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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Sept. 23, 191I. 
Published Weekly by the 
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SHOT BY POACHERS. 
Another game protector has been shot and 
seriously injured by alien gunners. Fred Titus, 
of Paterson, N. J., is the victim, and he lies in 
the General Hospital of that city sorely wounded 
from a charge of shot fired at a distance of a 
few feet. 
Two men, said to be Italians, were gunning 
in the Preakness woods, in the mountains near 
Paterson last Sunday. Game Warden Henry J. 
Smith asked Fred Titus’ assistance in arresting 
the men, and it was when they had approached 
the poachers and spoken to them that one of 
the men shot Titus, literally filling his body 
and arms with shot and destroying two of his 
fingers. Warden Smith then fired at the men 
as they ran away, but did not succeed in stop¬ 
ping them. So far as we have heard, the county 
detectives have not as yet found the poachers. 
It was largely on account of such occurrences 
that Pennsylvania made it unlawful for an alien 
to own firearms. Wardens who were maimed 
by men who resisted arrest in this way were 
never properly taken care of by the State, and 
the families of those that were killed were in 
some cases left destitute, for lack of means to 
divert funds to their use. 
On Sunday it is unlawful to take firearms 
abroad in New Jersey, and the season for up¬ 
land game is not yet open. Probably the poach¬ 
ers knew all this, and facing severe punishment, 
employed European methods to get out of the 
predicament in which they found themselves. 
The outcome of the case will be watched with 
anxiety by New Jersey sportsmen, each one of 
whom should hold himself ready to assist the 
game department in breaking up the lawless 
element that commits crimes like this one, if 
necessary, to save its own liberty. 
A MONUMENT TO SENATOR CARTER. 
The newspapers of the last few days have 
told much concerning ex-Senator Thomas H. 
Carter, who died Sept. 17. He was a man of 
most kindly nature, full of patriotic feeling, an 
able statesman and a skillful handler of men. 
He was devoted to the great State that he so 
long represented in Congress and grudged no 
sacrifice made for it, and he and Mrs. Carter 
were untiringly active in charitable and other 
good works. 
In the notices of Mr. Carter’s death we have 
seen no mention made of one very great and 
enduring service which he performed for his 
State and his country by introducing in the 
Senate and pushing to a successful passage the 
bill establishing the Glacier National Park. Sen¬ 
ator Carter was fully aware of the extraordi¬ 
nary attractions of that region and appreciated, 
perhaps as well as anyone, its future import¬ 
ance to the country. During his residence of 
nearly thirty years in Montana he had seen the 
astonishing changes which had taken place in 
the West and he realized that, as the years 
passed, the development of that great country 
would continue more and more rapidly and the 
needs for parks and playgrounds for the people 
of the United States would increase. His course 
in the matter of the Glacier National Park 'is 
one example of his care for his State and his 
country, and long after his name has passed 
out of public recollection, that beautiful region 
will remain a monument to the public spirit and 
clearness of vision of the man who was respon¬ 
sible for the legislation which caused its estab¬ 
lishment. 
Senator Carter was fond of outdoor life and 
was a firm believer in the best methods of sport. 
He was a member of the Boone and Crockett 
Club. 
The bare statement that the Chinese imported 
nearly 32,000,000 more sewing needles last year 
than is their custom might lead to the belief 
that the year’s import of 333,000,000 needles in¬ 
dicated progress in the art of sewing in the Em¬ 
pire. The British consul at Chungking explains, 
however, that in many parts of Szechwan Prov¬ 
ince, needles are put to a use that is not, per¬ 
haps, general!)^ known. It is customary to orna¬ 
ment the center of the roof ridge of a Chinese 
house with an elaborate plaster decoration— 
usually in the form of a design embodying the 
character fu, meaning “'happiness.” To prevent 
this being damaged by the depredations of 
crows, large numbers of needles are stuck point 
outward into the plaster while it is still soft. 
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T he testimony given on another page in rela¬ 
tion to the increase of beavers where they are 
protected is in marked contrast with a wail that 
has come down from the Adirondacks. Owners 
of some of the beautiful country places there 
complain that their trees are being felled or 
mutilated by these busy wards of the State, 
which are also increasing under protection. The 
beavers cannot be shot or trapped, and they per¬ 
sist in following their natural bent. If it serves 
no other purpose, the situation shows the futility 
of attempting to so adjust men’s and wild game’s 
habits that they may live in close proximity and 
in peace. If the beavers are to be encouraged, 
the summer homes must go, or take the conse¬ 
quences. And where deer increase rapidly, the 
problem of protecting them and keeping land 
owners in good humor is equally difficult. 
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The New York State Fair was held last week 
in Syracuse. Among the exhibits were several 
arranged by the Conservation Commission. One 
of these was a series of large colored pictures 
illustrating forestry work, a number of mounted 
specimens, and another was a miniature tree nur¬ 
sery. The State Game Farm at Sherburne had 
an exhibit of English and Mongolian pheasants 
and European partridges. From the farm about 
13.000 pheasant eggs and 2,500 pheasants have 
already been sent to applicants this season. This 
is about twice as many eggs and birds as were 
sent out last year, although the superintendent 
claims that the laying season was short because 
of the late spring. 
While upward of a million acres of timber 
land have been offered the Forest Service in the 
Southeastern States for forest reserves, less than 
one-quarter of that number of acres have been 
examined by the service’s agents in the New 
England States. William L. Hall, who has ex¬ 
amined 130,000 acres in the Androscoggin and 
Connecticut River watersheds, says the prices 
asked range from $6 per acre for cut-over lands 
to $20 an acre for timbered tracts. During the 
present month, it is expected, the preliminary 
work will have been finished, giving the com¬ 
mission time to complete its work by the end of 
the year. 
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Edward Whymper, who died in France last 
Saturday, saw much of the world’s surface from 
the lofty mountain peaks he climbed. Artist, 
author, traveler, scientist, the universe is richer 
because of the work he did. The British 
Museum has the results of his explorations in 
Greenland, in the Andes, in British Columbia. 
He climbed the highest mountain peaks in 
Europe and wrote three volumes on Alpine 
climbing. These and other books of travel he 
illustrated himself. His age was seventy-one. 
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The New Jersey Attorney-General will oppose 
the appeal made by Peter Stevens, the Montclair 
bird killer, in the County Court. The negro is 
to be defended by the town attorney, as Stevens 
was an employe of the town. Other arrests are 
promised after this case is disposed of. So far 
the town official who is said to have given the 
negro a permit to violate the State game laws 
has not given an account of his action. Mean¬ 
while it is claimed that Westfield, N. J., officials 
have resorted to shotguns to drive away roost¬ 
ing birds. An investigation of this case, also, 
should be made. 
Two boys, twin sons of Henry Beauer, of 
Aberdeen, Wash., were found in the woods dead 
from bullet wounds. Near their bodies was that 
of a bear they had shot. An uncle, a hermit, 
who lived near the scene of their bear hunting, 
has disappeared. It is thought he was demented, 
and fancied the young hunters were trying to 
kill him, and shot them from ambush. 
