


Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. 
GrEorGE Brrp GRINNELL, President, 
346 Broadway, New York. 
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CuHar.es B. REYNotps, Secretary. 
346 Broadway, New York. 
Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
Louis DEAN SpeEtr, Treasurer. 
346 Broadway, New York. 



NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1907. 


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. 
—ForeEsT AND STREAM, Aug. 14, 1873. 
SHPTEMBER. 
THE summer season is behind us and autumn 
ahead. Days may be as warm for awhile as in 
August, but the nights remind us of the kill- 
ing frosts that are to come ere autumnal colors 
may be seen at their best. 
When all is said, this is the most enjoyable 
season of all the four for people fond of out- 
door sports and pastimes. After the exhausting 
heat of midsummer, the cool nights revive tired 
bodies and the invigorating days tempt all to 
go further afield than is their custom, and take 
healthful exercise that would have seemed im 
possible a month ago. 
While the desire to be abroad on every fine 
day is experienced by all healthy persons in early 
September, to those fond of field shooting it 
amounts to a craving that can only be appeased 
by a long tramp with the gun and the dogs. 
This is a month of open seasons for game 
shooting—not in all States, but in nearly every 
one there is some game, big or small, that may 
be hunted. It is becoming rather a season when 
those who can leave their business cares to others 
depart for the deep woods, the lake regions and 
the bays and inlets, there to rest and roam under 
the pretense of hunting. A little shooting satis- 
fies, since it is not the main and only object and 
end of September vacation journeys. 
Fortunate indeed is he who can be abroad these 
balmy September days, when the foliage and the 
fruits are maturing, but the real signs of autumn 
to be left by the heavier frosts are still a part of 
the future. 
WOGS as FL OLICE  ALDS. 
As if in response to our editorial of a few 
weeks ago, the New York Police Department 
has taken up the matter of employing dog: as 
aids to the police force, and is now conducting 
experiments with them with a view to using 
them in the outlying districts of the city. The 
statement is made that bloodhounds are to be 
used, which of course is not true. The term 
bloodhound, in connection with tracking human 
beings, is one that has come down to us from 
ante-bellum days, when “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” had 
its extraordinary vogue, and it was necessary to 
pile up all the horrors possible about the run 
away America for 
tracking men, whether slaves or criminals, were 
slave. The dogs used in 
always erdinary foxhounds, and the purpose of 
their use was not to injure the man tracked, but 
to find out where he had gone, and further to 
delay or to stop him, by causing him either to 
to climb a tree to 
fight off the dogs or escape 
The dogs used as police aids in Belgium 
Pictures show 
them. 
are called Belgium shepherd dogs. 
them as prick-eared dogs of medium size which 
bear a general resemblance to a coyote, though 
with much larger ears. 
Perhaps the first municipality in the United 
States to take formal action making dogs a part 
of its police service was the village of South 
New March last the 
Trustees of South Orange passed a 
Orange, in Jersey. In 
Board of 
resolution to this effect, the action being brought 
H. D. Per- 
For 
some time previous to this action, Mr. Perrine 
the 
whom 
about through the influence of Mr. 
rine, chairman of the committee of police. 
with chief of 
from 
had been in communication 
Ghent, Belgium, 
hints 
police of many 
valuable and suggestions were received. 
Last spring two dogs were added to the police 
force of South Orange, but only one is at pres- 
ent in service. He was assigned to an officer 
who has been training him, and he has developed 
excellently and shows great intelligence and ex- 
The other dog 
was the means last spring of saving a drunken 
cellent perception of his duty. 

man found lying in the snow, slowly freezing. 
We have already pointed out some of the uses 
which dogs may serve quite apart from what 
they do in the way of tracking criminals or sus- 
pects; and further that the dogs are likely soon 
to acquire so clear an idea of what is wished of 
them that they may often become exceedingly 
useful in many unexpected ways. The fact that 
they are muzzled at proper times removes any 

chance of their being dangerous to innocent per- 
sons. 
The experiments with dogs for this use will 
many people. 
be watched with keen interest by 
THE ANGLERS’ NATIONAL ASSOCIATION 
WitHout knowing the exact purpose of the 
conference of anglers, to be held in New York 
city in November next, we cannot but think that 
it is the duty of the promoters of the plan to 
merge their interests with those of the National 
Association of Scientific Angling Clubs, in order 
that all of the fishing clubs of the country may 
This 
end is the betterment of all those conditions that 
work in unison toward a common end. 
affect the amateur fisherman; the protection of 
fish and game; improved laws, which in a meas- 
the 
laws in 
ure include the very general hope that in 
course of time we may have uniform 
States divided by lakes or rivers. These waters 
are now the scenes of disputes, misunderstand- 
ings, and at times the imposition of hardships 
on innocent persons. 
Let any person who has gained the impres- 
that the National Scientific 
Angling Clubs was formed merely to hold fly- 
sion Association of 
and bait-casting tournaments disabuse himself of 
that idea. and at 
these that 
prove to be of no little importance to all the 
Tournaments attract anglers; 
gatherings questions are discussed 
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interests represented. There should be more of 
these meetings, and all the fishing clubs will do 
well to become affiliated with the national body, 
whose aims are to improve the sport in every 
possible manner. 
It is only through correspondence and the 
medium of sportsmen’s publications that anglers 
can air their views, but when large gatherings 
are held there is a general discussion of subjects 
of common interest, and as all those who have 
taken part in these conferences in some measure 
represent the anglers of a community or city, 
and on their return disseminate a!l the informa 
tion they have obtained, the result is of greater 
value than would appear at first thought. 
The sea anglers and the fresh water fisher- 
men, once widely separated, are coming to know 
each other better, and all the organizations on 
fresh and salt water could, and certainly should, 
be gathered together under the leadership of the 
board of officers of a national association. Presi- 
dent Perce is a man of strong convictions, a life- 
long sportsman and worker in the cause of fish 

and game protection, in whose hands it is safe 
io leave the future of the young national asso- 
ciation, But while he has strong support, the 
association merits the attention of all amateur 
angling clubs, and needs their assistance and co- 
operation. 

ApDITIONAL testimony in relation to the drouth 
in the mountain regions of New York State and 
elsewhere in the East comes to us day by day, 
and it all that the 
fish will be very heavy. Trout V 
a severe blow from which they will recover but 
tends to show loss of game 
have been giv 
slowly if at all in some waters, while in others 
restocking will be necessary. This, too,.will be 
beset with difficulties, for many of the hatcheries 
been hit hard by the drouth, and those that 
have lost trout of the fingerling or larger sizes 
will have received a severe setback 
Ld 
— 
r is the plan of the Minnesota authorities to 
drainage canal across the great 
Itasca When this 
is completed it will enable voyagers in canoes 
dig a six-foot 
watershed in county. canal 
and small boats to cruise from points along the 
Hudson Bay 
along the Mississippi River or 
slope of the watershed to points 
vice versa, thus 
making it possible to go by a more or less direct 
route from the great bay to St. Paul, or, for 
that matter, on to the Gulf of Mexico. To re- 
turn would be a different matter, however. 
4 
Last week we announced the fact that the 
Ashokan reservoir contract had been awarded by 
the Board of Water Supply of New York city— 
the lowest bidder, but to 
doubt 
be allowed to stand, but it has since been stated 
not to another firm. 
There was some whether the award would 
that no change is contemplated, and in due time 
the work will be entered upon. 

