Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 7, 1884. 



( VOL. XXII. -No. 2. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Yellowstone Park Bill. 



The Camp-Fire Vote. 



Our Oanoe Columns. 



Collapse of Length Measure- 

 ment Abroad . 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



How Do They Live? 



My Camp-Fire. 



Between the Lakes.— in. 



Life Among the Biackfeet.-xi. 

 Natural History. 



Wildcats. 



The Least Bittern. 

 Camp-Fire Flickhrings. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Only a Brace. 



With the Ducks on Delta Bar. 



Southern Shooting Grounds. 



A Visit to Chatham County. 



The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 



The Performance of Shotguns. 



Washington Territory Game 

 Law. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Stricken Trout. 



Materials for Fly-rods. 



The Best Color for Leaders. 



Trouting on tne Bigosh. 



Taking Trout Through the Ice. 



Fishing in Michigan. 

 Fishculture. 



The Menhaden Question. 



Stocking Streams with Trout. 



The Kennel. 

 The Beagle Club. 

 Cleveland Dog Show. 

 On the Scent. 

 Prince Phcebus. 

 The Clumber Spaniel. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Traf Shooting. 

 Rifles iu the Field. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 

 Irrawaddi C. O. 

 The Winter Camp-Fire. 



Fourth Meeting. 



Pittsburgh C. C. 

 The Galley Fire 



An Irish Stew. 

 The Log Book. 



v.— Down the Mississippi. 

 Canoe or Sneakbox. 

 Large vs. Small Canoes. 

 New York C. C. 

 Yachting. 

 The Boom in Cutters. 

 The Cost of Yachts. 

 Some Reminiscences. 

 Conclusions of the Y. R. A. on 



Measurement. 

 Give it Support. 

 Amateur Logic. 

 The Life-Saving Service. 

 Small Boats. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE CAMP-FIRE VOTE. 



IN our issue of Dec. 20 we reprinted all the "Camp-Fire 

 Flickerings," and asked for a vote on their respective 

 merits. The interest manifested in the voting has exceeded 

 our anticipations. It was not thought that more than one 

 thousaud votes would come in. That number has been 

 more than doubled. We have received two thousand and one 

 hundred and twelve (2112) lists. They have come from a very 

 wide extent of the Forest and Stream's territory. All 

 the States have been represented and most of the Territories. 

 From Canada and British North America, from England, 

 from Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Bermuda, Cuba, Mexico, 

 the mails have brought them; and one from the Sandwich 

 Islands. 



No conditions were made as to the character of stories to 

 be selected. Each voter was asked to choose the ten which 

 he thought "the best" and to write them in their order of 

 merit. This was giving very wide latitude, and, as was to 

 be expected, the ballots have shown very diverse opinions 

 respecting what are "the best" of the ninety -six. Many of 

 the voters have explained why they voted as they did* One 

 puts a certain story at the head of his list "because it's a 

 whopper." Another selects his ten "because they are all 

 true ones, and the lies ought not to be counted." Of the 

 seven winning stories, the first five are told as havingactually 

 occurred, and the last two are what the writer of the card 

 just alluded to meant when he said whoppers. The list of 

 winning stories shows this diversity : The first five of the 

 seven are told as true; of the last two one is a Southwestern 

 version of a Munchausen yarn, and the other a combination 

 of "fish" and "snake" stories. 



Probably few of those who voted thought of the vast 

 possibility of change opened in the simple demand, that out 

 of the ninety-six stories offered each voter should pick ten 

 stories, arranging them in what appeared the order of merit. 

 There was not only the wide range of selection for the 

 choice of different numbers, but there was an arrangement 



of them as well, and this might differ. Thus in the latter 

 case of arrangement the possibility runs up to 3,628.800. 

 That is, for instance, ten persons might sit down to dinner 

 for that number of consecutive days (if they should live long 

 enough) and on no two d;-tys would the persons be placed 

 in the same relative position. The same, of course, applied 

 to the placing of the ballots on the list of ten. 



The case in the "Flickerings" vote was, however, a differ- 

 ent one, it was with a certain number of different things 

 being given, how many changes can be made out of them, 

 by taking any given number of quantities at a time. The rule 

 iu this case is a simple one, and in the problem immediately 

 before us requires the multiplication of the numbers 96x95x 

 94x93x92x91x90x89x88x87, and the result is found to be 

 42,294,851,716,696,972,800, which is the total possible num- 

 ber of different ballots which the editor and the Herald, expert 

 might have had brought before them; but luckily, owing to 

 a lack of voting humanity, that task was not set. 



The method of determining the winning stories was 

 announced as follows: 



When a ballot is received, each story named on it will be credited 

 with a certain number of units, determined by its position in the 

 list. The stery named first will be given the highest number, 10; the 

 next one 9, the third 8, and so on to the tenth or last, which will re- 

 ceive 1. Then each of these credits will be transferred to the ac- 

 counts of the respective stories, and the story receiving the greatest 

 aggregate of credits will be adjudged the winning story, and to its 

 author will be given the first prize. The story receiving the next 

 highest aggregate will take the second prize, and so with the others 

 until the total credit of each of the stories has been ascertained, and 

 the seven prizes for stories awarded. 



This has been done. For example: The story No. 36 was 

 named iu the first place on 130 lists, for each of which it 

 received a credit of 10 units; it was named in the second 

 place on 105 cards, for each of which it received a credit of 

 9 units, and so on through the other places on all the 868 

 cards on which the story was named. Its total score of 

 credits was thus determined to be as follows: 

 score of so. 36. 



(value 10), on 130 cards. 130x10=1,300 



945 

 880 

 672 

 583 

 345 

 318 

 319 

 96 

 68 



First Place 



Second Place . . 

 Third Place . . 

 Fourth Place. . 

 Fifth Place.... 

 Sixth Place.... 

 Seventh Place . 

 Eighth Place. 

 Ninth Place .. 

 Tenth Place.. 



.(value 9), on 105 cards 105x 9= 



. (value 8), on 110 cards HOx 8= 



. (value 7), on 96 cards 96x 7= 



(value 6), on 97 cards 97x 6= 



.(value 5), on 69 cards 69X5= 



.(value 4), on 78 cards 78x4= 



.(value 3;, on 73 cards 73X 3= 



.(value 2), on 48 cards 48x2= 



.(value 1), on 62 cards 62X 1= 



Grand total of credits 5,423 



By like calculations the scores of the seven winning stories 

 were found to be: 



LIST OF WINNING STORIES. 



First Prize No. 36, The Parker Gun Story Total, 5,432 



Second Prize.. .No. 53, The Commercial Traveler Total, 4,735 



Third Prize No. 31, Gus and the Cow Total, 4,480 



Fourth Prize . . .No. 45, The Saw-Horse Total, 4,346 



FifthPrize No. 37, "Let's Put Both Gaffs In." Total, 4,105 



Sixth Prize ... .No. 93, The Peach Tree Total, 4,017 



Seventh Prize. .No. 42, The Snake-bitten Wagon Total, 3,301 



For purpose of comparison we also give below the detailed 

 scores of the first fifteen stories. The table shows their order, 

 the number of times each one was written in each place on 

 the cards, the total number of votes it received, and the total 

 value of credits obtained in the way explained: 



SCORES OF THE FIRST FIFTEEN. 





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114 



103 



91 



67 



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50 



60 



58 



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40 



705 



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IV No. 45.. 



83 



82 



79 



93 



73 



79 



69 



76 



58 



48 



739 





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86 



76 



68 



62 



64 



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51 



43 



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654 



4105 



VI No. 93.. 



145 



82 



58 



46 



48 



56 



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42 



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73 



654 



4017 



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518 





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474 





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71 



60 



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470 



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No. 1, 1,494; No. 3, 1,317; No. 8. 1,257; No. 9, 1,401; No. 13, 1,624; No. 

 14, 2,067; No. 15, 1,278; No. 16, 1,183; No. 17, 2,412; No. 18, 1,834; No.22^ 

 1,533; No. 23, 2,157, No. 27, 1,362; No. 29, 2,485; No. 34, 1,272; No. 35, 

 1,659; No. 47, 1,099; No. 48, 1,886; No. 56, 1,581; No. 63, 3,350; No. 73, 

 1,433; No. 76, 1,927; No. 86, 1,816; No. 8S, 1,09S; Np. 92, 1,152; No. 94, 

 2,151. 

 The winning voters will be announced iu our next issue. 

 Will the writer of the winning story, No, 36, please send 

 name and address to this office. 



YELLOWSTONE PARK BILL. 



n^HE Senate committee on the Yellowstone Park have 

 ■*- completed their bill, which will now be reported for 

 amendments. As it stands at present, the bill provides that 

 the Park shall be enlarged thirty miles on the east and ten 

 on the south, while from its borders on the north and west 

 a strip two miles in width is cut off. The extension on the 

 east, carries the Park very nearly if not quite over to Cedar 

 Mountain, and thus takes in the headwaters of the Slinking 

 Water, including the wonderful Clark's Fork Canon so 

 graphically described in these columns last winter by our 

 correspondent "P." The strip of ten miles added on the 

 south extends the bounds of the Park down to the neighbor- 

 hood of Two Ocean Spring, but of course does not include 

 Jackson's Lake or the Tetons, which we should have been 

 glad to see within the reservation. The bill further brings 

 the Park within the jurisdiction of Gallatin county, Mon- 

 tana, and provides for the use of troops to capture and expel 

 law-breakers. It provides for the appointment of a superin- 

 tendent and fifteen assistants. 



The bill is thus an improvement on the previous law in 

 relation to the Park. The increase in size of the reservation 

 was demanded by public opinion . it should be made stil 

 larger, but then, after all, half a loaf is a good deal better 

 than no bread at all. The increase in the number of assist- 

 ants is a good provision, but we hope that they will be care 

 fully chosen and thoroughly well equipped, for if they are 

 faithful and painstaking, their labors will not be light. The 

 provision authorizing the employment of troops to assist in 

 protecting the Park is very well, but the Honorable Secre- 

 tary of the Interior had this authority granted him by last 

 year's Sundry Civil Bill, and, although the violations of the 

 law last summer were flagrant and open, we never heard 

 that any troops were sent into the Park for the purpose of 

 protecting its wondeis, its game, or its forests. 



The fact of the matter is that the care of the Park depends 

 wholly, or almost wholly, on its superintendent. If an ener- 

 getic and faithful man fills the place, he can do a vast 

 amount of good. If he is slow r and lazy, the law-breakers 

 will have things all their own way. 



The provisions of the bill in regard to game and fish are, 

 we are glad to say, very stringent. The killing of either is 

 absolutely prohibited under a penalty of not less than $20 

 nor more than $100 fine, or imprisonment for ninety days 



As regards leases, the bill is generally like the old law : ' 

 The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to lease for not 

 exceeding ten years small portions of ground in the Park, 

 not exceeding ten acres in extent for each tract, on which 

 may be erected hotels and the necessary outbuildings; nu 

 such leases shall not include any of the geysers or other ob- 

 jects of curiosity or interest, or exclude the public from the 

 free and convenient approach thereto, or include any ground 

 within one-quarter of a mile of any of the geysers or the 

 Yellowstone Falls. Only one tract shall be leased to any 

 one person, association, or corporation. All contracts, agree- 

 ments, or exclusive privileges heretofore made or given in 

 regard to the Park, or any part of it, which are inconsistent 

 with this act, are declared to be invalid. 



And while we are talking about the Park, a word or two 

 about the great-hearted Improvement Company, which tried 

 so hard last year to acquire the whole reservation for its 

 very own. This estimable association appears, from the re- 

 ports which are flying over the wires, to be in trouble. In 

 the first place, it is stated that Rufus Hatch, whose name 

 was so prominently connected with the incorporation of this 

 company, has been sued by it for failure to take up the 

 $500,000 of stock to which he pledged himself to subscribe. 

 Then we learn from the West that the property of the Im- 

 provement Company has been attached by a Livingston 

 (Montana) trader, who supplied the Hotel Company with 

 supplies and who is now unable to collect his little bill. 



The Company and its principal organizers being in difficul- 

 ties, they may perhaps have less time to devote to lobbying in 

 Washington this winter, and so the friends of the Park may 

 have less trouble in securing the legislation which is so 

 essential to its protection. There is an old saw relating to 

 the condition of things when honest men get their dues, 

 which obtrudes itseM upon us; but let that pass. 



Our readers will watch with interest the efforts which will 

 be made by Ihe land grabbers and for the Park during the 

 remainder of this session of Congress. Public opinion in- 

 sists so strongly, however, on adequate legislation on this 

 subject, that we cannot doubt that it will be had. The 

 people demand that their Park shall be kept for them, and 

 that it shall be carefully guarded from injury. Its geysers, 

 its forests, its game, must be preserved for its owners. 



