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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Sept. 2, 19x1. 
JOURNAL, OF OUTDOOR JblFK 
Ov’EL NATURE STUDY SHOOTING FISHING YACHTING 
Published Weekly by the 
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127 Franklin Street, New York. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
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—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
ROADSIDE DEFACEMENTS. 
A long step in the movement to prevent the 
defacement of landmarks and country roadsides 
has been taken, but as difficulties wiil be en¬ 
countered, it is not certain that the much-to-be- 
desired relief can be safely attained. On Sept, 
i a law became effective in New York State 
which is intended to do away with the p'acarding 
of public highways with all sorts of advertise¬ 
ments. The amendment to the penal code says, 
in part: 
A person who wilfully or maliciously puts or affixes 
any business or commercial advertisement on or to any 
stone, tree, fence, stump, pole, building or other struc¬ 
ture, which is the property of another without first ob¬ 
taining the written consent of such owner thereof or 
who in any manner paints, puts or affixes such an adver¬ 
tisement on or to any stone, tree, fence, stump, po’e, 
mile post, mile board or mile stone, danger sign, signal 
guide post, billboard, building or other structure wi h n 
the limits of a public highway is guilty of a mi ^demeanor. 
Any advertisement in violation of this provision may be 
taken down or removed or destroyed by anyone. 
The difficulty will be to ascertain what de¬ 
facements are ‘‘within the limits of a pub ic high¬ 
way,” and whether a certain road is in fact a 
public highway. A sign may be on private prop¬ 
erty although adjacent to the highway, and fur¬ 
ther, may be there pursuant to an agreement be¬ 
tween the landowner and the advertiser. 
However, the lovers of nature feel encour¬ 
aged. A strong organization of outdoor people— 
the Automobile Club of America—is backing 
those who hope to see the removal of all deface¬ 
ments of country roadsides and prominent land¬ 
marks, and as the crusade spreads, its influence 
will be felt more and more. It is a pleasure to 
see pride in beautiful surroundings taking the 
place of the careless waste of the past. It is an¬ 
other sign of the general awakening of our peo¬ 
ple to the fact that our own country is a good 
place to live in, and that with pure waters, grow¬ 
ing trees, undefiled roadways and attractive 
scenery, it can and shall be beautified. 
PENNSYLVANIA FISHERIES. 
There was a change in the administration of 
the Pennsylvania fisheries on Sept. i. On that 
day the resignation of William E. Meehan be¬ 
came effective, and Nathan R. Buber succeeded 
him as commissioner. Mr. Meehan resigned a 
fortnight ago, his resignation was accepted by 
Governor Tener by telegraph, and the appoint¬ 
ment of the new commissioner was made at the 
same time in the same way. 
Nathan R. Duller is a member of the well- 
known family of fishculturists, and until his re¬ 
cent promotion was superintendent of the Wayne 
hatchery at Pleasant Mount. 
Mr. Meehan was commissioner for eight years, 
and has done much excellent work in his de¬ 
partment; indeed, in his last statement for the 
press he says, among other things: “I feel that 
whatever advances the fisheries have made in 
Pennsylvania have been my work, and that it 
has been my efforts which have placed Pennsyl¬ 
vania in the high rank it now holds in fish cul¬ 
ture.” 
LION HUNTING DE LUXE. 
Paul Rainey, who hunted big game in the 
Arctic regions some time ago with Harry Whit¬ 
ney, and who is now hunting bigger game in 
British East Africa, claims that his party has 
killed twenty-seven lions in thirty-five days’ time. 
In a letter to friends in the South he asserts 
that “the only way to hunt lions is with dogs,” 
and adds that, whereas “heretofore, records show 
that one man has been sacrificed for every lion 
killed” his dogs attract the attention the lion 
usually bestows on the hunters, “and make the 
pastime more pleasant.” 
Pleasant it may be for those who prefer to 
enjoy their pastimes in a rocking chair, but the 
killing of so many lions is not sport. To be 
successful in this mode of hunting requires the 
sacrifice of numerous American hounds, which, 
to say the least, are not by nature and training, 
fitted to attack a beast so powerful and so active 
as the lion. 
In the hunting of lions a number of tragedies 
have occurred, and to avoid the possibility of 
an outcome so grim, many of the African hun¬ 
ters have made it their practice to let these 
beasts alone, so that killing lions has often been 
incidental to, rather than a part of, African 
travel save when lions have placed human lives 
in jeopardy. That one life has been sacrificed 
for every lion killed is a statement with which 
few hunters will agree. Even R. Gordon Cum- 
ming, who for five years hunted big game in 
the then wilderness of South Africa more than 
a half century ago, mentions the death of but 
few persons, and those natives or Boers, caused 
by lions. At that time lions had little to fear 
at the hands of the natives, and no camp was 
safe which was not protected by branches of 
thorn trees or strong barriers of some sort. In 
recent years a few white men and natives have 
been killed and others injured by lions, but in 
the actual hunting of these beasts the loss of 
life has been remarkably small when the diffi¬ 
cult conditions incident to such hunting are con¬ 
sidered. 
What prompted a large doe to swim down the 
Hudson River to New York city one day last 
week is unknown, but there is proof that she 
did this in the form of the doe, alive and well, 
in the New York Zoological Park in the Bronx. 
The committee that welcomed the deer dif¬ 
fered from the rabble so often seen chasing stray 
deer in New England towns only in that it fol¬ 
lowed in motorboats, every one of a score of 
which was pushed hard in its owner’s attempt 
to be first in the killing. But a kill was averted 
by the prompt action of a riverman whose re¬ 
spect for law and fair sport sent him into the 
flotiila, and he rescued the doe and took her 
ashore at the Knickerbocker Canoe Club at the 
foot of West 167th street, where she was kept 
in a yard until fit for transfer to the park. How 
far this doe swam is unknown. She was badly 
injured, as a result of blows, probably, and had 
evidently been in the water a long time. Deer 
have been seen frequently this season in the 
hilly region near the New York-New Jersey line, 
and even in the Interstate Park along the Hud¬ 
son, where all shooting is prohibited. It is the 
natural result of better protection and the in¬ 
creased public interest in wild things, which are 
seldom molested during the closed season. 
So long a time has elapsed since the bow oc¬ 
cupied a place in the history of the nations that 
few persons of to-day would care to hazard a 
guess as to the range of an arrow shot from a 
bow in skilled hands. At the annual tournament 
of the National Archery Association in Chicago 
recently, Dr. Robert E'mer, of Wayne, Pa., made 
the best record in flight shooting, his arrow fall¬ 
ing 270 yards away. A little miss of eleven 
years. Miss Priscilla Williams, of Chicago, de¬ 
feated several of her elders in hitting a widow 
wand twice (presumably in five trials) at thirty 
yards. Her score was tied, but she won in the 
shoot-off. PI. B. Richardson, of Boston, was 
elected president of the association. The vice- 
presidents are E. C. IDallin, of Boston; W. A. 
Clark, of Cincinnati, and Dr. Robert Elmer, of 
Wayne, Pa. B. P. Gray, of Boston, is secre¬ 
tary-treasurer. The tournament next year will 
be held in Boston. Archery is a wholesome out¬ 
door pastime which deserves more attention than 
it has received in recent years. 
* 
The Montclair residents who took the law 
into their own hands and helped to destroy the 
birds that found shelter in a fashionable part 
of that New Jersey town have found that their 
boomerang has returned. The birds that es¬ 
caped being shot have returned in numbers, the 
press and all the bird lovers have condemned 
them in unmeasured terms, and the State is col¬ 
lecting evidence that will be followed by de¬ 
served punishment. The situation is not with¬ 
out its humorous side, since it is pointed out 
that people who do not like birds have them¬ 
selves alone to blame for seeking homes in the 
country, and that there are other places where 
they can sleep. There is much shifting of blame 
for the incident, but they are killing no more 
song birds in Montclair. 
