The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-20
c4s East Forty-e.shth street, Aug, IS.
Warning Prohibiting Use OF Forests.

ALBANY. Aug. ls.--warning that camp
ing, fishing, hunting and trapping WITHIN
the forests OF the AdiTondnsks may De iot f.
order TO decrease the unusual danger OF
forest ores caused by extreme conditions
OF dry weather now prevailing there has
Il Is only by the exercise of the greatest
caution by the large number OF persons
now in the woods. say the Commissioner.
that serious forest tires can be prevented
and II II appears that they are not exeE-
cising this caution he will Immediately rec
ommend to the Governor the Issuance OF a
proclamation prohibiting use OF tao woods
until the danger is past.
relation to lands and forests provides that
Whenever, by reason OF drought the Tor
ests OF the State are ir danger OF nres'
men, trappers or campers, the Governor
shall have the power to determine and
shall determine and declare that such pur-
and shall have the further authority to
forbid by proclamation any person or per-
carving GH ipsn M IN ' tSs o
towns as he deems the public Interest re-
quires."
Commissioner Pratt says that he VIII re-
Quest the Issuance CT such proclamation
by the Governor only as last resort, but
that forest fires must be prevented. There
fore. whether or not persons are to be per
mitted TO continue camping in the woods
duriag this period of drought depends en-
tirely upon their own care with fires.
The commission has Issued simple rules
rules require that burning matches, to-
bacco, cigars or cigarettes be e1tinsuished.
that only small camp Ares be built and
that they be thoroughly extlnguished be-
fore they are left.
Tho Mystery of the Saturday Briggs Bag
Rod and Gun column readers have been
led astray by the ways that are dark
and tricks that are VAIN Of a heather
Chlnee. DR.. Briggs, besides being a
medlcus and president OF various associa-
tons. as a doctor believes in nsh as a
FOR years on Saturdays his big bag OF
nsh and sea food makes its way to
days gather for exchange OF thought and
Inspiration They al 10 o'clock cit down
10 the collation. The Doctors rod. reel and
The tired business man, the college pro.
lessor. the lawyer, the doctor and civil
the sage and debate the problems OF city,
state national and world affairs Offer
their solutions and discuss ways and
means OF world. State and city better
Perhaps II the Chines had followed the
doctors bag Saturday evening to Its Madi-
s soR Sy'' Sailors and other recipients Of
the doctors bounty respond 10 the stimulus
OF no liquid bait but the social proximity
OF a selected group animated BY the Vita
mines and the new supply OF phosphat e
food for neurous and faded nerve cells
he would have reported the weekly
gathering Of the DOCTORS group OF poets,
Statesmen, captains and prlvAtcs of COM
mercs and industry Instead OF casting In
situations that the doctor was caught
with the goods
always has the goods either in his
physical, his mental or his - ritual
pouch. Vive le docteur ct vive p,ym outh
Rock. CHRIS DENE.
New York. Aug, Is
Boating Fish Without a CAT.
The other day Mr.. Mayer wrote in THE
SUN OF an old fisherman "who ought TO
have known better who caught OK
pound huke. but refused 10 call for the
gan, desiring to show his fellow fishermen
that he did not require gan TO land
FISH Of tails size, The man landed the hsh
on board. but he paid for his vanity or
lis ignorance with a broken rod."
ole" commented On ths A.S4snt A.