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NEW YORK, APRIL IS, 1882. 



i vol. xvm.- No. 11. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



A Game Man. 



Large Game, of the Territories. 



The Match Targets. 



George Shepard Page. 



Spare the Trees. 



The Herbert Monument. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Field Sports in New England. 



On an Old Turnpike. 



Cruise of the Nipper— rv. 

 Natural History. 



Winter Notes. 



With their Tails in their Mouths. 

 Game Bao and Gun. 



A Great Maine Bear Hunt. 



Sound Sense from Wisconsin. 



Carroll's Island Duck-shooting. 



Gossip of a '49er. 



Ruffed Grouse in Vermont. 



The Herbert Monument. 



Notes from Worcester, Mass. 



Philadelphia Notes. 



Rifles and Rifle Bullets. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Black Bass in England. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Among the F?'s'aes of Florida. 



The African Pompano. 



Tennessee Angling Notes. 



Trouting on Long Island. 



Southern Fishes in 1775. 



Trout and Salmon in New Hamp- 

 shire. 

 Fishculture. 



Fishculture in New Hampshire. 



Remarkable Development of 

 Embryo Salmon. 

 The Kennel. 



National Derby. 



The New \'ork Show. 



A Considerate Mother. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Yachting and Canoeing. 



Type in Canoes. 



Length Measurement. 



Hull Yacht Club. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Forest and Stream Tournament. 



The International Match. 



Matches and Meetings. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



A GAME MAN. 



MUCH is said of game birds, beasts and fishes in the col- 

 umns of Forest and Stream, but "Uncle Eeub" Wood, 

 the veteran fly caster, thus told us of the game qualities of one 

 of the genus Homo: 



"I do like to see a game man," said Uncle Reub, push- 

 ing his broad-brimmed hat on to the back of his head and re- 

 moving his cigar for a moment, "a man that has clear grit, 

 and who don't weaken at the first sight of a squall, and I'll tell 

 you of one that has lots of sand in him. 



"We were fishing way up in Meacham Lake, in Franklin 

 county, N. Y. ; you know the lake well, it's where Jim Ged- 

 des is going to take the trout eggs for Fuller to stock the 

 water; and it was twenty-five miles from a telegraph. We 

 had gone in for a three weeks' fish, and among the party was 

 Isaac G. Johnson, the large iron founder of Spuyten Duyvil 

 Creek, New York city. We had been in about a week, when 

 in came a special team with a telegram for Johnson from his 

 son. It read : 'Come home right away, there are nine hun- 

 dred men on a strike.' We thought the sport was all up and 

 looked at Johnson. He only said, 'I'll sleep over it and an- 

 swer in the morning.' 



"The morning was a fine one, and I was up when Johnson 

 rose and looked out on the lake at the trout rising just as 

 pretty as you ever saw. We said nothing while he wiote an 

 answer to the dispatch. When he had finished he read it, 

 and it said : 'Let 'em sweat, will be home in two weeks ;' and 

 I believe you could have heard us yell for ten miles. I don't 

 know what you think of it, but that's what I call a game 

 man." And Uncle Reub resumed his cigar, and his clear 

 eye looked out of the window as though he expected to see 

 the trout risinsr bet ween the street cars on Park Row. 



Webster as a Sportsman.— At the meeting of the New 

 Hampshire Fish and Game League, the other day, Dr. 

 Henry Wheeler, of Manchester, told the members that he 

 could bring before them a man who distinctly remembers 

 how Webster came to his place one day, and wished for a 

 companion in a hunt after woodcock, but as no one could 

 accompany him he went alone, and was seen on his return 

 to have eighty woodcock. The next day Dr. Wheeler's 

 friend accompanied him and they shot sixty birds. 



THE LARGE GAME OF THE TERRITORIES. 

 \ BILL now in the hands of the Congressional Committee 

 -^*- on Territories provides for the suppression of the whole- 

 sale butchery of large game in the Territories. In other 

 words, the bill, if made a law, will go far toward the remedy 

 of a flagrant wrong. It demands at once the attention and 

 the indorsement of Congress. 



The facts in the case have been rehearsed in these columns, 

 and are familiar, but will bear repetition, Briefly they are 

 these: A ruthless, unceasing slaughter of the large game of 

 the Territories is being carried on year after year by the 

 skin-hunters, i. e., men who kill these animals for their hides 

 alone, leaving the carcasses to rot on the ground. 



The numbers of noble game thus slain aggregate hundreds 

 of thousands yearly. The numbers of hides of deer and 

 antelope alone, shipped from the Yellowstone and Missouri 

 regions, in the last two years, as shown by carefully col- 

 lected statistics of the butchery, were as follows : 



statistics or DEER and antelope butchered for their hides, their 



carcasses being left to rot. 



1880. 1881. 



Yellowstone River 60,000 Yellowstone River 73,000 



Missouri River 107,000 Missouri River 70,000 



Total 167,000 Total .143,000 



To the figures given for 1881 should be added 5,200, the 

 number of elk skins shipped in that year from the Yellow- 

 stone. The statistics here given may be taken to represent 

 about seventy-five per cent, of the animals killed in this 

 region, or for 1881 alone, a total of 185,250. 



And still the unholy carnage goes on. Our private 

 advices from the Territories lead us to believe that the hide 

 hunters have been very busy during the past winter in 

 Northern and Middle Wyoming. We learn that a great 

 many hides have been shipped from Rock Creek, on the 

 Union Pacific, and that more are coming in every day. 



These are the facts. What do they mean? The answer 

 has already been given in these columns. 



They mean, and can mean, but one thing. That as surely 

 as effect must follow cause, so surely will a few years of this 

 ruthless slaughter suffice for the extermination of the grandest 

 game thai ever existed on the earth, viz., the prong-buck, 

 the whitetail and the mule deer, the elk and the mountain 

 sheep of the Rockies. 



These are the facts. What is the remedy? 



It is the mature belief of those who have given to the sub- 

 ject the most careful and intelligent consideration, that the 

 only adequate measure to avert the impending total destruc- 

 tion of the large game is to stop its butchery by the skin- 

 hunters; to restrict its killing to the supply of immediate 

 necessities for food only, and to prohibit absolutely expor- 

 tation of meat and hides from the Territories. 



This, we repeat, is the sole remedy practicable and suffi- 

 cient; and it is just such a provision that is embodied in 

 House Bill No. 3,811, now in the Committee on Territories. 

 It is entitled ' 'A Bill for the Protection of Wild Game in the 

 Territories of the United States. " It forbids : 1. The killing 

 of large game, except for necessary food and supply of 

 domestic market. 2. Exportation from the Territories of 

 these animals or their skins. 3. Traffic in the same. It 

 provides for the apprehension, trial and punishment of those 

 who violate the law. 



The respectable and thoughtful people of the Territories 

 are looking to the National Government for such a law. 

 After years of apathy they are becoming aware that for the 

 sake of the petty sums derived from the sale of the hides of 

 wild game, they are permitting one of the most attractive 

 features of their sections to be done away with, and are 

 allowing themselves to be robbed of what should be a source 

 of revenue to their treasuries and to themselves. Govern- 

 ment interference is needed. The area covered by our Ter- 

 ritories is so large and so thinly settled, that the local gov- 

 ernments can do but little to check the evil. 



The preservation of our large game is a subject that con- 

 cerns the Nation, not simply the people who dwell where the 

 game is found. Each year the uninhabited portions of the 

 Western mountains are visited mare and more by parties 

 from all sections of the country. These localities are becom- 

 ing the favorite resorts and rasting places for the exhausted 

 or the invalid. The game must be preserved as well for 

 visitors as for residents. 



The presence of large wild game in the mountains is a 

 resource of any section, the value of which may be calculated 

 in dollars and cents. At the present day, when it is so much 

 the fashion to hunt, fish and camp, nothing can render a tract 

 of country more alluring to a considerable class of the com- 

 munity than the belief that it contains large game. The 

 | people who visit the wild regions of the mountains desire, 



whether they be sportsman or not, to see game, or to believe 

 that they are in a region where it may be seen. These tourists 

 are desirable as spending money and increasing trade, and are 

 in many respects useful visitors to have come into the un- 

 settled regions of the West. If people will kill only enough for 

 their absolute necessities in camp, the supply, depleted 

 though it now be, will last for very many years. But the skin- 

 hunting must be stopped. It is certain that unless some 

 measures are taken, and that speedily, for the protection of 

 our large game, a time will come before very long when it 

 will be impossible for the traveler anywhere in the mountains 

 to keep the camp in meat. 



THE MATCH TARGETS. 



r T^HE circular from the Secretary of the National Rifle As- 

 -*- sociation here shows that the understanding on this side 

 the water is that the match is to be fought on our Creedmoor 

 targets. Whether that is thoroughly understood on the 

 other side does not appear in any of the correspondence as 

 published. The conditions sent over by the sub-committee 

 of the British Council, were singularly deficient in this re- 

 spect, and in them no distinct mention is made of the sort of 

 target to be used in the match. 



There are three sorts of targets to be used in the match. 

 There is one for the 200 yards range ; another used at the 500 

 and 600 yards ranges, while another target again is to be fired 

 at from the 800, 900, and 1,000 yard points. This last target 

 is the same on both sides of the Atlantic. It is the old 6x12 

 feet target-slab made so familiar to the general public through 

 the international small bore matches already held. 



The mid-range and short-range targets in use here and at 

 Wimbledon differ very materially. To make these differ- 

 ences plain, we give the following table of the standard sub- 

 divisions : 



American. English. 



Target 4x6 feet— 200 Yards. Target 4x4 feet— 200 Yards. 



Bullseye circular, 8 in. in diam. Bullseye circular, 8 in. in diam. 

 Centre, " 26 " " Centre, " 12 " 



Inner, " 46 " " Inner, " 24 " " 



Outer, remainder of target. Outer, remainder of target. 



Target 6x6 feet— 500 & 600 Yards. Target 6x6 feet— 500 & 600 Yards. 



Bullseye circular, 22 in. in diam. Bullseye circular, 24 in. diam. 



Centre, " 38 " " Centre, '• 30 " 



Inner, " 54 " " Inner, " 48 " 



Outer, remainder of target. Outer, remainder of target. 



Because of these differences it is now impossible to make 

 any satisfactory comparison between the records made in the 

 two countries. The English volunteers will certainly go on 

 with the Wimbledon target subdivisions in their practice, 

 and if our riflemen use the American scheme of marking, 

 it will be impossible to determine the relative team merits. 



It makes little difference on what sort of a target a team 

 may practice, provided only that its drill be careful, and the 

 men learn to pull well together, but the question of target 

 to be used in the match must be settled sooner or later, and 

 the more promptly it is attended to the better. Of course 

 the teams in the match will shoot on similar targets, but just 

 now we are puzzled to know precisely what that target is 

 to be. 



Minneapolis Greyhounds. —In our columns last week 

 mention was made of a beautiful greyhound puppy presented 

 to Mr. R. M. Conway, of Virginia, by the Hon. Wm. S. 

 King, of Minneapolis, Minn. Mr. Conway writes us in high 

 praise of the animal, which promises to share the excellent 

 qualities of the Minneapolis greyhounds, a breed, our corre- 

 spondent tells us, famous for power, speed, beauty and 

 quality. Some years ago, Dan Mace, the famous driver of 

 trotting horses, took some noted flyers to Minneapolis, and 

 when making a fast mile on the track, it is said, one of the 

 greyhounds of this breed led the trotter the entire mile, and 

 frolicked in, a winner. The spectators became so enthusiastic 

 over this exhibition that they purchased the hound and pre- 

 sented it to Mace. The famous driver afterward declared 

 that he found in Minnesota only one thing which for speed 

 would surpass his flyer, and that this he had brought away 

 with him. We know of no man who can better appreciate 

 the qualities of a good dog than our Virginia friend, and we 

 are much pleased that he should have come into possession 

 of "Minnesota. ' 



We publish on another page the suggestive paper read 

 before the New Hampshire Fish and Game League, by Mr. 

 W. W. Colburn, of Springfield, Mass. The review of the 

 progress of field sports in New England is certainly encour- 

 aging to those who have been most instrumental in bringing 

 about the changed repute in which field recreation is now 

 held. The best possible illustration of the correctness of 

 .Mr. Column's conclusions was the simple fact that such a 

 paper was read by such a man before such an audience. 



