Forest and Stream 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 4 , 1911 
, VOL. LXXVI.— N». 9. 
I No. 127 Franklin St., New York. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1911, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful in¬ 
terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
DEATH OF BERNARD WATERS. 
Bernard Waters, for many years the shooting 
editor of Forest and Stream, died Feb. 27 after 
an illness that had extended over many months. 
He was born in New Hampshire about sixty 
years ago. 
As a young man, Air. Waters went West and 
devoted himself to the practice of those sports 
that he loved so weil, and especially the sport 
of field shooting. He had a natural knack with 
animals and trained his own dogs so skillfully 
and successfully that they were better than any 
of the dogs of his companions. About the time 
when field trials became fashionable, he was 
engaged to handle certain dogs, did so with 
signal success, and for a time followed the work 
of training dogs for the fie.d. But so great was 
his success that after a time his friends per¬ 
suaded him to reduce to writing his methods, 
and he produced several volumes on dog train¬ 
ing, which have had a wide vogue. These 
books are, “Fetch and Carry,’’ “Modern Train¬ 
ing" and 'Training the Hunting Dog for Field 
and Field Trials.” 
Something more than twenty years ago he 
joined the staff of Forest and Stream; at first 
as Chicago correspondent, later as kennel editor, 
and later still as shooting editor. In whatever 
he undertook Mr. Waters endeavored to perfect 
himself. He was a man of keen intellect, wide 
reading and possessed a great fund of informa¬ 
tion, not only on his special subjects, but on 
general topics. Besides this he was one of the 
most skillful of shots, and by his practice in 
the field and at the traps upheld his preaching 
in Forest and Stream. 
He was a forceful writer and used his wide 
knowledge of men to teach useful lessons. A 
dozen years ago there appeared in Forest and 
Stream a series of articles from his pen entitled 
"The Confabulations of a Cadi.” The articles 
were a keen but kindly satire directed against 
certain unreasonable opinions and certain abuses 
that then prevailed in the trapshooting world. 
They were read with much pleasure, interest and 
satisfaction by all shooters and were productive 
of great good, for the allegory taught simply 
and in a way which all might comprehend a 
number of needed lessons. 
Few men have had so wide an experience in 
the shooting field as Air. Waters, and few men 
could tell of these experiences in so interesting 
a way as he. He was especially familiar with 
the South and had shot over much of Louisiana, 
Mississippi, Southern Arkansas and Missouri. 
During his experience in reporting field trials 
twelve or fifteen years ago, he did much shoot¬ 
ing in North Carolina. 
It was as an instructor in matters of sport— 
in his efforts to teach men how to do the right 
thing in the right way—that Air. Waters did the 
best work of his life. He was absolutely de¬ 
voted to the truth. He was a most kindly and 
generous man. If his keen insight enabled him 
to see the faults in his fellows, his large charity 
always passed them by, for he possessed a sense 
of proportion which led him to give men’s good 
qualities their true value, and to make allow¬ 
ances for, and pardon their weaknesses. He had 
a wide circle of acquaintances and a multitude 
of friends who were devoted to him—a friend 
once made he never lost. 
Last spring Air. Waters suffered from a seri¬ 
ous attack of illness from which his recovery 
was slow. In the late autumn he underwent an 
operation, which apparently put an end to his 
trouble, and in the early days of January he 
seemed to be on the road to rapid recovery. 
About the middle of January, however, he was 
taken with the grippe, and this was followed by 
a great and increasing weakness to which he 
finally succumbed. 
Few men leave as wide a gap as he has left. 
Few men will be so keenly missed. The sense 
of personal loss felt by his associates in the 
office of Forest and Stream may not be ex¬ 
pressed in words. 
WILD TURKEYS FOR MASSACHUSETTS. 
In her efforts to stock her covers with flocks 
of native game birds, and to replenish her brooks 
with trout, Massachusetts stands first among the 
States. Only within her borders has success 
crowned the effort to rear native game birds 
on any large scale. No territory in all the United 
States is better adapted to experiments in game 
preservation work than Massachusetts; and 
whether it be to increase the fish in her streams, 
the quail and partridges on her uplands, or the 
wildfowl that frequent her shores and ponds, 
the conditions are everywhere most favorable. 
In Massachusetts, too, remains the sole little 
colony of that nearly extinct bird, the heath-hen, 
which for a century has been struggling to sur¬ 
vive—and only within a decade or less has had 
any help from man—against man and natural 
enemies. At present the colony stands on the 
very verge; some years numbering only a few 
more than a hundred, in other years two hun¬ 
dred, the pendulum swinging one way and an¬ 
other, moved by influences which we only dimly 
comprehend. 
Among the active associations of sportsmen in 
Alassachusetts the Springfield Fish and Game 
Association is one of the largest. Moreover, it 
occupies a region peculiarly favorable for game 
preservation work. It is remembered that a few 
years ago, some California quail were turned 
out near Springfield, and, quite without care, 
survived for several seasons. 
Now it is purposed to endeavor .to reintroduce 
in \\ estern Massachusetts the wild turkey, which 
endured there until the middle of the last cen- 
tury; for the last turkey on the Alt. Tom Range 
is reported to have been killed in 1852. A 
Springfield sportsman intends now to procure 
several pairs of wild turkeys from the South and 
to liberate them in the wi.dest parts of Western 
Massachusetts, in the hope that they may breed 
and multiply. This is certainly worth doing. 
The effort to restock thickly settled lands with 
wild turkeys has been suggested many times in 
Forest and Stream, and the effort should be 
made. The history of this bird in New England 
given in many of the books is most interesting. 
Robert O. Alorris, in a letter written to the 
Springfield Union, has given many facts of this 
history, which are also found in the recently pub¬ 
lished book, “American Game Bird Shooting.” 
THE PASSENGER PIGEON INQUIRY. 
That the liberal rewards offered last year for 
the discovery of an undisturbed passenger pigeon's 
nest were not claimed proves nothing. There 
was much misunderstanding of the terms of the 
offer, and the passenger pigeon and the mourn¬ 
ing dove are so nearly alike as readily to be 
confounded by persons who are wholly without 
a knowledge of birds, and whose eyes are un¬ 
trained. Many an ornithologist interested in the 
passenger pigeon has been deceived into making 
a long journey to see a reported flock of pas¬ 
senger pigeons only to find at its end the com¬ 
mon mourning dove. 
This year, as printed on another page, the re¬ 
ward? are offered again—amounting in all to 
over $3,000—and the conditions are so distinctly 
stated that no one who will read them with care 
should misunderstand them. 
The opportunity is offered here to the country 
dwelling man or boy who will keep his eyes open 
and his wits about him to earn a large sum of 
money. With a thousand dol’ars one can do a 
good many desirable things; and those who offer 
the rewards are as anxious to pay this sum over 
to him who makes the discovery as anyone can 
be to gain the prize. 
One thing should be remembered by all who 
are interested, and that is not to write to Dr. 
Hodge for further information. It is all given 
here in Forest and Stream. 
