Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, JULY 26, 1883. 



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CONTENTS. 





1' rsHCI'L'ITRE. 



vst one Park. 



Tile New York Fish Commission 





The American Fisheultural As- 



Protectors. 







Carp Fail in Florida. 





Tin: Kennel. 





The Crystal Palace Dog Show. 





Distemper. 





Champions. 



uglish Sparrow 



Kerne'-! 5h,'i,ugenieut. 





Ki-ini- ' Hoi a 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



its in Vision. 



The tnternationaJ Match. 





Range and Gallery. 



motguns. 



The Trap. 





Canoeing. 





A Cruise on the Mokelumne. 





YACHTING. 



out Waters. 



Hull Y. C. 





Hern. 



TOUS-Dntaer. 



Blariorie and Ilecn. 

 Eastern Y. C. 





Trout Streams. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



With its compact type and in Us permanently enlarged fori 

 of twenty-e.il/ht pages this jour mil '.furnishes each week a larger 

 amount of jirst-class matter relating to angling, shooting, th 

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

 American publications put together. 



TEN TEARS. 



TJC7ITH this issue the Forest and Stream completes the 

 * ' first ten years of publication, Next week, that be- 

 ing- the paper's eleventh birthday, we shall review some of 

 the many changes which have taken place in those years. The 

 number will be an interesting one. containing- contributions, 

 congratulatory and otherwise, frnm many familiar pens, 

 among them those of Al Fresco, Awahsoose. Balsam. Natha- 

 niel H. Bishop, Didymus, John Deau Caton, Cecil Clay, 

 Elliott Cones. Forked Deer, Theodatus Garliek, J. A. Hen- 

 shall, Hix, II. F. U., Jack.Jacobstafl', K (of Worcester), King- 

 fisher, M. (of Boston), Maj. H.W. Merrill, Wra. B. Mershon, 

 Nessmuk, Penobscot, Piseco. Podgcrs. Reignolds, Robt. B. 

 Roosevelt, S., Von W., Corp. Lot Warfield, Wawayanda, 

 Yell— thirty-one, with others yet to be heard from. 



DEFEAT OF THE TEAM. 

 T^HE American team has suffered a defeat, and for the 

 -■- second time the English military shooters have estab- 

 lished their superiority in a formal match test. It can 

 •hardly be said that this outcome of the competition is a sur- 

 prise. A year ago defeat was certain for the American 

 team, this year there was a chauce of victory for the vis- 

 itors, though the probabilities wore against them, and aftei 

 a good fight, with some very encouraging features about it, 

 Colonel Howard and his men come home to impress upon 

 American riflemen that, though much has been done for the 

 development of title practice and the improvement of small 

 arms in this country, yet our advance has been irregu- 

 lar, and that in certain very essential lines of the art and 

 science of rifle shooting we are still behind our British 

 friends. 



To the story of the match we give ample space in our rifle 

 columns. There it is told how a tempest of rain and wind 

 came down upon the common while the match was in pro- 

 gress, how these squalls and showers were broken by floods of 

 bright sunlight, how the wind came from various quarters of 

 the horizon, and in such a quick succession of i 

 that it appeared to the bewildered Americans as if the c.iveof 



the winds had opened on all sides. It was, in fact, such a 

 day as Creedmoor never has and Wimbledon but seldom. 

 The Britishers were somewhat used to such conditions of 

 sky and air, and so the sooner caught their bearings in the 

 skirmish of the elements, and managed to get out of the 

 match in advance of the strange team. 



There has been talk of inferior rifles in the hands of the 

 American marksmen, and the cable dispatches, reflecting the 

 opinion of the English ranges, have placed special stress 

 upon this feature. It appears to us to be not well founded, 

 for had there been a change of weapon, and the Metfords of 

 the English team placed in American hands, and vice versa, 

 we doubt not that the victory would still have been to the 

 team whose members were best able to catch the real strength 

 of that rush of crosswinds, and who could best fix their 

 elevations for the dark, moisture-laden atmosphere. No 

 doubt the American rifles placed the bullets just where they 

 were aimed, but bad judgment was shown in estimating the 

 meteorological conditions and in formulating their influence 

 iu so many points on wind-gauge and elevation. 



The match passed off in good shape so far as freedom from 

 any misunderstandings were concerned. It was, so far as 

 the wire informs us. a fair fight for the American militiamen 

 not against their very friendly antagonists, the English 

 team, but against that very uncertain and treacherous foe, 

 the fickle weather. We arc not informed upon what basis 

 Col. Howard made his selection of the final shooting twelve, 

 but no doubt there were good and sufficient reasons for mak- 

 ing such choice as he did. It is not likely that any other 

 arrangement of the men would have brought about any dif- 

 ferent result. The strength of the American squad was 

 fairly set forth in the twelve men who went to the firing 

 points. 



The match in its results is full of encouragement to the 

 N. R. A. and to American rifle interests generally. As com- 

 pared with the results of last year we have been able to show 

 a positive advance. The lesson of last year lias not been 

 thrown away, and to-day we have a fuDd of information, 

 of experience and practical knowledge on the points of the 

 military breech-loader as known at Wimbledon, where two 

 years or more ago we were entirely ignorant. At the lower 

 and more distinctively military service langes the Ameri- 

 cans proved that they were in rifles and ability not a whit 

 behind their expert adversaries, but rather superior, yet 

 the difference was slight, hardly more than the general luck 

 of battle would leave between two well trained and evenly 

 matched contestants. We have, indeed, in two 

 years produced a gun which will shoot round after 

 round without cleaning, and w T e have secured a 

 body of men able to use that weapon with fine 

 precision under all the conditions of weather to which 

 w r e are accustomed here. The match days brought Colonel 

 Howard and his men face to face with new conditions, to 

 meet which they had no data in their score-books, and con- 

 sequently they could only flounder about, making such 

 efforts to reach the target as their general knowledge of rifle 

 shooting suggested. The Englishmen may well note this 

 significant fact, that our men are rapidly closing up the gap 

 between our neglect for years and their two decades of most 

 thorough and careful practice at Wimbledon and its many 

 subsidiary ranges. There are even in misty, muggy Eng- 

 land days when the sun shines out so clear and bright that 

 our boys might imagine themselves at home at Creedmoor, 

 or Bennings, or Brinton, or Walnut Hill, and then perhaps 

 the figures of the totals may tell a different story. 



It is, perhaps, too early yet to speak of the match in a criti- 

 cal way. The scores would seem to show that there was a 

 lack of team system at the extreme range among the mem 

 hers of the defeated side, but until mail advices bring more 

 full particulars; it would be well to leave this point of the 

 match without discussion. There was the usual chapter of 

 accidents, such as planting good shots on the wrong target, 

 but these accidents did not change the final result. The 

 Americans were whipped, not by any fluke or unaccount- 

 able slip-up, but fairly and squarely because they were over- 

 matched in pitting their brief experience against the shoot 

 ing drill which has been going on for so long a time abroad. 

 They struck more weather to the square iuc h at Wimbledon, 

 than Creedmoor ever dreamed of having. 



There is no talk yet of another match. This is right. 

 Let us first get our team home, learn from them exactly what 

 is to be done for improvement, and then during the winter 

 there is ample time for such correspondence as may lead to a 

 continuation of the series of competitions, but with conditions 

 so fully drawn that no misunderstanding may creep in. 

 The defeated ones deserve a hearty welcome home, While 

 the) may nol have accomplished all that was hoped, they 



have surely done all that could be reasonably expected of 

 them. They encountered tremendous odds with a natural 

 consequence. 



We present to our readers not only a full account, of the. 

 match, but a series of diagrams showing where each shot 

 tired struck the target slab. The New York Herald, with its 

 accustomed enterprise, gave its readers early representations 

 of the targets in fac simile, and before the last shot had been 

 fired on the English range the public in New York were 

 looking at the targets made in the earlier part of the match. 

 Our diagrams give the shots numbered iu their order of 

 hitting, reproducing, In fact, the record of each marksman's 

 score book. 



There is but one little gleam of consolation, and that is in 

 the fact that while we are whipped iu the International 

 match, our old friends, the Irish small bore men, seized I he 

 occasion to once more enjoy a victory in the Elcho Shield 

 match. 



SEEING THE YEIIOWSTONE PARE. 

 r T^HE completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad to 

 ■*- Bozeman, has opened the National Park to the world 

 Men of all professions are hastening thither, urged on by the 

 natural ambition to be among the first of the general public 

 to behold those natural wonders, of which so much has been 

 written since their discovery, and which, during the pro- 

 gress of the fight against the attempt of a stock company to 

 capture the Park last winter, were again brought promi- 

 nently before the people. The projectors of the scheme for 

 seizing the Park have inaugurated a great excursion thither; 

 another made up of prominent Northern Pacific people is in 

 contemplation, and a host of smaller parties will scatter 

 themselves about over the Park, and enjoy its beauties. 



More important than any of these, from the standpoint of 

 the friends of the Park, and so of the people, is the party 

 Which is to enter the Park from the south. This will be 

 under the command of Gen. P. H. Sheridan, and will in 

 elude among its members President Arthur, Secretary Lin- 

 coln, Senator George G. Vest, Surrogate Rollins of this city, 

 and Governor J. Schuyler Crosby of Montana. Early iu 

 August they will leave Green River Station on the U. P. 

 R. R., and proceed thence to Ft. Washakie, where they will 

 take their pack train and go into the Park, and through if 

 northward to Livingstone, Montana, whence the Northern 

 Pacific R. R. will bear them eastward once more. 



No doubt they will have a good time, will catch a lot of 

 fish, and, without the boundaries of the Park, kill some 

 game. But the important point of the excursion will be that 

 members of the Government, whose influence should be 

 strongest in shaping legislation on this important subject, 

 will be able to see for themselves a part of the needs of the 

 Nation in respect to the Yellowstone Park, it is impossible, 

 of course, in a hasty trip across such a wide area, to appre- 

 ciate all that is required in the way of provision for the 

 protection of the Park and its interesting features, whether 

 organic or inorganic, but intelligent men cannot fail to ac- 

 quire much useful knowledge, especially when they go ac- 

 companied by one who is so familiar with a considerable 

 portion of the reservation as is Geu. Sheridan. 



We have urged this subject on Congress because we know 

 that it is something that ought to be done, aud because the 

 longer it is delayed the more difficult it will be to accom- 

 plish it, and the more it will cost. Those who oppose it are 

 as a rule men who are quite ignorant of the subject, while 

 all who are most familiar with the Park ami its capabilities 

 are agreed that it is a matter which demands the prompt 

 attention of Congress. This year a greater number than 

 ever before will feel its importance and be able to speak 

 intelligently on the subject. 



We believe that the importance of enlarging the Park 

 will at once impress itself upon these visitors, and we trust 

 that the need of such enlargement will be so clearly seen, 

 that a recommendation concerning it may form apart of the 

 next message of the President to Congress. This extension 

 of the Park's boundaries should be made both, on the east 

 and the south. On both sides there are wonders which 

 should be preserved to the people at large, and the setting- 

 aside of these additional tracts can be done now without in- 

 terference with the rights of any citizen. There are a few 

 cattle men within the region referred to, but their claim:: 

 can be bought out for a few thousand dollars, an expense 

 which should not be considered when the importance to the 

 country at large is realized. 



We hope most earnestly that within a year the boundaries 

 of the Park may be so extender] as to include the territory 

 yingeaat of it to the 109th meridian, and on the south to 

 hit, 48" 80'. We should then have a park iu which every 



