Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JANUARY Si, 1884. 



j VOL. XXll.-No. 1. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Au Adirondack Bill. 



No Money for Revolutions. 



The '-Flickerings" Vote. 



Angling Slang. 



Forest: Wealth. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



An Oregon Episode. 



Between the Lakes. — n. 



Down the Yukon on a Raft.— v. 



Life Among the Blackfeet.— x. 



The Court of Aretomys Monax. 

 Natural History. 



The Ramble of a Naturalist. 



Feed the Birds. 



California Quail in Confinement 

 Camp-fire Flick er ixg s . 

 Uame Bag and Gun. 



Chill Davs in North Carolina. 



The Great Lone Land, 



••Trial by Jury." 



Winter Notes from Michigan. 



The Choice of Hunting Rifles. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Trouting on tne Bigosh. 



Big Land-locked Salmon. 



FlSHCULTUKE. 



Food for Trout. 



Report of Connecticut Com'n. 



The Kennel. 



A. K. R. 



Dogs and Game in Texas. 



A Home for Pet, Dogs. 



The Massachusetts Dog Law. 



Cincinnati Dog show. 



Duke. 



Cm-rent Dog Stories. 



Beastly Business. 

 Rifle and Trap Shootinq. 



Range, and Gallery. 

 The Newark Tournament. 



The Trap. 

 Rhode Island Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



Dubuque C. 0. 



Amateur Canoe Building.— v. 



Calley Fire 

 Practical Cookery. 



Chicago C. C. 



The New A. C. A. 

 Yachting. 



The Cost of Yachts. 



Cruising in the Gem. 



The Staying of Masts. 



A November Dash in a Seven- 

 Tonner. 



New Cutter. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



AN ADIRONDACK BILL. 



A BILL for the preservation of the Adirondack forests 

 was introduced on Tuesday in the New York Legisla- 

 ture. This bill, which is said to have been drawn up by the 

 Chamber of Commerce Committee, provides for a commis- 

 sion to inquire into the ownership of Adirondack lands, and 

 authorize the appropriation by the Legislature of $500,000, 

 for the purpose of acquiring these lands for the State, and 

 adding them to those already owned by it. The whole is to 

 form an Adirondack Reservation. The purpose of the bill 

 is the protection and increase of the water supply of the Hud- 

 son and Mohawk rivers, and their tributaries, and of the 

 Eric and Black River canals. The lands to be selected lie 

 in the counties of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Llamil- 

 ton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, Saratoga, St. Lawrence and 

 Warren. 



The work of selecting these lands and protecting- them 

 after they shall have been acquired by the State is to be 

 placed in the hands of three individuals, to be known as the 

 Commissioners of the Adirondack Reservation, These 

 officials are to be appointed by the Governor and the Senate, 

 and are to serve for two, four and six years, respectively. 

 They are authorized to care for and improve the lands, 

 forests and waters under their control, and to appoint forest 

 •wardens to carry out this improvement, and to bring suits 

 against trespassers on the State lands. In fact, the bill pro- 

 vides for a forestry commission modeled after some of those 

 of Em - ope recently alluded to in Forest and Stream. 



It is to be observed, however, that only about one-half of 

 the Adirondack region is provided for in the bill, the water- 

 shed only of those rivers flowing south being protected, 

 while those which flow north are passed over. No doubt the 

 increase of the water supply of the Hudson, the -Mohawk, 

 and the Black rivers is most important, and it is perhaps wise 

 to begin the work in a small way, selecting that portion of 

 th« region in which the benefit of forest protection will be 

 most speedily felt. 



A most bitter opposition to the bill may be expected from 

 the lumbering interest, which, is unwilling that the forests 

 should be protected until they shall have been entirely cut 

 off. Btill, so great is the public interest aroused by the re- 



cent discussion of this subject, that the friends of forest pro 

 tection have strong hopes that the present bill may become 

 a law. 



It is only a short time since a large proportion of the pub 

 lie appeared to think that forests were useful only as supply 

 ing lumber and firewood, but this ignorance has now been 

 replaced in many minds by a much more intelligent compre- 

 hension of the value of our woodlands. 



Those who have carefully read what we have recently had 

 to say upon this subject, cannot have failed to comprehend 

 the immeasurable importance of our forest lands to every 

 class of people. It is the duty of every man to use what 

 influence he can to protect these forests. 



ANHL/NC SLANG. 



OUR attention has been called to this matter by an edi- 

 torial note in the London Fishing Gazette, which com- 

 plains of a want of originality in writers who use the terms 

 ''spotted beauty-" for trout, "finny tribe" for fish, and 

 "rodster" for angler, and says that these terms cause worse 

 language on the part of readers and a frequent use of the 

 editorial waste basket. 



We. have noticed a growing tendency to this evil habit in 

 America, and our pen is often drawn through the obnoxious 

 words and the correct ones substituted. If any correspond- 

 ent, in giving an account of our fishing to some local paper, 

 should call us a "rodster," he would forfeit our good opinion 

 forever. We do not know who coined this vile term, nor 

 why, having been coined, others allow its use. Worse than 

 this, if possible, is the phrase "chucking a bug," for casting 

 or throwing a fly. To speak of a gentleman as a "bug 

 chucker" may appear to some to be the very essence of wit, 

 while to others it seems a coarse vulgarity. 



Even if these things were wit in the originator, they have 

 become offensively stale by repetition, and no writer, who 

 has any wish to appear original, will use them. "Disciples 

 of Walton" is another hackneyed term. It is not as offen- 

 sive as the disgusting "rodstei" and "bug chucker," which 

 none but the coarsest natures indulge in, but it has been in 

 use to describe anglers so long that it is at least threadbare 

 and has ceased to be an improvement on the word which it 

 supplants. 



Slang may occasionally be effective in tersely describing 

 in a word what otherwise would take a sentence, but it is 

 usually a very transient thing, and stale slang has not only 

 lost its savor, but the dose is nauseating. 



NO MONEY FOR REVOLUTIONS. 

 / VVPTAIN LT .NDBORG, attached to the Swedish Lega- 

 ^ ' tion in Washington, is before Congress as a petitioner 

 for national alms. Captain Lundborg has been for several 

 years hawking about a ''revolution" in naval architecture, 

 and failing to receive any encouragement from private- 

 sources, now seeks to float his scheme at the expense of the. 

 nation. 



This scheme consists in so altering the present forms of 

 vessels that the "water shall be parted upward" instead of 

 horizontally, the worthy Captain being under the impression 

 that he has made a discovery which will result in materially 

 diminishing the resistance of ships to passage through the 

 sea. It is almost needless to say that the scheme is very 

 ancient, equally as chimerical, and only the superficial con- 

 ception of an amateur at the business. No vessel, whatever 

 her form, can part the water in any other direction than 

 upward. The plumb sides of a steamer of usual shape im- 

 part their pressure laterally, it is true, but that pressure, by 

 well-known physical characteristics of water, is instantane- 

 ously transmitted in all direction's, and finds relief in the 

 direction of least pressure, which is upward, as demonstrated 

 in practice by the creation of bow waves. To construct a 

 vessel of special form to accomplish what every vessel 

 already accomplishes, is the wonderful piece of crude engi- 

 neering, for which Congress is asked to vote money to the 

 material gain of Captain Lundborg in particular. His pro- 

 posed variation upon ordinary forms involves a swell in the 

 bilge with a fore and aft section resembling a cigar. A 

 structure of the kind would cost a great deal more and be 

 far heavier than the simpler forms in existance. It would 

 call for greater driving power, and could not compete in 

 point of economy with steamships now afloat. Its qualities 

 at sea are likewise very much open to question. 



The whole scheme is silly, and can fittingly he classed 

 with the Voorhees steam catamaran, the notorious Meteor, 

 the "globe" steamftr, the Keeiy motor and similar humbugs 

 of the day. Had Mr. Lundborg's vagary the slightest merit 

 or had it received the indorsement of competent naval 



architects and engineers in place of the sympathy of a few 

 old-fashioned Admirals not versed in marine engineering, 

 there would not be any difficulty in attracting the attention 

 of private capital in these times when money goes begging. 

 If the petition recently introduced by General RosecraUfl is 

 not smothered in committee if is to be hoped Congress will, 

 by a large negative vote, promptly choke off this attempt 

 to experiment at the expense of the national income, or else 

 a flood of quacks will pour in from all quarters with similar 

 fantastical ventures. Why should Captain Lundborg, an 

 alien, receive aid for his nonsense any more than any other 

 of the million of more deserving inventors who are, at 

 least, citizens of the country? His appeal to Congress is 

 preposterous. 



THE "FLICEBBINQ" VOTES. 

 r rMlE polls will close to morrow. All votes received then 

 *-■ will be counted, whatever may come in Saturday wilj 

 be just one day too late. The limit of time was made that 

 our British Columbia subscribers might have opportunity to 

 be represented, and their votes reached us last Monday 7 . 

 Others had previously come in from Mexico, Cuba, Ber- 

 muda, England. Scotland, Ireland and Germany. Total 

 number of ballots received up to date (Wednesday, ,lan. 80) 

 1929, not including a number of anonymous cards which 

 have not been counted. The. winning stories will be an- 

 nounced in our next issue, and the winning voters, if they 

 can be determined by that time, but it is probable that they 

 will not be decided before the week following. 



In Certain Localities along the Atlantic coast the fowl 

 shooting during the month of January has been remarkably 

 good. Earlier in the season, indeed during the whole of 

 November and December, the weather was so mild and 

 pleasant that, although the birds were present on the feed- 

 ing grounds in great numbers, they did not afford any good 

 shooting. We have recently learned, however, of the score 

 of two gentlemen, who have been shooting on the grounds 

 of the Narrows Island, in Currituck county, N. C, which is 

 remarkable. During a month spent at the club house they r 

 killed 10 swans, 104 geese, 194 canvas-backs, 27 redheads, 

 469 common ducks (teal, widgeon, black ducks, mallards, 

 etc.), 9 quail and 51 English snipe. Takiug out Sundays, 

 stormy and other days, when no shooting was done, it will 

 be seen that this makes a very high average for the month. 

 The grounds over which this shooting was done are among 

 the best for fowl on the Atlantic coast, and, in these days 

 of game scarcity, it is satisfactory to know of one locality 

 where it is still abundant. With proper attention to preser- 

 vation, and with the abolition of battery shooting, the mem- 

 bers of the clubs situated along Currituck Bound should 

 have good shooting for all time. 



The Carted Stag Again. — Last week we referred to the 

 importation of the English carted stag hunts, and mentioned 

 that such a hunt had been held in Missouri. In another 

 column will be found some account of a similar disgraceful 

 occurrence near Cleveland, O. Now Cleveland is fortunate 

 in possessing, among her older citizens, some of the best 

 sportsmen of this country, men who are a credit and honor 

 to the company of those who handle rod and gun. We can 

 imagine the disgust they must feel at such a travesty of deer 

 hunting as that at Newburgh the other day. 



Dog Clubs.— As may be learned from our kennel columns 

 the proposed beagle club is on a fair way to successful or- 

 ganization. We count the formation of special clubs of this 

 kind a promising indication of the growth of intelligent in- 

 terest in the several breeds. The new beagle club ought to 

 have a membership of five hundred. 



New Game Laws.— We hope that our readers in the sev- 

 eral States will take pains to inform us of any changes that 

 may be made in the game laws this winter. One way to in- 

 sure, the good effect of such laws is to give them the widest 

 possible currency, and such an effectual publicity is secured 

 by printing them in this journal. 



The Massachusetts Dog Laws are the subject of an in- 

 structive paper printed in another column. Wc commend a 

 perusal of it to the individuals who propose to make the old 

 Bay State ridiculous by enacting the dog-bond provision al- 

 ready adverted to in our columns. 



The Clay-Pigeon Tournament.— Several news notes 

 relating to the Chicago clay -pigeon tournament have been 

 necessarily postponed to our next issue. 



