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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[FEB. 24, 1906. 

THE ROBERTS SAFETY LAUNCH AND YACHT BOILER. 
Nearly 1500 in use. 
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THE ROBERTS SAFETY WATER TUBE BOILER COMPANY, 39 and741 Cortlandt Street, New York. 


Manual of the Canvas Canoe. 
By F. R. Webb (“Commodore”). Many illustra- 
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Cloth. 115 pages. Price, $1.25. 
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Small Yacht Construction 
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Gas Engines and Launches. 
Types and Management. 
Price, $1.25. 
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Seventh and enlarged edition. 264 pages. Nu- 
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Massachusetts Legislation. 
Boston, Mass., Feb. 19.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Doubtless your readers have been look- 
ing for some account of the various hearings on 
bills that directly or indirectly interest sportsmen. 
The first which the writer attended was held by 
the Committee on Probate and Chancery on Sen- 
ate bill 98, for prohibition of the use and sale of 
automatic firearms. Chairman Poland, of the 
Central Committee, in opening the case for the 
petitioners, stated to the committee that he was 
willing the bill should be so changed as to make 
it apply only to its use in shooting game. He ex- 
plained the use of the gun and gave reasons why, 
in his opinion, its use by hunters should be for- 
bidden. He said, with such a weapon, a flock of 
partridges or of ducks under certain conditions 
might be all killed by a single sportsman. He 
dwelt somewhat upon the scarcity of game in the 
State as compared with conditions a quarter of a 
century ago, and the vast increase in the number 
of hunters. Several others spoke in support of 
the bill, and representatives of the manufacturers 
and one or two others spoke forcibly against any 
legislation discouraging to the ingenuity of those 
engaged in developing improvements in firearms. 
At the suggestion of Senator Chapple, who pre- 
sided, Mr. Poland volunteered to prepare a new 
draft of the bill. The committee has not yet re- 
ported their action. 
On Feb. 9 a hearing occurred before the Com- 
mittee on Fisheries and Game on House bill 374 
and House bill 600, for licensing non-resident 
hunters. The first of these bills provides that a 
non-resident hunting in Massachusetts should pay 
such a sum for the privilege as his own State pre- 
scribes for a similar privilege, while House bill 
600 provides for a fixed fee of $10. This bill, pre- 
pared by Mr. Poland, had the indorsement of the 
Sportsmen’s Protective Association of Eastern 
Massachusetts as well as of the State Association 
and the Central Committee. Mr. Poland, in 
opening, pointed out the fact that under the first- 
named bill there would be no protection as against 
hunters from Rhode Island, where there is no 
non-resident license, and that his bill would be 
simpler and less confusing to officers in charge of 
its enforcement. It appeared in testimony given 
that in several sections of the State there are 
many hunters coming into the covers of Massa- 
chusetts from New Hampshire, Rhode Island, 
Connecticut and New York, not to mention oc- 
casional visitors from States more distant. 
President Brewster said that while he had 
never looked with much favor upon the licensing 
of hunters, he thought, in view of the fact that 
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