Nov. 5, 1910.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
735 
The new book is richly illustrated. It has 
colored plates of the ruffed grouse and the bob- 
white quail, and forty-eight full page black and 
white illustrations, showing portraits of different 
game birds and hunting scenes, together with a 
number of cuts in the text. 
It is about the size of the “American Duck 
Shooting”—nearly 600 pages. Its price is $3.50 
net and postage twenty-five cents extra. 
All upland gunners, and all who possess 
“American Duck Shooting,” will need this com¬ 
panion volume which is not less interesting and 
useful. 
North Carolina Game. 
Raleigh, N. G, Nov. i.— ■ Editor Forest and 
Stream: Except in a very few counties—Meck¬ 
lenburg among the number—the hunting season 
all over North Carolina began to-day. Reports 
from a large area show that partridges are more 
abundant than for several years. Though the 
summer was in large part rainy, there were no 
great floods, and the birds generally are well 
grown. By partridges quail are meant, since the 
latter word is never used in this State except by 
people from the North and West. 
Great numbers of robins summered and bred 
here this year. They were plentiful near Raleigh 
in mid July. In September they were to be seen 
in flocks; with them nearly always were numbers 
of their good friends, the golden woodpeckers. 
The first week in October more than a hundred 
of these last were seen in the woods near 
Raleigh. The fact that no shooting whatever is 
now permitted in this section between March 15 
and Nov. i has no doubt had much to do in 
making birds of all kinds gentler. 
Curator Brimley, of the State Museum, has at 
last put in position a notable and extensive col¬ 
lection of ducks from North Carolina waters, 
and they at once arrest the attention of the 
sportsman. It is doubtful whether any other 
State can show so great a variety. As the birds 
are all in one case, swimming or walking on the 
shore, there is an admirable opportunity for their 
study. A swan and a goose are shown in the 
act of alighting among their smaller friends with 
stiffened wings, bodies well thrown back and feet 
spread as far as their webs will permit. 
The fox hunting in this vicinity was unusually 
good last season, and many people from the 
North enjoyed it. Mr. Twitty, of Buffalo, will 
be here again for the winter with his horses and 
hounds. A number of people from Pinehurst 
will take part in the hunts, the meets taking 
place at the bungalow of Dr. James Rogers, at 
Milburnie, six miles from here on the Neuse 
River, where the Lake Mischew Hunt Club has 
its headquarters. Foxes are numerous, as in 
addition to those already in this section sixty 
young ones were turned loose in the summer, 
and these have been frequently seen. Dr. Rogers 
has a very fine pack of hounds. Readers of 
Forest and Stream who may come here will cer¬ 
tainly enjoy the hunting as well as the compan¬ 
ionship of Southern friends, for true sportsmen 
are always given a hearty welcome to Raleigh. 
Fred A. Olds. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada , revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
The New Interstate Park. 
On Oct. 29 the deeds to the Harriman tract 
and the Bear Mountain tract, and $1,000,000 in 
cash were transferred to the Palisades Inter¬ 
state Park Commission. These splendid gifts 
will become the property of the people of New 
York and New Jersey forever when the voters 
of New York State shall have performed their 
part on Election Day; that is, by voting in favor 
of the $2,500,000 bond issue which is necessary 
to complete the transaction. That they will do 
this is practically certain, for no opposition to 
the plan has been raised, and the benefits to 
them and their descendants are so great that it 
is inconceivable that anyone should oppose the 
question. 
A large number of people who have been 
prominent in the work of preserving the Pali¬ 
sades of the Hudson met at the foot- of Bear 
Mountain last Saturday on the abandoned site 
of the State prison, and witnessed the formal 
transfer of ownership of many acres of land 
and a fortune in cash, once private and State 
property, now the property of the people of 
New York and New Jersey, to be held*in trust 
for them by the Interstate Palisades Park Com¬ 
mission. 
The day was a glorious one, the setting one 
of the grandest to be found anywhere, with the 
Hudson River below and the rugged hills above 
and about, painted in the gorgeous colors of 
autumn. But, reminding those gathered there 
of what might have been—what would have 
been—a perpetual eyesore, were to be seen the 
desecrating marks of the preparatory work of 
the convict camp ere Governor Hughes, listen¬ 
ing to the clamor, feeble at first but overwhel¬ 
ming later on, stopped the building of the new 
prison and sent the commission elsewhere in 
search of a site. 
It was William J. McKay, president of the 
State Prison Commission, who made the open¬ 
ing address, and who, on behalf of his State, 
presented the Palisades Park Commission with 
the title to the 700 acres of land on Bear Moun¬ 
tain which his commission had purchased for 
the prison site, now to be used by the outdoor 
people of America as a great camp ground. He 
reviewed the events of the Revolutionary war 
leading up to the fight in which the Hessians, 
encamped on the tract, retreated before the 
Americans, leaving their camp equipage and 
their dead behind them. His commission, he 
said, had also been routed but had retreated in 
more orderly form to its new site at Wingdale, 
taking its belongings with it. He hoped there 
would be a generous response for funds with 
which to carry out the commission’s plans.. 
The gift was received for the Park Commis¬ 
sion by J. Du Pratt White, its secretary, who 
read letters from former Governor Hughes, Gov¬ 
ernor Fort, of New Jersey, and Mayor Gaynor. 
Adjutant-General Verbeck, representing Gov¬ 
ernor White, personally thanked Mrs. Harri¬ 
man and other donors for their generosity, the 
flags of the United States, New York and New 
Jersey were hoisted on a staff nearby by the 
Misses Carroll Harriman and Dorothy Perkins, 
a battery from West Point fired nineteen guns, 
and Averill W. Harriman presented the deed to 
the 10,000-acre Harriman tract and a check for 
$1,000,000 from his mother, Mrs. E. H. Harri¬ 
man, in these words: 
“In accordance with a long cherished plan of 
my father to give to the State of New York 
for the use of the people a portion of the Arden 
estate, and acting in behalf of my mother, I now 
present to the Commissioners of the Palisades 
Park the land comprising the gift. I also hand 
you my mother’s contribution to the expense of 
future developments of the Harriman Park. It 
is her hope and mine that through all the years 
to come the health and happiness of future 
generations will be advanced by these gifts.” 
In expressing the thanks of the State to Mrs. 
Harriman and the other donors, President 
George W. Perkins, of the Park Commission, 
said: 
“Beyond all doubt this day is to be a historic 
one, for it marks the veritable beginning of 
what will certainly become one of the largest, 
most beautiful, and practical recreation grounds 
in all the world. 
“For ten years persistent effort has been 
made by the Palisades Park Commission to 
stop the destruction of the Palisades of the 
Hudson and to acquire by purchase the entire 
face of the Palisades from Fort Lee to Nyack. 
This has been accomplished, and the title to 
this long stretch of unsurpassed scenery is now 
vested in the States of New York and New 
Jersey, and all question of the Palisades of the 
Hudson being destroyed is forever disposed of 
and the matchless grandeur of this section pre¬ 
served for the people of all time. 
“When the Palisades Commission took up 
its work ten years ago the Palisades were prac¬ 
tically unknown except as viewed from a dis¬ 
tance, and were rarely visited by any one. As 
the blasting was stopped the cliffs were made 
somewhat accessible to the people of New \ork 
and New Jersey, and in increasing numbers dur¬ 
ing the last few years people have come to use 
this district for park purposes. 
“During the season of 1909 over 1,000 permits 
were issued to various people to have picnics 
and camps along the shore. During the season 
just closed about the same number of permits 
were issued, and it is estimated that approxi¬ 
mately 5,000 people enjoyed the shores of the 
Palisades during their holidays and Sundays. 
In addition, many hundreds visited the district 
for a few hours at a time. 
“The natural and uninterrupted pathway from 
New York city to the Highlands of the Hudson 
is at the foot of the Palisades along the west 
bank of the river; for on this strip of land, 
running from a point opposite Grant’s 1 omb 
to Nyack, can be constructed a roadway with¬ 
out a single intersecting .street.- 
“As the Palisades Park Commission was com¬ 
pleting its work of acquiring the face of the 
Palisades, and contemplating the construction 
of this roadway, Mrs. Harriman made her price¬ 
less offer to the State of New York of. 10,000 
acres of land and $1,000,000 for a great State 
park. 
“It was further able to secure an appropria¬ 
tion from the State of New Jersey of $500,000, 
and was able to induce the New York Legisla¬ 
ture to authorize the issuance of $2,500,000 of 
bonds, subject to a favorable vote by the people 
at the November elections—the proceeds of this 
bond issue to be used in the further develop¬ 
ment of the park. The several contributions 
enumerated above, including that of New Jersey, 
and aggregating about $3,125,000, are con- 
