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NEW YORK, MARCH 26, 1886. 



j VOL. XXIV.— No. 9. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Mr. Pierce's Disqualification. 



The Massachusetts Law. 



Opening the Trout Season. 



Piss the Deer Hounding Bill. 



Through. Two-Ocean Pass.— x. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Uncle Lisha's Shop.— xn. 

 Natural History. 



Mongolian Pheasants. 



Grubs in a Deer's Flesh. 



Bells on Birds. 



An Aerial collision. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



In Goshen's Hole.— m 



Wild Turkey Methods. 



Roughing it. m the National Park 



Some Remarkable Shots. 



Battery-Shooting. 



Migratory Quaii. 



Call Off the Dogs 1 



Philadelphia Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Season's Opening Day. 



Trour, Fishing io Upper Cbos. 



Bass Fishing in Lake Champlain 



Arkansas Fish Law. 



FlSHOTLTURE. 



Trout Culture at the South Side 



Club. 

 The Farmers' Club. 



The Kennel. 



The National Derby. 



'I he Pittsburgh Piece of Paper. 



New Haven Dog Show. 



Challenge. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap '"Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



National Gun Association. 

 Canoeing. 



Cruise of the "Aurora." 



Oruisin? Information— Salem to 

 New York. 



American Canoe Association. 



Canoe Pilotage. 



Swimming Races at the Meet. 



The Fan Mainsail. 



Prize Flags for the A. C. A. 

 Races 



American Canoe Association. 

 Yachting. 



The America aud the Coming 

 Races. 



The America Cup. 



Fitting Up Small Yachts. 



Hull V.C. 



.Rules of the Road. 



Swinging Centerboards. 



Decorations for Club Rooms. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



PASS THE DEER HOUNDING BILL. 

 i HHE bill forbidding the hounding of deer in this State, 

 -*- which was sent from the Assembly to the Senate, and 

 is now in the hands of the Game Law Committee, should be 

 passed without delay and without amendments. The pro- 

 visions of the bill are mogt important. It will end a shame- 

 ful and brutal practice which has no redeeming features. 

 Deer hounding should be abolished— 



1. Because the practice, as followed in the Adirondacks, 

 is not sportsmanlike nor ennobling. On the contrary, it is 

 brutal and debasing. The deer are driven into the water 

 and killed there. Sometimes they are shot from the shore, 

 sometimes they are shot from a boat while the guide holds 

 them, sometimes they are clubbed to death. 



2. Because the meat of the animal killed after a long run is 

 unfit for food, and in very many cases the carcass of a 

 hounded deer is left to rot. 



8. Because hounding is practiced in the breeding season. 

 As a consequence the proportion of barren does is very large 

 and, careful investigation shows, is constantly increasing. 



4. Because the keeping of large packs of hounds by Adi- 

 rondack residents leads to the winter killing (out of season) 

 of great numbers of deer, because the dogs must have some- 

 thing to eat, and their masters prefer to feed them on 

 venison. 



5. Because the continued practice of hounding means the 

 sure extermination of the deer in the Adirondacks. Residents, 

 guides, and visitors are agreed on this point. 



6. Because a cessation of hounding would be followed by 

 an increase of the deer supply. This is not theory. It has 

 been demonstrated in the State of Maine and in some of the 

 counties of Pennsylvania, where, since the dogs have been 

 driven out, deer have become very much more numerous. 



7. Because the sportsmen of the State, the press and the 

 Adirondack guides are agreed as to the necessity of prompt 

 action, Public sentiment is a unit in asking for the change. 

 The only opponents of it are an insignificant number of 

 Adirondack hotel keepers who labor under the mistaken 



notion that if their so styled "sportsmen" patrons are not 

 permitted to brain deer in the water the numbers of Adiron- 

 dack tourists will be decreased. How totally unfounded is 

 this fear is shown by the actual test in Maine, where the 

 same objections were made against a law forbidding deer 

 hounding, which objections have since been proven without 

 support. The Maine deer have increased, aud Maine 

 pleasure travel is to-day greater than ever before. 

 Pass the bill. 



MR. PIERCE'S DISQUALIFICATION. 

 HP WO weeks ago we published two communications on 



*~ (his subject giving Mr. Pierce's side of the case. As 

 we have heard nothing from the Philadelphia Kennel Club, 

 we may assume that there is no dispute as to the facts, and 

 that they have been accurately stated in the letters which 

 have appeared. If this is true, there can be no doubt as to 

 the view of the matter which will be taken by unprejudiced 

 observers. 



The conditions of the special prize in question read, 

 "For the best kennel of Trish setters." The rule which 

 would govern is, that the animals shall be entered by 

 the bona fide owner or his authorized agent, and that 

 where a kennel of dogs compete for a prize they shall all 

 belong to one individual or association. The intent of the 

 rule is manifestly to prevent any individual borrowing dogs 

 and entering them together, so as to win prizes which he is 

 not properly entitled to. Further, the rule no doubt intends 

 that where two or more persons are the proprietors of a 

 kennel they must own it. jointly, i. e., must have a part 

 ownership in all the dogs claimed by it, and must not club 

 their dogs, one person owning several individual animals 

 and having no rights of ownership in others said to belong 

 to it. 



It is clear from the letters published, that Mr. Pierce was 

 in doubt about the entry of Reeta, and he applied to Mr. 

 Lincoln for information on the subject. The latter had been 

 appointed by the Philadelphia club their superintendent. 

 He was the person to whom inquirers had to apply for infor- 

 mation on all matters connected with the show. He was 

 the fountain of authority, for it is clear that a meeting of 

 the executive committee could not be called to answer every 

 question which an intending exhibitor might choose to pro- 

 pound. When the club appointed their superintendent and 

 so gave him authority to determine all questions which might 

 come up, they at the same time bound themselves to abide 

 by his decisions. For the time being, so far as the details 

 of the dog show were concerned, he was in fact the club. 



Mr. Lincoln having assured Mr. Pierce that his entry of 

 Reeta as belonging to the Glencho Kennels was legitimate 

 and in proper form, that gentleman had every right to make 

 the entry as he did, and there is no reason to suppose that 

 he acted otherwise than in good faith. He had taken all 

 means which were open to him to decide the matter, and we 

 cannot see that he has been at all to blame. 



The Philadelphia Kennel Club appear to have acted hastily 

 and have certainly put themselves in the wrong. We should 

 be glad to see them reconsider their action before the matter 

 goes any further. 



Shows must have rules and rules should be lived up to, 

 but respect for them can never be enforced by doing an in- 

 justice. 



The rules of the A. K. C. provide that any person who "has 

 misconducted himself or herself in any way in connection 

 with dogs or dog shows, or field trials, may in the discretion 

 of the managers, be disqualified from exhibition or competi- 

 tion at these shows. Such disqualification shall be recog- 

 nized by all members of this association, and such person 

 can only be reinstated by the club or association disqualify- 

 ing. The person disqualified may appeal to the executive 

 committee," 



It is not clear what the present standing of the A. K. C. 

 rules is, but with some modification they have been adopted 

 by several clubs. Thus the rule, of which we have quoted 

 a part, is printed as Rule 16 of those under which the New 

 Haven show was held. The rule is vague, indefinite and 

 embodies a bad principle. It should not be possible for any 

 one club to disqualify an exhibitor. The club sinned 

 against should prefer charges against the offending exhibitor 

 send in their evidence to the Executive Committee of the 

 A. K. C, who should hear the defense and adjudicate upon 

 the matter. All this, however, is by the way. 



The New Haven club adopted this Rule 16 (17 of the rules 

 as adopted originally), and having adopted it they should 

 have lived up to it. Mr. Pierce had been regularly disqualified 

 —unjustly, as it seems, but still disqualified— and therefore 



the New Haven club had no business to receive his entries, 

 and by doing so to have violated the A. K. 0. rules. 



Their course, while it may have been morally right, was 

 plainly a serious violation of the rules. Mr. Porter's note in 

 another column shows that the violation was an involuntary 

 one, but the club, without intending it, made a very good 

 point in declining to accept the verdict of the P. K. C. until 

 it had been passed on by the executive committee of the 

 A. K. C. 



We shall not regret the constant misunderstandings and 

 blunders which are taking place in regard to these rules if 

 the result of it all is the thorough revision of the whole sub- 

 ject. This should be done, however, by persons of judg- 

 ment and experience. We do not want to have to tear to 

 pieces the revised edition. 



THE MASSACHUSETTS LAW. 



A BILL, said to be supported by the Massachusetts Game 

 •*•*- and Fish Protective Association, is now in the hands 

 of the Legislative Committee on Agriculture. We have 

 been unable as yet to procure a copy of the bill, but we are 

 informed that it shortens the close time on a number of 

 species, permits the killing of the pinnated grouse, which 

 still exists on Martha's Vineyard, where it has been carefully 

 protected for over thirty years, takes off all protection from 

 marsh or shore birds, except in the case of the Bartramian 

 sandpiper and upland plover, as well as from killing gulls 

 and terns. 



These proposed amendments are regarded by the friends 

 of game protection in Massachusetts as an effort at a com. 

 promise between the State Association and the game dealers. 

 However this may be, the changes we have, named seem 

 very undesirable, and we should be sorry to see them made. 

 The birds in Massachusetts have a hard enough time now, 

 and to take off the protection which they have under the 

 existing law would be a serious blunder. 



A committee of the Nuttall Club has represented to the 

 Legislative committee that the changes proposed should not 

 be made, and that all present protection should be continued. 

 They recommend that in draughting a new bill, the coai- 

 mittee should follow Senate Document 242 of 1884. ■ This 

 will be remembered as the bill which passed the Senate last 

 year, but was defeated in the House. The representations 

 of the Nuttall Club are signed by Mr. William Brewster, 

 President; Mr. William A. Jeffries, Vice-President; Mr. H. 

 A. Purdie, Recording Secretary; Mr. J. A. Allen, Correspond- 

 ing Secretary ; Mr. F. Batchelder, Treasurer, and a number 

 of other members. These gentlemen are well qualified to 

 advise in the matter, and we hope that their recommoda. 

 tions will be carefully considered. 



OPENING THE TROUT SEASON. 

 HPHE law of New York opens the season for trout on the 

 ■*- first day of April. At present writing it looks as if 

 the clerk of the weather may intend to disregard the laws 

 and, by keeping the ponds and streams closed, practically 

 prevent the opening at the legal time. In a contest of this 

 kind the laws of nature will win, and the anglers will be dis- 

 appointed. The severe winter weather, extending as it has 

 to the 25th of March, has kept the ponds on Long Island 

 coated with ice, and it is to these waters that the city angler 

 looks for sport on the opening day. In the interier of the 

 State there is little hope of fishing on the first of April, be- 

 cause it is usually too early for either comfort or fish, while 

 in the Adirondacks the middle of May practically opens the 

 season. 



The outlook for a good trouting season is a very fair one, 

 as far as can be predicted. There have been many streams 

 stocked with trout which should show returns now, and 

 from several parts of the country we hear favorable reports 

 of the condition of the streams and their inhabitants. 



The Marketmen's Bill.— Mr. Daly's bill allowing the 

 sale of game at any season when not killed in the State was 

 reported from the Senate Committee yesterday. This bill is 

 thoroughly bad, it opens the door to wholesale game 

 slaughter in and out of season. Such a bill should not be 

 entertained seriously for a moment. 



The New Jersey Song Bird Law.— The bill introduced 

 into the New Jersey Legislature by Senator John W. Griggs 

 has been reported from committee in the House, and, we 

 are informed, will pass. The $500 fine turns out to have 

 been an error of the State printer; the fine is fixed at $5, 

 The bill, as we have said, is most excellent, 



