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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 13, 1912. 
LOUISIANA NOTES. 
Continued from page 49. 
went out. The weather conditions were ex¬ 
tremely bad on account of the long duration of 
rain, wind and cold and foggy days. A number 
of deer have been killed recently near New Or¬ 
leans, and several pi the hunters have brought 
in ducks, geese and some wild turkeys. Turkeys 
have been very scarce this season as compared 
with last year. Quail are rather abundant. 
Many muskrats have been trapped and good 
prices have been realized for their skins. The 
game commission rather encourages the trap¬ 
ping of muskrats on account of their destruc¬ 
tive propensities in reference to the levees. 
The commission has been endeavoring for 
some time to get the police juries of the 
parishes to enact ordinances protecting^the alli¬ 
gator, and a number of parishes have taken 
action on the subject. The commission claims 
that the alligator destroys the alligator gar and 
other worthless fish that prey on the edible fish. 
The alligator also devours the muskrat. It is 
claimed by the commission that unless the alli¬ 
gator is protected by legislation, he will soon 
become extinct, as the curio stores collect 
thousands of baby ’gators annually, and many 
concerns buy the alligator skins for tanning. 
The holiday hunting parties were very num¬ 
erous. Most of the hunters preferred to shoot 
ducks, although a few went ih quest of deer 
and wild turkeys. The holiday season was con¬ 
fined largely to local sportsmen. Just prior to 
the annual carnival or Mardi Gras a large num¬ 
ber of visitors are expected and all the hunting 
clubs will entertain many guests. The carnival 
will take place about the middle of February, 
and the winter tourists come about a month in 
advance. 
The fishermen are getting ready for the early 
season and expect to make good catches dur¬ 
ing the next few weeks. The early fishing in 
salt waters begins the latter part of January 
and early in February, especially if the weather 
is balmy. The fishermen spend the Sundays at 
the Rigolets, Lake Catherine, Chef Menteur, 
Lookout, Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Pass Chris¬ 
tian, North Shore and other resorts where clubs 
abound. During the past fortnight, on account 
of the bad weather conditions, little has been 
done in the fishing. Several parties went out 
during the holidays and landed soifie redfish, 
speckled trout and green trout and sheepshead, 
but catches were small. 
James Robertson, a locally renowned trapper, 
recites a thrilling experience which he had a 
day or so ago with a wildcat in St, Bernard 
parish. Robertson says he had set one of his 
traps near a branch, and in making his rounds 
he heard the yells of a wildcat. The animal had 
been caught by the left hind leg. He ap¬ 
proached the cat, and so furious was the animal, 
that he was at first at a loss to know exactly 
how to take the beast out of the trap without 
shooting it,, but managed to kill it with a long 
pole. 
The death of City Councilman John J. Fraw- 
ley caused much sorrow among a large num¬ 
ber in this city and State. Mr. Frawley died of 
apoplexy. He was a leading fisherman, put in 
his spare time with the rod and reel at North 
Shore on Lake Pontchartrain and in other 
waters. He had often entertained visiting fish¬ 
ermen and hunters at the Grunewald Hotel, of 
which he was a part owner, and also the club at 
North Shore. 
The best hunting month near New Orleans 
and in the center of the State is in January. The 
busy times incident to the Christmas trade and 
the preparations for the holidays are keeping 
men from the woods, marshes and bayous, ex¬ 
cept for a short time on Sundays. During the 
holidays scores of hunters will go to the woods 
and streams in quest of ducks, turkeys and deer. 
Henry Jacobs, who is connected with the State 
Game Commission, will deliver a series of illus¬ 
trated lectures in the city public schools. Mr. 
Jacobs will display specimens of the birds, fish 
and animals to be found in Louisiana. Commis¬ 
sioner Frank M. Miller will lecture aand explain 
the objects of game preserves and the conserva¬ 
tion of the natural food supply of Louisiana. 
He says he believes the children ought to be in¬ 
structed in these subjects and induced to make 
inquiries into natural history. Mr. Jacobs has 
returned from a tour of the country outside of 
New Orleans where he lectured to 20,000 school 
children and secured their names for the Audu¬ 
bon Society. He found the people willing to 
hear him, and a great deal of interest was mani¬ 
fested, and his trip was in every way satisfac¬ 
tory. He will continue his trips to the schools 
in the country after the Christmas holidays. 
The steamboat New Orleans, the replica of the 
first steamboat to navigate the Mississippi and 
Ohio rivers a century ago, is still anchored at 
one of the landings in this city. It is probable 
the quaint little craft will remain here for some 
time, or at least until the city of Pittsburgh and 
the West Pennsylvania Historical Society gives 
orders for the boat to be returned. It is said, 
however, that the expense of taking the boat 
back will be very great, hence it may remain in 
New Orleans indefinitely. 
John Wolf, nineteen years of age, a member 
of the Manchac Hunting Club, has the honor of 
killing the largest buck of the season up to this 
time. The big deer weighed 200 pounds. It was 
killed at Pass Manchac, twenty-five miles from 
New Orleans, and brought to this city by Wolf 
and his friends. Mr. Wolf is probably the 
youngest member of the club and is well known 
to hunters in and near New Orleans. He is a 
good shot and puts in all his spare time hunting 
big game. 
Judge Peter Clement’s sudden death during 
the week is greatly deplored by the Security 
Hunting and Fishing Club, of which he was 
president. Judge Clement presided as recorder 
of the court in Algiers and was prominently 
identified with the Masons, Knights of Pythias, 
Woodmen of the World and other organizations, 
civic and political. He was very fond of both 
fishing and hunting, and his club has a large 
membership, especially among those residing in 
Algiers and across the river from the main part 
of the city. He took a prominent part in all 
the field and water sports, and was popular with 
the fishermen and hunters. F. G. G. 
Thomas Fox came near blowing himself 
through the bottom of a sneak-box Saturday 
morning. He was watching for some of those 
Shrewsbury River mommie ducks, and in turn¬ 
ing over accidentally discharged both barrels 
of his gun. The kick caromed off his ribs and 
strained two boards in the bottom of the boat, 
which rapidly filled with water as Tom franti¬ 
cally rowed for the beach. It ended his day’s 
hunting.—Newark Star. 
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ducks- Solomons of the air. You can’t knock 
down mallards with a paddle nor can you get them 
with a gun that plasters its shots all over the face 
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A mallard shot is generally a long shot, and long 
shots require a hard-shooting, close-shooting gun. 
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A FINNY ACROBAT. 
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on the plank, get the food and slide off again. 
I have often heard that fish cannot hear, but 
I am certain that Jack could hear; and talking 
to him had a good deal of effect in making him 
do his tricks. It would sometimes take quite 
a lot of persuasion to make him do a very high 
jump. He would come to the top of the water, 
and if he thought the stick too high he would 
shake himself and back away, but if I spoke and 
urged him to it, he would make the attempt up 
to about fourteen inches. Higher than that he 
would not try to jump. 
When winter set in, I had no way of heating 
my aquariums and Jack seemed to get sluggish 
and appeared to wish to hibernate. So I gave 
Jack to a lady friend to keep in her conserva¬ 
tory. She kept him all winter and only a few 
weeks ago put him in a small half-gallon jar, 
took him into her parlor to show him off, and 
setting him aside, forgot and left him several 
hours and then found him dead. We all 
mourned his loss very much. 
Jack was about four inches long and was 
different from any perch I have had. I do not 
know what kind of a fish he was. Some said 
he was a young black bass. I do not know, but 
he was wide like a perch, not very highly 
