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T ““' Mo";ht% c iio aCop7 'f NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1908. 
VOL. LXXI.—No. 22. 
No. 127 Franklin St., New York* 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1908, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary. 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer. 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
YELLOWSTONE PARK ANTELOPE. 
Only a short time ago we printed the state¬ 
ment that the antelope, which gather each 
winter on the alfalfa field in the Yellowstone 
National Park near the town of Gardiner, seem 
to have decreased in numbers, and it was sug¬ 
gested that the coyotes are killing them, as 
no doubt they are. But the coyotes in the park 
are less deadly perhaps than some of the citi¬ 
zens of Gardiner, who lie in wait for the ante¬ 
lope, and as soon as the graceful animals cross 
the line which separates the park from the 
town, shoot them down without mercy. 
One would imagine that all citizens of Gardi¬ 
ner would feel a pride in the park and its wild 
animals and other natural beauties, and would 
endeavor to protect them. Here are beautiful 
creatures that day after day are seen feeding 
almost in the dooryards of the towns people. 
'They are no longer game, they are domesti¬ 
cated animals. The antelope and other wild 
things attract the public to the neighborhood 
and represent a certain money value to the 
town. Nevertheless when the antelope get 
across the line, as at this season of the year 
they are very likely to do, citizens of Gardiner, 
Aldrich and Electric turn out to slaughter them 
with precisely the same amount of feeling that 
they would have in wielding a hatchet to chop 
off a chicken’s head. On Nov. T2 and 13, a 
dozen or more antelope were killed in and about 
Gardiner, and five ran back toward the park 
through the streets, seeking to return to their 
refuge. Two of the five were bleeding from 
wounds, and from one swung a leg broken at 
the hock. 
The citizens of Gardiner are quite within their 
rights in killing these antelope. They are vio¬ 
lating no law. They have paid the State a dollar 
for their license, which entitles them to kill an 
antelope; yet it seems a pity that no public 
opinion strong enough to protect these animals 
exists in the town. 
In every community East and West there are 
likely to be a few people so lacking in self-con¬ 
trol, so thoughtless of the feelings and rights 
of others, and so wholly wrapped up in them¬ 
selves, that they insist on destroying living things 
no matter how beautiful to the eye, how use¬ 
ful in their lives, or how much valued by other 
people. Such persons are found in Gardiner, 
and perhaps it was some ill-controlled persons 
of this kind who, a few years ago, slaughtered 
a tame black-tailed buck in the town. 
Persons who commit such acts cannot be 
brought to see the error of their ways by the 
calling of names, but there should be people in 
Gardiner who, by argument and persuasion, can 
make these persons see that they are not acting 
fairly by the town, its people or themselves 
when they kill these tame animals. 
NEW JERSEY'S TROUT STREAMS. 
The active work of the present Fish and 
Game Commission of New Jersey has begun to 
tell, and the commission is being commended by 
all persons who are conversant with the situa¬ 
tion which this body has had to face. 
Possessing no hatchery of its own, the State 
has purchased large numbers of game fish from 
private hatcheries, and these have been liberated 
in the numerous streams which were famous 
for their trout years ago. In 1907 nice trout 
were occasionally taken from old-time favorite 
streams—just enough to attract the attention of 
a few anglers to the possibilities of something- 
better as time passed. During the last fishing- 
season more satisfactory results were reported, 
and it is confidently expected that in a few 
years’ time the streams which are naturally best 
adapted to the replanting of game fish will again 
be visited by numbers of anglers. 
The present intention of the commission is, 
we understand, to stock the old-time favorite 
streams next spring with 100.000 trout of a 
length of four to six inches, and if this is done, 
the effect of the work should be apparent in a 
comparatively short time, and if the restocking 
is continued for a few years, as it should be, 
there will be sport for a large number of people 
who now enjoy little if any fishing. There 
are many small streams in New Jersey within 
an hour’s ride of the homes of thousands of 
anglers who are chained to business five days 
in each week, who cannot therefore go where 
they please to fish, but who would find great 
pleasure in taking day and half-day trips to 
nearby waters if the effort were made worth 
while. 
AFRICAN BIG GAME. 
As the big game of America disappears, the 
thoughts of American big-game hunters must 
inevitably turn to new fields, now to be found 
in Africa, Asia and the further North. The new 
railroads built in Africa make it possible now 
to approach the resorts of large game, and even 
to go by rail to points where many species may 
be seen from the track, and w’here the most de¬ 
sirable game, such as elephants, buffalo and lions 
are within a few short days’ march of steam 
transportation. 
The building of these railroads and the con¬ 
sequent introduction into the country of a large 
unarmed population, wholly ignorant of the 
habits of its dangerous wild beasts, brought 
about some very curious situations. A few 
years ago a family of lions actually stopped the 
construction of the railway because of their 
nightly incursions into the camps of the rail¬ 
way graders, from which they took men for 
food at frequent intervals. The story of the 
panic which resulted from this, and of the ef¬ 
fects—finally successful—to kill the lions, is one 
of extraordinary interest. 
We are printing this week the first of a series 
of short articles on big-game hunting in Africa, 
and have in hand a considerable amount of 
material from the pen of an American sports¬ 
man who is at present traveling with a safari 
in British East Africa in search of big game. 
The stories told of the beasts which he meets 
with, read as if they might have been taken 
from one of the old-time books of African ex¬ 
ploration. 
Although it is true that most of us are not 
likely to be in a position to visit Africa to hunt 
its big game, it is nevertheless most interesting 
to read of these hunters’ adventures, and we 
believe that these accounts will be warmly wel¬ 
comed by our readers. 
In the last annual report of the Department 
of Marine and Fisheries of Newfoundland, the 
following paragraph appears: 
A matter of congratulation to all- interested is the ex¬ 
cellent clean condition of the saw-mills operating on 
our salmon rivers this year. I visited them all, and in 
no one instance was there cause for complaint. With 
very little labor and expense improvements have been 
made which prevent the escape of sawdust into the 
streams. The steps taken by the Department to punish 
those who were breaking these regulations have worked 
a reformation which could be obtained by no other 
means. 
This is the opinion of an inspector, and it is 
referred herewith to the serious consideration 
of the fish commissioners of our States, in some 
of which, it is claimed, the enforcing of laws 
against water pollution is difficult. 
What is termed by the English papers a 
novelty will, we hope, never become popular 
as a means of advertising. This consists in 
spreading advertisements along the sides of gold 
fishes, and then placing aquaria containing them 
in show windows or other conspicuous places. 
It is claimed the fish are not injured in any 
way, and we have not heard of any prohibition 
of the laws to the proposed practice, but it 
seems even worse than the sandwich-man method 
of advertising, although this eye-sore of our 
streets does in fact furnish many unfortunates 
with a pittance on which they may eke out a 
bare existence. 
* 
Postmaster Morgan, of this city, who was 
shot by a maniac a fortnight ago, is recovering 
rapidly. He expressed much curiosity during 
his illness concerning the whereabouts of the 
bullet that passed through his body. His cloth¬ 
ing was punctured where it entered, but there 
was no mark to show its exit. Finally the bul¬ 
let was found in his waistcoat pocket, and it was 
but slightly deformed. 
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