Forest and Stream 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1906. 
t VOL. LXVII—No. 16. 
) No. 346 Broadway, New York. 
FEDERAL PROTECTION OF WILDFOWL. 
We have in type for publication an elaborate 
brief prepared by Hon. Geo. Shiras 3d in sup¬ 
port of the proposition advanced by him, that 
to the Federal Government should be entrusted 
the protection of migratory wildfowl. The paper 
will be given as a, supplement in an early issue. 
DEATH OF HENRY C. SQUIRES. 
As we go to press we learn of the death of 
Henry C. Squires, at his home in Plainfield, N. 
J., from angina pectoris. His age was seventy 
years. Mr. Squires was born in Binghamton, 
N. Y., but liis parents removed to this city 
when he was but two years of age. Thirty-six 
years ago Mr. Squires began business as a 
dealer in sportsmen’s supplies in old Chatham 
street, near the Brooklyn Bridge, under the firm 
name of Smith & Squires. Later on this 
partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Squires re¬ 
moved to 1 Cortlandt street, where he carried 
on business in the Benedict Building for about 
twelve years, removing-thence to 178 Broadway, 
where he remained for ten years. While there 
his son, G. Harry Squires, grew up in the busi¬ 
ness, as one might say, and when Mr. Squires 
removed to 20 Cortlandt street, Harry was taken 
into partnership, and for the last fifteen years 
the firm name has been Henry C. Squires & 
Son. Last month the building at 44 Cortlandt 
street was leased and the business was removed 
there, and the excitement and worry was evi¬ 
dently too much for Mr. Squires. Last Sunday 
there was a rally in the church in Plainfield, 
followed by a family reunion, and Mr. Squires 
evidently overtaxed his strength. 
He is survived by Mrs. Squires and five sons, 
two of whom were associated with him in 
business. 
REFORM NEEDED IN THE SOUTH. 
That the North Carolina game laws are not 
enforced as they should be is evident. One of 
our correspondents says they are not enforced 
at all in his county, and others say they are 
observed only by the sportsmen; while Northern 
sportsmen with whom we have talked say it is 
unfortunate that so little attention is given the 
subject in that state. 
Perhaps the North Carolinians have not as 
yet come to a full realization of their oppor¬ 
tunities. As a winter resort for Northern 
sportsmen and their families North Carolina 
has peculiar advantages, and the opportunities 
for making her resorts increasingly popular 
should not be lost sight of, for vacationists take 
money with them and are willing to spend it 
freely so long as they feel that they are getting 
something in return for it. If the residents of 
a state are permitted to wipe out the game, 01 
wink at violations perpetrated by visitors, in 
the course of time there will be nothing to in¬ 
duce these winter visitors to come, and a large 
sum of money will be diverted annually to other 
states, where a better policy is observed. 
Vast numbers of sportsmen look to the South 
Atlantic States to provide upland and wildfowl 
shooting and fishing during the winter season. 
The revenue alone which is derived from this 
source seems a sufficient inducement to spur the 
people of these states on in an effort to make 
their winter resorts as attractive as possible. 
Without game and fish these states will have 
little to offer the visiting sportsman. 
The sportsmen’s associations alone can act 
in concert in states where wardens have not been 
appointed, but individuals can help materially. 
More associations are needed—county organi¬ 
zations especially—and there is work for all 
hands. Men who have been in the habit of 
shooting for the market can be shown how 
much more , profitable it will be for them to' 
act as guides and boatmen for sportsmen, and 
that it is to their interest to preserve the game 
and fish. Local interest is needed in the South, 
as elsewhere, and the missionary work must be 
done by resident sportsmen. 
QUAIL NETTING FOR WINTER. 
In a circular just issued by the Pennsylvania 
Game Commission, Secretary Joseph Kalbfus re¬ 
views the work which has been done to restock 
the quail covers, and urges further effort in this 
direction. Six times within the experience of 
Mr. Kalbfus the birds have been almost exter¬ 
minated by severe winters and excessive 
slaughter, and the stock has been restored by 
purchasing quail in other states, and the funds 
have been provided by the sportsmen. In Feb¬ 
ruary, March and April of this year, the Game 
Commissioners imported from Alabama about 
3.700 quail at a cost of $9 per dozen; and dis¬ 
tributed them in various parts of the state. 
Many more birds were brought in and liberated 
by private enterprise. But with the increased de¬ 
mand for live birds for stocking the supply in 
states which formerly furnished the birds has 
been exhausted, or laws have been enacted to 
stop the export; and unless some such expedient 
as government bird preserves for the supply of 
live quail shall .be provided, the Northern states 
will in the future be obliged to depend on their 
own resources. 
Secretary Kalbfus makes an earnest plea to 
the citizens of Pennsylvania to conserve the 
quail by a wholesale netting of the covers and 
confinement in pens during the period from 
Jan. 1 to April 1, to the end that they may not 
be destroyed by the rigors of the winter. The 
Pennsylvania law permits this. 
Should the recommendation be generally 
adopted, the quail net would come into com¬ 
mon use. What the result would be is a subject 
of conjecture. If all the netters of quail netted 
the birds for the single purpose of keeping them 
through the winter, and possessed the skill to 
care for them properly, and devoted to them 
exacting attention necessary to keep them alive, 
and put them out in the spring in a way to re¬ 
store them to the natural conditions in which 
they were found when captured, the result would 
undoubtedly be beneficial. But is there good 
reason to believe that any large number of 
netters would be successful in carrying the birds 
through from January to April? Is it not prob¬ 
able, on the contrary, that the mortality among 
the confined birds, due to the captivity and the 
ignorance and neglect of those who had assumed 
the burden of caring for them, would be much 
greater than with the birds in their native wilds?. 
Moreover, unless Pennsylvania human nature 
is essentially different from that which prevails 
elsewhere, the indiscriminate netting of quail 
ostensibly for preservation will in fact give op¬ 
portunity for netting quail to be marketed. 
BAIT-CASTING IN THE EAST. 
The results of the tournament held in Central 
Park last week, a full account of which appears 
elsewhere in this issue, will be beneficial alike 
to anglers and the fishing tackle trade for a long 
time to come. It will serve to draw the anglers 
of the Eastern states together, clubs will be 
formed, and these will hold similar affairs. 
Already we hear of at least two fly- and bait¬ 
casting clubs that are about to be formed as a 
direct result of the meeting of anglers on the 
shore of Harlem Mere, while the Anglers’ Club 
will hold another open tournament next sum¬ 
mer, and will start early next year with an in¬ 
teresting series of club contests, with special in¬ 
ducements to beginners. 
Friendly rivalry between the anglers of Great 
Britain and the United States will follow the 
cordial reception given Mr. Enright, and his ex¬ 
hibitions of salmon fly-casting will awaken in¬ 
terest in that form of casting, to the end that 
anglers who' fish for salmon in Newfoundland 
and Nova Scotia can go there prepared to handle 
these heavy fly-rods with more skill than they 
possess at present. 
It is proposed to awaken an interest in bait¬ 
casting contests with salt-water tackle, to the 
end that anglers for our salt-water game fishes 
may learn, through practice, what types of rods, 
reels and lines are peculiarly adapted to their 
needs. A large number of anglers are interested 
in this branch of the sport, and inter-club contests 
are to be encouraged. 
Bait-casting, so popular in the Middle states, 
will become better known in the East, and through 
competition the anglers of the two sections will 
be drawn closer together. 
