Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, MARCH 1, 1883. 



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CONTENTS. 



Eoitorial. 

 The Park Grab. 



."■ •■•-. .mi .'. I ile ii/ill'.: 



Professional .Men and Game. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Florida. 



Nimrod in tin North.— iv. 



Around the Coast of Florida. -vi. 

 ;.... le.od Ri i'l.niscences. 



A Few Words for the Woods. 

 Natural History. 



The Birds of Maine. 



Approach of SpringatSt. Louis 



Breeding of the Rattlesnake. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Holiday Cruise to Maine 



The Park Stable Outrage. 



Summer Shooting. 



Large Game, and Small Shot. 



The Freodmen and the Quail. 



Pennsylvania Notes. 

 Camp Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and Biter Fishing. 



Fishing and Fish Laws of Ohio. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Position of Reel, Weight of Rods 



FisnCOLTURE. 



Transportation of Adult Black- 

 Bass. 

 The Kennel. 



Washington Dog Show. 



The St. Bernard. 



Eastern Field Trials Club. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Thai' Shootino. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Th.; <:v,r\e:--B..L.'.u-.Ii..s Y;i'v! 



Matches and Meetings. 

 Yachting and Canoeing. 



The Colt Disc Engine for Yields 



Cruise in the Lua.Sfagle-liatlded 



Steam Launches and Red Tape. 



Quaker City Y. C. 



Measurement. 



Canoeing on the Connecticut. 



Practical Canoeing. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



Withits compact type and in its permanent I y enlarged form 

 of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes each week alarger 

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

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

 American puhlicafions put together. 



THE PARE CRAB. 



TMIE fight for the protection of the People's Park still 

 J- goes on. Although not much has been done in Wash 

 ington toward the passage of Senator Vest's bill, its friends 

 have made strong efforts to accomplish its objects. On the 

 l?th of Februrary, Senator Vest submitted a resolution, 

 which was ordered to be printed, as follows: 



lie-solved, That a committee of five Senators shall be appointed by 

 the President pro tempore of the Senate, whose duty it shall be to 

 examine and report to the Senate, at its next session, what is the 

 present condition of the Yellowstone National Park, and what action 

 has been taken by the Department of the Interior in regard to the 

 management of said Park, and the leasing or contracting to lease 

 any part of the Park for building hotels or other houses thereon. 

 Also, what legislation, if any, is necessary to protect the timber, 

 game, or objects of curiosity and interest in said Park, and to estab- 

 lish a system of police, and to secure the proper administration of 

 justice therein. 



Said committee shall have power to sit in vacation at such times 

 and places as they may think proper, to send for personsand papers, 

 and to employ a stenographer, the expenses therefor to be paid out 

 of the contingent fund of the Senate. 



And until said committee shall report by hill or otherwise, the 

 Secretary of the Interior is requested to take no action in the matter 

 of leasing or contracting to lease any part of said Park for any pur- 

 pose, and to cause any cutting of timber, or erection of hotels or 

 other buildings by any person or corporation, to be discontinued 

 within said Park. 



The Secretary of the Interior is also requested to take immediate 

 action for the protection of the game and oojeets of interest in the 

 Park, and to this end he is requested to call upon the proper military 

 authorities for such force as may be necessary to accomplish such 

 purpose. 



This resolution has been called up at least once, but before 

 q vote was reached On it, the time expired, and, Mr. Win 

 dom objecting to the postponement of unfinished business, 

 the resolution went over. 



It is easy to understand the reason of the objections by 

 the Senator from Minnesota, It is generally believed that 

 he has a direct monied interest in the Improvement Com- 

 pany's plans, and when it comes to a question between the 

 success of this gigantic steal and the good of the people, he 



naturally takes the side of his own pocket. Even if it is 

 not the case that Mr. Windom is a shareholder in the Im- 

 provement Company, there. is another reason for bis lighting 

 against the public welfare. Mr. H, F, Douglass, who is one 

 of those to whom the Worthy Assistant Secretary Joslyn 

 tried to make the original scandalous lease, is the brother- 

 in-law of the ex-Secretary, and so the latter placet! himself at 

 the head of the ring and unblushingly rises from bis seat in 

 the Senate to combat the rights of the people whose interests 

 he htt.s sworn to defend. 



We have already more, than once adverted to the methods 

 pursued by the lobby of the ? 'Improvement" Company, and 

 a late attempt of theirs to blacken Senator Vest em- 

 phasizes what we have said on this subject. A despatch 

 •Was recently- caused to be sent to a New York paper, stat 

 ing that Mr. Vest's bill was drawn in the interest of the 

 "Improvement Company," and by its own attorney. A 

 foul accusation was thus made, but the falsehood had but a 

 brief life. Senator Vest promptly branded it as a lie, 

 "wilful, malicious, unmitigated, made out of whole cloth 

 from beginning to end." He further said that he drew the 

 whole bill with his own hand. Such a denial, while it 

 had to be made, is not needed by those who are ac- 

 qaiutcd with the Senator from Missouri, or by such as have 

 from the beginning watched his firm patriotic and 

 high-minded opposition to one of the greatest outrages 

 which has ever been attempted on the long-suffering and 

 much-swindled American people. 



The tight is now to stave off legislative action as long 

 as possible. The reason for this is clear. These Ires- 

 passers upon the Nation's pleasure-ground have, in defiance 

 of all law, boldly invaded this Government reservation, have 

 cut down the timber belonging to the United States, have 

 slaughtered its game, have set up their sawmills on its 

 waters, and erected stables and buildings upon its lands; 

 they have entered Hie Park and seized it. treated it as if it 

 belonged to them, and now they impudently laugh in the 

 face of the people, and proceed to make further ■'improve- 

 ments," as if indeed all the execrations which have saluted 

 them as they have gone On were merely the mutterings of 

 a distant storm which would soon blow over. They feel 

 that the longer they can hold the Park, the stronger be- 

 comes their position and the better will be their chances of 

 ultimately securing an impregnable position there. They 

 reason, too, that if they are finally expelled, they will have 

 claims on the Government for their ' 'improvements, " and will 

 make a fat thing out of this, even if they do not accomplish 

 their grander robbery. And Mr. Windom, United States 

 Senator and sometime Secretary of the National Treasury, 

 lends himself to Ihese nefarious plans, and aids and abets 

 the schemers. Is it not a sight to make every American 

 blush to see one who has held such exalted positions en- 

 acting the role of a lobbyist-in-chief to such a gang of men? 



They will carry on the fight as long as they can, for the 

 prize for which they are striving is a rich one, and what do 

 they care for the people, so long as there is a prospect of 

 lining their own pocket V In the meantime, however, new 

 friends of the people are arising. In the House, on Friday 

 last, during the consideration of the Sundry Civil Appro- 

 priation bill, Mr. MeCook. of New York, When the clause 

 relative to the Yellowstone Park had been reached, moved 

 to strike out the provision authorizing the Secretary of the 

 Interior to lease portions of the Park, under certain 

 restrictions, and proposed to substitute for it a proviso pro- 

 hibiting Ihe Secretary of the Interior from leasing any por- 

 tion of the Yellowstone National Park to any person, com- 

 pany or corporation For any purpose, whatever, and further, 

 declaring of no force nor effect any lease, .agreement or 

 exclusive privilege or monopoly already granted or entered 

 into, and authorizing the Secretary of War to make neces- 

 sary details of troops to prevent trespassers or intruders 

 from entering the Park with the object of destroying the 

 game therein, or for any other purpose prohibited by law. 

 The amendment was adopted, 



The next day Senator Vest submitted to the Senate an 

 amendment to be offered bo the Sundry Civil bill calling for 

 an appropriation of $25,000, to enable the Secretary of the 

 Interior to protect the game and improve the roads in the 

 Park. 



All these steps are in the right direction, and will accom- 

 plish much good, but it is extremely important that the 

 employes of the "Improvement Company," which has seized 

 the Park, should be at once treated as the trespassers that 

 they are, and should be, without the loss of further time, 

 ejected from the Park, 



We are inclined to believe that the Secretary of the 

 Interior has full power, if be chooses to exercise it, to call 



on the War Department for troops to aid in this work. 

 When a lot of colonists seeking desirable homes invade the 

 Indian Territory with the purpose of occupying lands held 

 by the Government in trust for thcred men, troops arc sent 

 after them, they are arrested and brought back. The pres- 

 ent state of the Park is similar. A band of men, actuated 

 by greed of gain, have invaded and taken possession of lands 

 held by the Government in trust for its own citizens. Why 

 should not such trespassers be punished, not only for their 

 invasion, but for their robbery of timber and game? Heavy 

 damages should be collected from this "Improvement Com- 

 pany" for the ruin that they have wrought in this beautiful 

 region. 



We receive frequent advices of the killing of game in 

 considerable quantities within the Park. A recent number 

 of the Bozeraan Ac/tut Courier speaks of a contract for 

 4,000 pounds of wild meat given out by a Cook City firm at 

 fifteen cents per pound, and the hunters are going into the 

 Park to kill it. Pules aud regulations are all very well, but 

 there must be some power to enforce the rules and regula- 

 tions which have been made. Mr. Conger and his assist- 

 ants are of themselves powerless to prevent violations of the 

 law. Troops are needed in and about the Park, and some 

 sharp punishment should be meted out to these marauding 

 meat and skin hunters as well as to the Park grabbers. For 

 the present several small details of troops are required in the 

 Park, as well as other larger bodies to patrol its outskirts, 

 but after the immediate and pressing necessities of the time 

 shall have been attended to, another and better system of 

 policing for the protection of the game and of the geysers 

 and of the forests may be suggested. 



Just now, however, the Secretary of the Interior should 

 call for troops to expel the jobbers who have seized the 

 Park, and the almost equally criminal aud reckless skin 

 hunters. 



Will Mr. Secretary Teller earn for himself the thanks of 

 the people by doing this! 



THE MARKETS AND TEE CAME. 

 L^ROM Maine to Minnesota come the same reports. The 

 ■*- game is killed in large quantities out of season and 

 shipped by market hunters to the open game markets in 

 other States. Minnesota grouse killed out of season have 

 gone to Chicago, and Maine venison killed in the close time 

 goes to Boston. The Boston market is legally open by 

 reason of an unwise compromise made with the dealers of 

 that city when the present law was enacted, and the Chicago 

 market has been illegally kept open through the combined 

 influence of the dealers and some of the sportsmen of that 

 city. 



Last week we noticed the fact that the Chicago market 

 men, notably a prominent member of the Sportsmen's and 

 Game Dealers' Association, wen: receiving grouse which 

 had been killed contrary to law in Minnesota; and in an- 

 other column of this issue will be found a report, from one 

 of our Maine correspondents, of the shipping of unseason- 

 able game from that State to Ihe Boston market. 



There is nothing about this sftte of affairs to excite sur- 

 prise. Every intelligent man who has given the slightest 

 thought to the subject, knows perfectly well that a game 

 market open beyond the legal season for killing game means 

 that the game will be supplied contrary to law. It is the 

 same old story, rehearsed time and time again in every 

 State in the Union, and in the Provinces beyond 1 . The re- 

 lation of the game market to the game supply is well un- 

 derstood, and earnest efforts have been made, to provide, 

 some efficient check to the slaughter. Michigan sports- 

 men, after careful investigation, found that their deer sup- 

 ply was being exterminated by the market hunters, who 

 shipped the game to the great city ma its. Michigan there- 

 upon passed a non-export law. Other States have adopted 

 similar laws. The sportsmen of Indiana saw their game 

 netted and snared by pot-hunters and sent to outside mar- 

 kets in season and out of season. They secured a non- 

 export law which has since been declared unconstitu- 

 tional. Minnesota tried the same expedient; it has not 

 proved efficient. Nebraska, Dakota aud Colorado, Con- 

 necticut, Iowa and Missouri followed, each with 

 more or less good effect. The Province of Ontario 

 contemplates a non-export law. To strictly enforce 

 a non-export game law is an exceedingly difficult un- 

 dertaking, There are many devices well known to the 

 market shooter, and by means of various deceptions it is an 

 easy thing for him to run his contraband goods through the 

 lines. 8o long as game markets are kept open, iuviting the 

 law breaker to send in his plunder, just so long will the 



