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| An Important Roundup. 
NEw YorK’s Chief Game Protector, John B. 
;rnham, on Oct. 21, succeeded in accomplish- 
° something for which he has been striving a 
lig time. ‘This was the arrest of a man be- 
wed to be one of the most persistent game law- 
pakers in Essex county, and seven of the em- 
pyees and patrons of his camp at Elk Lake. 
in August, according to rumors, jacking was 
lacticed at this camp, and it was alleged that 
ine Philadelphians were involved, but all at- 
japts to get evidence were frustrated by a sys- 
mn through which “the Elk Lake bunch,” as 
»y were called, were warned in advance of 
lything suspicious. Later on, it is alleged, 
unding was practiced boldly, but was stopped 
enever indications pointed toward visits from 
\rdens. Several times protectors, disguised as 
lortsmen, visited the camp, but found all quiet 
d orderly. It was while two of the protectors 
re stopping at the camp, ostensibly to hunt 
ar, but really to watch for violators, that it 
came known there that the chief protector 
s. investigating a rumor of hounding near 
‘ranac. The Elk Lakers thereupon resumed 
junding, on Sunday, too. Protectors who 
yre in the vicinity assisted the strange protec- 
\'s at the camp, and in rounding up the crowd 
‘zy were enabled to add Sunday hunting to the 
laer charges, making their action a very im- 
irtant one, and to pin one of the men down 
‘the charge of hunting without the nonresident 
‘ense required by law. 
/How the coup was accomplished is told by 
je of the Essex county papers, as follows: 
“Chief Game Protector Burnham and his as- 
tants made a big haul Sunday that should 
it a damper upon hounding for the remainder 
the season. The story, as told in press dis- 
ltches, is highly sensational. 
| “Rounding up eight persons charged with 
unding deer in violation of law, the employees 
the State forest, fish and game department 
jd an effective day’s work in Essex county 
‘inday. The exposure was the result of a piece 
| detective work which does credit tothe State’s 
‘me protectors. 
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The hounding of deer was managed by men 
‘ite as resourceful as those with whom Dis- 
| ct-Attorney Jerome matched wits in raiding 
lmfield’s in New York city. Jones’ camp in 
\ssex county is inaccessible except from the 
juth. Mountains 5,000 feet high almost en- 
jely surrounded his camp and no hunter or pry- 
z protector can get in unless he uses the south 
ad. 
“There is a lumber camp between the main 
lad and the Jones camp and men on the lumber 
lb have been hired to give the signal if game 
|nstables or strangers pass the saw mill. High 
| in the mountains it was arranged to display 



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flag, if there was any danger, so that when the 
late’s protectors entered they could find evi- 
Ince of nothing but still-hunting. Just as soon 
| the officers would leave, the dogs would be 
leased and hounding would be resumed. 
|“Chief Protector Burnham is a resident of 
psex county and has been aware that the deer 
jw was being violated, and he has been trying 
secure evidence through a protector from 
estchester county who was taken into Jones’ 
mp through the regular channels, and who 
ent considerable time in hunting before his 
ssion was discovered. 
The Westchester county man was assisted by 
}-otectors Carlton of Albany county, Bush of 
tontgomery county, and the two protectors of 
jssex county. Three of the accused men were 
ym New York city and one was a resident of 
assachusetts, who was also hunting without 
license. As a result of the raid eight actions 
ve been begun in Essex county to recover 
{nalties. 
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“The sentiment among the residents of Essex 
county is overwhelmingly in favor of the hound- 
ing of deer. The reason for this is that Essex 
county is a mountainous region and still-hunting 
there is practically an impossibility. The guides 
and all the others who depend upon hunting 
for a livelihood have been endeavoring to se- 
cure a sanction of the State for this method of 
hunting since the enactment of the anti-hound- 
ing law. 
“The forest, fish and game department an- 
nounces that two hunters were- arrested Sunday 
for hunting without a license. This is the first 
time the department has proceeded in the crim- 
inal courts against nonresidents who hunt with- 
out the necessary license. One of the persons 
arrested was a resident of Canada and the other 
was Arno Thomas, of Baltimore. Heretofore 
any violator was simply compelled to pay the 
amount of the license. Hereafter the depart- 
ment has decided to prosecute those who disre- 
gard the law. The cost of a license in this State 
varies from $10 to $250, according to the cost of 
the license in the State of which the hunter is a 
resident.” 
Hunting in the Rain. 
Rocuester, N. Y., Oct. 21—Editor Forest and 
Stream: In response to the invitation in your 
issue of Oct. 12 I am constrained to recount the 
events of a day’s shooting which, though it had 
a very unfavorable beginning, I regard as one of 
my red letter days. 
By way of introduction, I think I may be re- 
garded as one of the “Old Guard,” for I have 
been a constant reader of ForEsT AND STREAM 
since 1880 and a subscriber during nearly all that 
time. 
The 24th of October, 1906, the judge and I 
arranged to go shooting the next day. We 
agreed to meet at the station for the 6 o’clock 
train if it did not rain. When the telephone gir! 
called me at 4:30 next morning I arose, looked 
out of the window and found that it was pour- 
ing, whereupon I crawled back into bed and to 
sleep. When I again awoke at 6:30 it was bright 
and clear, and I then regretted that I had not 
taken the chance. I remembered, however, that 
there was a train at 8 o’clock and determined 
to take that. I donned my shooting togs, got 
my breakfast, got out the auto and ran around 
to the judge’s house to find him just finishing 
his breakfast and ready to start downtown. 
When I told him of the 8 o’clock train it took 
him just about three minutes to get into his 
shooting clothes and we made the train all right. 
An hour’s ride brought us to our station, and 
while walking to the livery stable it began to 
rain, but we were not to be scared out again, and 
securing a rig, drove about six miles, and when 
we reached our shooting grounds the wind had 
risen and we started in a pelting rain. 
We had but fairly gotten into the cover when 
both dogs began to make game, but before they 
could locate it, a woodcock rose wild. I gave 
it both barrels, but it went on. We hunted this 
piece of cover until noon and I counted eleven 
shells fired and only one bird to show for it. My 
dog Sam was young and did not seem to be able 
to locate the birds. I did not have the heart to 
rate him severely, though, as he was doing fully 
as well as I was. The judge had killed two birds, 
and as it had stopped raining, we drove to an- 
other cover, but before entering it we fed the 
horse, ate our lunch and smoked our cigars. 
Then we started in at different points and I soon 
heard the judge’s gun several times. I tramped 
for about an hour before I found anything, when, 
coming to some knolls covered with popples, 
Sam came to a point. I flushed the bird, but 
could not see it until it was out of range, but 
got its direction and started after it. Sam had 

not gone more than fifty yards when he stiffened 
again and I walked up to him, flushed the bird 
and killed it. After retrieving it Sam pointed 
again about twenty yards beyond where he picked 
the bird up. I flushed this one and killed it, and 
then went on after the first one that I had marked 
down. Sam soon had it located, and, as we were 
now working together all right, it followed the 
others into my game pocket. 
We then hunted for half an hour without find- 
ing, when I lost Sam, and as he did not re- 
spond to my whistle I began to look for him. 
Stooping down, I looked through the second 
erowth and saw him on a staunch point. As lL 
came up to him I saw that his tail pointed side- 
wise at quite an angle and could not make out 
what was the trouble until I came closer and dis- 
covered that a small popple had caught his tail 
as he stiffened and prevented its straightening 
out. This bird was flushed and bagged as was 
another soon after in the popples. 
We had now reached the end of the cover and 
I decided to work toward where we had left the 
horse and called to Sam. He came rather re- 
luctantly and I started on, but soon missed him. 
I looked for him some time and finally retraced 
my steps and found him pointing in the edge of 
a dry swamp. I climbed the fence and saw that 
if I went in ahead to flush I would not get a 
shot, so I found a stick and threw it in ahead 
of the dog, and the bird flushed and flew low, 
not more than a foot above the ground, right 
into the swamp. I missed with my first barrel 
and snapped at it with my second. As the light 
was very uncertain, I did not much think that 
I had hit him and started in to see if I could 
put him up again. When Sam got to where I 
last shot at the bird he pointed, and as I came 
up he went in and picked it up. 
Then I thought I had enough and again started 
for the wagon. As I was going along the fence 
I saw Sam trailing in the next field and wondered 
if he was on a rabbit trail, but he wasn’t, for an 
old cock grouse flushed fifty yards ahead of the 
dog and swung across in front of me. I was a 
trifle slow with my first barrel, but caught him 
with the second and Sam was very proud to 
bring him in. This made seven points and seven 
birds since lunch and I had used the second bar- 
rel but twice. 
Shortly after I had reached the wagon the 
judge came in. He had a couple more birds, so 
we had together eleven woodcock and one grouse, 
the best bag of the season for us. 
I have shot over these grounds for the past 
ten years and there are just as many birds now as 
when I began shooting there; in fact, I think there 
are more birds this year than I have seen be- 
fore in a number of years. The season has been 
so warm that the thick foliage has prevented any 
large bags. The judge and I secured six cock 
and one grouse one day last week, 
MEDIcUus. 
A Famous Ducking Shore. 
THE Bowley’s Quarter Ducking Club, situate 
on Chesapeake Bay between Middle and Seneca 
rivers, in Baltimore county, Maryland, has just 
been sold by the club to a syndicate of Baltimore 
men who will use it as a shooting lodge, and also 
as a resort for the members and their families. 
Bowley’s is one of the most famous and best 
equipped ducking shores in that celebrated region 
which embraces among its choice places Carroll 
Island, Grace’s Quarter, Bengies, Maxwell Point 
and others. It contains 822 acres with over ten 
miles of water front and numerous fine points 
and coves for the shelter of wildfowl. 
Mr, N. E. Janney, of Philadelphia, the retiring 
president of the club, remarked: “When a man 
gets to be sixty and over it is nearly time to 
allow younger men to take his place, though the 
spirit will always be more than willing.” 

