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FOREST AND STREAM 
ATLANTIC TUNA CLUB. 
Charles W. Willard Elected President. 
Charles W. ‘Willard of Westerly, president of 
the Rhode Island Inland Fisheries commission¬ 
ers, and treasurer of the American Fisheries so¬ 
ciety, was elected president of the recently in¬ 
corporated Atlantic Tuna club at a meeting for 
organization and election of officers and mem¬ 
bers held Friday alfternoon at the headquarters 
of the Inland Fisheries commission in the state 
house at Providence. 
The other officers elected are as follows: 
First vice president, George L. Shepley; second 
vice president, Andrew G. Weeks, Boston; third 
vice president, Frederick S. Doremus, New 
York; secretary, Richard S. Aldrich, Warwick; 
treasurer, Ralph C. Watrous; directors, Dr. C. 
K. Stillman, Mystic; A. Julian Crandall, Asha¬ 
way; Daniel B. Fearing, Newport. 
The club is composed of leading yachtsmen 
and sporting men in various parts of the 
country, whose interest in catching the gamey 
tuna has been steadily increasing during the past 
three years and who have come to Block Island 
to indulge in the pastime. 
Among those who visited the island last sum¬ 
mer and were successful in landing one or more 
tuna with rod and reel were the following: 
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, with his private 
yacht, L. Dana Ohapman and friends of Boston, 
Raymond B. Price and guest, F. S. Doremus of 
New York, on the yacht Margaret, Frank Bowne 
Jones and C. M. Carnegie of New York, Dr. C. 
K. Stillman and guests of Mystic, Vincent Astor 
on his yacht Noma, S. P. Babcock of New York 
on the yacht Patricia, E. Payne Whitney with 
the yacht Warrior, H. V. Foster of Oklahoma 
with guests, C. W. Willard and A. J. Crandall, 
William P. Thompson of Wes "bury, L. I., James 
E. Dawson and Bert Spink df Providence, 
George L. Shepley and Felix Wendelschafer of 
Providence with their yacht, Theophile Guerin 
and guests of Woonsocket and Commodore 
Webber of the Stamford Yacht club. 
The first regular annual meeting of the club 
will be held on the fourth Monday in July at 
Block Island. It is the intention of the club to 
eventually build a clubhouse at Block Island for 
the convenience of the members. 
The officers of the Inland Fisheries commis¬ 
sion have been largely instrumental in bringing 
some of these men and many others together to 
form the present club. 
The members elected at yesterday’s meeting 
are as follows: 
Charles W. Willard,'Westerly; A. Julian Cran¬ 
dall, Ashaway; George L. Shepley, Providence; 
Daniel B. Fearing, Newport; Dr. C. K. Stillman, 
Mystic; H. Vernon Foster, Bartlesville, Okla.; 
Frederick S. Doremus, New York; Andrew G. 
Weeks, Boston; Richard S. Aldrich, Warwick; 
Ralph C. Watrous, Providence; L. Dana Chap¬ 
man, Boston; Dr. N. D. Harvey, Providence; 
Martin S. Fanning, Providence; Theophile 
Guerin, Woonsocket; William Ellery Allyn, New 
London; Dr. W. H. Thayer, New Bedford; Dr. 
James D. Peters, Great Barrington; Zenas W. 
Bliss, Providence; James E. Dawson, Provi¬ 
dence; Jas. H. Singleton, Walum Lake; J. Ern¬ 
est Singleton, Woonsocket; Latimer W. Ballou, 
Woonsocket; E. H. Guerin, Woonsocket; N. B. 
K. Brooks, Wellesley Farms; Edmund E. Hills, 
Newton Highlands; Arnold Seagraves, Woon¬ 
socket; Arthur W. Hooper, Boston; Dr. Henry 
L. Houghton, Boston; William H. Boardman, 
Central Falls; Isaac H. Clarke, Jamestown; J. E. 
Pfleuger, Akron; William B. Nisbet, Great Bar¬ 
rington ; Howard Kerner, Boco Grande, Fla.; 
William H. Hand, New Bedford; S. D. Babcock, 
University club, New York; George F. Baker, 
rear commodore, New York Yacht club; J. Clif¬ 
ford Rosengarten, Philadelphia; Henry K. 
Littlefield, Block Island; Frank Bowne Jones, 
New York; Raymond Beach Price, New York; 
C. D. Owen, Jr., Frank R. Wheelwright, George 
E. Weaver, Providence; C. Grant LaFarge, New 
York; Arthur B. Hathaway, L. S. Downes, 
George Haywood, J. Palmer Barstow, Provi¬ 
dence; E. L. Welsh, Wakefield; Nelson W. 
Aldrich, Warwick; J. W. Farley, Boston; E. 
Farley, Boston; Percy D. Houghton, Boston; 
Charles T. Russel, Boston; Dr. S. J. Mixter, 
Boston; Lester P. Thompson, Boston; W. Lyman 
Underwood, Boston; Charles F. Lyman, Boston; 
George Tyson, Boston; Alfred L. Aiken, 
Worcester; S. C. Woolworth, Boston; T. P. 
Burgess, Boston; Charles L. Allen, Worcester; 
Robert G. Valentine, Boston; G. H. Mansfield, 
Canton, Mass.; Otto F. Von Arnum, New York; 
W. B. Pratt, Boston; Will FI. Dilg, Chicago. 
The incorporators are: Charles W. Willard, 
Westerly; A. Julian Crandall, Ashaway; George 
L. Shepley, Providence; Daniel B. Fearing, New¬ 
port; Dr. C. K. Stillman, Mystic; H. Vernon 
Foster, Bartlesville, Okla.; Fredrick S. Doremus, 
New York; L. Dana Chapman, Boston. 
FOREST EXHIBITS FOR CALIFORNIA. 
Part of the Government’s exhibit for the 
Panama-California exposition at San Diego left 
Washington last week. This portion has to do 
with the National forests of New Mexico, and 
will be shown in the New Mexico building, the 
exhibit having been prepared in co-operation 
with the state board of exposition commissioners 
of that state. The material also shows speci¬ 
mens of the principal timber trees of New 
Mexico and their uses. 
Other exposition material is to leave soon for 
San Francisco, where it will form a part of the 
Panama-Pacific exposition. Part of this is being 
prepared through co-operation between the forest 
service and the United States Civil Service Com¬ 
mission. The Commission passes on the qualifi¬ 
cations of all candidates for positions in the 
forest service, testing the fitness of those who 
wish to become forest officers through outdoor 
examinations in riding, surveying, timber esti¬ 
mating, and similar matters as well as by more 
conventional methods; its exhibit will illustrate 
the duties of these officers. 
Co-operation also exists, in the preparation of 
exhibit material, between the forest service and 
the bureau of education. This shows how forest 
subjects are used in the public schools, in con¬ 
nection with nature study, commercial geography, 
agriculture, and the like. One of the exhibits 
is a display made by the normal school pupils 
of the District of Columbia, in which a number 
of those who are studying for teachers’ positions 
entered a prize contest on tree study. Each of 
the contestants prepared a separate exhibit show¬ 
ing the life history and the products of indi¬ 
vidual trees, such as white pine, hickory, or 
sugar maple. 
GAME BIRDS OF FRANCE FLY TO PEACE¬ 
FUL ZONE. 
The feathered tribe of Belgium and northern 
France has been dispersed by the din of war. 
In all the districts of the Marne it was 
noticed after the battle that the birds had disap¬ 
peared. The Argonne forests also have been 
nearly depopulated of all kinds of game by the 
continual turmoil in those regions! Driven to 
detached woods and thickets, where their dangers 
would have been increased in time of peace, they 
now find security. 
Apart from their enforced exile, birds are not 
the least fortunate of beings in these times, game 
shooting being prohibited in France. The mar¬ 
kets furnished evidence that some poaching was 
going on, however, and the minister of war is¬ 
sued a warning that the sale of no other than 
imported refrigerator game would be tolerated. 
Early in the war soldiers supplemented their ra¬ 
tions by taking a hare or a pheasant here and 
there, but this was stopped by order. 
Scarcity of game in the market is no hardship, 
for it is a small part of the alimentation of Paris. 
The arrivals amount annually to only 1,000 tons 
of native and 450 tons of imported game, while 
the arrivals of domestic poultry alone aggregate 
21,000 tons. 
Main Entrances North Facade at the Panama-Pacific International Exposi¬ 
tion at San Francisco. Figures of “The Conquistador” and “The 
Pirate,” Created by Allen Newman, Sculptor, Are Set in Niches, and the 
Elaborate Ornamentation Lends Itself With Beautiful Effect to the Expo¬ 
sition Color Scheme. 
