Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, AUGUST 2, 1883. 



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CONT 



ENT8. 





A Ten Years' Review. 



A Mid-Soisier Symposium. 



a Mid-S.mmek Symposium. 



Tlie Consolatic 



n of Old Age. 



From the Crag of Dos Hermanos 



"The Bottle Jo 



Ice." 



The Camp of the Kingfishers. 







A.OhawtedPnbBo«oirtiment. 



The Newsdeale 



r's Prediction. 



A Note from the Smithsonian. 



Le parpon, 





Farmers and Field Sports. 



Point Blank. 







Bird Notes fro 



n Ohio. 





Then and Now 





Around the Fire in Camp Flot- 



The Cruise of t 

 IheGdod Old 

 A New Brirasw 



he Sairy Gamp. 



Will that Time Ever Come? 



ick Bear Camp. 



Old and New in Virginia. 



Some Wolf Sto 





mountains and Mice— Big Things 



The Change ill 



Massachusetts. 





Trout in tne Cc 



imeetieut Lakes. 



Night Thoughts in Camp. 



in Re Foresl a 





A Day that Never Came. 



"Podgers" Dis 



jourses o£ Dogs. 



; Vi ted. 



The Michigan 





The Parson in Fatigue Dress. 



Two Stories f 



rom the Golden 



Ye Gluttonous Shooter. 



Gate. 





The Nurse of Iufancy. 



A '•Flickering. 







Kod and Gun ii 



i Arkansas. 



The Companion of Manhood. 



The "Office Boy" Promoted. 



El.LOWSTONE 



r company: 



per day $5 00 



400 



is 3 50 



600 



EXPENSES IN THE NATIONAL PARE. 



THOSE who propose to visit tbe Park this summer should 

 count tbe cost. There is already a railroad nearly to its 

 northern border, and the Reservation is practically open to 

 the public. There is a lug hotel there, where board and 

 lodging may be had and the proprietors will, if desired, fur- 

 nish guides, horses, tents, wagons, provisions and other 

 necessaries to parties who may wish to go off from tbe hotel 

 grounds on camping excursions. No doubt they are pre- 

 pared to lit out parties in good shape, and it will only cost 

 those who desire to dwell in tents about the same price that 

 they would have to pay at a fii^g^ass hotel in a big city. 

 The Yellowstone National Park Improvement Company 

 have published their scale of charges, as they were by the 

 terms of the lease obliged to do, and this schedule, accord- 

 ing to the Bozeman Weekly Chronicle, has been approved by 

 the. Honorable Secretary of the Interior. Here is the list: 



SCHEDULE OF HOTEf. 0HABOK6 



Board and lodging, single ro 

 Two persons in single room 

 Attic, fourth story, single n 

 Two persons in attic room . . 



Private parlor 5 00 



Private baths in bed rooms, each "b 



Baths in bathing hall, each 50 



Meals served in rooms, each 30 



Guides or cooks tar private camps, per day... 1 00 



Hi re for A t ents [or private campers, per day 00 



Board and lodging in tents at fixed camps 5 00 



Saddle horse or pony, per day 3 50 



Saddle horse or pony, first hour 1 00 



Saddle horse or pony each subsequent, hour 50 



Pack horses or mules per day, each 2 50 



Wagon hire, double team with driver.. 10 00 



Single horsi andb iggi per day 6 00 



Billiards, per gome 25 



Pool per game, each player 10 



Boot blacking, per pair 10 



Guide books, periodical publications, newspapers, etc.. at 20 per 

 cent, above published selling rates. 



This is a list indeed. One to make our Western readers 

 laugh, and our Eastern ones— who intend to visit the Paris- 

 Weep. 



It is probably scarcely necessary for us to state that these 

 charges are monstrous, and are in almost, all cases double 

 what they should be. There are few hotels in the country 

 where the prices charged for board ore so high as those in 

 this schedule, aud there is no reason under Heaven why 



such rates should be fixed, except the uncompromising greed 

 for profits of this insatiate company. This scale of prices 

 appeals to every one who is going into the Park, and will 

 enable parties to estimate the cost of their visit beforehand. 

 About the hotel rates we need say nothing, but a word or 

 two in reference to the camping expenses may be seasonable. 



•'Hire for A tent per day, $6." An A tent can he bought 

 for from $12 to $18, according to size, and it will therefore 

 pay any one who proposes to do any camping to take one 

 witli him. The poles, which are inconvenient things to 

 transport, may be dispensed with, for a rope stretched 

 between two trees or between two poles stuck in the ground, 

 will answer the purposes of a ridge pole, and trees and 

 timber are abundant in the Park. 



"Board and lodging in tents at fixed camps, $a ; " this 

 charge is only less extortionate than the previous one. Two 

 dollars a day would give the company 100 per cent, profit, 

 but that it seems does not satisfy them. "Saddle horse or 

 pony per day, $3. 50 ;" like all the other rates this is twice too 

 high . Prom a dollar to a dollar and a half per day has for 

 many years been the charge for saddle horses in Bozeman for 

 tourists, and there are men there to-day who will furnish 

 animals with saddle, bridle, ropes, etc., at the same rate — 

 unless the Improvement Company has terrorized Montana 

 and Montana men more than we believe to be possible. 

 "Pack horses or mules per day each, $2.50;" one dollar per 

 day with pack saddle, or aparrjo, is and long has been the 

 standard price for pack animals in Bozeman, and we oelieve 

 that they can be had there at that rate at present. For the 

 double team, if it is a transportation wagon, they charge 

 about twice what the same conveyance can be hired for from 

 private parties. 



We are tired of this Improvement Company. When it 

 was attempting to obtain its lease of the whole Park, it pro- 

 fessed, as our readers will no doubt remember, to be work- 

 ing wholly for the benefit of the public. It fairly snivelled 

 when the suggestion was made that it was trying to put the 

 reservation in its pocket for ten years. It could not. endure 

 to be so misjudged. Well, this scale of rates will tell the 

 public just about how far this Company is working for its 

 good. The people can judge for themselves. For our part, 

 we are glad to see these exorbitant charges made, charges 

 which fairly rival those of Newport, Long-Branch, Saratoga, 

 and Lake George, and exceed those of other almost equally 

 fashionable summer resorts. Such rates cannot fail to in- 

 duce other parties to build in the Park, so that there will be 

 some competition. 



We have a word for the private ear of those of our readers 

 who are able and willing to sleep in a tent. Stop on your 

 way to the Park in Bozeman. Hire horses, wagon, pack- 

 saddles, aud buy your provisions and mess kit there. Either 

 bring your tents with you from the East, or buy them in 

 Bozeman. The first way is the best. Then go to the Park 

 on horseback, and have nothing whatever to do with the 

 Improvement Company. By taking this course you will 

 save one-half of what you would otherwise spend, will have 

 a freedom which you could not enjoy if you were dependent 

 on the hotels, and will not be at the mercy of a set of cor- 

 morants, who, if we may judge by present indications, will 

 soon share the unenviable notoriety of the Niagara hackm an. 

 We have traveled in the Park in the way we recommend to 

 others, and look back on that trip as the most delightful of 

 the very many which we have made north, east, and west, 

 through this country. 



Of course there will be a great many who, because ac- 

 companied by ladie;s unaccustomed to the supposed bard- 

 ships of a life in camp, cannot avail themselves of our ad- 

 vice. Such unfortunates have our sympathy, and them we 

 turn over with a sigh to the tender mercies of the Improve- 

 ment Company. 



We shall take pains to keep ourselves informed as to how 

 matters go in the Park this summer, but besides this we 

 should be glad to receive, from any and all of those who go 

 there, reports on all matters connected with it — where they 

 go and how they are treated. 



Mult a Capita Cor. Unom— Many heads, one heart. The 

 miniature reproductions of some of the old title- 

 as pleasant reminders to those of our readers who have fol- 

 lowed the course of this journal from its inception. The 

 Forest and Stream was first published in August, 1873. 

 In 187? was consolidated with it the Bod and G-tjh which, 

 under its original title of Hit American Sportsman, bad been 

 established at Meriden, Conn., in 1871. To-day, in honor of 

 the Dccasioiij appears on our cover a bright new cut, which 

 we trust will be pleasing, for it is put there to stay until the 

 Fokkst and Stream celebrates its Centennial. 



A TEN YEARS' REVIEW. 



August, 1873— August, 1883. 

 TMLE period embraced within these dates is not an ex- 

 -*- tended one; but in most things pertaining to the high- 

 est grade of field sportsmanship— that with which this 

 journal especially has to do— it has been a most important 

 one. The times have been emphatically progressive. 



Ten years ago the word "sportsman" was in such question- 

 able repute that the "New York Sportsmen's Association" 

 thought it necessary to change their title to the "New York 

 State Association for the Protection of Pish and Game." 

 Such a change would now lie unnecessary. The term "true 

 sportsman" has been played upon until it has become as 

 hackneyed as that other stock phrase, "speckled beauties;'' 

 but the iteration has not been without its happy result. 

 There is "sport" and "sport;" and on the principle that, the 

 devil should not have all the good tunes, field sports have 

 been rescued from their unseemly surroundings and invested 

 with the credit and dignity properly attaching to them. In- 

 deed the silly prejudice against shooting and fishing has 

 almost everywhere passed into a tradition. In place of Such 

 nonsense we now find among intelligent people an universal 

 recognition of the manliness attending the use of the. rod 

 and gun and their accessories. 



The completion of the Forest and Stream's first ten 

 years of publication is a fitting occasion to review briefly 

 some of the changes that, have been brought about in the 

 several branches of sportsmanship included within the scope 

 of the paper. 



THE Gl'N. 



11 would be an interesting and not altogether unedifying 

 speculation to determine the number of persons who use the 

 gun to-day compared with the number say fifteen years ago. 

 Certainly the hosts of the present, could out-vote or out-shoot 

 those of the former period, as Humboldt would say, "past 

 all whooping." The civil war gave an impetus to field 

 sports, for when the strife was over and "the boys" came 

 home again, they brought back with them the mysterious 

 knowledge of how to load and shoot and handle fire-arms ; and 

 the transition f rem weapons of war to those of peace was an 

 easy and natural oue. Their swords may have been con- 

 verted into ploughshares and their spears into reaping- 

 hooks, but the muskets were exchanged for shotguns, and 

 the veterans gave their attention to targets and game. 



Following this came the introduction of the breech-loader i 

 and the most notable change in shooting wrought within ten 

 years has been the almost complete supplantiug of the 

 muzzle-loading shotgun by its rival. In 1873 the guns making 

 up the stock of a dealer were three-fourths muzzle-loaders and 

 one-fourth breech-loaders ; to-day the proportion is very nearly 

 the reverse — if, indeed, the muzzle-loaders can muster their 

 one-fourth. Breech-loaders have been vastly improved and 

 aie cheaper now than then; but fine grade muzzle-loading 

 guns are no longer made. Of the many varieties of the 

 breech-loader, of its wonderful development and of the per- 

 fection to which it has been brought, we need not here par- 

 ticularize. 



Each new improvement lias been received at first with 

 distrust. No mortal is more wedded to his idols than is the 

 sportsman. Our readers may find discussious in the "Game 

 Bag and Gun" columns of this journal ample evidences of 

 this fact. "The gun that shoots at both ends," was only 

 reluctantly substituted by the older shooter for his well-tried 

 muzzle-loader. Then come the general introduction of 

 choke-boring, a method of securing better shooting that had 

 been devised a full century before . Long and heated were 

 the arguments as to its safety and utility. Many an older 

 sportsman still affects to despise the choke-bore for field 

 shooting, aud he has a great deal of good sound logic on his 

 side, too. The latest novelty, and the last to come safely 

 through the crucial test, not of wordy discussions but of 

 practical use, is the hammerless gun. 



Endless ingenuity and labor have been expended upon the 

 perfection of the gun. Every part, of it in turn, from muz 

 zle to butl-plate, has engaged the brains and hands of com- 

 peting makers. Actions have been improved, locks nimpli- 

 fied, new devices added here and there, and the whole made 

 stronger, more compact, less complicated, and less liable to 

 get; out of order, until the gun of to-day is a marvel of 

 beauty, simplicity and execution, full v in keeping with the 

 mechanical progress of the age. 



There has been no less of activity in the production of gun 

 implements and accessories, tools, cleaners, decoys, camp 

 equipments, loading, and a hundred and one wrinkles, some 



