Nov. 18, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Paris Fisheries Exposition. Anglers’ Club of New York. 
their trophies, which they started for cold stor¬ 
age at once. 
Mitch. Burleson is one of the oldest and most 
skillful bear hunters in this region and he knows 
these mountains as well as a city man knows the 
way home. He says the bear are plentiful and 
fat, still enjoying the heavy chestnut mast. The 
latter part of this month will be the best time 
for the hunt, and then, other game will be in 
season. Wild turkeys are reported as more 
numerous than usual, as the season was favor¬ 
able for nesting. F. W. Bicknell. 
Time to Act. 
Victoria West, B. C., Nov. 5. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: The inclosed clippings from the 
Victoria Colonist need no explanation from me. 
The toll of death has been heavy this season in 
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, as wed 
as throughout the United States. All I wonder 
is that the slaughter is not much greater when 
I see the army of reckless, careless and unex¬ 
perienced people who are allowed to be in pos¬ 
session of and use fire-arms. I agree with the 
Colonist that the time is come when it is neces¬ 
sary to check this evil by aid of the criminal law. 
A man has no more right to take the life of a 
fellow being by carelessness or recklessness in 
handling guns than he has to kill him by driv¬ 
ing over him with an auto or numerous other 
methods. Is anything done in any State to deal 
with this matter, or is anything likely to be 
done in the near future? I see it spasmodically 
mentioned in my old friend, Forest and Stream, 
but no definite or concerted action that I can 
remember. J. H. McIllree. 
The Colonist gives a list of about twenty cases 
of reckless shooting, part of them resulting 
fatally, and says, among other things: 
“Asked to suggest a remedy for the annual 
heavy ‘undertaker’s bag’ in British Columbia, we 
cannot see, human nature being what it is, that 
there can be any better remedy proposed than 
legislation to control the use of firearms. First 
and foremost, the law already on the statute 
books, making it illegal for boys under a re¬ 
sponsible age to handle guns at all, should be 
rigidly enforced. At present the sight of a youth 
of tender years carrying a gun ‘as big as him¬ 
self’ is far too frequent. Whether it would be 
a good thing to impose a gun tax is not quite 
the point which need be discussed at this time, 
but that it should be made obligatory for any¬ 
one before he can carry and use a gun to obtain 
a permit seems to be beyond question. Such 
permit should never be issued to any party until 
he is able to pass some form of examination to 
prove that he is a fit person to be let loose upon 
the community with a deadly weapon. The obli¬ 
gation would then be imposed on everyone who 
wished to use a gun to acquaint himself thor¬ 
oughly with the proper and safe way of hand¬ 
ling it under all circumstances. At present we 
respectfully urge that there is a heavy respon¬ 
sibility resting on the Government, while it al¬ 
lows irresponsibles and incapables abroad with 
weapons of death, and there is also a heavy re¬ 
sponsibility resting on parents who allow their 
boys to carry guns, without first seeing that they 
have been thoroughly grounded in the necessary 
training to teach them the safe use and carriage 
of their weapons at all times.” 
An international exhibition of fishing, fish cul¬ 
ture and all sports and industries connected with 
fresh and salt water will be held in Paris from 
Nov. 10 until Dec. 31 of this year. The French 
Government is behind the enterprise. The ex¬ 
hibits will be divided into groups, as follows: 
Group One.—Fishing tackle, rods, lines, silk, 
hooks, floats, hair and sarcenet. Fly-fishing, 
rods, reels and tackle; natural and artificial bait, 
flies and miscellaneous articles; nets, bow-nets, 
hoop-nets, square nets and apparatus for pre¬ 
serving live fish (wells, etc.) ; traps and baits 
for aquatic animals as well as elimination of 
animals destructive of fish; suppression of poach¬ 
ing, fishing societies, particulars of localities, 
number of members, subscriptions, etc. 
Group Two.—Deep-sea fishing tackle, nets, har¬ 
poons, arctic hunting and fishing; natural and 
artificial bait; fishing products, different kinds 
of edible fish, preservation of fish. 
Group Three.—Apparatus and means for the 
protection of fish; installations, fishing establish¬ 
ments and laboratories, fish ponds, etc.; arti¬ 
ficial fecundation, care of fry, different means 
of feeding fry; cultivation of ponds, plans and 
reliefs of ponds; different edible species of fish, 
new importations; fish food; means of trans¬ 
porting and preserving fry, fish and living aquatic 
animals; ornamental fish, aquaria, batrachians, 
reptiles; serviceable or noxious aquatic insects 
and plants; photographs, reproductions and plans 
of piscicultural installations; maritime piscicul¬ 
ture and piscifacture, acclimatization, hydrobio- 
logical charts and various documents. 
Group Four.—Such as oysters, molluscs, etc. 
Group Five.—Isinglass, spermaceti, whalebone; 
sponges, cuttle-fish, shell; jewelry and nick- 
nacks. 
Group Six.—Motor fishing and all other kinds 
of craft used in the fisheries. 
The final club tournament of the season, post¬ 
poned from Oct. 21 because of rain, was held 
on the afternoon of Election Day on the big 
lake in Central Park. The attendance of anglers 
was large, and the results of the season’s fishing 
in many waters, freely discussed during the 
afternoon, and at the dinner at the hotel 
Navarre, where the members assembled after 
the close of the casting, furnished lively enter¬ 
tainment. Casting is supposed to be one of the 
features of the club's season, but this year so 
many of the members were away fishing when¬ 
ever a club contest was suggested or a business 
meeting proposed, that casting was lost sight 
of and only the spring and autumn tournaments 
were held. 
Practice, however, was lively throughout the 
season at the club platform in the park, and the 
result of this work showed on Election Day, 
when several of the newer members made credit¬ 
able scores under the most trying conditions. 
Beginners are to be encouraged even more next 
season, for at the business meeting it was de¬ 
cided to purchase a complete set of club rods 
and to keep these at a place nearby, where any 
member can find them when he wishes to 
practice. 
The method followed in club contests in handi¬ 
capping the more expert casters in favor of the 
novices encourages the latter, as they need only 
show moderate improvement in order to win 
places. The handicaps are severe, for they are 
based, not on what a contestant can do under 
average conditions, but on what he has done 
under those most favorable to him. In other 
words, the scratch men have got to cast pretty- 
close to their records in order to secure a 
place, while the beginners are encouraged to 
cast a little better than they have ever done be¬ 
fore, their allowances assisting them materially. 
a member's wife practicing fly-casting. 
