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FOREST AND STREAM 
The 
Northern Pacific Railway 
Traverses the Finest Big Game 
and Fishing Country in the 
United States, including 
Yellowstone Park 
Minnesota outing spots and lakes afford unsurpassed bass, pike 
and other fishing and deer hunting. The mountains and streams 
of the farther Northwest are abundantly stocked with wild game 
and trout. 
Yellowstone Park is the trout preserve par excellence —six species 
of trout found there. 
Two transcontinental trains daily from Chicago via 
St. Paul-Minneapolis. One train daily from St. 
Louis and Kansas City via Billings. 
Send for literature 
A. M. CLELAND 
General Passenger Agent 
ST. PAUL, MINN. 
A TWO-FOLD APPRECIATION. 
New York City, March 2, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
From the time my fishing aspirations were 
first realized in the actual joys of trout fishing 
I became a subscriber and deeply interested 
reader of Forest and Stream. On its weekly 
appearance all other periodicals are respectfully 
requested to await a more convenient time for 
perusal. With me Forest and Stream comes 
first, because it is foremost in all that its name 
implies. It is an entertaining “movie” of word 
pictures of things animate and inanimate of the 
broad outdoors under every aspect. 
I certainly would be ungrateful did I not ex¬ 
press my thanks to the editor and through him 
to the many writers whose delightful articles af¬ 
ford so much pleasure and instruction. It is, 
therefore, with the assurance that every con¬ 
tributor and every humble reader like myself will 
agree with me that the articles by Mr. Robert 
Page Lincoln are worthy of special appreciation 
—an appreciation much higher, broader, deeper, 
than my clumsy pen can offer. 
That gentleman’s loving tribute to the genius 
of the Rev. O. W. Smith, in your issue of Feb¬ 
ruary 14, appeals to me. not only as an uncon¬ 
scious tribute to his own delightful diction in the 
portrayal of Nature’s beauties and glories, 
but an exhibition of generous impulse in accord¬ 
ing praise to another to which he himself in the 
estimation of others is equally entitled. To Mr. 
Lincoln I confess a personal indebtedness, 
shared, I am sure, by every reader of his instruc¬ 
tive and entertaining articles. A thousand 
thanks are due to such splendid sportsmen as he, 
Mr. O. W. Smith, Theodore Gordon and others 
whose recorded experiences are so enlightening 
to every lover of forest and stream. 
I shall be one of many who will eagerly look 
for and welcome the appearance of Mr. Smith’s 
writings in book form. And why not Mr. Lin¬ 
coln’s contributions in book form also? Such 
books would stand side by side with “Men I 
Have Fished With,” “Fisherman’s Luck,” etc., 
always within easy reach, always readable, bright, 
refreshing, instructive, dispelling the blues of 
days shut in and interpreting to us the many 
“Tongues in trees, 
Sermons in stones, 
Books in running brooks, 
And good in everything.” 
Fraternally yours, 
CHAS. D. DAVIES. 
GOVERNMENT CONTROL OF MIGRATORY 
FISH. 
Baltimore, Md., March 2, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I read with interest your editorial in last issue 
concerning Federal control of migratory fish, and 
wish to call your attention to a bill now pending 
in the U. S. House of Representatives in Wash¬ 
ington, D. C. 
This bill was filed by Congressman J. Charles 
Linthicum, of Maryland, is known as H. R. 7775, 
and follows very closely the wording of the Fed¬ 
eral bird bill; it gives control to Federal govern¬ 
ment of the fish which go from state to state in 
such waters as are in two or more states or 
which divide two or more states, and gives the 
U. S. fish commission the right to make regula¬ 
tions concerning same. 
A hearing before the House Committee on 
Merchant Marine and Fisheries was held Feb¬ 
ruary 19, and many persons spoke for and against 
this bill; at present it looks as though we will 
get a favorable report, and I sincerely trust that 
the bill will become a law. 
I wish your valuable paper would take up the 
fight and help pass this most important measure. 
TALBOTT DENMEAD, 
Attorney. 
APPEAL TO VIRGINIANS. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Some time ago you published an article rela¬ 
tive to our efforts here in Virginia to pass com¬ 
prehensive game and fish laws during the pres¬ 
ent session of our legislature. It is with much 
pleasure that we now advise you that the Hart- 
White game bill has been recommended favor¬ 
ably by the committees of both the House and 
Senate and is now on its second reading in both 
branches of the Assembly. 
There have been several amendments made 
by these committees, but as a whole the amend¬ 
ments make the bill more forcible and therefore 
more to the liking of every true sportsman and 
protectionist in Virginia. This bill, as you 
know, is modeled closely after the game laws of 
Alabama, which laws have been practically 
adopted by fourteen southern and western 
states, and in no case that we know of have any 
of the sections of this Alabama law been re¬ 
pealed. Therefore, we must conclude that each 
and every section, after having been tried out 
by the farmers of the fourteen states, has proven 
satisfactory. This is one of the highest recom¬ 
mendations that we can offer the farmers and 
sportsmen of Virginia for the passage of the 
Hart-White game bill. We believe without 
doubt that the Senate will pass this measure, but 
there are several members of the House who 
have not made up their minds on this subject, 
and we now earnestly appeal to every farmer, 
angler, gunner and nature-lover in Virginia to 
write immediately to their representatives and 
ask them to not only vote for this bill but to 
use their personal influence in securing other 
support. 
Virginia is sadly in need of even more forcible 
legislation than we offer, as she ranks among 
the last four states in the list as regards wild life 
protection. We are antiquated and the time has 
come when the people of Virginia must do some¬ 
thing to maintain our reputation for state pride. 
Every sportsman’s magazine in the country and 
