Jan. 19, 1907-] 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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North Carolina Game. 
Raleigh, N. C., Jan. II. — Editor Forest and 
\ Stream: In his message Governor Glenn speaks 
as follows about the work of the Audubon 
Society: 
“The Audubon Society has done a great deal 
in preserving the game birds of the State, as 
well as birds that are useful and ornamental. 
The society is growing in'favor every day, and 
should be encouraged in its efforts to stop the 
wholesale slaughter of our birds. The only 
thing the society asks of the Legislature is a 
uniform law in regard to the time during which 
game birds should be hunted. It asks that the 
time for huhting commence Nov. 15 and end 
March 1, and be allowed at no other time in 
any county. I approve the request. The law 
should be uniform, and it is hoped you will so 
make it.” 
Secretary Gilbert Pearson of the Audubon 
Society is here and received a report to-day 
from Warden Hanes of Edgecombe county, 
whom he sent specially to Currituck county to 
break up the unlawful shooting of ducks by pot¬ 
hunters, who violate the law day and night. 
Hanes is a capital officer. He telegraphed 
Secretary Pearson that he had made seven 
arrests of persons he caught in the act, that 
five of them had been held for trial and that 
two others were in custody. It is found that the 
pot-hunters have been very greatly encouraged 
by the representative from Currituck county, 
who is said himself to be a pot-hunter, and that 
the news is being circulated in that part of the 
State that this representative would secure the 
repeal of any and all laws affecting game, and 
that the pot-hunters would be allowed to go 
through private preserves and shooting grounds 
at their pleasure; hunt on anybody’s grounds; 
in other words, do exactly as they please. It 
turns out that some months ago Secretary 
Pearson went to see the representative from 
Currituck and suggested to him that it would be 
a very fine thing to enforce the law thoroughly 
and to get public sentiment in the line of carry¬ 
ing out the game law as it ought to be carried 
out, and that the way to do this was to have 
law and order clubs of, say 100 members, to 
take this matter in hand. Secretary Pearson 
prepared everything for the organization and 
sent it to the representative-elect, but judge of 
his surprise when he found that the latter had 
availed himself of the plan to use it in forming 
an organization of pot-hunters to defeat the law. 
State Auditor Dixon, Capt. F. Dilling and some 
other members of the Legislature spoke about 
this, and Capt. Dilling, who is a sportsman of 
a very fine type, said he would see whether such 
a bill got through the house as it was proposed 
to pass, abolishing all protection and leaving 
everything wide open in Currituck or anywhere 
else. The fact is the Audubon Society has 
gained in strength very greatly, and it is going 
to fight this Currituck business to a finish and 
the best element of the Legislature will be back 
of it. Several years ago this same business was 
tried and your correspondent was one of the 
speakers before the committee, in the course 
of his remarks telling plainly of the slaughter 
of shore birds in North Carolina and along the 
coast by hired hunters, aided by natives whom 
they employed, who were shooting the birds 
for their plumage and who literally destroyed 
them from Virginia to Florida, one man, a 
North Carolinian named Piner, having killed 
over 30,000. There is a good sportsman element 
in the Legislature, and it is pretty certain that 
things are to be very well looked after. The 
outlook is gratifying, in fact. 
I notice in a letter signed by Dr. George Erff 
in your issue of Jan. 12 he refers to your edi¬ 
torial on my letter of Dec. 15, about the throw¬ 
ing away of nearly 1,500 partridges at Charlotte 
and Greensboro, which had spoiled. I want 
to say that these birds were not killed by sports¬ 
men at all, but that they had been bought by 
men who were trying to ship them out of the 
State in great quantities and at Greensboro the 
well trained bird dogs nosed out the birds, 400 
of which were in two packages which the 
shipper was trying to get to New York. The 
weather was very warm, and the birds spoiled, 
otherwise they would have been sold to private 
individuals in the city for food purposes by the 
warden and the proceeds turned into the Audu¬ 
bon fund. Sportsmen have of course a right 
to take out a certain number of birds in a season. 
No doubt some of these partridges had been 
killed by countrymen, some trapped and some 
netted. 
The weather is now extremely warm and the 
temperatures so far during January have ranged 
from 50 to 70 degrees, the weather being that 
usual toward the end of March. Of course this 
spoils the duck hunting. A friend of mine here 
a few days ago got a couple of blue-wing teal, 
found in a little stream while he was looking 
for partridges. 
Governor Glenn, State Auditor Dixon and 
some other gentlemen expect to leave in a few 
days, if the weather improves to have some duck 
shooting at Harbor Island, about twenty-five 
miles from Morehead City, this State. They will 
go there in the oyster patrol boat, accompanied 
by State Oyster Commissioner Webb. If con¬ 
ditions are right the place is a very fine one tor 
sport. 
I find to-day quite a lot of sentiment in favor 
of shortening the open season for partridges. 
The sportsmen’s convention, to be held this 
month, comes at a very apt time and will do a 
good deal of good, as the Audubon Society is 
strong and Governor Glenn, himself a sports¬ 
man, is in full accord with all its efforts. Gov¬ 
ernor Aycock, also a sportsman, is fully in line 
with it, and these things have been fortunate in 
many ways. All the members of the State ad¬ 
ministration are sportsmen, and hardly a week 
passes that Governor Glenn, Auditor Dixon and 
Treasurer Lacy do not get a few hours in the 
field. Of course there is good shooting in the 
immediate vicinity of Raleigh, and in half an 
hour thev can be among the birds. 
- F. A. Olds. 
The Raven in Story. 
New York, Jan. 12. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: In your issue of Dec. 29, 1906, there 
appears an article headed “The Raven in Story’ 
in which you have unconsciously perhaps, thrown 
light upon a question that has never been defi¬ 
nitely settled to the satisfaction of the leading 
genealogists of England and America. 
When Albert Welles, the president of the 
American College of Genealogical Registry and 
Heraldry, after some twenty years of careful re¬ 
search, published his famous “Pedigree and His¬ 
tory of the Washington Family,” in 1879, he was 
somewhat discredited because he claimed to have 
discovered a line of direct descent for the father 
of our country from Odin, the founder of Scan¬ 
dinavia, B. C. 70, having delved out this pedigree 
from the “Domes Day” book, through which he 
learned that the first Washington, or rather the 
ancestor of the first Washington in England, was 
a direct descendant of a younger son of one of 
the Scandinavian kings that had emigrated to 
England, or more properly the Orkney Isles, of 
which he was the first earl or governor. 
Now, I have failed to note that Mr. Welles 
found any connection between the crest of the 
coat of arms of Washington and that of Odin, 
which in the article referred to in Forest and 
Stream is stated to have been a raven borne 
upon his standard, and as is well known to 
heraldists, the crests that were later used by the 
families of England had their derivation from the 
insignia borne upon the standards of the early 
chieftains and from the emblems worn as the 
crests to their helmets in battle. 
It would seem, therefore, that you have added 
some valuable evidence in support of Mr. Welles' 
contention, in that the crest of the branch of 
the Washington family in England, from which 
George Washington is descended, is that of a 
raven, and this crest was also used by Wash¬ 
ington himself. Wm. Lanier Washington. 
SATISFIED. 
Chicago, Ill., Julv 23 , 1906 .—We have carried an ad¬ 
vertisement in Forest and Stream this season, and the 
returns were perfectly satisfactory. As Forest and 
Stream has brought us such good returns this season, 
you may rest assured that we will not overlook this publi¬ 
cation next season.— Talbot Reel Co., Nevada, Mo. 
Warden Chase’s Record. 
Vermont’s Commissioner of Fish and Game, 
H. G. Thomas, has reappointed Harry Chase, of 
Bennington, warden. Mr. Chase has already 
served two years as Bennington county’s game 
and fish warden. 
This appointment has met with the approval 
of the sportsmen and the press of Vermont, for 
Mr. Chase’s remarkable work has attracted wide¬ 
spread attention and favorable comment. Mr. 
Kinsley reviewed Mr. Chase’s work in the follow¬ 
ing words in a recent number of the Boston Herald : 
“Bennington county is one of the most moun¬ 
tainous sections of the State, and previous to 
1905 little or no effort was made to enforce the 
laws for the protection of fish and game, and 
the statutes prohibiting the killing of deer in 
the closed season and the catching of small trout 
were openly disregarded, especially the section 
which established the legal length of brook trout 
at six inches. During the ten years preceding 
1905 there had been but three arrests and one 
conviction for violations of the fish and game 
laws, and so far as Bennington county was con¬ 
cerned the statutes might just as well have never 
been enacted. Even here in Bennington the fish¬ 
erman generally disregarded the six-inch law. 
and basketfuls of trout, not one of the fish of 
legal length, were brought in from the mountain 
streams every season. 
“There has been a change during the past two 
years. Against the three arrests and one con¬ 
viction in ten years. Warden Chase already has 
a record of fifty-five arrests and forty-eight con¬ 
victions to his credit, and there is naturally a 
larger respect for the laws for the protection 
of fish and game. Of the prosecutions conducted 
by Chase eleven were for killing deer in closed 
season, eight for allowing dogs to run deer, one 
for killing grouse in closed season, three for fish¬ 
ing in private preserves, twelve for catching 
trout under six inches in length, two for placing 
lime in public waters, two for using snares and 
spears, one for using gill nets, three for fishing 
in closed season, ten for hunting on Sunday, and 
two for fishing through the ice in waters in¬ 
habited by trout. The warden has also seized 
a number of set lines and seines and has cap¬ 
tured nine dogs that were chasing deer. In the 
forty-eight convictions following arrests by the 
warden the fines and costs imposed by the courts 
amounted to $1,615.10, of which $988.60 went to 
the fish and game department of the State. 
“That the warden’s relentless prosecution of 
the poachers in the county has brought about a 
marked decrease in the amount of illegal fishing 
and hunting is generally admitted. The change 
has not been accomplished without a large 
amount of friction, and in the more remote towns 
public sentiment has been strongly opposed to 
an enforcement of the laws. Many of the in 
habitants of the county believe that they have an 
inherent right to hunt and fish when they please, 
and it has been difficult for the warden to secure 
a conviction in the local courts even when the 
evidence against the poachers was thoroughly 
convincing. , 
“Warden Chase has also encountered opposi¬ 
tion of a political nature, and during the recent 
session of the Legislature there was some wire¬ 
pulling emanating from the northern halt ot the 
county to block his reappointment. He was even 
summoned before the special investigating com¬ 
mittee of the Legislature that was appointed to 
inquire into the workings of different State in¬ 
stitutions. The committee put lum on the stand 
for an entire day and went through his accounts 
thoroughly, but found nothing to which it could 
take exceptions. . . , , , 
“The enforcement of the six-inch law has cei- 
tffinly improved the trout fishing- in the county. 
I11 tin’s immediate vicinity the fishing last season 
was the best in years, and in the northern sec¬ 
tion of the county the improvement was even 
more marked, the opening day catch on the 
Battenkill River of over 500 pounds having never 
been equalled in the memory of the present gen¬ 
eration.” _ 
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