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FOREST AND STREAM 
[Aug. 19, 1911. 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer. 
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entertainment, instruction and information between Amer¬ 
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communications will not be regarded. The editors are' 
not responsible for the views of correspondents. 
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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful in¬ 
terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
THE ANGLERS’ DEADLOCK. 
No national casting tournament will be held 
in the United States this year. At the meeting 
of the National Association in Chicago last 
August, it was decided to hold this year’s tour¬ 
nament in Milwaukee, and the local club which 
was to manage the tournament completed its 
plans. 
At the meeting in Chicago last August the 
vexed question of professionalism was disposed 
of, as those present thought, and with this un¬ 
derstanding the Milwaukee club undertook the 
arduous task of entertaining the association; but 
only a short time ago the association’s president 
objected to the Milwaukee club’s plans and that 
club, placed in an embarrassing position, refused 
to back down and repudiate the promises it had 
made in good faith. It therefore declined to 
hold the tournament. 
An effort was then made to induce the Kansas 
City clubs to manage the affair, but they, too, 
declined. The four Chicago casting clubs were 
then appealed to, in vain. 
As there will be no tournament, there will be 
no business meetings, and the assumption is that 
the deadlock will continue, with the president 
of the association and a few of his friends hold¬ 
ing the whip hand in fancied security, opposed 
to a score of sportsmen’s clubs whose members 
are fond of casting competitions and willing to 
compete with all-comers and win or lose honors 
to which no strings are tied. 
In a country where the will of the majority 
is supreme, and in an association of sportsmen 
where “may the best man win” is supposed to 
be the watchword, it is as unusual as it is un¬ 
fortunate to see clean sport blocked by dictators. 
The remedy, as we suggested a year ago, is 
to choose new officers or form a new associa¬ 
tion. The former alternative is to be preferred, 
and it is feasible. 
Whatever is done should be done promptly 
before disaffection becomes stronger than it is 
at present. A national association of anglers, 
with the widest possible scope, is needed, for 
there is an abundance of work for it to do, 
with pleasant meetings and competitions as part 
of its vacation season. 
IVY POISONING. 
Since the fact has been established that ivy 
poisoning is mainly due to the oily substance 
carried by the pollen of poison oak, ivy and 
sumach, scientists have found a remedy. This 
is the judicious use of soap, water and alcohol. 
To Dr. Thomas A. Berryhill, medical inspector 
of the United States Navy, we are indebted for 
this information. When the infection first ap¬ 
pears, he says, the parts should be washed vigor¬ 
ously with hot water and soap, then dried. Some 
time afterward flushing with alcohol follows; 
that is the treatment, and, he says, it is very 
effective. If alcohol is not at hand, whiskey wi.l 
answer the purpose. 
Many persons seem to be immune from ivy, 
oak and sumach poisoning, while others claim 
that they are often poisoned in passing close to 
leeward of one of these plants. This is not only 
possible, but probable during the warm season, 
when the pores of the skin are open. The in¬ 
finitesimal globules of oil from the plant, carried 
by the pollen through the air, adhere to the ex¬ 
posed cuticle of human beings, and even to their 
clothing, in the latter case possibly to be absorbed 
on contact. The oil of the ivy, which is soluble 
in alcohol, once removed, and the affected parts 
soothed and coated slightly with alcohol resi¬ 
due, healing takes place rapidly. 
Frequently persons are poisoned through put¬ 
ting on a sweater or a pair of gloves that have 
some time previously been brought into contact 
with vine or shrub. Dr. Berryhill gives such an 
instance which is interesting. A lieutenant ap¬ 
plied to him for treatment for a rash that ap¬ 
peared on his hands while on board ship far out 
at sea. The physician diagnosed it as rhus 
poisoning, improbable though this appeared to 
be. Finally the lieutenant remembered that a 
few days before the rash appeared he had 
donned clothing he had previously worn while 
ashore on a shooting excursion, and the alcohol 
treatment removed the ailment and confirmed 
the doctor’s diagnosis. 
Among many persons the belief prevails that 
ivy poisoning affects the blood, and that recur¬ 
rences of the malady affect them annually. This 
is nonsense. The affection is nothing more than 
a rash, an irritation of the skin, but one which 
is extremely painful to those who are easily 
affected by it. Bathing the hands and face with 
alcohol is for thes-e persons a possible relief from 
poisoning if they have exposed themselves to 
the influence of the plants mentioned. 
With this issue Forest and Stream enters 
upon its thirty-ninth year. 
WILLIAM P. FRYE. 
While the death of the Hon. William P. Frye, 
of Maine, brought sorrow into the hearts of 
statesmen and citizens alike throughout the vast 
country he has served so well for forty years, 
it is the sportsmen who will miss him most. He 
was not merely their friend, but their coun¬ 
sellor and spokesman as well. 
Senator Frye performed a large work in the 
preservation of the nation’s natural resources, 
for he was familiar with the work of destruc¬ 
tion that had so long been prosecuted in the 
woods and along the watercourses, and acted 
with rare judgment born of experience when¬ 
ever an opportunity to forestall further waste 
was presented. His fondness for the woods and 
the trout and salmon fishing took him into many 
of the most attractive regions of New England 
and the Provinces, and he was, therefore, one 
of the first to foresee the inevitable result of 
unchecked waste, and to do what he could to 
bring about the great change which sportsmen 
have long sought, but which the public is only 
beginning to understand. 
Living, as he did during the summers of many 
years, on a tiny island in one of the lakes of 
the Rangeley chain, he was enabled to devote 
a part of his vacations to fishing, though it was 
weil known that his modest cottage was the 
scene of many a conference of great public im¬ 
port. To it came statesmen and anglers of re¬ 
nown, and all were welcomed by the Senator, 
whose circle of friends ever grew and grew. 
There, as in Washington, his kindly nature at¬ 
tracted all classes, and many of his political 
opponents were his warmest friends. 
As chairman of the Senate Committee on 
Commerce, he was in a position to do his best 
work for the rivers and harbors of the nation, 
which he sought to improve and protect. 
Since Spain lost her most important insular 
possessions, her young men have directed their 
energies toward improving the kingdom, and 
evidences of their success are becoming more 
and more apparent as time passes. Now it is 
proposed to build up some of the natural re¬ 
sources of the country. To this end the Gaceta 
de Madrid recently published a decree authoriz¬ 
ing the Department of Agriculture to submit to 
the Cortes a bill providing $4,860,000 for an ex 1 
tensive scheme of afforestation and pisciculture 
in various parts of the country. This will in¬ 
clude the construction of caretakers’ quarters 
and roads, the planting of trees, correction of 
rivers and brooks, reclamation of lands, and the 
stocking of rivers with fish. 
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A St. Petersburg cablegram says that the peas¬ 
ants of the far East are being systematically 
trained by Russia in rifle shooting. A majority 
of these settlers are time-expired soldiers with 
their families. Rifle competitions are held, mili¬ 
tary weapons and targets being employed. 
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Plans are being made to hold a sportsmen’s 
show in Chicago next winter, probably in Feb¬ 
ruary. Among the exhibits it is possible there 
will be one from Missouri, in which that State’s 
fishing resorts will be exploited. 
