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* Mmnel. 



Sale of Dr. Goldsmith's Kennel.— Mr. W. J. Farrar, 

 of Cleveland, Ohio, writes us that he has purchased Dr. 

 Goldsmith's entire kennel, the dogs comprising Plunket, 

 Carrie, Rapp, Nell and two young red gyps by Plunket 

 from imported bitches. Mr. Farrar proposes to place 

 Plunket and Rapp at the stud, and also to establish a first- 

 class kennel. With such stock to start with he should be 

 successful. Most of our crack dogs appear to be going 

 west. Well, there is room for them there, and game to 

 work them on, and probably we will be allowed to buy a 

 young one occasionally. 



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Baltimore Doo Show. — Mr. Lincoln writes as follows: 

 At the time of writing this everything looks fair and 

 promising for the success of the show. The entries close 

 on the 20th, and as yet we cannot form any estimation of 

 the number of dogs that will be exhibited. Every arrange- 

 ment is being made for the dogs. Tbey will be exhibited 

 on raised benches, 2 feet from the ground, thus enabling 

 the public to get a good view of them. The special prizes, 

 since I last wrote you, are by- Messrs. Joseph C. Grubb & 

 Co., Philadelphia, who offer a Busey Gyro Pigeon Trap 

 for the best native setter puppy under 12 months old ; 

 Messrs. Stuart, of Baltimore, offer $20 for the best pointer 

 bitch, to be shown with not less than two of her pups. 



Yours truly* Chas. Lincoln, Supt. 



Sensation. — This splendid imported pointer, the prop- 

 erty of the Westminster Kennel Club, is indeed a sensa- 

 tion. Already a number of fine bitches have been sent to 

 him to serve; among them Dr. Webb's Whisly; Lilly, 

 owned by the St. Louis Kennel Club, and sent all the way 

 from Missouri for the purpose, and Belle, owned by C. L. 

 Austin, Esq., of Boston; the latter the handsome black 

 bitch to whom was awarded second prize at the last Spring- 

 field show. 



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— Our correspondent "Roamer" of Portland, Me., has 



had painted by Mr. W. W. Brown, of that city, portraits 



of his celebrated setters, Old Cora, Cora II and Guy. Cora 



is probably the best known dog in Portland, having been 



presented to her present owner some ten or twelve years 



since by the late Cale Loring. The portraits aie said to be 



remarkably good. By-the-bye, Mr. Brown will spend this 



winter in Washington, and gentlemen who desire to have 



their pets "preserved in oil" would do well to look him up. 

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— Mr. F. B. Farnsworth, of Paris, Ontario, writes us that 



his Laverack setter Calowitz was visited on Nov. 17th by 



Messrs. Gillman's & Lincoln's Orphina, by Pride of the 



Border, out of the Gildersleeve setter Nellie. 

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— Mr. Wm. Jarvis, of Claremont, N. H.. claims the 



name of Joe II for his orange and white setter pup, out of 



Theodore Morford's bitch May, by Glen, bred by Mr. Mor- 



ford, now the property of Col. Valentine of Hacketstown, 



N. J. 



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THE ST. LOUIS BENCH SHOW. 



Boston, Dec. 18th, 1876. 

 Editor Forest and stream :— 



Wm. F. Steel, owner of "Flake," appears to be jealous 

 that the St. Louis Kennel Club are winning so many 

 prizes at bench shows and field trials. If such is the fact, 

 it must be ihe fault of the judges. Thewellknown sports- 

 man, Mr. John Davidson, judged at St. Louis, and 1 have 

 Yet to learn that any of the exhibitors found fault either 

 with his ability or honesty; he certainly had no axe to 

 grind with the St. Louis Kennel Club, and as he has 

 usually bred and been a champion of native blood, there is 

 no good reason to suppose that he would be prejudiced in 

 favor of the St. Louis Kennel Club's blue bloods. 



I think Mr. Davidson takes too much pride in his opin- 

 ion to allow his judgment to be influenced in favor of any 

 man's ttogs, or any strain of blood, il understand he has 

 "bfeen selected to judge the sporting dogs at the coming 

 'tte.ndh Show at Baltimore. If he succeeds in satisfying 

 tlie exhibitors there, the stay-at-homes who have got such 

 fine dogs that they the^fear won't keep if they show them, 

 certainly ought not to complain, lj*. 



The judges at Memphis, Messrs. J. H /Whitman, of 

 Chicago; Edmond Orgil, of New York, and James Gordon 

 (Pious Jemes), of Mississippi, are gentlemen of too much 

 character and acknowledged ability to require any com- 

 mtjuis irom me. i » ill only say, they are all breeders of 

 natives. If those sour grapes that Mr. Steel exhibited, that 

 he had ought to have got the prize on and did not, should 

 ever sweeten, 1 hope he will come forth at shows and try 

 again; and if he should come in competition with the St. 

 Louis Kennel Club and wins, I will promise that the mem- 

 bers shall all look pleasant and bear him no malice. 

 Yours truly, Luther Adams. 



THE CENTENNIAL BENCH SHOW. 



Editor Forest and Stream: — 



New York, December 16, 1876.— In last week's number 

 of the Forest and Stream, Mr. Wm. F. Steel, under the 

 heaiiSg "The Centennial Bench Show," gives vent to his 

 feelings by attacking the judges of that wonderful show. 

 Peraaps he will feel a little better when I tell him that he 

 is not the only dissatisfied and disgusted exhibitor ; there 

 are a good many more who share his opinion. In addition 

 to the facts he mentions it seemed also that it was not only 

 necessary to have a dog with a thick hide but that the dog 

 must have the size of a four-months old calf in order to be 

 entitled to a prize. Can you tell me how it came that Mr. 

 Colburn's Sank was awarded a premium by the Centennial 

 judges, when that dog was hunting chickens on the prairies 

 at the time of the exhibition ? What kind of glasses did 

 the judges use '? They must have been very strong. Let 

 us hope that the gentlemen who have the courage to send 

 heir dogs to JSalunaore wi|l fare better %h%$ those w|ia 



were ir foolish "enough to send theirs to Philadelphia. * I 

 trust, also, that Mr. Lincoln will see that the dogs in- 

 trusted to his care in Baltimore, are fed and not starved or 

 left to the charity of chance visitors as ours were in Phila- 

 delphia. Can't you get up a Bench Show next spring to be 

 held in New York ? Yours truly, Pharree. 



RAILWAY 



EXTORTIONS IN 

 CAROLINA. 



NORTH 



New York, December 19th. 

 Editor Forest and Stream:— 



Having recently returned frnm a hunting and shooting 

 trip to North Carolina, where I have suffered pecumanly 

 at the hands of railway companies, I desire to call the at- 

 tention of sportsmen to the extortions attending a trip 

 south if accompanied by dogs. And what is the worst 

 feature in most cases the fee exacted goes to the company, 

 and is not a perquisite of the baggageman as in other lo- 

 calities. 



From Wilmington to Flemington, N. C, a distance of 

 thirty miles, $5 was demanded by the agent in charge of 

 the express and baggage car, if my brace of dogs was per- 

 mitted to travel in his company, but fearing the contami- 

 nation of his society might not prove beneficial to my set- 

 ters, I refused to pay the charge, and was ordered to the sec 

 ond class car with my pets, though I held a first class 

 ticket. 



The above agent acted for the Southern Express Co., 

 and I trust soon to learn if such charges are authorize d by 

 the company, or if it wai a private venture or the enter- 

 prising agent. On my return to Wilmington from Flem- 

 ington a few days later, I was obliged to pay $2 on my 

 brace, though my own fare was but $1.35. I remonstra 

 ted with the conductor, but as he produced an order from 

 the superintendent of the road instructing him to make 

 such a charge, I had but to pay and look pleasant. 



Gentlemen g-oins south with dogs should not fail to go 

 by the Weldon & Wilmington Railroad, over whose line 

 every courtesy will be extended to sportsmen, and the ex- 

 pense of transporting dogs will equal, if not exceed, the 

 cost of a first class passenger ticket. From Wilmington to 

 Weldon I was obliged to pay $6 to the conductor for my 

 dogs' transportation in the baggage car. 



The expense on my brace attending the journey from 

 New Y T ork to Flemington and back amounted to between 

 $30 and $40. Ra her hard on a poor sportsman. Don't 

 you think so, Mr. Editor? I can ouly interpret such ex- 

 tortion by the railway companies as an evidence that the 

 patronage of sportsmen is not desired (great corporations 

 can never be called short-sighted) for surely they could not 

 adopt a more effective plan to drive this portion of the 

 traveling public from their roads. 



My experience only extended to North Carolina, but I 

 have been told that on the roads further south it is still 

 more expensive traveling with dogs. Will not the sporting 

 journals stir the matter up a little, and see if something 

 cannot be done to relieve the traveling sportsman? 



H. N. M. 



[This letter of our correspondent shows a condition of 

 affairs in North Carolina strangely in contrast with that 

 existing elsewhere. Only last week we printed an order 

 issued by the authorities of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 

 Paul Railway, directing their employes to transport pass- 

 enger's dogs and guns without fee or compensation. A 

 policy shaped on a somewhat similar liberal scale would 

 result much to the benefit of the roads over which our 

 correspondent traveled. Because sportsmen are a liberal 

 and free-handed class it is none the less an outrage to 

 practice extortion upon them, and the road upon which it 

 is allowed will soon find itself minus a very paying share 

 of its patronage. — Ed.] 



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Some Reasons Why One Should Keep a Dog.— In 

 the first place they belong to no sect, creed or party. 

 They neither smoke, drink rum, chew tobacco, swear, 

 tattle, gossip or lie. They are protectors to life and prop 

 erty, faithful servants, seldom" teach a bad example, I 

 might say never unless first shown by a human. Their 

 sagacity puts human intelligence at a discount often ; their 

 patience and endurance might teach us many a lesson. If a 

 person has ever been frightened by one it is hard to out- 

 grow the feeling, but otherwise 1 always consider the 

 "make-up" of any person seriously defective who cannot 

 endure them. Lastly take them where you will 7 times 

 out of 10 their deportment is far more fit for society than 

 many of their masters, called superiors, who own them . 



Salem, Dec. 18th. "Teal." 



The Dog with the Periwig.— In the British Sporting 

 Magazine, published in London in 1796, we find the follow- 

 ing extraordinary anecdote, which is associated with a per- 

 formance of the celebrated actor, the late Mr. Garrick, in 

 the early part of his life. It has been said that man is the 

 only animal that laughs, but though dogs may not abso- 

 lutely laugh, they are sometimes like Falstaff, the cause of 

 laughter in others: 



"One very sultry evening in the dog day's, he performed 

 the part of Lear; in the four first acts he received the cus- 

 tomary tribute of appearance. At the conclusion of the 

 fifth, when he crept over the body of Cordelia, every eye 

 caught the soft infection. At this interesting moment, to 

 the astonishment of all present, his face assumed a new 

 character, and his whole frame appearid agitated by a 

 new passion; it was not tragic, for he was evidently 

 endeavoring to suppress a laugh, in a few seconds, the 

 attendant nobles appeared to be affected in the same 

 manner, and the beauteous Cordelia, who was reclining 

 upon a crimson couch, opened her eyes to see what oc- 

 casioned the interruption, leaped from her sofa, and, with 

 the Majesty of England, the gallant A ibeeny, and tough old 

 Kent, ran laughing off the stage. The audience could not 

 account for this strange termination of a tragedy in any 

 other way than by supposing the dramatis personal were 

 seized with a sudden frenzy, but their risibility had a 

 different source. A fat, Whitechapel butcher, seated on 

 the center of the front bench in the pit, was accompauied 

 by his mastiff, who being accustomed to sit on the same 

 seat with his master at home, naturally supposed he might 

 esjoy the like privilege here. The butcher sat way back, 

 and the quadruped finding a fair opening, got upon the 

 benph, and filing &js fore paws on the yajl of the orel^t ra ? 



peerea* f at the performer with as upright a head and as 

 grave an air as the most sagacious critic of his day. Our 

 corpulent "slaughter man" was made of melting stuff, and 

 not being accustomed to a play-house heat, found himself 

 much oppressed by the weight of a large and well powdered 

 Sunday periwig, which for the gratification of cooling and 

 wiping his head, he pulled off and placed on the head of 

 his_ mastiff! The dog being in so conspicuous, so obtrusive 

 a situation, caught the eye of Mr. Garrick and the other 

 performers. A mastiff in a church-warden's wig, (for the 

 butcher was a parish officer) was too much. It would 

 have provoked laughter in Lear himself at the moment he 

 was most distressed. No wonder, then, that it had the 

 effect on his representative." 



MVtt 



FISH IN SEASON IN DECEMBER. 



SOUTHERN WATERS 



Pompano, Trachynotus carolinus. Grouper. Epinaphelpus ni gritus . 

 Drum— two species. Family Scicen- Trout (black ba=s) Centroplstris at- 



idee. rarius. 



Kingfish, Menticirrus nebulosus . Striped bass or Rockfish, Boccus 

 Sea Bass, Sckenops oceUatus. lineaius. 



SheepsHead, Archotargus probato- T-,i : lorftsh, Pomatmim saltatrix. 



cep/ialub. Black Bass, Micropterus salmoides; 



Snapper, Lutjanus caxxs. if. nigricans. 



Fish in Market.— Our quotations show hut little 

 change from those of last week. Striped hass are worlh 

 25 cents per pound; smelts, 25 cents; bluefish, 15 cents; 

 salmon (frozen), 40 cents; mackerel, 25 cents each; 

 shad (southern), $1 each; white perch, 18 cents per 

 pound; green turtle, 20 cents; terrapin, $12 to |30 per 

 dozen; frostfish, 8 cents per pound; halibut, 22 cents; had- 

 dock, 8cents; codfish, lOcents; blaekfish, 15 cents; herring, 

 10 cents; flounders, 12£ cents; eels, 18 cents; lobsters, 10 

 cents; sheepshead, 25 cents; scollops, $1.50 per gallon; 

 whitefish, 20 cents per pound; pickerel, 18 cents; salmon 

 trout, 18 cents; red snapper, 18 cents; ciscoes, 12£ cents; 

 hard shell crabs, $3.50 per 100; soft shell crabs (rock), $ 1 

 per dozen. 



-~A mullet 30 inches long, and weighing 10£ pounds 

 was caught at Mayport, nea^ the mouth of the St. John's 

 river, Fia., last week. It i3 the" largest known in that sec- 

 tion . 



— A fortnight ago we replied affirmatively to a corres- 

 pondent who inquired if lake trout ever took the fly in the 

 Nepigon river, north shore of Lake Superior, Canada. 

 The following is an incident in point occurring in our in- 

 dividual experience: — 



In the Niagara like current that sweeps over the ledges 

 that occur in the Nepigon at intervals of two or three 

 miles, there is ample work for a bamboo salmon rod, and 

 there are laurels for success. Once, in playing a brook 

 trout in an eddy filled with debris and floating trees forty 

 feet long, that regularly made the circuit of the swirl cre- 

 ated by tha back water from a projecting point of rock, 

 we hooked a lake trout of 12 pounds, our two or three- 

 pound fontinalis totally disappearing down his gullet. 

 Both fish were fast enough (to the single gut leader) but 

 you can imagine the situation. For play-room for hand- 

 ling our fish we had choice only between the impetuous 

 mill race and the quiet water of the eddy with its tangle 

 of roots, trunks and branches. Well, we gave the two 

 Hesperians line down the chute — and a square butt when 

 they swung into the eddy again; our three Indians mean- 

 while pushing with poles at the raft of rubbish to keep it 

 clear of the line, and endeavoring to shove it down stream 

 Out on the tide the whole mass would go, careering like a 

 bob-sawyer on a crevasse, and we would fancy we had 

 lost sight of it altogether, when the reflux would catch it 

 again and listlessly drift it back to the pool. We all had 

 as much as we could do— the fish, the Indians, and the ang- 

 ler; and although we finally triumphed over the whole 

 combination of opposing forces, our victory was qualified 

 by the fact that the poor fontinalis, who was engulfed in 

 the deep throat of the lake trout, had had no show what- 

 ever for displaying his pluck. No doubt he would have 

 made a good fight and acquitted himself with eredit and 

 honor to his race and species; but all he could do under the 

 circumstances was to remain passive and be ignominiously 

 disgorged when the united victims came to the gaff. 

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LAMDING A PIKE. 



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Editor Forest and Stream:— 



THE "Black Maria," heroine of a season of signal con- 

 quests, lies lost to sight, though to memory dear, on 

 the banks of the shrouded shenango; our run chubs and 

 silver-sides are packed away in ice; the bouncing bamboo 

 rests on its winter pegs, and the noisesome reel is locked, 

 Memnon-like, until the warm breath of spring throws its 

 music out again. So what can we do but sit by the ingle 

 side and fight our battles over again— and read Forest and 

 Stream ? 



We have lately had the supreme satisfaction of landing 

 a real old Esox lucius, a fifteen-pound pike. There can be 

 no mistake about his (or rather her identity, for it was of 

 the latter gender). It answered your description of green 

 and gold completely. And this grand piscatorial achieve- 

 ment very properly closed the season for us. As intimated 

 above, the fish was of the feminine persuasion, and was 

 found to contain a hatful of eggs, which leads us to im- 

 agine if the Esox family spawn oftener than once a year, 

 or would this member have retained her eggs ' until next 

 spring before depositing them? It seems like a murder of 

 the innocents to destroy these thousands of embryo sov- 

 ereigns, but such is the fate of war. 



A circumstance worthy of remark attended this catch. 

 The water was very muddy at the time, which had the 

 effect of demolishing an old-time local theory, that pike 

 ivould not, bite with Ihe water in4hat condition. We sup- 



