Fes. 3; 1906. ] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 

{Massachusetts Association Dinner. 
Upwarp of 200 members of the Massachusetts 
Fish and Game Protective Association had a 
jovial time on the evening of Thursday, Jan. 25, 
and incidentally afforded a lot of pleasure to a 
liberal list of invited guests, sportsmen like them- 
selves, as well as officers and members of the 
North American Fish and Game Protective Asso- 
ciation. 
The guests were Hon. Nelson W. Fisk, ex- 
Governor of Vermont; Hon. F. J. Sweeney, Sur- 
veyor-General of New Brunswick, who lives in 
St. John; E. T. D. Chambers, of Quebec, Secre- 
tary of the Fish and Game Protective Association 
of that Province; Hon. Charles S. Hamlin, ex- 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury of the United 
States; Hon. W. A. Morse, commander of the 
Ancients; Hon. John W. Titcomb, Chief Fishcul- 
turist at "Washington, Dei Hon. Henry 
Thomas, Fish and Game Commissioner of Ver- 
mont; Hon. D. G. Smith, Fisheries Commissioner 
of New Brunswick ; Hon. L. S. Carleton, chairman 
of the Maine Fish and Game Commission ; Hon. 
George W. Field, chairman of the Massachusetts 
Fish and Game Commission; Frank L. Fish, 
president of the Vermont Fish and Game League; 
A. Kelley Evans, secretary of the Ontario Fish 
and Game Protective Association; Dr. John S. 
Phinney, president of the Quebec Fish and Game 
Protective Association; Charles H. Wilson, vice- 
president of the North American Fish and Game 
Protective Association; Charles F. Burhans, of 
the St. Bernard Fish and Game Club, Warrens- 
burg, N. Y.; Dr. George L. Porter, of Bridge- 
port, Conn.; R. E. Plumb, Detroit. Mich. 
The decorations of the dining room were of 
felicitous design, consisting of a profuse applica- 
tion of national flags and festoons of bunting to 
the walls, a quantity of small white birch and 
evergreen trees all around the room and souven- 
irs from the forests, in the form of oak and other 
autumn leaves. 
Owing to the unavoidable absence of Prof. 
William Brewster, president of the Massachu- 
setts Association, George W. Wiggin, of Frank- 
lin, officiated as toastmaster, and he did it with 
a grace that left nothing to be desired, notwith- 
standing that he had but a few hours’ warning 
of the responsibility laid upon him. 
A toast to President Roosevelt was drunk 
standing, and, later, when it came the turn of Mr. 
Sweeney, of New Brunswick, to speak, he ‘was 
preceded by the drinking of a toast, standing, to 
King Edward VII. 
Ex-President George W. Wiggin reviewed the 
history of the organization, contrasting the defi- 
cient game protective conditions obtaining in 1874 
when the sportsmen organized, with the highly de- 
veloped legislation of to-day. He recounted the 
successful efforts of the Association in restocking 
the State with quail, pinnated grouse and a few 
other species, showing less happy results. 
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 
Charles S. Hamlin described the beneficial effects 
of protecting Buzzard’s Bay and the Columbia 
River, and the destruction he found on an official 
visit to Alaska, urging American and Canadian 
sportsmen to get together and settle bad condi- 
tions on the Great Lakes. 
The Hon. Frank J. Sweeney, Surveyor-General 
of New Brunswick, after a brief resumé of the 
work of the North American Fish and Game 
Association, concluded by saying: ‘‘Wherever 
else we may need to come together as nations, 
there is certainly need of reciprocity in this mat- 
_ ter_of game protection.” 
Ex-Gov. Nelson W. Fisk, of Vermont, spoke 
briefly on the advantages of uniformity in fish and 
game laws. especially between the States and 
Canadian Provinces. 
President J. S. Phinney of the Fish and Game 
Protective Association of the Province of Que- 
bec, told of the ups and downs of his organiza- 
tion during its forty-eight years of existence, 
which he said was almost certain to culminate 
within a few weeks in legislation in Quebec that 
would be on a par with any code’ of game laws 
in the world. 
Addresses in congratulation and in lighter vein 
were made by Capt. William A. Morse, of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company; the 
Hon, Frank L. Fish, president of Vermont Fish 
and Game League; the Hon. John W. Titcomb, 
of the United States Fish Commission, and the 
Hon. A. Kelly Evans, president of the Ontario 
Fish and Game Protective Association. ‘We are 
educating public sentiment,’ he said, “which we 
believe is the surest source of good game laws.” 
The Hon. L. T. Carleton, chairman of the 
Maine Fish and Game Commission, was the con- 
cluding speaker. 
Game Wardens in Convention. 
Tue third annual meeting of the National 
Association of Game and Fish Wardens and 
Commissioners convened in St. Paul on Thurs- 
day of last week, Jan. 25, President W. F. Scott 
in the chair. The list of delegates in attendance 
included W. F. Scott, chief game warden of 
Montana; C. E. Brewster, Grand Rapids, Mich., 
game and fish warden of Michigan and secretary 
of the association; William Stevens, Idaho fish 
and game warden; A. C. Hantz and G. W. Clark, 
Illinois game wardens ; Charles K. Hoyt, Michi- 
gan chief deputy game warden; S. F. Fullerton, 
executive agent of the Minnesotae Game and 
Fish Commission; O, K. Johnson, president, and 
Henry K. Smith, treasurer of the same; J : 
Rodes, Missouri State game and fish warden; 
George L. Carter, Nebraska chief game warden; 
H. D.- Pierson, "deputy of the same; W. 
O’Brien, superintendent of fisheries of that State; 
T. G. Pierson, secretary of the State Audubon 
Society of North Carolina, and of the National 
Audubon Society; William F. McKean and F. F. 
Schlechter, North Dakota State game wardens; 
Hale, former game warden of North Dakota; J. 
C. Porterfield, Ohio State game warden; Col. 
Joseph H. Acklen, Tennessee game warden of the 
Department of Game, Fish and Forestry; Jonas 
Swenholt, Wisconsin State game and fish warden; 
Maj. John G. Pitcher, acting superintendent of 
Yellowstone Park; Dr. T. S. Palmer, in charge 
of the game preservation and biological survey 
department at Washington, D. C.; G. W. Shields, 
of New York, representing the League of Ameri- 
can Sportsmen; Z. T. Sweeney, game commis- 
sioner of Indiana; George A. Lincoln, game com- 
missioner of Iowa; C. H. Chapman, game com- 
missioner of Michigan. 
The principal address at Saturday’s session was 
by Charles Joslyn, of Michigan, who discussed 
the proposition of uniform laws governing fishing 
on the Great Lakes. Mr. Joslyn devoted the 
greater part of his address to an exposition of 
the rights and powers of the State and Federal 
governments in the waters of the Great Lakes. 
He said it is by no means certain that the Fed- 
eral Government does not possess the power to 
control these fisheries. 
Much has been accomplished by co-operation 
between the State Government of Michigan and 
the Federal Government in the way of propagat- 
ing and distributing whitefish along the Michigan 
shores. The arrangement had to do. with the 
operation of the fish hatcheries at the Soo and 
Detroit by which the Government got twenty-five 
per cent. of the fry and the remainder were de- 
posited in State waters. Mr. Joslyn referred to 
the complications and inconveniences occasioned 
by the lack of uniformity among the several 
States concerned, but believed the better policy 
lay in education and co-operation with the Gen- 
eral Government rather than in Federal legisla- 
tion at present. 
A law passed by Congress to control these in- 
terests would have to be tested in the Supreme 
Court, he said, and even if upheld would excite 
some animosity. Personally, he believed the Na- 
tional Government has as much right to control 
the fisheries on the Great Lakes as it has to con- 
- trol the steamships that carry grain from Duluth 
to Buffalo. The fisheries of these waters are 
something in which the entire country is inter- 
ested. They are an important source of food sup- 
ply which should be conserved in the interest of 
the whole people. 
Speaking of educational work, Mr. Joslyn said: 
“We must learn to control ourselves before we 
can control others. I have known men who called 
themselves sportsmen to go out and shoot 150 
ducks in one trip. People who witness this 
wholesale slaughter naturally have no faith in the 
professions of such sportsmen.” 
He said that as a result of the co-operation of 
the State of Michigan with the Federal Govern- 
ment the whitefish are increasing in the Detroit 
River and along the Michigan shore. 
Secretary Brewster, of Grand Rapids, Mich., 
opened an interesting discussion on “Game Laws 
and Politics.” He said: ‘Game and fish laws, 
unless supported by public sentiment, are the most 
difficult of all laws to enforce. I believe the sys- 
tem that is the least affected by politics is that 
of a responsible commission having appointive 
power and to which all deputies are answerable. 
The department should be placed under civil ser- 
vice regulations.” 
Executive Agent S. F, Fullerton, of Minnesota, 
said: “I am a politician and I believe in politics, 
but I also believe that the best way to get good 
results in politics, as in everything else, is by 
doing good work. In this State the commission- 
ers have left the appointment of the wardens en- 
tirely in my hands. I do not consider politics in 
making appointments. If I were asked to make 
appointments on political grounds I should de- 
cline to do so, even if I had to resign my office. 
We start our men at $50 a month and advance 
them as they become proficient. We pay none 
more than $100 a month. A daily report is re- 
quired from all deputies, and no man is kept in 
the service who does not earn his salary.” 
. C. Hentz, of Illinois, read a’paper by his 
chief, John A. Wheeler, on, the condition of 
game and game laws in Illinois, from which it 
appeared that the game officers are not the most 
popular in the rural districts of that State. 
Owing to their diligence, however, it is claimed 
that the quail are increasing in the central and 
southern parts of the State. 
Major Pitcher, Superintendent of the Yellow- 
stone National Park, said that the fictitious 
value placed on elks’ teeth is one of the greatest 
obstacles in the way of saving that noble animal 
from extinction. As high as $50 and $60 is 
often paid for an elk’s tooth. He said he had 
called the matter to the attention of the Order 
of Elks, but that the resolutions which they had 
adopted had not diminished the demand for 
teeth. 
Judge W. B. Douglas addressed the conven- 
tion on “Cold Storage and Game Preservation.” 
He said that the wholesale slaughter of game 
birds for cold storage had been one of the most 
potent factors in the destruction of game birds. 
Quail and prairie chickens had rapidly disap- 
peared before the demands of the Chicago cold 
storage houses. He hoped Minnesota never 
would abandon its policy of restricting the cold 
storage of .game by prohibiting the sale and 
transportation of game within the State. 
Dr. T. S. Palmer, of Washington, D. C., asked 
the co-operation of the association in securing 
the passage of a bill now in Congress, known 
as House Bill No. 7019, which authorizes the 
President of the United States to set apart por- 
tions of the forest reserve as refuges for wild 
game. A similar bill is in the Senate, known as 
Senate Bill No. 2966. 
A pleasant incident of the session was the 
presentation of a set of silver knives and forks 
to the President of the Association, W. F. 
Scott, in recognition of his services to the As- 
sociation. Mr. Scott, who has served the As- 
sociation as its president for two years. and was 
elected to a third term, was recentiy married, 
and was the only delegate who brought his wife 
to the convention. Mrs. Scott was present at 
the presentation and received the gift from Dr. 
T. S. Palmer, of Washington, D. C., who made 
the presentation speech. 
It was voted to leave the place and date of 
the next meeting to the Executive Committee. 
with power to act. An amended constitution 
was adopted, and the following officers were 
elected: President, W. S. Scott, of Montana; 
First Vice-President, J. H. Rhodes, Missouri; 
Second Vice-President, J. C. Porterfield, Ohio; 
Secretary, George L. Carter, Nebraska; Treas- 
urer, H. C. Smith, Minneapolis; General Coun- 
cilman, Col. J. H. Acklen, Tennessee; Direc- 
tors, 
T. G. Pierson, North Carolina, and Major 
Pitcher, Yellowstone National Park. Dr. T. 
S. Palmer, Washington, D. C., was honored by 
being made an honorary life member. 
