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FOREST AND STREAM 
Jan. 17, 1914. 
Game Problem in Great Britain 
London, Eng., January 10, 1914.—The prob¬ 
lem of game preservation is facing the sports¬ 
men of Great Britain and the question as to 
have this can best be solved is one that is more 
or less complicated. During the past year there 
has been a number of instances where grouse 
have been very plentiful on some of the moors, 
but as a rule the opposite has been true. Scot¬ 
land has experienced a most disastrous season, 
and game on a number of moors has been com¬ 
pletely obliterated. One phase of the game 
situation that is calling forth much careful study, 
is the prevention of disease among grouse. In 
many cases it has been impossible owing to ad¬ 
verse weather conditions for the game to ob¬ 
tain the necessary amount of nutrition, and in 
consequence of this condition of affairs, disease 
has been rampant on many of the moors. 
WILDFOWL. 
New Hampshire Game Conditions 
Derry, N. H., December 4, 1913. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
We have just closed one of the best bird 
hunting seasons we have had for years. There 
was an abundance of rough grouse, and the 
flight of woodcock was as good as past years. 
We had 15 days hunting on deer with shot 
guns; seven were shot near town on the first 
day. 
I regret to find many ring-neck pheasants 
about here; the law protects them. They are 
about as congenial to our native game birds as 
the English sparrow is to our song birds. You 
cannot find a gunner in New Hampshire that has 
any use for them, except for exhibition at 
some Sportsman’s Fair. I have been informed 
that they will destroy the nests of our partridges. 
The coon hunters did not have much luck. 
We broke in a lot of new dogs and some of them 
were no good. There are plenty of foxes but 
not many hounds to run them. Hunters won’t 
keep them on account of their being apt to run 
deer and that gets them in rows with the State 
■laws. 
We had one month of open season on grey 
squirrels, after a close season of six years. 
Many were killed, but not a fraction of what 
was predicted would be killed. 
Our game laws were knocked in the head 
by the political machine last spring, by abolish¬ 
ing our commissioners and creating a one-man 
policy—400 hunting licenses were written locally. 
Where we used to have several detectives and 
wardens to each town, who served without pay, 
we now have only one of each to a county. With 
all of our laws, I do not hear often of them be¬ 
ing violated. A good sportsman does not want 
to violate a good law. 
JOHN W. BABBITT. 
New Plans For Unsinkable Ship 
Bv L- C. B. F1TZHAMON 
Our European Correspondent. 
Paris, France, January 1, 1914. 
Planning, devising and executing without 
cessation since the appalling wrecking of the 
mighty Titanic, the naval architects of Europe 
steadily are pursuing what to the layman seems 
to be a chimera—the unsinkable ship. 
Now comes a French designer and builder 
of steam yachts and of other small power craft 
with a plan based upon the successful operations 
a year ago of an Italian firm of salvors by sea. 
It seems a comparatively simple plan; and one 
of the advantages—apparently a great one— 
claimed for it is that it will obviate a possible 
source of great danger from the prevalent 
water-tight compartments, which it is pointed 
cut, may create a heavy list when one side of 
a vessel is waterlogged and the other is intact. 
This clever Frenchman’s proposition is to 
equip a sea-going yacht with several inflatable 
tubes secured to the inner sheath of its hull 
in such places as may be most suitable for the 
purpose. These inflatable tubes are to be con¬ 
structed of fabric and rubber, much the same 
as the average automobile tire is made from 
fabric and rubber. 
Ordinarily these tubes, made of fabric and 
rubber, are to lie flat against the inside wall 
of the vessel’s hull. In case of emergency they 
would be inflated rapidly, by machinery; where¬ 
upon they would become so many air-chambers 
attached to the inside of the vessel and would 
prevent the vessel from sinking. It is claimed 
that they could be fitted to any existing vessel 
or be built into any new one. 
In application of this safety scheme to the 
greyhounds of the Atlantic it is suggested that, 
in event of a collision, the auxiliary machinery, 
by means of an air-compressor, promptly could 
inflate all these tubes or air-chambers through¬ 
out the ship, which would be rendered safe 
because its normal displacement would be 
doubled. 
Furthermore it is asserted the trim of the ves¬ 
sel could be maintained, and list could be pre¬ 
vented, by inflation of the air-tubes on the port 
side to a greater degree than on the starboard 
side, or vice versa; or else the inflation of 
a greater number on one side than on the other. 
The Frenchman’s scheme is said to be by 
far the most feasible of all the new-fangled and 
experimental ideas that have been promulgated 
within the past two years. In explaining the 
basis of operation to which he is indebted he 
sets forth that the successful raising of a sunken 
torpedo-boat by the Italian firm of salvors in 
question may be taken as proof conclusive that 
there is a possible and practicable method of 
rendering a large passenger ship practicably un¬ 
sinkable. 
The Italians’ method consisted of lowering 
into the small warship, a frame-work to which 
had been connected a number of large, inflat¬ 
able, flexible tubes. After the frame-work had 
been secured to the hull of the sunken vessel, 
the tubes were inflated strongly—in fact, to 
their utmost capacity. Now comes the en¬ 
lightening part: When a sufficient number of 
the tubes had been secured to the ship’s hull 
to displace (when inflated) the same volume 
of water as the vessel displaced, the vessel nec¬ 
essarily was raised to the surface by the in¬ 
flation of the tubes. 
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