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F 0 R E S T A XI) STREAM 
May, 1919 
Anticipating the Benefits 
of Peace 
Copeland Townsend, Lessee-Director 
HOTEL 
MAJESTIC 
Central Park West at 72nd St., New York 
ANNOUNCES: 
A general reduction in all Majestic 
Restaurants and in the 
CAFE DES ALUES 
(Direct Entrance from Central Park West) 
OF 20 PER CENT 
These changes are based on post bellum con- 
ditions and conform to our long established 
policy of giving 
THE GUEST THE BENEFIT 
MR. WALTER GUZZARDI, an experienced 
restaurateur, is in charge of the cuisine. 
FOR example! 
Showing Prices Per Portion 
THEN & NOW 
Cape Cods 
Strained Chicken 
•45 
•35 
Gumbo 
■35 
•25 
Broiled Live Lobster. 
Steak Minute with 
i.6o 
1.25 
; Potatoes O’Brien . . 
1-25 
.90 
Chicken a la King. . . 
1-55 
1-25 
j Fruit Salad 
•65 
•50 
Majestic Apple Pie. . . 
Pot Coffee with 
•25 
.20 
Cream de Luxe . . . 
•25 
.20 
■ Petit liner sur le plat. . 
.$1.25 
1 Supper Dances from 9 P. M. 
to Closing. 
|| Alluring Dance Orchestra. 
In addition to the reduc- 
tion in food prices, all as- 
sembly rooms, including the 
Grand Ballroom, may be se- 
cured on any date available 
(Saturdays excepted) at a 
reduced price. This offer 
holds good until September 
I, 1919. 
We cannot make corre- 
sponding reductions in room 
accommodations, as these 
prices have not been propor- 
tionately advanced during 
the war period, and our 
rooms are continuously in 
demand. 
CROW WAR 
DECLARED 
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three should alight in the tree at the 
same time. 
A telescope adds much to the pleasure 
of this kind of shooting by giving a feel- 
ing of absolute confidence and seeing the 
cross-hairs shining on the black coat of 
the target. One feels he is a dead crow 
even before pressing the trigger, and he 
generally is. Personally I enjoy the snip- 
ing game more than the shotgun game. 
For one thing it is “fine tackle” work. 
A shotgun is such a blunt, coarse instru- 
ment. But that is merely a matter of 
taste. Certainly there is no need for 
sportsman’s ethics in shooting crows. 
With a good .22 and telescope, I know 
of no keener sport than stalking crows 
in summer. Hunting the phlegmatic 
woodchuck is tame beside it. And be- 
sides, one knows he is doing a good turn 
to the mother robins and larks. In spring 
and early summer when all shooting of 
game is taboo I can have as much fun 
as at any time in the open season. Be- 
sides the consciousness of doing good 
service, the crow is a smart bird as a 
rule, and isn’t exactly easy to kill by 
stalking. One can carry a call while 
stalking if one wishes, and call up many 
a shot one would not otherwise get. Still 
the tendency of a crow, when called, is 
to keep moving. Shots at 100 yards or a 
little less are easily obtained, with or 
without a call. A good .22 and telescope 
makes a deadly combination at ranges 
of 100 yards and less. 
I generally wear tennis shoes for all 
kinds of pussyfoot hunting, having ac- 
quired the habit in the Coast Range, 
hunting deer. I know of no kind of small 
game hunting more delightful than glid- 
ing swiftly, like a shadow, under the 
heavy-leaved maples and gnarled oaks of 
the bottoms, sneaking toward a crow 
“caw-cuss,” or stalking a lone sentinel 
on some high, dead tree. The practical 
assurance of a kill if one can get within 
75 yards, and get a shot, gives an added 
thrill to the stalk. One cannot always 
get a shot, even when within range, in 
the leafy summer woods. A field glass 
is very valuable in this connection in 
spotting the game among the leaves. 
Even a small opera glass is a vast im- 
provement over naked eyes. One can do 
without it better in hunting crows than 
he can in hunting squirrels. 
T he boy in his teens is really tho 
foundation of any campaign against 
crows that is to be successful. A 
sufficient bounty to make him take an in- 
terest will do more to keep the crow 
population within bounds than any cam- 
paign based on the hunting of grown 
men, however desirable and laudable that 
kind of a campaign is. The boy likes 
to hunt, and in closed season is in hot 
water. Often he violates the game laws 
cheerfully. With crows to shoot he would 
not only be pitting his wits against a 
worthy adversary, one that would make 
him work for all he got, and develop the 
powers that go to make him a hunter, 
but he would acquire an instinct for 
backing the law instead of breaking it. 
