Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
GEORGE BirD GRINNELL, President, 
346 Broadway, New York. 
CuHarves B. REYNOLDS, Secretary. 
346 Broadway, New York. 
Louis DEAN Speier, Treasurer. 
346 Broadway, 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. 

MAJOR JOHN PITCHER. 
Mayor JoHN PitcHer, for six years Superin- 
tendent of the Yellowstone Nattonal Park, has 
been relieved of that detail and ordered to Ft. 
Riley, Kansas. The loss of Major Pitcher’s ser- 
to the National Park—though inevitable 
since he could not stay there forever—is keenly 
regretted by the citizens of Montana residing 
vices 
about it, by the public which goes there to visit 
it, and by everyone interested in that national 
pleasure ground. 
Major Pitcher’s place has been filled by the 
appointment of General S. B. M. Young as Super- 
intendent of the Park. General Young has ‘al- 
ready acceptably held this office, and so enters 
on the work with an experience which will make 
his work easy and will be helpful to the park. 
Since Major Pitcher’s appointment as superin- 
tendent, the Yellowstone Park has grown and 
has been protected as never before. The super- 
intendent won the good will of all good citizens 
in the neighborhood and enlisted the help of each 
one of them in caring for the park. Since his 
appointment six years ago the fence has been 
built along the park line from the Gardiner River 
west for four miles. He originated and carried 
out the plan of growing hay for the game by 
planting the alfalfa field near the entrance to 
the park, where, during the winter, hundreds of 
antelope and thousands of elk feed on the hay 
put out for the antelope. At the feeding grounds 
for the mountain sheep in the Gardiner cafion it 
is not uncommon to see from fifty to one hun- 
dred mountain sheep at one time. At and about 
Ft. Yellowstone hundreds of deer are each day 
seen on the parade ground and among the 
| houses. 
all the wild game very tame. 
This great work, begun and carried through 
by Major Pitcher, has had the result of making 
The antelope come 
running from all directions to meet the hay 
/ wagon when they see it starting from the stacks, 
and crowd about it so that-sometimes the hay 
thrown off falls on their backs. 
Public sentiment near the park has so ‘changed 
that the people of Gardiner enjoy watching ‘the 
game in front of their town, and instead of 
| wishing to kill it are grateful to Major Pitcher 

for his forethought and his effort in establish- 
ing this hay field for the game. 
The services of Major Pitcher to the National 
Park’ will not soon be forgotten, and his name 
will stand out as one of those who has done the 
most to build up the Yellowstone National Park 
and to make it more than ever a place for the 
instruction of the American 
enjoyment and 
people. 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1907. f VOL: LXIXNe, 5. 
A HERO OF THE SEA. 
TuHereE perished recently in the wreck of the 
steamship Columbia, run down by the San Pedro, 
a brave man, of whose heroism more than pass- 
The Columbia, 
from 
should be made. 
whtn nearly 200 miles distant 
cisco, was run into by the other vessel and sank 
in a few moments. The crew of the Columbia 
made every effort to assist the passengers to es- 
cape by means of the boats and rafts, and though 
many of them were so the number of 
the lost at last accounts ran up to 100 or more. 
ing mention 
San Fran- 
saved, 
After most of the passengers had left the Columbia, 
Capt. P. A. Doran repaired to the bridge, from 
which he continued to shout his orders to the 
various boats, directing them how best to pro- 
ceed for the safety of their passengers. Once 
or twice, as he recognized acquaintances in the 
boats, he raised his hands above his head, clasped 
them and made the familiar motion of shaking 
hands in farewell. Then at last, the vessel, sink- 
ing lower and lower, plunged beneath the waves, 
and the hero was not seen again. 
It was Captain Doran’s duty to stick by his 
ship, even to go down with her, if there.was not 
room for him in the boats. He did his duty well 
and nobly. A brave man, an able navigator, one 
who, for many years, had borne the responsi- 
bility of caring for the lives of a multitude of 
as a man might 

other people, he died at last 
well wish to die—remembering his fellow men 
and forgetting himself. We are told in the 
ancient writings that the supreme act of love and 
self-sacrifice is that a man lay down his life for 
his friends: but in these modern days a broader 
love and a wider charity is shown when a man 
lays down his life for those who are not his 
friends, but are merely his fellows. Examples 
of such heroism are happily not rare. To know 
of them renews our faith in human nature. 
POLLUTED WATERS. 
THE this 
of the capture of two large salmon within fifty 
miles of London, England, ought to teach Ameri- 

brief note in week’s issue, telling 
cans a lesson. 
In our heedléss scrambling way, with a reck- 
that 
we permit individuals, business firms, 
less disregard of consequences seems as- 
tounding, 
great corporations, villages and cities, to turn 
their waste into streams ‘which the public may 
and does use. 
In many seaboard the 
streams 
Atlantic 
water 
cities on our 
public gets its drinking from 
which, a few miles further up, receive the refuse 
from other communities. Sometimes when this 
drinking water causes an epidemic of typhoid 
or some other contagious disease,, the news- 
papers talk wildly about it for a few weeks or 
months, then the excitement dies down, and the 
matter is promptly forgotten. 
Great rivers like the Hudson the Dela- 
ware are polluted by sewage, by factory waste, 
by acids of one sort an¢ another, so that most of 
and 
VOL. LXIX.—No. 5 
the native fish have been destroyed, and the shad 
and other species, which used to run up toward 
the streams’ sources to spawn, have almost ceased 
‘to visit them. 
that the 
northern 
The complaint is frequently made 
waters of one of the beautifu 
New York are so fouled by factory waste that 
the fish in it are killed. 
It was only winter 
made much about the 
ice cut from one of our great rivers, at a point 
some distance below where the sewage of a city 
y 
1 lakes of 
that the 
unhealthfulness of 
last newspapers 
noise 
enters it. 
It is stated that the waste of certaim morocco 
factories on the Delaware dumped into*the water 
and carried up and down by tide and current has 
infected with a more or less virulent form of 
anthrax the sheep and cattle of the Delaware 
peninsula, so that it is not longer possible to 
allow them to pasture on the wide salt marshes 
of the peninsula. 
The public living along many of our rivers— 
the Hudson is one—bathes, in summer when it 
bathes for pleasure, in diluted sewage. 
Surely it is time that legislators take hold of 
this matter, so that sewers and drains from manu- 
factories ‘be diverted from .natural water chan- 
nels and the waste be in some way destroyed, 
rather than passed on to the public living along 
the stream below, and used to obliterate valuable 
fish life. 
The loss of human life from this wholly sel- 
fish and shortsighted policy is so great that it 
is unnecessary to speak of the money loss result- 
ing from the wholesale destruction of fisheries 
which used to be worth millions of dollars, and 
now are worth little or nothing. 

Amonc the articles soon to. appear in these 
Charles Holder, 
uestion, “Does the flying 
Holder’s “Sea Angler 
serially in 
columns is one by Frederick 
dealing with the moot ¢ 
fish fly or Prot 
Ashore” will also appear 
Brent Altsheler will tell 
self, at home, for a mountain sheep hunt. 
Gifford Buell writes of a “cruise” to Middle Park 
* L. Harding contributes 
soar?” 
due time. 
prepared him- 
Ernest 
how he 

in a prairie: schooner. 
a paper on the sea lions of Catalina Island. In 
his “Flicker Habits” William L. Finley will tell 
another pleasing story of these birds in the West, 
illustrated with photographs. J. W. 
Schultz will spin a couple of yarns of Indians 
and grizzly bears. Edmund F. L. Jenner will 
tell how he came to pick out the proper man 
O’Leary, five different 
members of which — signed pikes 
O’Leary,” standing for Patrick, Paul, Pius, Peter 
splendid 
from a family named 
themselves 
or Philip, but only one a guide. W. T. Sher- 
wood, who wrote “Camp Don’t Hurry,” will 
contribute an article on the great Ashokan 
Reservoir, which will in time bury some of the 
best trout streams in the Catskills under fathoms 
of water. His story will be illustrated by one 
of our staff. 

