moose, 1 caribou, 2 albino deer and 15 
bear. 
I have known the guide for many 
years and can recommend him without 
reservation. The camp is most com- 
fortable and very prettily situated, and 
on returning one can be in Boston for 
breakfast the morning after he breaks 
camp. 
I am prevented from going, owing to 
an accident to one of my fingers, which 
may result in amputation—at any rate 
my doctor will not allow me to go with 
it in its present condition, and as my 
guide has met with many losses and I 
have a real affection for him I want 
him to get a good party. The camp can 
very nicely accommodate a party of four 
and there is another thing in its favor 
—low cost—I think only $4.00 per day 
per guide or cook, or $8 per day for the 
two. W. W. WAGNER, 
Rockport, Mass. 
Another Viewpoint on Vaccinat- 
ing Dogs 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
NDER the heading “Vaccinating 
Dogs,” in your July issue, is an 
article by Henry P. Stacy, which I feel 
should not go unanswered. 
Mr. Stacy is evidently a dog lover 
and he writes from that angle only. 
Evidently he is not well informed on 
his subject. I am also a great lover 
of the dog and have been all my life. 
I have also spent thirty-three years in 
public health work and believe I am 
fairly well-informed on the subject of 
rabies in dogs, other animals, and in 
human beings. 
The matter of rabies in dogs is well 
worth any effort a public health official 
may put forth to combat it. 
As a matter of fact, rabies is not a 
rare occurrence, there are many more 
rabid dogs at large than Mr. Stacy 
thinks. 
The reason we do not realize the 
condition better than we do is: First, 
the rabid dog is perhaps most often 
afflicted with the dumb form of rabies, 
can not bite, and hence can only infect 
by handling. Second, a rabid dog al- 
ways dies within five days. Third, 
nowadays any person bitten by a dog, 
even under suspicion, takes the Pasteur 
treatment and averts the _ disease. 
Fourth, the human being is not so sus- 
ceptible to the infection as are animals. 
Only a small proportion of rabid 
dogs come to post mortem examination 
and yet in the past three years, in the 
St. Louis Health Department Labora- 
tory, out of ninety-eight brains exam- 
ined, thirty showed rabies. 
The method of immunization as sug- 
gested, is evidently the Pasteur treat- 
ment, applied to the dog. There is 
nothing strange about the immuniza- 
tion lasting only a year, many im- 
munizations are limited. 
The real question here involved is, 
how practical is the suggestion. Per- 
sonally I do not think it practical. If 
every dog could be so immunized, even 
for a year or two, I would say it should 
be done because it would undoubtedly 
wipe out rabies. 
As a matter of fact this is not, I 
think, possible and I think the best way 
of meeting the problem is rigid collec- 
tion and destruction of all stray un- 
licensed and unmuzzled dogs and the 
impounding of any unmuzzled dog 
found running at large. Unfortunately 
this is not done anywhere that I know 
of but the doing of it would be much 
easier than the attempt to immunize 
all dogs. Mr. Stacy is not a good 
sportsman or he would not, in his 
article, reflect upon the honesty of the 
men engaged in public health work. 
I have the honor to personally know 
practically every Commissioner of 
Health of every large city in the United 
States, Canada, Cuba and Mexico. 
They are as fine, as upright and hon- 
est a class of men as can be found 
onywhere. 
If Mr. Stacy doubts this he may be 
convinced by trying to subsidize any one 
of them. 
These men devote their lives to the 
protection of health and life and you 
may be assured that when any one of 
them sponsors a movement he believes 
in it, even if he may be mistaken. To 
question their honesty is in line with 
the idea some men have that every pub- 
lic servant is necessarily dishonest. 
G. A. Gorpon, M. D., St. Louis, Mo 

Tuna at Block Island 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
E NCLOSED is a picture of my two 
best Tuna on the first day they took 
a hook at Block Island this year 
(August 11). 
Their weights were 65 and 58 pounds. 
They were landed on a 24 thread line 
in about 30 minutes each. Four other 
smaller ones were also landed by me 
on the same day. 
In addition, I landed a California 
Marlin, which I am told was the first 
one ever caught at Block Island. He 
was easily hooked while trolling for 
tuna. To land him, however, it was 
necessary to fall back on the swordfish 
harpoon, two gaffs having been lost in 
the attempt. Length was seven foot, 
four inches, and weight eighty-one 
pounds. 
On August 11th there was, I think, 
the best fishing I have seen at Block 
Island in several years. 
G. F. AITKEN, New York City. 
Alaskan Reader Also Defends 
Porky 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
READ with much interest your 
article “In Defense of Porky,” by 
L. V. Shaw, of Clements Port, N. S., 
in your June number of FOREST AND 
STREAM. 
Although I am not a resident of Mr. 
Shaw’s city, I am for his idea. Here 
in Alaska it is an unwritten law, that 
unless a person is in need of food, he 
shall not molest the porcupine if he has 
no other means of obtaining it, or, if 
he wishes to kill a porcupine for food, 
very well. But wanton killing of the 
porcupine is strictly against the Alas- 
kan code. The porcupine is practically 
the only animal that one may get with- 
out the use of firearms. As Mr. Shaw 
says, the damage done by the animal is 
very small compared to its value as 
an emergency ration for a person lost 
in the woods. There is no bounty on 
them in Alaska, and I heartily agree 
with Mr. Shaw when he says that the 
bounty should be lifted. Could not a 
petition be gotten up in his state, re- 
questing that the bounty be lifted, and 
stating the reasons therefore? 
I have not been in Alaska long. But 
I was a resident of northern Wiscon- 
sin at one time, and made my first ac- 
quaintance with “Porky” there. There 
are any number of them here in Alaska, 
and in walking through the woods at 
dusk, one encounters many of them, 
any one of which may be easily slain 
with a club. They are _ practically 
harmless, so why kill them unneces- 
sarily? , 
G. R. MacVickeEr, U.S. N., 
Juneau, Alaska. 
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