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FOREST AND STREAM 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company 
Chas. A. Hazen, President Charles L. Wise, Treasurer 
W. G. Beecroft, Secretary Russell A. Lewis, Gen. Mgr. 
22 Thames Street, New York. 
CORRESPONDENCE:—Forest and Stream is the re¬ 
cognized medium of entertainment, instruction and in¬ 
formation between American sportsmen. The editors 
invite communications on the subjects to which its pages 
are devoted, but, of course, are not responsible for the 
views of correspondents. Anonymous communications 
cannot be regarded. 
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AMERICAN SPORTSMEN AND CANADA. 
Forest and Stream is able to announce that 
there will be no interference with American 
sportsmen who desire to carry arms and ammuni¬ 
tion into Canada on hunting expeditions this 
fall. We published last week some correspond¬ 
ence which this paper had with the Department 
of State, Washington and Ottawa. It will be 
recalled that definite answer as to the action of 
Canada had not been forthcoming, but since the 
issue of August 22, the following letter has 
been received. 
Department of External Affairs, 
Canada, Ottawa, 
August 18, 1914- 
Editor Forest and Stream, 
22 Thames St., 
New York City. 
Dear Sir: 
I have to acknowledge the receipt of your let¬ 
ter of the 8th instant, with reference to the 
admission into Canada of sportsmen’s arms and 
ammunition. 
In repiy I beg to say that the Department of 
Customs has not issued any instructions inter- 
ferring with the present regulations governing 
the admission of such arms and ammunition. 
Nor is there anything, as I understand the mat¬ 
ter, in the military regulations affecting sports¬ 
men coming from the United States. 
Yours very truly, 
(Signed) Joseph W. Pope, 
Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs. 
This settles the question definitely, and prep¬ 
arations for fall hunting expeditions in the 
Provinces may therefore be made as usual. The 
action of our Canadian neighbors in this par¬ 
ticular has been generous and of a most 
friendly nature, for the English Declaration of 
Contraband, strictly construed, seemingly in¬ 
cludes arms for sporting purposes as well as 
military weapons. 
GAME LAWS IN BRIEF. 
Game Laws In Brief, which for many years 
has been the last word in matters pertaining to 
when, where and how you may shoot or fish, 
is now in preparation and will, we expect, be 
ready for you not later than October first. Last 
year’s issue showed innovation and improvement 
over previous issues. The new edition will be 
far ahead of anything in this line ever before 
put out. The revision system employed makes it 
practically impossible for errors in omission, the 
usual fault in a book of this character, to exist, 
while error in date will be entirely eliminated. 
In addition to game and fish laws a raft of in¬ 
dispensable information for shooter, hunter, fish¬ 
erman and camper will be included between the 
covers of the book. It will be advisable to place 
your order early as present indications point to 
rapid exhaustion of the first printing. The price 
will, as previously, be twenty-five cents, although 
the value will be more than one hundred per 
cent, greater than ever before. 
DAYS WITH THE OLD GUARD. 
We finally have decided to accept the inevit¬ 
able and go back, once each week, to the old 
writers of outdoor fact. For the past few years 
each morning’s mail has brought requests from 
subscribers for the writers of yesteryear. Not 
that some of our present day writers on outdoor 
subjects have not merit, for there are a few 
possessed of the practical knowledge of forest 
and stream, and endowed with ability to tell it 
as they know it, but these writers may be counted 
on the fingers of one hand. The day of space 
writing has taken the place of “give us the facts 
and let fiction take care of itself.” The greatest 
of outdoor writers cared not for the revenue 
from their pens; they lived in the open for the 
love of it, and wrote of it for the benefit of 
less fortunate brothers, those to whom an occa¬ 
sional trip was made much more enjoyable 
through the experience of others. Therefore 
from now on, each issue of Forest and Stream 
will contain part, or all, of an article by the great 
writers whose works have appeared only in this 
paper and by whom they are owned. The past 
generation will enjoy chatting once more with 
Nessmuk, Rowland Robinson, Kingfisher, Fred 
Mather, Ben Waters, and others as well known 
and loved. 
The younger generation will profit immensely 
through going back over the records of these 
past masters of woods’ lore. It has been averred 
that there is nothing new under the sun and it 
certainly is a fact that there is nothing in the 
present day books of outdoor life that has not 
been covered thoroughly by these sages of the 
brush and stream. 
THE CALIFORNIA SPORTSMAN’S LAST 
CALL. 
At the coming election the real men of Cali¬ 
fornia will have opportunity to show in what 
proportion genuine sportsmen exist in the state 
of the Golden Gate, the state that, in times of 
trouble, always has come forward nobly and 
like a community of men, and made right and 
fairness predominant. The referendum of the 
no sale of game law will be decided at the polls. 
Shall the market hunter and the lower class 
hotel keeper be allowed to sound the death knell 
of birds and animals in the greatest game state 
now on our map? Election day will tell, and, 
we feel assured it will show the intelligence of 
Californians to be in the same place it was when 
the people’s representatives, in senate and 
assembly, put the no sale of game law on the 
statute books. Let every reservist among 
sportsmen, who has been waiting for the last 
call, not only get out and vote but hie himself 
into the highways and byways and make votes to 
retain the no sale law as it now stands on the 
records. Come out sportsmen, come one come 
all. 
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOTEL MEN’S 
ASSOCIATION REPUDIATE THE MAR¬ 
KET INTERESTS AND TAKE 
STAND FOR WILD LIFE. 
The Alexandria Hotel 
Los Angeles, Cab, July 8, 1914. 
Mr. Chas. F. Holder, Pres., 
Wild Life Protective League, 
Dear Sir; I understand that you are familiar 
with the purpose of the proposed fish and game 
laws, and as I am chairman of the committee 
of hotel men with power to report favorably or 
unfavorably upon this measure, I would appre¬ 
ciate it very much if at your convenience you 
would allow me the privilege of going over the 
matter in detail with you. My report will mean 
endorsement or refusal to endorse the bill, 
(“People’s Fish and Game Protective Associa¬ 
tion of California, viz; Annullment of ‘no-sale’ 
law,”) and while I am greatly opposed to it, 
my information is not complete as to its intent. 
Upon your next visit in Los Angeles, if you 
will be good enough to call at my office, I will 
appreciate it. 
(Signed) Vernon Goodwin. 
Mr. Holder accepted Mr. Goodwin’s invitation 
and very shortly received letters No. 2 and 3. 
The Alexandria Hotel 
Los Angeles, Cal. 
July 9, I 9 I 4 - 
Mr. C. F. Holder, Pres-, 
Wild Life Protective League, 
Pasadena, Cal. 
My Dear Mr. Holder: 
I take the liberty of enclosing you a letter 
sent this day to the secretary of the People’s 
Fish and Game Protective Association of Cali¬ 
fornia, San Francisco. This letter contains the 
impressions of our committee on this proposed 
act, and is in substance, the report we will 
make to the Southern California Hotel Men’s As¬ 
sociation. 
(Signed) Vernon Goodwin. 
The Alexandria Hotel 
Los Angeles, Cal. 
Secretary, People’s Fish & Game Protective 
Association of California, San Francisco, Cal. 
Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of the 5th 
inst. to Mr. W. J. Colopy, I beg to advise you 
that the Southern California Hotel Men’s Asso¬ 
ciation appointed a committee, of which I am 
chairman, to investigate the proposed law and 
report back to the Association on the question 
of endorsement. We find upon going into the 
matter carefully, that we are not in sympathy 
with the provisions of the law, and are not pre¬ 
pared therefore, to lend any assistance to its 
promotion * * * * Generally speaking, our 
impression is, that, whether intentionally or un¬ 
intentionally, the operation of this act will re¬ 
dound only to the benefit of the “market” hunt¬ 
er, and will be an instrument in his hands for 
depleting one of the State’s greatest assets; to- 
wit, its wild game and fish, now so well pro¬ 
tected. 
(Signed) Vernon Goodwin. 
