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FOREST AND STREAM 
[May I, 1909. 
Shooting and Field Sports Exhibition. 
Vienna, Austria, April 14 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: There is a continual increase in the 
number of prominent foreign sportsmen anxious 
to assist their Austrian fellow sportsmen in in¬ 
suring the success of the International Shooting 
and Field Sports Exhibition, to be held in 
Vienna in 1910. Nearly every day and from 
almost every country there arrive new adhes¬ 
ions of men whose fame in the world of sport 
has spread and is appreciated far beyond the 
limits of their native country. 
Besides claiming the attention of the political 
economist as well as of the sportsman pure and 
simple, the exhibition is already assuming the 
proportions of a brilliant international review 
of everything relating to sport which will bring 
within touch of each other the members of the 
great sporting guild. 
One of its most prominent guests will be ex- 
President of the United States Roosevelt who 
will visit the exhibition in April 1910 on the 
termination of his African shooting expedition. 
It is intended to break the journey at Matzen 
in the Tyrol, the residence of the English land 
owner and writer on sport, Mr. Baillie-Grohman, 
an intimate friend of Mr. Roosevelt. The ex-- 
President will take the opportunity to run up 
to Vienna expressly to see the exhibition, in 
which he is known to take the deepest interest. 
It is not too early to promise him a cordial re¬ 
ception in the capital of the Austrian empire nor 
to predict that every effort will be made to ren¬ 
der his stay in the metropolis both pleasant and 
profitable. 
The negotiations with the Austrian ministry 
of finailce for the admission duty free of all 
objects intended for exhibition have proved suc¬ 
cessful, the ministry having recently issued an 
official notification that goods from abroad for 
the first International Shooting and Field Sports 
Exhibition of Vienna in 1910 may be imported 
without paying customs duty on the understand¬ 
ing that all such goods be re-exported at latest 
by the end of April, 1911. 
The committee of management has, moreover, 
obtained from the combined railway companies 
an undertaking to return free of charge all ob¬ 
jects intended for exhibition, which is tanta¬ 
mount to a reduction on the carriage. Most of 
the foreign railways have also promised to grant 
a similar reduction. Messrs. Schenker & Co. 
have been appointed official forwarding agents 
for the exhibition. Secretary. 
CoUnel Roosevelt in Africa. 
Dispatches from Mombasa, British East 
Africa, announce the arrival there of Col. Theo¬ 
dore Roosevelt and party April 21. The party 
left the following day on a special train for 
Kapeti Plains station, from which point they will 
go to the ranch of Sir Alfred Pease on the .\thi 
River. They will probably remain at this ranch 
for a week’s hunting and will then move on to 
Nairobi. 
On the evening of April 21 Col. Roosevelt, 
Kermit Roosevelt, Edmund Heller, F. C. Selous 
and R. F. Cunninghame, the manager of the ex¬ 
pedition, were entertained at dinner at the Mom¬ 
basa Club. Speeches were made by F. J. Jack- 
son, acting Governor of the Protectorate who, 
in proposing Mr. Roosevelt’s health, read a cable¬ 
gram of good wishes from King Edward. Mr. 
Roosevelt responded at some length. 
When Col. Roosevelt landed he was received 
by a guard of honor of marines and blue jackets 
from the British cruiser Pandora. He spent the 
night at the Government House and during the 
morning telegraphed the German Emperor, e.x- 
pressing his appreciation of his treatrhent on the 
German steamer Admiral. 
State Forest Trees. 
James S. Whipple, Forest, Fish and Game 
Commissioner, has not only planted more trees 
in this State than has been planted in any other 
State or even by the National Government, but 
this year he has made another great advance in 
the reforesting movement. The commission has 
sold to private land owners at cost 1,034,050 pine 
and spruce trees for reforesting land within the 
State. This is one of the tangible results of the 
work that has been performed in behalf of re¬ 
forestation and the preservation of our forests 
by the department in the past three years. Ship- 
ments will 
begin in the 
next few days. 
The 
quantity to each county is as follows: 
No. 01 
No. of 
'J rees. 
Trees. 
Albany . 
. 12,500 • 
Orange . 
. 3,000 
Allegeny .... 
. 2,000 
Oneida . 
. 63,600 
Broome . 
. 3,000 
Otsego . 
. 74,300 
Cattaraugus 
. 1,000 
Ontario . 
. 3,000 
Chautauqua . 
. 900 
Oswego . 
.201,000 
Chemung ... 
. 3,000 
Rockland . 
. 2,00v 
Chenango- ... 
. 8,000 
Rensselaer . 
. 21,000 
Clinton . 
.11,000 
Suffolk . 
. 7,800 
Columbia ... 
. 4,000 
Steuben . 
. 5,200 
Dutchess .... 
. 1,000 
St. Lawrence . 
. 79,000 
Delaware .... 
. 70,500 
Schuyler . 
Erie . 
. 2,500 
Schenectady . 
. 1,000 
Essex . 
.104,000 
Seneca . 
. 1.500 
Eranklin .... 
. 31,500 
Sullivan . 
. 3.00O 
Eulton . 
. 67,500 
Schoharie . 
. 2,000 
Greene . 
. 1,750 
Saratoga . 
. ll.OOO 
Hamilton ... 
. 32,000 
Tioga . 
. 11.200 
Herkimer ... 
. 8,100 
Ulster . 
. 3,000 
Lewis . 
.12,000 
Westchester . 
. 17.000 
Livingston .. 
. 20,00u 
Washington . 
. 32,000 
Montgomery 
. 1,000 
Wyoming . 
. 10,000 
Madison .... 
. 1,250 
Wayne . 
. 3,000 
Monroe . 
. 50 
Warren . 
Nassau . 
. 67,400 
Yates . 
. 2,500 
This means that 149 different parties will plant 
1,034,050 trees in forty-eight of the counties of 
the State for the purpose of growing wood crops. 
The success Commissioner Whipple has won in 
arousing public interest in reforestation is shown 
by the way our citizens are planting trees. He 
has awakened them to the necessity of forests, 
their economical and profitable utilization. Not 
one-half of the applications could be filled. 
Taking Trout in Low Water. 
When the Corporal and I had made our camp 
on a pleasant little lake in Stratton one August, 
proposing to pass the month in the woods, we 
were told by the settlers that we were too late 
for brook trout fishing, the water being un¬ 
usually low. The streams in the vicinity headed 
in the mountain heights only a few miles dis¬ 
tant, and although brawling right merrily in 
the spring, when they were alive with small 
trout, were now shrunken to little rills that 
crept silently beneath the dark spruces and hem¬ 
locks or glistened in the sunlight when winding- 
through patches of beech and maple. And our 
first experience was not encouraging. There 
seemed to be few trout in the brooks and these 
were possessed of remarkable eye sight—a flash 
and a prompt disappearance greeting every at¬ 
tempt to examine a pool deep enough to cover 
the hook. Occasionally from beneath a rock 
or root one was lured, but we returned to camp 
with only enough to give us a taste at supper 
and make us wish for more. 
Now, we knew from past experience that the 
trout were in the brooks somewhere, and we 
did not fully believe some fishermen who had 
told us that with low water the trout always 
run down to the larger stream. That night we 
settled two things in our minds-—the trout were 
there and they must eat. So must we. And 
we slept the sleep of the just on our first night 
of the season in the woods, or at least the Cor¬ 
poral did, for he left to me entirely the care 
of our log fire. 
On all the streams about us at intervals were 
alder swamps—low, marshy places—from a 
dozen rods to half a mile in length, overgrown 
with alder bushes so thickly as-to be almost 
impenetrable. Here the water was of a good 
depth, even in the dry season, but the banks 
were so interlaced with bushes as to make it 
very difficult to cast a line, the attempt usually 
ending in a bad tangle, the unsnarling of which 
would frighten all the trout in the vicinity. 
Consequently, these places were avoided by the 
native fishermen who frequently traveled six or 
eight miles on the streams in a day and had 
neither the time nor the patience for more than 
one tangle. 
The next morning we took our way to one 
of these swamps. The first thing was to clear 
away the alders that overhung the water, and 
a little back from it at spots which were se¬ 
lected, so that a trout could be easily landed. 
This was soon done with our knives, and then 
we had a little leisure. We- gave the trout fif¬ 
teen or twenty minutes to recover from the 
fright we must have given them, and I lighted 
my pipe and leaned against the trunk of a dead 
balsam, idle and perfectly contented. The Cor¬ 
poral, however, could not wait. He had his 
line in the water at once, and while I was smil- 
