Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 22, 1883. 



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CONTESTS. 



Editorial. 



¥he Chicago Game Market. 

 The Rifle Season of 1883. 

 George Dawson. 

 The Park and the Senate. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 

 Nimrod in the North.— iv. 



I., i:". '. ;■, ill I. i-'.li J , !| i, 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Position of Reel, height of Rods 



Nottingham ! : ; -I ■ Hm h.^ 

 McCloud River Trout. 

 Lorenzo Prouty. 



FrSHCTILTFRE. 



Carp and Mosquitoes. 



Two AfternOi_„. 



Around theCoastof Florida. - 



A Plea for Recreation. 

 Natural History. 



The Birds of Maine. 



The Horned Lark. 



In the St. Louis Valley. 



The Dusky Ducks. 

 Gasce Bag and Gun. 



When this (til Gun was New. 



The Big Garaeaud the Park. 



The Guinea Fowl as Game. 



Philadelphia Notes. 



Effects of Spring Shooting. 



Michigan Notes. 



Summer Shooting. 



The Fur Market. 

 Camp Fire Flickerings 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



A Trip to Northern Michigan. 



Illegal Fishing in Lake §har 

 plain. 



Maine Notes. 



National American Kennel Olub 



li.- I !:m!!'i;. I'in-i.li. , 



Washington Bench Show. 



Again the Beagles. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shootino. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Worcester vs. Marlboro. 



Muzzle vs. Breech. 

 Yachting and Canoeino. 



The Fendeurin the Past. 



Yachting on the Delaware. 



',',)■■', I i ;■;■ 'ii. : .v.-.; , 



Collectors, Take Notice. 

 The Fendeur. 

 Eastern Y. C. 

 A Sportsman's VI ,ws. 

 First in Iowa. 

 The Yawl Ionian. 

 Boats. 



Fendeur in the East. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



With its compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 

 of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each week a larger 

 amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 

 kennel, and kindred subjects, than is contained in all othtr 

 American publications put together. 



GEORGE DA W8QN. 

 /^l EORGE DAWSON died at his home in Albany, New 

 *J York, last Saturday morning, after a brief illness of 

 less than a week. 



His death brought to its close a long and active life, well 

 rounded with usefulness and honor. Mr. Dawson had al- 

 most attained the allotted three score years and ten, and 

 had retired from active life to spend a well-earned leisure in 

 the companionship of his chosen books and many friends. 



George Dawson was born at Falkirk, Scotland, March 14, 

 1813; and when three years old came to this country with 

 his family, living first in Nov York City, and afterward in 

 Toronto, Canada. At the age of eleven, in 1834, he entered 

 as an apprentice to the printing trade in Niagara Falls, 

 Canada. In 1836 he went to Rochester, New York, and 

 there became an employe of the late Thurlow Weed, and 

 in 1831, Mr. Weed having established the Albany Evening 

 Journal, Mr. Dawson became foreman of the printing 

 office. This position lie held, meantime reporting the 

 Legislature proeeedings, and doing other work upon the 

 paper, until, in the spring of 1836, he was called to the 

 editorship of the Rochester Daily Democrat. Thence, after 

 three years, be went, in August, 1839, to the editorial man- 

 agement of the Detroit Daily Advertiser, where, in 

 return for his services to them, the Whigs made 

 him State printer. In 1843 a Are destroyed the 

 establishment, and Mr. Dawson returned to Rochester, 

 and again became the editor of the Daily Democrat, which 

 position he held until 1846. At the invitation of Mr. Weed 

 he became an associate in the editorship of the. Albany 

 Evening Journal, of which he became senior editor and 

 proprietor upon Mr. Weed's resignation, In the history- 

 forming years that followed, Mr. Dawson's position was one 



of gieat influence. He wielded a sharp, incisive pen, and 

 through the Journal moulded public opinion in the great crises 

 of the day. In the arduous duties of bis editorial management 

 Mr. Dawson did the best work of his life, finding brief rest 

 and recreation in his favorite pastime of angling. In March, 

 1877, he retired from the active management of the Journal, 

 and devoted himself to the pursuits of a leisure well earned 

 In 1879 he again took up the pen and assumed control of 

 the Journal, relinquishing it in September of last. year. The 

 life we have thus briefly outlined was a busy and influential 

 career. But like many another man born with a love for 

 the beautiful things of nature, Mr. Dawson found time—or 

 made it— to gratify to a normal extent his tastes for out-of- 

 door life. His summer vacations were spent in the woods, 

 in the companionship of chosen friends of like spirit, and in 

 a communion with nature, from which he returned each 

 year renewed in mental strength and vigor, and, like the 

 Norse heroes of old who ate of the magic youth-restoring 

 apples, young again in years. 



Mi. Dawson was one of "the simple wise men who love to 

 goatisbing." The pastime was it passion with him, and 

 few men could write of its charms with more appreciation 

 or more delicately. His annual angling trips were de- 

 scribed in the Journal in several sories of letters, fragrant 

 with the fresh, spicy odor of the North Woods and the 

 Canadian forests. In 1879, after returning from his thirty- 

 fifth annual trip to angling waters, he collected several of 

 these letters together into a handsome volume entitled 

 "Pleasures of Angling with Rod and Reel for Trout and 

 Salmon," a book which has taken its place among the 

 classics of this literature. 



Among his augling friends and camp companions were 

 many «f the distinguished men of the day, President Arthur, 

 ex- Vice-President Wheeler, ex-Treasurer Spinner, Senalor 

 Edmunds, Secretary Folger, ex-Governor Seymour, Chief Jus- 

 tice Ritchie, of New Brunswick, and Chief Justice Gray of 

 the Supreme Court. Of his days in camp with these friends 

 some pleasant chat was given in the "Winter Talk," pub- 

 lished in the Forest and Stream of Dec. 31 last. 



When Mr. Dawson retired from his editorial duties last 

 fall he expressed to the writer tho pleasant anticipation of 

 devoting himself to more congenial occupations, and shortly 

 thereafter he began the series of charming "Winter Talks 

 on Summer Pastimes" that have given so much pleasure to 

 the readers of this journal. These essays are believed to be 

 the last of his writings, and in them will be found the re- 

 flection of "the calmness of spirit and a world of other 

 blessings attending upon It," which were the crown of a 

 well -spent life. 



Tim PARK AND THE SENATE. 



^pHE Senate of the United States is displaying a strange 

 J- apathy in regard to a matter of such vital importance 

 as the preservation to this country of the Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park. The time has come for the members of the 

 8enate to give some attention to the subject. They are 

 apparently over-awed by the impudenee of the would-be 

 Park grabbers, who in the very face of the action of the 

 standing committee of the Senate, and without any lease, 

 have gone on cutting down timber in the Park, killing game 

 and orccting a hotel, as if they wore above Congress and the 

 people. This unblushing conduct calls for prompt atten- 

 tion. 



Last. Saturday, Senator Vest offered a resolution for the 

 appointment of a committee of Senators to report to the 

 Senate at the next session what is the actual condition of the 

 Yellowstone National Park, what action has been taken by 

 the Department of the Interior in regard to the management 

 of the Park and the leasing or contracting to lease any part' 

 of it, and what legislation, if any. is necessary to protect 

 the timber, game, and objects of curiosity, and lo secure 

 the proper administration of justice therein. 



The resolution also requests the Secretary of the Interior 

 to take no action in the matter of leasing or contracting to 

 lease any portion of the Park for any purpose until the 

 Committee shall have reported, to cause the cutting of tim- 

 ber and the erection of hotels to be discontinued, and to take 

 immediate steps for the protection of game and objects of 

 interest, and to call upon the proper military a uthorities 

 for this purpose. 



The resolution went over to Monday, and was then put 

 off again, to come up when they get through with the 

 interminable Tariff bill. It is very evident, as it has been 

 from the first, that the monopolists have a strong lobby. 

 We hope that Senator Vest will compel the friends of the 

 Park schemers to show their hands. 



THE CHICAGO GAME MARKET 



A BILL now before the Illinois Legislature provides that 

 - / -*- the open season for selling game shall be extended to 

 February 1. This bill is being pushed for the benefit of the 

 game dealers, and is most decidedly against the interest of 

 game protection. The circumstances are these: The Illi- 

 nois law now permits the sale of grouse to December 5, and 

 of quail to January 5; this allows live days for the sale of 

 game after the season for killing it has expired. This is all 

 the time that can reasonably be asked or wisely granted. 

 But it does not satisfy the dealers, and they have set about 

 securing a change. 



Their first step was the organization of a Sportsmen's and 

 Game Dealers' Association, in which it is needless to say 

 the latter class, who appear to have shrewdly originated the 

 scheme, hold a controlling influence. At the same time, by 

 making it appear that the association is a sportsmen's 

 society, they count on winning the concessions to their 

 demands, which, as simple game dealers, they know they 

 could not do. The present bill is fathered by this unequally 

 yoked team of sportsmen and marketmen. 



There arc many good and sufficient reasons why such a 

 bill should be opposed by honest advocates of game pro- 

 tection. It is an axiom that so long as there is a market for 

 game so long will it be supplied to the market, legally or 

 illegally, by fair means or foul. The sale of game ought to 

 stop when the season for killing it expires ; a period of five 

 days, as now provided by the Illinois law, is ample time to 

 dispose of the supply on hand. If not, then let the supply 

 be less. If the season for killing game in Illinois is ex- 

 tended to February 1, the sportsmen of that State may make 

 up their minds lo the fact that game will be killed to Feb- 

 ruary 1. There is no reasoning that fact out of the way. 



Such an extension of the selling season would be alike 

 disastrous to the game interests of other States. So long as 

 the Illinois game dealers, during the close, season, could sell 

 game received from other States, or game from their own 

 State under pretense that it had been shipped iu from some- 

 where else, they were eoutent with the old law. But the 

 Magner decision cut off this privilege. If the selling season 

 is extended to February 1, the Chicago market will be 

 flooded with game illegally killed in Michigan, Minnesota, 

 Iowa and Wisconsin. Indeed, such is now the case. 



It appears that through the influence of their association 

 the game dealers have this year secured immunity from the 

 law, and have been selling great quantities of game illegally 

 killed in other Slates. One casein point has just come to 

 our knowledge. It shows most clearly, first, that an open 

 Chicago market means wholesale and illegal destruction of 

 game in other States; and, second, that Chicago game deal- 

 ers, who are also members of the Sportmen's and Game 

 Dealers' Association, have no scruples whatever about sell- 

 ing such game, provided ouly that they can put the pro- 

 ceeds into their pockets and escape arrest. 



On the 33d of last January Mr. R. W. Matthews, of St. 

 Paul, Minn., telegraphed to an ex-president of the Illinois 

 State Sportsmen's Association that a large number of pin- 

 nated grouse had been, in defiance of the law, shipped from 

 Osakis, Minn., to Bond & Ellsworth, game dealers, of Chi- 

 cago. But instead of taking any steps iu the matter, the 

 recipient of the letter handed it over to the head of the firm 

 against whom complaint was made, who is, by the way, the 

 president of the Sportsmen's and Game Dealers' Association. 

 A reply from this gentleman went back to Minnesota that 

 Chicago game dealers were selling game in the close season, 

 and proposed to sell it up to February 1st, and that the 

 sportsmen had pledged themselves to stand to one side and 

 make no prosecutions. So the dealer received and, presum- 

 ably, disposed of the goods which, according to the laws of 

 Minnesota and of Illinois, were contraband. 



This is only one case among hundreds and thousands of 

 the same kind. It shows how little sincerity there is in the 

 game protective pretensions of the parties implicated; and 

 it should be a warning to the sportsmen of Illinois to guard 

 their interests as now secured by the present law. 



The Chicago marketmen plead that if they do not sell 

 game iu the close season others will. This is the silly casu- 

 istry of men the world over who can find no valid excuse 

 for engaging in business of doubtful morality. Because the 

 New York and Boston markets arc open is no reason why 

 the Chicago market should be added to them and the illegal 

 traffic in game thereby increased. They ought aM to be 

 closed when the killing season expires. 



For the sake of the Illinois game supply, and of that of 

 neighboring States, true friends of protection will regret to 

 see any such opening of the Chicago market. 



