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FOREST AND STREAM 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company 
Chas. A. Hazen, President Charles L. Wise, Treasurer 
Harwood Palmer, Vice-Bres. W. G. Beecroft, Secretary 
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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful interest 
in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate a refined 
taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873 
SKYSCRAPER SHOOTING AND CASTING. 
• Men have fished above the clouds and above the 
timber line, but it is to be doubted whether any 
considerable .body of anglers before last week 
ever took part in a fly and bait casting tourna¬ 
ment held on the flat roof of a huge skyscraper. 
That was one of the features of the Sportsman’s 
Show, and so skillful are the resources of our 
large outfitting firms that the 200 foot casting 
tank filled with water offered as good opportunity 
for outdoor work as the surface of a lake or 
pond. True, the tank froze over on several occa¬ 
sions, but either because of the warmth of the en¬ 
thusiasm of the participants, or the gentle heat of 
their language, the ice usually thawed sufficiently 
to allow the full program to be carried out. 
Of the trapshooting contest held on the roof, 
our gifted trap editor speaks elsewhere. It was 
as successful, and perhaps more so, than the ang¬ 
ler’s part of the tournament. 
A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE WITH A 
JAIL DIPLOMA. 
Moved to righteous wrath because of the activity 
of certain “correspondence schools” of taxidermy 
which are sending out misleading literature in 
the hope of persuading people to begin the prac¬ 
tice of bird stuffing for profit, the State Game 
Commissioner of Pennsylvania has issued a 
warning explaining the law, pointing out that the 
game act prohibits utterly the destruction of in¬ 
sectivorous birds. In his notice he says that the 
Game Commission years ago concluded that 
enough birds had been destroyed for so-called 
scientific purposes, and that enough had been 
written from these killings to answer all the re¬ 
quirements of coming generations. The abuse of 
the privilege of killing valuable birds under the 
belief that their bodies are desired for scientific 
purposes became so flagrant a few years ago that 
most of the states shut down on the issue of cer¬ 
tificates, except under the most stringent regula¬ 
tions. The rounding up and punishment of some 
of the bands of vagrant destroyers of bird life 
who infest the woods, particularly in the vicinities 
of large cities, would be an excellent thing, and 
we trust that the plan will be carried out. It will 
if the Game Commission of Pennsylvania has 
anything to say about it. 
A REAL SPORTSMAN’S SHOW. 
At last New York has had a real Sportsman’s 
Show. The exhibition which closed Saturday 
night at the Grand Central Palace was a revela¬ 
tion to people who have been fooled recently into 
patronizing so-called outdoor shows, and the at¬ 
tendance afforded evidence of the interest which 
is being taken in the doctrine of the woods and 
streams for health and recreation. There are two 
kinds of sportsman's shows. One caters exclu¬ 
sively to the commercial element, with full free¬ 
dom to every enterprise from the Coney Island 
barker to the man with a machine for peeling 
potatoes, while the other, not excluding the com¬ 
mercial end, blends it so perfectly in the ensemble 
that the desired novelties and the practical part 
of camping are made one. Forest and Stream is 
proud of the part it had in promoting and making 
successful the latest sportsman’s show, and with¬ 
out making rash promises, may say that next 
year’s effort will be so pretentious and perfect as 
to surpass every expectation. 
FATE OF HARRY V: RADFORD. 
I ittle doubt remains that Harry V. Radford, the 
young New Yorker who spent several years in the 
Great Slave Lake district of Canada looking for 
wood buffalo, and who later got as far as Hudson 
Bay, was murdered early in June at Bathurst 
Inlet near the Arctic Ocean, by several of the 
Eskimos of his party. A Mr. Street who was 
with him is supposed to have been killed at the 
same time. Confirmation of earlier rumors is 
now at hand in the form of a letter from Chester¬ 
field Inlet, dated June nth, written to J. R. Ray, 
officer in charge of the Nelson River District, by 
Mr. H. H. Hall. 
The particulars were brought to light through 
questioning two or three Eskimos who had re¬ 
turned from Bathurst Inlet, and while the testi¬ 
mony of the natives is not always reliable, the 
story in this instance is specific enough to war¬ 
rant belief. According to the Eskimos, Radford 
had struck one of the party with a whip and was 
speared to death. The trail from Schultze Lake, 
west of the Hudson Bay, to Bathurst Inlet has 
been travelled repeatedly by explorers and others. 
The only doubt about the killing of Radford is 
that the Eskimos of the district are known to be 
harmless and tractable. Still, if Radford does not 
show up at some of the Mackenzie River posts 
this year, the world will have to accept as true 
the story of the death of an intrepid young 
American explorer. 
JOHN LAMBERT CADWALADER. 
By the death of John L. Cadwalader the coun¬ 
try has lost an eminent citizen, New York City 
a leader in good works, and the world of conser¬ 
vation and sport a man who stood for what was 
best in everything. 
Mr. Cadwalader was in his seventy-eighth year. 
He was a native of New Jersey, a graduate of 
Princeton, and had been Assistant Secretary of 
State under the late Hamilton Fish in President 
Grant’s second administration. In 1877 he re¬ 
turned to New York and resumed his law prac¬ 
tice, and since then has been one of the city’s 
foremost lawyers. 
Mr. Cadwalader had been president of the Bar 
Association of the City of New York, and at the 
time of his death was president of the New York 
Public Library, in which he had long been deeply 
interested, for it was he who worked out the 
plan for combining the Astor, Lenox and Tilden 
foundations into one great library. He was a 
trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in 
which he took a keen interest, of the Carnegie In¬ 
stitution of Washington and of Princeton Uni¬ 
versity, and was also manager and vice-president 
of the New York Zoological Society, which 
shared his affections with the Art Museum and 
the Public Library. 
He was a keen and ardent sportsman and a 
member of many shooting and hunting clubs, 
among them the Monroe (Michigan) Shooting 
Club, and the Boone and Crockett Club. 
Mr. Cadwalader possessed a keen intellect, 
sound judgment, and a great enthusiasm and in¬ 
dustry in carrying through matters, in which he 
was interested. His was a strong character, and 
all through his life he upheld the fine traditions 
of the family from which he came. A finished 
gentleman, he was also a man of the kindest 
heart, and of very great personal charm. 
SHAME, VIRGINIA! 
We regret to record that on Friday, March 13— 
was it coincidence or by design that the deed was 
committed on such an unholy day?—the Virginia 
House of Delegates killed the Hart-White Game 
Bill by four votes. Mr. W. P. Patterson, presi¬ 
dent of the Virginia Fish and Game Protective 
Association, wires Forest and Stream that “this 
deplorable action plunges Virginia back again 
fifty years behind most of the civilized world.” 
The Hart-White game bill was modelled after 
the Alabama or Wallace game law, and while here 
and there it may have ran counter to local opin¬ 
ion, or rather local greed, it is on the whole a 
most desirable measure, and if the intricacies of 
Virginia politics allow such action, the bill should 
be called up again and passed. It was only on 
February 26 that Mr. Patterson wrote us that the 
bill went through the Virginia Senate by a ma¬ 
jority of eleven votes. Why the House of Dele¬ 
gates killed it we have no means of learning, but 
as a change of only two or three votes is required 
to make the bill a law, it would seem that the 
real sportsmen of Virginia, and what is more to 
the point, the farmers of Virginia whose crops 
are being destroyed every year through the de¬ 
pletion of game and other insectivorous birds, 
ought to be able to bring the necessary pressure 
to bear in the right direction. 
Virginia is known as the mother of presidents; 
she possessed in early Colonial times, Dominion 
privileges and dignities conferred by the mother 
country, but in game legislation she has been 
sadly lacking. The people of Virginia want bet¬ 
ter game laws and the politicians will grant them 
if the people will take enough interest in their 
own affairs to demand their rights. All honor to 
the Virginia Game and Fish Protective Associa¬ 
tion and other friends of conservation who have 
fought a good fight. Even though they are de¬ 
feated temporarily, they are bound to win in the 
end, and this paper will, in as far as possible, 
lend them all the aid within its power. 
