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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Aran. 2, 1880. 



WILLIAM M. TILESTON. 



A WtEKLY JOURNAL, 



Devoted to Fihld and Aqtjatio Sports, Practical Nathrai 



History, Fish Cm/ruRE, the Protection of Game, Presekva- 

 tioh of Forests, and the Inculcation in Men and Women OF 

 A Healtu y Interest in Out-Door Recreation and Study ; 



PUBLISHED BY 



FOREST AND STREAM PUBLISHING COMPANY. 



NOS. 36 AND it) PAHfc BOW iTIKM I:1>ILUING),NEW YOKK. 



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NEW YORK. THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1880. 



To Correspondents. 



All communications whatever, intendedforpublieation.nrast be 



lecompanied with real name of the writer as a guaranty of good 

 faith and be addressed to Forest and Stream Publishing Com- 

 pany. Name? will not be published if objection bemade. Anony- 

 mous communications will not be regarded. 



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 brief notes of their movements and transactions. 



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 cerned. 



NOTE THE CHANGE. 



THE Fobest and Stream is now in possession of a 

 spacious suite of rooms in the Times building, Nos 

 39 and 40 Park Row. The new offices have been spe- 

 cially fitted up for its occupancy, and nothing has been 

 neglected which experience could suggest to secure for 

 ts editors and publishers the very best facilities of the 

 day for newspaper work. 



We are now in a central location, easy of access, and 

 our door is wide open to receive all our friends. We 

 had thought to celebrate the occasion by an old-fash- 

 ioned " house-wanning," to which should be gathered a 

 goodly assemblage of our contributors and readers ; but 

 deterred by the impracticability of such a sportsman's 

 convention, we are content to extend to each and all 

 who shall read these lines, severally and collectively, 

 a hearly imitation to call on us and inspect the new 

 premises. Congratulations by letter and in person are in 

 order. 



With new and belter arrangements for work, the 

 Forest AND Stream is prepared to add to its excellence 

 and usefulness, and to keep pace with the participation 

 in healthy and manly sport which is so rapidly increasing 

 throughout the country. 



We must again caution our correspondents to direct 

 all communications of every nature relating to this 

 journal to the Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 

 and not to any individual. This is an imperative rule 

 to prevent the miscarriage of letters, and to insure 

 their receipt by ourselves. 



A Commendable Action. — The Long Island Railroad 

 has issued an order (General Order No. 64) to the effect 

 that ''game, fish, dogs, and hunting and fishing tackle, 

 when in charge of the owners traveling as passengers, 

 will be carried as baggage, free of charge.'' This rem- 

 edies an abuse frequently complained of by sportsmen 

 ■who have | i nbjecb I to the extortions and incivilities 

 of employees. The new rule will serve to make this favor- 

 ite road still more popular with the sporting fraternity, 



— We again invite attention to the value and beneStof 

 our .Game and Fish Directory, of which the plan is set 

 forth in another column.. 



TO chronicle the death of one with whom we have 

 been long find pleasantly associated were at best 

 but the performance of a melancholy duty, which in the 

 present instance is rendered doubly painful because of 

 the sad attendant circumstances under which our friend, 

 William M, Tileston, lost his life. 



Upon the evening of the 21st inst, while the Madison 

 Square Garden, of this city, was thronged with visitors 

 to the Hahnemann Hospital Fair, suddenly and without 

 warning, a portion of the building crashed to the earth, 

 crushing in its fall human limbs and destroying human 

 lives. Mr. Tileston had been present, attending to busi- 

 ness connected with the coming bench show, and having 

 left the building, had stopped on the sidewalk to talk a 

 few moments— the fatal moments that cost him his life, 

 With his companion he was just turning to go, when th 

 wall above them was heard to crack, and before he 

 could obey his companion's startled exclamation to jump 

 from the sidewalk, he was caught in the falling ruins 

 and buried beneath a mass of mortar, bricks and timber. 

 Ready help was at hand ; he was extricated while still 

 conscious, and borne, at his own request, to St. Luke's 

 Hospital, where, at 4 o'clock the following morning, 

 surrounded by the members of his family and a few in- 

 timate friends, he expired. 



Mr. Tileston was born at New Rochelle, N, Y., in 1838, 

 atid came of a family prominent in mercantile life, being 

 a nephew of the well-known Thomas Tileston. Having 

 received a college education, he entered business life and 

 went to China as the representative of Oliphant & Co. 

 There he remained several years, one of the leading 

 spirits of the English and American residents, and true to 

 his tastes takiug a lively interest in the field sports of 

 the country. Many of his novel experiences here were 

 afterward embodied in entertaining sketches of sport in 

 China, contributed to the American magazines and sport- 

 ing journals. Returning to California, Mr. Tileston pur- 

 chased a ranche at Los Angelos, where he married. 

 Some of our readers may recollect the capitally written 

 sketches entitled " Santa Monica," written by him and 

 published in the Forest and Stream (Vol. III., Nos. 11, 

 12 and 18), in which were recounted the romantic circum- 

 stances of his courtship and marriage. These sketches, 

 with numerous others which he wrote from time to 

 time, attracted considerable attention, and subsequently 

 led to his assuming the position of editor of the Kennel 

 department of this journal, a position which he filled 

 with mutual satisfaction to himself and the friends of 

 the paper, until he left the Forest and Stream in June, 

 1877, to establish the Country. In October of the fol- 

 lowing year, when the. latter journal suspended publica- 

 tion, he returned to his old position on the Forest and 

 Stream, where he remained until last November, when 

 he left the journalist's profession to engage in business 

 life, and established the firm of Nixon & Tileston, 

 mining brokers, at No. 61 Broadway. 



Mr. Tileston was all his life a genuine and enthusiastic 

 sportsman. He was passionately fond of the dog, always 

 owning several valuable animals himself, and being re- 

 garded as an excellent authority on the subject. It was 

 to his energetic labors and executive ability that the 

 Westminster Kennel Club, of this city, was established, 

 and its annual bench shows of dogs conducted with such 

 success. Indeed, Mr. Tileston was the life of the Club, 

 and certainly to him belongs the credit of its exhibitions. 



In person he was tall, standing over six feet in height 

 and being well proportioned ; he was forty-two years 

 of age, and at the time of his death was in the best of 

 health and Bpirits. In social and business life an agreeable 

 companion, he had a large circle of friends and acquaint- 

 ances, who highly esteemed him for his many gentle- 

 manly qualities. He leaves a widow and four young 

 children, To his family we extend not only our own 

 sincerest sympathy, but that, as w-ell, of those who 

 knew Mr. Tileston through his connection with this 

 journal. _ . _ 



Lycoming Sportsmen's Clot.— The first year of the 

 Lycoming Sportsmen's Club of Williamsport, Pa., has 

 been marked by eminently successful labors toward pro- 

 moting the best interests of game protection. It lifts pur- 

 sued its work so energetically and so efficiently as to ren- 

 der its name a terror to the law-breaker, and the pro- 

 nounced evils which prompted its organization have be- 

 come almost wholly suppressed, The club now numbers 

 fifty members, many of whom are experts with rod and 

 gun ; is free from debt, and occupies a handsomely fur- 

 nished room. At the annual meeting, April 13th, the 

 following officers were elected for the coming year : 

 President, Hugh L. White ; Vice-President, Ed. G. Koch ; 

 Secretary, James Armstrong, and Treasurer, August 

 Koch. The following Executive Committee was 

 also elected to act with the ex-officio members there- 

 of : Messrs. G. Kent, D. P. Hobart, J. B. Emory, E. B 

 Taylor and Alex, Davidson. A series of highly compli- 

 mentary resolutions were passed, appreciative of the 

 efficient labors of the retiring officers— Messrs. H. S. 

 Lucas (President), H. Tallman (Vice-President), .1. W. P. 

 Parsons (Secretary) and August Koch (Treasurer), and of 

 the Executive Committeo. 



AN UNJUST INSINUATION. 



IN a recent issue of one of our contemporaries wo find 

 a most surprising editorial effusion on the subject of 

 field trials in general, the Eastern Field Trial Clab in 

 particular, and the breeders of dog-flesh at large. This 

 remarkable production —remarkable on account of its 

 extreme narrow mindedness and inconsistency — should 

 not be allowed to pass unnoticed. The paragraph which 

 is most fallacious in its reasoning and most unjust in its 

 insinuations is as follows : — 



One thing to be commented upon regard ng the lute liials of the 

 club, was the fact that the dogs entered and ran were, wit ti one 

 exception, the dogs hunted andowned by gentlemen sportsmen- 

 men identified with the love of a hunting dog, and not looking 

 upon a setter or a pointer as a thing, a machine, from which 

 money may be coined by cash sales. We find that the dogs ran 

 for the amusement, the pleasure, the delight, If you will, of their 

 owners, and not to gain eclat In victory to be then used as an ad- 

 vertisement for future emolument. The entries already received 

 for the coming trials of 1880, to be run at Uobiu's Island, and 

 commencing Monday, Nov. 39th, show the feature we allude to in 

 a remarkable degree. In the list of entries we give below, our 

 readers will find no long lot of entries frcm the various noted 

 kennels of the land, identified with dog-breeding as a business, 

 but instead, a dog or two from men who intend to run their doge 

 at the trials in good faith, and with the hope of winning there. 

 [n making these remarks, we have no intention of reflecting upon 

 the National American Kennel Club in any way. Wo are dosirousof 

 seeing the two clubs work harmoniously together for Ihe com- 

 mon good, and we feci assured that the Eastern Field Trials Club 

 would be the last to interfere with the National in the slightest 

 degree, unless aggression comes from the latter. There is room 

 enough for both. 



If there had been one particle of manly or honest sen- 

 timent in the above, we should not have deemed it worth 

 our trouble to go out of our way to expose the absurdi- 

 ties which it contains, for we feel that the direct slurs at 

 kennel clubs and dog-breeders will fall as harmlessly as 

 the proverbial drops on a duck's back, but we consider 

 that it is in extremely bad taste, since nearly every man 

 now-a-days, who owns a. really good animal, sells either 

 pups or stud services. The expressions in the article al- 

 luded to are inconsistent. Why does not our contempo- 

 rary find fault with the horse-breeders of the country 

 for standing their Btallions or selling colts, or with other 

 stock-breeders for making a business of breeding ? It is 

 just as legitimate and just as honorable to sell dogs as to 

 sell horses, 



Again, these slurs are in bad taste, because the men 

 by whom their author is most intimately surrounded 

 have for years traded in dogs, and the bad feature of it 

 is that they have been able to give very little for the 

 money; and as he himself has probably realized some- 

 thing for dogs and the breeding of chickens, he is evi- 

 dently not exactly in the position to throw the first 

 stone. Although we have been extremely gratified and 

 encouraged at seeing, of late, the gentleman sportsman 

 take the breaking-whip in his own hands, and make such 

 excellent records in handling as have been made at the 

 late field trials, yet we would be equally gratified to 

 see the sporting press of the country, which should be 

 looked upon as a sound and healthy authority, preach 

 less cant, and practice what is considered to be the stand- 

 ard precept of the sporting man— all that is honest, 

 manly, open and fair. 



If there is one class above another in this or any other 

 country fitted to breed stock for an emolument, it is 

 that composed of individuals who have other collateral 

 than buncombe to fall back upon, It is only the welt 

 lilled purse, in the first place, that procures the best and 

 finest stock, and that can afford the means of so keeping 

 it that its future offspring may be healthy and sound. To 

 the class of men who, for their pleasure, or for their 

 profit, have carried out this oourse, the sporting com- 

 munity here is immeasurably indebted, and especially to 

 this generation of shooting men, and those that are to 

 come, has the introduction of breeding-kennels in Amer- 

 ica been an endless boon, for it has given many a man 

 the whereby for enjoying his favorite sport to the ut- 

 most, to which his limited means would otherwise have 

 kept him a stranger. 



From the whole tone of the article it is evident that a 

 jry cut is intended for the National American Kennel 

 Club, for the writer referred to disclaims any such reflec- 

 tion before he is accused. Why he should do this, when 

 it is admitted that " there is room enough for both 

 clubs," is an enigma, and when taken into account that 

 the officers of the N. A. K. C. are this year all from the 

 East, there certainly can be no just ground for jealousy. 

 We shall make it our pleasure to aid in every way the 

 success of the Eastern Field Trials Club, but none the 

 less will our endeavors be directed in assisting the N. A. 

 K. C. in becoming what it should be — a national associ- 

 ation. As for field trial clubs, the more the merrier. 



But even were the ground taken by our contemporary 

 a just one, the list of owners submitted as being made up 

 of men who are not interested in dog breeding as a busi- 

 ness is not what it pretends to be, but on the contrary, it 

 includes several names whichhavebeforenow beensigneJ 

 to receipts for money for dog flesh or dog breaking. 

 Here it is : our readers may judge, tor themselves :— 



J. B. Goodwin, Norwich, Conn. ; J. G. Heekschei', 

 Union Club, N. Y. City ; Lincoln and ilellyar, Warren, 

 Mass. ; J. Otto Dormer, 117, Wall Street, N. Y. City ; 



