New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-19

longer had rushed for his and come up 70 ION
In the fray.
Lantern in hand we pushed carefully mp to where
the lay, fat on his SIDE forty yards away.
His troubles ended He lay, his nose Just touch
Ing the shore. with the largest antlers captured IN
Maine this year projecting above the water OF the
pond We left him there that night and returned to
camp. Next morning. before breakfast we padded
back to examine our prize.
This moose had eight points on one horn, seven on
the Others, with a broad web both, and spread Of
over four feet IIo measured six feet nine lnches
IN height at the fore shoulders, htue
more than twenty hands high, with ms
big and broad antlers rising above that. The guides
judged him 10 weigh 1900 or 1,4Oo pounds Head
and horns alone as heavy n weight as one man
could carry. As we stood about him. Henry a. Marks,
Of Lynn, Mass, and his guide Billy Hodgkins, came
padding the pond TO see what We had captured
They had heard the firing the night before Needless
10 say there great iubilation in our camp The
best Of it all that had killed our moose, in the
lawful season. b. lawful methods. After securing the
head and antlers and sending them by Billy 10 :. l..
Crosby, the taxidernlst Bangor, 10 be mounted and
after securing the great hide, feet by 10 square,
and giving away all the moose meat We could To other
parties OF hunters and after capturing buck deer on
the bog II the pond have come on TO Camp Fassett
laures and to think over our adventures
We certainly must send this noble head, when II Is
mounted. TO athletic club at home (the New
York; for the boys 10 see another OF tie great prizes
won BY one OF their members during 1891, in cOmpct-
ton with the country at large.
A larger number " heads than usual Is being sent
out Of the woods this year. Most Of them have been
killed unlawfuy. before October l, and kept back 20
A. TO come out in open season after the 1st. Nearly
all Of them of moderate size. The guides think the
dry weather has affected the size OF the horns Our
big head the largest and shot lawfully in open
season.
One word about large game in Maine. Deer are
undoubtedly increasing in the region around the mead
waters OF the Penobscot aid Kennebec rivers and IN
the AIacash waters. and possibly on the st JOh' III
spite Of the fact that several hundred are killed every
| YEAR OF caribou there sull gJodiy NUMBER
although unsv ful killing to have checked ther
increase The moose is disappearing and for this IN
| lawful killing is responsible. Maine mas code. OIL
game lsws, which gives TO hunters and visiting sports
men the large and valuable privilege Of hlAn3 one
moose. two carbon and three deer during Ger
| tain fall and winter months, beginning oOIC
| Der l. But the laws prohibit shooting on Sunday
and before October /, and absolutely forbid, as Is
| proper. the killing OF a moose At any uHe OF
under any circumstances. This law Is not Observed
and unless il Is enforced in the future, and SHARPLY
too there VIII in few years be IN end OF large sAine
in Maine.
Who f, responsible for the violations OF the law ?
In small par, the Iumbermen In the lumber camps
which are tabnshed in large numbers all through
the great wilderness Of Northern Maine, every WINTER
there are almost always a few rides. The men wo:h TOO
! hard on week days TO hunt. but on sunday Wheh
hunting is absolutely unlawful. some Of tlem to vary
| ,he mOnOtOny OF the hong winters work away from
civilization 20 out from some Of the camp, and shoot
ana nave tie game yaried a. thh. a,'h in shO"
| four and five feet deep, at terrible disadvantage;
! IN part the professional hunters are iesp)h,lbe.
! No need 10 mention nnme.. Every one KNOW VINO
they are While out trapping lawfully for mink otter,
4eyer. Jear aud foxes, they meet Ntn large gan; ana
cannot resist the temptation TO Kill for The hides iar
| in excess Of the number allowed to them by law.
mo mar left 81
6ldes. on soubaaean Mountain one winter.
mother is known to have shot fourteen in winter.
some Of tie meat IS sold % humber camps, but most
Of il is wasted Hundreds Of stories Ike this told,
THE indians of CanJda are even more deadly enemies
20 r,co-e ,-,iI1 on and deer Al one dine In Maine.
! A. thev pl,.,.ed because they were indians. But
! about thirty wears ago that law was repealed. TIE
| ~ then a. though the law still stood and the
Canadian Indians come across the line in winter. slay
nght and left, secure the hide, and in the spring
load canoes or dugouts with their spoil and Their
| loads into Canada, with the wiser for it, This
a. done In the main merely for the hides Tire hide
~ moose is1ped and worked up into moccasns and
nov nnst he abandoned in the woods is worth
| rom $40 TO 80 and the head when a bull is killed
! will sell mounted, for 800 to Sl1O THINK u WHAT
| n cow moose is killed the increase Of the game Is
checked beyond redemption; -. ...- ,-,.t.,.s
They do not Kill the most. but t,oir example IS tie
most powerful can speak OF thi- belnS my seii d
subiec the summer visitor has heretofore been gently
reotsd. Every one Of them who goes 1io the woods
pend, from Sl5O 70 1900 on his trip. Many OF them
! spsnd more. william Zeigler OF Brooklyn, great
edmIrer Of this magnificent reg2n ana CCst aId
70 rtpcn guides 10 CancomgOmOc Lake last summer
and another Of twenty five friends and fourteen guides
5000 in this princcIy hospitality. These are large
disbursc nents. and the aggregate IN me etale M
profitable businoss ought NOT to be- discouraged II
Employs the guides helps the railroads ana NOTES.
stimulates trade, and IS great benefit 10 me Slate
And the opinion seems 70 be that II summer WIS.,!
tips few Wild animals out % season, perhaps nom
Inc v'sr away. But; sumner yi.ii0r myself myself
and ono who has talked with 9taes eIt ,1af tbs
| late authorities take wrong view Of this mater
The law ons TO he enforced he mae to
do 80 AGAINST all classe- alike. these verv NlsIofs
viii be rs mo cordial uphofers H. ho Soe.to oh ~
nan from outside the state J, allo|tu D, u,
god folow aad free Wit II s9ay 10 nj
roe and indeDondcnt American in the state who ha
| the chance i Il do the same a'd expect 70 90 re
,,,ifor+s of lie state inspired by the example o.
Tho sumner visitors The poor man In Maine, %l.
! haunch % Boston. who wants q mde iGr uta b
VIII not submit seeing the lawr suspended LOT
viii and often doe, kill ont Of -eason merely ToI
revenge for the injustice Inflicted upon MIN anu az a.
! assertion NJ his manhood equality WIN persons D
NeI.' - useless f., say the laws cannot be enforced
m EAR Ie And If enforced in proper way, they
,riu 10 respected and o'eyed. If men like Wilbur r.
| III - To-, Darinp LOui, Eetclam. Con. DRhoney
N,ofo sam cole Joe Francs and many other men
y; land ng wno know the woods Thoroughly, whC
LIN b ra,,. 4 ,rere employed a. game wardenS at
! la az - 900 or ~ 200 wear there WOuh ~
| .vtror,elv f.v v.ol1ti0ps Of the game Laws OF VI
go, ~ Maine The expense might he large for
/ fs,r year nut il would repay the state hundred
| t,id r-ue,s sore such course is TAKEN me DIR
.""SIcr now Law the golden for northern Maine
,rju Lo thing o. the past within a very lew year.
Enforcement needs 10 be done in proper 9la 9psi
u.tb honorable methods. and avoidance OF needles
t,ion Proper wardens suitably paid Will accom-
pi'h tie end !" ''e" AUTHORIZATIONS.