Forest and Stre 
Copyright, 1906, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 

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VOL. LXVI.—No. 15. 
1 No. 346 Broadway, New York. 

NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1906. 

The object of this journal will be to studiously 
promote a healthful interest in outdoor recre- 
ation, and to cultivate a refined taste for natural 
objects. Announcement in first number of 
Forest AND STREAM, Aug. 14, 1873. 
THE SQUAWMAN. 
THE account of life “In the Lodges of the 
Blackfeet,” that is now appearing in ForEST AND 
StrEAM, has attracted much attention. From 
many parts of the United States, from Great 
Britain and from the Philippine Islands, we have 
had inquiries about it, and have been asked by 
people, who had heard of the tale without seeing 
it, where the book is for sale and what is its 
price. 
To the old-time dweller on the plains the truth 
of the descriptions of the buffalo land and its 
wild inhabitants appeals most strongly. The 
ethnologist who has studied the mind of primi- 
tive man, and above all he who has lived with 
Indians, recognizes that here is a tale told by one 
who knows the Indian of the tribe he is describ- 
ing better than the Indian knows himself. The 
notable characteristics of the story, which call 
out the sympathies of the reader most strongly, 
are its truthfulness, its humanity, and its sim- 
plicity. 
The story portrays the true life of the Indian, 
his social intercourse, his true ethical standards 
and his true human nature, all of which vary 
from those of the white man in the matter of de- 
gree only, and in comparison with certain known 
classes of the white man such comparison is dis- 
tinctly in favor of the Indian. 
For many years now the term squawman— 
by which is meant a white man who lives with or 
is married to an Indian woman—has been a 
superficial term of reproach, most used by per- 
sons who are as ignorant of Indians as they are 
of the white men who have married Indian wo- 
men, and so without real meaning. Those who 
use it know that the term is one of prejudice and 
reproach, but do not know why it is so. It is a 
good thing that at last a squawman has arisen 
who has the power to tell a faithful story of the 
life led by a white man with an Indian wife in 
the camps, in the trading posts and in the settle- 
ments. The old time squawman was just as good 
—and just as bad—as the man who had a white 
wife, or as he who had no wife at all. The bad 
meaning that the word has come to have, arose 
no doubt from the few cases occurring in modern 
times where a white man has married an Indian 
wife, for the purpose of securing her share in 
the tribal property, or of being supported by her. 
But this is something that occurs every day in 
the centers of our highest civilization. ; 
The old-time man who married into a tribe of 
wild Indians was entitled to just as much re- 
spect and consideration as his daily life showed 
was his due. In the fact that he had married an 
Indian woman there was no reproach. 

PASI aN DePRESEN Te 
On Saturday, March 31, at Newburgh, N. Y., 
the largest steel hull ever launched on the Hud- 
son was put into the water. This was the new 
boat, Hendrik Hudson, of the Albany Day Line. 
The event was a notable one for many people, 
but to sportsmen the most interesting thing con- 
nected with it was the presence on the platform 
at the launch of Charles H. Haswell, the first 
chief engineer of the United States Navy, who 
worked with Robert Fulton in perfecting the old 
Claremont after her launching. Mr. Haswell is 
now ninety-seven years old, and is assistant engi- 
neer of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment 
of New York city, 
Not so many years ago he wrote a book en- 
titled “Reminiscences of an Octogenarian,’ which 
tells of New York city as it was in the early 
years of the last century. In this volume he 
speaks of the good English snipe shooting along 
Broadway about Forty-sixth street, of wood- 
cock shooting at Fifth avenue and Thirty-second 
street, and in the low ground between Sixteenth 
and Twenty-third streets and Sixth and Ninth 
avenues. He tells of the snipe shooting on the 
Lispenard Meadows and how it used to be a com- 
mon thing in the shooting season to see men car- 
rying their guns and followed by their dogs 
walking north through Broadway, Greenwich 
street or the Bowery on their way to their su- 
burban shooting grounds. 
It is but a short time since the death of Mr. 
John Treat Irving who in the year 1834 made an 
expedition to the villages of the Pawnees in what 
was then the uttermost west. So closely are we 
to-day connected with the events of what is act- 
ually a distant past. 
THE FORESTS MAKE READING MATTER. 
AN important feature of the work of the forest 
service is the gathering of statistics to show what 
becomes of the forest products. An inquiry into 
the amount of wood consumed in the manufac- 
ture of pulp for making paper for the year 1905 
shows an extraordinary state of things. 
It appears that 159 firms controlling 232 pulp 
mills used in 1905 more than 3,000,000 cords of 
wood. Of this wood more than 2,000,000 cords 
was spruce, 1,500,000 being domestic and 600,000 
cords imported. Hemlock came next with 370,000 
cords, and poplar next with 296,000 cords. 
It has been computed that about a cord and a 
half of wood is required to make a ton of news 
paper and the ton of news paper will print about 
9,000 copies of an eight-page paper. A tree sixty 
feet high and ten inches in diameter at breast 
height is said to contain only a little more than 
one-eighth of a cord of merchantable pulp wood. 
When one considers that in some of the largest 
cities a single newspaper may consume 800 or 900 
tons of paper for one edition, it can be seen how 
rapidly the trees must be swept away. In a case 
cited by the Association for the Protection of the 
Adirondacks, the issue of a single Sunday news- 
paper in New York must then have called for 
the destruction of nearly 10,000 trees such as de- 
scribed, to make the paper on which. that edition 
of the publication was printed. 
It appears that within the last six years there 
has been an increase in the consumption of wood 
for the manufacture of pulp of over fifty per cent., 
and the drain upon the forests caused by this 
industry alone can thus be estimated. 
Many experimenters are endeavoring to dis- 
cover some substitute for wood in the manufac- 
ture of paper, but as yet without success. 
BEASES SOP @PREY “ON FOREST KE- 
SERVES, 
In and on the borders of some of the forest 
reserves of the West where cattle range, the 
depredations of wolves and mountain lions have 
long been troublesome. The stockmen are be- 
ginning to protest against these depredations to 
the forest service of the Department of Agricul- 
ture, and to ask for protection. Like a large pro~- 
portion of the citizens of this country, they be- 
lieve that a paternal Government which furnishes 
seeds for the garden, should furnish also protec- 
tion for the herds. There is more reason in the 
request of the stockmen than in those voiced by 
many other classes of our population, for the 
stockmen pay a fee to the United States Govern- 
ment for the privilege of grazing on the forest 
reserves. 
The Forest Service recognizes the justice of 
these requests of the stockmen and has begun 
an investigation of the question of putting down 
these beasts of prey. John Goff, a mountain lion 
hunter of Colorado, who some years ago acted as 
guide for President Roosevelt, has been hired to 
hunt lions in the Shoshone division of the Yel- 
lowstone Reserve in Montana, and more recently 
Mr. Vernon Bailey, Chief Field Naturalist of the 
Biological Survey, has been temporarily trans- 
ferred to the Forest Service in order that he may 
study the wolf question. Mr. Bailey is,one of the 
first authorities on wild animals, and a better 
man for the work could not have been secured. 
The depredations of the mountain lion are far 
less important than those of the timber wolves, 
which in old times gained an easy living from the 
buffalo herds, and whose depredations on the stock 
range have been well known to all cattlemen. 
Trapping, poisoning, hunting with dogs and 
bounties have all failed in the past to do more 
than to keep down their numbers, but it may well 
enough be that Mr, Bailey’s studies will result 
in the discovery of some new means of dealing 
with the wolf, which may save the herds of the 
cattlemen. The lion and the wolf are vermin, 
and must be destroyed. The interests of the 
stockmen must be protected and the Forest Ser- 
vice will do everything in its power to this end. 
Against organized effort these wild creatures 
must pass away. 
