130 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



fJS VOTHD TO FlBLD AND AQUATIC SPORTS, PRACTICAL NATURAL HISTORY, 

 FISH CULTURE, TBE l'KOTECTIOH OK GAS1S, l'JIKBBBTATION OF FORBBTB, 

 AND THB INCULCATION IN MSN AND WOMBN OF A I1I5ALTHT INTEREST 

 IN OOT-DOOB BBOBKATION AND STUDY: 



PUBLISHED BY 



<gp*t$i and £treau( §nblishmg jEtrmyatig.. 



— AT— 



NO. Ill FOLTON STRBKT, NEW TOKK. 

 [Post Offiob Box SS3».] 



T^BMS, FOUR DOLLARS A TEAR. STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. 



Advertising Rntca. 



Inside pages, nonpareil type, 26 centB per line ; oatslUe psge, 40 cent*. 

 Bpeolal rates for three, six and twelve months. NotlceB In editorial 

 columns, BO cents per line— eight words to the line, and twelve llneB to 

 one Inch. 



Advertisements ahonld be sent in by Saturday of each week, it pos- 

 sible. 



All transient advertisements must be accompanied with the money 

 or they will not be Inserted. 



No advertisement or business notice of an Immoral character will be 

 received on any terms. 



V Any publisher inserting our prospectus as above one time, with 

 brief editorial notice calling attention thereto, and sending marked copy 

 to us, will receive the Fobbst and Stream for one year. 



NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1879. 



To Correspondents. 



Ail communications whatever, intended for publication, must be ac- 

 companied with real name of the writer as a guaranty of good faith 

 and be addressed to the Forest and Stbeam Publishing Com? ant. 

 Names will not be published if objection bemade. No anonymous com- 

 munications will be regarded. 



We oannot promise to return rejected manuacriptB. 



Secretaries of OlubB and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 

 notes of their movements and transactions. 



Nothing will be admitted to any department of the paper that may 

 not be read with propriety in the home circle. 



We cannot be responsible for dereliction of the mail service if money 

 remitted to us la lost. 



tr Trade BuppUed by American News Company. 



" Palma " Match of 1879. — Whether we are to have an 

 international long-range match during the current year can 

 and must be decided very quickly. H the matter is left to 

 the team now holding the " Palma," as it should be, we have 

 no doubt a match would be brought about. If it be kept 

 under the stifling control of the present managers we have as 

 little doubt the other way. Oapt. Jackson is very active in 

 the matter, and a few days may decide the question. 



Pebsbevb thb Anoient.— The St. Augustine Press utters 

 a very reasonable and earnest plea for the preservation of the 

 quaint features of the old Spanish town, which have always 

 been of so great interest to tourists, but which have very ma- 

 terially disappeared within the past few years under what pro- 

 gressive people would term the march of improvement, but 

 which antiquarians consider Vandalism. It says, very truth- 

 fully : 



There are more travelers in search of novelty than health. 

 Peculiarities of a place are usually more attractive to tourists, 

 than even climate. The oft-repeated expression on the part of 

 strangers who visit St. Augustine, that they regret to see the 

 constant modernizing of the old dwellings and old landmarks, 

 which from year to year is taking place, is more so this year 

 than ever before. No one regrets these changes more than 

 ourself, and we wish the same feeling might become more 

 universal among our people. This renovating process will 

 undoubtedly continue, but we earnestly hope that when 

 these innovations can be prevented by our public officers, 

 they will be. Let us retain every particle of St. Augustine's 

 past history which has been handed down to us by the old 

 Coquina walls, the fort, dwellings, gates, churches and 

 streets. Let such be retained as far as posssble in the same 

 old form and style as originally built. The old, quaint and 

 ancient relics of the past are among the most important and 

 valuable attractions which St. Augustine offers to visitors. 

 Every additional house should be built with some preten- 

 sions to the style existing during the Spanish regime, and to 

 obviate too great sarnenesB a few might be Gothic. In any 

 case avoid the " modern." People do not come here to see 

 feeble and ugly imitations of New York and Boston dwell- 

 ings, and the additions to some of our hotels, which look like 

 huge packing boxes, are positive disfigurements, The folks 

 of St. Augustine should regard the removal of a Coquina wail, 

 to be nothing less than sacrilege, and the older and quainter 

 their buildings, the more carefully should they prop and pre- 

 serve them. As regards the exterior of their dwellings, they 

 should regard all innovations as deadly sins, and revel in the 

 grotesque— bo will they fill their hotels and their pockets. 



PROTECTION OF GAME. 



Roohestbf, N. Y., March 14, 1ST9. 

 Editor Forest and Stream : 



I wish to indorse every sentiment expressed hy your correspondent, 

 "S A.," In yourisBueof the 6th inst. on "Game Preservation." A 

 change In the method of protection of game ia at hand ; let ub hope thai, 

 it may result in a simple, efficient reform, based on the deBire to pre- 

 serve our game intelligently on the one hand, and to pursue it in a true 

 spirit of sport on the other. Now BeemB to be the time to emphatically 

 protest against the anomaly of summer woodcock shooting. Something 

 baa bet n said about permitting woodcock shooting during July, then 

 closing it, to reopen it In October. It is ardently hoped that no such 

 puerility will Impede tbo way to intelligible legislation, and the settle- 

 ment of shooting and the shooting season on a basis of sport. What- 

 ever happens, let ub have no plurality of seasons. Let us have no 

 earlier dale for the commencement of shooting than some day in Sep- 

 tember, when a comprehensive season siionlJ begin. A brief recapit- 

 ulation of some of the points in favor of this view may be opportune. 

 The young woodcock are not fully grown in July— tome of them are 

 only just out of the shell. Their pnrault la, it must be admitted, 

 unsportsmanlike, and is a process devoid of comfort from the heat and 

 general unpleasantness. The great plea of the diminishing few who 

 favor summer shooting, that a short migration of the birds is a warrant 

 for their early slaughter, is more a pretext than a reason. The birds 

 are obliged to change their feeding-places by the dry weather; they 

 frequently find suitable ground near, and if undisturbed, often remain 

 in the Immediate locality of their breedlDg-places throughout the sum- 

 mer and autumn. But, under any circumstances, a general summer 

 slaughter must Impair general autumnal sport, and therefore the prac- 

 tice should be discontinued. Opening the covers in Bummer does more 

 to deplete them by the pot-hunting of nou- migratory game than legiti- 

 mate Bhooting in the fall. A multiplicity of close days applied to a 

 confusion 'of species render the preservation of game Impossible. 

 A farmer goes into his c»ver to protect grouse, for Instance, and is told 

 by the pot-hunter that he is after woodcock. The office of game consta- 

 ble uDder these circumstances is an absurd one. How far in summer 

 oover can one man tell what another Is shooting at 1 How many con- 

 stables would be reasonable guard to three acres of covert It would 

 seem there may be cause enough to abolish so stupid and spiritless a 

 custom as summer woodcock Bhooting. In speaking of the advantages 

 of a fall opening for a general Beason to many sportsmen during the 

 past year, I have not heard a dissentient voice. One gentleman said he 

 could himself guarantee five hundred signatures In its favor In Monroe 

 County. And who, on reflection, will not coincide with this view ? The 

 autumnal is the most enjoyable season ; the clear, crisp air, and the 

 million-tinted woods, harmonize with the true instinct of the sports- 

 man, and inspire him, as no other season can, with the transports of 

 his art and " the glory of the sylvan scene divine." The farmer who 

 hears a gun on his land before the specified day In September will know 

 that the pot-hunter .is abroad, and he will be encouraged to order off 

 the trespasser, or give information agatcst him, now that he can follow 

 hira without an almanac and a game-llat to dovetail dates to species, or 

 indeed invite ridicule by any action at all. Now, too, the game con- 

 stable, under the powers of a new and comprehensible act, may emerge 

 from a nonentity to a uselul officer, and under a plain, Intelligible sys- 

 tem an efficient corps of deputies would willingly enrol] themselves in 

 every town. Lastly, It must be a gratification to every true sportsman 

 to lend a hand In expunging a practice which is certainly not born of 

 sport, but which seems devoted to extermination. 



John Aldergrove. 



Ketpobt, N. J., March IT, 1679 

 Editob Forest and stream : 



It la all very well for us farmers to catch quail and keep them throngh 

 the winter, and turn them out iu the spring to breed. Who pays us 

 for this, as we are not rich gunnera ? Who gets the first shot at them 

 in the fall ? We cannot get our sowing done and corn gathered before 

 the 15th of November. On the let of November we Bee the New York 

 bloods appear on our carB and boats, with guns strapped on their backs 

 and dogs on their chatnB. Next day they come across our farma. We 

 are busy. The first thing we hear is some one amoDg our quail, which 

 we wintered over. We leave our work and go Bee. We find some 

 " beer gag" running around iu our sprouts, looking for something he 

 never killed at all. We ass him to leave the birds alone. We want them 

 for our own shooting. He will give you some or his slang, shoot till he 

 scares all the birds out o( his reach, then leave when he gets ready. 

 Along will come another with hla setter tearing through our berry 

 vines, destroying them more like a lion than a bird dog of high blood. 

 Tell the man to let the birds alone, and ho will tell you to " Go there 

 yourselfc" Along he goes till he meets some one's flock of turkeys, lets 

 go on them and bags one, and his retriever bites three or four more so 

 that they die. 



That's keeping quail over. 



We want a law to protect us. We will protect the game for ourselves 

 the same as any other property. 



I met one of the bloods last fall, and he knocked down a woodcock 

 and shot it all to pieces on Ihe ground. No man should be allowed to 

 hunt iu the United Stales unless he owns a farm and helps whiter 

 game ; that's the law we want. I don't wonder that those two EaBtern 

 dogs would not work on ruffed grouBe, that I read of in one of your late 

 Issues. When they get into the country they are crazy. I have got a 

 setter that doesn't get crazy. He will work on any kind of grouse, 

 rough or smooth. He don't run over a field and flush them. If he goes 

 where they have been he trails them, If they are not over twenty miles 

 oil, and always waits till you come up, if you get there any time Inside 

 of a week. Please spare room for this screed. I will not trouble you 

 again. It may fit tight on some, but sign my name in full. 



William Curtis. 



The foregoing are two important letters touching correla- 

 tive branches of the same subject, namely : the Protection 

 of Game, and the Punishment for Violation, 



With a uniform law which so defines a close season or 

 seasons that no error or plea of ignorance in violation there- 

 of is possible, constables will be encouraged to act, and the 

 law will be respected and enforced. Farmers having ascer- 

 tained that the laws are so respected and enforced, by fail- 

 ing to discover sportsmen traversing over their territory in 

 prohibited seasons, will no longer find inducement to antici- 

 pate their advent by skinning their premises of game. As it 

 is now, the law of trespass is as lax as the law for prosecuting 

 defiers of close sensons, and it becomes the alternative of the 

 farmer either to kill the game himself or see it destroyed and 

 obliterated by men who have no right to jump his boundary 

 feDCes, With the assurance that the sportsman is the pro- 

 tector of game as well as the respecter of property hues, the 

 farmer will be encouraged to winter birds through, and pro- 

 vide them with food and shelter. Prom being the sports- 

 man's natural hereditary enemy, he will ; become his fast 

 friend. Most farmers are sportsmen and appreciate genuine 



sportsmen. Recognizing any such they will be ready to 

 admit them to shooting privileges on their domains, either by 

 courtesy or from mercenary motives. Sportsmen of means 

 are ever ready to pay for their sport ; so that the mercenary 

 farmer will be able to gather more and larger gains from 

 granted privileges than from the sale of slunk game trapped 

 out of all season. Poachers do not pay for privileges ; 

 they steal them. Their theft from the farmer, their infrac- 

 tion of the game law, and their cutting under of the genteel 

 sportsmen, are coincident and simultaneous, so that they be- 

 come the common enemy of the three respective interests. 

 Only make the protective law simple, sensible, positive and 

 intelligible, aud paid or volunteer constables will rise up in 

 legions to arrest the intruder and violator. Every interested 

 person will become a prosecutor, because prosecution will 

 be easy, and the result and penalty certain. 



Many of our readers seem not to have noticed the very- 

 simple co-operative plan of uniform laws for all the States 

 which was printed in our issue of Peb. 27th, and we beg to 

 call their attention to it. The time has come to clone debate. 

 Every point has been thoroughly discussed time and again 

 during the past twenty years. What we want now is a 

 definite plan based npon the outcome of this discussion. 

 We have devised one plan, as referred to. It has been sub- 

 mitted to the Legislature of each State now in session, and 

 will be submitted to the rest when they meet. If it ueeda 

 modification, we trust the sage legislators will have wisdom 

 sufficient to modify it so judiciously that it will be deemed 

 perfect. In a year or so we hope to have a uniform game 

 law throughout the whole country. 



RAILROAD MEN IN COUNCIL. 



THE annual convention of the General Passenger said 

 Ticket Agents Association was held at the Metropolitan 

 Hotel, in this city, duriDg the past week. Nearly every road 

 of prominence in the country was represented, and also 

 many others, whose prominence was not sufficient to entitle 

 them to the distinction, were represented. In fact, this fea- 

 ture was so marked that on Monday the Association was dis- 

 solved and a new organization formed, with a constitution 

 under which no transportation hue not engaged in through 

 passenger traffic may be represented, and other lines may be 

 represented only by the head of the passenger department of 

 each. 



This change was accomplished by a coup d'etat which was 

 most successful in its results, and now gives to the through 

 trunk lines the representation which before they shared equal- 

 ly with side lines, some of which, while possessing but a few 

 miles of rails, had an equal vote with the representatives of 

 great corporations controlling thousands of miles. The new 

 association having been formally organized, the following of- 

 ficers were elected : 



President— S. C. Boylston, of the Savannah and Charles- 

 ton Railroad. 



Vice-President— W. B. Shattuc, of the Atlantic and Great 

 Western Railway. 



Secretary— A. J. Smith, of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cin- 

 cinnati and Indianapolis Kail way. 



Executive Committee— P. R. Myers, of the Pittsburg, 

 Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway ; C. P. Atrnore, of the 

 Louisville and Nashville and Great Southern Railroad ; C. E 

 Pollett, of the St. Louis, Vandalia, and Terre Haute Rail- 

 road ; Lucius Tuttle, of the Hartford, Providence and Pish 

 kill Railroad s John R. Macmurdo, of the Richmond and 

 Danville Railroad ; Thomas L. Kimball, of the Union Pacific 

 Railroad ; L. M. Cole, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 



General Committee— E. A. Ford, of the 8t. Louis, Iron 

 Mountain and Southern Railway; J. Waldo, of the Houston 

 and Texas Central Railway ; W. P. Johnson, of the Illinois 

 Central Railroad ; E. R. Dorsey, of the Georgia Railroad ; 

 E. Gallop, of the Boston and Albany Railroad ; S. S. Parker 

 of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railway ; L. P. 

 Farmer, of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 



The duties of the meeting have not prevented tho mem- 

 bers of the convention from enjoying themselves while In the 

 city. On one day the officers of the Long Island and Brook- 

 lyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroads placed a special 

 train at their disposal, and conveyed them to Brighton Beach, 

 via Garden City. At both places they were entertained with 

 the hospitality for which these roads are noted. The Hotel 

 Brighton was opened specially for the occasion, and at the de- 

 jeuner addresses were made by Col. Sharp, Senator Murphy, 

 and Messrs. Chittenden, Spencer, Oorwin, Laffan, Hinsdale, 

 Ford, Heald, WaDiston, Sweet and others. In the evening of 

 the same day a dinner was given them by Mr. Claire, of the 

 Metropolitan, the distinguishing feature of which was the 

 bill of fare, which was gotten up in imitation of a book of 

 coupon tickets. The convention adjourned on Wednesday, to 

 meet at Louisville, Ky., in September next. 



THE GREAT WALK. 



THE walk at Gilmore's Garden last week having afforded 

 six days of excitement, to the community has now gone 

 on record as ihe third competition for the Astley belt. The 

 most remarkable thing about the contest was the intense and 

 universal interest which the general public manifested in its 

 progress from day to day. It was the absorbing theme of 

 conversation at all times and in all places, was made the sub- 

 ject of a vast amount of newspaper description and comment, 



