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FOREST AND STREAM 
June 29, 1912 
OF OUTDOOR Li 
TRAVEL, sAttmfc STMPy. SHOOTmg risHuta 
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Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
Charles Otis, President. 
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terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION. 
The directors of the American Forestry As¬ 
sociation will hold their midsummer meeting in 
the White Mountains at the same time as is held 
the fifth annual forestry conference under the 
auspices of the Society for the Protection of 
New Hampshire Forests, in co-operation with the 
State Forestry Commission and the Association 
of Northeastern Foresters. 
The directors and their guests from the 
East, South and West will leave New York in 
special cars on the New York Central Railroad 
on the evening of July i6, arriving at Concord, 
N. H., on Wednesday morning. There the party 
will be received by Governor Robert P. Bass, 
who is president of the association and chairman 
of the board of directors, and Col. W. R. Brown, 
a member of the board. The party will then 
proceed in automobiles seventy-five miles to 
Deer Park Hotel at North Woodstock, stopping 
on the way to see the State Nursery at Boscowan 
and to lunch at Plymouth. At Deer Park Hotel 
the party will join members of the Society for 
the Protection of New Hampshire Forests in 
a short visit to the most beautiful Lost River 
Reserve nearby, lately purchased by the society, 
and will then return to the hotel for dinner and 
the night. 
On Thursday morning, July i8, the party will 
proceed through the Profit Notch to Bretton 
Woods, arriving there for lunch and remaining 
Thursday and Friday. During that time excur¬ 
sions will be taken to the New State Reserva¬ 
tion of Crawford Notch and to some of the 
tracts purchased this month by the National 
Forest Reservation Commission under the Weeks 
law, and for which almost half a million dollars 
will be spent. 
It is expected that there will be assembled 
at Bretton Woods, besides the directors and 
guests of the American Forestry Association and 
the other organizations which are to meet there. 
several of the governors of New England States, 
members of the National Forest Reservation 
Commission, a number of officials of the United 
States Forest Service, several Senators and Con¬ 
gressmen, and members of the State Legislatures 
as well as forestry officials from all the States 
within easy reach of New Hampshire. 
The directors of the American Forestry As¬ 
sociation expect, as they did during the meeting 
in the Adirondacks in May, to accomplish much 
of a practical nature. 
ARCHIBALD GRACIE’S TITANIC EX¬ 
PERIENCES. 
We have in preparation for publication in 
an early issue an article by Col. Archibald Grade, 
on his Titanic experiences. This is not strictly a 
sportsman’s article, but Colonel Grade proved 
himself so good a sportsman that his story is 
worthy of a place in Forest and Stream and 
a reading by all true sportsmen. Colonel Grade’s 
experiences, thus far unpublished, are marvel¬ 
ous to a degree, almost beyond belief. No man 
else ever has been drawm down by the suction 
of a great vessel and belched, like a torpedo, 
through fathoms of water and yards of air, pro¬ 
pelled by an explosion, of what no one knows, 
and lived to tell of the experience. The narra¬ 
tive truly is beyond comprehension. Colonel 
Grade has only now been discharged from the 
doctor’s care, so that the article is prepared 
while etched vividly on his mind. The interest 
is intense throughout his story. Read it. 
NON-RESIDENT LICENSE. 
Philadelphia, Pa., June 20.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: I saw in Forest and Stream a 
few months ago a statement that a bill had been 
introduced in the New York Legislature, hav¬ 
ing for its purpose the licensing of non-resident 
fishermen to the amount of $1.50 a year. Will 
you not let me know, if you can, what was the 
fate of this bill. I wish to bring it before the 
fourth annual meeting of the Camp of Lhiited 
Sportsmen at Johnstown. 
• W. E. Meehan, 
Supt. Fairmount Park Aquarium. 
[The committee, which codified the game 
law last winter, had a provision in the law cover¬ 
ing the non-resident angling license which was 
combined with Section 186, and which provided 
a $2 fee. This, however, was dropped from the 
bill in committee. Nobody seems to know ex¬ 
actly how it happened or the reason. —Editor.] 
LAND TURTLES. 
While there is nothing very gamy in the 
hunt and capture of a land, box or wood turtle, 
yet they are protected by the game laws of New 
York State. The man hunting big game in the 
woods needs no warning against taking a turtle, 
but his small boy at home—and most of us have 
’em—often begins his education in conservation 
by taking a box turtle, boring a hole in its after 
shell and tying it to a stake to show dad it was not 
necessary to have a high power rifle and railroad 
fare to get a trophy. Therefore this warning 
may prevent a fine, and at the same time, teach 
the lad to obey the letter of the State conserva¬ 
tion laws—a matter that should be taught all 
youngsters if they would grow up to be big-game 
hunters, to find after they have come into man’s 
estate that there still remained big game to hunt. 
CARIBOU IN MAINE. 
From John S. P. H. Wilson, chairman of the 
Maine Fish and Game Commission, comes the 
cheering news that caribou are returning to 
Maine, principally in the northwestern di^rict. 
It is more than ten years since we had a report 
of a caribou being killed in Maine, and indica¬ 
tions pointed to their having moved so far away 
as to preclude possibility of return. So the sug¬ 
gestion feels good that some day again we may 
shoot caribou in Maine. The law is on caribou 
until Oct. 15, 1917. 
‘'CANADA FISHING WATERS.” 
At last the Dominion of Canada has come to 
realize that to grant privileges to streams with¬ 
in its borders, is to kill, to a great extent, visits 
from foreign fishermen. Legislation now pend¬ 
ing in the Dominion asks for removal of stream 
restriction and monopoly. This, indeed, is wel¬ 
come to American fishermen who .know that 
much Canadian water, though restricted, is un¬ 
fished and offers untold possibilities to anglers 
from the States. 
A monster garfish, weighing nearly 200 
pounds, was caught by fishermen in the Du Page 
(Ill.) River. The huge fish was six feet in length 
and is the third of large size taken in that stream 
this year. Owing to the destructive habits of 
.these fish preying upon all game species, the 
State law calls upon fishermen to kill them 
whenever caught by seine or hook. 
Coin’ Fishin’? 
By Frank Farrington. 
Fishin’ season now’s wide open 
On the cricks around up here. 
Every day you’ll see us fellers 
Gettin’ out our anglin’ gear. 
Trout ’re jumpin’ in the brooks and 
Gettin’ hungrier every day. 
Gee, Mister, but it’s some excitin’ 
When we dfop a worm their way. 
Once this fishin’ fever gets you. 
Winter seems as if ’twould last 
Jest about forever, dang it; 
While you’re wishin’ it was past. 
Ain’t no substitute for fishin’; 
Nothing’ else is jest as good. 
Can’t put off no imitation 
On a chap with fishin’ blood. 
Of all the sports, one kind or ’nother. 
Ain’t none jest like fishin’, quite. 
Always something new a-happenin’ 
When the fish begin to bite. 
A Fisherman’s Pipe. 
By J. D. W. 
A bowl well browned by years of use, 
A stem half bitten through; 
Such is my pipe, a happy type 
Of friendship, tried and true. 
Though winds may roar and rains may pour. 
Safe in my camp we lie 
And watch the storm, serene and warm. 
My good old pipe and I. 
When weather fair, and balmy air ‘ 
Invite us out to fish. 
We sally forth to streams W’ell worth. 
And cast and dream and wish 
To hook the best and leave the rest 
To grow ’til coming years 
Shall bring a spring when birds shall sing 
To younger, happier ears. 
Grant they may be our progeny 
Whose luck we then espy. 
And give us grace, their joy to trace. 
My good old pipe and I. 
