JAN. 13, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 


MR. HART PLAYING A SALMON. 
my blankets, and to take good care of him. He 
won't have a doctor, saying that the doctor 
would kill him. Do you know of any remedy 
you can send to Aimée for him? If so, I will be 
more than glad to pay all the expense, for I am 
awfully sorry for him. If a fellow only had 
Rockefeller’s or Carnegie’s money, what an 
amount of good he could do among these poor 
people, some with a sick wife and a lot of 
children, some husbands killed, leaving a family 
with nothing to lie on, and forty or more other 
cases that I know of and that are in so much 
greater need than are those for all the colleges 
and libraries that they are giving away, with 
brass band accompaniments.” 
He was a true Waltonian, a lover of every- 
thing that is beautiful in nature, a skillful angler, 
a generous friend and an ideal companion both 
in city and in camp. It has been my privilege to 
camp with him several times upon the preserves 
of the Triton and the Nonantum clubs, in the 
vicinity of Lake St. John, at Lake Eternity in 
the rear of the Saguenay Cape of the same 
name, and by the rippling waters of the Gaspé 
stream, in which I was proud to have been able 
to secure for him his first salmon fishing. Here 
he often claimed that he had spent some of the 
happiest hours of his life, and here it was that 
he occupied himself on one occasion for two and 
a half hours—as told by Mr. Hallock in your issue 
on Oct. 28 last—in killing a 311%4-pound salmon. I 
photographed him while he was playing this 
fish, and inclosed the picture for your inspection, 
together with one taken when he was out upon 
his last camping trip in the Saguenay country, 
in July, 1904. This picture shows Mr. Hart with 
a gray or lake trout (namaycush), caught in 
Lake Eternity by trolling. 
In Canada, George E. Hart will be mourned 
by many, many friends, for he made them 
wherever he went. He will be much missed 
from his accustomed haunts, much mourned by 
all who knew him, while sympathy in abund- 
ance will flow to the loved and bereaved ones 
whom he has left behind, and many a fervent 
prayer will be offered that the blessing of St. 
Peter’s Master may remain for evermore with 
the gentle Waterbury angler who has answered 
the summons and “gone before,” over the dark 
river. 
The Late Canadian Minister of Fisheries. 
Hosts of Canadian fishermen, and no doubt 
many American ones as well, who were ac- 
quainted with the Hon. Raymond Prefontaine, 
Minister of Fisheries for the Dominion of 
Canada, were shocked to learn by cable of his 
sudden death in Paris on Christmas Day. It is 
but comparatively a short time ago that a num- 
ber of American gentlemen interested in the 
stoppage of the netting in Missisquoi Bay, 
waited upon the Hon. Mr. Prefontaine, both in 
Montreal and Ottawa, and all were very much 
impressed with the personal interest which the 
honorable gentleman manifested in the matter. 
He was an enthusiastic angler himself, having a 
beautiful summer home at Ste. Agathe in the 
heart of the splendid trout country to the north 
of Montreal. During the last salmon fishing 
season, Mr. Prefontaine was for some days the 
guest of Mr. Henri Menier at Anticosti, and 
had some excellent sport with the salmon of the 
Jupiter River. It is not yet known who will be 
his successor in office. ~ 
Maine Sportsmen’s Convention. 
Bancor, Me., Jan. 3.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Yesterday marked the annual gathering 
of the Maine Sportsmen’s Fish and Game As- 
sociation, which holds its meetings alternately 
in Augusta and Bangor. The session at Augusta 
is usually the one where the most active meas- 
ures are undertaken in regard to changing ex- 
isting game and fish laws or creating new 
statutes, as it is held in connection with the 
assembling of the legislators at the capital, but 
this meeting of the odd year is where the great 
movements apparently have their beginning, as 
here the trend of thought and action is generally 
outlined, with the purpose of accustoming the 
minds of the sportsmen to the ideas to be pre- 
sented in more or less concrete form at the 
next session. 
Some of the suggestions brought forward at 
this meeting, for the consideration of the com- 
mittee on legislation, are certainly radical 
enough, but as the Legislature does not meet 
for another year, there is not the slightest 
danger of action being taken on them before 
the end of another season. 
These officers were elected: President, 
Charles A. Judkins, Kineo; Vice-Presidents, I. 
K. Stetson, Bangor; D. M. Parks, Pittsfield; F. 
C. Barker, Bemis; J. W. Brackett, Phillips; J. 
P. Stevens, Portland; A. H. Shaw, Bath and W. 
H. Newell, Lewiston; Secretary and Treasurer, 
E. C. Farrington, Augusta; Directors, including 
President and Secretary, J. F. Sprague, .of 
Monson; V. W. MacFarlane, of Greenville; A. 
B. Farnham, of Bangor; E. P. Mayo, of Water- 
ville; Harry R. Virgin, of Portland, and Cyrus 
N. Blanchard, of Wilton; General Counsel, Wm. 
T. Haines, of Waterville.’ 
The annual reports presented by Gen. Far- 
rington showed the association to be in fine 
condition financially, with an increasing mem- 
bership. Among the suggestions he made were 
some that he considered in the nature of a 
“square deal,” and he advocated a prohibition 
on the carrying of firearms into the wild lands 
during close season, to the detriment of the 
game supply which those who pay for the pro- 
MR. 
HART ON LAKE ETERNITY, 
tection of big game have a right to later in the 
season. To quote his exact words: “I believe 
that this Association should take its position in 
favor of a ‘square deal’ and put its seal of con- 
demnation upon a practice which allows non- 
residents or any others to go into the woods 
and take their annual deer and moose hunting 
during the summer, to the detriment of those 
whose money pays for what protection the State 
is able to give our large game.” He felt that 
the present law providing a license for bird 
hunting only up to October 1 should be so 
amended that all hunters should pay one license, 
whatever he chooses to hunt, large or small. 
“If the practice of killing large game is con- 
tinued during close time, the laws set at de- 
fiance, it needs no prophet to foretell that the 
day is not far distant when this privilege to 
occupy the wilderness for summer camping 
homes will be denied.” He felt that, with the 
fish holding their own and perhaps increasing, 
any changes in the present fish laws are un- 
necessary, but he would recommend the intro- 
duction of white perch into the waters of the 
State generally, to supply summer fishing at a 
time when salmon and trout fishing is least pro- 
ductive. 
Resolutions of sympathy and appreciation 
were passed in honor of Hon. Henry O. 
Stanley, of Dixfield, the dean of fish and game 
commissioners, who was obliged. by ill health 
and advancing years to retire during the past 
year, after over thirty years of active service 
for the State in this office. 
Resolutions of respect on the death of the 
Association’s second vice-president, the late 
Hon. C. A. Marston, of Skowhegan, were 
also passed, and the meeting adjourned to 
the evening, when it reassembled for a smoke 
talk on several important questions affecting 
hunting and fishing in this State., 
President Judkins presided, and called on 
Chairman L. T. Carleton to present his views 
on the several questions. Mr. Carleton’s re- 
marks were very largely a refutation of remarks 
and statements made by Master Obadiah 
Gardner, of the Maine State Grange, at its 
recent convention, and the reading of two let- 
ters on the fish and game question, alleged to 
be from a non-resident native of this State, who 
advocated radical measures to stamp out sum- 
mer killing, and a decided increase in the non- 
resident license fee, in connection with a nominal 
license to be paid by natives, and the pro- 
hibiting of carrying of firearms on the wild lands 
during close season; while the second was said 
to be from a farmer, whose suggestions were al- 
most as radical as the other’s. Mr. Carleton 
was unprepared to indorse the suggestion of 
either writer, but the inference from his remarks 
was that they coincided with his views as to 
what ought to be done. 
