FISH AND GAME SEASONS IN NEW YORK STATE

The Cortland Democrat, Friday, July 24, 1896.

FISH AND GAME SEASONS.

TABLE COMPILED FOR FISHERMEN AND HUNTERS.

Long Island Has a Special Lot of Laws 

Which Are Very Favorable to Pot Hunters

—St. Lawrence River Preserves the Other Extreme.

(From the Syracuse Herald.)

   For the convenience of fishermen and hunters The Herald has compiled a table from the game laws of the State showing the open seasons for the various kinds of fish and game throughout the State. It will be noticed that Long Island has a special set of laws governing hunting and fishing.

   This is the result of the strong influence wielded in the State Legislature by the pot hunters of that section, and has been strongly objected to by the State Fish and Game association. The St. Lawrence river preserve has been instituted during the last year and fishing in that section is governed by special enactments. The table follows:

   Deer—August 16th to October 31st, inclusive. No deer shall be killed in Ulster, Greene, Sullivan or Delaware counties for five years from June 7th, 1895. Does not apply to Long Island. Hounding shall be permitted from the 1st to the 15th of October inclusive.

   Moose, caribou and antelope—Same as deer.

   Black and gray squirrels, hares and rabbits—October 15th to February 15th, inclusive. Wayne, Onondaga and Oswego counties are exempted from provisions relative to rabbits and hares. Long Island is exempted from all provisions.

   Beaver—No open season.

   Wolves and panthers—Bounty of $30 for grown wolf, $15 for pup wolf and $20 for panther.

   Web-footed wild fowl, except geese and brant—September to April 31st, inclusive, during daylight from an hour before sunrise until one hour after sunset.  Long Island exempted.

   Quail—November and December, except in the counties of Genesee, Wyoming, Orleans, Livingston, Monroe, Cayuga, Seneca, Wayne, Tompkins, Tioga, Onondaga, Steuben, Cortland, Otsego, where it shall not be lawful to kill until November, 1898. Long Island exempted.

   Woodcock and grouse—August 16th to December 31st, inclusive. Long Island exempted.

   Plover, Wilsons, English snipe, rial, mud hen, gallinule, grebe, bittern, surf bird, curlew, water chicken, bay snipe, shore bird—May, June, July and August. Long Island exempted.

   Wild birds, excepting English sparrows, crow, hawk, crane, raven crow, blackbird, common blackbird, kingfisher—No open season. For the birds mentioned there is no close season [sic].

   Meadow larks—No open season. Long Island excepted.

   Mongolian ring-necked pheasant—None shall be killed prior to 1900.

   Trout—April 16th to August 31st, inclusive. Long Island exempted.

   Salmon trout, known as lake trout, land locked salmon—May 1st to September 30th, inclusive. Long Island exempted.

   Black bass or Oswego bass—May 20th to December 31st, inclusive. Lake

George or Schroon lake, from August 1st to December 31st. Schoharie river, or Foxes creek, within three years from May 31st, 1896, except in August.

   Pickeral [sic], wall-eyed pike or pike—May 1st to January 31st. St. Lawrence river preserve exempted.

   Muskalonge [sic]—May 30th to last day of February. St. Lawrence river preserve exempted.

   Salmon—March 1st to August 15th, inclusive.

   Salt water striped bass—No open season.

   Perch, suckers, bullheads, pickeral—No close season.

   The law in relation to fishing in the St. Lawrence river preserve, which embraces the waters of the St. Lawrence lying between an imaginary line drawn from Tibbetts Point lighthouse, about four miles south of Cape Vincent to the Snake lighthouse about four miles from the city of Kingston in Ontario and an imaginary line drawn from the northern part of the city of Ogdensburgh to the northern part of Prescott, Ontario, situated on the opposite side of the St. Lawrence river and known for the purposes of the law as the "waters of the St. Lawrence river.''

   Black bass, pickeral, pike, wall eyed pike, muskinonge, or muskalonge—June 9th to January 1st, inclusive. No one person to take more than twelve black bass in one day, and no single boat to take more than twenty-four.

They Elect Officers.

   The stockholders of the Cortland & Homer Traction Co. held their annual meeting for the election of directors in their offices in this village last Tuesday. The following directors were chosen:

   P. S. Page, C. D. Simpson, Harry P. Simpson and Horace E. Hand of Scranton; Herman Bergholtz, Franklin C. Cornell and DeForest Van Vleet of Ithaca and Horace L. Bronson and Hugh Duffey of Cortland.

   At a subsequent meeting of the board of directors the following officers were elected;

   President—C. D. Simpson.

   Vice President—P. S. Page.

   Secretary and Treasurer—Horace E. Hand.

A New Law.

   After September 1 every boy and girl between 14 and 16 years of age employed in a store or factory in this city will be required to have a certificate from the board of health, under a law passed by the last session of the legislature of this State, affecting the employment of minors in mercantile and manufacturing establishments. The State board of health is now engaged in putting the law into effect. The penalty is severe and will be rigidly enforced, and hence the necessity of living closely to it.

An Old Offender.

   A man giving the name of Chas. Doyle was arrested last Saturday after a chase of several hours. Revolver shots failed to stop him and it was only by sending a man after him with a wheel that he was taken. Monday he was sentenced to the penitentiary for ninety days for vagrancy and public intoxication. At the expiration of that sentence he will be brought back here to answer the much more serious charge of felony in misusing small boys.

   He claimed when arrested that it was the first time in his life and he had never had handcuffs on before but when Chief Linderman took him to Syracuse he was recognized at once by the officials as having recently been discharged from the penitentiary.

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIALS.

   ◘ Hon. Andrew D. White, for several years president of Cornell University and minister to Berlin under a republican administration, has seen fit to publish an open letter addressed to prominent democrats, advising them to vote and work for McKinley. The only noticeable thing about the letter is the amazing cheek and audacity displayed by the writer. Any one of the democrats to whom he addresses his letter is fully as able to decide what his duty is under the circumstances as is Mr. White. The latter is now and always has been the rankest sort of a republican, and he views the situation entirely from a republican standpoint. The gentlemen he seeks to advise are men of well known ability and high standing in the democratic party, and when he undertakes to advise them as to their duty as good citizens and patriots he assumes to be the superior of these gentlemen mentally and morally. It is an insult that should be promptly acknowledged and resented.

   ◘ It is claimed that the republican differences in this town have been settled and that everything will hereafter be harmonious. The other towns, however, have not been consulted and they are liable to have something to say about the matter when the convention meets.

The New York Democracy.

   The chairman of the Democratic State Convention issued a call for a meeting of that committee at the Hoffman House in New York city at noon yesterday. Appending to that call was the following statement:

   "To the Democracy of the State:—The fact cannot be disguised that the action of the Chicago convention was a serious disappointment to the Democracy of New York and has aroused widespread and increasing opposition. In this serious situation, the attitude of the party in the State may, with more propriety, be determined by its chosen representatives in council than by individual initiative, as it is important that the action determined upon be wise and united.

   "I desire to suggest to you therefore, that the State convention will soon be called, at which the delegates from New York to the recent national convention are expected to make a report of their proceedings with appropriate suggestions as to the duty of the Democracy of the State in the present crisis. In the mean time the utterances of the candidates, and preferred interpretations of the platform, as well as the possible action of other political bodies with which the Democratic party is not in sympathy, will tend to bring the path of duty clearly into view,

   "In the circumstances I recommend (after consultation with many leading

Democrats in the State) that no definite political action be taken by the Democrats until the assembling of the State convention, which may be trusted to take such patriotic measures as the honor and interest of the party and the country, both for the present and the future, may demand."

   (Signed) JAMES W. HINKLEY, Chairman Democratic State Committee, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 17, 1896.

Washington Letter

(From Our Regular Correspondent.)

   The campaign liar started before the campaign did this year. In consequence an awful lot of rot has been put into circulation concerning the attitude of President Cleveland and the members of his administration towards Bryan and McKinley. Silver democrats are not expecting any aid from the administration and none of them were at all surprised when Secretaries Olney and Herbert said they would not vote for Bryan, but it will take something more authoritative than sensational newspaper publications to make them believe in the existence of an understanding between Mark Hanna and the President, by which the influence of the administration is to he used on behalf of McKinley. Secretary Gardner of the democratic congressional campaign committee, and of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, says he expects to enroll more than five thousand campaign and regular clubs before the election.

   Among the applications for enrollment during the last week were those of the Russian-American democratic Union of New York City, with a membership of 12,000, and the Bryan Free Silver League of New York City. The application of the former stated that they fully endorse the Chicago regular democratic ticket and platform. Mr. Gardner says he has been much surprised at the large number of endorsements of the democratic platform received from the Eastern States. He was himself a gold standard man previous to the Chicago convention.

HERE AND THERE.

   Be sure and take in the excursion to the Thousand Islands to-morrow.

   Mrs. Bulkley again entertained her boarders at the park Wednesday evening and served supper.

   The Shamrocks of Syracuse defeated the Cortlands on the fair grounds last Saturday by a score of 13 to 9.

   Mr. M. J. Gallagher of the Deposit team has been signed to pitch for the Cortlands the balance of the season.

   Parties from Scranton were in town last week making arrangements for a big excursion of railroad employes [sic] to Cortland park.

   An account of the burning of the large barn of Mr. A. B. Freeman at Blodgett Mills will be found in our letter from that place.

   The First M. E. church and the Homer-ave. church will unite in an excursion to Cascade on Owasco lake on Tuesday, July 28.

   The employes of Wickwire Bros. factory will conduct an excursion to Long

Branch, Onondaga lake on Saturday, August 1.

   The annual fair of the Cortland County Agricultural society will be held Sept. 15, 16 and 17, instead of the 8, 9 and 10 of Sept., as heretofore announced.

   The Spiritualists are holding a camp meeting at Freeville which is to last until Sunday. Aug. 2. Two lectures are given daily: one at 10 A. M and one at 2 P. M.

   There is now a law which prohibits two persons riding on an ordinary bicycle at once. The law was passed in order to do away with carrying helpless babies on bicycles.—Exchange.

   A new law makes it the duty of the chief engineer of the fire department to visit each hotel in the village in the month of July and see that all rooms are provided with fire escapes as required by law.

   There were three hundred and sixty bicycles in the parade last Friday evening. A rider counted 87 wheels from Fitz-aye.[to the] Messenger House on the return from Homer, whose owners were not enough interested to ride in the parade.

   Arthur Fitzgerald, a young man from Cortland, who has been assisting John O'Connell in putting in the electric light plant at Whitney's Point, was badly bitten by a bull dog last week Sunday. When John got down there Monday he secured the services of Amos Johnson and had the dog shot. The owner of the dog now threatens to sue either O'Connell or Johnson.—Marathon Independent.

   The new directory of Cortland, Homer, Marathon and McGrawville is now ready for delivery. Mr. Parsons has made it much more complete than in former years, a special feature being a street directory of Cortland with the numbers running consecutively and the names for each number, but he sells it at the same price, $2 50.

   Here are a few words of warning. Any person killing a robin at any season of the year is liable to a fine of from two to twenty dollars or imprisonment for twenty days, or both. The law makes no excuse as to the object or purpose for which the robin is killed but is strictly prohibitive.—Exchange.