Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
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Terms, $3 a Year, 10 Cts. a Copy. I 
Six Months, $1.50. ’ 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1907. 
i VOL. LXVI1I.—No. 20. 
I No. 346 Broadway, New York. 
e object of this journal will be to studiously 
omote a healthful interest in outdoor recre- 
ion, and to cultivate a refined taste for natural 
tjeCtS. Announcement in first number of 
Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
THE OLD GUARD. 
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£ We have received from one of the oldest con¬ 
i'ibutors to Forest and Stream a request that 
serves mention. It is that “all those who are 
the twenty-five year class answer ‘Here.’ ” In 
her words, all those who contributed to Forest 
' in Stream from the time it was founded until 
';p8. 
Among these correspondents there was a very 
iendly feeling, and although but few of them 
er came to know each other personally, so 
1 idely separated were their homes, they met 
it common ground in Forest and Stream, and 
*ch felt that he was one of the brotherhood. 
In those early days the exchange of knowl- 
ge and information was more common than 
is now. The reasons for this are too com- 
ex, although well understood, to be enumer- 
d here. One reason was that literature of the 
f ow-to” class was limited, and sportsmen’s pub- 
ations fewer than at present. But the men 
; 10 discussed matters of current interest then 
; ve grown old in years, and not a few have 
ssed to their reward in another world, while 
me have drifted away from their old hunting 
founds, and feel their loss so keenly that they 
[> not care to write or to shoot or fish under 
I e changed conditions. 
I Frequently we receive requests for informa- 
[ *n as to the whereabouts of these veterans; 
lether they are still in the land of the living 
1 have “moved camp.” 
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WORK AND PLAY. 
If one of our well known public men it has 
i in said “Hi’s work is his recreation. He seems 
i thrive on it. He has not had a vacation in 
| ee years.” Which is not entirely correct, 
f ce the man referred to 1 has traveled exten- 
ely on sea and land in that time, and could 
; : have been busily occupied during such jour- 
7S. 
Hhe successful business man is generally one 
70 is enthusiastic over his work; who devotes 
1 best energies to win a name and a fortune 
himself. But there are very few men to-day 
i o can work steadily for a series of years 
1 hout that relaxation and complete rest which 
; found in the forests and along the streams, 
; ere there are other than business pursuits to 
i upy their minds; who can retain their physi- 
| strength and mental balance while upsetting 
'dy all of nature’s laws, 
here is a difference in the point of view, 
vever, which is too often lost sight of in 
| tements regarding vacations. The head of 
1 ’ reat industrial corporation, when an employe 
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asks for a vacation, leans back in his chair and 
relates how many years he has worked “without 
a vacation, and if he needs none, why should 
his employes?” Fie overlooks the fact that the 
latter are on duty nine or ten or even more 
hours every week day for fifty-two weeks, public 
holidays excepted, in the year, and that they 
grow stale and lose interest in their duties. He 
forgets that while he takes no set vacation, he 
travels' here and there, visits other cities, is ab¬ 
sent fronF his office frequently, on business, of 
course, but with changes of scene and periods 
of enforced rest and relaxation. Fie forgets his 
shorter hours, his frequent visits about town that 
break up the monotony of a day at the desk. 
And yet he says he has no vacation, and needs 
none. Flowever, he expects all employes to look 
out for his interests, while he, in return, be¬ 
lieves his duty is completely performed when he 
pays their salaries. 
There are thousands of employers of this 
stamp, but that their number is not increasing 
is apparent, thanks to the general movement in 
the direction of healthful outdoor recreation. 
Men in every walk in life are giving more and 
more serious attention to 1 their physical well¬ 
being. They set aside certain days, or weeks, 
for work, and others are just as carefully ar¬ 
ranged for rest, not only for themselves, but 
for their employes. The. result of this harmon¬ 
ious and sensible arrangement is becoming more 
evident every year. It astonishes the people of 
the nations of the old world, many of whom 
believe we Americans still work all the daylight 
hours six days of every week in the year, when 
as a matter of fact we are coming to a realiza¬ 
tion of the fact that more can be accomplished 
in forty-eight or fifty weeks if the other two or 
four weeks can be devoted entirely to rest and 
recreation. As proof there is the fact that all 
those who supply sportsmen’s goods fail to fill 
their orders in the busy season. 
BILLS THAT SHOULD BE PASSED. 
There are several bills now under considera¬ 
tion by the New York Legislature that should be¬ 
come laws. They are: The Fuller-O’Brien bill, 
which provides for a survey of the available 
water power of the State by the State Water 
Commission, which shall then plan for its proper 
development; the Armstrong bill, for the pur¬ 
chase of lands to be added to the Adirondack 
forest reserve; the appropriation of $10,000 (a 
part of the supply bill) for replanting forest lands ; 
and the resident, nonresident and alien shooting 
license bills. 
The Fuller-O’Brien bill .is intended to take 
the place of the so-called Adirondack grab bill. 
It would place all work intended to develop 
water power under the direct control of the 
State Water Commission. The $10,000 appro¬ 
priation in the supply bill is for the purchase of 
European spruces and pines with which to re¬ 
plant State lands that have been lumbered. The 
Armstrong bill appropriates $500,000, to be used 
in purchasing forest lands in the Adirondack 
Mountains, in addition to those already contained 
in the great State reserve. The shooting license 
bills are objected to, we understand, by members 
of the Legislature who fear that their constituents 
will be displeased if they assist in imposing the 
one dollar tax on them, whereas all men who 
shoot and fish will be indirectly benefited by the 
passage of these measures, for the reason that 
more money would be available for the forest, 
fish and game commission’s needs. It could 
then appoint more protectors, and its usefulness 
would be enhanced. Aliens refusing to take out 
licenses would be compelled to forego' hunting, 
for under the terms of the proposed amendments 
their failure to obtain licenses would result in 
arrest and punishment. 
Mr. Edward Hatch, Jr., in a letter to Gover¬ 
nor Hughes, which has been given wide publicity, 
charged that Chief Game and Fish Protector 
Burnham had been instrumental in the estab¬ 
lishment of a saw mill on a stream in Essex 
county, from which mill the sawdust was illegally 
dumped into the stream; and that the pollution 
of the water had not been stopped even after 
Mr. Hatch had called Commissioner Whipple’s 
attention to the matter. To those who know 
Protector Burnham Mr. Hatch’s assertions were 
preposterous on their face; and no less was to 
have been looked for than the complete refuta¬ 
tion of the charges which Mr. Burnham gives 
in the consise statement printed on another page. 
If Mr. Hatch did not know the facts of the case 
he could have learned them very readily, and it 
was his business to have done so before rush¬ 
ing into print. As it is, their publication now 
leaves him in a very ridiculous plight, if not in 
the more serious position of one who has borne 
false witness against another. 
In a recent decision Justice O’Gorman, of the 
Supreme Court of New York county, held that 
express companies cannot be compelled to receive 
for transportation the carcasses of deer or any 
other kind of game killed in private preserves, 
unaccompanied by the owner or in the closed 
season, or in greater quantities than allowed 
under the forest, fish and game laws. An appeal 
was taken to the Appellate Division, and on May 
10 it affirmed Justice O’Gorman’s ruling. 
v. 
The case of the State of Kansas vs. the State 
of Colorado, referred to in another column, was 
dismissed by the United States Supreme Court 
on May 13. Kansas objected to the action of 
Colorado in permitting its citizens to divert the 
waters of the Arkansas River for purposes of 
irrigation, and sought to enjoin the Coloradans 
from further action of this sort. At times the 
Arkansas becomes almost dry because so much 
water is taken out by the numerous irrigation 
ditches in Colorado. 
