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CONTENTS. 
EDITORIAL, | THE KENNEL. 
The Pike as a Temperance Agent Bench-Legged Beagles at Phila. 
How to Protect. Two Hotel Dogs. 
THE SPORTSMAN TOURIST. English Kennel Notes.—xv. 
ei of the Bucktail.- 1. Kennel Notes. 
A. Voyage Between the Lakes, RIFLE AND TRAP SHOOTING, 
Florida Again.—t. Range and Gallery. 
*“Podgers’s’* Inland Cruise,—11. A German Shooting Festival. 
Natura History. The Trap. 
American Ornithologists’ Union 
1 Second Clay-Pigeon Tourna- 
Adirondack Mammals. ment. 
Game Bag anv Gun. | CANOEING. ~ 
“Rocky Mountain Jim.” | Sailing Courses at Grindstone 
A Day with the Grouse. Island. 
Bullet versus Buckshot. 
] Canoeing Incidents. 
Philadelphia Notes. A. 
C. A, Executive Committee 
Connecticut Notes. Meeting. 
SHA AND RIVER FISHING. Amateur Canoe Building.—xyI1. 
The Coming Tournament. YACHTING. 
The Ichthyophagous Club. 
The Red Snapper. 
Maine Notes. 
FISHCULTURE. 
American Food Fishes. 
THE KENNEL. | 
National Breeders’ Dog Show. 
Gunshyness. 
The Leonberg Dog. 
Eastern Field Trials. 
New Jersey Y. 0, Fall Regatta, 
Distance of Objects at Sea. 
New Haven Y. C. Fall Regatta. 
Quaker City ¥. C. Sweepstakes. 
Seawanhaka Y. C, Fall Races, 
Fair Play for the Cutters. 
Steering Directions and Engi- 
neers’ Signals. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
PUBLISHERS’ DEPARTMENT. 
HOW TO PROTECT. 
PA ee we have been working at it for a good 
many years, we have not yet accomplished much in 
the way of eflicient game protection. We have laws, and 
officers whose business it is to enforce them; but, so far as 
public protection goes, but little, except in one State, has 
been done. Most of the work that has been carried on has 
been the result of private effort, and has not been due to the 
labors of those who receive their authority from the people 
at large, 
So far as we have gone, the method of game protection 
employed in Maine and attempted in New York seems to be 
the best yet devised. The system is one which appeals to 
the common sense. Inthe State of Maine a vast amount of 
good has resulted from the energetic work of the State Com- 
missioners, to whom is intrusted the duty of protecting the 
game and fish by the employment of wardens under them. 
In New York the wardens, called game protectors, are_ap- 
pointed by the Governor and are under the supervision 
and direction of the Fish Commissioners, to whom they are 
required to report and from whom they must receive certifi- 
cates for work done before they can obtain their pay. 
This pay is $500 per annum, with an allowance of $250 
for traveling expenses, and one-half the fines collected from 
offenders. It certainly should not be difficult to obtain good 
men for such wages as those named. ‘The laborer ought to 
be worthy of his hire, and game protection depends wholly 
on the faithful, conscientious work of the officers whose duty 
it is to patrol the region inhabited by the game. 
Tt is after all a question of good men. 
The radical difference between ihe New York and the 
Maine method lies in this, that in Maine the Fish and Game 
Commissioners take an active personal interest in the work, 
and themselves direct it, while in New York the wardens 
are left to their own devices, and carry out their schemes for 
protection in their own way. In one case there is organiza- 
tion and a responsible head, in the other a scattered, dis- 
jointed force, working, or not working, as the case may be, 
We have good reason to believe that some of the New 
York game protectors are faithful, earnest men, and en- 
deavor to do thcir duty, as they understand it, to the best of 
their ability with the means at their command. Others we 
believe to be incompetent, careless as to what is done in 
their district, and painstaking only in the matter of drawing 
their pay with conscientious regularity. while there is at 
least one who, from information laid before us, is believed 
to be corrupt and anxious to make as much as possible in 
the way of blackmail out of his office. 
The method of appointing instead of electing the wardens 
has everything to recommend it and nothing against it. 
They should also, as they are by law in New York, be sub- 
ject to removal in case they are found negligent in their 
duties, or in any way inefficient. 
The work of game protection is skilled labor. It requires 
knowledge of the country and of the habits of game and fish, 
anda general familiarity with the methods of those who 
pursue these creatures. Besides this the office is not without 
its temptations and should be filled by men who can be 
trusted to do what the law requires of them without fear or 
favor. Such requirements as these will not be fulfilled by 
a political heeler and the office should be kept wholly out of 
politics. 
THE PIKE AS A TEMPERANCE AGENT. 
T has been claimed by many anglers in this country that 
the pike or pickerel is a fish worse than useless, and 
they urge that its complete extermination would be desir- 
able. The charge against the fish is that its voracity is out 
of all proportion to its value as either game or tvod. Its 
hunger is chronic, its tastes ichthyophagic. It disdains 
worms, snails and such small deer, and seeks for trout and 
other choice fish, which it finds not only toothsome, but be- 
cause of their size ‘‘fillin’” as well. The pike’s jaws and 
stomach is so capacious that it is not at all unusual to find 
these fish stowed away inside of each other, like a ‘‘nest of 
tubs,” each a trifle larger than the one which nestles serenely 
within it. These well-known qualities of the pike cause 
anglers to dread its introduction into waters which abound 
with trout or other game fish. In New York the law forbids 
the planting of a fish, which, however, is highly esteemed 
in Europe and eyen in some parts of this conntry. 
In Colorado they have found a new use for the pickerel. 
A letter recently came to this office in which the writer said: 
“‘We are desirous of procuring from one to three thousand 
pike or pickerel for the purpose of placing in a small lake. 
This lake is the principal source of our ice supply, and it is 
full of ‘water dogs’ [a salamander-like form], which freeze 
in the ice and hecome yery troublesome. We think that if 
we put the pickerel in the lake they will soon dispose of the 
‘dogs’ and keep our water free from them.” 
We trust that the desired pickerel may be secured and that 
the maligned fish will be given an opportunity to show that 
they were not made in vain. It surely must be disagreeable 
to a Colorado gentleman, when about to partake of his fayor- 
ite beverage, to discover that the ice water which has been 
placed before him to temper his nectar with, contains a hor- 
rible lizard-form of ‘“‘water dog.” The innocent stranger 
may well be filled by a sickening uncertainty as to whether 
he really sees a monster frozen in the ice before his eyes, or 
if it be not a premonitory symptom that he will soon behold 
yet more gruesome forms and find them in his boots. Of 
course the old residents have no annoyance of this sort, they 
have seen the evil ‘‘dog” and know betterthan to take water 
in theirs; but instead bite a cracker to allay the irritation of 
the “straight” beverage. 
With the introduction of the pickerel, let us hope the 
loathsome ‘‘water dog” may be eaten up and exterminated. 
Then the people of Colorado may rejoice at a revival of the 
fashion of drinking water; and so the much-abused pike may 
proye a powerful agent in the good cause of temperance. 
THE New York Fatu SxHow.,—The First Annual Fall 
Dog Show of the Westminster Kennel Club, which 
commences at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 
bids fair to be as popular as their spring shows. Although 
the show is devoted mainly to non-sporting dogs, the 
premiums amount to nearly as much as those offered last 
spring. Jt is impossible, at this writing, to give a detailed 
statement of the entries, enough is known, however, to 
warrant the belicf that they will reach nearly six hundred. 
The management are greatly pleased with this result. as 
they may well be. They hardly expected more than about 
one-half the number, and it must be very gratifying to them 
to see their efforts so well supported by the public. 
Smnp A Nore asourT THE GAME when renewing your 
subscriptions. 
Dogs in THE Crry.—The dog occupies his full share of 
attention in the city. In New York, for instance, he barks 
at night with eleven thousand and some odd hundred tongues. 
Dog owners pay something like $20,000 to the city for 
licenses, $3,000 to newspaper publishers for advertising the 
lost and stolen, and an unknown number of thousands more 
as rewards to the thieves who steal. The pound has received 
into its drowning crate this year 4,000 dogs, most of them 
curs and tramps, for which the catchers were paid forty 
cents each, or the snug sum of $1,600, to be divided among 
the worthies who engage in the sport of dog hunting: It is 
reported that the character of the dogs taken to the pound 
has steadily declined since the first year the law was adopted. 
The quality is poor, and this season the pound-master has 
restored only about 100 dogs to their owners’ claims. The 
New York tramp dog is not wholly without his use. In life 
he is a scavenger, a companion for the night policeman on 
his Ionely beat, a productive and profitable theme for the 
funny reporter of the daily paper, and finally a prize for 
the catcher, From the pound, after the dip in the East 
River, he is taken to Barren Island, where the skin is worth, 
according to quality, from fifty cents to a dollar, and the 
rest of him goes into oils and soaps and the dozen products 
of that pestilential land of desolation by the sea. The dog 
catchers do not capture all the strays. Perhaps they do not 
care to, It is barely possible that the average catcher is 
wiser in his day and generation than the average sportsman, 
and means to leave a reserve stock of his prey to increase 
and multiply for another season, so that when the dog days 
come again there may be another four thousand to be bagged 
at forty cents each. 
‘Rocky Mountain Jm.”—Last winter, when our corre- 
spondent, ‘‘W. N, B.,” was iu town, he told us the story of 
his experience with “Rocky Mountain Jim,” and promised 
to some day write it out, as he has now done. The account 
is an authentic report of how one man fared who encoun- 
tered a cinnamon. ‘‘Rocky Mountain Jim” survived his 
terrific conflict with the bear only to die at last from an in- 
glorious wound received in a quarrel with a neighbor, 
Such freaks of fate are by no means uncommon. Only the 
other day the papers recorded the death of the man who was 
chief engineer of the Monitor in her fight with the Merrimac: 
He died by his own hand, a victim of dyspepsia. A dif- 
ferent case was that, also reported in the papers a few days 
ago, of a prisoner who was confined in the penitentiary of 
Lima, in Peru. Behind prison walls it might be supposed 
a man would be reasonably safe, even though war were 
raging about the city; but the unfortunate fellow, while on 
his way from his cell to the prison kitchen, was struck by a 
bullet from the neighboring barracks and instantly killed. 
Kismet, it is fate. 
TuE NavTionaAL BreEpEers’ SHow.—The regular prize list 
of the National Breeders’ Show (which is guaranteed by a 
fund subscribed by a number of well known breeders) 
amounts to over $1,500; and the specials, announced else- 
where, add another $1,000 andl more. The show has been 
undertaken at the instance of breeders, and for what they 
think to be the benefit of the dog-owning public. The names 
of sponsors and judges have been printed in these columns. 
The National Breeders’ Show has all the conditions that 
should commend it to cordial support. The entry list will 
decide whether or not such legitimate enterprises as this are 
to be harmed by the vindictive misrepresentations of such 
individuals as appear to prefer mendacity to truthfulness, 
The character of the entry list and the names of the ex- 
hibitors which will appear on the catalogue will unquestion- 
ably be such as will administer a signal rebuke to the 
presumption that has sought to satisfy a personal grudge 
by misleading the public into serving its ends. The entries 
will close Friday. 
Tue Nevada Marcn.—California is in the depth of dis- 
gust and disappointment. Nevada is in the hight of exulta- 
tion over the outcome of the inter-state match fought out on 
the 30th ult. The handsome bronze trophy now becomes the 
absolute property of the Nevada marksmen, but we doubt 
not that a new trophy will be at once placed in the field and 
this series of hard fought, enjoyable and profitable matches 
resumed from year to year. 
Mr. T. 8. Vaw Dyke, who has been spending some weeks 
in the East, complains that the game in Southern California 
is growing too scarce. He is now on his way to Mexico, and 
if he finds anything to use gunpowder on, may make his 
home there, 
