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FOREST AND STREAM 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 
Devotrd to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Natural History, 
FishOultukk, toe Protection opGamr, Pkesbkvation opForesi^, 
and the Inculcation in Men and Women op a Healthy Interest 
in Out-Door Kkorkation and Study : 
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To Correspondents. 
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CHARLES IIALLOCK, Editor. 
T. C. BANKS, S. H. TURRILL, Chicago, 
Business Manager. Western Manager. 
A Word to Some of oub Exchanges. — The success of a 
journal may be partially inferred from the frequency with 
which its articles are copied into other papers. It affords us, 
therefore, much gratification to see ourselves so widely and so 
often quoted, and properly credited. But while the leading 
journals of the country are always particular to give us due 
acknowledgments, there are a number of papers which habitu- 
ally draw upon us for good things, and never dream of mak- 
ing the slightest recognition of their indebtedness to these 
columns. We make no complaint, gentlemen, but even the 
Devil deserves his due. 
Knights Errant.— The Charleston, S. C., Light Dragoons, 
celebrated their annual parade and tilt, at the race course, 
that city, last Monday. The tilts are deservedly popular 
among our Southern friends, and always attract a large num- 
ber of interested fair ones, whose presence inspires in their 
champion knights doughty deeds worthy of the glorious days 
of the Round Table. 
— The Scientific American of the 6th inst. contains the best 
view we have yet seen of the Brooklyn Bridge as it will ap- 
pear when completed. Could some of those journalists whose 
names are revered in Printing House Square, return for a 
moment to the flesh, they would be amazed at the new aspect 
of their old haunts, with the rapid transit railroads and broad 
roadway leading directly to the heights of Brooklyn. 
Blooming Grove Park Association.— At a recent meet- 
ing of the Blooming Grove Park Association in Pike county, 
Pa., the following were chosen directors for the ensuing year : 
Genio C. Scott, Sanders D. Bruce, George 8. Greene, Jr., E. 
Bradley, George H. Glenney, Dudley Field, John Avery, F. 
8. Giles, A. H. Wellington, Charles Hallock, C. A. Read. 
The principal officers are : President, Dudley Field ; Vice- 
President, John Avery ; Treasurer, C. H. Read ; Secretary, 
John Avery. Excursion tickets for Blooming Grove Park 
(price five dollars) will be sold this season by the Erie Rail- 
way to members of the association. 
FOOD FISHES OF THE GREAT LAKES. 
Quite a large number of petitions have been presented in 
Congress recently from citizens of Michigan in regard to the 
protection of food fishes of the great lakes and the rivers and 
straits connecting the same. The petitioners speak of the ab- 
sence of suitable laws and regulations for the protection of 
the best varieties of fool-fish, which are rapidly disappearing, 
and what should he productive of large benefit and conse- 
quent wealth to the country at large, will, in a very few years, 
if the present methods and system of conducting the fishing 
interests are continued, result in entirely depopulating the 
waters of the great lakes of their present store. It is gene- 
rally conceded that, notwithstanding the efforts being made 
by the .several States to increase the quantity of the better va- 
rieties of fish by artificial propagation, the quantity of this 
kind of fish is steadily decreasing, and while the several 
States are doing some good in the right direction, your peti- 
tioners are fully satisfied that the State governments cannot 
provide the necessary regulations for the protection of the fish 
in the methods employed to take them ; and your petitioners 
believe that the power rests in the Geueral Government to pass 
such laws and regulations that will be effectual in giving am- 
ple protection to the fishing interests of the great lakes, that 
their product will soon increase sufficiently to repay any out- 
lay that may be made, and become a source of large revenue 
to the country. 
In conclusion, they request Congress to pass a law for the 
preservation of the better varieties of the food-fishes native 
to Lakes Ontario, Erie, St. Clair, Huron, Michigan and Supe- 
rior, and the Rivers St. Lawrence, Niagara, Detroit, St. Clair, 
Sault Ste. Marie and the Strait of Mackinac, and the appro- 
priation of an amount of money sufficient to maintain Fish 
Commissioners, whose duty it shall be to enforce any law the 
Congress of the United States may enact. These petitions 
have all been referred to the Committee on Commerce, of 
which Senator Conkling is chairman, and he is thoroughly 
alive to the importance of this great question, not only as a 
matter of national advantage, but as a special advantage to 
the people of his own great State, living contiguous to some 
of the waters named above. Mr. Ferry, the oldest in service, 
but youngest in years of the Michigan Senators, is also deeply 
interested in this subject, and, as he is one of the most indus- 
trious members of the Senate, there is a good prospect that 
these two Senators will perfect a measure which will secure 
the end sought to be accomplished. 
WnERE We Go To. — The pressure upon the advertising 
department of the Herald is an encouraging indication of in- 
creased activity in business circles. In this forecast of better 
times the Forest and Stream and Rod. and Gun has a show- 
ing, as will be seen by our multiplying advertisements. There 
is no journal in the country whose advertising pages afford 
just such a study as our own, and none whose pages are 
scanned with the same peculiar scrutiny and interest. Many 
of our readers tell us they look to these pages first, and to the 
reading matter afterward. 
It may be taken as an aphorism that those things which 
are most directly under one's observation often escape notice. 
In like manner the circulation of Forest and Stream has 
grown to an extent which surprised us when we recently 
examined our mailing books. Its widespread distribu- 
tion throughout America, as well as in Europe, seemed io us 
so unusual for a weekly paper that we determined to prepare 
and print a complete list of the post offices to which our paper 
is sent by mail. This we have done in pamphlet form. The 
figures are attested and sworn to before a notary. We have 
not done this as a challenge to papers of our ilk or other, but 
because we feel confident of our position. We are willing to 
stand by our exhibit. We believe that no other paper in the 
country, of equal circulation, offers anything like the same ad- 
vantages as an advertising medium : 
California, 32; Oregon, 9; Dakota, 12; Colorado, 17; 
Montana, 8; Wyoming, 9 ; Idaho, 7; Utah, 2 ; Arizona, 7; 
Nevada, 9; New Mexico, 3; Indian Territory, 3; Washing- 
ton Territory, 13 ; Nebraska, 12; Minnesota, 41; Iowa, 53; 
Wisconsin, 56; Michigan, 67; Illinois, 93; Indiana, 38; 
Ohio, 77; Missouri, 24: Kansas, 24 ; Arkansas, 12; Texas, 
33 ; Pennsylvania, 61 ; Florida, 31 ; Louisiana, 11 ; Kentucky, 
21; Tennessee, 20; Mississippi, 14; Georgia, 19 ; North 
Carolina, 21; South Carolina, 12; Virginia, 41 ; Alabama, 
9 ; Maryland, 32 ; District of Columbia, 2 ; New Jersey, 09 • 
West Virginia, 11 ;* Massachusetts, 138; New York, 290 : 
Maine, 55; Vermont, 33; New Hampshire, 41 ; Rhode Island! 
11 ; Connecticut, 81 ; Canada, 85; England and Ireland, 2G ; 
Germany, 4 ; other foreign countries, 17. 
It must be borne in mind that the foregoing list does not in- 
clude those places to which bundles are sent by the American 
News Company upon the orders of newsdealers. So also, it 
should be understood that to some of these post offices we 
send hundreds of papers. 
A Remarkable Surgical Operation.— The Cleveland, 
Ohio, Plaindealer furnishes the following account of a surgi- 
cal operation recently performed by Dr. E. C. Sterling, of 
that city, which is sufficiently remarkable in itself, but will 
possess an additional interest to our readers, because they are 
so often entertained by the Doctor’s contributions to Forest 
and Stream : 
Robert F. Hurlburt, private secretary of Gov. Bishop, re- 
cently underwent the amputation of his tongue near the root. 
The operation was necessitated by cancer. The surgeons of 
Columbus would not undertake the operation. Dr. E. Ster- 
ling, of Cleveland, successfully accomplished the wonderful 
task. No one was allowed in the room during the undertaking 
except the assisting surgeons from Columbus and Delaware. - 
The chin was sawed in twain and the jaws spread apart in 
order to take out the diseased tODgue. The work was per- 
formed in a comparatively short space of time, and the pa- 
tient was comfortable and conscious in less than an hour. 
The physicians think lie will be able to articulate uudibly in 
the course of time. Thus far the difficulty has been to give 
nourishment, which lias been done by injection. Glass tubes 
have been secured, and hereafter nourishment will be given 
by that means until the soreness in the mouth is somewhat 
subdued. 
GAME PROTECTION. 
MEETINGS OF STATE ASSOCIATIONS 
FOR 1878. 
New Hampshire Stato Sportsmen's League, Manchester, April. 
New York State Aosociation for the Protection of Fish and Game 
Buffalo, May — ; Seoty., John B. Sage, Buffalo. 
Connecticut State Sportsmen’s Association, Hartford, May 15. 
Iowa Stato Sportsmen’s Association, Dos Moines, May 28. 
Nebraska State Sportsmen's Association, Freruout, Mav 21st and 
22d. 
National Sportsmen's Association, Wilkesbarro, Pa., Juno 11 
Illinois State Sportsmen’s Association, Quincy, June II. 
The Pennsylvania State Association for the Protection of Game 
and Fish, Wilkesbarre, June 11 ; Seoty., Benj. F. Dowance. 
Ohio State Sportsmen's Association, Cincinnati. June 15; Seoty. 
Wiltbank, Toledo. * 
Tennessee State Sportsmen’s Association, Nashville, Deo. 2 ■ 
Seot’y., Clark Pritoliott, NaBliville, Tenn. 
Wisconsin State Sportsmen's Association. 
Massachusetts Stato Sportsmen's Association, at oall of President. 
Missouri Stato Sportsmen's Association. 
Game Constables and the Game Laws.— The office of 
game constable, under some circumstances, is not the most 
pleasant in the world. The same reverence attaching to 
other legislation is not always entertained by a large part of 
the community for the game enactments. When the laws 
conflict with personal aggrandizement, advantage is taken of 
any laxity of public sentiment, and the law is openly and de- 
fiantly violated. Without a powerful game club to support 
him on the right hand, and a healthy public feeling on the 
left hand, as Aaron and Hur upon the mountain top sup- 
ported the hands of Moses, while Joshua smote Amalek on 
the plain below, the game constable is apt to be worsted in 
the unequal fight ; or, indeed, will refuse to fight at all. 
This, so far as we are informed, is the situation at Niagara 
Falls, N. Y. The laws there prohibit the trapping or netting 
of fish in any manner, except angling with a hook and line, at 
any time. An extensive fishing business is carried on. The 
fish are caught by the ton, peddled' through the streets, and 
sold to prominent members of the Niagara Falls Shooting 
Club. Meanwhile, the game constable, with a child-like and 
bland simplicity as refreshing as it is ingenuous, pleads total 
ignorance of any game laws ; eats his fish and asks no ques- 
tions for conscience sake. We confess that we can see no 
remedy for this unfortunate condition so long as the people 
of Erie and Niagara counties, or other counties, are content to 
eat the goose that lays the golden eggs. We presume they 
must be left in apathetic enjoyment of their inconsiderate re- 
past. * 
No More Trout Fishing in the Upper Beaverkill. 
Dear Rod and Stream: (That’s the best part of your name at 
this season of the year). No more trout fishing in the upper 
Beaverkill. Please give notice through your columns. Last 
summer, while I was at Weaver’s (formerly. Munson’s) there 
came down from “Quaker Clearing ” three men on a buck- 
board, and they boasted “over four hundred trout;" I could 
not see nor imagine where they had so many stowed away 
but after a while they opened a twelve-quart butter-firkin and 
showed me the poor little things. They claimed four hun- 
dred, and I guess they told the truth. I think that not one of 
the “ fish ” was six inches long. Now this sort of thing must 
be stopped, and I have made up my mind to stop it on 
that stream. How many of us have fished the Beaverkill I 
We used to put up at Murdock’s, or Flint's, or Walmsleys, or 
Leal’s, or camp out, and catch our creels full ; but now-a-d’ays 
the smallest creel half full of seven inch trout is good luck. 
Alter the sight of those poor little innocents my plans were 
soon laid. I obtained the next day, from Joseph Banks, a 
ODg lease of the stream across his two lots ; I have since made 
an arrangement with Mead Brothers, at the old Quaker Clear- 
ing. Messrs. Van Cleef and Van Brunt, the owners of Bal- 
sam Lake, have joined me, and so has Ransom Weaver. I 
have hired a patrol to guard that stream from Balsam Lake 
down to Weaver’s west line, and have posted notices, and the 
fishing of the upper Beaverkill in Sullivan and Ulster coun- 
ties, New York, is going to be preserved. All gentlemen sports- 
men will keep away from there after this notice, unless they 
have my permission to fish, and all others will wish they had 
stayed away if they disregard it. It is unpleasant for me to 
write in this positive manner — it sounds boastful and ungener- 
ous— but somebody had to take hold or the fishing would be 
gone from there in another two years ; and, a9 I have fished 
there almost every season since 1856, it falls to my lot not un- 
fairly. Since recording my lease, eight of my friends have 
agreed to share with me the expense of preserving and the 
pleasure of catching. We shall apt increase our number 
above twelve or fifteen, and in two or three years we hope to 
have the lake and stream full of trout as they were less than 
twenty years ago. No tannery nor saw mill has ever polluted 
the waters of this part of the Beaverkill. 
This notice will undoubtedly cause great disappointment to 
many, especially to sportsmen of Ulster, Delaware and Sulli- 
van counties, N. Y., but I do hope that it will be regarded 
because we have the legal right and title and the means to cn- 
| force it, and we shall certainly do 60 . It is but fair to add 
I that any one stopping at Weaver’s or at Mead’s, will be allowed 
; to fish over their respective pieces of stream, but not on Bal- 
I Bam Lake nor the “Banks" lots. The increasing fondness for 
real sport9 sends more hunters and fishermen afield every 
year, and forests and streams near the great cities are almost 
stripped of fin and feather. Those who cannot take time to 
go far have but one resource — to preserve the game by restrict- 
the privilege. 
ours respectfully, Geo. W. Van Siolkn. 
Ho. 99 Nassau street, New York, March 23, 1878. 
