GOOD BICYCLE ROADS OF LONG ISLAND-Continued. ton good road to the beach. At Good Ground cycle path to Ponquogue Light. At Southampton good road to the beach and fair road to the North Sea. At Water Mill fair road to Noyack. At Bridgehampton fair road to the beach, good road to Sag Harbor. At Amagansett fair road to Acabonack Harbor. The North Shore road from Jamaica, through Flushing, Little Neck, Roslyn to East Norwich is excellent macadam. Through Cold Spring, Huntington, Northport and Kings Park, fair. Kings Park through Smithtown, St. James, Stony Brook, Setauket to Port Jefferson, good. Port Jefferson through Rocky Point, Wading River, gravel roads, poor. From Wading River to Riverhead roads and paths in good condition. From Riverhead through Jamesport, Mattituck, Southold, Greenport, Orient to Orient Point, roads and cycle paths excellent. The road from Wading River, through Baiting Hollow and Northville to Mattituck is fair for one-third of the way and good roads or cycle path the balance. The roads and cycle paths running from the main roads in good condition are as follows: Flushing to College Point, Whitestone, Willets Point and back to Bay Side, excellent. New road just east of Little Neck to Great Neck good, as is also the old road at the top of the hill. Further east the road on the east side of the neck is now completed and in good shape. A fine road from Manhassett Post Office to Port Washington. Fair road across the neck and along the east side to Roslyn. The new system of roads from Roslyn through Sea Cliff, Glen Cove, Locut Valley, Oyster Bay are almost completed and make fine side trips. At Huntington good road running down to the harbor. At Northport considerable work has been done on the roads and they are much improved. At Jamesport good road to Peconic Bay. At Cutchogue good road to Nassau Point. Cycle path on Shelter Island has been put in fine condition, as has also the path running across Hog Neck to Sag Harbor. The center road from Jamaica has had new dressing put on and is in good condition to Jericho. The road running south from Hicksville through Farmingdale to Babylon is in good condition. Road from Westbury to Wheatley Hills is good with a cycle path its whole length. New road from Roslyn to East Williston and from Mineola through Garden City and Hempstead to Rockville Centre is nearly finished, and makes an excellent connection between the North and South Shore. Roads from Queens to Flushing to Bay Side excellent. Queens to Hempstead good. From Queens to Springfield good. From Floral Park to Little Neck and from Hyde Park by Lake Success to Thomaston, excellent. Fair road from Babylon through West Deer Park to Woodbury. Cycle path from Comac to Hauppauge and from Hauppauge to Smithtown is in good condition. Cycle path has been built from Bay Shore through Brentwood to Hauppauge. The cross island cycle | path from Port Jefferson to Patchogue has been much improved and the surface is in good shape. The paths from Eastport to Riverhead and Westhampton to Riverhead are both in good shape, the conditions being most favorable to the Westhampton path. Path from Riverhead to Quogue poor. Path from Smithtown through Lake Grove and Ronkonkoma to Islip fair. Fish Hatchery, Cold Spring Harbor. The Fish, Game and Forest Commission of the State of New York has seven permanent hatching stations. They are in the counties of Monroe, Queens, Frankiin, Herkimer, Fulton, Steuben, and Sullivan, named in the order of their establish ment. The first is for trout and white fish of the Great Lakes, the others, except Queens, are mainly for trout. The latter is at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, close to the county line of Suffolk, and is the most important of them all in its work, with popular good fishes in both salt and fresh water. It was established in 1883. Each station has a foreman, who is subject to the orders of General Superintendent James Annin, Jr.. of Caledonia, Livingston Co. The following plants were made in 1898: 1,600 thre. year old trout, 991,000 trout fry, 46,000,000 tomeod fry, 48,000,000 smelt fry. 5,014,000 shad fry and 6,550,00 lobster fry. C. H. Walters is the Superintendent. Huntington village... Islip town.... Bayshore village. Riverhead town.. 4,196 Shelter Island town.. Orient village.. 808 786 Total, Kings County. 995,276 BANKS OF LONG ISLAND. The following is the Report of the Banks of Discount and Deposit-National and Savings. See also Banks, Borough of Queens. Institutions. Location. President. Cashier. Chas. E. Patterson. $6,536 $64,062 $143,636 $25,000 J. S. Davis. $73,088 $105,868 $10,155 $2,613 Valentine W. Smith. 229,316, 51 493 298,055] 578,804 25,000 523,020 27.029 3,813 W. H. D. Nimmo.. 142,585 52,288 505,921 700.792 50,000 543,750 63,210 43,831 Wm. S. Hall.. 92,593 12.146 112,047 216,786 30,000 181,421 5,069 294 E. F. Preston..... H. H.Huntting, Treas E. O. Corwin.. 99.812 16,495 118,760, 260,326 25,000 LIFE SAVING STATIONS ON THE LONG ISLAND COAST. Stations. Amangasett Eatons Neck Forge River Hither Plain. Jones Beach.. Long Beach Mecox Napeague Point of Woods Point Lookout Rockaway Point Tiana Zach's Inlet Three and a half miles southwest of Montauk light. East side of entrance to Huntington Bay, L. I. Sound.. Half a mile west of Fire Island light.. One mile south of the village of East Hampton. Half mile southwest of Fort Pond. East end of Jones Beach.. Eight miles east of Fire Island light.. Near west end, Long Beach. Two miles south of the village of Bridgehampton East end of Oak Island ....... One and a half miles southwest of Potunk village Two miles west of New Inlet Half a mile south of the village. Keepers. Jesse B. Edwards. Stephen Ketcham. Charles H. Herman. William H. Reinhart. West end of Rockaway Beach Daniel B. Abrams. Near Rocky Point, L. I. S.,about 4 m. north'ly from Greenport Harvey S. Brown, Half mile east of Jones Inlet. Two miles southwest of Shinnecock light Nelson Burnett. John Edwards. 'Philip K. Chichester. LIGHTHOUSES ON LONG ISLAND AND VICINITY. Stations. Montauk Point Fire Island Long Beach Bar.. Stratford Shoal.. On the extreme east end of Long Island On outer end of Breakwater, Greenport Harbor.. In Long Island Sound, nearly opposite Port Jefferson Elmer J. Rathbun. Charles M. Fenton, Robert Ebbitts. Gilbert S. Rulon. Edgar S. Maclay. Easterly point of shoal, entrance to Cold Spring Harbor. S. L. Turner. Off Sands Point On northwest extremity of Manhasset Neck Northwest side of Fort Schuyler Whitestone Point, P. L. On Whitestone Point. Flushing Bay, P. L.... On dike in Flushing Bay. On Oak Bluff to east of Port Morris.. North Brother Island.. South end of North Brother Island.. Ft. Lafayette Fog Bell. Ft. Wadsw'th Fog Bell Navesink On Norton Point, western end of Coney Island. West side of Narrows. New York Lower Bay. On Romer Shoal, N. E. side of Swash Chan., N. Y. low. bay Albert H. Porter. Scotland Lt.vessel No.74 miles N. E. E. from Navesink light.. North Hook Beacon... On north point of Sandy Hook.. Elm Tree Beacon.. On Staten Island, near entrance to Raritan Bay. On Staten Island, at the Narrows In Kill Van Kull, at Newark Bay entrance In New York Upper Bay.. Inside Fort Wood, Bedloe Island, New York Harbor Robert A. Bishop. Wm. Stanton. FISH, GAME AND FOREST LAWS OF NEW YORK. The laws for the protection, preservation and propagation of birds, fish and wild animals in the State of New York were codified and re-enacted by the Legislature in 1892, amended in 1893 and 1894, revised and re-enacted and consolidated with the forest laws in 1895, and further amended in 1896 and in 1897. The laws are officially known as "The Fisheries, Game and Forest Law" and constitute Chapter 31 of the general laws. They are also known as Chapter 488 of the Laws of 1892. as amended by the Legislatures each year since. The term "close season" is that period of time during which an act is prohibited. Kings, Queens and Suffolk counties and Long Island Sound and the Thousand Islands have special laws. The deer law of Long Island has been subjected to important change. The law of 1895 stated that no deer shall be hunted or killed on this island except for the period of two years from the passage of the act, and after that every other year. They shall then only be hunted or killed from Nov. 10 to 16, inclusive. By the new law, deer may be killed on Long Island each Wednesday during the month of November. Birds. WILD FOWL.-Web-footed wild fowl, except geese and brant, shall not be hunted, possessed or sold, between May 1 and Sept. 1. Shall not be pursued, shot at or hunted between sunset and dayligne. Gun raised at arm's length and fired from the shoulder, without rest, only to be used. Boats propelled by hand only or floating device to be used, except on Long Island Sound. Floating devices not to be used. Shall not be killed by the use of a bough-house, at a greater distance than fifty feet from either shore Or a natural growth of grass or flags. If killed in violation of law, must not be brought to shore, sold or possessed. On the Hudson River, south of the Troy dam and its tributaries below that point, boats propelled by hand may be used for the purpose of shooting web-footed fowl. QUAIL.-Closed season, Dec. 15 to Nov. 1. They shall not be sold or possessed between Jan. 1 and Nov. 1, but possession thereof between Dec. 1 and Jan. 1 is forbidden, unless proven by possessor that said birds were killed within lawful periods or out of the State. Shall not be killed or ingston, Monroe, Cayuga, Seneca, Wayne, Tomp A law has been enacted which makes the catch-possessed in Genesee, Wyoming, Orleans, Living and killing of beaver in New York State a misdemeanor, and the party so catching or kill-kins, Tioga, Onondaga, Ontario, Steuben, Otsego ing liable to a penalty of $50 for each offense. An important law says, in substance, that any person owning land which he reserves as private fishing premises, if "hereafter stocked by the State from any of the hatcheries, hatching stations, or by fish furnishers at the expense of the State, shall be and remain open to the public to fish therein the same as though the private park law had never existed." Chemung and Cortland counties, until Nov. 1, 1898. Another law states that "No trout of any kind, salmon trout or land locked salmon shall be taken away from any of the waters of this State for the purpose of stocking a private pond or stream, except that the owner of such private pond may,glish snipe; PLOVER, RAIL. MUD HEN, GALupon the written consent of the fisheries, game and forest commission, take any such fish from any stream of water running through premises owned by him, solely for the purpose of being placed in such private pond." The law in its application to fresh water also provides for the licensing of nets. If nets are licensed and have a tag on, the protectors and foresters can identify the owner of a net illegally used, and if the tag is missing the net can be destroyed. Section 149 increases and extends the powers given to the Commissioners of Fisheries for the issuing of permits to use nets in certain lakes and for certain kinds of fish. The law prohibits the polluting of streams or taking fish by drawing off water or by dynamite, or from a stream to stock a private pond or stream. No fishing through the ice in waters inhabited by trout or salmon. DEER, WILD-Close season, Nov. 15 to Aug. 15. No person shall kill or take alive more than two deer in one season. No deer to be caught, shot at, hunted or killed in the counties of Ulster, Greene, Sullivan and Delaware prior to Aug. 15, 1901. Fawns shall not be caught or killed at any time. Deer shall not be hunted with dogs for the term of five years from June 1, 1897. Dogs of the breed commonly used for hunting deer, shall not be permitted to run at large in the forest where deer inhabit, and while chasing deer in violation of law may be killed by any person. The use of traps, devices and salt licks forbidden, also crusting and yarding. Deer or venison killed in this State shall not be transported point within or without the State from or through any of the counties thereof or possessed for that purpose, except one carcass or part thereof, may be transported from the county where killed when accompanied by the owner, head and feet or skin of deer, severed from the body, excepted. MOOSE, CARIBOU AND ANTELOPE Not to be hunted, killed or possessed or sold during the close season for the possession of deer or venison, after the same have been killed. to any SQUIRRELS (black and gray)-Shall not be hunted, shot at. killed or possessed, after the same shall have been killed, between Dec. 15 and Sept. 1. The provisions of this section shall not apply to Long Island. PANTHER-Bounty twenty dollars. WILD BIRDS, except English sparrow, hawk, crane, crow, raven, crow black birds, common black birds or kingfishers, are not to be killed, caught or possessed after being killed, at any time except as above provided. EAGLE. Not to be caught or killed at any time, except under certificate, or possessed after being killed. MEADOW LARKS AND ROBINS.-Shall not be killed at any time. 'MONGOLIAN RING-NECKED PHEASANT.Shall not be killed prior to 1900. NESTS of wild birds, except the English sparrow, hawk, crane, crow, raven, erow black bird, or kingfisher, shall not be robbed or needlessly destroyed, unless when necessary to protect buildings or prevent their defacement. Fish. NETS. The only lawful method of catching fish in the inland waters of this State is by angling; all other devices are forbidden. There are some exceptions. The prohibition does not apply to minnows for bait. No device except angling shall be placed, drawn or used for the capture of any fish, except menhaden, in the waters of Raritan Bay, nor in the waters adjacent thereto in Richmond County, except that shad may be taken by shad-nets between March 15 and June 15. Nets, set nets, pound or fykes shall not be used in the Harlem River or East River, or adjacent waters or confluent brooks to the northern boundary of the City of New York. This shall not apply to nets used for catching lobsters or crabs in Harlem, North or East River, nor apply to the taking of minnows for bait. Nets may be used in salt waters, except in the waters of Jamaica Bay or the inlet thereof, except that there eels may be caught by use of spear or eel-weir, and fish for bait or shrimp may be taken by means of hand or cast nets. The meshes of nets used in Coney Island Creek to the mouth thereof, extending out into Gravesend Bay one-half mile each way, shall not be less than four inches square, except that for eel and flounder fishing hoop-nets with suitable me he FISH, GAME AND FOREST LAWS OF NEW YORK-Continued. may be used within said bay between the 14th day | at. hunted or killed between sunset and daylight. of October and the 1st day of April. Angling is defined to mean taking fish with hook and line or rod held in the hand, and does not include set lines. ICE.-Fishing through the ice is forbidden in any waters inhabited by trout, salmon trout or land-locked salmon, with some exceptions. Floating devices may be used for the purpose of shooting web-footed wild fowl therefrom in Long Island Sound, Great South Bay, west of Smith's Point, Shinnecock and Peconic Bays, and in any part of said counties said birds may be pursued and killed from boats propelled by hand and from any sal boats in Long Island Sound, Gardiner and Peconic Bays. PLOVER, WILSONS (commonly known as EnSALMON TROUT AND LAND-LOCKED SAL-glish snipe), RAIL, SAND PIPER, MUD PEN, MON. Close season, Oct. 1 to May 1 (with some GALLINULE, GREBE, BITTERN, SURF BIRD, exceptions). SNIPE, CURLEW, WATER CHICKEN, BAY SNIPE or SHORE BIRDS of any kind. Close season from Jan. 1 to July 1. 15. 30. TROUT.-Close season between Sept. 1 and April BLACK BASS-Close season Jan. 1 to June 15. OSWEGO BASS-Close season Jan. 1 to June 15. MUSKALLONGE.-Close season, Feb. 28 to May SALMON.-Close season, Aug. 15 to March 1. If less than fifteen inches in length must be returned to waters from whence taken at once and without any unnecessary injury. SHAD HERRING.-Close season in Rondout Creek, Hudson and Delaware rivers, from June 15 to March 15. For nets, operated by hand only, open season from March 14 to June 15, except from sunset on Friday until sunrise on the following Monday, at any time, and between Sept. 1 and May 30, bullheads, catfish, sunfish, suckers, eels, pickerel, sturgeon, white and yellow perch may be caught by means of hoop-nets, fykes and gill-nets in the Hudson River, Wallkill Creek, and in Rondout Creek, below the dam at Eddyville and in Wappinger's Creek. Nets shall not be set or used north of the dam at Troy. Sturgeon may be taken in the waters of the Hudson River with sturgeon nets between June 1 and Sept. 1. WALL-EYED PIKE AND PICKEREL-Close season Feb. 1 to May 1, except that they may be taken with hook and line or spear, and muskallonge with hook and line, in any of the inland waters of this State not inhabited by trout or salmon of any kind, during the months of December, January and February, except in waters of Cortland County. WOODCOCK, RUFFED GROUSE, PARTRIDGE, GROUSE.-Jan. 1 to Nov. 1 (Woodcock, Jan. 1 to Aug. 1). Shall not be sold or held between Feb. 1 and Nov. 1, and possession thereof between Jan. 1 and Feb. 1 is forbidden, unless proved by possessor or seller that said birds were killed within the lawful period for killing the same or out of the State. QUAIL.-On Gardiner's Island may be shot between Oct. 14 and Feb. 1, and woodcock between Aug. 1 and Jan. 1, on Gardiner's and Robins Islands. TROUT.-Close season Sept. 1 to March 29. DEER.--Shooting at. hunting with dogs or otherwise, or killing deer is prohibited, except during each Wednesday in the month of November in each year. SQUIRRELS (black and gray).-Close season, Jan. 1 to Nov. 1. JAMAICA BAY-Fish shall not be fished for. caught or killed by any device except angling, which shall be lawful on any day in the year in the waters of Jamaica Bay, Flatlands Bay and Grassy Bay or the inlet thereof, and nets placed in said waters for any shall not be purpose. The inlet of Jamaica Bay shail not be willfully obstructed by any net or device so as to prevent the passage of fish therein at any time. This section does not prevent the catch OYSTERS AND CLAMS-Oysters shall not be taken at any time from the Hudson River, north of the County of New York, for the purpose of conveying them to another State for replanting. Close season for oysters in Harlem River, from June 1 to Sept. 1. Oysters or clams sha.. not being of eels by the use of spear or eel weir, or Jug up between one-half an hour after sunset and one-half an hour before sunrise, except in the waters of Kill von Kull and the Arthur Kill. the capture of fish for bait or shrimp by means of hand or cast-nets. TAKING OYSTERS IN SOUTH BAY REGULATED.-Oyster spawn, seed oysters or shells shall not be dug up, caught or removed from any of the waters of South Bay, in the County of Suffolk, between June 1 and Sept.1, nor between sunset and sunrise at any time. Any oyster shells caught or taken from the public waters shall be returned to the water in the locality where taken within ten minutes after being so taken. No blade or scraper tongs shall be used, and possession of blade or scraper tongs on the waters is in violation of law. Dredges operated by steam power, or weighing over fifty pounds, shall not be used on beds of natura growth in dredging for shell fish. Oysters, when not sold by count, must be sold in a stave measure, which shall be uniform in shape and of the following dimensions: The bottom to be sixteen and one-half inches across from inside to inside, and the top to be eighteen inches diagonally from inside chime to top; such measure shall be even or struck measure, to be inspected and sealed by the sealer of weights and measures in the county where used. This provision shall not affect the shipment of oysters in barrels to foreign countries. Oyster measures sealed by the county sealer may be used in any county of the State. (Penalty $25 for each viola-ing the months of April, May, June, July. August. tion.) Only persons who have been actual resi dents of this State for six months shall be entitled to gather shellfish from the waters of this State, except when such non-resident is employed for that purpose by a person authorized to gather the same. No rake, tongs, dredge or other device shall be used for taking hard or round clams with spaces or openings between the teeth or prongs of less than one inch. The general State law applying to the leasing of land for the cultivation of shell fish does not apply to Queens County with certain exceptions. Suffolk County is also exempted from some of the provisions of the general State law. Lobsters less than nine inches in length, measured from one extremity to the other, exclusive of claws or feelers, shall not be sold, caught or possessed. Long Island. The following provisions are special to Kings, Queens and Suffolk Counties; where there is no special law set forth the general law governs. WILD FOWL-Close season for web-footed wild fowl, May 1 to Oct. 1. Shall not be pursued, shot Section 1,493 of the Greater New York charter provides that no persons shall kill, wound, trap. net, snare, catch with birdlime, or with any similar substance or drug, or in any other manner capture or sell, expose for sale, or transport durSeptember or October, in any year any bird of song, or any linnet, bluebird, yellowbird, thrush, woodpecker, catbird, pewee, swallow, martin, bluejay, oriole, kildee, snowbird, grassbird, grosbeak, phoebebird, hummingbird, blackbird, or wren, excepting birds bred in a cage or imported from Europe or the Southern United States. No person shall kill or expose for sale or have in his possession after the same has been killed, any robin, meadow lark or starling, between Jan. 1 and Oct. 15, save only when such birds are killed on the premises of the persons killing them, and while the birds are destroying fruit. This section does not apply to any person who shall kill any bird for the purpose of studying its habits or history, or having it stuffed and set up as a specimen St. Lawrence River. WATERS OF THE THOUSAND ISLANDS. BLACK BASS, PICKEREL, PIKE AND MUSKALLONGE-Close season from Jan. 1 to June 9. Fishing through the ice is prohibited. Size of black bass which may be taken is fixed at not less than ten inches. Limit of catch of bass is twelve to each person and twenty-four to one |