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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Feb. 27, 1909. 
Vienna Shooting and Field Sports 
Exhibition, 1910. 
Vienna, Austria, Jan. 29 .— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The preliminary work in connecHon 
with the First International Shooting and Field 
Sports Exhibition, to be held in Vienna in 
1910, is now nearly complete, and the special 
sections of the exhibition devoted to different 
countries are being rapidly pushed forward. 
Here will be shown the development and special 
features of the hunting associations of each 
country, togetlier with the trades and industries 
connected with them. The foreign committees 
are working hand in hand with the General 
Commissioner and the Provincial Committee, 
so that the progress of the exhibition moves 
steadily forward along the whole line. 
The German committee has just been or¬ 
ganized. A Swedish committee has been 
formed in Stockholm, as has one in Norway. 
Great interest is being taken in this exhibition 
in America. It has been recommended to ap¬ 
propriate a quarter of a million of dollars to 
see that America is splendidly represented. 
Newspapers say that the President of the 
United States will send exhibits to, and will 
visit the exhibition. The government of Hol¬ 
land has also intimated its intention of taking 
part in the exhibition. The representative of 
the French Ministry for Agriculture spent some 
days last week in Vienna and will ask for the 
necessary credit in the Chamber of Deputies. 
Belgium will erect a pavilion, while Italy and 
England will take an important part in the 
exhibition. In Russia, the Grand Duke Nikolas 
Nikolajewitsch takes a keen interest in the ex¬ 
hibition, and hopes that Russian hunting asso¬ 
ciations will be well represented. 
The General Commissioner of the First In¬ 
ternational Shooting and Field Sports Exhi¬ 
bition, Lothringer Strasse 16, Vienna, Austria, 
will be glad to give further information to those 
interested. American. 
New York Legislature. 
The following bills have been introduced in 
the Assembly: 
By Mr. Weaver—To amend Section 104 of 
the game law so that residents of the State need 
not procure licenses to hunt. 
By Mr. Callan—Relating to hares and rabbits 
in Columbia county. 
By Mr. Francis—-To amend Section 98 of the 
game law so that the English sparrow, crow, 
sharp-shinned hawk. Cooper hawk, goshawk, 
great horned owl and kingfisher only will be 
in the list of birds other than game birds that 
may be killed, and prohibiting the sale of certain 
game, birds, flesh, plumage, etc., in this State, 
no matter where taken. 
By Mr. Williams—Relating to hares and rab¬ 
bits in certain counties. 
By Mr. Brady—Relating to tip-ups in certain 
local waters; also a bill to change the hare and 
rabbit law in Greene county. 
By Mr. McLaughlin—Relating to lake trout 
in Skaneateles Lake. 
By Mr. Draper—Relating to hares and rabbits 
in Niagara county. 
By Mr. Whitney—Relating to perch in Sara¬ 
toga county. 
By Mr. Hawley—Providing that the expenses 
of fighting forest fires be borne by the State 
alone; also a bill providing for one, two and 
three-year hunting licenses. 
By Mr. Weaver—Relating to hunting licenses 
■for non-residents and aliens only. 
By Mr. Phillips—Revising Chapter 19 of the 
consolidated laws, to correct errors that appear 
in the existing laws. This is a bill of 163 pages. 
Senate Bills: 
By Senator Allds—Appropriating $100,000 to 
pay county treasuries for fire fighting expenses 
in 1908. This measure was introduced in the 
Assembly by Mr. Merritt. 
Union Sportsmen’s Club Dinner. 
The members of the Union Sportsmen’s Club 
held their twenty-third annual dinner at their 
club house in Bath Beach on the evening of 
Thursday, Feb. ii. The room was profusely 
decorated with red and white carnations—the 
club’s colors. The feature of the dinner was 
buffalo steaks from Colonel Cody’s ranch. The 
club is one of the oldest of its kind and its ob¬ 
jects are camp life and the protection and 
preservation of the forests and their creatures. 
It was organized in 1886 by William Ellery 
Tufts, who has held the office of president for 
twenty-three years. Its various camps have cov¬ 
ered an area extending from Pike county. Pa., 
to West Wardsboro, Vt., and the camp equip¬ 
ment owned by the club is the product of years 
of practical experience in the woods. 
Charles E. Lodge acted as toastmaster and 
every member was called upon to relate some 
experience. Some , of those present were: Mr. 
and Mrs. George M. Cowenhoven, Mr. and Mrs. 
William E. Tufts, Jr., Mrs. Wm. E. Tufts, Sr., 
Mr. William R. Shaw, Mr. William E. Dalton, 
Mr. and All's- James Harper, Air. Arba Paul 
Alacomber, Air. Jack Cowenhoven, Air. John Al. 
French, Air. and Airs. William Judd Ostermayer, 
Mr. Frank Van Voorhis, Mr. Louis W. Dumont, 
Air. Alatthew Feeley,, Aliss Davis, Miss Florence 
Gorman, Aliss Irene Lodge, Aliss Alice Cox, Aliss 
Josephine Caldwell, Air. R. W. Palmer, Mr. and 
Airs. Charles E. Lodge, Air. James Boyle. 
Annual Kill ^of Deer. 
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 20.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Forest fires and the great drouth made 
hunting conditions in the Adirondacks so un¬ 
usual last season that many questions have been 
asked about the actual kill of deer. ■ 
The actual result is most interesting to all 
students of such statistics. It shows that but 
thirty-five carcasses less were shipped out than 
in 1907, and that there were thirty-one saddles 
and fifteen heads more. Apparently the highly 
adverse conditions did not affect the general re¬ 
sult to any great extent. The shipments- during 
the past nine years have been as follows: 
Year. Carcasses. Saddles. Heads. 
1900 .1,020 89 95 
1901 . : .1,062 103 121 
1902 .1,354 113 193 
3903.1,961 145 188 
1904 .1,618 124 152 
1905 .2,196 108 180 
3906..2,413 108 102 
1907.. 2,021 72 70 
1908.'.1,986 103 85 
These figures are from the reports of the 
forest, fish and game commission, ■ and would 
seem to be full of comfort for the friends of 
game protection. John D. Whish. 
Northern Minnesota Game. 
Galesburg, N. D., Feb. ii.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I read with much interest in Forest 
AND Stream of Feb. 6 about the wolves and 
game of Northern Alinnesota and the necessity 
of concerted action to protect the game there. 
Now, it has been my pleasure and good fortune 
to have traveled about considerably in Northern 
Alinnesota this winter, and while, I have no 
doubt, an increased' bounty on wolves would be 
a good thing, there are other dangers to the 
game fully as serious as the wolves. 
The settlers in that part of the State are 
mainly poor people, but few are so poor that 
you will not find a .30-30 rifle or some weapon 
about as deadly hanging in most cabins, and they 
do not hesitate to use them on game any time 
they are short of meat. In spite of the game 
law they get a deer or a moose and divide it up 
among the neighbors at any time of the year. 
They say up there that the game wardens refuse 
to prosecute settlers who kill for meat, keep¬ 
ing watch only for infringements of the law by 
outsiders, and if this is the fact I can assure 
you that it will not be long before the game 
warden’s job will be an easy one there, for he 
will have nothing left to watch. This is not 
exactly a dream, because I have been there and 
know. J. P. 'W. 
Off For the Arctic. 
Harry V. Radford expects to start in a few 
days for the Arctic regions, to be gone three 
years. 
His purpose is to journey to the Arctic circle, 
reaching the ocean from Back's Great Fish River 
to Bathurst’s Inlet and then following the coast 
for some distance. He states that his whole 
journey from New York to Nome, Alaska, by 
the route he proposes to follow will be 20,000 
miles. He intends to pass through the muskox 
country, to visit the haunts of the wood bison, 
to study them, and if possible photograph them, 
and to procure, if possible, specimens of the 
barren ground bear. 
He will take with him a rod, reel and flies, 
and hopes to capture fish of the extreme North 
which hitherto have never been tried for by any¬ 
one with rod and reel. Pie proposes also to col¬ 
lect zoological material for the American 
Aluseum of Natural History and for the Bio¬ 
logical Survey at Washington, and is carrying 
a camera for stereoscopic views. 
Quail in Iowa. 
What Cheer, Iowa, Feb. 18. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: We had a very severe blizzard 
here, and I have found a number of dead quail 
along the hedges and have heard of other 
hunters finding the same condition. There was 
not much snow, but the quail were found dead 
—one, two and three together—actually frozen 
to death. The storm was severe enough to kill 
cattle. 
Quail have been more plentiful this season 
than for several years, on account of consider¬ 
able dry seasons and mild winters. It is the 
severe winters and not the hunters that 
make quail diminish in number the fastest 
in Iowa. 
G. P. Baughman. 
