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Sportsmen and Panama-Pacific International Exposition 
C ALIFORNIA, and the western country in gen¬ 
eral, has a great reputation for its splendid 
hunting and fishing, and it is but natural that 
special efforts should be made to have exhibits of 
more than ordinary interest to the sportsmen at 
the Panama-Pacific International Exposition that 
is to be held in San Francisco in 1915. Plans for 
some unusual displays are now under way, and 
others are being prepared, so that it is safe to 
say that this exposition will have more to show 
in this line than any other ever held. But the 
interest of sportsmen will not be confined to the 
exhibits that will be on display within the con¬ 
fines of the exposition. Within an easy reach of 
San Francisco, sport of almost all kind may be 
enjoyed. Some of the finest striped bass fishing 
in the world is to be enjoyed on San Francisco 
Bay and the streams flowing into it. The Sac¬ 
ramento and San Joaquin rivers teem with black 
bass and other game fish. In season salmon in 
large numbers may be taken by hook and line 
in the bay or outside the heads, and within a 
radius of twenty miles of the city may be found 
dozens of trout fishing streams, not to mention 
mountain stretches where deer are to be found. 
A day’s travel takes the sportsmen into the best 
By GOLDEN GATE 
limiting or fishing grounds to be found in the State. 
Those who enjoy yachting will find San 
Francisco Bay with its landlocked harbor of 400 
square miles a paradise for this sport, and one 
where a breeze is never lacking. Already plans 
have been perfected for the greatest series of 
yacht races on this bay during 1915 that have 
ever been witnessed on the coast. Sir Thomas 
Lipton aroused a great interest here in yachting 
when he visited the city a year ago, and has not 
only offered a valuable trophy, but has entered 
a contender in the races to be held. 
Many of the exhibits in the exposition of 
particular interest to sportsmen will be housed 
in the Manufactures and Varied Industries Build¬ 
ing. The exposition authorities have issued the 
official classification of exhibits and those plan¬ 
ning to make displays should apply for space 
at an early date. Under group 53 will be shown 
articles for traveling and camping. These will 
embrace packing cases of all kinds, portable 
equipment for naturalists, pioneers, explorers and 
sportsmen, tents, hammocks, beds, folding chairs 
and camp furniture, portable houses, tents and 
furniture of military types and waterproof cloth¬ 
ing. Group 54 will be devoted to hunting equip¬ 
ment and products of hunting. Here will be 
shown sportsmen’s and trappers’ arms and acces¬ 
sories, ammunition, hunting equipment, appli¬ 
ances for training dogs, sporting goods, furs and 
skins in the rough, taxidermists’ work, horn, 
bone and ivory. Under group 55 will be shown 
fishing equipment and products. Here will be 
displayed floating appliances used in fishing, nets, 
tackle, boats and equipment for both sea and 
fresh water fishing. One section will be given 
over to anglers’ apparel, rods, reels, lines and 
lures and exhibits of catches that have been 
made. In the Transportation Building will be 
shown drawings, models and specimens of pleas¬ 
ure craft—yachts, steam, sail or power boats, 
rowboats, out-riggers, skiffs, etc., and their ac¬ 
cessories. 
Pacific coast fish will be seen to advantage 
in the aquarium, and some unusual specimens 
will be seen, among which will be the celebrated 
golden trout of Whitney Creek, Tulare county, 
which will be seen for the first time outside their 
native waters. Hawaii is planning to make a 
great display of native fish, and this is expected 
to prove one of the great sights of the natural 
history display. 
Game in Connecticut 
Packer, Conn., Aug. 2. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Game prospects in Eastern Connecti¬ 
cut are surely of the brightest. The favorite 
shooting of the great majority of sportsmen is 
ruffed grouse, and in spite of this fact and the 
further fact that disease or ticks sadly decimate 
the young every summer, this noble game is in¬ 
creasing yearly. Not in many years have the 
old birds been so plentiful. The cocks could be 
heard drumming in every suitable woodland, 
and the season for hatching has been all that 
could be desired. As early as June 15 I saw 
a covey as large as quail and counted eleven 
young when they took flight. 
Quail do not seem subject to the same dis¬ 
ease, are not hunted so persistently, and are in¬ 
creasing in numbers surprisingly. All winters of 
late years have been mild, or with little snow, 
and the abundant and difficult cover makes it 
easy for these able little birds to take good care 
of themselves. Since April 23 there have been 
concerts of bobwhite from early morn to dewy 
eve. Usually the music begins about 4 o’clock, 
but one morning an impatient cock beat even 
the whippoorwills and robins, beginning his song 
at 3:20. Often they sing in the evenings until 
the whippoorwills start their nightly serenades. 
I have seen several bevies of young birds, 
and heard of many more. One friend reported 
seeing a large bevy large enough to fly before 
By E. P. ROBINSON 
June 20. I have seen young quail within a week 
not more than two days old. A man who has 
lived here for fifty years says quail were never 
more abundant than at present. An automobile 
party that rode from Massachusetts to Long 
Island sound reported seeing and hearing quail 
as never before, and were surprised how much 
more plentiful they seemed than in their 
State. 
After the shooting season thousands of 
these quail should be trapped and sent to other 
parts of the State, or even to neighboring States, 
to be liberated next spring, as it is only a ques¬ 
tion of time when a hard winter will reduce 
them in number to a small percentage of their 
present great abundance. I wonder if our laws 
would permit our game commissioners to take 
such action. The greatest good for the greatest 
number surely would justify it. 
Black and woodducks have bred in a small 
woodland pond less than a mile from where I 
write in a way they have not done in many 
years. There are from 100 to 150 young, at 
least one-fourth of them woodducks. Small 
bunches may often be seen flying over my fields, 
but I have seen none of them alight. Thus far 
I have heard of no one disturbing them, but in 
a few weeks it will be lawful to bag the black- 
ducks, and then the woodducks will be in great 
danger, even if they are protected by law for a 
number of years. To many a hunter a duck is 
a duck, even if a tame one. 
Rabbits are more plentiful than at any time 
since I came to the State, but squirrels do not 
seem to be increasing in numbers. A friend 
from Massachusetts reports gray squirrels very 
abundant, a nuisance in fact. All doors and 
windows must be screened to keep them out of 
the houses, and nothing eatable can be left 
safely where they can reach it. 
Deer grow more plentiful every season, but 
strange to say bucks do not seem to keep pace 
with the does and fawns. Possibly they are 
more secretive, or they may be killed unlaw¬ 
fully. At any rate I see a dozen does for every 
buck, and fully as many fawns. I took a stroll 
with the dog the other day to a blueberry patch. 
After leaving the low ground by an old wagon 
road, much grown up in bushes, going only a 
few steps in the woods I stopped to wait for 
the dog to find me. I thought I heard him com¬ 
ing, and was as greatly surprised probably as 
were a doe and fawn that nearly ran over me, 
but jumped aside when only a step or two away. 
They had only got out of sight when another 
fawn came even nearer than the others, almost 
within touch of my hand. 
I have not yet heard what, if any, changes 
were made in the law relating to deer, but be¬ 
lieve there is yet no open season. 
