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pipers or red-legged ducks; (c) in permitting 
sale of Russian grouse which may cover a num 
her of species, some of which are lndistingu 
able from native birds; (d) in perm -^pV g me 
of rebhuhner, which is not a recognized name 
in this country of any game bird, but merely a 
German name that should be translated into Ae 
common English equivalent of gray ^jrtndge. 
(4) Bill Bad in Policy —(a) The bill is op 
posed to the general policy of the State in break¬ 
ing up the practically uniform close season for 
the sale of game under existing law. 
fb) It is opposed to the policy of the State 
in making a distinction between imported and 
"tcT Tis a direct reversal of the policy of 
the State maintained at considerable expense to 
the taxpayers and upheld by the Court of Ap¬ 
peals in the cases of People ex rel Hill v. Hes 
terberg, Sheriff (1906) and People v. Waldorf 
AS (d) ia ?h°e el bm 0 'is ( l>?d ta policy in attempting 
to amend Sec. 33 , a section winch has already 
been re-enacted three tunes (111 1901, 1902 and 
tqoi) since it was originally passed m 1900, 
winch has-been construed by the courts and the 
language of which is now in a form which is 
generaUy^^inderst^s ^ Jn po ii cy ; n authorizing 
an exoenditure of $5,ooo or more for the employ¬ 
ment of two special officers without the powers 
of ordinary protectors, who may be on duty 
less than half the year, solely for the purpose o 
insoecting the transactions growing out ot tne 
importations of a single firm. How extensive 
these transactions may be is perhaps disclosed 
by the tax clause which is evidently intended 
to reimburse the State for the cost of inspection 
At this rate the importations would aggregate at 
lpast zoo 000 birds per annum. , . , . 
(e) Class Legislation.—The bill is evident y 
drawn in such a way as to be general in form, 
but by restricting its operation to any city of 
the State having over one million in P°P™ ; 
it is practically limited to the City of New York. 
T11 fact on 0 4 line 1, the mask of general form 
L thrown aside in the declaration that "a person, 
firm or corporation importing said game, sha , 
upon the arival of said game .into .the port o 
New York, pay a tax,” etc., ignoring the fact 
that such game might be imported via Canad , 
through the ports of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, 
Ogdensburg, Plattsburg, Sag Harbor Oswego, 
Rochester, Dunkirk or Cape Vincent.. The mea 
ure will work injustice and hardship to eveiy 
other city in the State and to every game dealer 
outside of New York by granting exclusive 
privileges in Greater New York for the impor¬ 
tation and sale of five kinds of foreign-game 
birds in large quantities during four months in 
the year when the season .is closed elsewhere in 
the State. Careful scrutiny of the history of 
the measure and of the restrictions of the per¬ 
son, firm or corporation importing, said game 
will reveal the fact that the bill is as clearly 
drawn in the interests of a single firm as 1 
its title were “A bill to benefit A. Silz & Co., 
of New York city.” 
county, but we also realize that the full object 
of our organization cannot be accomplished until 
more satisfactory and more rigid laws are place 
on the statute books, and the enforcement ot 
these laws placed in the hands of a State warden 
whose one and only duty it is to see that , they 
are lived up to. This can only be accomplished 
by making the movement inaugurated by us one 
of State-wide significance.. If we are placed m 
the proper financial condition by the enthusiastic 
members we now have on the roster, we may 
send one or two game and fish protection mis¬ 
sionaries out over the State, paying them a salary 
to go into each and every county.and preach the 
organization of sportsmen in their own behalf. 
“He further stated that it was only a matter 
of a few years when, in the natural course ot 
events, the office of State game warden would 
be created, with a deputy in each county, but 
unless something was done m the immediate 
future Arkansas would be robbed of its game 
and fish, and like many of the northern and east¬ 
ern States, would have plenty of . game and fish 
protection when it was everlastingly too late 
The local organization is gaming new members 
every day.” Frank Connelly. 
Affiliated Clubs of Massachusetts. 
Boston, June 1 —Editor Forest and Stream: 
Your readers will remember that about a year 
ago the fish and game protective clubs of this 
State were invited to meet the officers of the 
State Association by delegates for the purpose of 
formulating a plan of closer union and co-opera¬ 
tion. These delegates passed a resolution re¬ 
questing the Massachusetts. Fish and Game Pro 
tective Association to provide for club member¬ 
ship. In December, 1906, at a meeting of the 
association, an amendment to the by-laws was 
adopted for this purpose, which is here given 
with an explanatory note, the two together ma 
ing clear the plan and purpose of the new de¬ 
parture. 
Affiliated Clubs.—Any association or club within the 
State having for its purpose the better protec ion of 
game’ and fish may become what is termed an affiliated 
club” of the Massachusetts Fish and °ame Protect 
Annotation bv the payment of an annual fee of ten 
doltaS “d may delate two ol iuimember.to »«ve 
a iirino- the ensuing year, one on the Legislative com 
mittef, the other on the enforcement of laws committee 
of the State Association. These delegates shall be con 
sidered full members of the Association during their 
term of service on its committees without formal election 
b5 Note 1 -To the affiliated clubs will be sent all informa¬ 
tion of importance or interest connected with fish find 
game; all bills for proposed legislation will be 
mailed to them as soon as printed, followed by the 
dates for bearings and all particulars obtainable regarding 
the different measures, 1 ' also what action the otate A 
sociation proposes to take in the premises; they will also 
be fnfoimed of any action of the Federal Governmen 
aff^ctino- our fish or game resources, any development 
in "the “line of propagation or restocking Proposed °r 
being executed; in fact, any information of value m the 
bird, fish and game protective work. Each affiliated or 
ganization shall each year delegate from . its member¬ 
ship a representative to act on the legislative com 
mittee and also on the enforcement of laws committee 
of the State association. 
keeping up the interest and activity of the mem¬ 
bers of local clubs. . , _ 
In view of the great need of united effort 
of the clubs in all parts of the State it will be 
oratifying to sportsmen especially to learn that 
fifteen local clubs have already taken member¬ 
ship in the State Association, the New England 
Kennel Club, the Old Colony Club, and the Ply¬ 
mouth Foxhunters’ Club having made applica¬ 
tion within a few days. I had the pleasure of 
attending a meeting of the last named club on 
May 17. I found its members enthusiastic, not 
only in the particular sport from, which its name 
is derived, but interested also in the. propaga¬ 
tion of game birds and fish. Its president, Mr. 
William Dehon.e King, of Manomet, and New¬ 
port, and the secretary, Mr. C. D. Howland, of 
Plymouth, are great workers, and the club, which 
is but a year old, now numbers one hundred 
members. One of the names presented at the 
meeting for membership was that of the well 
known fishculturist, Mr. C. C. Wood, superin¬ 
tendent of the Plymouth Rock trout hatchery, 
one of the most successful in the country. It 
afforded me great pleasure to inspect the hatch¬ 
ery from which the State Association secured 40,- 
000 fingerling trout last season and with which 
it has concluded a contract for 50,000 for dis¬ 
tribution next fall. For something like twelve 
years a club controlling the fishing on two Cape 
streams has been accustomed to plant fingerlings 
furnished by the Plymouth hatchery, and on in¬ 
specting its log recently I found entered since 
the opening of the fishing season (April 15) a 
total of 1,000 trout. . 
I mention this as an illustration of the ad¬ 
vantages of regular and systematic stocking. One 
member on May 14 took seventeen fish weighing 
ten pounds, which is the club limit for a day s 
fishing While the season has .been cold and 
backward the members tell me the fishing has 
not been better for the last ten years 
Henry H. Kimball. 
The Council at Ft. Benton. 
Arkansas Coming into Line. 
Hot Springs, Ark., June 1. Editor Forest 
and Stream: I am sending you a clipping from 
a local paper referring to our county game pro¬ 
tective association: . 
“The Fish and Game Protective Association re¬ 
cently organized in this city, and now boasting 
of a membership reaching into the hundreds will 
not, according to the statements of one of its 
officers, curtail its influence or the scope of the 
work mapped out for accomplishment to the 
boundary lines of Garland county. -On the other 
hand, there is now a movement on foot to torm 
similar organizations in each of the seventy-five 
counties of ■ the State. The movement contem¬ 
plates the further step of creating, a State or¬ 
ganization, supported and maintained by the 
county organization. In speaking ot the ^tate- 
wide movement one. enthusiastic member ot the 
local organization said: . 
“ ‘We realize that by conscientious and earnest 
endeavor we can accomplish a great deal in en¬ 
forcing the present game and fish laws in Garland 
It will be observed that two branches of work 
are herein provided for, legislation and enforce¬ 
ment of the fish and game laws. Since the in¬ 
auguration of the campaign of 1900, which re¬ 
sulted in the enactment of the anti-sale law on 
ruffed grouse and woodcock, many of the out¬ 
lying clubs have co-operated with the State Asso¬ 
ciation in matters of legislation, the active work 
having been very largely carried on by the execu¬ 
tive committee of the SO' called central committee 
for the protection of fish and game. . 
It is believed the new plan will unite the clubs 
more closely and result in a solid phalanx of the 
army of Massachusetts sportsmen that will be 
able to win victories which shall eclipse all their 
past achievements, grand and glorious as they 
are known to have been. 
It is also thought the sending out from the 
central office to all the clubs news of what is 
being done during the sessions of the Legisla 
ture in reference to bills presented, and at al 
seasons, of any special work contemplated by 
either the State Association or the commissioners, 
as well as by the Biological Division of the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture—which has charge ot 
game protection—will contribute largely toward 
Riverside Farm, Byron, Ill., May 30. Editor 
Forest and Stream: “The Council at Fort Ben¬ 
ton” places the clientele of the magazine hope¬ 
lessly in the debt of yourself and . William 
Thomas Hamilton, the old free trapper, all around 
mountain man, miner and scout, who was born 
Dec. 6, 1822. Long may he live to write ot the 
brave old days when might was right on the 
high plains and in the mountains of our old fron¬ 
tier. Bill Hamilton’s memory is a wonderful 
thing. His Indian sense, horsemanship and plains 
and mountain craft, of which he so simply, grace¬ 
fully and charmingly writes, show him to have 
been one of the most remarkable men in his 
line. Bill William’s “Tartar Band” of free trap¬ 
pers (of which Hamilton was a member) were 
veritable mountain weasels, and the bes 
mounted, trained, armed and equipped men ot 
their day. Taken fresh from the mountain trap 
line and war trail in the mid forties, they wtie 
the equal, if not the superior, of all other horse 
fighting men, living or dead. , 
These men led the way through the primal 
far western American wildernesses, and the 
trader, the explorer, the miner the soldier ana 
the settler followed. A world monument has 
lately been erected to the memory of these men 
of the trap line and hunting trail by one of their 
number, this same Bill Hamilton. It is a literary 
monument and can be had of the Forest and 
Stream Publishing Co. under the title My Sixty 
Years on the Plains.” All that the publishing 
company and “Uncle Billy” (as the people ot 
Columbus, Montana, affectionately call the old 
free trapper and sign talker) ask for this great 
aggregation of truth is the modest sum of 
postpaid. It should be in the library of every 
man who poses as a big game hunter, and wnc 
would know the west that was^but ^ 0 dcocK 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained front 
any newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer ti 
supply you regularly. 
