FOREST AND STEEAM. 



INITIATING AN IMPORTANT MOVE- 

 MENT. 



A WEEKLY JOURNAL, 



Devoted to Field and Aquatic Stouts, Practical NatuhalHistorv, 

 jribhctti.tckr, the protection ok game, preservation of forests, 

 and the lnculoation in men and women op a healthy ints 

 in Oct-Door Recreation and Study: 



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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1877. 



To Oorx^eBpoxidents. 



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 companied with real name of the writer as a guaranty of good faith, 

 and be addressed to the Forest and Stream Publishing Company. 

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f&~ Trade supplied by American News Company. 

 CHARI.ES IIAIiliOCK, Editor. 



T. C. BANKS, S. H. TURRILL, Chicago, 



Business Manager. Western Manager. 



CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE COMING 

 WEEK. 



Friday, Oct. 5.— Trotting: Syracuse, N. Y.; Manhattan, Kan.; Cleve- 

 land, O.; Loudonville, O.; Danbury, Conn. Base ball : Cincinnati vs. 

 St. Louis, at Louisville ; Louisville vs. Chicago, at Chicago ; Cricket vs. 

 Rochester, at Rochester ; Chelsea vs. Alaska, at Jersey City ; Lowell 

 vs. Boston, at Brockton, Mass.; Excelsior vs. Brooklyn, at Williams- 

 burg. 



Saturday, Oct. 6.-Trotting: Danbury, Conn. Base ball : Cincinnati 

 vs. St. Louis, at. St. Louis ; Lowell vs. Manchester, at Lowell, Mass.; 

 Syracuse Stars vs. Auburn, at Rochester. Cricket match of veterans, 

 Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Boston Union Athletic Club games on Bos- 

 ton base ball grounds. 



Monday, Oct. 8.— Base ball: Louisville vs. Mutual, at Janesville, Wis. 



Tuesday, Oct. 9.— Trotting: PoughKeepSie, N. Y.; Frederick, Md.: 

 Leavenworth, Kan.; Columbus, O.; Beacon Park, Boston. Base ball: 

 Louisville vs. Mutual, at Janesville, Wis. 



Wednesday, Oct. 10.— Trotting as above. Base ball : Louisville vs. 

 Milwaukee, at Milwaukee, Wis. Pall meeting of the Dartmouth Ath- 

 letic Association, Hanover, N. H. 



Thursday, Oct. 11.— Trotting as above. Meeting of Dartmouth Ath- 

 letic Association as above. ^ 



The British Team.— We have the pleasure of presenting 

 our readers this week with correct portraits of the British 

 Team the descriptions of which will be found in another col- 

 umn. ' The photographs of the American Team are now in the 

 hands of the engravers, and the portraits will appear in a sub- 

 sequent issue. __^__ 



Acknowledgments.— We acknowledge, with thanks, the 

 receipt of numerous invitations to attend agricultural exhibi- 

 tions, very few of which it is in our power to accept ; we 

 wish them all success. ^ __^ 



Hal lock.' b Sportsman's Gazetteer.— Mr. Robert Ormsby 

 Sweeny, Fish Commissioner of Minnesota, says: " I am the 

 happy recipient of ' The Sportsman's Gazetteer.' To begin 

 at the beginning, I think the portrait of the author is remark- 

 ably correct, and when I look upon the counterfeit present- 

 meat it seems to me uncommon fair. The contents of the volume 

 as far as my cursory examination warrants a judgment, are 

 very interesting, useful and valuable. It gives much informa- 

 tion which heretofore was only to be had upon considerable 

 research among many authors, necessitating outlay of time, 

 labor and money, three ingredients of this life not always tit 

 one's disposal simultaneously. " 



V\7E are well aware of the efforts that have been made by 

 V V individual railway corporations and local agents of 

 Express companies, during the past two years or so, to prevent 

 the transportation . of game over their lines during the close 

 seasons, but we believe that the Adams Express Company is 

 the only corporation that has publicly promulgated rules to 

 govern its employees in accordance with the State enactments 

 or the dictates of that policy which perceives the necessity of 

 proper restrictions at certain seasons to prevent the extermi- 

 nation of our game. Below will be found a printed copy of 

 an order just issued from the office of the Manager and Super- 

 intendent of this company at Bridgeport, Connecticut, which 

 other Express and Railway companies would do well to imi- 

 tate at once, so that the object of the laws and the aims of our 

 game associations and their supporters may be carried out 

 through that co-operation and harmony of action which is re- 

 quired to insure success. 



We are glad that so powerful an organization as Adams 

 Express Company has been moved to take the initiative in this 

 matter at so opportune a time as the present. Laws and pro- 

 tective societies are comparatively useless while transportation 

 companies clandestinely cany illict game under false labels, 

 and thereby encourage the killing of game out of season by 

 providing a market for it. We have seen our Western pinnated 

 grouse or prairie chickens sent to England by the steamer load, 

 and our ruffed grouse brought from New England localities to 

 Boston, New York and Philadelphia markets by the thousand 

 packages ; woodcock sold at our Saratoga hotels, and our 

 highest public officials who are the sworn conservators of the 

 laws, partaking of illicit dainties with a gusto and relish which 

 would hardly seem to pertain to a palate conscious of wrong- 

 doing. This will be put a stop to in future if the action of 

 Adams is sustained throughout the country. We think the 

 true key to the solution of a difficult problem has been reached 

 herewith. While no better measure was devised — or rather 

 adopted — we were inclined to encourage the maintenance of 

 those State laws which forbade the carrying of game out of 

 the State wherein it was killed at any time of the year what- 

 ever, although they were arbitrary and discriminating ; they 

 prevented all the States of the Union enjoying alike the deli- 

 cate morceattx of quail on toast, partridge roasted, or prairie 

 fowl en fricassee. Why should the people of Iowa and Kan- 

 sas be alone permitted to enjoy those luxuries which other 

 States are 'willing to pay a high tariff to secure for them- 

 selves also ? This is a question that has been asked with proper 

 seriousness by the most thoughtful minds. 



Toothsome as these viands are, and careful students as we 

 have been of the science and pleasures of gastronomy, we 

 have, nevertheless, been willing as law-abiding citizens, to 

 journey to Iowa and eat our chickens on the spot where they 

 were shot, at great expense of purse and tear of travel, in 

 order that the desired results of restrictive measures might 

 accrue. We have submitted to behests which wisdom com- 

 pelled the folly of wanton waste and senseless destruction to 

 submit to. Now, however, with the action of all the carry- 

 ing companies combined, such odious laws would become no 

 longer neccessary. A call for their abrogation is in order just 

 so soon as such measures shall be thoroughly and capably 

 carried out. 



All honor is due the A/lams for [initiating'this movement, 

 and if they shall preadventure be the means of giving us an 

 epicurian diet in future, instead of the sour, emaciated and un- 

 healthy food which we can only obtain by stealth when its use 

 is forbidden, then all the world of Eaters will rise up and 

 call them blessed. 



"As in Adam's fall 

 We sinned all," 

 so in the uprising of their well-doing let us all find grace, 

 mercy, peace of conscience and grateful , abundance- 



Adam's Express Co., New Eng. Div. ~\ 



Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 20, 1877. - 



Office of Manager and Superintendent. ) 



The attention of employees is called to the subjoined extracts 

 from the game laws of Connecticut, and they are hereby noti- 

 fied that a strict compliance with said laws on the part of this 

 Company will be exacted. C. .Spooner, 



Manager and Superintendent. 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in 

 Qeneral Assembly convened: 

 Sec. 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to hunt or 

 pursue, kill, destroy, or attempt to kill, woodcock, quail, or any ruffed 

 grouse (commonly called partridge) between the first day of January 

 and the first day of October in each and every year. And every person 

 so offending shall, for each and every offense (the killing or destroying 

 or having in possession of each bird shall be deemed a separate offense) 

 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined 

 not more than twenty-five dollars for each and every bird killed, and 

 costs Of suit, and shall stand committed to the county jail until such 

 fine is paid ; provided that such imprisonment shall not exceed twenty- 

 five days for each and every offense above named. 



Sec. 4. No person or persons, or transportation companies shall buy, 

 sell, or expose for sale, or have in his or their possession, for the pur- 

 pose of selling or exposing'for sale, or for transportation, or for any pur- 

 pose, any of the birds mentioned in section one of this act, during the 

 period in which it shall be unlawful to HIlsuOll funis; and any person 

 or persons So offending shall, on conviction, be tilled and dcaJl 

 specified iu section one of this act. 



Seel. No person shall catch any brook trout, except with a hook 

 and line, nor sell, expose for sale, purchase, catch, or have any trout oi 

 his possession, except from the fifteenth day of April to the first day of 

 July ; provided, that any person may rake trout in waters owned by 



him, for the purpose of stocking other waters, or take and sell any 

 trout reared in such waters. 



Sec 2 provides a penalty of not less than three nor more than fifty 

 dollars, or imprisonment in jail not exceeding thirty days, or both. 



" Fauna Bokealis."— In one of Mr. Hallock's recent Hunt- 

 ing Notes from Minnesota, while in company with John 

 Swainson, Esq., of St. Paul, who is recoguized everywhere 

 as a naturalist of no mean abilities, he mentioned Mr. Swaln- 

 son incidentally as being the joint author with Richardson of 

 " Richardson and Swainson's Fa.una Ronrdis." The state- 

 ment was made under a false impression, and we herewith 

 hasten to apologize for having inadvertently hurt the honor- 

 able sensibilities of Mr. Swainson or done injustice to the gen- 

 tlemen whose name his own was connected with. Wc take 

 the liberty to publish the following private letter as the best 

 vindication which we can offer in our own or Mr. Swainson's- 

 behalf: 



St. Paul, Minn., Sept, 27, 

 Editor Eobbst and Stkeam and Rod and Sun: 



In your last issue there is a mistake which I am very anxious to have 

 corrected at your earliest opportunity. Mr. Halloek, In his description 

 of our grouse hunt at Madelia, and of your very humble servant, has 

 put me down as " the joint author with Mr. liichardsoa of Famia Sore- 

 alts," After writing the article in question, and probably mailing u r 

 Mr. Halloek, in the presence of Mr. Wfrner, asked me whether I had' 

 not written the work iu question, to which I emphatically answered, 

 Vo. He probably afterward forgot all about it. This places me in a 

 rather unpleasant position, as anybody seeing the statement, which ap- 

 parently was written while Mr. H. was in my company, would naturally 

 come to the conclusion that his information in regard to the authorship 

 of "Fauna Borealis" came from me, and thus be very apt; to put me 

 down as an imposter. If there is any weakness I carefully tried to 

 avoid in the whole course of my life it is to shine yvith borrowed plu- 

 mage. Please put this matter in the right, and oblige very much 



Yours respectfully, John swainson. 

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—We are indebted to Brother Rowe, of the Chicago Field, 

 for very courteous attention shown us during our brief visit 

 in Chicago, a week ago, while on our return from a visit to 

 the farther West. 



—Mr. Fred Mather will sail for Germany, October 13, per 

 steamer Mosel. He takes out a few SaktyO quinnat eggs i or 

 Frank Buckland, of the United Kingdom Fishery Commis- 

 sion, for the Soeiete d' Acclimatization, Paris, for the Prussian 

 Minister of Agriculture, for Honingin, and for the Deutselie 

 Fitcherie Vereki, and also a number for the Netherlands. Mr. 

 Mather's principal object is, however, the study of the chief 

 Aquaria of Europe, their construction and management,, with 

 a view to future application in the United States. 

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Beau With Us.— Here is one of those incidents which a 

 sporting editor becomes heir to by virtue of his profession. 

 Read this message which was sent us but recently : 



Butternut Cheek, Wis., Sept. 29, istt. 

 Editors Forest and Stream— Sent yesterday by express a bear, and to- 

 day a cub, both killed on the town plot ; plenty more here. 



IlART & BARNADGK. 



In view of the foregoing it becomes us to ask " What's 

 brewin' now?" Why this premeditated invasion of our sanc- 

 tum by the shaggy denizens of Butternut Creek ? Times have 

 been bad with us, but now they promise to grow ursa and nr- 

 sa ! We can hardly be blamed, however, as we have never 

 played for high steaks. "For-bear"is always our motto, 

 though we do not intend that our exchequer shall be entirely 

 bare at any time. If our friends Messrs. Hart & Barnadge 

 have really instigated this raid upon us, or if the officers of 

 the Wisconsin Central Railway are their abettors in the mat- 

 ter, we will try and practice this virtue of forbearance. We 

 can only say that if bears are common on their town plot we 

 are equally well off here ; and if they will only come to New 

 York we will show them the lions of this place. We await 

 the arrival of the express -with equanimity. 



GAME PROTECTION. 



Cohheotiodt— Hartford, Sept. 21.— We have been unfor- 

 tunate in this State, until the present year, in havmg statutes 

 that were so worded that they could not be enforced ; but, by 

 earnest efforts, we have at last succeeded in securing what. I 

 believe to be the best law now in force in any New England 

 State — first, because it makes the season open on the same clay 

 for quail, partridge and woodcock, and secondly, because it 

 forbids the shooting of woodcock in' summer, thus preventing 

 their too rapid extermination, and saves the young quails and 

 partridges which are killed out of season by parties who pre- 

 tend to be hunting for woodcock. We have for several years 

 received information that certain parties in Tolland and Wind- 

 ham Counties paid no attention to the game laws, but boasted 

 that they would do as they pleased in spite of all law or game 

 clubs. By the judicious use of a detective, we have succeeded 

 in convicting three of those very panics during the past week, 

 and they have been obliged to pay such heavy fines that I do 

 not think they will soon repeat the offence. We have suffi- 

 cient evidence to convict about eight now, and their cases will 

 be pushed as fast as possible. I believe that the game laws 

 when properly constructed can be enforced. 



Yours truly, Mbdious. 



Hartford, 8cj)t. 25.— For years the sportsmen of Connecti- 

 cut have waited patiently for the enactment of proper game 

 laws by our Slate Legislature for the protection of game and 

 iish, and not until this year have their efforts been rewarded. 

 Rut we uow have laws as near complete as we ever hope to 

 make them, and if only observed for a few years will q 

 this Stale a "happy hunting ground" for sportsmen. These 

 impose heavy fines for the netting of trout, or their capture in 

 any way except with hook and line, and only then from April 

 15 to Julyl. 



