Feb. 8, 1908 .1 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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is claimed by Commissioner Whipple that the 
money is needed to enforce the game laws. This 
is true. 1 here ought to be twice as many war¬ 
dens to watch the forest, but the men who. do 
the hunting are not the ones who are most 
favored by the work done by the Forest, Fish 
ind Game Commission. The fishermen profit 
luile as much, while the public profits far more 
n the preservation of the forest. The license 
s a tax on the few for the benefit of the many, 
-very man benefited ought to pay his share, 
md every man in the State is benefitted by every 
ong bird protected, every tree saved from un- 
imely destruction, and every stream saved from 
'ollution. The way to raise the money needed 
5 by a general law. 
The license fits Unequally upon the hunters, 
know woodsmen who make $300 a year and 
lerchants who make $5,000 a year, both kinds 
eing hunters. The cost of the license, cost of 
-gistering, cost of going to the town clerk fif 
■en miles away, the lost day all bear heavily 
pon ihe woodsman, and he will curse the people 
ho impose on him an unnecessary expense. 
I believe I know the Adirondack woodsman 
■etty well. Long before Dexter was killed on 
s private preserve “I told you so.” When ch-b 
ter club, and preserve owner after preserve 
wier in the Adirondack's threw open the posted 
rests because the woodsmen forced them to 
> it, then too, I was not surprised—it had to 
me. The story of the fight between the woods- 
m and the makers of private preserves is one 
the most dramatic in the history of the Adi- 
ndacks—and the woodsmen have been winning 
rht along. 
Every attempt to curtail the woodsmen by un- 
r play, or by impositions will cost the State 
ire in game, woods and good citizenship than 
1 times the value received from the imposi¬ 
n' T,ie woodsman says in his blacksmith 
)p. in his trapping shanty, in his shack, and 
his corner store. “I want equal laws. When 
1 get them. I’ll obey them.” 
rhere is nothing equal in a hunter’s license 
tem. It weighs a thousand times mpre heavily 
one man than on another. I know woodsmen 
0 would have to tramp or drive twenty miles 
get a license. I know Adirondack boys who 
uld be kept out of the woods forever by it. 
d sooner or later it would cost the State far 
re than it would bring in simply because the 
>dsmen are saying now, “That’s a scheme of 
n sports to keep us out the woods.” 
is not so bare-faced as the trespass notices 
the wire fences which were so common a 
years ago in the Adirondacks, but it will 
' e home harder to more woodsmen, farmers 
the like than the forest preserve idea ever 
It may serve its purpose in stopping aliens 
• shoot song birds, but I do not believe in It 
i when applied to “dagoes.” As for residents 
ther States, I say let them come in free and 
- with the best of us. All the game in the 
•try is not worth the hard feelings a non- 
lent license entails. If the game is getting 
:e> then shorten the season or stop everv- 
' bunting, but do not let New York hold up 
an ^ rom Arkansas, Wyoming or Massachu- 
when he does ns the honor of coming to 
The nonresident laws keep thousands 
ood fellows at home who would otherwise 
our way, and add to our pleasure, if we 
not so selfish as to prohibit their hunting 
NEW BRUNSWICK GUIDES PACKING A CANOE 
From a photograph by Samuel W. Lippincott. 
in our little neck o woods. Sportsmen ought to 
be the least selfish people in the world; they 
ought to be the fairest minded; they should be 
willing to give every man an equal chance and 
cheer the best man. The high license for non¬ 
residents and low license fqr natives is about as 
un-American as anything I know of. There is 
nothing claimed for licenses for hunters that 
cannot be accomplished better by other means, 
whether raising money or protecting game is 
considered. Raymond S. Spears. 
Waterproof Match Boxes. 
Boston, Mass., Jan. 24. — Editor Forest and 
Stream:. It has been said recently that there is 
a demand for a waterproof match safe that will 
float, and as I have provided myself with such 
a safe I wish to suggest the same to sportsmen. 
There are many match safes on the market, each 
having some points of merit, such as one with 
a screw cap, that opens easily but sinks; the 
hard rubber screw top ones that float, but take 
too much time to open, or one as suggested by 
Stewart Edward White, two brass shot shells, 
one of 12-gauge to slip into one of 10-gauge. 
This makes a safe that is waterproof, if not left 
in the water for any length of time, and one 
.opened easily, but that sinks. 
There is not a match safe made, so far as I 
know, that meets all of the requirements of the 
sportsman as well as a 10 or 12-gauge brass shell 
closed with a cork stopper. This makes a safe 
that is absolutely waterproof, easily opened, is 
cheap and that will float. If one wishes to pro¬ 
vide against the loss of the stopper, a cord may 
be fastened about the cork, and the other end 
fastened about the base of the shell. 
Wm. E. Baxter. 
Adirondack Timber Stealing. 
At Herkimer, N. Y., on Feb. 1, Harvey N. 
Gaylord was found guilty of grand larceny in the 
first degree for selling timber from State lands. 
On Feb. 3 he was sentenced to Auburn prison 
for a term of not less than one nor more than 
three and one-half years. 
In August, 1905, Harvey Gaylord and Charles 
Klock, State game protectors, disappeared. Later 
they gave themselves up. The grand jury of 
Oneida county returned indictments against them 
on the charge of extorting $7,750 from James 
Gallegher for permission to cut 2,000 cords of 
spi uce timber from the Noblesborough patent, in 
the State forest reserve. Gallegher and Syphert 
& Harrig held receipts signed by Klock and Gay¬ 
lord, but no indictments were returned against 
the lumbermen. 
Klock was tried in Rome, but the case was 
dismissed on a technicality. His case was taken 
up on Feb. 5 and will probably be disposed of 
this week at Herkimer. 
Other cases of this character are to be tried 
soon. 
The Police Dogs. 
New ^ ork city’s police dogs were assigned to 
duty in the suburbs the first of last week. 
If they display as much vigor while on duty as 
they have in their training, it is likely burglars 
will realize' the value of great speed as well as 
quickness in dodging, for these dogs are power¬ 
ful, quick and artful. The officers who have the 
training of the dogs in their charge are fre¬ 
quently upset or mauled by these eager and in¬ 
telligent animals, who recognize the uniform, but 
not the individual. One of the dogs has already 
saved the life of a man who was found half 
frozen. 
