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Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
GrorGe Birp GrinnezLt, President, 
346 Broadway, New York. 
CuHarves B. Reyno.ps, Secretary, 
346 Broadway, New York. 


NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 



ae 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
ill be to studiously promote a healthful interest 
| outdoor recreation, and to cultivate a refined 
iste for natural objects. 
—Foresr AND STREAM, Aug. 14, 1873. 

GOOD DOCTRINE. 
Goop sportsmen everywhere will read with 
tisfaction the hearty words of encouragement 
nt by former President Grover Cleveland, and 
r President Roosevelt to the Anglers’ Conven- 
fn held in New York this week. Both make 
;rnest pleas in behalf of a high standard of 




\ortsmanship, which means fair play, self-con- 
lol, consideration for others. With all this 
jould go a belief in manliness and a love for 
litdoor life, and for nature in all its wonderful 
\pects. 
‘It is wholesome for the rising generation to 
jar strong words in behalf of good sportsman- 
i. from men in middle ‘and later life, whose 
| de experience has taught them so much, 
id whose careers, lived largely under the pub- 
eye, have commanded the respect of a great 
|tion. > 
‘The regaarks of President Roosevelt, 
: print Pow, deserve a careful reading. 
] . 
jzaches good doctrine: 
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which 
He 
You stand for the prevention and the suppression of 
steful destruction. You stand for the promotion and 
)»port of laws to protect the food and game fishes so 
it they shall not be exterminated, but may continue 
Jincreased abundance to supply food to the multitudes 
jl good sport to those who keep the law. You 
irage the spirit of fair play. 
You insist on doing your fishing in straight-forward, 
rtsmanlike fashion, and you in every way discourage 
noxious craze for record breaking as regards the 
Jount of the catches. The latter I consider especially 
There are few 
should more 
sless and wasteful slaughter. 
, whether of deer or prairie chicken or duck 
il or woodcock or trout, is something of which to 
ashamed and not to boast.” 
en- 

things which a _ naturalist 
heartily condemn 
To make a very large 
vortant. 
sportsman than 
or 

LIGHT FISHING TACKLE. 
N its next season’s rule limiting the maximum 
ght of rods to ten ounces flat the Southern 
lifornia Rod and Reel Club of Los Angeles 
taken a long step toward what may safely be 
ned light tackle for use in salt water angling. 
a rod to be admitted to competitions” that 
e been arranged for must also be at least 
feet in length, and the line employed the 
idard nine-thread, the club can claim that its 
nbers have bona fide light tackle. Its action 
ald be followed by: other Pacific coast clubs 
ch place certain limitations on calibers of 
s and weights of tips for certain kinds of 
¥ng, but which have so far fought against 
strong movement toward bona fide light salt 
er rods. This Los Angeles club’s action is 
ine with the conclusions we drew in a recent 
jorial, for it is possible to make a ten-ounce 
with a length of six feet or slightly more 
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Louis Dean Spgir, Treasurer, 
346 Broadway, New York. 



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which will be pleasant to fish with, but which 
the 
the 
in 
to 
will at the same time give good service 
taking of fish of medium size, according 
Pacific coast acceptance of that term. 
It is pleasant to fish for brook trout with a 
such a weapon 
and 
is well 
trout 
and 
adapted to brushy mountain 
that seldom weigh two pounds and more often 
one-fourth as much; but few anglers advocate 
that such rods be employed in bass fishing, which 
four-ounce fly-rod, 
streams 
calls for more substantial tools. 
Atlantic coast weakfish 
light tackle in their favorite branch of fishing, 
but for striped bass and other larger sea fish 
enthusiasts use very 
they very sensibly employ rods weighing ten to 
fifteen ounces and lines suited to the fish they 
angle for. 
In this as in other branches of sport there is a 
steady tendency toward lighter and more sports- 
manlike equipments. Smaller lines in time 
bring about the use of 
have already shown, the advisability of lighter 
rods, and in the end one object sought will be 
attained. This is the make 
the contest between fish and angler one in which 
skill and not main strength will win the victory. 
will 
they 
smaller reels, as 
common désire to 

THE DEER SEASON. 
Ir is pleasing to record, in another column, 
the belief of that the short 
open season is saving goodly numbers of Adiron- 
deer. If the gathered by the 
Fish and Game prove this 
conclusion to be correct, as seems probable, then 
the sportsmen should be satisfied with the law 
and so inform their representatives in the Legis- 
an old woodsman 
statistics 
Commission 
dack 
Forest, 
lature. 
On Long Island there is a strong sentiment 
in favor of the plan so often advanced in these 
columns in past years. A perpetual close sea- 
son on Long Island deer should be fixed, and 
the-surplus animals caught and liberated in the 
Catskills or the Adirondacks. Co-operation in 
this work by the Forest Commission and the 
Long Island preserve owners would result bene- 
ficially to the sportsmen of the Stafe at large, for 
the present short and its will 
never be satisfactory to residents of or visitors 
to the island. 
season results 

CuarLes G. ZETTLER, who died at his home in 
Brooklyn on Noy. 4, was one of the best known 
men in the rifle shooting circles of the United 
States. In this, however, he shared his fame 
with his brother Bernhard, who survives him. 
Charlie and Barney, as they were called by their 
hosts of friends, were always found together. 
Long ago their father before them was a fam- 
ous riflemaker, and they grew up in his shop. 
After his death they continued the business of 
making rifles, their specialty being the recutting 
of rifles and improvement in accuracy for target 
purposes. Part of their old place at 219 Bowery 
was occupied as a rifle range, and scoreg of rifle 
clubs were organized and held their competitions 
there, the most famous of all being the Zettler 
Rifle Club, founded by the brothers. Few sports- 
men visiting New York city failed to call on 
“the Zettler boys,’ and when they removed to 
West Twenty-third street, several years ago, the 
number of visitors increased and many of the 
great rifle tournaments were held there, as well 
as under the brothers’ management at Cypress 
Hills, Union Hill Madison 
Square Garden. For nearly half a century these 
Greenville, and 
brothers have been seen at all important’ meet- 
ings and matches held by the riflemen of the 
Eastern States, and in all their dealings with 
their fellow sportsmen they have earned un- 
stinted praise for their integrity and honesty. 

Charles Zettler’s death will be mourned through- 
out the land; to know him was to love him. 
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IN our news columns mention has several times 
been made of the feeling, which seems wide- 
spread in the State of Connecticut, that, owing 
to the scarcity of quail there these birds should 
not be killed. 
New 
this year—as also they did last year—that they 
In a shore town not very far from 
Haven, all the best gunners have agreed 
will not kill any quail. Several of these gunners, 
good shots, and provided with good dogs, have 
more than once come across quail, but have not 
this town the 
disturbed them. In 
whereabouts of several bevies of quail are known, 
particular 
but so far as we are able to learn none have been 
killed. In the same way from an inland town 
in Connecticut comes the statement that as the 
last few hard winters have about finished the 
quail no decent sportsman there will try to kill 
any. 
that he has killed no quail in his neighborhood 
for the last though 
he has had opportunities to do so. 
in giving Bob White a chance to live and mul- 
tiply. If sentiments such as these were general 
among the 
should hear far less than we do about the scarcity 
of game, and the out-of-season gunners, of which 
The correspondent who writes this states 
four seasons, occasionally 
He believes 
sportsmen throughout country, we 
a Nebraska correspondent wrote last week, would 
do less damage than at present. 
R 
READERS of ForEST AND STREAM who know Mr. 
Harry Chase or have read his numerous articles on 
game and fish protection, published from time 
to time in these columns, will be glad to learn 
that his power for has 
United States Marshal Bailey has appointed. Mr. 
Chase a special deputy United States 
with jurisdiction throughout the entire State of 
good been increased. 
marshal 
Vermont, and to him has been assigned the en- 
forcement of the Lacey Act which has reference to 
interstate commerce in game birds and animals. 
These new duties will not interfere with Mr. 
Chase’s duties as a game warden in Bennington 
county, but will give him additional powers and 
authority in enforcing the fish and game laws. 




















































































