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nation of these features would have been wise. 
Especially is this view taken at the present 
time. There is a growing sentiment becoming 
stronger and more decided among gentlemen 
sportsmen that the brandy and whisky flask is 
by no means indispensable to an outfit for a 
day’s or week’s sport in the field or forest. 
Frank Forester had many noble qualities, 
but being human, and withal trained in the Eng¬ 
lish methods, learned in his native land, it is 
not altogether strange that among the good 
impulses there should not be found some 
serious faults. Did not Shakespeare strike the 
note when he said: “The web of our life is of 
a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our 
virtues would be proud if our faults whipped 
them not, and our faults would despair if they 
were not cherished by our virtues.’’ 
But his best work was not, by any means, 
in the line of sporting adventures. His talents 
found play in the whole field of literature. His 
“Cavaliers of England,’’ and the “Chevaliers of 
France.” “The Roman Traitor,” “The Knights 
of England, France and Scotland,” “The Cap¬ 
tains of the Old World,” “Henry VHI. and His 
Six Wives,” “A Metrical Translation of 
Prometheus and Agamemnon of Aeschylus” are 
some, but not all, that serve to illustrate the 
wonderful literary gifts of the great author- 
sportsman. As a fisherman he enjoyed the 
same illustrious record, for he had fished as 
well as hunted in nearly every State in the 
Union, then accessible, from Maine to Mary¬ 
land, south of the Great Lakes, and from below 
Quebec in the St. Lawrence and its tributaries 
to Sault Ste. Marie; his “Fish and Fishing in 
North America,” “Game in its Season,” etc., 
are not to to-day to be shelved as “dead wood.” 
He was unfortunate to have been born be¬ 
fore the great expanse of game land west of 
the Missouri had been opened up to the world. 
He wrote of the noble sport among the hills 
and plains intelligently, but he had never by 
personal experience been able to gratify what 
must have been a continuing desire to “draw 
bead” on the game animals which even now are 
becomfing only a memorJ^ 
■ When Herbert dipped his pen in the “ink 
of the bards”—which he seldom did—the re¬ 
sult was such as to justify the expectation that 
a man in whose mind and heart all the graces 
of the nature lover ran riot, should not be 
lacking here. The following introduced his 
“Upland Shooting”: 
It is brilliant autumn time, the most brilliant time of all, 
IVhen the gorgeous woods are gleaming ere the leaves 
begin to fall; 
When the maple boughs are crimson and hickory shines 
like gold; 
When the country has no green but the sword grass by 
the rill, 
And the willows in the valley and the pine upon the hill; 
When the pippin leaves the bough, and the sumack’s 
fruit is red. 
When the quail is piping loudly from the buckwheat 
where he fled, 
When the sky is blue and the river clear as glass. 
When the harvests all are housed and the farmer’s work 
is done, 
And the woodland is resounding with the squirrels and 
the gun. 
The London Field says: “Forest and 
Stream, the New York paper, deals more fully 
with shooting and fishing than any other in 
America.” 
Boone and Crockett Club Annual 
Meeting. 
The annual meeting of the Boone and 
Crockett Club was held Wednesday, Feb. 5, at 
the University Club, New York, at 7 o’clock in 
the evening. Something over fifty members 
were present. Major W. Austin Wadsworth, 
of Geneseo, New York, the president, occupied 
the chair. 
The most important business of interest to 
the general public was the presentation! by 
Charles Sheldon, chairman of the Game Preser¬ 
vation Committee of the club, of his report for 
the past year. It was divided into various sec¬ 
tions, dealing with the work of the year, the 
game situation, and recommendations for the 
future. 
At the last annual meeting the Game Com¬ 
mittee recommended that the club’s work be 
devoted especially to the establishment of game 
refuges, and later in the year the Executive 
Committee appointed a Finance Committee to 
raise funds for the carrying out of this recom¬ 
mendation. Many members responded, and a 
sum was raised, sufficient to make a beginning 
of this work. A bill was introduced in Con¬ 
gress, authorizing the President, on request by 
the Governor of any State, tO' set aside in any 
forest reservation within that State an area not 
to exceed 50,000 acres as a game refuge, to be 
put under the charge of the Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture. The situation chosen for the first 
refuge was the Sitgreaves National Forest in 
Arizona. The bill was introduced in the Senate 
and House so late that it could not come to a 
vote during the last session, and during the 
present short session it was not likely to re¬ 
ceive attention, and it could not become law for 
a long time. 
In view of this fact, the chairman and an¬ 
other member of the Game Preservation Com¬ 
mittee recently visited Arizona, had an inter¬ 
view with the Governor, and suggested to him 
the establishment of a State refuge, covering 
the same area that the club had chosen for a 
Federal reservation, if such a law should be es¬ 
tablished. If the State would establish such a 
refuge, the Boone and Crockett Club would 
contribute toward the expense of stocking it. 
Governor Hunt received the suggestion 
with interest, as did a large part of the popu¬ 
lation of the State. A bill was introduced at 
the Legislature, which only assembled a few 
days ago, setting aside the desired territory; 
eighty elk, promised by the Biological Survey, 
have been delivered, and the people of Arizona 
have paid all the expenses of bringing the elk 
on to the ground. The Game Committee had 
promised, in case this reservation was estab¬ 
lished, and the elk brought there, that it would 
contribute the sum of $2,500 toward building 
a fence, buying hay, and hiring a man to look 
after the elk through the rest of the winter; 
but so great was the interest of the people of 
the State that all this appears to have been 
done already, without any assistance from 
outside. It is even reported that plans are 
being made in Arizona to establish another 
State reservation, in another locality, to which 
the Boone and Crockett Club may be per¬ 
mitted to contribute. 
The committee expresses the opinion that 
many of the measures proposed fcr enactment 
in laws are not of a character to afford a perma¬ 
nent solution for the preservation of American 
game. “They lack the needed elements of 
variability and quick adaptability to diverse and 
constantly changing conditions.” It urges bet¬ 
ter means of enforcing game laws in all States, 
laws for the non-sale of game, the establish¬ 
ment of game refuges, and the encouragement 
of game propagation. It also urges careful con¬ 
sideration of the following subjects: Laws in¬ 
cluding permissive close seasons, variable bag 
limits, and other necessary restrictions, but the 
laws should accomplish these ends by creating 
commissions for the preservation of game and 
investing them with elastic powers and full re¬ 
sponsibilities. Such commissions should have 
full authority to make or unmake, lengthen or 
shorten close seasons; to increase or decrease 
bag limits; to set aside and entirely prohibit 
shooting on areas of land or water necessary 
for feeding grounds of wild fowl, shore birds, 
game birds, or animals; to establish rest days, 
on which neither game nor water fowl can be 
disturbed; in fact, full and complete power to 
establish such constitutional regulations or re¬ 
strictions at any time, or in any section, inde¬ 
pendently, as varying and changing conditions 
may require, adequately to conserve the game. 
After the election of officers, the annual 
dinner was held, after which Cherry Kearton 
exhibited his wonderful moving pictures of 
game and wild creatures in various parts of the 
world. North America, East and West, Africa 
and Borneo. These pictures, taken with a new 
camera devised by Mr. Kearton, are the most 
wonderful that have, ever been shown, and were 
greatly enjoyed by the diners. They were ac¬ 
companied by a running talk dealing with 
sports, natural history and travel, and were of 
extraordinary interest. 
Among those present were: Royal Phelps 
Carroll, Col Caswell, Mr. Crosby, Winthrop 
Chanler, W. Redman Cross, Charles Stewart 
Davison, H. Casimir deRham, Dr. W. K. 
Draper, J. Coleman Drayton, Deforest Grant, 
Madison Grant, Henry G. Gray, Geo, Bird 
Grinnell, Arnold Hague, Geo. L. Harrison, Jr., 
Dr. Walter B. James, J. H. Kidder, C. Grant 
LaFarge, Dr. Alexander Lambert, Percy C. 
Madeira, Townsend Lawrence, Dr. Louis 
Rutherford Morris, George D. Pratt, John J. 
Pierrepont, Dr. Paul Outerbridge, John Hill 
Prentice, A. P. Proctor, Percy R. Pyne, Theo¬ 
dore Roosevelt, Dr. John L. Seward. Charles 
Sheldon, Dr. William Lord Smith, Major W. 
Austin Wadsworth, J. Walter Wood, Gen. Geo. 
S. Anderson, Dr. Wm. T. Hornaday, Dr. C. 
Hart Merriam, Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 
Dr. Chas. li. Townsend, Carl Akely, and others. 
It’s All a Matter of Training. 
Amasa, Mich., Feb 2 . —Editor Forest and 
Stream: 1 have been much interested of late 
in reading the articles concerning the Airedales 
that have' appeared in Forest and Stream. I 
believe nothing has been said of these dogs as 
hunters and retrievers of game birds. Perhaps 
you are in position to give me some informa¬ 
tion as to what these dogs can do in this line. 
Should you not have the necessary informa¬ 
tion at hand, would you kindly refer my letter 
to someone whom you know would be in position 
to answer. R- P. Vansaw. 
