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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Nov. 18, 1911. 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
Edward C. Locke, President, 
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S. J. Gibson, Treasurer. 
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—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
SHOOTING SEASON PICTURES. 
The trolley cars of the Middle States present 
an unusual sight at this season. Those running 
out of the cities and larger towns are daily filled 
to capacity. Among the regulars is seen a strong 
sprinkling of men in shooting garb, equipped 
with guns in long and short cases and even in 
paper wrappings, while dogs of every breed block 
the aisles and rattle their chains as they move 
about restlessly, gazing up at every passerby with' 
wistful eyes, at a loss to know what brings them 
into such uncomfortable quarters. The usual 
reserve of the passengers gives way to friendly 
conversation and exchanges of experiences in 
the hunting fields of many lands. Good-natured 
banter is indulged in by friends and strangers 
alike, and the stuffy air is charged with enthu¬ 
siasm quite foreign to it at other seasons. At 
every local station beyond the suburbs one or 
more of the hunters leave the car with gun and 
dogs while those left behind speed them on their 
way with good wishes for their success. 
The toil of the baggage men of express and 
local trains is made more irksome by pointers 
and setters and spaniels and other dogs that 
move about among the trunks and strain on 
their leashes to reach the doors at every stop. 
The smokers’ cars are blue with smoke from 
many pipes, and one who enters fancies that all 
the passengers are friends, so general is the 
conversation and so restricted its topic. All the 
world, it seems, is “going shooting,” and the 
minority that is bent on other pursuits is fully 
as enthusiastic on shooting subjects as the ma¬ 
jority which is eager to reach the end of its 
journey. 
Railway stations are enlivened at unseemly 
hours by the congestion of men and dogs and 
small baggage. Usually dour and gruff officials 
forget their chronic grievances against the travel¬ 
ing public in general and impart information 
with a show of real friendliness. Strangers 
from the ends of the earth, who wou.d be 
ignored at other times, taking the gun cases car¬ 
ried by the sportsmen as the badges of a uni¬ 
versal brotherhood, exchange greetings with 
them and go on their way, cheered with the 
tonic that is in the very air breathed by the 
crowds of outdoor men. 
The shooting world has few “days off, ' but 
it enjoys those few days to the utmost, and 
whether it goes far afield, or down to Jones’ 
woodlot, the days are long remembered with 
pleasure, in which the successes and the dis¬ 
appointments incident to gunning in modern times 
are but a small portion. To carry a’ gun, to 
watch the old dog work, to revisit the scenes 
of other tramps, to talk guns and shooting with 
good friends, to see the fie'ds and woods in 
autumn and to fiil the lungs with fresh air—- 
these are all sufficient. 
CONSERVATION FOR HUNTERS. 
There was a venison dinner in the Presby¬ 
terian church in Jamesville, N. Y., one night re¬ 
cently, and the Rev. J. N. Taft spoke on “Sports¬ 
manship.” In the course of his remarks he 
dwelt on the number of woods accidents and 
killings, and offered a timely resolution, which 
was seconded by the Rev. C. L. Mason, and was 
adopted. It follows: 
Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that our 
State Legislature, at its next session, should enact a law 
rendering the accidental shooting of a person by a 
hunter equivalent to manslaughter. 
As the State Conservation Commission has 
asked sportsmen for suggestions regarding the 
proposed codification of the fish and game laws, 
it might be well to refer the resolution to that 
commission. Other States, however, have failed 
to enforce similar laws. Judges and juries are 
human, and to them the plea of ignorant inno¬ 
cence appeals now as always. The very fact 
that so many persons are kilied or maimed every 
year saves those who short d be punished in the 
way suggested by the deer-hunting parson of 
Jamesville. The coroner, the judge or the jury 
who will not give a prisoner of this sort the 
benefit of the doubt is rare. 
On the other hand, if every applicant for a 
license be required to qualify as to his knowl¬ 
edge of guns and shooting, the number of reck¬ 
less license-ho'ders will be reduced. Persons 
found guilty of gross carelessness while in pos¬ 
session of a license could then be refused a new 
license for a term of years, thus providing an 
automatic penalty that would be far more effec¬ 
tive than all the penal laws so far passed for 
the purpose of saving hunters’ lives. 
The use of motor cars in hunting has brought 
about changes in the methods pursued by war¬ 
dens. In some States every warden is supplied 
with a list of car numbers and owners, to assist 
him in making arrests and arraigning violators 
of the game laws. Other States have either 
equipped a few of their wardens with motor 
cycles or are contemplating such a step. With 
these swift and fairly reliable machines, protec¬ 
tors can cover a great deal of ground in a day, 
and with average roads should be able to over¬ 
see much country that is otherwise inaccessible 
to them. Where illegal shooting is carried on 
by motor car parties, the mere knowledge that 
a motoring warden may turn up at any moment, 
and that he may be expected to overhaul them 
in any attempt to get away, should have a salu¬ 
tary effect. 
Among the so-called weather prophets none was 
better known than George W. Tichenor, who died 
suddenly on Nov. 5 on the street of his home 
town, Burlington, N. J. Artist, photographer, 
angler, his pastimes were found in the woods 
and along the streams and ponds of Southern 
New Jersey, and being a deep student of nature 
and her ways, he drew on the knowledge ob¬ 
tained outdoors in forecasting weather condi¬ 
tions. Oftener than was to be expected, his 
predictions proved accurate, and his fame spread 
all over the country. It is said that his last 
prediction, made early in the autumn, was to the 
effect that November would be mild, and that 
the winter would be severe though short. 
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The annual convention of the New York State 
Fish, Game and Forest League will be held in 
Schenectady on Dec. 7 and 8 next. Frederick 
S. Honsinger, its active head, has been success¬ 
ful in adding to its rolls a large number of 
clubs not affiliated with it in the past. Among 
these is the Hunters’ Club of Onondaga, which, 
at its last meeting in Syracuse, admitted fifty- 
one new members, making the total number of 
members upward of 200, although organization 
was effected only last year. The Hunters are 
building a club house, and at their first annual 
dinner, held a fortnight ago, plates were laid 
for 200 members and guests. 
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It is sometimes curious how many offenses a 
few men commit in a day in a comparatively 
small section of country. An Oregon judge fined 
one hunter $25 for trespass, another was given 
three weeks in jail for resisting arrest, a third 
had to pay $25 and costs for shooting wildfowl 
from a power boat, a fourth paid a like sum for 
fishing without a license, two others for hunt¬ 
ing pheasants in the closed season, and a seventh 
for shooting a doe. 
W. Clark Russell, who died in London last 
week, while not one of the greatest writers of 
sea stories, was widely known as the author of 
books that attracted and held the interest of 
readers. His lack of accuracy in details largely 
technical was at times harshly criticised by sea¬ 
men. but his books were very popular neverthe¬ 
less, and furnished amusement to a vast number 
of people who are fond of light reading. 
The State of California has recently had the 
unique honor to add to its roll of deputy game 
and fish commissioners the name of Grover 
Cleve’and, of Inyo county. The new deputy is 
a member of an old family, but the name 
“Grover” is not a common one. It is meet, how¬ 
ever, that the namesake of the late President is 
a sportsman and an upholder of the laws of the 
land. 
