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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 17, 1911. 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer. 
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— Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
THE WORK OF A STORM. 
Last Sunday was a day of great excitement 
in bird land. The severe wind and electrical 
storm of Saturday night upset the domestic ar¬ 
rangements of many feathered families, and sent 
the parent birds forth at daybreak to seek the 
missing and succor the distressed. 
Robins were hard hit by the wind and the 
tropical downpour, which affected most the 
heavy-foliaged trees in which were sheltered 
their young almost ready to fly. All day the old 
birds were heard in groves, parks and wood lots, 
calling for the little ones that were lost in the 
flooded woods or were hopping about on the 
ground, chided and almost helpless. 
Bluebirds with broods of little ones were 
equally concerned, and their unmusical twitter 
was heard about the edges of villages and on the 
farms where they nest. Even quail were sadly 
disturbed, for a few were heard calling in p’aces 
where it is most unusual to hear their notes. 
Prowling cats, seeming to know that the wind 
which had broken down great trees and wrecked 
nests was no ill wind for them, were early 
abroad despite the water-soaked grass and under¬ 
growth, seeking tender morsels in short feathers. 
The heavy downpour of rain on the nights of 
Saturday and Sunday did much to relieve a situ¬ 
ation that was critical so far as towns and cities 
were concerned. The dry ground was saturated 
and the surplus raised streams, filled ponds and 
affected slightly the supply of springs, so that 
reservoirs received a portion of the water so 
badly needed. Trout fishing, which in many sec¬ 
tions has been disappointing, wiil be greatly im¬ 
proved for a time. 
One of the saddest effects of the storm was 
the destruction of whole groups of trees that 
had been preserved solely because of their age 
and beauty. Other veterans, standing alone, were 
broken and twisted or upturned. 
A UNIVERSAL ANGLING ASSOCIATION. 
One of the oldest, most conservative and in¬ 
fluential anglers’ organizations in the English- 
speaking world has endorsed Forest and 
Stream’s suggestion relative to the formation of 
a universal angling association. 
Shortly after our recent comments on this 
subject had appeared, the Fly-Fishers’ Club of 
London held its annual general meeting, at which 
the attendance was large. Following regular 
business the retiring president, R. B. Marston, 
introduced the subject by saying: 
At a time when America and Great Britain are trying 
to arrange a “See if we can’t get it right before we 
fight’’ treaty, it is pleasant to find our American con¬ 
temporary, that excellent sporting paper, Forest and 
Stream, suggesting the formation of a universal angling 
association. I feel sure British and Irish anglers all 
round the world will cordially welcome this idea. If 
among the anglers of America, Britain, France, Ger¬ 
many, Japan, Russia, etc., the desire for such an associa¬ 
tion can be roused, that alone is a fine thing—even if 
practical realization is difficult. 
After outlining the proposed plan Mr. Marston. 
following favorable discussion, proposed that 
“this meeting of members of the Fly-Fishers’ 
Club is in general sympathy with the suggestion 
for the formation of an international associa¬ 
tion of anglers.” Unanimous approval was ac¬ 
corded, whereupon the president added that he 
was delighted that the old club was first on their 
side of the water to express sympathy with the 
proposition. He felt, he said, that his last act 
as president was perhaps the best he had been 
ab’e to perform. 
Mr. Marston’s successor is General Sir Des¬ 
mond O'Callaghan. 
LONG ISLAND DUCK SHOOTING. 
The members of the Long Island delegation 
in the New York Legislature possess at least the 
virtue of persistence, and faithfully strive to 
carry out the wishes of a part of their constitu¬ 
ency. Though twice defeated in the effort to 
secure the passage of a law permitting spring 
shooting on Long Island, Messrs. Long and 
Sheide have continued their efforts, and the 
Legislature has now passed the bill extending 
the open season for duck shooting on Long Island 
from Jan. io to Feb. I, an increase of three 
weeks. 
Some persons will see in this action an effort 
on the part of Long Island gunners to reach the 
old-time spring shooting conditions by gradual 
approaches and will expect next year to see an 
attempt to lengthen the season fifteen or twenty 
days or more, this process to be repeated until 
finally shooting shall be permitted all through the 
winter and spring.. 
There is probably no special danger that th’s 
will happen. The feeling of New York sports¬ 
men on this subject is pretty well ascertained, 
and it is not likely that there wiil ever be a re¬ 
turn to old-time conditions. 
On the other hand it is often the case that mild 
autumns and winters prevent any shooting in the 
Great South Bay up to about Christmas time, and 
it does not seem unreasonable that to provide for 
such contingencies a few weeks shall be added 
to the open season. If the law is changed, ac¬ 
cording to this bill, the open season for ducks 
on Long Island will last four months, a season 
longer than some sportsmen might wish, but on 
the other hand a marvelous improvement over 
those conditions which existed only a few years 
ago when the open season for ducks lasted there 
for all the time that the fowl were with us. 
THE BOW FOR BIG GAME. 
Many years ago archery was an active sport 
in the United States and Canada, and in many 
towns and villages there were clubs for shooting 
at the target with the long bow. Not a few en¬ 
thusiasts hunted birds and small animals with 
the bow and arrow, and of this sport the late 
Maurice Thompson was long the chief apostle. 
His contributions often appeared in Forest and 
Stream, and in the monthly magazines. 
A newspaper dispatch now tells of two Kansas 
men who purpose to start out on a big-game hunt 
in British Columbia, armed only with bows and 
arrows; and the story, if true, possesses much in¬ 
terest. Improvements in fire-arms have been so 
great that to-day a man may sit on a hill and 
continue to bombard fleeing game whi’e it is 
passing over a mile or two of country, and the 
danger to wild animals has been met by increas¬ 
ing wariness and ability to take care of itself 
on the part of the game. It is obvious that 
vastly more skill is required to approach and 
kill big game with a bow and arrow than with 
a rifle, and one of the reported hunters is quoted 
as having said that there is the same difference 
between hunting with a bow and arrow and a 
rifle as there is between catching fish with a fly 
and with a seine. 
Because it is practically an unknown weapon, 
the power of the bow in expert hands is not at 
all understood. Yet in old times the Indian, 
armed with a bow, at forty or fifty yards was 
more dangerous to his enemy than the average 
whi'e man armed with a revolver. 
If men would take to hunting big game with 
a bow and arrows, there might be again bred up 
among us a race of hunters like those of old 
times—a race which now has a’most or quite dis¬ 
appeared from the land. 
* 
In another column a correspondent relates an 
occurrence that merits special mention. It tells 
of a real sportsman. An Oklahoma angler fared 
forth at day ight and shortly found himself the 
captor of seven large bass. The day was still 
young and the opportunity to make a great day's 
record, both for size and number, was tempting. 
Many another man would have striven eagerly 
to make such a record, knowing that its accom¬ 
plishment would have been heralded far and 
wide as praiseworthy. As for Mr. Gast, he went 
to camp, satisfied. To him all anglers should 
doff their fishing hats; there are too few Gasts. 
*, 
There will be no international casting tourna¬ 
ment at London this year. The British Amateur 
Fly- and Bait-Casting Club, under whose aus¬ 
pices it had been planned ’to hold such an affair 
some time in July, has decided to postpone it 
until 1912. This in view of the coronation cere¬ 
monies and other special attractions. 
