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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June is, 1907. 
lough, and recently the business passed to the 
Colwell Lead Company, which has offices in Cen¬ 
ter street, where there is also a shot tower that 
was once a landmark, but can now be looked 
down on from the office of Forest and Stream, 
across the street. But the Tatham tower could 
be seen for a much longer distance until a few 
years ago, when tall buildings hemmed it m. 
Now one can walk entirely around the block 
without noticing it, and it is visible only from 
the Brooklyn Bridge and points east or south 
of “the Swamp,” (the leather district). 
Several years ago a spectacular fire'broke out 
in the old Beekman street shot tower, and for 
a while it resembled an immense torch, but as 
there was not much inflammable material in it, 
the fire was unimportant. 
The Colwell Company has a plant 111 New 
Jersey as well as its place in Center street, and 
as the Beekman Street property was wanted by 
the owners of the Schieren building, the making 
of shot at 82 Beekman street was discontinued 
a month ago and a contractor began to dismantle 
the old tower. This proved to be a slow process, 
as the space at the top was so small^ that only 
a few men could work together. The photo¬ 
graph reproduced herewith was made when the 
height of the tower had been reduced about 
twenty feet. 
North Dakota Association. 
The North Dakota Game and Fish Protective 
Association was organized in Fargo, on May 
30, and these officers elected: President, W. W. 
Cook, of Fargo; Vice-President, A. D. Baugh¬ 
man, of Grand Forks; Secretary-Treasurer, Prof. 
Bell, of the Agricultural College, Fargo. 
UjJbn motion the president, who made a neat 
address on taking his seat, appointed the follow¬ 
ing executive committee which will also make 
the by-laws and constitution: Messrs. Hale, of 
Grand Forks; Robbins, of Fargo; Sprague, of 
Grafton; Kershaw, of Bismarck, and Captain 
Mayne, of Kendell. 
Lieut.-Gov. Lewis made a short speech on the 
question of membership fees which were fixed at 
$1, this to include ’the first year’s dues, and $1 
dues per year after that. 
It was decided to appoint a vice-president for 
each county in the State, each one of whom will 
be authorized to solicit members for the asso¬ 
ciation, this being done at the suggestion of the 
lieutenant governor. The meeting adjourned to 
meet at the call of the president. 
It was the sense of the meeting that farmers 
be asked to become members with the assurance 
that the society is not one composed of city 
sportsmen or trapshooters alone, but with a view 
to doing good work for the protection of game 
and fish. The farmers can be of great assistance 
to the organization, and it was hoped by all pres¬ 
ent that as many as possible be induced to join. 
The meeting was a most harmonious one, and 
it is believed that in a few weeks the good effect 
of work done can be felt all over the State. 
Recent Deaths. 
Prof. Alfred Newton, who died last week in 
London, aged seventy-eight years, was one of 
the most earnest supporters of the bird-protec¬ 
tion measures that have been up before the 
British Parliament from time to time. He was 
professor of zoology and comparative anatomy 
at Cambridge University for a period of forty- 
one years, and wrote several books on subjects 
related to natural history. He traveled exten¬ 
sively not only in the temperate and tropical re¬ 
gions, but in the arctics. He was a native of 
Switzerland. 
Mr. Edward S. Osgood died on May 28 at the 
home of his brother, H. W. Osgood, in Pitts¬ 
field, N. H. He was about sixty years of age. 
He was best known in New England as an en¬ 
thusiastic fly-fisherman and for a great many 
years he was one of the first visitors to the 
Rangeley Lakes in Maine. When the United 
States Net and Twine Company was at 316 
Broadway, New York city, he was its manager, 
and although sporting goods were carried, Mr. 
Osgood paid particular attention to- high grade 
fishing rods. More recently he solicited orders 
for rods and tackle and filled them in the trade, 
and the last time we saw him he came in to 
show us an eight-strip fly-rod which he said he 
had made himself from bamboo so small th,at 
the finished rod appeared to be perfectly round 
and its form could be noticed only by turning 
it in the fingers. Mr. Osgood was then as en¬ 
thusiastic as a boy over his work, and was 
always ready to assist beginners. He had 
promised to write for Forest and Stream a 
series of articles on fly-rod making for amateurs, 
but was so fully occupied with other work that 
he never got to it, as he said, but hoped to write 
it “some time.” 
A New Pennsylvania Law. 
Harrisburg, Pa., June 10 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I feel that it is my duty to the general 
public, and especially to the sportsmen of Penn¬ 
sylvania, to write an open letter relative to our 
new law forbidding the use of the automatic gun 
in this State. There appear to be very many 
men who do not understand what the word “au¬ 
tomatic” means and take it for granted that this 
is an • attempt to legislate out of use a number 
of guns that are not touched in any way by this 
bill. 
The new law says, “That from and after the 
passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any 
person to' use what is commonly known as an 
automatic gun for the killing of game in this 
Commonwealth.” The bill does not in any manner 
attempt to interfere with or to prevent the use of 
a pump gun or any gun excepting the one known 
as the automatic gun. This gun through the re¬ 
coil produced by the discharge of one shell ejects 
the empty shell, throws a loaded shell into the 
barrel and cocks the gun. All the operator has 
to do is to aim the piece and pull the triggep 
Joseph Kalbfus, 
Secretary to the Game Commission. 
Another Game Ca.se Decided. 
In the Supreme Court of New York county, 
on June 10, Justice Greenbaum directed the jury 
to find, a verdict for $4,250 against J. B. Martin, 
owner of a cafe, for the possession of grouse 
and quail on Jan. 1 last, in violation of the 
forest, fish and game laws. The defendant 
claimed that the menu for that day contained 
no references to grouse and quail, but as. the 
game was found in his possession, it was held 
by the justice that- Mr. Martin was liable. 
More Land for the State Park. 
Early this month the State of New York pur¬ 
chased 15,000 acres of forest land-in Township 
Forty-seven, Essex county, for the Adirondack 
Park. The land belonged to the estate of George 
R. Finch and cost the State nearly $7 an acre, 
which is a high pr.ice compared with other pur¬ 
chases. Prices are kept up, however, and some 
owners are asking from $5 to $10 an acre for 
timber lands and are not very anxious to sell, 
as they know that in time available lands will 
become scarce. 
Back from Africa. 
■ Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Fleischmann returned 
recently to their home in Cincinnati after their 
hunting and collecting trip in Africa. They 
started in at Mombasa with a number of natives 
and pack mules, traveling into the interior of 
Uganda, where Mr. Fleischmann found big game 
plentiful. His wife accompanied him but did not 
hunt big game. 
National Archery Meet. 
The annual meeting and competition of the 
.National Archery Association of. the United 
States will be held in Chicago during the third 
week in August. Edward B. Weston, secretary, 
85 Dearborn street, Chicago,, will supply detailed 
information to those who will write for it. 
THE TOP RAIL. 
J. L.- K., of Perth Amboy, N. J., sends me 
the following: 
“Bishop Scarborough (of New Jersey) and I 
were laughing the other evening at. the droll 
reason assigned by Mr. Norris in his ‘French 
River Country’ story for the fact that Bishop 
Whitehead, of Pittsburg, had caught the biggest 
muscallunge in the party, a twenty pounder. 
“ ‘Speaking of fishing,’ said the Bishop, ‘my 
little grandson, not yet seven, is a born fisher¬ 
man and always deeply interested in fish stories. 
Not long ago his father, a clergyman, was tell¬ 
ing him about the miraculous draught of fishes. 
“Yes,” he went on, “these fishermen had toiled 
with their nets all night long, and hadn’t caught 
any fish at all. And in the morning, when they 
came back, tired and hungry, there stood a man 
on the shore. And the man asked them what 
luck they had had and they told him. And the 
man bade them cast their net into the sea just 
one more time, and they did so. And what do 
you think happened? Why, they caught such a 
lot of fish and filled the boat so full that. it 
almost sank, and the net broke, too! Yes, in¬ 
deed. (Here the boy’s eyes fairly bulged.) 
Well, when they brought the boat to shore the 
man said: ‘Now throw down everything, and 
leave it and follow me, and we will catch men.’ 
Who was that man?” ’ ” 
“ I know !” shouted the boy, in great excite¬ 
ment, “it was ji policeman !” ’ ” 
* * * 
“We see that Lord Walsingham enjoys the 
reputation of being the finest shot in Britain,” 
says the New York Telegram. “He probably is 
the only man in the world whose aim is so ac¬ 
curate that he is able to shoot wasps on the 
wing. Of course, that sort of thing is all right, 
but it occurs it would'be much more humane to 
shoot the insects on the head and put them out 
of their misery at once.” 
Which is at best borrowed from the story , of 
the Swede—or was it a German?—who, on being 
asked if he shot his birds on ■ the wing, said 
“Yas, shoot ’em on the wing, on the head, on 
the tail—anywhere to get ’em.” 
* * * 
Mr. Dan Shepard, of Lake Odessa, Mich., 
sends me a clipping* from a local paper in which 
it is related how Mr. N. C. Taylor, of Grand 
Rapids, went fishing and after a long-drawn-out 
fight with a rainbow trout landed it and found 
that it weighed 7^4 pounds. It was placed on 
exhibition in the local tackle store, then pre¬ 
sented to a friend and finally served by. the 
family of that friend on the occasion of his birth¬ 
day. Of. course the local paper printed a full 
account of the dinner and told all about the battle 
with the big rainbow and how proud its captor, 
was. But there was war next day when this 
paper appeared, for someone had changed the 
wording so that the size of the trout had dimin¬ 
ished from 7J4 pounds to 7^4 inches. 
* * * 
One day members of the Anglers’ Club were 
practicing fly-casting on the Pool in Central Park, 
when a small boy appeared lugging a fish basket. 
“Say, mister, where do you get your bait?” 
he asked. 
An old angler said, as patiently as if the query 
was-a new one: 
“My son, these young men are not allowed to 
fish at all. They are only practicing with, their 
fishing rods. Some day they will go fishing in 
earnest, and then they will be able to cast their 
flies or baits nicely.” Grizzly King. 
