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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1911 
. VOL. LXXVI.—N». 16. 
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. 
INDIANA’S FISHING LICENSE. 
The new Indiana law contains some provisions 
of rather unusual interest. 
Non-residents who hold licenses to hunt small 
game in Indiana may also fish in that State with¬ 
out securing special permits; otherwise they must 
pay one dollar each per annum to fish in Indiana 
waters, the Ohio River excepted. If a non-resi¬ 
dent .fishing license holder’s wife accompanies him, 
she will not require a license, nor will children 
under thirteen years come under the new provis¬ 
ions. Licenses, which are issued by county cir¬ 
cuit clerks, must bear a full description of the 
licensee. 
One dollar is not a high price to pay for good 
fishing, but the possession of a license to fish is 
no guarantee of success in that uncertain pastime. 
Indeed, while there is still fair fishing in some 
Indiana waters, they are far less prolific in fish 
life than they were in the past, and unless ef¬ 
fective restocking and protective measures are 
enforced, the non-residents who have been in 
the habit of going to Indiana to fish may hesi¬ 
tate about continuing their visits to that State. 
In the consummation of this measure a peculiar 
state of affairs has been brought about. Advo¬ 
cates of the new license set the shooters against 
the fishers and in this way secured the moral 
support of the former. At the same time sports¬ 
men were classified in three groups—those who 
shoot, those who fish, and those who enjoy 
both pastimes. To the first and the last it is to 
be assumed that the new law is not objection¬ 
able. This leaves only the anglers to object, and 
against them and their interests are ranged those 
riparian owners of Indiana who are opposed to 
angling. On the side of the anglers, however, 
are the railway, hotel and resort interests. These 
partisans of the anglers have one certain means 
of securing the continued presence of visiting 
anglers, but it is almost too much to hope that 
it will be pushed. This is to assist in making 
the fishing in Indiana worth while. 
It is planned to employ more wardens to en¬ 
force the new law, and it is to the interest of 
every non-resident angler to see that the Indiana 
protectors they are assisting to employ shall per¬ 
form their duties. 
The situation is novel. It remains to be seen 
how the plan will work out and whether it will 
merit praise or condemnation. Meanwhile the 
lot of the fish wardens bids fair to be anything 
but a happy one during the warm season. The 
railways send immense numbers of picnickers 
into Indiana, and a great many of these visitors 
carry fishing tackle with them. Of these a ma¬ 
jority will never have heard of a fishing license 
fee, and to round up a large party and hale 
them before the nearest justice of the peace is 
easier to plan than to perform. 
AID FROM A NEW QUARTER. 
With politics and religion Forest and Stream 
never meddles, yet it is glad at this juncture to 
quote elsewhere some remarks about the law 
governing the sale of plumage taken from the 
Jewish paper, Die Wahrheit—The Truth—printed 
in New York city. 
The firms in New York which deal in feather 
millinery are made up chiefly of Hebrews, and 
that the leading Hebrew journal in New York 
city holds the views expressed in this editorial 
is interesting because it exhibits a breadth of 
view not always to be looked for among sects 
or races. 
Advice from this source should have some in¬ 
fluence on the Assemblyman who is responsible 
for the bill, the purpose of which is to nullify 
the Shea-White bill passed by the previous Legis¬ 
lature and to go into effect in July, 1911. 
1 he Shea-White bill ought to be upheld by 
public opinion, and the Legislature should be 
made to feel the force of this opinion. The 
growth of this feeling over the whole country 
is shown by the fact that only last week the 
Legislature of the State of New Jersey passed 
a plumage bill similar to the one now in force 
in New York—a bill which Governor Wilson, of 
New Jersey, is reported to have promptly signed. 
The article in Die Wahrheit is likely to bring 
to the attention of many Jews a subject on which 
they have never thought, and in this way may 
exert an influence very beneficial to the com- 
hunitw, which perhaps could not have been ex¬ 
erted on Jewish Americans in any other way. 
1 hat leprosy has been caused by eating fish 
is a thesis advanced long ago by bacteriologists. 
In an address before the American Association 
of Pathologists and Bacteriologists, in Chicago 
last Saturday, Dr. M. Couret, of New Orleans, 
referred to the fish-eating peoples of Greece, 
Italy, Sweden and Norway, among whom leprosy 
is especially prevalent, as proof of this conten¬ 
tion. Experiments he had made, he said, showed 
that leprosy bacilli in fish flourished in both warm 
and cold waters. 
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To provide game birds for distribution at 
moderate cost is the purpose of a bill which was 
passed last week by the New Jersey Assembly 
and is now before the Senate. It carries an 
appropriation of $25,000 with which to purchase 
and establish a State game farm. Both Houses 
passed the Audubon plumage bill, which as 
elsewhere stated has been signed by Governor 
Wilson. It represents a victory by the Audubon 
Society over the millinery interests, after a con¬ 
test covering a number of years. The Assem¬ 
bly s action on the bill to abolish the Fish and 
Game Commission showed the trend of senti¬ 
ment regarding the present form of commission 
'as against the proposed single-headed commis¬ 
sion. Only a few members favored the proposed 
change. 
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Assembly Bill No. 1447 , introduced in the 
New York Legislature by Mr. Gurnett, and in¬ 
tended to amend the Forest, Fish and Game 
law in relation to breeders of game and the in¬ 
crease of game and game fish, has been intro¬ 
duced in the Senate by Senator T. D. Sullivan. 
Its number there is 974 . The bill introduced by 
Mr. Gurnett has aroused not a little indigna¬ 
tion among his constituents, and it is reported 
that he disclaims all responsibility for the meas¬ 
ure, saying that it was given to him by Mr. 
Campbell, reported to be the paid agent of the 
hotel keepers’ association, and he merely intro¬ 
duced it by request. The bill tends to let down 
the bars on game protection and is opposed by 
the best sentiment throughout the State. 
From Chicago comes the announcement that 
landlocked salmon are being taken in Lake 
Michigan in the fishermen’s gillnets. The first 
catches were made some time ago off the Indiana 
shore, and the fishermen did not recognize the 
species. Since then specimens have been ex¬ 
amined by experienced anglers, who declare 
they are landlocked salmon. If this be true, and 
the fish remain in the part of the lake where 
they are now found, a new sport awaits the 
army of anglers who live in and about Chicago. 
If they are landlocked salmon, it is possible 
though not probable that they may be found in 
the rivers ere long, and it will be interesting to 
learn whether they are observed in these waters 
by anglers for trout and bass. 
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Friends of the Rev. Charles F. Aked may 
wonder whether his fondness for fishing played 
any part in his decision to remove from New 
York city to San Francisco. He bade farewell 
to his friends in the Fifth Avenue Baptist 
Church in New York city two weeks ago, and 
has taken up his new work in the First Congre¬ 
gational Church in San Francisco. Dr. Aked is 
very fond of angling, and California offers 
abundant opportunities for that sport. 
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California has advanced another step in the 
conservation of game, in the fixing of a weekly 
bag limit of fifty wildfowl and better protection 
for quail. 
