Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 9, 1885. 



j VOL. XXIV.— No. 11. 



i Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Kditoriajl. 

 Remove the Supei intendent. 

 Through Two-Ocean Pass.— xii. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Roughing it in the National Park 

 Natural History. 



Imported Pheasants. 



Why Does the Prairie Dog Bur- 

 row? 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Battery-Shooting. 



ITassaehu^etts Game Protection 



How the Game Goes. 



Some Remarkable Sliots. 



A Deer Hounding Incident. 



Moor Shooting in February. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Opening the Trout Season. 



Second Day of the Trout Season. 



Looped Leaders. 



Trout Fishing in Alaska. 



Leasing Trout Streams. 



Does the Big-Mouth Leap? 



Casting for Trout. 



FlSHOTLTURE. 



The Menhaden Question. 

 The Kennel. 

 English Kennel Notes— xxvn. 



The Kennel. 



Spaniels at New Haven. 



New Haven Notes. 



Disqualification. 



Retraction. 



The Hauley Dog Show. 



The Cincinnati Dog Show. 



The Boston Dog Show. 



The American Fox-Terrier Club. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Old Dominion Rirte Practice. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



American Canoe Association. 



The Newburgh Meet. 



A Cruise on the West Coast. — i. 

 Yachting. 



Richardson's Steerer. 



Cora. 



Cruise ot the Cora. 



A Steam Launch for River Use. 



Boston Mosquito Fleet, April 2. 



Hull Y. C. Racing Regulatioss. 



New Catamarans. 



A New Yacht Skylight. 



Elections of Officers. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



REMOVE THE SUPERINTENDENT. 

 rpHERE is reason to believe that the failure of the Yellow- 

 -L s tone Park bill to become a law at the last session of 

 Congress was not the evil that it was at first supposed to be. 



We have already stated that in amending the bill as re- 

 o-ards the boundary of the reservation on the north and east 

 side, the five-mile clause of the original Vest bill was only in 

 part stricken out. The wording of the amendment was 

 meaningless, as we have said, but any possible interpretation 

 would have come off from the Park five miles more than was 

 intended. 



It is hinted by those who should be well informed, that 

 this failure to wholly strike out the five-mile clause did not 

 occur through inadvertence as was supposed, but was inten- 

 tional. The reason alleged for this is that on the East Fork 

 of the Yellowstone there is a fine body of timber which cer- 

 tain parties desired to get possession of, and which could only 

 be secured by some scheme which would throw this tract 

 outside the reservation. It is known that C. F. Hobart, who 

 was notorious in connection with the Yellowstone Park Im- 

 provement Company, has been in Washington all winter 

 looking after the interests of this broken down concern, and 

 this lends a strong color of probability to the statement that 

 a lobby has been at work against the protection of the Park. 



The cutting off of this five miles from the east side of the 

 Park would not only have exposed this great body of timber 

 to the depredations of Hobart and his gang, but would also 

 have thrown open to the public a range where a great 

 amount of game winters. We have reason to believe that 

 large numbers of elk were slaughtered last autumn on the 

 eastern border of the Park, the meat being transported to 

 the Clark's Fork mines, where it was sold. For the protec- 

 tion of this game the eastern boundary of this Park should 

 be moved still further to the eastward. 



So far as extending the Park goes, nothing can now be 

 done until the next session of Congress; but it is important 

 that the Superintendent, under present conditions, should be 

 a man thoroughly in earnest in his endeavors to do the best 

 he can for the reservation, and so wholly in sympathy with 

 those who are anxious that the Park shall be protected. The 

 present Superintendent is not such a man, and we would 

 respectfully ask Secretary Lamar to remove him from his 



office, and appoint in his place some one who will do a 

 Superintendent's work. 



We make this request for the following reasons: 



1. The Superintendent left the reservation late in December 

 last, and has since spent most of his time in Washington, 

 where it is believed that he has been lobbying for the Im- 

 provement Company. It is certain that his relations with 

 Hobart have been very close, and that they lived at the same 

 house, look their meals at the same hotel, and were con- 

 stantly together. The conclusion that they were working 

 for the same ends is inevitable. There is nothing in common 

 between the proper guardianship of the Park and the aims 

 of the Improvement Company. A man who is devoted to 

 the interests of one must be opposed to the other. 



2. He has arranged matters in the Park so that it is im- 

 possible for the Assistant Superintendents to look after the 

 game, or the natural curiosities. 



Although through the winter there have been half a 

 dozen Assistant Superintendents at Hot Springs, all the 

 horses except three have been sent out of the Park. Two 

 of those which remain are the Government team for the 

 use of the Superintendent, who has given special direc- 

 tions that no one be allowed to use them during his ab- 

 sence. This leaves one horse for the use of the Assistants, 

 who are. therefore, unable to go more than half a day's 

 journey from the Mammoth Hot Springs. If they had two 

 riding horses and a pack animal, two of them could go off 

 together and be gone a week, and thus find out what is going 

 on in the reservation. As it is they can do nothing. 



3. Besides thus neglecting his duly and impeding his assist- 

 ants in their efforts to do theirs, we charge that he is pecu- 

 niarily interested with the Hobarts in various projects which 

 depend for their success on the reduction of the size of the 

 reservation, and that he has already laid claim to a portion 

 of the public domain within the Park. He is endeavoring 

 to secure for hi< own benefit a portion of the reservation 

 which he was appointed to protect. About the middle of 

 February, when it seemed altogether probable that the Vest 

 bill would pass, and so that a portion of the reservation 

 would be thrown open to public settlement, a dispatch was 

 received at Livingstou stating that the amended Vest bill had 

 passed. 



At once there was a rush to take up claims which it was 

 supposed might be valuable, and following that excitement 

 there appeared on certain papers filed in the Land Office at 

 Bozeman, to take up 1,400 acres of supposed coal land 

 located on Mt. Evarts, the name of Superintendent R. E. 

 Carpenter in connection with that of C. F. Hobart. The 

 same persons have also, it is stated, laid claim to a water 

 right on Gardener's River, within the present Park, covering 

 5,000 miners inches. These claim notices were put up the 

 last of February or the first of March, but were all torn 

 down after the fourth of that month. 



In view of these facts the conclusion is inevitable that 

 Superintendent Carpenter is not using his office for the pur- 

 pose for which he was appointed, and we respectfully submit 

 that he is thus not a fit person longer to hold this responsible 

 position. There are other matters in which his conduct is 

 open to criticism, to which we shall refer hereafter. 



He ought to be removed without delay. 



Netting Ducks on Long Island.— The article on this 

 subject which appeared in our last issue was the chief topic 

 of conversation on the Shinnecock shores this week. Speak- 

 ing of it, Captain Gilbert A. Penny said: "I have carefully 

 read what Forest and Stream says concerning Senator 

 Otis's bill to amend Chapter 534 of the Laws of 1879. I have 

 also read the bill, and that part, of it relative to fowl-netting 

 I consider the most important measure ever introduced for 

 the preservation of wildfowl in Shiunecock Bay. It should 

 meet with favor and have the support of the entire Legisla- 

 ture. It is, however, equally important that the bill should 

 be altered so as to except the months of May, June, July, 

 August and September. The reason for this alteration is 

 this: There are no wild ducks here during the months I 

 have named. Some of our summer fish, notably the king- 

 fish, are what are termed 'bottom fish;' that is, they swim 

 and feed near the bottom. To take them it is proposed to 

 use nets without corks. To use nets extending from the sur- 

 face of the water to the bottom, in waters of considerable 

 depth, would necessitate a large and needless expense, and 

 to forbid the use of bottom nets during the above-named 

 months cannot serve any purpose for which the bill is intro- 

 duced. Having had an experience of over twenty-five years 

 in the fishing and fowling interests of Long Island, and also 

 having suggested the measure introduced by Senator Otis in 

 order to save from utter extermination the wildfowl which 



visit our bays— which must ensue by catching them in 

 nets — I urge the removal of every reasonable objection in 

 the bill, so that it may pass and duck-netting may be 

 stopped . ' ' 



National Gun Association.— The Handbook of the 

 National Gun Association has been issued, and gives in a 

 compact shape all about the body. There is a history of it, 

 its by-laws, the trap-shooting rules, and the tournament pro- 

 grammes, with reports of what has already been done at the 

 Chicago and New Orleans shoots. The book is convenient 

 and accurate, and should be in the hands of every marks- 

 man in the country. F. G. Bishop, Secretary, P. O. Box 

 1,292, Cincinnati, will supply those wishing the book. Its 

 price has been fixed at ten cents. 



Army Practice.— General Orders No. 25, dated March 12, 

 contains the full statistics of the direct firing of the regular 

 army for the year 1884. The figures show on the face a 

 great improvement, not only in the percentage classified, but 

 in percentage of scores. The number of marksmen in the 

 army is returned at 7,081 against 4, 834 for the preceding year. 

 The number in the first class is almost doubled, while the 

 third class group is reduced from 12,307 to 7,443. The 

 division of the Misouri ranks those of the Atlantic and Pa- 

 cific in order, and among the departments that of Dakota 

 remains at the head of the list. The showing all through is 

 a very commendable one. 



Leasing Trout Streams. — In another column will be 

 found some extracts giving both sides of the question of 

 leasing trout streams to clubs. The question has arisen in 

 Sullivan and Ulster counties, New York, and is a legitimate 

 one to discuss. Either property owners have the right to 

 lease to whom they please, or they have not, and the courts 

 may be called upon to decide in this matter. We very much 

 regret to see that there is a disposition on the part of some 

 to transcend the bounds of legitimate argument and descend 

 to blackguardism. An individual who signs himself R. E. 

 Best, writes a long article to the Kingston Free-man, in which 

 he calls the club members "migratory vagabonds," and 

 speaks of their "drunken orgies," their "obscene songs," 

 and "barrels of rum," and alludes to them as "thugs, 

 pirates and gamblers." Knowing the high character of the 

 gentlemen composing the Neversink Club, the Balsam Lake 

 Club and the Willewemoc Club, most of whom are personal 

 acquaintances, we regard the article written to the Freeman 

 as a most vile slander, and the only indecent thing yet de- 

 veloped in this connection. 



Obituary Notes. — The remains of B. B. Hotchkiss, the 

 inventor of machine guns, were buried at Sharon, Conn., on 

 March 31. The pallbearers were General T. V. Benet, Chief 

 of the Ordnance Department at Washington ; Major C. J. 

 McGowan, of New York; Colonel B. G. Baylor, United 

 States Army; Colonel S. Crispin, United States Army; Col- 

 onel S. C. Lyford, United States Army; J.H.Graham, 

 Marcus Hawley, S. R. Ingraham, C. C. Dawson, CD. Leet, 

 W. VanVranken and J. B. Dench, of Bridgeport, Mr. 

 Hotchkiss was fifty-nine years of age. 



Ex-Judge Frank Sherman Smith, of this city, died on 

 April 2 after a long illness. He was a comparatively young 

 man, and when appointed a police justice was but twenty- 

 four years old. He was well known in the city and exceed- 

 ingly popular. Mr. Smith was an enthusiastic sportsman. 

 He excelled in all sports— with the gun, the rod, and the 

 tiller, and in the saddle. He was one of the founders of the 

 New York C. C, and for years was prominent in all kinds 

 of athletics. 



Marcus A. Hardy, of Newport. R. I., died at Cambridge, 

 Mass., on April 4. Mr. Hardy went to Newport as one of 

 the early machinists at the torpedo station, and subsequently 

 engaged in the invention of torpedoes and their appliances. 

 He had lately been engaged with a firm who have been suc- 

 cessfully experimenting with dynamite shells to be forced 

 from cannon. He w r as an expert in his business, and his 

 services were always in demand. 



Henry D. Green, of Portland, Ore., died suddenly at the 

 Fifth Avenue Hotel, on April 5. His residence at Portland 

 is in the midst of a twelve- acre park, said to be the finest 

 private grounds west of the Alleghenies. When a young 

 man he was fond of huntiug, and bought a little piece of 

 land with a hut on it, some distance out of the Portland of 

 that day, as a headquarters for his hunting trips. The price 

 paid was $1,200. The same lot, unimproved, is still owned 

 by him, and now stands in the very heart of Portland, Last 

 year he was offered $200,000 for it. 



