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NEW YORK, APRIL 30, 188J 



j VOL. XXIV.— No. 14. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Park Superintendent. 



The Pine Brook Meadows. 



The Deer-Hounding Bill Passed. 



Through Two-Ocean Pass.— xv. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Bucktail in Florida.— rv. 



Moose Hunting in Maine. 

 Natural History. 



The Birds of Michigan. 



The Woodcock's Song. 



Zoological Nomenclature. 



The Crane's Back. 

 Game Bao and Gun. 



A Rainy Day. 



Battery-Shooting. 



Buck Netting. 



Deer Hunting in Virginia. 



Some Remarkable Shots. 



"The Dead Sure." 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Bonito. 



Camping on the James. 



Fly Nomenclature. 



Deep-Sea Fishing in Alaska. 



Leasing Trout Streams. 



Some Remarkable Catches. 

 Fishoulture. 



Philadelphia Fish Notes. 



Lobsters Abundant. 



Frog Culture. 



The Kennel. 



Modern Journalism. 



The National Derby. 



"American Kennel Register." 



English Kennel Notes.— xxix. 



A Mastiff Club. 



A Black and Tan Setter Club. 



The New York Dog Show. 



The St. Louis Dog Show. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



Revolver Practice. 



The Trap. 



The Springfield Tournament. 



The National Gun Association. 

 Canoeing. 



A Canoe Club House. 



"Paddling Canoes and Paddling 

 Races." 



Around Staten Island. 

 Yachting. 



Cruise of the Wanderer. 



The Cup Races. 



Election of Officers. 



Tests of Anti-Corrosive and 

 Anti-Fouling Paints. 



Yachting Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 

 Publishers' Department. 



THE DEER-HOUNDING BILL PASSED. 

 TF those readers of the Forest ane Stream who preserve 

 -*- a file of the paper will turn back to the issue of Novem- 

 ber 6 of last year, they will find in the editorial columns 

 these sentences: 



"AVhat is Adirondack deer-hounding?* * * Is hounding a legiti 

 mate way to kill deer in the Adirondacks? * * * Is it sportsmanl 

 like and ennobling, oris it brutal and brutalizing? Ought it to be 

 abolished? Can it be abolished? Will it be abolished? These are 

 timely questions. They ought to be answered, and answered now. 

 We propose to throw some light on them." 



The intention then expressed of agitating this subject was 

 carried out. The coiums of the Forest and Stream were 

 thrown open to a discussion of the merits of deer houndiDg. 

 Circular petitions for a non-hounding amendment were 

 printed and sent out to all parts of the State for sig- 

 natures. The responses on all hands were most gratify- 

 ing. The petitions came back filled with names and were 

 forwarded to Albany. The bill introduced into the Assem- 

 bly by Gen. N. M. Curtis was adopted as the one meriting 

 support, and how the campaign against the deer butchers 

 was carried out is known to all readers of this paper. The 

 light promised was given, and last Friday the Curtis bill 

 against hounding deer in the Adirondacks passed the Senate 

 and is now in the hands of the Governor, whose signature 

 will be beyond all doubt given to it. 



It has been a protracted labor, but the bill has passed and 

 the end sought has been attained, so far as it is possible to 

 attain it by legislation. 



This bit of intelligence will be most unwelcome to hun- 

 dreds of self-styled sportsmen who have annually resorted to 

 the Adirondack region to butcher exhausted deer in the 

 water; but all right-thinking men, to whom Adirondack 

 deer-hounding methods have been an abomination, will re- 

 joice to see the practice put under the ban of the law. 



It was full time that the deer-hounding should be stopped. 

 Visitors and residents were agreed as to the destructive 

 effects of the bounder's methods, and most sportsmen were 

 agreed as to the brutality and disgrace of water-killing deer. 

 The more intelligent guides were and are, as we have said 

 More, anxious to see the dogs driven, out from the woods, 



The most strenuous opposition to the bill came from some 

 of the short-sighted landlords, who believed that with the pro- 

 hibition of hounding, a portion of their patronage would be 

 lost; from a class of city sportsmen, who have been in the 

 habit of organizing annual deer-hounding campaigns on a 

 large scale, and from the residents in towns near the Adiron- 

 dacks, who were accustomed each year to hound deer for 

 the market. The efforts of these three classes to defeat the 

 Curtis bill have been persistent from the beginning, and the 

 final passage of the measure is due to the wide-awake, ener- 

 getic and faithful labors of Gen. N. M. Curtis in its behalf. 

 Too much credit caunot be given to that gentleman for the 

 manner in which he has watched the interests of the bill. 

 From his experience as a breeder of fine stock, Gen. Curtis 

 was quick to seethe pernicious effects of hounding, especially 

 when practiced in the breeding season of the deer, and he 

 was the first to call attention to physiological principles 

 which must hereafter always receive consideration in a dis- 

 cussion of this topic. 



The bill declaring deer hounding unlawful has been 

 passed, but it should not for a moment be thought that all 

 deer killing abuses in the Adirondacks will be done away 

 with by this measure. Deer will still be killed out of season, 

 shot in pure wantonness and their carcasses left to rot, or 

 killed for market and sold in the close time. This new law 

 will be only one great step ahead, other advances are yet to 

 be attained. 



THE PINE BROOK MEADOWS. 

 ' INHERE is no place in this vicinity so well known to the 

 ■*- snipe-shooting fraternity as the drowned lands of 

 Morris and Essex counties, N. J. Indeed, from early in the 

 century the Pine Brook district has been recognized as a 

 natural breeding spot and harbor for woodcock, quail and 

 ruffed grouse, and a ground where in the spring and autumn 

 wildfowl resorted in large numbers in the time of the inun 

 dations. Besides the local celebrity which the Pine Brook 

 meadow has attained, it has been made world famous 

 through the graceful writings of Frank Forester. It is 

 really marvelous, considering the number of sportsmen and 

 pothunters who are daily beating the coverts and log 

 patches, that a single game bird is left. But in spite of con- 

 tinued shooting in and out of season, there are days every 

 year when large bags of beth snipe and woodcock are made 

 on these grounds. 



It will be interesting to those whose wont it is to pursue 

 their birds there, to know that an attempt is being made by 

 the officials of New Jersey to reclaim these wild lands by 

 means of systematic drainage. This can only be accom- 

 plished by blasting the reef at Little Falls, and removing the 

 many obstructions in the tributaries of the Passaic River 

 above the great natural dam. Drainage of these lands has 

 frequently been projected, and some fifteen years ago, the 

 river where it flows through Ford's Island was straightened 

 for over two miles. This was done by cutting a new 

 channel. The expense proved very great. The farmers were 

 assessed, in many instances the levy was greater than the 

 swamp land was actually worth, and the poorer landowners 

 were ruined. In spite of the remonstrances of the manu- 

 facturing interests who depend upon the water power of the 

 Passaic Dam at Little Falls, there is reason to believe that 

 the work of draining the Troy Meadows, Scow Meadows, 

 Pine Brook Flats and the Big and Little Piece, will, within 

 a short time, be recommenced. 



through its whole length below Port .Jervis, and the present 

 Governor seems inclined to sustain this claim. Later the 

 Senate of Delaware passed a bill suspending the operations of 

 the Fishery License act of 1871 until the question of juris- 

 diction is passed upon by the Supreme Court of the United 

 States, but in the House the bill was laid on the table. 

 Meantime the Attorney-General of New Jersey has given an 

 opinion that his State has control of the waters in the river 

 and bay to (he center, so long as an injunction which was 

 issued by the United States Supreme Court, restraining Del- 

 aware from enforcing its fishing laws, lasts. 



It is a very pretty fight as it stands, and one which will 

 be watched with interest. The settlement appears to turn 

 wholly on the question of jurisdiction of the State of Dela- 

 ware. If this jurisdiction be admitted, there can be no doubt 

 as to her right to pass laws prohibiting residents of other 

 States from fishing in her waters. This has been done by a 

 number of States of which New Jersey is one. 



The question of fact then as to the position of the bound- 

 ary line between Delaware and New Jersey remains to be 

 determined, and when this is settled the whole question is 

 decided. 



THE PARK SUPERINTENDENT. 

 r T^O THOSE individuals who regard the General Govern. 

 -*- ment as a legitimate prey, the action of Superin- 

 tendent Carpenter in laying claim to a part of the Yellow- 

 stone Park will not seem very dreadful. There are many 

 people of most correct life and somewhat elevated thought, 

 who do not regard the cheating of the Government as a 

 crime. People who would feel them selves most grossly out- 

 raged' if it were hinted that they would appropriate a pin 

 belonging to another, see no wrong in defrauding the cus- 

 toms of many dollars' worth of duty on articles brought into 

 the country with them from abroad. This is a curious kind 

 of moral obliquity which, while very common, is not easy to 

 understand. It is possible to imagine a. person willing to 

 cheat his fellow man, or the Government, but that a good 

 person should be willing to cheat and not be able to see that 

 the cheating is wrong, is something that we have never 

 understood. 



In the same way it is quite possible that Carpenter may 

 have seen nothing wrong in attemping to secure for his own 

 private benefit, a portion of the territory which he was 

 appointed to look after, and which he was bound at every 

 hazard to guard. Such inability to distinguish between 

 right and wrong, such entire failure to appreciate the re- 

 quirements of his position, would furnish another very strong 

 reason t for his prompt removal. It appears to be the fact 

 that Carpenter looks upon his position of Superintendent not 

 as a public trust, which he is desirous of administering as 

 well as possible, but rather as a temporary berth, out of 

 which, for the little time he may hold it, he is anxious to 

 make as much as he can. He has felt that at any time he 

 may be turned out, and so he has, to use the cant phrase, 

 "worked the place for all it was worth," and leagued him- 

 self with all sorts of gangs, who are not slow to seize the 

 opportunity to make what they can out of the Government. 

 Such appears to have been Carpenter's course. Let him go 

 back to Iowa. 



A SHAD WAR. 

 r PHERE has been trouble between the fishermen of the 

 - 1 - States of Delaware and New Jersey concerning the 

 shad fisheries of the Delaware River, which at one time 

 seriously threatened bloodshed. The cause was the passage 

 of a recent act by the Legislature of Delaware, making it 

 unlawful for a non-resident of the State to take fish in Dela- 

 ware Bay or River without a license. Delaware claims 

 jurisdiction over all the river and bay lying below Penn- 

 sylvania. This aroused the New Jersey fishermen, as it did 

 when Delaware made the same claim in 1871, when a 

 number of men were killed in conflicts between the fish- 

 ermen of the different States. 



Governor Abbett, of ,New Jersey, was appealed to, and 

 the legality of Delaware's claim was referred to Attorney- 

 General Stockton ; but meanwhile the more impulsive ones 

 aimed themselves for resistance and the protection of what 

 appeared to them to be their rights. During the troubles 

 referred to in 1871, Joel Parker, then Governor of New 

 Jersey, issued a proclamation asserting New Jersey's juris- 

 diction over the Delaware to the center of its channe. 



Wisconsin Game Legislation. — Among the game bills 

 passed by the Wisconsin Legislature this year was one for- 

 bidding the exportation of certain game from the State and 

 the possession or sale of game in the close season. This bill, 

 after passing both houses, was vetoed by Governor Rusk, on 

 the ground that its provisions were unconstitutional. So far 

 as we are informed, this veto is not based on tenable grounds, 

 there being abundant precedent for such a law. The non- 

 export provision obtains in a number of States, where it is 

 annually enforced without question of its constitutionality. 

 The provision forbidding the sale and possession of game in 

 the close season is a part of the law of almost every State 

 that has any game law at all; in fact, such a clause has been 

 proven to be the only effective check on wholesale game de- 

 struction in the close season. Its constitutionality has been 

 affirmed by the highest courts of the States. The men who 

 would contest it if they could, namely, the large game deal- 

 ers, do not attempt to do so. We have not at hand the full 

 text of the Wisconsin bill and Governor Rusk's veto, but if 

 the printed summary sent to us is correct, the veto was an 

 error. We shall refer to the subject at greater length when 

 we are advised more fully as to the exact wording of the bill. 

 The non-export law is a most important measure for Wiscon- 

 sin, and for every other State whence game is shipped to 

 the great markets; indeed, it is absolutely essential to any 

 adequate schema $ gara.§ preservation, 



