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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 12, 1888. 



j VOL. XXIV.— No. 8. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



National Gun Association. 



New York Game Bills. 



Tinkering Protection. 



Through Two-Ocean Pass.— in. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



To My 01' Dawg Drive. 



Uncle Lisha's Shop.— vin. 



Camp Flotsam.— xrv. 

 Natural History. 



"The Birds of Long Island."' 



How to Identify Birds. 



The Birds of Michigan. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Beer Hunt in Kentucky. 



Battery-Shooting. 



Deer in the Adirondack^. 



Some Remarkable Shots. 



A Game Protector's Suggestions 

 SeaandBiver Fishing. 



Troutin^ on the Bigosh. 



Vermont Fish Tinkers. 



Black Bass Talk. 



The Ragged Lake Club. 



Vagaries of Fly Nomenclature. 



Salt Bath for Trout and Min- 

 nows. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Trout Versus Carp. 

 The Kennel. 

 The Crystal Palace Dog Show. 

 New York Fanciers' Show. 

 New Haven Show. 

 The Colley Classes. 



The Kennel. 



American Kennel Club. 



St. John Dog Show. 



Size of Beagles. 



Philadelphia Notes. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



String Measurement. 



Lyman's Rifle Sight. 



Missing Fire. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



National Gun Association. 

 Canoeing. 



Single and Double Paddles. 



The Lake Erie Meet. 



The Flagship. 



Send on the Cruises. 



A Canoe Cruise Through Long 

 Island Sound. 

 Yachting. 



Yacht Photos. 



Exploding the Fables. 



First of her Kind. 



Thayer's Yacht Windlasses. 



Yacht Building Abroad. 



The Kunstadter Steering Pro- 

 peller. 



Solid on Cutters. 



New York Y. C. 



A Very Important Question. 



Spars of Class Racers. 



Elections of Officers. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



NEW YORK CAME BILLS. 

 \ NUMBER of bills for the protection of game have 

 -^*- already been introduced into the New York Legis- 

 lature. Many of them cover amendments which are highly 

 praiseworthy, and which, if passed and enforced, would do 

 much toward lessening the rapid destruction of our ferm 

 natures. The trouble with these bills is that there are too 

 many of them. They cover too much ground, and try to 

 reform too many abuses. 



One of Mr. Coggeshall's bills omits the word "willfully" 

 in connection with snared game, making the provision read, 

 "Nor shall any person sell or expose for sale or have in pos- 

 session" snared birds. This wc have frequently recom- 

 mended as a much needed change. The same bill provides 

 that the time for killing woodcock, black and gray squirrels, 

 and grouse shall be during the months of September, Octo- 

 ber and November, and that the sale of such game and of 

 fresh venison shall be permitted only up to the first day of 

 January; but the seller must prove that such game was law- 

 fully killed during the periods allowed by the act, and must 

 also make, and file with the nearest State game protector, a 

 written inventory and report stating the species and number 

 of the game had in possession, with proof that the same was 

 lawfully killed. 



Senator Fassett has introduced a bill forbidding the pur- 

 suing of deer with dogs in any county of this State at any 

 time, except from the fifteenth to the thirty-first of October. 

 It also shortens the time for selling venison. Other bills 

 have been introduced, some of which we have seen while 

 others have not yet been printed. The most important ques- 

 tion which has come up during the present session has to do 

 with the hounding of deer. It has been established that this 

 hounding drives away the deer, and also that it is extremely 

 fatal to them, not only because they can be easily destroyed 

 after taking to the water, but also because, after a long race 

 the sudden plunge into the cold waters of the mountain lakes 

 frequently causes death, even though the hunter is not pres- 

 ent to blow the beast's brains out with his gun, or to beat 

 it to death with an oar, Moreover all the testimony goes to 



show that the heated flesh of a deer chased to death is not 

 fit for food. 



Public sentiment seems decidedly in favor of the aboli- 

 tion of this form of deer killing. We have received — 

 besides those which we have printed— hundreds of letters 

 urging the passage of such a law. Besides this, petitions 

 containing hundreds of names and covering most of the 

 counties where deer are found, and signed by men of all 

 sorts and conditions, are coming in to us each day. These 

 petitions pray the Legislature to forbid this form of 

 butchery. That the proposed abandonment of hounding 

 has the support of a larger portion of the community than 

 usually take an interest in an amendment to the game laws, 

 is very evident. If the change is to be made at this session, 

 the energies of all who are in favor of game protection must 

 be concentrated on this one point. There are other changes 

 which are important, but this one overshadows them all, 

 and if this point can be gained it will be a long step in 

 advance. 



A. simple amendment without any unnecessary legal ver- 

 biage is what we need and what will be most likely to pass, 

 and we strongly recommend a bill like the following: 



AN ACT 

 To> amend section one of chapter five hundred and thirty-four of the 

 laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, entitled: "An act for the 

 preservation of moose, wilddeer, birds, fish and other game." 

 The People, of the State of New York, represented m Senate tend 



Assembly, do enact as folXoiss'. 



Section 1. Section one of chapter five hundred and [thirty-four of 

 the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, is hereby amended so 

 as to read as follows: No person shall kill or chase any wild deer in 

 any part of the State, save only during the months of August, Septem- 

 ber, October and November in any year. No person, corporation, 

 association or company shall sell, expose for sale, transport, or have 

 in his or her possession in this State, after the same has been killed, 

 any wild deer or fresh venison, save only during the months of 

 August, September, October and November. No persons shall, at any 

 time, in this State, kdl any fawn during the time when it is in its 

 spotted coat, or have in his or her possession the carcass or skin of 

 any such fawn after the same shall have been killed. No person shall, 

 in any part of this State, set any trap, spring gun or other device, at 

 any artificial salt lick or other place, for the purpose of trapping and 

 killing wild deer. It shall not be lawful at any time to pursue deer 

 with dogs in any county of this State. It shall be lawful for any per- 

 son to shoot or kill any dog while in actual pursuit of any deer in vio- 

 lation of the provisions of this act. It shall not be lawful for any per- 

 son to kill or cause to be killed, any wild deer in the counties of Suf- 

 folk and Queens at any time within five years from the passage of 

 this act. Any person offending against any of the preceding provi- 

 sions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and in 

 addition thereto shall be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each 

 wild deer or fawn so killed, or pursued or trapped, and for every 

 spring gun so set, or wild deer or fawn skin or fresh venison had in 

 his or her possession, and may be proceeded against therefor in any 

 county of the State in which the offender or prosecutor may reside. 



We are told that the bill introduced into the Assembly by 

 Gen. N. M. Curtis provides for the prohibition of deer 

 hounding in every part of the State and at all times. If 

 this be so (we have not seen the bill), it covers the ground 

 and should have prompt support. 



NATIONAL GUN ASSOCIATION. 

 V/17B print on another page a draft of the constitution and 

 ' " by-laws of the National Gun Association which it is 

 proposed to organize at New Orleans this week. An exami- 

 nation of the document will show very fully the purpose 

 and character of the movement, and the practical develop- 

 ment of the elaborate scheme will be watched with great 

 interest. The success of the movement will depend almost 

 entirely upon the personal efforts of the officers who shall be 

 appointed to its charge. If they are energetic and clear- 

 headed and feel sufficiently interested in the association to 

 give their time and a deal of actual hard work to it, there 

 is no reason why the Gun Association should not be all that 

 its originators anticipate for it. If Mr. Bloom can succeed 

 in infusing his own enthusiasm into these officers, this 

 movement is sure of success and usefulness. 



Fatal Fence Fatuity. — A fence — a gun — a gunner. 

 Then an Associated Press dispatch: "Chattanooga, Tenn., 

 Feb. 8. — Yesterday while James Holden was out hunting he 

 attempted to climb a fence with a gun in his hand. The 

 hammer struck a fence rail, discharging the piece, the load 

 of buckshot passing into his head, making a hole as large as 

 an egg. He lived nearly an hour after the accident hap- 

 pened." We repeat it — Don't. 



A Poor Use of Fish.— At some summer resorts the 

 hotel gardens are manured with fine game fish which have 

 been taken by greedy fishermen. The stench from decaying 

 fish has converted the sites of beautiful camps , into noisome 

 plague spots. This is a pretty poor way to use game fish. 



TINKERING PROTECTION. 



V1J HEN a tin kettle or pan gets leaky by rust or acci- 

 * ^ dental punctures, it may often be made serviceable 

 again by the tinker's soldering iron; but no one cares to pay 

 the tinker to punch holes in his vessels merely for the sake 

 of stopping them, nor to pile patch upon patch to see how 

 much mending his kettle will endure. Yet more than half 

 the fish and game law tinkering is quite as unwise and 

 useless. 



The opinion seems to hold with most of our Slate Legis- 

 latures that protection may be assured by an anuual or 

 biennial tinkering of the laws; that if the laws are made 

 ponderous enough and obscure enough, their largeness and 

 mystery will terrify and awe all ill-disposed persons into a 

 strict observance of them. They never seem to consider that 

 a law unenforced, or one so silly or unjust as to be unworthy 

 of respect, is worse than no law at all. And so they go on, 

 year after year, swelling the statutes with act upon act, and 

 amendment piled upon section of the fish and game laws, 

 and then — leave the laws to take care of themselves. 



A Big Difference.— Some of our esteemed correspond- 

 ents appear to have forgotten that the present discussion of 

 Adirondack deer hounding does not involve any considera- 

 tion of the merits of different methods of hunting deer else- 

 where. There is no question of the evil effects of the prac- 

 tice as now conducted in the Adirondacks. We want to 

 see that abolished, and we must decline at present to permit 

 the discussion to wander from the definite case in point. 

 There is a big difference between clubbing deer to death in 

 an Adirondack lake or putting a load of buckshot into the 

 victim while the guide holds it, and shooting deer on a run- 

 way. 



The America Cup. — The first design for a large sloop 

 with which to meet the expected Genesta has been begun. 

 The work has been intrusted to Mr. A. Gary Smith, a choice 

 which will meet with general approval. In the new vessel 

 we may look for the best possible exemplification of the 

 principles which have hitherto ruled the American yachting 

 world. 



Trap-shooting Clubs cannot be too careful about pro- 

 viding plain and fixed rules for the government of contests. 

 It happens almost every week that an appeal is made to us 

 to settle some simple point, concerning which there would 

 have been no possible wrangling had proper conditions been 

 fixed beforehand. 



It would not be surprising to see some of the big 

 prizes at the New Orleans clay -pigeon tournament go "down 

 East" again this year, and possibly there may be some attrac 

 tion* which will draw them to the Hub. The Massachusetts 

 shooters are really the life of the New England Trap Asso- 

 ciation. 



Information Wanted. — Some months ago we published 

 information of a Long Island small-bird butcher's proposed 

 trip to Florida. Can any one tell us whether this man is in 

 that State now killing birds for their plumage? 



Dr. Christopher Graham, of Louisville, Ky., died in 

 that city last week. His age was above 100 years. He was 

 a personal friend of Daniel Boone. In our next issue we 

 shall give some notice of his career. 



New Haven Show.— Among the names of the judges at 

 the New Haven show is that of Mr. John Davidson, a gen- 

 tleman whom the public is pleased to see again undertaking 

 the performance of such duties. 



Battery-Shooting is now a subject of discussion in our 

 game columns, and those who have sinkbox experience to 

 give are urged to add their testimony to what has already 

 appeared. 



Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth, — There are four 

 forestry bills before the New York Legislature. There are 

 half a dozen different game law bills before the same body. 



New Jersey's Song Birds ought to be protected from the 

 cupididity of New York millinery manufacturers. 



The Michigan Association convened Tuesday. We 

 shall report its proceedings in our next issue. 



The Cuvier Club held its annual reception at the olub 

 house, Cincinnati, last evening. 



