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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 , 1910 . 
VOL. LXXV.—No. 12. 
No. 127 Franklin St. New York. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1910, 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. 
A LAND OF GAME AND FISH. 
Of the forest fires which recently have caused 
so much loss of life and destroyed so much 
property in the Rocky Mountains, several have 
swept over the land once occupied by the Nez 
Perces. It is of this region of rough mountain 
and dense forests, a land still abounding in game 
and fish that Dr. Moody writes so entertainingly 
in his paper, “Where Rolls the Kooskia,” whose 
publication we shall soon begin. Lewis and Clark 
found the Nez Perces in the valley of the Co¬ 
lumbia further to the westward, out on the dry 
plains, where the explorers received from the 
Indians much help and comfort in the struggle 
of journeying through a new country to find the 
salt sea that lay beyond. The Nez Perces, like 
other primitive peoples, have been battered and 
buffeted by the greedy white man, forced into 
war, driven from place to place and are now in 
Western Idaho. They are a fine tribe, and Dr. 
Moody, who was so long with them and in a 
relation which enabled him to penetrate the husk 
of reserve in which the Indian is always wrap¬ 
ped until he has given his confidence to the 
white man, writes of them with sympathy, for 
he learned to know them well. 
To the men of modern times, unfamiliar with 
the old Rockies, the stories of birds and fish and 
deer and elk and bears that were found in these 
forests in the days of which Dr. Moody writes 
read like fairy tales, yet many of us can recall 
a time when such abundance was found in many 
places. To-day such places are few, yet we may 
hope that when the time comes, as come it will, 
that game refuges shall have been established 
in many places in the mountains of the West 
such abundance may be seen again. 
That it is not wise to jest with death is 
often proved, yet the lesson is not easily learn¬ 
ed by the thoughtless. In places where water 
sports are indulged in by large numbers of peo¬ 
ple the sensation hunter feigns drowning, to 
laugh at those who hasten to his assistance. On 
a nearby river on Labor day a canoe party 
passed serenely by two youngsters who were in 
fact drowning, but their cries were unheeded be¬ 
cause of the frequency with which the canoeists 
had been victimized, and they did not wish to 
be laughed at again. 
NEWFOUNDLAND’S FISHING SEASON. 
Pr is too early to draw conclusions as to the 
effect of the new restrictions on the salmon fish¬ 
ing in Newfoundland. For the present it is suffi¬ 
cient to know that better measures have been in¬ 
augurated there, and to hope that much good 
from their enforcement will result in time. 
There was better salmon fishing than usual 
throughout the northeastern coast region this 
season. That anglers enjoyed marked success in 
Newfoundland also may have been a part of 
the favorable season. At the same time it seems 
altogether probable that the removal of nets 
from river mouths in Newfoundland last spring- 
resulted in immediate improvement in the rod 
fishing, and that the new system of inspection 
and patrolling by wardens has brought about a 
saving to the anglers of salmon that would have 
been netted or wasted under the old law. 
It is natural enough that the commercial fish¬ 
ermen should protest, as they have done, against 
the new regulations, for these do not permit 
them to completely block river mouths and take 
with their nets every salmon that attempts to 
enter, as in the past. They regard as a hard¬ 
ship any restriction which prevents them from 
sweeping clean. But it will not take them long 
to understand that the visiting anglers are will¬ 
ing to pay them more than they have been mak¬ 
ing, provided they will show the anglers where 
the salmon are to be found, and assist in the 
ways known to professional guides. 
FIRST SHOTS. 
The shooting season has fairly opened, though 
as yet it is too early to have any reports as to 
what has been accomplished. We may take it 
for granted that in the Western States, where 
the season for prairie chickens opens early in 
September, many birds have been killed—prob¬ 
ably many more than should have been taken, 
for some gunners are thoughtless and selfish and 
are unwilling to respect limits as to bags which 
the laws provide. This should not be so, but in 
many places the idea of a bag limit is a new one, 
and it is human to object to and to disregard 
laws and regulations which are novel, and which 
do not exactly jibe with our own inclinations. 
In some States on the Atlantic tidewater the 
rail shooting has already begun. This is a charm¬ 
ing and luxurious pastime—not always without 
its dangers, as many a rail shooter can testify who 
has been stung by a charge of shot, or fright¬ 
ened by some nearby gunner. The rail killed at 
the present time are chiefly home-bred birds, for 
the, flight birds will hardly be looked for until 
'. some light frost shall be felt in the North to 
start them on their nocturnal journey. The pres¬ 
ent growing moon is likely to see the movement 
of the rail begin. 
It is far too early to express any opinion 
about the prospects for duck shooting, but al¬ 
ready on the North Atlantic coast are to be seen 
not a few flocks of mallards, blackducks, wood- 
ducks and blue-winged teal. Of these the first 
and second are no doubt home-bred birds, though 
just where the mallards and the blue-winged 
teal came from it would be hard to say. Re¬ 
ports seem to Indicate that these fresh-water 
ducks are more than usually abundant this 
autumn. Of course the sea ducks have as yet 
hardly made their appearance. 
A careful observer of the game in Florida 
writes that the quail evidently hatched early, and 
that the heavy rains of the summer probably re¬ 
sulted in little loss to them. In the coveys seen 
during August, he said, it was difficult to dis¬ 
tinguish between the old and the young birds, 
so well developed were the latter. Inquiries 
elicited the information that quail are much more 
numerous than usual in Central Florida, and an 
excellent shooting season is looked forward to. 
1 he piesent shooting season seems to promise 
good sport for all who are fortunate enough to 
be able to be abroad in the fine fall weather. 
T here has been so much comment on the pos¬ 
sibilities of the aeroplane for sport that an inci¬ 
dent of the present week is worth mention. At 
Boston on Monday Lieutenant Fickel, an army 
marksman, flying with Charles F. Willard and 
shooting a service rifle, fired at a target placed 
on the ground while the machine circled the field 
at a height of about one hundred feet and at a 
speed of about thirty miles an hour. Five of the 
six shots fired hit within three feet of the bulls- 
eye. 1 he result, creditable in a first trial, open 
to great improvement with practice, shows that 
fair shooting might be done by a passenger, but 
hardly by the operator of a machine. 
No Americans took part in the recent inter¬ 
national casting tournament at London, but it is 
possible that several will enter the next one. At 
the national tournament in Chicago last month 
the subject came up for discussion, and the fol¬ 
lowing anglers signified their intention to go to 
England for the tournament next year: John 
Waddell, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; I. H. Bel¬ 
lows, of the North Shore Casting Club; J. N. 
Ranney, of the Illinois Casting Club; Fred N. 
Peet, of the Chicago Fly-Casting Club; and Dr. 
R. J. Held, of the Anglers’ Club of New York. 
It is to be hoped that all will go, and that others 
will accompany them. 
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In another column appears an account of the 
burning of the Log Cabin at Spruce Brook, N. 
F. The original anglers’ hostelry bearing this 
name was burned some time ago, and the new 
one was finished this season. Scores of salmon 
anglers from both sides of the Atlantic have 
stopped at the cabin, and they will join us in 
regretting this latest misfortune to its owners. 
