Fan. l. 1883.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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In that kind of weather one should go about sunset 1 

 recollect one little occurrence that happened years ago, 

 when I was a hoy, that 1 must relate. It was ou one of 

 those warm, muggy days known as dog-days, in the month 

 of August. Taking my rod one afternoon, I went down to 

 Sebago Pond, where 1 had some fine luck the first of the 

 season, fishing around fallen hushes. Arriving there enily 

 in the afternoon, when the sun was shining quite hot, 1 sat 

 down under » tree and got eool and comfortable, and then 

 adjusted my tackle. I put on a worm and caught a few 

 chubs for bait. Cutting oft several as lernpling looking 

 bails as 1 could, T put one mi my hook and walked along 

 to the bushes and began to fish* I had never failed to 

 have good luck, and consequently I expected a bite every 

 time I threw my bait, but nothing Seemed to eare for it. I 

 fished overan hoar without u bite, lvh«ra happening to look 

 down under the leaves ill tie- water, 1 saw a large pickerel 

 lying there as, quietly as though nothing had been around. 

 Winding in some line, 1 lowered my bait down in front of 

 him, but he refused to take any notice of it. I got tired of 

 trying to get him to take the bait, and putting up my rod. 

 1 started for home, with the determination of giving that 

 fish a waking up next day if 1 could tind him. 1 got homo 

 Hild fast cued"" three large" hooks together, s.o as to make a 

 first-rate grapple. The next afternoon T went back prepared 

 for business. Locking carefully into the leaves. 1 saw t he- 

 old fellow in another place, not far from where he was the 

 day before Putting on a bait, 1 tried to tempt him out, 

 but he refused to stir at all. Taking off my bail and hook, 

 I adjusted the grapple. Lowering it carefully down under 

 his fail, 1 gave a good yank and succeeded in hooking him 

 just behind the back fm. He was thoroughly wide awake 

 about that time, and never in my life did L enjoy myself for 

 half an hour as 1 did then; and never did I see a pickerel 

 handle himself as he did. But it was of no use, I had him 

 securely hooked and after a while I reeled him in, and he 

 weighed six and three-quartet pounds I shall always re- 

 member that— Pickerel. 



a nuisance, and liable to be abated as other nuisances under the 

 laws of the State. 



Section 15, "E,'' The county commissioners of the county 

 along ■which a dam ordains erected now or hereafter to be 

 ereefed, In or across the Potomac Elver, or streams running 

 into said river, when satisfied that said dam or dams are so 

 instructed as toci • i thi Girt rom free course up and down 

 aid river or stream, shall give notice to said owner or owners 

 o construct and keep in repair proper fish-ways or tadders as 

 icretofore provided. 



Section 15, "H." This act shall apply to the Potomac River 

 rad its tributaries only, above what is eommonlv known as 

 'Little Falls of the Potomac." 

 Section ''2." This act shall take effect from the date of its 



Approved May 

 Lin this conne 



. IS 



learn that Mr, Delawder. the Com- 

 ;he western shore of Maryland, has 

 approved of the Mellon a Id Fish way and the McDonald Fish- way 

 Com] ■ sresow engaged in building several of them on the 

 eanal-da'uis on the Potomac River. The company has bought 

 the exclusive control of the patents on this ash-way and is 

 preparing to erect them in all parts of the country. To meet 

 the wants of mill owuerson small streams they have designed 

 a form which may easily be. built, of lumber by any carpenter, 

 and at a very small expensed 



LAND-LOCKED SALMON FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE.— 

 Ph mouth, N. H., Jan. "...—Sixty thousand Sehoodie salmon 

 eegs wor.- received at the State hatchery to-day from Grand 

 Lake Stream, Maine.— H. 



Tuotus OK LAKE Ili'itox.— I noticed no less than three 

 distinct species of lake trout brought in at Alpena last fall, 

 besides many variations in color, etc.. according to the 

 runs anil localities from which they were captured. The 

 Mackinaw species predominate in "numbers; these, 1 sup- 

 pose, arc the true wimaywsih. Next in abundance were 

 the "Buckskins.," as the' fishermen call them; this variety 

 has tougher, more leathery skin (hence, I suppose, the 

 name buckskin), and is lighter in color and weight. Then 

 come the racers, which are comparatively scarce; luckily, 

 too. as they must be terribly destructive," having a mouth 

 and head of immense proportions — altogether dispropor- 

 tioned to the size of the body, taking the other species as 

 the standard Of symmetry. The racers are especially anathe- 

 matized by the fishermen. — S. Bower. 



tot; FiSHiNo. Erie. Pa., .fan, 24.— The lislierm en aie 

 having fine sport fishing through the ice on the bay, at Erie. 

 Pa. ; Ihe catch is mostly yellow perch, though some of the 

 lucky ones sometimes hook a black bass and frequently a 

 good sized pickerel. Herrings have not put in an appear- 

 ance yet: when they do hundreds of men and boys may )..- 

 seen on an acre of ice near the channel, — Headj.iout. 



tgfafattlture. 



To inSUfe prompt attention, eoinmUiiicatianA should be ud- 

 dressedlothc Forest and Stream Publishing Oo:,<md not to 



individuals, in whose absence from the office- mutters of im- 

 portance arc liable In delay. 



SALMON AND SHAD IN THE MERRIMACK. 



'PHE Lowell, Mass., Courier says: "Representative Varnum 

 _L has introduced a bill in the. Legislature which removes 

 restrictions agon Ashing in the Merrimack with net or seines 

 certain months in the year, the proposed enactment being 

 intended particularly to permit the catching' of shiners with 

 nets in the Merrimack to a point above this eity. The fish 

 named are used for bait in pickerel and other fishing.'' 



Warren Ordwav writes l.o the Haverhill, Mass., Bulletin: 

 'The towns that border upon the Merrimack River below 

 Lawrence, have waited for twenty or thirty years upon the 



.peri meats of the Fish Commissioners to "restock the river 

 wit -h -salmon and shad. They have waited in vain, for noth- 

 ing of any consequence has been accomplished. The fish do 

 not come into the river now as of olden times, and there is 

 no good reason why the stop-laws that relate to the fishing in 

 Merrimack River should not be repealed. The spawning 

 grounds on the river and its tributaries are all shut off, and 

 the fish have given up their homes to calico and dye stuff. 

 Lsi- t.vi it town on the river petition for the repeal of these 

 useless stop-laws, and let the people, if by chance they can 

 catch a stray shad or salmon, have the. privilege of Sating it 

 honestlv and by dav light." 



The Lawrence., Mass., Am-riran -ays: "Mr. Edwin F. Hunt. 

 of Newburyport, who was directed to make observations in 

 the river by the Fish Commissioners, states in his report that 

 soon after the Pacific fire when a. large amount of dye-stuffs 

 and other chemicals flowed into the river, report came to him 

 that a large number of dead salmon were to be found op the 

 Shores of the river. He made a careful inspection of both 

 banks, and found one dead salmon below Merrimack bridge, 

 and six between Lawrence and Haverhill. He. is confident 

 that this is the extent of the injury done to the fish, although 

 reports, multiplied thein into hundreds." 



FISHWAYS FOR MARYLAND. 



The following is an extract from the fish law of the State of 

 Maryland, section 15. "C" of chapter 440. acts of ISS2: 



Tlie commissioner of the western shore of the State shall 

 cause to be erected over the several canal-dams on the Potomac 

 River, during the next ensuing vear after Ihe passage of this 

 act, suitable! fish-ways or ladders, whereby the fish may be 

 able to ascend over the said dams, and the sum of twenty-four 

 hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is 

 hereby appropriated for that purpose. 



Section 15, "D." The owner, or owners of all dams (except 

 the canal-dams) now erected, ur hereafter tu be . 

 or across the Potomac River, or streams running into said 

 river, up which fish are accustomed to run and spawn, shall 

 make and keep m repair, properlv constructed lish-laddoi's or 

 fish-wavs, to be placed on said dahis so as to afford to the fish 

 in the said run or su . i , , . jourse up and down said river 



FishCamirc n ).::rjoii i.;. "a ''-■ : r".vu:rsc?'saO: d.uor: 

 shall fad to comply with tins provision within - - ni it u 



I they shad be guilty of amMemeanoiyanaiipon conviction 



I therefor shoU in the court of the county where such owner 

 resides, be fined, not less than three hundred doUars, nor 

 more than five hundred dollars, and such dam shall be deemed 



puj genml 



FIXTURES. 



BEXCH SHOWS, 

 y -A). 21. K mid 23, 1888. -Grand too 

 >n, D, O. Entries close Feb. 12. ( 



I, aid. aii. I Uliee. Slai-i:,;- U ,,k. W„ diiii- leu I 



March -"'., ■:; and 2S. 18H3.- Dominion of ('tun 

 Show, at C 



lieneli 



prll 8. i. and S 1W8. 

 Fifth Annual Bench Sho\ 

 Derby, fur English ;- 



■n Pennsylvania I'eiiltr.v Society's 

 urgu. Pa. Entries for the tench 



lelped on or after January t. 1882, 



February, 1. 1888. Chos. Lincoln Superintendent, C' 13. Elbln, 

 Secretary . 



May SO it 10 and 11, 1SS3. — Westminster Kennel Club. Seventh 

 Annual Bench Show. Madison Square Garden. New Yolk City. Chas. 

 Lincoln, Sup't. 



To insure prompt attention eommunieations should be ad- 

 dressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Co., and not to 

 indicidauls, in whose absence from the oflee matters of im- 

 portance are liable tu delay. 



Owing t» the illness of the Kennel Editor, many eomm>< titra- 

 tions are deferred. 



WASHINGTON BENCH SHOW. 



EV E li Y THI NG looks very well here for a successful show . 

 The applications for entry blanks have been more 

 numerous than expected. One tiling is very gratifying to say, 

 they come from all parts of the country, and what is more 

 important to say, that most of their owners are coming with 

 them, so that they may take in the sights of the gay capital, 

 and also celebrate Washington's Birthday. 



The. Erie Railroad will carry one or two dogs free, but in 

 all cases application must first be made to John N. Abbott, 

 General Passenger Agent. 21 Cortland tstrect, New York. The 

 Pennsylvania Railroad Company will carry dogs in their 

 special cars, fitted up expressly for the transportation of dogs, 

 for a very small charge. 



The express companies will return dogs free of charge to 

 the original shippers, providing they have paid their usual 

 rates to the show. 



Tiffany & Co. give $100 cup for the best trio of sporting dogs. 



The Hon. John S. Wise, of Richmond. Va., wUl judge Eng- 

 lish and Cordon setters; also pointers. 



Mr. C. H. Mason, late of Bradford. Yorkshire, England, will 

 judge Irish setters, spaniels, fox-terriers and miscellaneous. 



Mr. James Watson, of New York, will judge mastiffs, St. 

 Bernards, Newfoundlands, collies and all small non-sporting 

 dogs. The entries close 12th of February, and it is earnestly 

 requested that entries be made as early as possible, as the 

 space is limited. 



Chas. Lincolx, (Superintendent. 



the acts of any similar organization in barring from partici- 

 pation in field" trials any owner or handler who shall be guilty 

 of conduct unbecoming gentlemen, or who commit a breach 

 of field decorum." 



The case of Mr. H. M. Short, the handler of Sue, Peep ,,*- 

 Day, Pink P... and other dogs at Opelousas. who was barred 

 by the executive committee from participation further in the 

 then trials, and any future trials given underline auspices of 

 the New Orleans Gun Club, was discussed bv the club and the 

 action of the committee was imanimously sustained. It was 

 shown that Mr. Short was guilt v of groBS impropriety, both 

 as to language, threats and actions. The committee had 

 acted promptly in his ease, but out of consideration for the 

 owners of the dogs he was handling, and from the fact that 

 none of said owners were present, their action was far more 

 lenient than the gravity of the case required. Theyaddressed 

 to Mr. Short the following letter: 



Opelocses, La., Dee. 14, 1882. 

 Mi: H. M. Short: 



Dear Sir— The r.-inai-k- ....( 1 1 United to von. and circumstances at- 

 tending your withdrawal from th. ileid'this afternoon, are of Such 



a peculiarly ili-ai - „ .. , ', :;■■■ .,, i,,s ,•,.,:, wiiti-.-e lhaf, While ill 



NEW ORLEANS GUN CLUB. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Tee cold wave that struck here last week had the effect of 

 waking up the members of the New Orleans Gun Club, and 

 our leading gun stores were under the necessity of employing 

 an extra force of men to Oil orders for loaded ammunition. 

 It had one good effect, at all events, for the subject of dogs 

 and guns became the leading topic of conversation whenever 

 two or more sportsmen would meet, and finally brought 

 about a meeting of the New Orleans Gun Club. 



This was the first time a quorum of that organization could 

 be. obtained since, their late held trials at Opeiousas. and as a 

 great deal of business, old and new. was before the club, the 

 meeting was necessarily a prolonged one. 



The principal business before the club was as to a question 

 of another held trial, its location and prospects of success. It. 

 was clearly demonstrated at Opelousas that the season was 

 too early in that locality to display superior field work on the 

 part of the dogs, as the weather was excessivelv warm and 

 the cover heavy beyond description. The discussion of this 

 matter finally resulted in the club's decision that they give a 

 field trial this fall, immediately following the one to be given 

 by the National American Kennel Club, and at a point con- 

 venient of access frorn Grand Junction. 



The question as to what should comprise the various stakes 

 drew torth an almost unanimous opinion that the Derby be 

 left out and in its place one should be substituted to be 

 known as the "Championship" stake. This stake will lie open 

 onlv to those dogs who shad have won a prize in some prev- 

 ious AU-ag.:d Stake, and as it wiU be open to winnners 

 throughout the world, the winner in this stake to be. known 

 as the "champion of the world." It will be the sole event of 

 the day or davs set apart for it, and ought to result in a bat- 

 tle of the giants, so to speak. There will be a valuable prize, 

 of course, but the honor of owning the champion of the world 

 will count for something. The other stakes in these trials 

 will be the "Members,"' and the "All-age," the two latter to 

 be run previous to the first mentioned. Can you not induce 

 some of the readers of Forest and Stream to give their 

 opinion of this Champion Stake for our benefit, before the 

 matter becomes a fixed fact? The report of the treasurer 

 showed a considerable balance on hand from the last field 

 trial fund, and the ane. nut was ordered placed to the credit 



The secretary read B letter Irom Mr. Washington A. Costal', 



hes.t recaird en? rlronen c>r Is- Me :-<:■■ 

 on represent. 



E. L. ItANnra-r, / 



Jso. K. RENAUI), -Ex. Committee. 



HE1SRV l.\..NTArNE. \ 



Bryson and other gentlei 

 (Signed] 



The committee gave liiiu until the following morning in 

 which to tender an apology before final action was taken, to 

 which letter he refused to 'reply, and he was not allowed to 

 run any dog afterward. The committee regretted the neces- 

 sity of' having to pass so severe a sentence on a man who, 

 naturally a clever fellow, is one of the best breakers and 

 trainers of dogs in the South. He is uniformly kind to his 

 dogs and is very wed thought of by those who entrust their 

 dogs to .him. The winter speaks from personal acquaintance 

 with Short, and furthermore several communications ad- 

 dressed to members of the committee have been received, 

 asking them to be as lenient as possible in his case and try to 

 have him reinstated. 



The meeting of the club was in every respect a harmonious 

 one. A field trials committee is to be' appointed at once and 

 begin their labors. The entrance fee in the stakes this year 

 will be the same as last, namely, $5 to each stake, while the 

 cash prizes will be. much larger. You may rest assured that 

 the forthcoming trials of the N. 0. Gun Club wdl prove a 

 greater success even than the last was. Fox Horn. 



New Orleans, Jbd. 25, 1883. 



THE ENGLISH KENNEL CLUB TROUBLE. 



ONE of the peculiarities in the constitution and tempera- 

 ment of our EugUsh cousins is their bluster whenever 

 any aspersion or even anything with the slightest tinge of 

 insinuation is made against their country, the people, or their 

 institutions. We say bluster because' when we penetrate 

 behind the thin veil of "Britons never, never wiU be slaves," 

 we find there a. slavish adherence to anti. mated notions, and 

 anything that has as its claim the fact of there being a pre- 

 cedent in the days of Charles I. for its observation. We are 

 all familiar with the old picture representing the gradation 

 of classes in China. The Emperor sitting on the shoulders of 

 the next in authority in the country, complacently fanning 

 himself; he in turn perched on a secondary grade of mandarin, 

 and so on down through the many social grades, until we find 

 poor Ah Sin flattened out ou the' ground beneath the superin- 

 cumbent weight. The picture, is just as applicable to England 

 as to China and it is surprising to note how, with what ap- 

 peal's to be akin to pleasure, the "inferior grades" in the 

 social scale support the usurpation of people whose sole 

 claim to superiority is the fact that they were left a title or 

 money by ancestors who had brains or "brawn enough to win 

 what. "they left to posterity. If necessary we could name 

 several instances in which a few persons have usurped con- 

 trol of a particular branch of sport and held the power in 

 their hands ux.td the smouldering flames of discontent finally 

 find vent in what is generally known as wilting to the Times. 

 When Englishmen get to that stage of rebellion the malcon- 

 tents soon muster round the flag, and almost invariably suc- 

 ceed as did then- progenitors on the far famed Runnvmede. 



At present the"doggy world," after experieneingall the com- 

 ical horrors of a peu and ink rebellion, has succeeded in over- 

 throwing the oppressive rule of the self-constituted English 

 Kennel Club, and an opposition National Club whose stand- 

 ard might well bear the name of "the racehorse of the cen- 

 tury," isonorav . lias I- ci! established i.h auks to the assist- 

 ance of the London Field. The breaking airav from the 



irge 



sdin 



cvly established Ada.,, '.'..-,:;., An 

 was ineligible to receive anv prize at a show held under Ken- 

 nel Club rules. The. only advantage derived from. this en- 

 forced registration was the addition of a good many pounds 

 to the club funds, and as no statement of the. accounts is ever 

 made public, no one saw what advantage, if anv, the regis- 

 tration fee was to exhibitors, although the Kennel Club had 

 promised the. nionov should he applied us additions to the 

 prizes offered at the "semi-annual shows. Then followed the. 

 boycotting of Darlington and Manchester bv the edict an- 

 nouncing that their piizc lists should not be included in the 

 Kennel Club Stud Book because they T declined carrying out 

 the rule requiring disqualification for failure to "register. 

 The Partington affair was not confined to that, but several 



members of the c 



ub interested themselves in attempting to 



spoil the show by 



preventing intending exhibitors from en- 



terjng, and by oth 



er means. A public exposure of the whole 



affair was the met 



ins of making Oaiiinc t..n more successful 



that vear, 1881, tl 



an ever before. 



Manchester was 



also a grand success, but vet the Kennel 



Club persevered a 



rdlinady attacked last Dccc.-.iber's Birm- 



inghain show, an 



institution which is its senior by many 



years. This was t 



he spark which ignited the mine of open 



rebellion, and at'tx 



■r several weeks of correspondence in the 



columns of the 1 



ondon hiefil, "Stonehenge," its respected 



editor, called a mt 



eting to be held in Birmingham during the 



show week. This 



meeting was well attended, .ami the result 



was, the lire lii pin 



tryworkwas done of Conning a National 



Club and the conn. 



ding of a stud book on a broader basis than 



the confined linn 



8 of the present Kennel Club Stud Book. 



Instead of five gi 



ineas the annual dues of a Kennel Club 



member, after he 



ias escaped the perils of blackballing, the 



new club membe 



•'s fee wUl be one guinea. A system of 



representation of . 



0g shows, according lo their size and iln- 



portanee, based up 



• ■u the numbi-r of eui rie- i eceivt-d. is also a. 



feature ef the Nat i 



onal ( iub. 



The next move c 



f the R.'imel Club was to issue d pel s neil 



attack on "Stonei 



.ire, ■ r. '. . i • Sec ( -, 1 .' i,,, , du.,i 



of the Field, who ' 



,,',,: 1 ... • ■;..- .■: i -1 ,.CV CO tt'lll. of 



the National Club, 



and to :. icuse thi / !< !d of catering to the 



mob for its own bt 



ne.lit. The response to this was an editorial 



m the Field, irom 



which we make the following exc B si 



"The inconvcnii 



nee attendant on the publication of a 



second Stud Bool 



- ihoiedi hyon nii-nns in^.ioei-ible, is so 



great, that we arc 



udueed to inaxe a final appeal to th Kan 



nel Club to reverse 



i leei i :."nf ...feeling the 



