Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, DECEMBER 20, 1883. 



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Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 

 Nos. 39 ajjd 40 Park Row. New York City. 



CONTENTS. 

 Editorial. Fishchlture. 



A Vote on the Flickerings. | Success of Fisheulture. 



Summer and Winter Bifle Prac- Camp-Fire Flickerings. 



tlce. 



The Yellowstone Park. 



A Word in Season. 



Save the Adirondacks. 



Sunday Shooting. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Down the Yukon on a Raft. — I. 



Among the Moose. — u. 



The Wild Bull of Big Timber. 



Life among the- Blackfee.t.— iv. 



Camp Flotsam.— vi. 



The Ruined Homestead. 



Down in "Arkansaw." 



A Bit of Home Life. 

 Natural History. 



The Whooping Crane. 



A December Tramp. 



Notes by a Lion Trainer. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The -Old Club." 



The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 



i 'I h: :!, : i ',;.;! \ ,, , . 



Adirondack Deer. 

 Riparian Rights. 



Mh: 



sola. 



_ e Highgate Marshes. 

 My Old Muzzle- Loader. 

 Sea and Biter Fishing. 

 The King-hi-o. 

 Trouting on the Bigosh. 



The Kenni 



The National Field Trials. 



The Southern States Field Trials 



Pacific Coast Field Trials. 



Lowell Bench Show. 



The Beagle Club. 



Spanielsat Louisville. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



Pittsburgh Canoe Club. 



Tents. 



The Winter Camp-Fire. 



The Galley Fire. 

 Spirit Lamps. 



The Chart Locker. 

 Connecticut River. 



The Log Book, 

 in.— Cruise from Salem, Mass., 

 to Mt. Desert, Me. 

 Yachting. 



Stowage of the New Single- 

 hander. 



Oriva and the Open Boats. 



Log of the Susie B. 



Supplementary List of Winners, 



Withits compact type and in its permanently enlarged form 

 of twenty-eight pages this journal furnishes eachweekalarger 

 amount of first-class matter relating to angling, shooting, the 

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

 American publications put together. 



"I 



A VOTE ON TEE FLICKERINGS. 



tj REPEAT it," said the visitor, "that is the best of 

 *- the lot." 



"And I say again," returned the editor, "that any one of 

 these three is a better story. " 



The visitor and the editor were looking over the Fokbst 

 and Stream's Camp-Fire Flickerings, which the editor had 

 collected into a scrap book, and the two had fallen into a 

 warm dispute over the merits of some of the stories. 



"I'll hetchyer," said the visitor. 



"No, we won't bet on it; that is no way to determine the 

 excellence of a literary production; besides, who would 

 decide it for us?" 



"Leave it to any ten men you've a mind to," replied the 

 visitor, "Let each one pick out a story, and if they don't all 

 choose this one — " 



' 'No two of them would select the same one, " interrupted 

 the editor, "each man would pick out a different story, then 

 we would have a dozen, and be six times worse off than we 

 are now. No, ten men would decide nothing. What do 

 you say lo ten hundred, or ten or twenty thousand?" 



"Wliew!" said the visitor, "How would you do it?" 



"In the Fouest and Stream, of course. Come in to- 

 morrow, and I'll tell you what we'll do." The visitor went 

 out with a parting shot, "That's the best one anyhow;" and 

 the printer's boy just then coming in for copy, the editor gave 

 him the whole scrap book of "Flickerings" and sent word 

 around to the printer to have it in type for December 30. 



On the. following day the visitor came in and took the 

 editor out lo lunch, and there the man of the pen explained 

 his "scheme," as he dubbed it. This was nothing less than to 

 refer the entire lot of "Flickerings" lo the readers of the 

 Purest vnii Sthk.w and ask an opinion respecting them. 



The visitor was pleased with the plan. Both he and the 

 editor confessed that what they might think of the stories 

 amounted to little after all, but what the readers in general 

 thought of them amounted to a great deal; to find this out, 

 as the visitor expressed it, "would be grand " 



Accordingly, the Forest and Stream contains to day, 

 in a special supplement, the entire series of Cump-Fire 

 Flickeriugs from the beginning of the column in July, 1882. 

 The ninety-six stories are given in the order in which they 

 were printed, and each one is numbered. Of these ninety- 

 six stories every reader is asked to select the ten which he 

 thinks the best; to write down the numbers of these ten, one 

 below the other, in their order of merit, putting the best 

 first, the next best second, etc., and then to send the list to 

 the Forest and Stream. Each list should be signed with 

 the name and post-office address of the voter. It is requested 

 that the lists be sent on postal cards: if in envelopes they 

 should be written on slips of paper the size of a postal card. 



To send in this list of ten stories is all that the reader is 

 asked to do. 



There is no entrance fee. All who wish to do so are cor- 

 dially invited to put in a vote. The balloting is not limited 

 to subscribers, nor to those who buy the paper— the privilege 

 is extended to the neighbors who borrow ; the friend to 

 whom it is sent after the subscriber has read it; yes, even to 

 the postmaster who keeps it over Sunday and puts it into the 

 subscriber's box Monday morning (and who is hereby warned 

 to desist from this trick, for we have his name, and by and by 

 the time will be ripe for civil service reform in that village); 

 in short, this is an opportunity for those to vote who never 

 voted before, and may never have a chance to vote again ; 

 without respect to age, sex or previous condition of non- 

 sportsmanship. 



Two sets of seven prizes each will be awarded, one to the 

 writers of the winning stories, the other to the voters who 

 send in the best lists. The method of determining the win- 

 ners in each class will be as follows: 



STORY PRIZES. 



When a ballot is received each story named on it will be 

 credited with a certain number of units, determined by its 

 position in the list. The story named first will be given the 

 highest number, 10; the next one 9, the third 8, and so on 

 to the tenth or last, which will receive 1. Then each of 

 these credits will be transferred to the accounts of the re- 

 spective stories, and the story receiving the greatest aggre- 

 gate of credits will be adjudged the winning story, and to 

 its author will be given the first prize. The story receiving 

 the next highest aggregate will take the second prize, and so 

 with the others until the total credit of each of the stories 

 has been ascertained, and the seven prizes for stories 

 awarded. 



VOTERS' LIST PRIZES. 



Opposite each story, in every list, will be written the total 

 number of credits that have been awarded to that story by all 

 the voters. The credits of all the stories on each list will 

 then be added together, and the list showing the highest ag- 

 gregate will be adjudged the winning list, and to the voter 

 who sends it will be awarded the first prize. The list show- 

 ing the next highest aggregate will take the second prize, and 

 so on until the seven prizes have been awarded. 



As already stated, the voter is requested to simply put in 

 a list of the ten stories he or she may select as the best. 



'he prizes for the writers and the prizes for the voters will 

 be the same. They will be for each class as follows: 



A copy of the book "Sport with Gun and Rod," in embossed leather 

 binding, or any other book or books of same value (S15), at option of 

 winners. 



SECOND PRIZE. 



"Sport with Gun and Rod," cloth binding, or any other book of 

 same value ($10), at option of winners. 



Norris's '•American Angler's Book" (price $5.50), r Stonehenge's 

 "Dog of the British Islands" ($7.50,, or Coues's "Key to North Americau 

 Birds" (,$r), or any other book or books of same value, at option of 



The Forest and Stream for one year. 



fifth prize. 

 The Forest act Stream for six months. 



SIXTH PRIZE. 



"Training "vs. Breaking," by S. T. Hammond (which, by the way. 

 contains some capital stories). 



SEVENTH prize. 



"Angling Talks," byGeo. Dawson. 



In case of a tie the prize will be divided. No person will be awarded 

 more than one prize. If two prizes are voted to thesame individual 

 he will be given toe highest of them, and the other will pass to the 

 next man on the list. 



It will be seen that the prizes aggregate in value $80. 

 The writers' prizes will be given by the Forest bod 



Stream Publishing Company; the voters' prizes by the 

 editor. 



Ballots should be sent in as soon as is practicable. To 

 give distant readers an opportunity to vote, lists will be 

 received up to February 1, andas the editor of the American 

 Kennel Register so often says, "none can be received later." 



The polls are open. 



A WORD IN SEASON. 



TTEREWITH our .greeting— not on an illuminated card, 

 -*-*- as the fashion is nowadays, but in our own way 



— eight extra pages, brimful of memories and suggestions 

 of forest and stream. We extend to every reader the com- 

 pliments of this glad season, and wish a Merry Christmas 

 to everybody— to him who takes the fleeting pleasures 

 as they fly, and to him who pots them on the ground. 



THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. 



A RESOLUTION, introduced at Washington by Senator 

 -*-*- Vest, seems likely to bring to light some interesting 

 facts in regard to the management of the National Park. 

 The trip made last September by the President, Senator 

 Vest and other gentlemen to this region, is already, as we 

 predicted last summer would be the case, resulting in action 

 for the proper preservation of the Park. Senator Vest, dur- 

 ing his trip, did not travel with closed eyes and ears, and his 

 visit gave him some information as to the methods of the 

 Superintendent, which led him to make further inquiries into 

 this person's caic of the reservation. It appears that Secre- 

 tary Teller has also had reason to believe that the Superin- 

 tendent's duties were not being satisfactorily performed, and 

 a Special Agent was dispatched to the Park to investigate 

 the matter. From the report of the Agent it appears that 

 the assistant superintendents are a curious lot. It is 

 stated that they are. for the most part, Eastern 

 men, wholly unacquainted with life in the mountains, 

 and so, perfectly useless as protectors of the Park. They 

 appear to have spent their time loafing about the resorts of 

 travelers and collecting and selling specimens of geyserite, 

 fossil wood and other minerals, which are especially forbid- 

 den by the regulations of the Park to bo collected or sold. 

 It is said also that they permitted hunting and allowed game 

 to be killed in direct opposition to the Secretary's order. On 

 the whole, if the report is at all to be trusted, the assistant 

 superintendents have proved themselves wholly incompetent 

 and generally worthless. If all this is true, what shall be 

 said of the Superintendent, who appointed and continued in 

 office such men. 



As long ago as last March we referred to this subject, and 

 warned the Superintendent of the Park that his action in the 

 appointment of his assistants would be closely watched. 

 Writing of the law protecting this pleasure ground we said : 



By this law the responsibility for the care of the Park is placed 

 where it belongs, that is with the Interior Department and its ser- 

 vants. The public will look with interest on the action of Superin- 

 tendent Conger, who has now been furnished with money and means 

 patrol the Park. If be does uis full duty, the work of destruction 

 which for ten years past has been going on in this beautiful region 

 will be checked, trespassers and butchers will be promptly dealt with 

 and punished, and the game, soon recognizing that it has here a 

 safe abiding place, will increase and multiply. . If the superin - 

 tendent is careless and slothful, if he appoints as his assist- 

 ants a lot of Eastern men who know nothing of the 

 mountains and the habits of game, the old styie slaughter 

 will be kept up. We have every reason to think that the Superin- 

 tendent wiU do his duty by the Park. He has already shown a deep 

 interest in it. and thisinterest will no doubt increase ratherthan flag. 

 We warn him against falling into the mistake of appointing for his 

 game keepers and police incompetent men. Let him make his selec- 

 tion of these officers from among the mountain men of Montana, 

 whom he can easily And. From among them he can select good men, 

 who will be honest, reliable, faithful and fearless in the performance 

 of their duty. If the care of the forests, the game and the natural 

 wonders of the Park be placed in such hands, we have no fears for 

 their future. 



Any failure to act up to the provisions of the law will readily be 

 learned of in a region such as this will soon be, and the assistants 

 who fail to do their duty must speedily be removed and make way 

 for better men. The responsibility of the Park thus resting on one 

 pair of shoulders, it is certain that it will be well cared for, and the 

 country looks to Mr. Conger to see how its Park is to be looked after. 

 The poeple's temper has been somewhat aroused by the monstrous 

 attempt to take from them their rights, and they wdl look sharply 

 after this reservation for the future. 



If in the face of this warning the Superintendent has been 

 guilty of permitting the acts with which his assistants aru 

 charged, it is clear that he is by no means the man for the 

 place which he holds, and his pro.npt dismissal is certain. 

 The Special Agent who made the report alluded to, recom 

 mends the removal of Mr. Conger, and unless some efttisfac 



