May 27, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
813 
It can be used for a boiled dinner which will be 
ready on your return at night. 
Our camp-fire is built with back logs three 
high, held in place by slanting stakes. The fire 
in front will then burn better if the wood is 
set up on end against the back logs, and the 
heat will be thrown out to where you are sit¬ 
ting. The places for the beds should be leveled 
and be laid upon before being considered com¬ 
pleted, as you can then tell whether the ground 
is level; if not, you will not sleep comfortably. 
If your tent is leaky, wet your finger and lead 
the drop of water that comes through down the 
inside of the tent, and further leakage will fol¬ 
low it instead of dropping on you or your bed. 
If you are cold at night do not try to stick 
it out shivering, but get up and get more bed 
clothes or partly close the tent door, and in re¬ 
turning to bed pull your blanket around your 
neck and roll back and forth to get the bed 
clothes close to your body. Wear a night cap. 
I have two, one lighter than the other, for varia¬ 
tions in the weather. Take an electric hand 
light for use if you have to get up in the night, 
or are alarmed by some unusual noise, such as 
toads, rabbits or porcupines. Take and for a 
feeling of security keep your revolver outside 
of your bed and at your hand, but in its leather 
case. 
When you get up in the morning put your 
night clothes after airing and your night cap 
and head net, if you use one, inside your pillow 
so that you can easily find them on retiring or 
on making a new camp after a trip. Have your 
rubber blanket large enough to cover the whole 
of the floor of your tent and with one side flan¬ 
nel, as the rubber is too cold to stand upon while 
dressing. Put your clothes at night on your 
chair or on something else and not on the floor, 
as dampness will thus be gathered and you will 
catch cold. If the mornings are cold, dress in 
bed as far as to get on your first coverings. If 
you enjoy a cold bath and recover your warmth 
as soon as you dry off, have a pair of rubbers 
and a warm bathing gown. Put this on after 
taking your bath and warm up at the camp-fire 
before dressing. Always put your slippers at 
the foot of your bed and near the door for use 
if you have to get up. Do not go out in your 
bare feet or in your socks. 
If porcupines bother you, set a steel trap in 
the door of your supply tent to keep them out, 
or you will find them in the bread box or else¬ 
where to your discomfort. If you are nervous 
about sleeping with the tent door open, buy a 
roll of small mesh wire fencing about three 
feet high and twelve feet long and set it up at 
night around the front of your tent. It will 
keep out the porkeys and skunks; other animals 
will not come in. If a skunk gets in, do not be 
alarmed, but quietly slip past him and out of 
the tent without making any motion toward him. 
Get a lantern and set it, lighted, just inside the 
tent and move away. In a few seconds he will 
come out, as he will not stay where there is a 
light. If any of the party are in the tent they 
should remain quietly under their blankets until 
he has retired. Many skunks have been in our 
tents and we never had any odor left. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
giz’en in the Game Laivs in Brief. See adv. 
N e wfoundland’ 
By W. J. 
T HE Fish and Game Commissioner has 
about completed all arrangements for 
the placing of wardens and the protec¬ 
tion of rivers for the current season. Every 
good salmon river in the island will be better 
protected this year than ever. The smaller 
rivers will also be looked after, but more at¬ 
tention will be concentrated on the larger rivers 
for the next few years, so that every river will 
be well stocked, will give the maximum of sport 
to the visiting angler, and connectively they will 
supply superior fish and fishing, and accommo¬ 
date many more anglers. 
Complaints have been forwarded from several 
quarters, as to conduct of anglers, who have 
erected lodges and wooden camps on the banks 
of certain good pools on the Grand River, and 
in other places. It appears from the informa¬ 
tion received that certain owners of camps re¬ 
sent the intrusion of visitors to the pools on 
which they camp to such an extent that it has 
become very noticeable and very offensive of 
late. 
These camp-owners virtually claim riparian 
rights, that are against the law, and the board 
intends taking steps to correct this growing 
evil. As a first step, it is intended that every 
license issued to visiting sportsmen will con¬ 
tain a printed notice on the back of it, to the 
effect that no man has exclusive rights to any 
pool. Every angler can fish where he likes, 
even opposite the camp of any other angler. 
Certain anglers have been complained of for 
monopolizing well-known good pools by keep¬ 
ing the best places, and when unable to hold 
those places themselves, they put some one else 
there, to keep off outsiders. For the present 
and the near future, the fishing in Newfound¬ 
land is absolutely free to all, and the commis¬ 
sion intends to emphasize that point, in order 
that the inducements offered will be greater 
than those offered by any other country in the 
world. 
There are certain well known, though un¬ 
written laws, that regulate the conduct of 
anglers and the mutual courtesies due each to 
the other; and if one angler has just possession 
of a good place in a pool, the second-comer is 
not likely to throw across and tangle him up, 
but is bound to respect the right of the man in 
possession. But the latter must not be hoggish 
enough to monopolize a pool that would sup¬ 
ply good sport for a dozen rods, and because he 
camps beside the brook, he must not get filled 
with the idea that it is wrong for another man 
to come up and throw out alongside of him. 
provided there is room and the fish are 
plentiful. 
We are very democratic here and insist on 
equal rights for all. Very tempting offers for 
the exclusive rights to several rivers have been 
refused by the Government. We have rivers 
enough in the island well stocked with salmon 
and sea trout to afford splendid fishing, for not 
only the visitors who have been coming regu¬ 
larly for the last few years, but also for ten 
times that number. Some of the very best 
rivers in the island were not fished at all last 
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year, while those contiguous to the railway line 
were in many instances over-fished by anglers 
residing at nearby hotels or camps. 
When the new system of wardening has been 
more perfectly systemized, anglers will be more 
evenly distributed, so that crowding on the 
principal rivers will be avoided. In the mean¬ 
time it is intended to emphasize the fact that 
all streams, rivers and pools are free to all¬ 
comers possessing licenses, and if the law does 
not give prescriptive rights to camp owners, it 
does not restrict their liberties or privileges, but 
puts all visiting anglers on an even footing. 
If anything else were contemplated, we would 
have to follow the example of other countries, 
and instead of charging ten dollars for a license, 
we should be compelled to levy fees, the mini¬ 
mum of which would be in the neighborhood of 
one thousand dollars. Many camp owners have 
been reported as courteous men, willing and 
ready to share the sport with other anglers who, 
notwithstanding the fact that they are but fly¬ 
ing visitors, have paid for their licenses 
and do not own a campsite or know any one 
who does, yet have just as much right to fish 
any and every stream as sportsmen who have 
been coming for years. 
Thousands of Americans will regret the loss 
of the bonnie little steamer Bruce that for years 
did such grand service between the island and 
the mainland. The name of the genial Captain 
Delaney will suggest itself to every American 
who, for the first years she was running, made 
the trip across. Genial, careful, reliable, brave 
even to rashness, Captain Delaney guided the 
good ship night and day through storm and sun¬ 
shine, through dense fog and almost impene¬ 
trable ice, and yet no accident ever happened 
ship or passenger. His successor. Captain 
Drake, was the same type of man, but owing to 
peculiar circumstances, the inability of a merely 
human machine to distinguish between an ice¬ 
bound shore and snow-covered, low-lying coast 
and drifting ice, he met with an accident that it 
was almost humanly impossible to avoid. His 
conduct in the crisis, though, showed his mettle. 
He acted consistently with the highest and best 
traditions of British seamen in such plight and 
landed his crew and passengers on a dark 
winter’s night on a bleak forbidden coast with¬ 
out loss of life. 
The steamer Invermore is now on the route 
pending the building of a new Bruce. The 
Invermore is a good comfortable ship, well 
fitted and well found, and visitors from the 
mainland may rest assured that their wants will 
be as well looked after and they can travel just 
as luxuriously on the Invermore as ever they 
did on the old favorite Bruce. 
A curious happening is reported here, about a 
shallow pond in the neighborhood of St. John’s. 
This pond was remarkable for the number of 
mud trout it contained. The past winter the 
water froze to the very bottom of the pond, 
and when the ice thawed, hundreds of splendid 
fish were picked up all around the shore. Some 
of them were reported in various stages of de¬ 
composition, and were unfit for use. 
