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FOREST AND STREAM 
Jan. 25, 1913 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
Charles Otis, President. 
W. G. Beecroft, .Secretary. W. .T. Gallagher, Treasurer. 
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—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
FOREWORD. 
March First issue of Forest and Stream 
will be Sportsman’s; Show Number, and while 
our editorial layout for the issue is by no means 
complete, matter already scheduled offers a wide 
variety of subjects and territory covered, while 
no previous single issue of Forest and Stream 
or of any other sportsman’s magazine has offered 
a list of contributors so prominent in literary 
and sportsman’s circles. 
Dr. William S. Rainsford, in East Africa, 
at the present time, in charge of an expedition 
of the American Museum of Natural History, 
will contribute one of his literary gems, descrip¬ 
tive of some part of the journey. Edward Breck, 
who made New Brunswick popular as a big-game 
hunting ground, and in turn was made infamous, 
as, he says, by Albert Bigelow Paine in the “Tent 
Dwellers,” contributes a humorous story as to 
how he tried to get back at Paine. It’s a side¬ 
splitting story, one that may safely be read only 
by a contortionist. Then to get down to the 
inner man, L. Lodian, known the world over as 
explorer and engineer, feeds us an article on 
“Foreign Camp Foods and Camping Accessories.’’ 
It’s a whole book cunningly condensed into a 
series of magazine articles. So little is known 
of Alaska hunting, where are the best ‘ grounds” 
and how to reach them, that a rattling article by 
J. C. Tolman, senior game warden of Kenai and 
Alaska Peninsula, will be devoured by big-game 
hunters. I'he Glacier National Park is described 
intimately by Robert Page Lincoln, an ardent 
sportsman and an expert angler. He will tell 
fly-casters and tourists a lot of things they do 
not, but should, know about this great national 
playground. Canada’s lakes and rivers will be 
explored for you by S. E. Sangster (Canuck). 
He will outline canoe trips, short and long, tell 
where, what and how to fish Canadian streams. 
He will describe in a new way the Algonquin Na¬ 
tional Park and the Temagami region, and pic¬ 
ture each so that you will recognize it when you 
see it. The story of the Grand American 
Handicap, the trapshooters’ classic, will find a 
place in this number, and then the entire issue 
will be profusely illustrated. Later we will un¬ 
fold more plans for your pleasure in the Sports¬ 
man’s Show Number. Say March first issue to 
your newsdealer, for you will want copies to send 
your friends. 
TRANSATLANTIC RACING. 
Tom Day, who last summer crossed the At¬ 
lantic in a 40-foot motor boat, stirred up so 
much enthusiasm among motor boat owners that 
it now is proposed to hold an annual across the 
ocean race for motor boats. Commodore Charles 
Sagen, of the Yachtsmen’s Club, of Philadel¬ 
phia, is sponsor for the suggestion. It may be 
remembered that Commodore Sagen won the 
Philadelphia to Bermuda race last fall with his 
motor boat Dream. One would think that after 
the knocking about the little Dream got. Com¬ 
modore Sagen would realize what a fruitless 
event an across the Atlantic race would be. The 
Bermuda race brought out only the fact that 
small power boats are not fitted for ocean 
voyages, that there is absolutely no pleasure in 
such trips for captain and crew, and that every 
man on the boat “wouldn’t take any amount for 
his experience, nor would he do it again for 
any amount.” All such a trip as Mr. Day’s de¬ 
velops is the fact that all that is needed for so 
long and speculative a trip is a bigger boat and 
good weather. Why waste time on a phase of 
motor boat development that is absolutely un¬ 
necessary and undesired when so many important 
details of motor boat construction, useful to the 
average enthusiast, remain in abeyance? The 
development in automobiles has so far out-strip¬ 
ped perfection in motor boats that it is time 
marine engine men took a look into the future 
instead of living in the past. Why not devote 
energy toward improvements of value to all of 
us instead of putting time and money into a 
phase of the subject in which only a few are 
interested and none enthusiastic? 
FISHERMAN’S LICENSE. 
. It is said the New York State Conservation 
Commission has in mind a plan to license anglers 
fishing New York waters. 
The proposition is to be placed before the 
Legislature in the form of a “combination” hunt¬ 
ing and fishing license to cost $1.10. This is the 
tax that has for some years been annually levied 
on all who go afield with a gun, and the “com¬ 
bination” simply includes all anglers in the re¬ 
quirement to pay $1.10 if they wish to continue 
to pursue the “contemplative man’s recreation.” 
Up-State anglers resent charging them for 
the joy of a day on the stream. Now, as a 
matter of fairness, is there any reason why a 
man who shoots and does not fish should with 
his license money supply funds for stocking 
streams for the angler’s benefit? Why should 
not the angler be willing to pay for his own 
fun ? It takes a great deal of money to keep 
streams in this State stocked, and certainly this 
cost should not be charged to the non-sportsman, 
the man who neither shoots nor fishes, nor 
should it fall upon the gunner. It is directly 
up to the rod bearer to take one end of the 
sportsman’s joke and pull along his share of the 
cost of the day’s sport. The proposed charge 
of $1.10 certainly is reasonable enough, particu¬ 
larly as it offers the combination privilege of 
shooting and fishing. As to the question of 
licensing the boys who fish, this would not be 
necessary. Boys under sixteen should be al¬ 
lowed to fish unlicensed; there would be suf¬ 
ficient revenue without the boy’s contribution. 
The enormous income from fishermen’s license 
would enable the Conservation Commission to 
give New York anglers the best fishing anywhere 
in this part of the country, and sportsmen should 
see to it that the money is spent under direction 
of men competent to do the work. Under these 
conditions it does not seem reasonable to think 
that any true disciple of Sir Izaak would object 
to paying $1.10 a year for the pleasure of fish¬ 
ing where there are fish. 
DAME NATURE. 
What cards is Dame Nature holding up in 
her cold hand? What does she mean by the al¬ 
lurements she holds out to birds and flowers 
this winter? In the middle of January we see 
a robin hopping on a lawn, the grass of which 
is beginning to get on a spring coat. A maple 
sends out an olive branch of pinkish hue to make 
peace with winter, ere she shoots her early buds. 
The crocus timidly pushes back her earthen 
blanket to flirt with a warming sun, but Dame 
Nature is cruel. She is but inviting the robin, 
the maple and the crocus that she may nip their 
precociousness and send them back to smart and 
sulk, until such time as she sees fit to bring 
them forth in permanence. 
JOHN H. WALLACE, JR. 
The appointment of John H. Wallace, Jr., to 
a place on the advisory board of the National 
Conservation Exposition, to be held in Septem¬ 
ber, 1913, at Knoxville, Tenn., is a remarkably 
happy one. Mr. Wallace as game and fish com¬ 
missioner of Alabama has made a great many 
reforms in game conditions, while his conser¬ 
vation work has made him a nation-wide reputa¬ 
tion. 
WALKING FOR SUFFRAGE. 
Now that it’s all over, it does seem as 
though the New York City to Albany march was 
better training for a fall mountain climb than 
for suffrage. However, ’tis a happy disposition 
that can exercise its humor as it exercises its 
legs. 
An Arrow Song. 
BY WILL H. THOMPSON. 
A song from green Floridian vales I heard. 
Soft as the sea-moan when the waves are slow; 
Sweeter than melody of brook or bird. 
Keener than any winds that breathe or blow; 
A magic music out of memory stirred, 
A strain that charms my heart to overflow 
W'ith such vast yearning that my eyes are blurred. 
Oh, song of dreams, that I no more shall know! 
Bewildering carol without spoken word! 
Faint as a stream’s voice murmuring under snow. 
Sad as a love forevermore deferred. 
Song of the arrow from the Master’s bow. 
Sung in Floridian vales long, long ago! 
