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Bangor, sixty-nine deer, five moose and six bears 
was the record, making the total for the season 
412 deer, 32 moose, 13 bears, as against 655 deer, 
47 moose and to bears for the same period in 
1906, 
The first woman to get a moose was Mrs. 
C. D. Haskins, of Schenectady, N. Y., who got 
a big bull in the Norcross country. B. F. Smith, 
Jr., of Andover, Mass., and Charles Cook, of 
Portland, Me., also had moose. It is thought 
the comparatively small number of deer killed 
during the first part of the season in Maine was 
largely due to the unusual amount - of rain. 
Among those who have brought out deer over 
the Franklin and Megantic railway are Hon. 
Henry H. Sprague, of Boston; Mr. A. E. Kings- 
ley, of Newton, and S. H. Eldredge, of Boston. 
Mr. Albert C. Aldrich has recently brought 
from Maine a large bear. Frederick E. Nickels 
and George E. Carrie have returned with deer 
from the West Carry Pond camps. Three mem- 
bers of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Pro- 
tective Association, Messrs. Roy Faye, Freeman 
N. Young and Dr. Albert H. Tuttle, of Cam- 
bridge, left Boston two weeks ago for Rangeley 
in Mr, Faye’s motor car, which is rigged up 
inside with berths. The car is a miniature hotel 
and the occupants are provided with cooking 
facilities. Dr. Tuttle spent much of the summer 
at Grand Manan where he obtained many speci- 
mens of birds for his private collection. The 
result of his summer study of the destruction 
of birds by the lighthouses will form an interest- 
ing subject for a lecture before the protective 
clubs. Our State association has no more active 
and intelligent worker in the cause of fish and 
game protection than Dr. Tuttle. He -is also 
identified with the Middlesex Sportsman’s Asso- 
ciation which is one of the largest and most 
active in the State. Following the example of 
the State association it has been posting the game 
laws in both English and Italian very extensively. 
Ignorance of the game laws has brought many 
immigrants to grief. Applications have been re- 
ceived for the abstracts on cloth in French, 
Portuguese, Italian and Polish. Some Italians 
themselves are now becoming active workers in 
behalf of the birds. Should all the influences 
now exerted for the better care of the denizens 
of the forest and fields be kept actively at work 
we may hope the time is not distant when every 
man and woman will be impelled by a sense of 
duty to join in an effort to save our fish, wild 
animals and birds in order that coming genera- 
tions may be permitted to enioy the pleasures 
vouchsafed to us. H. H. KrmMpBa tt. 
Boston, Oct. 26—Editor Forest and Stream: 
Mr. E. C. Foote, of Newton, returned from 
Mashpee on the Cape a few days ago. Each 
morning was devoted to grouse shooting with 
very excellent success, and the afternoons to bass 
fishing. The results attending the latter were 
surprising, many bass being taken when really 
little was expected. Mr. Foote is preparing for 
another outing and will leave in a few days, ac- 
companied by his friends, Thomas and W. H. 
Aspinwall. The party will start in at Dana, 
Mass., and cover the surrounding country thor- 
oughly for ruffed grouse. Reports that have 
reached them are not very encouraging, but they 
have determined to give the shooting a good trial. 
The disappearance of partridges this year is get- 
ting to be a mystery, and gradually it is dawn- 
ing on sportsmen that the birds are actually gone, 
From all over the State the report is no birds, 
and men who have hunted over covers for years, 
invariably getting good bags, return with one or 
two birds. Innumerable reasons are given for 
the scarcity, any one of which is as good as an- 
other. The fact is no one knows. 
A sample day’s sport was that of John E. 
Kauler, of Somerville, who went out to Bedford 
to shoot over a country where he had always had 
good results. He returned with one bird. 
Dr. George Oliver Clark is home again after 
a ten days’ visit to the country about Chocorna, 
N. H. He reports excellent grouse and wood- 
cock shooting, the birds seeming to be plentiful. 
Mr. F. L. Drake, of East Whiteman, has been 
after big game near Jackman. Maine. Two deer 
fell to his lot. Mr. John R. Parker has just 
returned from a two weeks’ trip to the Cape. He 
has been stopping with a ftiend back of Province- 
town and succeeded in bagging many beetleheads, 
plover and yellowlegs. 
Going to Florida for the winter is quite com- 
mon to many New Engl land people, but almost 
universally the time of leaving is somewhere 
about Jan. 1. It is not so, however, with ve 
and Mrs. W. K. Churchill, of East Walpole. 
Although just returned ftom their summer home 
on the shores of Moosehead Lake near Kineo— 
where they have been since June— they are now 
making ready to leave next week for the South. 
Their winter home in Florida is located near 
Palm Beach and Mr. Churchill gets very ex- 
cellent shooting and fishing right at his own door. 
It will be time to statt for Moosehead again 
when they return next year. 
Several years ago Mr. C, A. Dean, of Boston, 
was advised to spend a winter in Florida. He 
took the advice and has never missed a wintet 
in the South since. Near Punta Gorda he ties 
up € each year, when ready to come North, a very 
fine yacht, fitted with every comfort, and on which 
he makes his home while there. This method of 
living enables him to follow the game and fish 
wherever the quest leads. He is extremely fond 
of both gun and rod and expects to cover two 
hundred miles of the Florida iid line this 
winter, searching out all the best places for wild- 
fowl shooting and fishing, H ACKLE. 

Maryland Wardens Deraaed. 
Upper Martporo, Md., Oct. 23.—Editor Forcst 
and Stream: As one of the game wardens at 
large of the State of Maryland, I deem it my 
duty to write and say that I have been recently 
informed through reliable sources that the most 
ingenious quail trap that has ever been put on 
the market has been invented and is being sold 
by a New York man, and is being used by agents 
of game merchants in large cities for illegal pur- 
poses, and that some of the game merchants of 
Washington, D. C., have recently had three 
agents in Prince George’ s county, Maryland, and 
five or more in the counties of Virginia, near the 
District of Columbia. 
The trap is made of broom wire, is about two 
feet long and so constructed that half a dozen 
of them can be put into an ordinary dress suit 
case. These agents, we are informed, locate 
the birds during the day, find their roosting 
places, bait the traps with wheat screenings in 
the afternoon and catch the birds when they go 
to roost. 
The State game warden. Oregon Milton Dennis, 
and Major Sylvester, chief of police and game 
warden of the District of Columbia, have been 
notified, and we have been working quietly for 
the past two weeks or more to catch the men 
engaged in this rascally traffic, who will be 
severely dealt with if caught. 
The matter will certainly be taken up when 
the next session of the Maryland Legislature 
meets, and many of our people think the punish- 
ment should be at least five years in the State 
penitentiary. R. B. B. CHEw, Jr. 

. 
Alexander Maitland. 
In the death of Alexander Maitland; who died 
suddenly at Princeton, N. J., on Friday, Oct. 25, 
New York has lost a citizen eminent for his 
good works. Mr. Maitland was prominent in 
the business and charitable world alike. He was 
a trustee of the Union Trust Co., president of 
Edward Smith & Co., of No. 45 Broadway, and 
of the New York City Marble Cemetery. He was 
a member of the Metropolitan and Natural His- 
tory Museums and of the American Geographical 
Society, and was one of the managers of the 
New York Public Library, and of the Presby- 
terian Hospital. He was sixty-two years old. 
Mr. Maitland was a keen sportsman and deeply 
interested in all matters connected with natural 
historv. He was one of the oldest subscribers to 
Forest AND STREAM, and in earlier years a fre- 
quent contributor to its columns. 
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Nowe Vork: Fish cnd Game. 
Commissioner James S. Whipple’s Report. 
[From the Twelfth Annual Report of the Forest, Fish and 
Game Commission.] 
We showed by the last annual report that 
there had been a marked advance along every 
line of work with which the department iS 
charged by law. The percentage of improve- 
ment made in 1905, over 1904, has been sustained 
and the advancement made in all directions in- 
dicates as large a percentage of improvement in 
1906, over that of 1905, as was shown by the 
last report Over 1904. 
The additional protectors provided by the 
Legislature of 1906 helped us to accomplish that 
which we have done with greater facility, and 
the marked improvement in the enforcement of 
the law is, in quite a large measure, due to the 
additional help given us. 
In 1904 there were distributed from the eight 
hatcheries about a tosec fish; in 1905, I7I- 
000,000, and this year [1906] a little more than 
230,000,000, 
[he fines and penalties collected in the calen- 
dar year of 1904 are $23,636.66; in 1905, $58,- 
348.08; this year the department has collected 
$61,255. 644 
The trespasses discovered on State land dur- 
ing the year 1906 were 160 in all; very many of 
which were small trespasses, and many of them 
old trespasses. Only 49 new ones have been re- 
ported. As compared with former years this is 
a large amount discovered and reported, indi- 
cating a much greater vigilance on the part of 
protectors and fire wardens. ‘There were very 
few willful trespasses in 1906. Many of the 
trespasses mentioned are such as were never 
taken notice of heretofore; such, for instance, as 
cutting a tree for fire-wood. 
During the year 1906, there were of those 
left over from last year and new ones, 1,211 
violations of the law, of all kinds, to handle, of 
which 293 were placed in the hands of attorneys 
and disposed of; 506 were handled by this de 
partment direct. Of the 1,211 cases 889 have 
been disposed of, leaving 322 in which actions 
are pending. 
The greater number of violations discovered, 
the increas¢d amount of collections and the 
greater number of fish produced at the hatch- 
eries, distributed and placed in the waters of the 
State, indicate a greatly increased activity in 
the department, an improved condition in the 
service over last year, and a determination to 
apprehend violators and enforce the law. 
Believing that a fish hatchery is like a manu- 
facturing plant in some respects, and should be 
conducted on as good a business basis as a suc- 
cessful manufacturing plant is, we have put forth 
extra effort to make the output much larger 
than it has ever been before, with the result that 
60,000,000 more fish were produced this year 
and distributed than last year, although in I90§ 
we distributed 60,000,000 more than the year be- 
fore. 
We have constructed at the Constantia hatch- 
ery ponds for black bass and will hereafter prop- 
agate, and in time distribute from that hatchery 
small mouth black bass, which has not here- 
tofore been done by this State. An appropria- 
tion was made for the purpose of a site and 
water privileges somewhere near the Hudson 
River for a shad and bass hatchery. A contract 
was made with an owner of property about 
seven miles below Hudson on the Hudson 
River, but the property, under the contract, has 
not yet been acquired on account of delay in 
getting enough more to m: ake it. possi ible to 
account of delay in getting enough more _ to 
make it possible to establish the hatchery. The 
department has had the necessary grounds sur- 
aaa he and is proceeding to condemn the same, 
and as soon as the State is pssessed of f the title 
to the necessary land and water privileges, will 
-arry into effect the intention of sn Legislature 
bind establish a shad and bass hatchery at that 
point. 
Something more 

than a year ago, the Sara- 
nac Inn hatchery, which is one of the best for 
rearing speckled trout, was improved and its 
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