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Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1907. 
{ VOL, LXIX.—No. 8. 
No. 346 Broadway, New York. 



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. 
THE ANGLERS’ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 
Tue scientific angling clubs of the United 
States last year organized a national body, 
elected officers and appointed a committee to 
draft rules, etc. Its officers toiled like beavers 
to insure its success. A few of the results of 
its first year’s work may be summarized thus: 
President Perce and Secretary Rice have 
brought into affiliation with the National Asso- 
ciation of Scientific Angling Clubs twelve large 
organizations, with a membership of more than 
twenty-two hundred anglers. 
The organization has just held its first annual 
meeting, and among other things disposed of 
the vexed questions of professionalism and com- 
mercialism in a manner satisfactory to the 
majority of its members, and without hardship 
to any one. 
It has formulated such rules for the guidance 
of all contests of skill with fishing rods that 
uniformity of records is now possible for the 
first time. 
While it is the contention of many that tour- 
nament casting with fly- and bait-casting rods 
is not fishing—which is of course true—it can- 
not be denied that casting practice and attend- 
ance at tournaments are of the greatest educa- 
tional value to the angler. He not only learns 
how to select his tackle intelligently, and its 
correct uses, but he unconsciously acquires a 
fondness for the gentle art which confirms his 
belief that there is far more in the sport than 
the mere catching of fish. 
A RECORD SEASON. 
Despite the unfavorable spring and early sum- 
mer, it cannot now be doubted that 1907 will 
be a record year for fishing of all sorts. The 
number of men, and women, too, who will, at 
the end of the season, lay claim to at least one 
fishing tour will be expressed in six figures at 
the least. It is gratifying, too, to know that 
many of them passed happy and successful days 
on waters formerly termed “fished out,’ proving 
that careful restocking, combined with protec- 
tion by the States and co-operation on the part 
of citizens formerly indifferent to fishery laws, 
is bearing fruit. Singularly enough, it is only 
the men engaged in the fishing tackle trade 
who are unhappy just now. Although they 
are more prosperous than ever before, the fact 
that they cannot fill their orders, though the 
factories are working overtime, brings them 
numerous complaints from persons who wait 
until the last-moment to obtain their supplies 
and are impatient over delays that are now 
unavoidable. 
TRAPSHOOTING COMMERCIALISM. 
Tuat the sport of trapshooting has _ insidi- 
ously become over-commercialized, is patent to 
all men who have sufficiently identified 
with that sport in recent years, and who have 
reasonable discernment in interpreting the signs 
of the times. Every possible interest is reduced 
to an asset. The delicate art of kindly, yet 
quickly skinning a flea for its hide and tallow 
is now at a perfect stage of refinement. 
In justification of this commercialism. it may 
be plead that the example has been constantly 
set in high and honored places; that is to say, 
in the affairs of the Interstate Association. 
Undoubtedly the Interstate Association has 
driven many close bargains with clubs which 
have made bids and secured the Grand American 
Handicap. Thus, while its main purpose was to 
give an object lesson in respect to the most ex- 
pert manner of holding a trapshooting tourna- 
ment, and to promote trapshooting in general 
by multiplying the number of shooters, it inad- 
vertently, by hard commercialism, taught clubs 
how to make an industry out of sport, which 
is but another way of expressing hard bargain- 
ing between the clubs and the shooters at large. 
When all is said and done, the shooter is the 
one who finally settles the bills. Few will gain- 
say the assertion that now more clubs know how 
to run a tournament for revenue than know how 
to run one for sport. 
For this state of affairs the Interstate Asso- 
ciation is largely responsible. It has become 
more intensely commercial with each passing 
year. One need but make an analysis of how 
the local clubs raise the added moneys, and the 
unsportsmanlike features are manifest. Hotels 
are solicited for large donations, reciprocity in 
the way of influencing patronage being held 
forth as a bait, -and generally the bait is taken. 
While ostensibly the hotels donate certain 
large amounts, they often raise their rates to 
an exorbitant extent, and thereby recoup from 
the shooter. For this they can plead good prece- 
dent, for it is long since the 
Interstate Association, whose members represent 
productive millions of capital, would designate 
as headquarters the hotel which bid highest. By 
what principle of sportsmanship or justice, the 
living expenses of the shooters can be appro- 
priated as a tournament asset, no one can fairly 
comprehend. It would seem to be a better and 
fairer procedure for the association to try to 
reduce the expenses of the shooters. 
Trapshooting is the only national sport which 
has no national organization. The Interstate 
Association is a commercial organization, and is 
furthering its interests on commercial lines. 
When, however, it overwhelms and destroys good 
sportsmanship with a deluge of commercialism, 
it at the same time kills the goose that lays the 
golden egg. It is now time to cater a little to 
the goose. 
been 
not so very 
NEW YORK’S NEW POSTMASTER. 
Att New Yorkers, and a multitude of people 
who have New York, 
at the appointment of Mr. Edward M. Morgan as 
The appointment is an 
never seen will rejoice 
postmaster of this city. 
admirable one. A most efficient man has by 
long and meritorious service worked his 
to the highest position in the New York post- 
office. 
Mr. Morgan has 
here for thirty-four years, beginning as a letter 
carrier before he was sixteen years old. When 
he attained his majority he was promoted to 
be chief clerk in a branch office, and his close 
attention to duty and marked executive ability 
led to further promotions, until in 1889 he be- 
Way 
been in the postal service 
came general superintendent of city delivery— 
one of the most important positions in the city’s 
postal service. He became assistant postmaster 
under Mr. Van Cott and urged for the 
position of postmaster by Mr. Willcox, who not 
was 
long ago resigned the office. 
Besides being a useful and efficient postal 
official, Mr. Morgan is also a good sportsman. 
For very many years he has been a reader of 
ForEST AND STREAM, and contributions from his 
pen have not infrequently appeared in_ its 
columns. As well as any man he loves a day 
afield, but it may be feared that for the present, 
and until he gets his new work organized, his 
days out of doors will be few. 
It is not to be believed that Mr. 
can at once give us the postal service that this 
great city ought to have. He will be obliged 
to suffer, as he and his predecessors in the past 
have long suffered, from the parsimony of Con- 
3ut whatever man can do in the way of 
Morgan 
gress. 
improving the service Mr. Morgan will do. 

Tue newspapers of last week announced a 
contemplated invasion by a fleet of thirty-three 
Japanese sealing Pribiloff 
Islands. According to the statement the plan 
of this fleet was to not only take the seals on 
the rookeries, but to raid the salt houses of the 
North American Trading and Transportation 
Co., where a large number of salted seal skins 
said that the 
schooners of the 
are awaiting shipment. It is 
Japanese schooners are prepared not only for 
the destruction of the seals, but that each one 
is armed with one or more machine guns. The 
force of men on St. Paul and St. George islands 
is very small, and of course quite unable to re- 
The United States 
dispatched the 
sist an attack of this kind. 
Government is said to 
cruiser Buffalo to the scene. 
The business of raiding seal islands is not a 
new one, and Canadians, Americans and Japanese 
have been engaged in it off and on for twenty- 
five years. At the time there is a great 
difference between a dash to an island where a 
few seals be stolen, and an armed invasion of 
have 
same 
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