THE AMERICAN SPORTSMAN^S JOURNAL. 



[Entered AooOrdlng to Act of Con(creaa, in the year 1879, by the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, in the Office of the Ubrarlau of Congresa, at Washington 



NEW YORK, THURSDAY, SEPT. 30, 1880. 



CONTENTS. 



Editokiai.:— 

 Game and Fish Protectors of New York ; Work on the Sus- 

 pi'DSiou Brlrtg-e ; Evading Detonation ; Devil liaheB ; 

 Shootiiiif for aStake; Deep Sea Dredging 163 



The Sportsman Tourist :— 

 Tim Pond; All Around Notes 185 



NATtJBAI. HiSl'ORT:— 



Food of Owls and Garpike; California Fishes ; The Hearing 

 of Fishes; Breeding Quail in Conflnemont 166 



FrsH Cniavnts :— 

 Fishwtiys and New York Laws Thereon j The Pound Net 

 Law; Dr. Garlick's Book; How the First Sliad were 

 Hatohed ; Flrct Decade of the U. S. Pish Commission; 

 Miiukurcl Far South 168 



8ba AuVo Kivkk Fishing :— 

 TheAl.jwilf inFresb Water; Black Bass in Florida; Don't 

 CaiL- About Fisbinfr; Verinoot Fiebiujr; Maine Notes; 

 HucklHiluiK for Bbick Ba^s; Big Buss for a Snake; St. 

 ClulrFlata; WealiHshuiK ; An Eight and a Quarter Pound 

 Tloul; The Redding Trout Fly; Five Millions of Fish- 

 hooks... 187 



Trouting Excursion to Nicholas County, West Virginia 175 



Menhaden Mo vements— A New Theory ... , 178 



Game Bag and G0n :— 



A Couirast; Echoes of the"Dlttmar Sporting Powder:" 

 Dog Poisoning in Minnesota; Minnesota Field Trials; All 

 About Wild Hice; Wild Rico from Hice Lake; A Compan- 

 ion of Forester; Powder Measure; Our Detroit Letter; 

 Judith Basin; A Pistol Attaohmeni; Notes; Shooting 

 Matches J67 



The Kennel :— 



The Inleruational Colley Trials; Dog Breaking; Pennsyl- 

 ruriia Field Trials; Mr. J. E. Robinson on Laveracks; 

 Itockaway Hunts; Imported Dogs ; Kennel Notes 170 



I'HK Hifle; — 

 The Bust on Record ; Range and Gallery. 173 



AnoaisBy :— 



The Waverly Tournament 173 



Ckioket :— 

 Canada vn. United States ; Association Matches ; Matches and 



NewsNotes 173 



rACHTINO AND C.iKOEINO :— 



The Anthracite Again; Sunbeam-Gem; The Cutter Rig 

 Gainiuff; Brooklyn Yacht Club; A Challenjre from the 

 Delaware : The Kramer Challenge Cup ; Cleveland Yacht- 

 ing Association ; Cedar Canoes: Yacluing News 174 



AN8WB«8 TO COHRESPONDKNTS 178 



PtJBUSHEKa' Depahtmbnt 170 



I^i/r advertising rales, instructions to correspondents, 

 etc., see prospectus at end of reading matter. 



F 



S 



OREST0)OTREAM 



NEW YOEK, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1880. 



Hunting Cap.s. — During a recent visit to Chicago we 

 were kindly allowed to make a thorough inspection of 

 the hunting car Davy Crockett, owned by the PuUmau 

 Palaoe Car Company. The car is a full-sized palace car, 

 1 1 a kitchen on one end, with refrigerator, a large range 

 ' supplied with all the paraphernalia a first-class cook 

 \\ iniiil need ; next to tlie kitchen is a room for the stew- 

 ards, witli carving tables, etc., and so arranged that 

 wl.eii the table is folded up two good berths are made for 

 the occupants. Next are four full sections, two on either 

 side of the car, then comes the Sitting-room in the center 

 of the car, with extension dining-table, which can also 

 be used as a card-table for evening amusement. There 

 are a dozen large easy chairs, all well arranged for com- 

 fort. Next are four more sections, which, with four 

 berths that can be made up in the sitting room, gives 

 good sleeping accomodation for twelve persona. In the 

 other end of the car are kennels for eighteen dogs, nicely 

 carpeted and in good order. A gun room, private locker, 

 '.vas-h-room, etc. The car is well equipped with buckets 

 (or watering dogs, washing guns, minnow pails, and in 

 lait every requisite for hunting or fishing. There are 

 large refrigerators of the most approved pattern,for keep- 

 ing; game, underneath the car, and it may well be called 

 a sportsman's club-house on wheels. The price for using 

 the car is §85 a day, equipped with a cook aud two 

 stewards. The car had just come in from a Western trip, 

 and the companion car, "Isaac Walton," is now on the 

 road. Special rates can be made for hauling the car over 

 any road, 



GAME AND FISH PROTECTORS OF NEW 

 YORK. 



A FEW weeks ago we noticed the passage of a bill by 

 the New York Legislature authorizing the Gov- 

 ernor to appoint eight persons, to be known as game and 

 fish protectors, whose duty it should be to enforce the 

 statutes for the preservation of the objects named, and 

 to bring action against all persons found violating the 

 laws relating thereto. These protectors were to hold 

 office for the period of three years, and were to receive a 

 salary of §500, and traveling expenses not to exceed $'.!oO. 

 This biU was approved by the Governor, and was favor- 

 abl}' commented upon by the press generally as the pos- 

 sible beginning of a new order of things creating paid 

 officers, who had no share in the tines or interest further 

 than to do their duties, which, if done conscientiously 

 and without fear, would be a stride in advance of any- 

 thing yet proposed to advance the ends aimed at. 



In our opinion, one fault in the bUl, otherwise so care- 

 fully framed by ilr. John E. Develin, was that it did not 

 provide for the proper distribution of these officers 

 throughout the State, but left them to be selected at 

 large, which might probably have resulted in their all 

 being appointed from one county had there been politi- 

 cal pressure enough in one direction ; and as the salary 

 is not large enough to enable a man of the right sort to 

 devote his whole time to it, it is evident that his location 

 becomes a matter of primary importance. The follow- 

 ing are the persons appointed and their places of resi- 

 dence, or address : — 



8. V. R. Brayton, 59 Division street, Albany, N. Y. 



John Jessup, Hudson, Columbia County. 



Sylvester J. Palmer, Indian Lake, Hamilton County. 



John Liberty, Elizabethtown, Essex County. 



Daniel B. Horton, Ithaca, Tompkins Coimty. 



G. M, Schwartz, Rochester, Monroe County. 



William P. Dodge, Prospect, Oneida County. 



John I. CoUett, Cobleskill, Schoharie County. 



This distribution will strike the studen t of game protec- 

 tion as a very poor one, leaving the markets of Naw York 

 aud the whole of Long Island, the hoTne of the poacher 

 and trout thief, wholly alone, with no nearer protector 

 than Hudson, Columbia Coimty. Albany and Schoharie 

 counties, adjoining each other, eajh have a protector, 

 and there are not two counties in the State which are as 

 poor in game and fish. Hamdton and Essex, two ad- 

 joining counties in the wilderness, have each one, and 

 while there is game and fish in plenty in them, the pros- 

 pect of accomplishing much in the way of protecting by 

 this means is not great while the market is open. We 

 believe in closing the market, and the poacher's occupa- 

 tion is gone. The few trout or deer killed out of season 

 by persons living in the woods amount to nothing beside 

 those slaughtered by the market shooter wlio forestalls 

 the season, if indeed it is desirable to prosecute the guide 

 or -woodsman who kills merely for his own wants. De- 

 stroy the market, and the inducement to violate the law 

 is destroyed. New York City is the great market, aud if 

 two protectors had been stationed in it they would have 

 accomplished as much as it is possible for the other six 

 to do ; their known presence would be a check upon 

 dealers disposed to turn a dollar by an illegal sale. 



Few people in the interior of the State have an idea of 

 the great amount of shooting done on Long Island, or of 

 its fishing interests, while all who are conversant with 

 the markets are aware that the new ten inch lobster and 

 half pound striped bass laws need constant supervision 

 as well as trout, woodcock, snipe, etc., with which the 

 island abounds ; but it iS the curse of the service that all 

 appointments "with money in" are made by politicians 

 for political ends, and the man with the best backing, 

 politically, gets the place. We know nothing of the 

 character of those appointed, and hope they may be 

 made of the proper stuff to do their duties without fear 

 or favor, but, as we have said, their geographical distri- 

 bution is about as bad as it could be, Rochester being the 

 only market of any importance which needs watching, 

 that point being one of importance, as well as the fish- 

 eries near by ; but Buffalo is also an important district, 



with Rochester as the nearest station of a protector. 



We will watch closely the result of the new law, and 

 hope to find much in it to approve, as under the old sys- 

 tem the clause giving half the flues to the informer laid 

 the latter under the suspicion of mercenary motives, a 

 thing most distasteful to many, wlio \vill now have no 

 hesitation in calling the attention of the nearest protec- 

 tor to any violations of the law which he, as a salaried 

 officer, is botmd to take cognizance of and prosecute. 



WORK ON THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE. 



ONE of the most wonderful structures of mechanism 

 has recently been accomplished on the Suspension 

 Bridge at Niagara Falls, which was opened for traffic in 

 1855, having a span 831 feet 4 inches from center to cen- 

 ter of the tower on either side of the river. It was at 

 that time considered a marvelous piece of work, and 

 many doubts were entertained as to the durability or 

 permanence of the structure. During its immense length 

 it had a railway for trains, bound West or East, on the 

 top of the structure, and a good roadway for carriages, 

 wagons, etc., underneath. The bridge was a suspension 

 bridge, and the truss system was purely a combination 

 of wood and iron, and has been in constant use for the 

 past twenty -five years without any accident or breakage 

 of consequence, In March, of 1877, there was an inspec- 

 tion of the four cables, each measuring 10 inches in di- 

 ameter and containing 3,640 wires, the diameter of each 

 wire being a scant No. 9 gauge. The inspection first 

 made was at the strands where they they join the an- 

 chor chains, which were imbedded in masonry at either 

 end, and a few of the outside wires were found to be cor- 

 I'oded. The corroded wires were cut out at once, and 

 new wires supplied in their places. The portion of the 

 cables where they passed over the towers were found in- 

 tact. 



The commission of engineers making this examination 

 reported that the cables were sound, but that in their 

 opinion the anchor chains were not as strong as the 

 cables, and advised the reinforcement of anchorages and 

 chains. The following faU the work of the reinforce- 

 ment was commenced, and finished the following year. 

 The new chains were connected to the cable and a per- 

 manent stress of 1,000 tons applieil to each end of the 

 bridge, relieving the old anchorage of that amount. The 

 Board of Directors, in March. 1870, decided to renew the 

 truss system with iron and steel. The contract was let 

 to the Pittsburg Bridge Co. to furnish the metal upon the 

 plans offered aud adopted by Mr. L. L. Buck, of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, who has the entu-e charge of the work. 

 The delivery of the material began in Sejitember, 1879, 

 and ended in April, 1880. The erection of the works be- 

 gan on the 39th of May, 1850, and will be completed by 

 Sept. loth, 1880. Thanks to skillful engineering on Mr. 

 Buck's part of the programme, the work has gone on 

 very successfully, without any obstruction to passenger 

 trains, and hardly a vestige of the old woodwork of the 

 bridge remains. No one who has crossed the bridge 

 knows of the changes, but they have been made quietly 

 and systematically. 



The woodwork removed relieves the bridge of at least 

 100 tons in weight : aside from that, it largely increases 

 the carrying capacity, as well as the safety of the bridge, 

 by giving a uniform strength unsurpassed, as well as a 

 structure that can be viewed with pride by any Ameri- 

 can citizen. The bridge, when completed, will be painted 

 a pure white, and look more like a cobweb than a struc- 

 ture that will caiTy thousands of tons. 



Dr. Henshall.— Dr. J. A. Henshall has removed 

 from Cynthiana, Ky., to Cincinnati, Ohio, where his ad- 

 dress hereafter will be, No, 100 West Seventh street. 



PHlLADELPHlAKESN^LGLtTB.— Early in the season of 

 next year the Philadelphia Kennel Club proposes to hold 

 its second Bench Show of dogs. The exliibition will 

 be held in the Permanent Exhibition BuUdmg, at West 

 Philadelphia, and, in connection with the show, coUey 

 and water trials are being talked of. 



