I had put my .22 in the load, not wanting it to be in 
the dust. ■ I got off and untied the load, while the dog 
and the coyotes were holding a mutual admiration 
society. The coyote had taken a stand on some rocks 
not more than thirty yards away, and the young one 
was sitting by the side of the old one. It did not take 
me long to get the .22. I shot the old coyote in the 
head and she dropped in her tracks, and the young 
one ran. Grouse run to the old one and shook her, but 
would not hunt the young one. Lew Wilmot. 
A Magnificent Adifondack Deer* 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
It was my good fortune to be in Northville last Mon- 
day, Sept. 4, on my way out from the woods, when prob- 
ably the finest specimen of deer ever secured in the Adi- 
rondacks was shipped from that town to Gloversville. 
The buck, a magnificent animal in perfect condition, 
weighed, dressed, the day after being killed, 300 pounds. 
His weight as he roamed the woods must have been fully 
400 pounds, if not beyond that figure. ^ In twenty years’ 
experience deer hunting I have never witnessed his equal, 
and he was a marvel to the residents of Northville, who 
see hundreds of large deer pass through that town each 
year. He was killed in Benson, within ten miles of North- 
ville, likely with a black powder rifle, as the carcass con- 
tained seven wounds, any one of which, if delivered by 
a high power ball, would have proved effective in stop- 
ping him. He was sold by the person securing him for 
$33 and changed hands again at Gloversville, his ulti- 
mate destination to be a political barbecue to take place 
next month at a resort out from Gloversville. Pretty 
hard lines for so fine a deer ! 
It is the admission of guides and sportsmen alike that 
deer are more numerous throughout Hamilton county 
than in years. Last spring, while in at the West Cana- 
das, “French Louis” Seymour, who trapped along the 
Indian and Moose rivers — the greatest yarding grounds 
in the whole Forest Preserve — informed me that the deer 
had wintered remarkably well and that they would be 
plentiful this fall, and Louis is generally given to croak- 
ing regarding the game supply. His prophecy has been 
realized. I saw evidence of a great many deer — and of 
an unusual number of fawns — while hunting. 
All the popular localities are well patronized and are 
giving the full quota of deer. Whitaker, Mason, Lewey 
and Piseco lakes, and the Kunjanink and Oregon regions 
are generally selected by the hunting parties. _ Of the 
more inaccessible spots, the Ralph party of Utica is at the 
West Canadas, while the Rev. Dr. Williamson and a 
companion are at Jim Sturges’ camp at Whitney Lake. 
Ruffed grouse are very plentiful — more so than usual — ■ 
and as the woodcock have held out better in the Avoods 
than outside, good results are expected from the covers 
about Speculator, J. W. D. 
Romance and Tfttth. 
Many years ago a man named Beadle published books 
on Indians and other people, but principally on Indians. 
They were cheap, blood-curdling affairs and sold for a 
dime. I do not remember ever having read one, but it 
is not difficult to imagine the trash that was put into 
cold type and supplied to the American youth of that day. 
Like every other reader of the Forest and Stream, 
I too have been a close observer and diligent peruser of 
Cabia Blanco’s articles. The sterling ring of reality per- 
vading them necessarily appealed to his readers. I can 
only regret, with the thousands of subscribers to your 
paper, that he was not spared for another ten years. He 
certainly could have continued to delight your readers, 
for his long and venturesome life gave him a fund to 
draw from well-nigh inexhaustible. 
Take his last bear story, finished in the current issue. 
To the young and ambitious hunter what a panorama of 
delight such a trip would open before him. Did mortal 
boy ever before or since enjoy such an experience? 
Abroad on the boundless game stored prairies, moving 
or camping as circumstances dictated, now Wlinting with 
the Indians, and again by themselves, the party certainly 
lived for months the hunting life ideal. 
Who among your readers but would wish themselves 
boys again, could they have participated in such a hunt 
as Cabia Blanco described ! Where can be found in 
books of boyish adventure a story superior to the above? 
Now that his pen is stilled forever I for one can only 
regret that his contributions did not commence years ago. 
He has gone to the happy hunting grounds where, let us 
hope, he will live over again all the pleasant experiences 
gone through with during his mortal existence. 
Chas. Cristadoro. 
Flint-Locks for Relics. 
An article in a recent number of the Birmingham 
(England) Mail states that a factory in that city is turn- 
ing out weekly about 1,200 flint-lock muskets, and that a 
large number of this antiquated firearm are also amde at 
Liege, Belgium. These guns are sent to Central and East 
Africa for use by the natives, to whom the possession of 
modern firearms is denied by statute. Directing atten- 
tion to this industry. Consul Halstead says : “It is known 
in the trade that many of these newly made, weapons fall 
into the hands of travelers who regard them in the light 
of a ‘find,’ and a story is told of a Birmingham^ manufac- 
turer having received a letter from a dealer asking him to 
procure some old flint-locks, for which the dealer had sev- 
eral customers, when the manufacturer wrote that he 
could not supply old muskets, but was prepared to make 
him any number of new ones required. These were, of 
course, given the appearance of age. The detnand for old 
weapons is so great, especially in the American season, 
that the genuine articles would go but a little way to 
satisfy it.” 
New Yofk Non-Resident License. 
Albany, Sept. 14 . — Editor Forest and Stream: Com- 
missioner Whipple has gone into the question of exacting 
a license from non-residents to hunt in this State, and 
has obtained quite an elaborate opinion from the Attor- 
ney-General, and he holds that it is mandatory on the 
part of the Commissioner to exact a license from a resi- 
dent of a State or country where a license is demanded 
of non-residents, and notice to that effect is being sent 
out and blanks prepared on which to issue licenses. 
The Attorney-General holds that the last paragraph in 
Section 89 of the Game Law, which reads “Game shall 
not be taken by any such npn-resident, except pursuant 
to a license” is imperative and leaves no discretion with' 
the Commissioner anywhere in the State. Therefore, the 
requirement of a license only to apply to the southern tier 
of counties, as I previously wrote you, will be made gen- 
eral. Rensselaer. 
Jlire bickerings. 
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“That reminds me.” 
Recently an excursion party came by tallyho and, 
accompanied by a small brass band, to one of the most 
beautiful Adirondack lakes. A commodious and. swift 
steamer gave opportunity for a lake trip of some eighty or 
ten miles and back. On the return the band was playing 
and the wind being strong toward the dock, was> heard 
when three-fourths of a mile away. A young fellow with 
trousers half-way to his knees and other attire in keeping 
was sitting on the dock and exclaimed^: “Gosh! What 
ails that gol-darned steamboat to-day?” 
Query: Was the joke on him or on the band? 
It reminds one of the minister (known to the writer) 
who tells this story on himself. When a boy he resolved 
to learn to sing, so one Sunday morning went to the gar- 
ret to practice unobserved. But, alas, the father heard 
and later reproved after this fashion: “Never do that 
again. I don’t want a boy of mine up in the garret saw- 
ing boards when people are going by to church.” 
Juvenal. 
Adirondacks. 
JIttotiKr 100 spommeii’o finds. 
While pursuing a deer up a steep hillside in Nevada, 
away back somewhere in the “fifties,” a_ hunter named 
Finney noticed some curious looking pieces of metal 
which the deer had loosened on the hillside. Upon ex- 
amination he found the metal to be silver, and this “find” 
is said to have caused the rush which resulted in the up- 
building of the commonwealth of Nevada. 
C. A. Vandiveer. 
The current edition of the Game Lems in Brief, sold 
everywhere, contains all the fish and game laws a sports- 
man ought to know. It is complete, accurate and up-to- 
date. 
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