The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-29
Striped Bias, raken at Chords.

The striped base trolling at Giffords.
lakewood and the Kills, four striped bass
were taken the other day, by L. J. Dis
weighed IA, 4, AZ and " pounds each.
Trolling with sandworms. Frank Pink
and Harry Furness took two stTipers
on Sunday Bill Baker caught a 5h
pound channel bass on sandworms, trolling
Gafayettes are biting and good catches
have been made Of late.
New York, oct. rs. ASYOUWERE.
Hake and whiting at Lightship.
Fishing southeast OF the Lightship on
Sunday. fishermen IN the Joe Pinkett from
Sheepshead Bay caught hake and whiting:
The fish were so plentiful that messes of
four and ive were sold for a quarter.
Hake and whiting are now coming up to
Hook also.
Founders in Sheepshead Bay Entrance.
At the Two Lights. the entrance of
Sheepshead Bay, Fred T. Humes and Ed
ward Moon in a rowboat caught in three
hours on Sunday IS founders and II la
fayettes. The preferred bait was sand
worm.
aiacknsh are biting now at the Stone
Pile, on Manhattan Beach.
TWENTY-FIVE Deer Hunting Accidents.
ALBANY. Oct. 27.--"Dont shoot at the
white tail of a deer II that Is all you can
see." says the Conservation Commission.
ut may be the handkerchief of a person
who is wiping his face. A man was killed
Don't shoot at an indIstinct object. even
though 1t appears to have four legs 1t
the Adirondacks was shot through the
heart while plucking wild flower few
days ago.
bushes Hunters themselves frequently
cause movements of the bushes, and one
died in the hospital yesterday from in
iNarfa nv alaRQ
THE only safe method is to look before
you shoot and be sure what YOU are shoot
ing at" is Commissioner Pratts warning.
Twenty-Five hunting accidents have al
ready been reported to the Conservation
Commission this season. four of which have
proved fatal. As the season advances and
more hunters go into the woods 1t is
feared by careful sportsmen that the total
number OF accidents will assume appalling
proportions IL the present haphazard
| method Of shooting on the part Of mex
perienced hunters is not speedily brought
to an end.
Hoover to Baker on Killing Of Docs.
DIR. Hugh p. Baker. Dean. New York
| State College of Forestry-Dear Doctor
Baker: have been favored by THE SUN
with a clipping containing your reply to
gard it biolOscay right to permit the kill
| ing of does in the Adironds cks ?" can
| heartily commend the good sense you dis
| write where refuses to sign his
| name referring to the persistent anonym-
ity under which white Birch" has been
| careful to hide himself. Had you adhered
to your first impulse 20 ignore an anonym-
| Gus correspondent you would not have
fallen into at least one Of the errors OF
| which you are now victim.
| You devoted large part Of your letter
TO explaining why your name appeared
Conservation Association Biological Com
mittee." The fact is that you were try
ing to explain something that Is not true rue
| Four years ago you were appointed ana
| IN an appreciative letter acce pied appoint
ment as member OF the biological com
| mittee of the Western New York Con-
| servation Association.
Out of respect for your good work in
the Government service during tho war
| you were continued that committee,
| althc ugh naturally you were unable TO ACT
| with When the Western New York
nation was accepted and you were NOT
appointed to membership on the New
York Conservation Association Committee.
The trouble is that you accepted inc
luntrustworthy statement OF white Birch,
the anonymous writer, who got hold OF a
Y asI year ys.tS TT Sew Yor, CONSERVATISM
Association letterhead which did contain
your name in the biological committee,
and who assumed that the old association
members of that committee had been
continued in the new state wide assoSla
tion. or who purposely misTepresehteu
That old biological committee list con
tanned the names of at least three PuoIiS
state office holders. yourself included. and
White birch had perhaps some ground
for concluding that all OF them would
| stand pat with the present Conservation
Commission in It's fight for the retentiot
OF the impractical buck law; law wh,Sn
| the commission admitted had seen the
Killing OF at least 5000 does last year.
1 have always regarded you as mar
who possessed a particularly strong Iosiea
| mind hut as a fair minded man also yol
, | must now admit that you have been pro
ceeding upon false premise furhishee
. you by white Birch"
Buck Law Not Conserving.
I .aau IN readily