

orest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. 
GrorGE Brrp GRINNELL, President, 
York. 
346 Broadway, New 

CuHarves B. REyNotps, Secretary. 
346 Broadway, New York. 
346 
Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
Louis DEAN Sperr, Treasurer. 
3roadway, New York. 



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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful interest 
in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate a refined 
taste for natural objects, 
—Forest AND STREAM, Aug. 14, 1873. 

AMERICAN HUNTING ARMS. 
TuerE is to be brought together in America 
a collection of the arms, implements and hunting 
paraphernalia of the American pioneers from the 
earliest times, which will be of great interest to 
American sportsmen. 
The Boone and Crockett Club has undertaken 
this excellent work, and the collection when 
formed will be exhibited as a unique group 
of American hunting arms in the Administration 
Building of the New York Zoological Society at 
the Bronx Park. It will thus fitly supplement 
the National Collection of Heads and Horns 
which is being gathered there, and the two col- 
lections promise to be of extraordinary interest. 
The foundation of such a collection will na- 
turally be the firearms with which the pioneer 
killed his food, and with which he defended his 
property and his home from the attacks of sav- 
age beasts, and of still more savage men; but, 
besides this, as the President of the Boone and 
Crockett Club points out in the admirable letter 
which we publish elsewhere, the hunting hatchet, 
the bowie knife, and the powder horn will have 
an important place in such.a collection. With 
these tools belong too, ball pouch and bullet 
mould of ancient type, the buckskin clothing worn 
by the trapper of two generations ago. The 
earliest of the American hunters—though to be 
sure he was huntin'g for meat, as many of us did 
in the early days—slew his food with the bow 
and arrow, and old time sinew back bows may 
well find a place in such a collection. Such bows, 
in special cases, were used often by whites as well 
as by Indians. 
Sportsmen will do well to read with care Mr. 
Wadsworth’s letter, and to consider whether they 
have not something which they may be glad to 
contribute to so unique a collection, one which 
will indicate many of the main facts of American 
history, and will tell the story of the progress of 
our ancestors over the continent as they followed 
the star of empire on its westward way. 
CONNECTICUT’S NEW GAME LAW. 
By its action during the session which has just 
closed the Legislature of Connecticut has placed 
that State in line with those States which have 
taken the most aggressive stand in behalf of good 
laws and thorough protection. This radical ac- 
tion by Connecticut—one of the homes of con- 
servatism—is as gratifying as it is surprising. 
The cutting off of spring shooting by Connecti- 
cut is something on which the whole of New 
England, New York and all of eastern Canada 
is to be congratulated. We may look forward 
now to a time when spring shooting north of the 
Delaware and Ohio Rivers will be cut off, and 
this means that over a great part of North Amer- 
ica wildfow! will be protected during the sea- 
son when they are preparing to breed and are 
breeding. 
Last week Gov. Woodruff, of 
signed the hunter’s license bill, which 
comes law. This throws another barrier 
about the upland birds of Connecticut, 
tend to reduce the destruction by irresponsible 
persons, aliens and to some extent by non- 
residents of the State. 
Connecticut, 
thus be- 
of safety 
and will 
by 
RIFLE RANGES. 
THE famous old Creedmoor rifle range 
Long Island is under public suspicion and is be- 
lieved to be unsafe. The proper State officials 
are investigating complaints that have been filed, 
on 
with a view to remedying existing defects and 
making the range as safe as is possible under 
the circumstances. It may be that these 
changes shall have been made, and extraordinary 
precautions also taken to prevent carelessness by 
novices, rifle firing will proceed for a time, at 
least. 
It seems, however, that the old range is pass- 
ing; that the history of nearly every other well- 
known rifle range is to be repeated here. Farms 
and market gardens lie beyond the targets and 
to right and left of them. The rifle butts have 
been improved and made higher from time to 
time, and every effort made to confine all bullets 
fired to the targets and their heavy butts. 
Now, it is a tradition as ancient as firearms 
themselves that if a person be struck by a bullet, 
or find one, and there rifle in the 
vicinity, by some mysterious process of reason- 
ing the rifle range and the bullet will be linked 
We have known 
where persons alleged they had been struck by 
bullets that were in fact fired in the opposite 
when 
I range 
together for all time. cases 
direction and their lodgment in the target *regu- 
larly recorded. 
As is usual in such cases, the good people who 
are handing in their the 
Creedmoor range have collections of bullets to 
complaints against 
show. They tell of a cow or a horse that was 
shot. They point to bullet marks on barns. and 
fences. But they do not state in so many words 
that they have land to sell, nor do others hint 
that the great range, cut up into building lots, 
would be valuable property to own. 
There is no other class of men that have been 
driven from pillar to post so persistently as rifle- 
men, and it is sometimes puzzling how they hold 
together as organizations. Generally a club se- 
lectS as a place for a range some deserted ravine 
or valley with a high hill for a bullet stop, but 
it dare-not expend money on a complete equip- 
ment, which, if not stolen, will be a loss when 
the club practice is finally stopped. 
The public, it is true, is more liberal now than 
formerly, and it concedes that rifle practice is 
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a splendid training for the youth of the country, 
but there is always a minority willing to object 
and throw obstacles in the way of those who 
practice rifle shooting. 

WE congratulate the anglers of Pennsylvania. 
Governor Stuart has reappointed Mr. William E. 
Meehan as fish commissioner of that State for 
term of four Commissioner 
administration by 
another 
Meehan’s 
many sticcesses in fish propagation and protec- 
It has been a period of hard and con- 
work for the all 
of his assistants, but he and they—and we be- 
years. 
has been marked 
tion. 
scientious commissioner and 
lieve the anglers themselves—know that the best 
of good work has been done by the department 
in the face of strong opposition in the form of 
illegal fish taking. Pennsylvania is a region of 
grand trout and bass waters, and the Legisla- 
ture has shown its appreciation of all this fact 
implies by appropriating sufficient funds for the 
carrying out of the commission’s general plan 
to make Pennsylvania waters even still more 
popular with nonresidents, while at the same 
time furnishing good fishing for her own people. 
ad 
Tue Armstrong amendment to the New York 
forest, fish and game law relating to game pro- 
tectors, has been signed by Governor Hughes, 
and is now in effect. It provides for the appoint- 
ment by the Forest, Fish and Game Commission 
of ten additional game protectors, making the 
number seventy-five in all instead of sixty-five, 
the number provided for under the old law, 
This is in accord with the recommendations of 
the Commission and the Chief Game Protector, 
and is necessary for the proper administration of 
the department, for the State is gradually ac- 
quiring more land in the Adirondacks, and each 
protector, under the new law, has a large section 
of mountainous country under his care. 
td 
THE comments of our Pennsylvania corres- 
pondent on the fact that black bass were found 
on the spawning beds after the season had opened 
in that State should not be lost sight of by the 
fish protectionists of New York, New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania. This has been a backward season, 
but we have no doubt numerous readers can con- 
firm our belief that bass are frequently found on 
June We 
have found them on their beds at later 
date in the cold waters of the Delaware and its 
No angler cares to take 
their spawning beds later than 15. 
even a 
feeders in other years. 
spawning bass. 
Ld 
Mr. Witi1AM F. SHuNnK, who died at his home 
in his seventy- 
22 
near Harrisburg, Pa., on June 22, 
seventh year, was one of the forestry commis- 
sioners of Pennsylvania a decade ago. He was 
an author of note, and his work in building the 
Elevated Railways in New York city made -his 
name famous. 

