Aug. 22, 1908.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
297 
The Fur Seal Destruction. 
Lakewood, O., Aug. 6. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: At frequent intervals I read your 
editorials and correspondence on the subject 
of saving and protecting the buffalo from ex¬ 
termination; your publication is just right, 
timely and helpful to the cause. 
But why is it that you never have a word to 
say in behalf of saving our fur-seal herd of 
Alaska from a cruel and indecent extermination, 
which is actually taking place as I write? 
At this hour of my address to you, a fleet 
of twenty-five to thirty Japanese fur-sealing 
vessels and ten or twelve Canadian pelagic 
schooners are at work day and night killing that 
pitiful remnant of this herd, as they can reach 
it in the waters of Bering Sea and immediately- 
surrounding the Pribylof Islands; there they 
will hang on to that life until the fierce October 
gales drive them from the sea. In the meantime, 
in an open session of the Canadian Senate for 
not making to his government a proper pro¬ 
posal for joint action in protecting and pre¬ 
serving this life. He said that Canada was ready 
and willing to unite with us at once whenever 
we made such a proposal. (See Globe, Toronto, 
Canada, Feb. 22, 1908.) 
I address you with some feeling, for I know 
that when this combined slaughter of 1908, by 
the land and sea butchers, ends in the coming 
autumn, not more than a shadow of that great 
herd, which I recorded on the Pribylof Islands 
in 1872-74, will be in evidence! 
Henry W. Elliott. 
In Wild Wisconsin. 
Merrill, Wis., Aug. 11 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I am sending you a photo of a large 
wolf caught twenty miles west of here by a 
young man, George Stange, last November. I 
wearing moccasins and so made no noise walk¬ 
ing on the log. Raspberry bushes are so thick a 
person can see neither ground nor log. The 
pine slashings are red with berries, and crowds 
of women and children go out for them every 
morning, both on foot and in wagons. Just two 
or three miles out of the city they can get all 
they wish. I was up on the Prairie in July and 
brought home twenty-eight live trout. 
Lloyd Breck. 
George A. Adee. 
The death of George Augustus Adee will be 
mourned by a very large number of friends on 
the Atlantic coast, and by Yale men everywhere. 
Mr. Adee ivas a sportsman of the best type, and 
no man has ever done so much as he to foster 
wholesome, clean, honest competition in all 
sports, but above all in college athletic sports. 
Mr. Adee was born in New York in 1847, 
graduated from Yale in 1867 and from the 
Columbia Law School in 1870. For more than 
thirty years he was a prominent figure in 
athletics at New FLaven, and he had had much 
to do with the upbuilding of what is called the 
Yale spirit. He stood ever for what was best 
and highest in all sport, and would rather have 
lost for twenty years in succession than have 
won a single game by underhand methods. For 
more than thirty years he did his part in training 
up young men to follow his own high standards, 
and in this way performed great services for his 
university and for sport in general. 
Mr. Adee was a skilled yachtsman, sailing his 
own boats and being a master of sea craft. He 
was a fine shot in the field and at the traps, and 
had captured many trophies. 
Mr. Adee was an honest gentleman with a 
keen love for sport, with the ideals of his birth, 
breeding and education, and with strength of 
character to live up to these noble ideals. He 
had a warm heart and a sympathy broad enough 
to make him feel with and strive to help all who 
were in trouble. There are many silent 
mourners of Mr. Adee who cherish the memory 
of his help. 
TIMBER WOLVES CAUGHT IN WISCONSIN. 
The standing specimen was frozen when photographed. The hide of his mate lies on the floor. 
supplementing this infamous work of those sea 
butchers, is the eager killing on the islands by 
the lessees, who are actually taking every thing 
that hauls out as a male seal under six years of 
age, and over six months! This done by them 
annually during the last three seasons, in their 
desperate efforts to get the 15,000 skins allowed 
them annually by the Government. 
Why is it that you raise no protest up against 
this inhuman and infamous killing of that harm¬ 
less and valuable life, a life which was and is a 
thousand-fold more entitled to our protection 
than that of the buffalo? It is so entitled, be¬ 
cause the buffalo in its existence as a vast herd 
barred out the settlement of a vast domain 
from our own kind; but the fur-seal herd of 
Alaska never has, and never will do so, if per¬ 
mitted to exist, and is restored to its maximum 
limit of increase (some 5,000,000 seals) in a 
state of nature. 
Only a few weeks ago, the Canadian Secre¬ 
tary of State, Hon. Mr. Scott, reproached us 
measured him the day he was brought in and 
found him 5 ft. 10 in. from nose to tip of tail; 
33 inches at shoulder, and he weighed 100 lbs. 
His mate was not quite so large—her hide is 
lying beside him. When photographed he was 
frozen solid. Mr. Stange also caught some fine 
otter and wildcats. 
While in camp last November, we were 
serenaded by a drove of wolves; they were just 
across the Prairie River from our tent. Judging 
from the tracks next morning there must have 
been ten or twelve wolves. None of us had ever 
heard anything like their howling. Forty years 
ago I heard prairie wolves in Nebraska, but they 
could not hold a candle to those old timber 
wolves. 
Last week, three miles west of here, a man I 
know came out of a raspberry patch at dusk and 
stepped on the back of a big black bear. She 
threw him on his back on the log and went 
crashing through the slashing. He started for 
the house and ran on to her two cubs. He was 
^Hungarian Partridge in California. 
San Francisco, Aug. 15. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: I want to say a good word for the par¬ 
tridges. We have positive evidence from five or 
six counties in which they w r ere liberated that 
young coveys have been seen. In Mendocino I saw 
nests, one of which contained thirteen eggs, three 
weeks ago. The birds are all you have claimed 
for them, hardy, strong, absolutely non-migra 
tory and seem to adapt themselves to our condi¬ 
tions very rapidly. 
We have distributed them over a wide range 
of country, some 600 miles, representing the 
lower valley lands and also the small mountain 
valleys (5,000 feet elevation), and young birds 
were seen in each of these localities. Where the 
shells were left in the nests there was not a 
single unfertilized egg, which is a splendid indi¬ 
cation. We shall be glad, indeed, to receive our 
500 pairs this fall, as we feel we have found a 
bird that is going to be a decided acquisition to 
our State, furnishing not only a great deal of 
sport, but a most excellent food supply. 
Ciias. A. Vogelsang. 
