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FOREST AND STREAM 
Jan. 25, 1913 
New York Zoological Society. 
The nineteenth annual meeting of the New 
York Zoological Society was held on Tuesday, 
Jan. 14, at the Waldorf-Astoria. John L. Cal- 
walader, Vice-President, presided. There was a 
large attendance of members from New York 
and other places. 
Madison Grant, Chairman of the Executive 
Committee, gave an outline of the events of the 
year. A census of the animals in the park taken 
Jan. I, 1913, shows 1,251 different species of 
mammals, birds and reptiles, represented by 
about 5,000 specimens. 
The zebra house and yards have been en¬ 
tirely finished, and are occupied by the equine 
animals of the Society’s collection, the herd of 
Przewalsky horses, the wild asses and the zebras. 
Considerable additions have been made to the 
Rocking Stone Restaurant. A winter house for 
pelicans and other birds is in process of con¬ 
struction, and a shelter is to be built for the 
yaks. 
The maintenance fund for 1913 provided by 
the city is $191,925, which contrasts interestingly 
with about $60,000 provided during the first year 
that the park was in operation. 
The city’s finances have not admitted of the 
appropriation of money for the construction of 
the new Aquarium as had been hoped. The 
finances of the Society are in excellent condition, 
though the fund for the National Collection of 
Heads and Horns has been overdrawn. The 
endowment fund has been increased to about 
$300,000. 
The Society needs an increased membership. 
A great city like New York should have many 
thousands of members for this Society, instead 
of only two or three thousand. 
In 1912 the attendance at the park exceeded 
by a hundred thousand that of any previous year, 
amounting to more than 1,700,000 persons. 
An expedition has been sent to West Africa 
in the effort to secure living gorillas for exhi¬ 
bition at the park. The one brought over a year 
or two ago died after being here eleven days. 
It is the intention of Mr. Garner to keep in 
captivity such animals as may be captured until 
they become accustomed to confinement, and to 
the novel food they must receive. 
Members of the Board of Managers to take 
the place of those whose terms have just ex¬ 
pired were elected. 
Mr. Charles Stewart Davison, of New York, 
offered a resolution, seconded by Major W. 
Austin Wadsworth, of Geneseo, N. Y., urging 
on Congress the passage of the Weeks and Mc¬ 
Lean bill for the protection of migratory birds. 
Dr. Hornaday supported the resolution, and 
when the question was put by the presiding 
officer, it was carried unanimously. 
At the close of the business meeting an ad¬ 
journment was had, and Madison Grant, the Sec¬ 
retary of the Society, showed, and very effectively 
explained, a series of eighty beautiful pictures 
representing the cave paintings by stone age man 
—the man of Cro-magnon—in the caves of 
Southern France and Spain. These paintings are 
in one or two colors, or are sometimes sculp¬ 
tured in the rock. They show an astonishing 
degree of art, especially when it is considered 
that the painting or engraving must have been 
done practically in the dark and far under 
ground. 
Mr. Grant was followed by S. N. Leek, of 
Wyoming, who showed and described a number 
of interesting pictures, some of them motion pic¬ 
tures, having to do with outdoor life in Wyo¬ 
ming; he showed deer, antelope, elk, beaver and 
many other things. Mr. Leek’s address was a 
strong plea for the winter feeding of the elk, 
whose winter range has been cut off by the set¬ 
tlements between the Yellowstone Park and the 
Red Desert in Wyoming. 
Suggestion and the Bear. 
BY L. 0. ARMSTRONG. 
Some months ago on the north shore of 
Lake Superior I came across a very neat camp. 
It was the headquarters for an iron camp and 
was in charge of a foreman and a cook. The 
foreman was a bright rollicking Irishman, all 
business when there was business to do, but 
willing to enjoy himself, especially in the way 
of sport when it came his way. He was the 
kind of Irishman for which the race makes no 
apology. The day we reached there, was the 
last day of the cook’s service. He was a very 
good cook, and as we had some days to spend 
in the vicinity of the camp, we looked upon his 
departure with some concern. I asked him why 
he was leaving. He didn’t answer, but instead 
got busy among the pots and pans. The fore¬ 
man afterward said to me as we went out for 
a day’s fishing: “I’ll tell you why the cook wants 
to leave. Last Sunday I said to him, ‘Let us go 
out for a stroll. Perhaps we will see the bears 
that have been around the camp!’ He agreed 
and came. We walked along the trail to the 
iron mine. On the way we flushed several 
coveys of partridge, and I saw both wolf and 
bear tracks. I had taken my gun with me. 
A nglers in the British Isles speak of 
“game fish” and “coarse fish,” under one 
or other of which heads we include all 
fish found in our fresh water. 
The distinction makes for convenience, 
though there is of course nothing scientific or 
even legal about it, no fish being scheduled as 
game, but still admirers of the ferocious and 
daring pike, the bold and sporting perch, and 
even other coarse fish often protest against its 
invidiousness. But there is no getting away 
from the fact that in beauty, sporting qualities 
and excellence as food the salmos are fish apart 
and are the aristocracy of the finny tribe. Sal¬ 
mon, trout, grayling and char belong to this 
category, but the grayling is unknown in Ire¬ 
land, while the char is only found in the depths 
of one or two lakes in these islands, and that 
so sparsely that it is seldom included among 
British fish at all. This reduces in Ireland to 
After walking about twenty minutes from the 
camp, we saw a black bear on a hillside not 
more than 15 yards away. I said to the cook, 
‘I am going to shoot as near to that bear as 
I can without hitting him.’ I shot and the bear 
gave a leap, but did not fall. I saw that I had 
wounded the bear who instead of running away 
turned our way and started in our direction in 
a very brisk manner. The fur was out of sea¬ 
son, and I did not want to shoot the bear, but 
it was evident that he had blood in his eye. As 
he came near I noticed the cook fall back be¬ 
hind me. When the bear got right near I 
thought I would make him stand on his haunches 
by throwing my hat toward him. It had the de¬ 
sired effect, and when he stood on his haunches 
and showed fight, I saw that I had to shoot him. 
I fired and the bear fell like a lump of lead. 
At the same time I heard a great crash and 
heard the cook shout, ‘Take off the bear, take 
off the bear!’ I looked around and saw that 
the cook had climbed up a small dead tree 
killed by fire. It was a bushy soft maple. The 
agitation that had evidently taken hold of the 
man caused him to shake the tree and weaken 
the roots which were pretty well burnt out, and 
just as I shot the bear, the tree fell, the branches 
pinning down the man and his scare. The 
branches were to him the paws of the bear 
holding him in his grip, and blinded with fear 
he kept shouting, but dared not open his eyes 
until I pulled the tree away, and then it took 
him a minute or two to recover his composure 
and to feel absolutely assured that he had es¬ 
caped. He admitted the corn at the supper table 
and the joshing has continued so steadily that 
he thinks he has to give up his job.” 
I am not a Christian Scientist, but I do be¬ 
lieve in the power of suggestion, of which this 
is a backwoods example. 
salmon and trout, but so affluent are our favored 
waters that few Irish anglers regard as serious 
the fishing for any other fish except these two. 
Strangers to this country, however, intent on 
salmon fishing, will bear in mind two small mat¬ 
ters here. First, that a salmon rod license cost¬ 
ing £1, and which is good for the whole country, 
has to be taken out by each angler before com¬ 
mencing operations; and also that the term 
“salmon” in this connection includes sea trout, 
bull trout or any other salmos that migrate to 
and from the sea, so that the tourist angler 
down Cork or Mayo w'ay, who may happen to 
find sea trout, but no salmon, running in a river, 
has still to take out a salmon license if he wishes 
to fish for the sea trout. Neglect of these points 
may lead to trouble, and it is also to be noted 
that the possession of a salmon license gives 
the holder no right of fishing whatever on any 
man’s water without that man’s express permis- 
An Angler in Ireland 
By SHANNON SHORE 
