602 
FOREST AND STREAM 
December, 1917 
FOREST and stream 
FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR 
FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 
GOVERNING BOARD: 
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, New York, N. Y. 
CARL E. AKELEY, American Museum of Natural History, New York 
FRANK S. DAGGETT, Museum of Science, Los Angeles, Cal. 
EDMUND HELLER, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
C. HART MERRIAM, Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
WILFRED H. OSGOOD, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Ill. 
JOHN M. PHILLIPS, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
CHARLES SHELDON, Washington, D. C. 
GEORGE SHIRAS, 3rd, Washington, D. C. 
WILLIAM BRUETTE, Editor 
Nine East Fortieth Street, New York City 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously promote a healthful interest in outdoor recrea¬ 
tion, and a refined taste for natural objects. Aug. 14, 1873 
MAKING GOOD SPORTSMEN 
r T > HE best thing that can happen for game protection in 
* this country is to keep up and even increase the 
number of real sportsmen. To some this may seem like a 
contradiction. The sportsman is supposed to be a de¬ 
stroyer of game, and it might be inferred that the more 
sportsmen there are the more will be destroyed. Such an 
inference would be based on wrong premises. 
Sportsmen are not butchers of game; rather they are 
men who enjoy days in the field—as many as possible— 
to whom the capture of game is but an incident of the 
outing, whose real pleasure is in being abroad in the open 
air and in returning so far as may be to the primitive 
life led by our forebears. The love for this is inherited 
by every civilized man. 
To the sportsman, it is more important to preserve the 
game than to kill it. One way of preserving it is to in¬ 
crease the supply by artificial rearing, as has been done 
for nearly a generation with the fish that swim in the 
rivers and the sea. 
Within the past few years a great change in public 
feeling has taken place in respect to the importance of 
game conservation. Congress has authorized a Govern¬ 
ment Department to take steps to increase the supply of 
birds and animals; wealthy men have set on foot game 
breeding establishments; some of the states have appro¬ 
priated considerable sums for game farms. Philanthropic 
bodies, like the National Association of 'Audubon Soci¬ 
eties, have done much to encourage this work, and a few 
years ago, the American Game Protective Association 
was organized; a body which, after having done good 
work in many directions, was directly responsible for the 
passage by Congress of the Federal Migratory Bird Law. 
All these things indicate the rapid growth of a better sen¬ 
timent in behalf of the conservation of our fish and game. 
A most important factor in the cultivation of this 
sentiment has been the press, and especially the so-called 
sporting press, which for many years—in the case of 
Forest and Stream almost half a century—has faith¬ 
fully labored in season and out of season, to educate the 
public in this matter. Forest and Stream began its 
labor of love with the grandfathers in the good old days 
of muzzle loaders, and still continues to do its share by 
entertaining and instructing their grandchildren. It is 
the duty of each sportsman to subscribe to and read 
some sportsman’s paper, of which, as we all know, a 
number are printed. Each one of them does a certain 
amount of good. The more they are encouraged and 
the wider their circulation, the more good they can do. 
The various movements now devoted to the training of 
boys in outdoor matters promise to be helpful in the 
conservation of wild life. Organizations such as the 
Boy Scouts, the Woodcraft Indians, the Lone Scouts 
and a multitude of others are all striving to inculcate in 
their members high id^ls, and to fit them to struggle 
toward better things. 
The American Game Protective Association has seen 
the importance of educating the boys, and in certain 
sections of the country, has interested the Boy Scouts in 
the work of assisting the State Game Protectors and of 
exerting influence on other boys to keep them from the 
wanton destruction which usually comes from mere 
thoughtlessness. Only last month we spoke of the use¬ 
fulness of the Boy Scouts in Oregon and of the aid that 
they were giving and in increasing measure, were likely 
to give to the state authorities. 
We firmly believe that each sportsman has it in his 
power to exercise on some young boy a wholesome in¬ 
fluence which will greatly help that boy, as well as help 
the cause of conservation. Give the lad good advice 
and give him good literature to read, and, it will result 
that after your joints become too stiff to carry you far 
afield, he, and later, his children, shall still have the 
joy of seeing the dogs work, shall hear the birds rise, 
and now and again shall cut one down in full flight. 
Then when the shooting season ends, he will feed and 
protect those that are left, so that the joys of autumn 
may be repeated again and again. 
THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK 
O many people it will seem scarcely possible that of 
the animals in the New York Zoological Park, 
some have been there so long that they are dying of old 
age. None the less we are told that a cinnamon bear, 
which had lived in the park in perfect health for fifteen 
years, has just had his light snuffed out. The New York 
Zoological Society was founded twenty-two years ago, 
and the land for the park taken over from the city in Au¬ 
gust, 1898; since which date the society has had it in 
charge. It has, thus, been in operation for nineteen years. 
We consider it one of New York’s best charities. 
At the Zoological Park the war has had its effect, as it 
has over all the country. The male employees have been 
organized into a military section, and a volunteer division 
of the Red Cross has been inaugurated; one of its of¬ 
ficers, Dr. W. Reid Blair, has volunteered for service 
in the Medical Corps, and three employees have volun¬ 
teered for service in the Army and Navy. One man has 
been drafted. 
Owing to the high cost of building, it has been decided 
to postpone the construction of the Museum of Heads 
and Horns, and the $70,000 of subscriptions paid in for it 
have been invested in Liberty Bonds. Col. Anthony R. 
Kuser has recently presented a new pheasant aviary. 
Interesting additions to the collections born in the 
park are a young zebra, an eland, a yak, four beavers, 
several tahr, aoudad, bison and many deer. Three emu 
chicks were hatched and successfully reared. 
The collections at the Aquarium in charge of Dr. 
Townsend, have been increased by a collection of Florida 
fishes. During the year many tanks have been enlarged 
and various other improvements made. Money from the 
