May 29, 1909 ] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
875 
New. York Central Schuetzen Corps. 
Foe the thirty-ninth time the second oldest shooting 
organization of New York, the New York Central 
Schuetzen Corps, held its annual shooting tournament at 
Union Hill Schuetzen Park, on May 19. In the course 
of the day following visiting societies were welcomed by 
the doughty captain, Henry Roffmann; New York 
Schuetzen Corps, with Captain H. Von Minden at its 
head; New York City Schuetzen Corps, Capt. H. Born; 
Independent Schuetzen of Harlem, the Independent New 
York Schuetzen Corps, Capt. Gus Zimmermann, and 
others. 
Henry D. Muller, the gallant ex-captain of the or- 
ganization, won the king medal, although he did noi 
make top score. This fell to Gus Zimmermann, but 
owing to the rules, he was not entitled to the kingship 
this year, having won it the year before. 
On the ring target, 3 shots, possible 75, at 200yds., the 
following scores were made: M. Dorrler 72, A. Hubalek 
G. Schlicht 70, L. P. Hansen 68, VV. A. Tewes 67, 
E. Fischer 66, A. P. Fegert 66, G. A. .Viemeister 64, A. 
Heimrich 62, C. Gerken 62, D. Scharninghausen 58, E. 
Berckmann 61, P. F. Schmitt 60, C. H. Folcke 57, C. A. 
Schrag 56, H. Roffmann 53, H. Eckhoff 50. 
Harlem Independent Schuetzen Corps. 
At the last practice shoot of the Harlem Independenv 
Schuetzen Corps the following scores were made, in 3 
shots, possible 75: 
Ring target: A. P. Fegert 72, J. Martin 69, C. Wem- 
bacher 67, C. Thiebauth 66, G. Thomas 65, L. Rohkohl 
65, J. Lanzer 65, VV. Zugner 65, E. Mehling 64, E. A. 
Modersohn 63, R. Kirsters 59, J. Zacharkowsky 58, J. W. 
Thoret 57, R. Keller 57, F. Horn 55, B. Busch 55, E. 
Degnan 54, C. Klussmann 53, J. Leopold 52, C. W'ullf 
52, C. Weiss 50, J. Fisher 47. 
The leaders m the bullseye competition were A. P. 
Fegert and C. Thiebauth. 
PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 
The mounted Alaska moose head offered for sale by 
John Murgatroyd, of 57 West Twenty-fourth street. New 
York, is a very fine and massive head. The Secretary 
of the N. Y. Zoological Society is said to have declared 
it one of the finest moose heads in the country. The 
length of the bell is very noteworthy. 
BEAVERS IN ALASKA. 
Reports of the party organized and out¬ 
fitted by Miss Annie M. Alexander, which 
visited southeastern Alaska a couple of years 
ago, are published by the University of Cali¬ 
fornia. The expedition secured 532 birds, 33 
sets of eggs, and 476 mammals, all of which 
were given by Miss Alexander to the uni¬ 
versity’s museum of vertebrate zoology. Joseph 
Dixon, who was in the party, made some inter¬ 
esting notes about the beavers on Admiralty 
Island, which are as follows: “We were very 
pleasantly surprised to find beavers on Admir¬ 
alty Island and, as we had been told that there 
were none on any of the islands between Sitka 
and Juneau. The lakes with their irregular 
shore line and quiet little bays were the natural 
home of the beavers, and they had lived there 
in peace and seclusion for many years. At in¬ 
tervals of four or five years, the Indians who 
owned the region by tribal inheritance were ac¬ 
customed to visit the lakes in the early spring 
and trap for beavers. But the Indian methods 
of trapping were crude, and they quarreled 
among themselves, so they did not catch many 
beavers. Aside from this we saw only one thing 
that would lead us to think that the beavers 
were ever bothered. This was a beaver house 
that had been torn open by a bear. 
“At the time of our visit many of the younger 
beavers had never seen a man and regarded the 
canoe with shy curiosity; but some of the old 
ones knew what a canoe was, and upon catch¬ 
ing sight of one they would bring their tails 
down upon the water with a pop like the ex¬ 
plosion of a fire-cracker, and then hastily dis¬ 
appear in the water. We rarely saw a beaver 
on the land, as they carry on most of their I 
work at night. About 6 o’clock in the evening I 
the beavers would begin to come out, but they 
would be back again to their dams or houses 
by about 7 in the morning. 
“We found that the mode of life of the beavers 
divided them into two classes, bank beavers and 
house beavers. All the bank beavers that we 
killed were males, and I am inclined to believe 
that they were bachelors, who had gone off to 
live in holes in the banks, instead of building 
houses and raising families. The houses were 
usually in some secluded corner of a beaver 
pond, in which the water had been backed up 
by the dams that they had built until it suited 
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