Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, DECEMBER 13, 1883. 



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 garded. No name will be published except with writer's consent. 

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N'iks. 39 A-vn to Pahs Row. New Yoiik City. 



'graphs, 



keri.igs. 

 .alaeks. 



Eeeria Park.— n. 



Life among the Blaclcfeet.— m. 



( )n ibi 1 Track of liu- Apaches. 

 Naitral History. 



TbePurple Finch aud his Cousins 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Stories of the Early Hays. 



The Grouse of Steuben County. 



Philadelphia Notes. 



Gu 



lj' ,v 



The Chei 



inting Rifles. 



The ■Standard" Reel-Plates. 



FtSUOULTt'RE. 



Bleeding Habits of Catfish. 

 The Kennel. 

 American Eugli-h Beagle Club. 



The Kennel. 



Pacific Coast Field Trials. 



-Musical Dogs. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting, 



Intercollegiate Rifles. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeinu. 



The Winter Camp-Fire. 



Local Meets. 



Cruisers and the Canoe Associ- 

 ation. 



The A. C. A. Meet. 



Toronto C. C. 



Cruisers and the American 



■ Locker. 



Building Notes. 

 Yachting. 



'! lie I ■uliill.t; I 'i foe b...al. 



International. 



The Battle on tile Baltic. 



Shanieh-ss Falsehoods Branded. 



■' pii . 



Whv Cutters are Safe. 



Why Cutters are Dry, 



A Slanderer Rebuked. 



'II. ■■-'.. : 



Cruise of the lleen. 



A Tale of the Sea with a Moral 



by the private detective. He is not in much favor his at 

 best, and muuy people claim to have good reasoufor looking 

 upon him as more of a nuisance than a blessing. He now 



conies to the surface as a clever worker upon the sympathies 

 of those deep in grief over the loss of a pet. When Dixie's 

 return was sought for through the papers, the private detec- 

 tive appeared with an introductory note, telling the owner 

 that just such a black and (an was in the office of the detec- 

 tive awaiting an owner. Of course a visit is made, and then 

 the cute detector of crime is shrewd enough to frame a lie 

 for the occasion. The dog spoken of in the note was claimed 

 by its owner but an hour before, and he was very grateful 

 for the services of the detective. Would not the present 

 visitor secure his services? There is a trifling matter of a 

 registration fee, $10, and then reports will be made of pro- 

 gress. Very soon will come a mysterious intimation that a 

 clew has been discovered. This, to be followed up, means a 

 seemingly endless system of fees and expense bills, until the 

 patience and the pocketbook of the victim are one or both 

 exhausted. 



Like every other form of larcency, dog stealing can only 

 be carried on through a system of '-fences" or receivers of 

 stolen goods. Those who take dogs from the street do not 

 keep them, but they are disposod of at the shops of fanciers 

 who in many cases are not particular in knowing or seeking 

 to discover the history of the animal they are buying. A 

 reputable dealer knows from whom he takes «ny dog pur- 

 chased. He floes not get it at a ridiculously low figure, and 

 then in confession of his guilt send it away to another city 

 for disposal by a brother fence, or perhaps give it a few 

 months' rustication at a quiet surburban kennel until the 

 noise of search for the missing pet has quieted dowu. 



There is a continual precession of disconsolate searchers 

 for lost dogs going from shop to shop over this city. The 

 quest is a useless one, for an honest dealer would either not 

 have the dog sought, or watching the advertisements, as all 

 of them do, would have promptly returned it. While a dis- 

 honest dealer, of course, denies all knowledge of the dog, 

 though it may at the moment be whining piteously in the 

 cellar beneath him. 



A few convictions for dog stealing would do an immense 

 amount of good in clearing the city of this nuisance, and if 

 the Westminster Kennel Club, for instance, could accom- 

 plish something, it would earn the good will of a great num- 

 ber of owners. 



SAVE THE ADIR0NDACK8. 

 HPHIS is another age of the Vandals; not the barbarians ot' 

 -*~ old times who overthrew the cities, but ravagers of a 

 new type, who would destroy to the last vestige the grand 

 forest preserves of the East and the West. Every reader of 

 this journal is familiar with the scheme, prompted by un- 

 conscionable greed, that recently threatened to lay was'e to the 

 National Park ; and now the people of the State of New 

 York arc alarmed at the threatened destruction of tiie Adir- 

 ondack forests. 



The lumber supply of this country is now so reduced that 

 it will be profitable to cut dowu the trees on Adirondack 

 lands aud send the lumber to market. As the land is owned 

 by private individuals, there is no way to stop the cutting of 

 the trees, unless the state assumes control of the region by 

 purchase. The reasons why the forests should be preserved 

 are not sentimental, but very practical. If the Adirondack^ 

 are cleared the Hudson River will dry up; in fact, with the 

 gradual cutting away of timber lands, it has been gradually- 

 drying up for years. This means that navigation will be in- 

 terrupted; commerce will surfer; l he city, the State, the 

 nation, will be involved in such a calamity. The practical 

 business men are taking up the subject. The New York 

 Chamber of Commerce has prepared a memorial to the next 

 Legislature asking for State interference. 



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DQQ STEALING. 

 rpOPSY and Dixie are gone, and two New York families 

 -»- arc deeply in grief and actively in search. The col- 

 umns of one of the great dailies are also thrown open to aid 

 in the finding of I he little truants, but thus far there has 

 been no success beyond the unearthing of any quantity of 

 false clews to lead away from the main search. Topsy is a 

 wee bit. of a pug, while Dixie is a small black and tan dog. 

 They are both choice specimens of their respective breeds, 

 ami they are also highly prized, far beyond their intrinsic 

 worth, as household pets. Hundreds of dollars are offered 

 for their return, yet they remain away, and serve as a text 

 for much talk and comment on the subject of dog stealing. 

 Enough is known of the circumstances surrounding the 

 loss of each of these dogs to point to the conclusion that 

 there is a systematic plan for the capture of valuable dogs. 

 The city is patrolled by an army of men and boys who are 

 not above tbis, petty crime, and in the aggregate their work 

 amounts to a vast deal of loss and annoyance to a great, 

 many dog owners. Now and then some special case reaches 

 the notice of the public aud there is a momentary discussion 

 of the subject, perhaps a lull in the trade of dog stealing, 

 and then it goes on as briskly as ever. It seems to be the 

 one form of crime which goes unpunished and generally 

 without detection. The hundreds of advertisements appear- 

 ing each month in the morning papers show the disposition 

 of those bereft of their dogs to treat the thieves leniently if 

 their pels are only restored. There is a constant disposition 

 to temporize with the rascals, and owners become partici- 

 pants in vice by their readiness to compound the misde- 

 meanor committed. It may be natural for those who are 

 without their favorites to secure the smaller personal benefit, 

 even though they encourage a greater general evil, but it 

 would not be out of place if a society was organized for the 

 special extermination of the pest of dog stealing. 

 One curious phase of the recent case* is the part played 



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These statements seem called for by the fact that a number 

 of letters from aggrieved readers have recently been received 

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It must be clear to every one that the business of a news- 

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 rendering an equivalent. Why should he hope, or desire, to 

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 basis? 



If our subscribers will promptly remit, on receiving their 

 first notice that their subscriptions have run out, they will 

 save us much trouble. 



OUR CHRISTMAS NUMBER. 

 r pHE next issue, that of Dec. 20, will he the Christmas 

 *- number of this journal. We have so many papers on 

 hand for publication at that time that it will be quite out of the 

 question to find room for all of them in a Forest and Strea m 

 of the usual size. As announced elsewhere, we shall issue 

 a four-paged supplement, and in addition to that there will 

 be four more extra pages, making altogether a thirty-six 

 paged paper. We shall not particularize the attractions of 

 the number. The subjects will be varied, and somewhere in 

 the thirty-six pages, we are quite confident, will be found a 

 story or a note to the liking of each of the forty or fifty 

 thousand persons who will scan the columns. 



AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHS. 



WE have received a number of photographs in exchange 

 for the two views taken from our office windows, 

 and find them very charming and suggestive pictures of 

 camp life and pleasure travel. We repeat that we have taken, 

 with amateur outfit, two views from the windows of the 

 Forest a*d Stream office, aud shall he glad to exchange 

 one or both of them for amateurs' photographs of camp 

 scenes and other pictures made by the sportsman tourist. 

 The views are 5x8 in. No. 1 is an instantaneous picture. It 

 shows the north side of the Post Office, Mail street, a strip of 

 the City Hall Park, and a varnish sign over on Broadway. 

 There is alss a pie wagon delivering pies to the stand on the 

 Post-office corner, with a fat pedestrian in close proximity. 

 No. i shows the front of the old City Hall, with the roof of 

 the new County Court House, other public buildings, the 

 top of Stewart's old wholesale store, and a slice of the 

 rot News Co.'b building in Chambers street. 



CAMP-EIRE ELICKERINGS. 

 TYTITH our next issue we will publish a four-paged sup- 

 ™ * plement, into which will be gathered all the "Camp- 

 Ftre Flickeriugs" printed since the column was begun last 

 year, and the particulars will be given of a ' 'Camp-Fire Flick- 

 ering" competition for 1884. This will be something in 

 which every reader of the Forest and Stream can take an 

 active part. 



Deer IS Belgium. — A paragraph now going the rounds 

 of the papers says that "stag hunting is now the favorite 

 amusement in Belgium. Game of all kipds is so plentiful 

 that it is necessary to destroy it. During the war of 1870 

 numbers of the deer fled from Ardennes and took refuge in 

 the Belgian frontiers at the St. Hubert side, where they 

 multiplied enormously. Baron Hoogroses, a rich Belgian 

 landed proprietor, is almost overrun with Canadian deer, 

 which he imported into his domain some years since, and is 

 now anxiously desirous of thinning his herds." It would be 

 interesting to learn on what this statement is based, and 

 further, to what species the so-called Canadian deer belong; 

 that is, whether they are the common Virginia deer (C. cir- 

 (jinianus) or the elk (0. eduadeniig). It is well known that 

 large numbers of the last named species have been exported 

 from this country for European deer forests, where in many 

 eases they have done well, and have proved valuable addi- 

 tions to the native game. With the red deer of Europe they 

 freely interbreed, and the greater size of the American elk 

 makes the cross a very desirable one. We have heard of 

 hybrids which exceeded in size the largest of the two 

 parents. It is thought that these hybrids may prove fertile 

 Inter se, and it is. we believe, well established that they will 

 breed with an animal of the pure stock of either parent. 

 What a biting satire it would be on Amerisan laws and cus- 

 toms, if fifty years hence the naturalist who might wish to 

 s t LU ly i .",>/.< alive, should be obliged lo visit 



Europe to find subjects for his investigations. And if we 

 may judge the future by the past, this is what is likely to 

 happen. The days of the elk— at least in public hunting 

 grounds — are numbered. 



There is a Vast Distinction between a "sporting man." 



and a sportsman, and between a '■spoiling'' paper and a 

 sportsman's paper. 



Tiif .Michigan Spoilsmen's Association will hold its 

 next aunual meeting at Jackson, .Ian. 9, and following days, 



