FOREST AND STREAMS 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



©evoted to Field and Aquatic Sports, Practical Nattjeal History, 

 X ir™ ■n^TURE, the Protection op Game, Preservation or Forests, 

 act the Inculcation in Men and Women of a healthy interest 

 IS Out-door Recreation and Study: 



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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28,1875. 



To Correspondents. 



All communications whatever, whether relating to business or literary 

 correspondence, must be addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub- 

 lishing Company. Personal or private letters of course excepted. 



All communications intended for publication must be accompanied with 

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 objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be regarded. 



'Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 



We cannot promise to return rejected manuscripts. 



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

 notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 

 to become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle- 

 men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 

 find our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 



The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 

 patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re- 

 fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 

 8 beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 

 the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 

 tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise- 

 ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 

 terms ; and 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 the dereliction of the mail service, if 

 money remitted to us is lost. 



Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 



CHARLES 11 ALLOCK, Editor. 



WILLIAM C. HARRIS, Business Manager. 



CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COM- 

 ING WEEK. 



Thursday, October 28th.— Racing at Washington, D. C. Trotting at 

 Prospect Park; Pottstown, Pa. Memphis Field Trials, puppy stakes. 

 Rowing— Nassau vs. Anolostah, at Washington, D. C. Rifle— Turf, 

 Field and Farm Badge at Conlin's, 930 Broadway; American Rifle Asso- 

 ciation, Pelhamvilltj. Base ball— Boston vs. Philadelphia, at Boston. 



Friday, October 29th.— Racing at Jerome Park. Trotting at Prospect 

 Park; Pottstown, Pa. Memphis Field Trials, braces. Walking and run- 

 ning at New York Athletic Club Grounds, Mott Haven. 



Saturday, Octobor 30th.— Racing at Jerome Park. Memphis Field 

 Trials, setters and pointers for championship of America. Athletic 

 Games— New York Athletic Club Grounds, Mott Haven. Rifle— Ameri- 

 can Rifle Association, Be Pnyster Badge, Pelhamville. 



Tuesday, November 1st.— Trotting at Washington, D. C. New Jer- 

 sey Athletic Association meeting. 

 | Wednesday, November 3d .—Trotting at Washington, D. C. 



Tituhsday, November 4th.— Trotting at Washington, B. C. 



Mr. Hallock.t— We heard from our Editor-in-Chief on 

 Saturday last from Philadelphia en route for home. His 

 *trip through the mountainous regions of Virginia, North 

 Carolina and Tennessee, which was made in company with 

 the Federal force in search of illicit distillers, was most 

 enjoyable, and afforded some fine still-hunting. He crossed 

 the Alleghanies on the 16th of October during a severe 

 snow-storm, which whitened the hill- sides in every direc- 

 tion. White Top was ascended on the 12th, and different 

 mountain ranges— the Unoca, Blue Ridge, Alleghanies, and 

 Clinch — were all visible, stretching away for scores of 

 miles, while the lesser ranges in the foreground, flattened 

 and depressed into an almost apparent level by refraction, 

 and sombre with October tints, and rifted and slashed with 

 many a chasm and ravine, resembled nothing so much as 

 the well baked and cracked crust of a loaf of Boston brown 

 bread. The immense elevation of 5,500 feet to which the 

 party attained will no doubt account for this extraordinary 

 simile. An illustrated description of his trip will shortly 

 be given to the public through one Of the magazines. 

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«'Camp Life m Florida."— This forthcoming volume is 

 now in the hands of the binder, and its publication will 

 not be much longer delayed. It will be a valuable book 

 of 348 pages, price $1.50 in cloth. Qrder$ are flowing in 

 f §rj freely, 



DISPLAY OF FISHES AT THE CEN- 

 TENNIAL, 



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THERE are to be two exhibitions of this kind at the 

 Philadelphia Centennial, one in the Government Build- 

 ing and the other by the Agricultural Department. Prof. 

 Baird has conceeded to the latter the Vivaria, and will give 

 the weight of his influence and counsel to make it a suc- 

 cess, while he will display his casts— perhaps a thousand — 

 colored to life, with all the specimens of preparations, 

 showing the various use to which each species is applied, 

 economically and commercially. The Government will 

 exhibit all the appliances for taking fish— of which the 

 white man's forms but a small proportion— from models of 

 pounds and seines down to the smallest minutise of the 

 anglers' outfit; also boats and canoes, or models of 

 them. 



In the Agricultural Hall will be exhibited the same, 

 with the exception of canoes, boats and the fishing imple- 

 ments of the Aborigines. In this building there will be 

 the competitive display of fishing tackle, fish cultural ap- 

 paratus and models of spawning races and fish ways; . also 

 an exhibition of the process of fish culture, and in aquaria 

 various food fishes in different stages of growth, and sport- 

 ing and ornamental fish. In fact anything or everything 

 to be had from avelings and minnows, to sharks and huge 

 tunnies. Thaddeus] Norris, Esq., of Philadelphia, the 

 veteran author of two of the best American books on ang- 

 ling and fish culture, assisted by Theodore L. Harrison, 

 also of Philadelphia, has been entrusted with the getting 

 up of the display. We do not hesitate to say that he is 

 most competent. He has given us an outline of the plans 

 proposed, and although he declines to assure their fullest 

 accomplishment, he still hopes that the Director General 

 will approve and the Finance Committee appropriate the 

 necessary amount to perfect them, notwithstanding the 

 many demands made on them for various purposes of the 

 exhibition. 



Those who have examined the ground plans of the build- 

 ings are aware that the manufactures or products of any 

 class extend longitudinally, while the spaces allotted to 

 each Nation or State cross such classes; thus allowing 

 each Nation or State, while occupying its prescribed limits, 

 to exhibit in any branch or class. The space designed for 

 the fish, fish cultural and fishing tackle display, in the 

 Agricultural Building, is on the west side. It will be forty 

 feet wide and extend the entire length of the hall — say 

 about eight hundred feet—half of the space having been 

 reserved for the United States. The hatching apparatus 

 and things pertaining thereto, and the aquaria, will be on 

 the side next to the lights, and the display of fishing tackle, 

 etc., on the opposite side of the aisle. 



Approaching the fishery department from the east, 

 through the main transept, visitors will be attracted by a 

 large fountain at the western side of the building. In the 

 circular base of this fountain will be seen gold fish and 

 other species with brilliant colors. Next will come hatch- 

 ing apparatus, models of spawning races and fish ways; 

 then an exhibition of the process of hatching the eggs of 

 fishes. Following these the sightseer will find glass 

 aquaria of various sizes, from two to six and a half feet 

 long with a great variety of our fresh and salt water fishes. 

 The cold water species, such as salmon, trout, grayling, 

 whitefish, and lake trout will be exhibited in aquaria, the 

 water of which will be refrigerated. A constant stream 

 will flow through all the tanks. At the northern end of 

 the building will be three very large aquaria; one twenty, 

 and two ten feet long; all of them seven feet wide and 

 nearly four feet deep. The twenty foot tank will contain 

 large marine fish, mammals and invertebrata — sharks, and 

 dolphins and tunnies, or "horse mackerel," if they can be 

 had — porpoises, seals, huge sea turtles, etc. One of the 

 ten foot tanks will have the salt water fish of smaller size 

 and in greater numbers; the other will hold the larger fresh 

 water fishes, cat fish, buffalo fish, gars and mud or shovel 

 fish of the West, sturgeons, and large specimens of the great 

 northern pickerel, muscalonge and walleyed pike. These 

 large tanks will have plate glass only in front, the backs 

 and ends will be of substantial wood. The glass will be 

 an inch thick; six plates 45m 40 inches in the largest, and 

 three plates of the same size in each of the smaller. This 

 part of the building will be darkened and the light from 

 without thrown directly on the surface of the water, a 

 plain dark curtain extending from the top of the front of 

 the tanks to the ceiling, thus giving the effect of looking 

 through windows into the sea. 



The plan of aerating the water in these is the same as 

 that adopted at Brighton and other large European aquarial 

 shows. The water flows from them into a reservoir under 

 ground, where % -is allowed to settle, and is reduced in 

 temperature, and is then continually pumped into large 

 vessels above, from whence it flows into the aquaria, the 

 streams being broken in their descent so as to aerate it. 



This will be a most interesting feature of the exhibition. 

 Ii is always so at State fairs. One never tires of looking 

 at a well stocked aquarium. The sight is a "calmer of un- 

 quiet thoughts," the beautiful colors and symmetrical forms 

 of the firh; and their movements—the very poetry of mo- 

 tion. 



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The International —The meeting of the International 

 Society for the Protection of Fish and Game named for the 

 32dinst., was postponed at the request of several leading 

 members to the 19th November at Philadelphia, when a 

 large attendance is promised. 



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—Will our friends who send us reports of rifle matches 

 be good enough to alwavs state the distances shot at, 



THE TEMECULA INDIANS. 



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WHEN General Sheridan remarked that the only KO od 

 Indian was a dead one, he probably did not h 

 in mind those Indians of California who, coming untT* 

 the jurisdiction of the padres, had been converted bv ^ 

 very gentle hands *into (Dy .profession at least) true belief 

 ers. At all events, whether or no the reverend fathers had* 

 provided for their future existence, they had at least init' 

 ated them into the mysteries of husbandry, and diverted 

 their pastime of scalp-taking into the sowing of grain 

 Not that the so-called Mission Indians ever were a blood 

 thirsty race, as compared with the Apaches and Conian-' 

 dies; their origin traces from a different source, and the 

 term savage is only applicable to them as denoting their 

 aboriginal status. The Acagchemem nation, from whom 

 are descended the Temecula Indians, the only body in 

 Southern California who have held together under the lead- 

 ership of their own Capitan, at some earJy period crossed 

 the Mexican boundary and settled in the many valleys of 

 Alta California, where the missionaries found them. Of 

 the four tribes inhabiting Mexico, viz: Tulticas, Chiohi- 

 mecas, Aculnas, and Mexicanos, Father Torquemada is of 

 the opinion that the race in California proceeded from the 

 Chichimecas, as their manners, customs, and mode of life 

 were almost identical with that race. However, they took 

 kindly to the christianizing process, obeyed the behests of 

 their lords and masters, the priests, and finally, when the 

 United States government disbanded the mission establish- 

 ments, after the treaty of Monterey, instead of mixing and 

 amalgamating with the Mexican population, as did most of 

 the Mission Indians, they held together, settled down as 

 rancheros, and followed the pursuits taught them by the 

 Franciscan monks. In time their straw-thatched jacak 

 were surrounded with melon gardens and modest vineyards 

 and at each semi-annual sheep-shearing they were in great 

 demand on all the large ranches, as they had become ex- 

 pert shearers. Later, as that portion of the country be- 

 came more settled up, in the Fall they would start through 

 the valley of San Gabriel, working in a body in the vine- 

 yards, or, detached in smaller parties, engage in the same 

 occupation, until finally their coming became anxiously 

 looked for by the vineyard proprietors, and wool growers, 

 who depended on them for assistance. In the Summer, or 

 early Fall, they would go to the mountains and, with char- 

 acteristic want of forethought, burn down the pinom 

 trees and gather the nuts. And now some one has discov- 

 ered that he holds an old Mexican grant which covers the 

 land occupied for centuries by these pe®ple, and they are 

 to be turned from their homes — not to starve; there is too 

 good stuff in them for that, and they have learned to work; 

 but it must be a bitter task for them to have to remove 

 their aged and infirm to some new spot. There is plenty 

 of government land, not covered by any grant, probably 

 within twenty miles of their home, to which they should 

 be given pre-emption rights; but it does not apparently oc- 

 cur to their agent to thus locate them, and provide for 

 wells or such other necessities as they may be abandoning. 



If the inside history of the land grant business in Cali- 

 fornia could ever be written, it would furnish all the anti- 

 administration papers in the Union with material for a 

 page of invective every day in the year. As to the merits 

 of this particular grant, we have nothing to say; that it 

 perpetrates a foul wrong upon an industrious and inoffen- 

 sive people no one will deny. It is said that Don Pio Pico, 

 the last Mexican governor of California, sat up all night be- 

 fore the capitulation signing grants. There was one, 

 within a few leagues of the Temecula Indians, in which a 

 second survey shifted the sobrante some six or eight leagues 

 in order to take in the valuable tin mines of Temescal, 

 which had been discovered and were then being worked 

 by independent miners. The whole mission of San Gabriel 

 was given away by a grant proven half a dozen times to be 

 bogus, yet in some mysterious manner alwaj's admitted 

 for further examination. But such instances could be 

 numbered by the thousand. 



We feel sympathy for even the miserable Sioux, or any 

 of the Indians of the plains, if they are wronged. How 

 much more are these Temeculas entitled to it? They have 

 lived so quietly and peaceably that outside of the State 

 their existence was unknown. And yet their history is 

 closely interwoven with that of one of the fairest portions 

 of our country, the annals and legends of which are most 

 interesting, breathing of nothing but peace and good will, 

 and marred by no strife until the irrepressible gold hunter 

 appeared. The treatment of these Temecula Indians is 

 but another example of the slip-shod policy followed by 

 the Government in its dealings with the "nation's wards. 



The Forest Lake Villa Park Association.— The ob- 

 jects of this association, as set forth in the articles of cor- 

 poration, are the promotion and encouragement by proper 

 means of the propagation and preservation of fish aDd 

 game, and the creation of a Villa Park, to be located in 

 the county of Herkimer. With this view the association 

 have purchased a large track of land located as above, and 

 embracing probably 10,000 acres, which encompasses lakes 

 and streams stocked with fish, and contains game in mos 

 inviting quantities. The act of incorporation confers upon 

 the Directors especial privileges in the way of naming their 

 own close seasons and otherwise protecting their fish a 

 game. Villa sites are set aside, upon which stockholders 

 can build their cottages for Summer occupation, and 

 large club house will be erected for the reception of thos^ 

 who will be but transient visitors. Hon. Horatio Seymou 

 is President of the association, and the list of Director 



