Nov. 6, 1909J 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
737 
New York State League. 
The following announcement has been re¬ 
ceived from Syracuse, N. Y.: 
The forty-fifth annual meeting of the New 
York State hish, Game and Forest League will 
be held at Syracuse on Dec. 9 and 10. Prepara¬ 
tions are being made to make this the largest 
and most successful meeting of sportsmen ever 
held in this State. Arrangements have been 
made to hold the convention in the City Hall, 
which is in the center of the city and easily 
located. 
There are at the present time about eighty 
clubs in the league, which are distributed geo¬ 
graphically throughout the State, and when in 
convention give a very representative idea of 
the needs and demands of the sportsmen 
throughout the State generally in matters per¬ 
taining to the protection and propagation of 
fish and game. 
There are a number of places in the State 
which are yet without organized clubs. Sports¬ 
men exist in every locality and where they are 
lot organized they should be for the benefit to 
hemselves and to help act in one accord with 
heir brother sportsmen in affairs pertaining to 
he welfare of all. Each club is entitled to two 
lelegates and two alternates. Every member 
if the league is requested to act on the' com¬ 
mittee on organization to get clubs into the 
eague and see that they are represented at this 
meeting. 
This meeting will be a very important one 
ind the representation gjhould be such as to 
horoughly cover the State. The sportsmen of 
he State come together in this convention and 
iear all the subjects pertaining to the matters 
>f common interest and then vote on the meas¬ 
ures which are deemed desirable to ask the 
legislature to consider at the regular session 
which begins in January. 
If the sportsmen of the State ever expect to 
ret what they want in the matter of improved 
ashing and hunting conditions they must hang 
ogether and put up a united front. The Legis- 
ature is coming to be more and more represen- 
ative of the constituencies at home. If we can 
emonstrate the reasonableness of our cause and 
■' e united in our requests, there is no reason 
vhy we should not have better conditions than 
ve have had for years past. 
Fishing conditions generally throughout the 
’tate are improving each year, and there is no 
uestion but that the deer shooting has been 
etter each year for the past few years. With 
he special care which has been given to the 
orests this year and plans for future improve- 
ient, there will be less likelihood of the repe- 
ition of the disastrous fires which have 
/orked so much havoc to the native timber 
s well as to the fish and game life dependent 
pon it. 
Game birds are demanded by the sportsmen 
t the present time. They do not expect to have 
lem right away, but they would like to see a 
lore strenuous effort made to get the propaga- 
on project under way. 
Among other things to come up at this con- 
ention will be the matter of adopting a new 
institution and by-laws for the league. At the 
tst annual meeting a committee was appointed 
Y the president to revise the constitution and 
y-laws. The committee consisted of M. R. 
Bingham, of Rome; Robert B. Lawrence, of 
New York, and Emerson H. Stowell, of Oswego. 
The committee has done its work and the copies 
have been sent to each club to pass upon before 
the annual meeting. 
Every club should pass resolutions regarding 
the policy of the local club affecting all matters 
of interest which concern them in the game 
laws and recommend their delegates to further 
their interests at the convention. 
Delegates should be chosen as soon as pos¬ 
sible. Both the regular delegates and the alter¬ 
nates should attend the convention if possible. 
All members who wish to attend are invited and 
any sportsmen friends whom you wish to bring 
along will be welcome. While none but dele¬ 
gates will be allowed to vote on any subject, any 
sportsman who wishes to be heard will be ac¬ 
corded the privilege of the floor. 
While the matters which absorb the attention 
of the members of the convention are of a seri¬ 
ous nature, it does not detract from the possi- 
. bility of more or less nascent humor giving vent 
occasionally. And further, if you have been in 
the habit of attending these conventions, you 
will need no urging to attend, but if you have 
never attended we can assure you that you will 
find yourself in the midst of as royal a crowd 
of fellows as ever assembled and you will be 
made to feel perfectly at home from the time 
you arrive until you leave. 
We will have the pleasure of hearing again 
that genial, whole-souled protectionist, William 
Dutcher, president of the National Association 
of Audubon Societies. Dr. T. S. Palmer, in 
charge of game protection for the United States 
Department of Agriculture, will also be present. 
He is no doubt the best informed man on the 
subject of game protection in this country to¬ 
day. 
Hon. James S. Whipple, Forest, Fish and 
Game Commissioner of New York State, will 
also be present. Commissioner Whipple was un¬ 
able to attend last year on account of a previous 
engagement in Washington, but this year he was 
invited before anybody had a chance to get him 
away from us. He says he will be with us this 
year sure. D. W. Huntington, who argues that 
we are “game-lawed to death,” will be on hand 
and present his ideas regarding rapid game in¬ 
crease. 
Andrew D. Meloy, of New York city, who 
made one of the most vigorous addresses on 
“Game as a Community Asset” last year, will be 
on hand this session and will speak on the hunt¬ 
ing license question. 
John LI. Hendrickson, of Jamaica, L. I., will 
be among the speakers. The law and legisla¬ 
tive committee, the organization committee and 
the various other committees will report. 
There will be more interest manifested at this 
gathering than at any previous similar event. A 
number of prominent men will be in attendance 
and will be given the floor, among whom are 
Lieut.-Gov. Horace White, Senator George H. 
Cobb, of Watertown. 
Any further information regarding this meet¬ 
ing may be had by addressing any of the fol¬ 
lowing officers: President, F. S. Honsinger, 
Syracuse, N. Y.; Vice-President, Hon. 
Charles R. Skinner, 641 Washington street, New 
York city; Secretary, L. C. Andrews, Elmira, 
N. Y.; Treasurer, Emerson H. Stowell, Oswego, 
N. Y. 
A Big Game Expedition. 
“Time, said the editor to me one morning, 
“that we brightened up the paper with a few 
big-game pictures and stories.” 
Having long desired a holiday, I secretly en¬ 
tertained a hope that some day I would be 
permitted to go east as far as India and 
Burma aud rouse the slothful tiger from its 
lair. It must be admitted that I had never 
shot anything bigger than a starling, but the 
man who can down a very small bird on the 
wing might easily stop a tiger with a proper 
kind of bullet. 
It took me thirty-five minutes to persuade 
Mr. Clancy, the editor of the Daily Banner, that 
the tiger was not born who could take me for 
a ride inside. I furthermore explained how 
difficult I would make it for any tiger to smile 
as long as I remained on the skyline. 
Clancy brooded long and pessimistically over 
my words, while I drew his attention to the low 
rates charged by the shipping companies, and 
the glory of sending a member of the staff into 
the big-game country. The low rates and the 
possibility of some good stories and pictures 
decided him, and together we outlined a plan 
whereby I was to visit Upper Burma and the 
Peguna Yomas in search of copy. Three days 
later I was on my way to Ceylon, where I in¬ 
tended staying a week in the hope of getting a 
shot at something in the hills before proceed¬ 
ing to Rangoon. 
Arriving at Colombo, my baggage was taken 
ashore and placed in charge of a hotel coolie. 
I had brought with me a 12x15 foot rubber tent, 
a sola topee, three rifles, and several boxes of 
ammunition. 
The morning was insufferably hot; the endless 
procession of natives passing under the hotel 
window made me feel tired and homesick. 
Swarms of sleek black crows floated in and out 
of the windows, while the bedroom coolie in¬ 
formed me in his second-best voice that the 
electric fans were out of repair. After break¬ 
fast, a dismal affair, whereat more coolies sup¬ 
plied me with eight dishes of burning curry 
flavored with gunpowder spices, one of the 
hotel servants handed me a card bearing the 
inscription: 
Karl Kopman, 
Animal Provider. 
I wondered vaguely whether Karl Kopman 
was the person responsible for the pieces of 
oxen I had detected in the breakfast curry. 
My suspicious were allayed, however, when 
Kopman, dressed in spotless white clothes, 
stood before me bowing and salaaming like a 
native. 
“I hear dot you vas goin’ to shoot pig came,” 
he began, wiping his brow. “You vas goin’ to 
Purina?” 
i replied that it was my intention to make a 
few man-eating tigers unhappy, and that I in¬ 
tended to enliven the movements of the un¬ 
speakable jackal wherever I found it. 
“Id vill cost you eighty pounds to reach the 
Peguna Yomas. Der vas jungle fever und 
decoits on der rivers, mein friendt. Haf you 
efer met der leedle dacoit?” he asked, sorrow¬ 
fully. 
I had never met a dacoit, but I had heard 
Somewhere that they conducted their funerals 
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