Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, MARCH 8, 1883. 



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CONTENTS. 



The Co 



The Hi 



Those 



(J A Mi: ISA 



In Re Beagles Et A!. 



The Greyhound. 



Care of Dogs at Bench Shows. 



Dogs and their •'Diseases.''— 



Jlange. 

 Th- Red Irish Setter. 

 ~ irk Hog Show, 



Kt 



)Tu 



j Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 



The Carver-Bogardus Ma 

 Muzzle vs. Breech. 

 _ Targets. 



'Die Laud-Locked Salmon. 



.,:.:; 1 1 iee. i id-vsrovi . 

 Michigan Fishing Resorts. 



The :.U-nhaden Question. 



Fendeur. 

 The Boston "Irish Fishermen." 

 Hull Yacht CTuh. 

 Kinks in Rig. 

 Real Yachtiug. 

 The Cutter Fleet. 

 The Fendeur Type. 

 A Letter to the Publishers. 

 Boilers and Engines for Yachts 

 Smalt Yachts to the Fore. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



Man;i>ui.attxg the Zodiac. — We do not question the 

 Finuerity of our correspondent, "Clerieus," who puts in an- 

 ollier plea for summer shooting, but it is quite evident that 

 lie lias allowed his zeal to get the better of his logic. The 

 naive manner in which he has manipulated the Zodiac and 

 classed September among the summer months, "for the 

 reason thai l he vacations of professional men and others 

 extend as a rule into that month, " is quite as ingenuous as his 

 reasoning that the present game laws represent the average 

 sentiment of sportsmen on the subject, or that if they did, 

 they would ol necessity he right. The game laws are at 

 best but a compromise between perfect laws and no laws at 

 all. Nor is the average sentiment of the day any competent 

 standard of right and wrong. ''Clerieus" would not use such 

 an argument in his pulpit. He should not forget, that 

 "average sentiment" once burned witches at the stake, ami 

 in Massachusetts supported the institution of African slavery 

 He must not forget that t\\o world is moving, and he ought 

 not to forget, that it is folly to cite the privileges enjoyed by 

 our "fathers" when there was much more "howling wilder- 

 ness" full of game than there happens to be to-day. But 

 without now needlessly considering his arguments at length, 

 we shall leave "Clerieus" to the tender mercies of our cor- 

 respondents. 



Mr. C. P. Kunhardt, for several years the yachting 

 editor of this journal, announces elsewhere his resignation 

 of that position. Mr. Kunhardt was well fitted for his 

 work, both by a natural enthusiasm for yachting and a 

 thorough naval training. Under his able control of its 

 yachting columns the Forest and Stream has taken an 

 important part in the development of the sport in this coun- 

 try, and it will be the ambition of his successor to maintain 

 the prestige of the journal among yachtsmen and canoeists, 

 We take this opportunity of testifying in the heartiest way 

 to the uniformly happy relations which have existed be 

 tweeu Mr. Kunhardt and the other members of the editorial 

 staff, and to express the keen regrets of both editors aud 

 publishers that hie connection with the paper has been 

 brought to a close. We trust that he may meet with most 

 ahundant success in his new field of enterprise 



MR. VEST'S VICTORY. 



THURSDAY last in the United States Senate was de- 

 voted in part to a discussion of the Sundry Civil Ap- 

 propriation Bill. Among the amendments lo this bill which 

 were passed by the Senate were a number relating to the Yel- 

 lowstone Park, by which it is for the present efficiently pro- 

 tected from the greed of the body of men who have so 

 earnestly striven to wrest it from the people of this country 

 and turn it into a speculation with which to line their own 

 pockets. The bill as amended and as passed by both houses, 

 of Congress contains the lollowiug provisions: 



"For the protection and improvement of the Yellowstone 

 National Park: For every purpose aud object necessary for 

 the protection, preservation, aud improvement of the Yel- 

 lowstone National Park, including compensation of super- 

 intendent and employes, $40,000, §2,000 of said amount to 

 he paid annually to a superintendent of said Park, and 

 $900 annually to each of ten assistants, all of whom shall be 

 appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, and reside con- 

 tinuously in the Park, and whoso duty it shall be to protect 

 the game, timber, and objects of interest therein; the bal- 

 ance of the sum appropriated to be expended in the con- 

 struction and improvement of suitable roads aud bridges 

 within said Pork, under the supervision and direction of an 

 engineer officer detailed by the Secretary of War for that 

 purpose. 



"The Secretary of the Interior may lease small portions of 

 ground in the Park, not exceeding ten acres iu extent for 

 each tract, on which may be erected hotels aud the necessary 

 outbuildings, and for a period not exceeding ten years; but 

 such lease shall not include any of the geysers or other ob- 

 jects of curiosity or interest iu said Park, or exclude the 

 public from the free and convenient approach thereto; or 

 include any ground within one quarter of a mile of any of 

 the geysers or of the Yellowstone Falls, nor shall there be 

 leased more than ten acres to any one person or corporation ; 

 nor shall any hotel or other buildings be erected within the 

 Park ut.til such lease shall be executed by the Secretary of 

 the Interior; and all contracts, agreements, or exclusive 

 privileges heretofore made or given in regard to said Park, 

 or any part thereof, are hereby declared to be invalid; nor 

 shall the Secretary of the Interior, in any lease which he 

 may make and execute, grant any exclusive privileges with- 

 in said Park, except upon the ground leased. 



"The Secretary of War, upon the request of the Secretary 

 of the Interior, is hereby authorized and directed to make 

 the necessary details of troops to prevent trespassers or in- 

 truders from entering the Park for the purpose of desl roying 

 the game or objects of curiosity therein, or for any other 

 purpose prohibited by law, and to remove such persons from 

 the Park if found therein." 



These provisions appear to give ample assurance that the 

 people are to be allowed to possess their pleasure ground in 

 peace, and are not to be passed over to the tender mercies of 

 the corporation, which, with a shrinking modesty that has 

 rarely been' equalled, attempted to seize for its own benefit 

 about two and one quarter millions of acres of the domain 

 of the United States. !f they did not succeed in accom- 

 plishing iheir object it was not for want of energy, shrewd- 

 ness, money, nor powerful backing. Some of the sharp- 

 est intellects, some of the best business ability in the coun- 

 try, worked for them; they had unlimited money with which 

 to influence legislation; the}* had an enormous political 

 power behind them. Senators and ex-Senators, men whose 

 names are known to every voter, nay to almost every 

 woman and child, throughout the country, did not hesitate 

 to lobby for the success of this project, to speak for it iu 

 the halls of Congress, to use every influence, personal and 

 political, to further it. The press of the country, with a 

 few exceptions, was on the side of the jobbers, and they used 

 it in such ways as they pleased. Captured by a shallow 

 device, which we long ago exposed, the newspapers lent 

 themselves to this scheme, and became the willing tools of 

 the ring. There were some notable exceptions to this rule, 

 but it was none the less the rule. With all this in their 

 favor the question may well be asked, "Why did they not 

 succeed in their plans?" The answer can readily be given 

 by one who has watched the fight from its inception. They 

 failed because Senator George G. Vest, of Missouri, occu- 

 pies a seat in the Senate of these United States. Therefore 

 every citizen owes to this gentleman warm thanks. 



No one who is not thoroughly familiar with Washington 

 and the methods of the lobbyist can at all conceive the diffi- 

 culties against which he had to contend. The opposition 

 which he had to meet in his patriotic efforts to protect the 

 people came from all sides, The politicians, the press, the 



lobby, and a considerable number of his colleagues were all 

 against him. Only the people were on his side. He perse- 

 vered, and in the face of every opposition succeeded in 

 carrying through (he measures above cited. We congratu- 

 late the Senator ou his victory. 



It is a matter of regret that the bill which provided for 

 the extension of the limits of the Park could not have been 

 passed during the present session of Congress, but we trust 

 that at the next steps may be taken, iu time, to set aside from 

 settlement a considerable additional tract of territory on the 

 south and east of the present Park. 



In his effort to save the Park, Senator Vest has received 

 efficient aid from Mr. Harrison, of Indiana, a gentleman 

 who last slimmer visited the Park, anil was thus able to 

 speak intelligently of its needs. 



We print in another column the remarks of Mr. Ingalls, 

 of Kansas, and Senator Vest's reply. Our readers can very 

 clearly judge from these remarks just exactly how broad 

 and liberal are tile views of the Kansas Senator, and how 

 Intelligent an interest he takes in the important matter of 

 the National Park. It was scarcely to have been supposed 

 that in a body like the United States Senate any one could 

 have been found to express such sentiments as those quoted, 

 and from their lone we should imagine that the Senator was 

 a kind of a Kip Van Winkle, only more so— a hundred 

 years behind his age. Senator Vest's admirable reply seems 

 to have left Mr. Ingalls nothing to say. 



The time will soon come, even if it is not already here, when 

 the Yellowstone Park will be cheap to this nation at a 

 million dollars a year. The picayune policy of saving a 

 few dollars now, and by that means losing in the future 

 something that it will be then wholly out of our power to 

 regain, cannot be too strongly condemned. The Park is at 

 present all our own. How would our readers like to see it 

 become a second Niagara — a place where one goes only to be 

 fleeced, where patent medicine advertisements stare one in 

 the face, and the beauties of nature have all been defiled by 

 the greed of man? 



It is the boast of the day that, this is a practical age, and 

 its motto seems to be, "Put money in thy purse." Get 

 money; get it— honestly, if you can— but get it. Sacrifice 

 everything to this hunger for lucre. Set Niagara to turn- 

 ing millwheels, build your manufactories over the geysers, 

 for in them you have perpetual motion. Cut up your parks 

 and sell them for farms or for building lots, as the case. 

 maybe. The man whose pockets are to be tilled will not 

 say a word against the work of destruction. 



The progress of this spirit must be cheeked; and for hav- 

 ing' interfered to save the Park from the monopolists, we 

 thank you, Senator Vest, 



HUNTING WITHOUT A GUN. -III. 



VLL seasons are good wherein to go hunting without a 

 gun, but none better than when the arbutus is blooming 

 or a little earlier, when of all flowers the liverleaf alone litis 

 raised its head above the mold. For theu you are in duty 

 bound not to hunt, it being close time for all game except 

 wild ducks and geese and the persecuted snipe — and ought 

 to be for them. 



The trees are waking from their long sleep, showing it 

 not only by the swelling buds that give a purple tinge to all 

 the gray woods, but by a more living look in their trunks. 

 Their old leaves, pressed flat by the snow, that so long has 

 lain upon them, thickly cover the ground and will add a 

 nail's thickness to the crust of the world. 



Here and there on the brown carpet, are tufts of evergreen 

 ferns, cushions of moss, blotches of the purple green leaves 

 of hepatica and dots of its flowers. The sun shines down 

 through the lattice of branches, and cheeks all with meshes 

 of shadow. 



The chipmonk and woodchuck have left the darkness of 

 the under world and arc out in the sun again. The birds 

 that spend the year with us are here— jays.woodpeekers, tit- 

 mice and nuthatches — all busy and noisy, and some of the 

 migrants have come. A hawk is cruising high above (he 

 tree-tops, his broad sails golden brown in the sunlight, and 

 a black guard Of crows arc challenging a fox in his own 

 woods, or an owl In the tree that has been his home these 

 ten years. A pee wee makes sudden flights from her perch 

 and back, gathering an insect in every airy loop. A blue, 

 bird carols in a tree-top against a sky as blue as his back, and 

 a flock of slate-colored snowbirds are thridding a thicket, 

 aud filling it with their light warble and sharp metallic chip, 

 like the clicking of castanets. They are not snowbirds 

 with us, for they go further southward when the first snow 

 conies, and are by no means the earliest spring coiners, 



