Call of the Surf 
By 
Van Campen Heilner and Frank Stick 
If you are a surf angler, here is the 
book you have long been waiting for. 
There are chapters dealing with Beach 
Camping — Tackle and Equipment— 
Off-shore Fishing for Tuna and Blue- 
fish — Shark Fishing — Channel Bass 
and Striped Bass Fishing—Surf Fishing 
on the Pacific Coast—and many others. 
Illustrated. 
FOREST AND STREAM PUB. CO. 
221 W. 57th St. New York, N. Y. 
294 pages. Cloth, $3.00 

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MAN- 
AGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., RE- 
QUIRED BY THE ACT OF CON- 
GRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912 
of Forest and Stream, published monthly at New 
York, N. Y., for April 1st, 1924. 
State of New York il 
County of New York 55: 
Before me, a Notary Public, in and for the 
State and county aforesaid, personally appeared 
T. H. Mearns, who, having been duly sworn ac- 
cording to law, deposes and says that he is the 
Business Manager of the FOREST AND 
STREAM and that the following is, to the best of 
his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the 
ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the 
circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for 
the date shown in the above caption, required by 
the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 
443, Postal Laws and "Regulations, printed on the 
reverse of this form, to wit: 
1. That the names and addresses of the pub- 
lisher, editor, managing editor, and business 
managers are: 
Publisher, Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 
221) “Wirth. St... INoey. Citys 
Editor, William A. Bruette, 221 W. 57th St., 
IN... City. 
Managing Editor, William A. Bruette, 221 W. 
BIthISt aN Nm Olty. 
Business Manager, T. H. Mearns, 221 W. 
Stee Ne We eCILY:. 
2. That the owners are: (Give names and ad- 
dresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, 
give its name and the names and addresses of 
stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or more 
of the total amount of stock.) Forest and Stream 
57th 
ee Co., 221 W. 5ith St., New York, 
N. ; W illiam. ON Bruette, 221 W. 57th St., New 
York 'N. Y ; George Bird Grinnell, 238 E. 15th 
Sts New eae NSY. Gaeta. Parker itis. 
burgh, Pa. 
38. That the known bondholders, mortgagees 
and other security holders owning or holding 1 
per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mort- 
gages, or other securities are:, (If there are none, 
so state.) None. 
4, That the two paragraphs next above, giving 
the names of the owners, stockholders and secur- 
ity holders, if any, contain not only the list of 
stockholders and security holders as they appear 
upon the books of the company, but also, in cases 
where the stockholder or security holder appears 
upon the books of the company as trustee or in 
any other fiduciary relation, the name of the per- 
son or corporation for whom such trustee is act- 
ing, is given; also that the said two paragraphs 
contain statements embracing affiant’s full knowl- 
edge and belief as to the circumstances and con- 
ditions under which stockholders and _ security 
holders who do not appear upon the books of the 
company as trustees, hold stock and securities in 
a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; 
and this afhant has no reason to believe that any 
other person, association, or corporation has any 
interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, 
or other securities than as so stated by him. 
T. H. MEARNS, Business Manager. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 19th 
day of March, 1924. 
[Seal] WALTER L. BISHOP. 
(My commission expires March 30, 1925.) 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream. 


of the new commission will be made up 
of one member, each, of the State Board 
of Health, Board of Fish and Game 
Commissioners, Bureau of Shell Fish- 
eries, Board of Commerce and Naviga- 
tion, Department of Conservation and 
Development and the Attorney-General 
of the State. 
The new board, upon its organization, 
it is predicted, will find numerous viola- 
tions awaiting its attention. Some of 
the best trout and bass streams in the 
state, it is charged, are being poisoned 
with chemical sewage from industrial 
establishments. There is scarcely a 
county in the state but what has some 
more or less serious sewerage problem 
detrimental to fish life or public health 
or both, awaiting solution. Most of the 
seashore resorts are demanding protec- 
tion from the sludge pollution of oil- 
burning vessels that despoils its bathing 
beaches and kills fish and shellfish in 
the bays. No law enacted by the re- 
cent legislature, it is claimed by its 
sponsors, have a more unanimous back- 
ing of public sentiment with the re- 
sult that the new commission will be- 
gin its labors, assured of the moral 
support not only of thousands of 
sportsmen but also of the great mass 
of the public, in every broadside it 
aims at the water poisoners. 
Canyon Club 
NNOUNCEMENT of the formation 
of the Canyon Club in New York 
City was received today by the Depart- 
ment of the Interior. Membership in 
this unique club is limited to men and 
women who have visited Zion Canyon 
in Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon 
National Monument and Cedar Breaks 
Canyon in southwestern Utah, and 
have viewed the Grand Canyon Na- 
tional Park, Arizona, from the north 
rim. The canyons of southwestern 
Utah are the most vivid and richest 
exhibits of coloring of the materials 
of the earth. The north rim of the 
Grand Canyon may be visited by auto- 
mobile from Utah points in connection 
with a trip to the painted canyons. 
The Canyon Club proposes to hold 
informal meetings once a year and 
hear from persons, who have visited 
this section and to see photographs 
and lantern slides made by individual 
members. Members of the club are 
pledged to further the interests of 
these great national scenic reservations 
in every way possible. 
At the first meeting held in the Ex- 
plorers’ Club in New York City mem- 
bers from Massachusetts, New York 
City, and Washington, D. C., attended. 
Mr. Matthew Hale of Washington, 
D. C., was elected president, and Mr. 
Stephen S. Johnson of New York 
City, secretary. 
It will identify you. 
BIRDS. Their Photographs and Home 
Life. By A. H. Cordier, M.D., Au- 
thor of “Some Big Game Hunts”; As- 
sociate Member, American Ornithol- 
ogists’ Union, ete. 
The author’s personal and scientific 
observations and discoveries while mak- 
ing these pictures are accurately por- 
trayed by both lens and pen. The Gulf 
of Mexico, Atlantic (U. S. Govern- 
ment), and Audubon Society bird rook- 
erlies, with their teeming hordes, are de- 
scribed and illustrated to furnish their 
quota of unprecedented pictorial bird 
beauty. The text is written.in a fashion 
as pleasing, instructive and entertain- 
ing to the boy and girl of ten as to the 
girl and boy of seventy. There are 
other “bird books’—but not like this. 
Scientific facts and human interest vie 
with each other. 
We believe some of his photographic 
bird studies, if not in every case the 
first, are probably the best ever made. 
Among the pictures in this great collec- 
tion is that of the last Passenger Pigeon 
in the United States, which died in Cin- 
cinnati in 1916; and others depict the 
rarest species. still occurring in 
America. Among the latter are live 
likenesses of the Pileated Woodpecker, 
_Snakebird, Sennett’s Nighthawk, Har- 
ris Sparrow, Great Crested Flycatcher, 
etc., etc. 
Illustrated by 145 rare photographs 
of 100 bird species, full cloth, decora- 
tive jacket, octavo. $4.00, postpaid 
$4.15. 
New Rod and Gun Club 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
OORHEAD, Minn., has organized 
a Rod and Gun Club with a mem- 
bership of about 135 and expect to 
bring this up to 200 before the hunting 
season opens. 
Officers are as follows: 
President...... O. B. Rusness 
Vice-Pres..Dr. G. W. Reimche 
Secretary.......B. O. Hanson 
Treaster sneer L. O. Hearl 
Board of Directors: 
L. H. Perske, Emil Lambert, 
Russell Murray, Martin Peter- 
son, Fred Brophy. 
Program for the Season: 
April 20th to June 1st crow shoot 
contest club divided into two teams 
headed by the following captains: 
Dr. G. W. Reimche and L. H. Perske. 
Losing team to put on a picnic with- 
out cost or labor to the winning team. 
Planting of Pheasants, stocking near- 
by lakes with game fish, enforcing the 
law and above all stopping the game 
hogs. Planting wild rice for ducks. 
Dr. G. W. REIMCHE, 
Moorhead, Minn. 
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