Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, MAY 21, 18 8 5. 



j VOL. XXIV.-No. 17. 



I Nos. 39 & 40 Park Bow, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Massachusetts Muddle. 



Forest Fire Law. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Santa Barbara iu Spring. 



Lost in the Dead Creek Country. 



From Cholera to Colorado. 

 Natural History. 



Hydroids. 



Flowering Trees in Central Park 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Hunter's Camp on the Illinois. 



That Maine Venison. 



An Unvarnished Tale. 



Our Panther. 



Camp-Fire Flickeeings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Early and Late Fishing. 



A Fishing Trip to Lewis Pond. 



Bagged Lake Club. 

 Fishculture. 



North Carolina Oyster Industry. 



Profits of Fishculture Abroad. 

 The Kennel. 



The W. K. C. Show. 



Irish Setters at New York. 



"Wildfowler." 



The Kennel. 



Western Field TrialsAssociation 



The National Derby. 



The Pacific Coast Derby. 



The Toronto Dog Show. 



Philadelphia Kennel Club. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Springfield Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 



The A. C. A. Prize Flags. 



Paddles nnd Rockered Keels. 



The Newburgh Meet. 



Outfits for Camping and Ex- 

 ploring. 



"Canoe Handling." 

 Yachting. 



The Care of Sails. 



The Sail Area Rule and Fixed 

 Ballast. 



Cruise of the Iolanthe. 



The Yawl Freda on the Lakes. 



The Nice Regatta. 



Lake Yacht Racing Association. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 

 Publishers' Department. 



wood and dry leaves from the soil within a radius of five 

 feet from the fire. Third, exercise and observe every rea- 

 sonable care and precaution to prevent such fire from spread- 

 ing, and carefully extinguish the same before quitting the 

 place. 



It is further provided that any person who shall throw or 

 drop any burning match, ashes of a pipe, lighted cigar or 

 any other burning substance, or who shall discharge any 

 fire-arm within any forest or wood-lot, or other place where 

 there is vegetable matter, shall be subject to the penalties 

 imposed by this act if he negligently omit wholly to extin- 

 guish before leaving the spot, the fire of such match, ashes 

 of a pipe, cigar, wadding of the fire-arm, or other burning 

 substance. 



And that the idiot who starts a forest fire may not have 

 the excuse to plead that he did not know that there was any 

 law away off there in the woods, the further provision is 

 laid down that every person who maybe in charge of a party 

 requiring camp-fires for cooking or other purposes in the 

 forest shall provide himself with a copy of the law and read 

 and explain it to his companions. 



This is excellent law for New Brunswick, and it is excel- 

 lent law for every State and Territory in the Union. 



THE MASSACHUSETTS MUDDLE. 

 T^HE Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Associa- 

 -*- tion is not warm in its support of the mass of incongrui- 

 ties and absurdities which the Committee on Agriculture has 

 offered the Legislature for indorsement. In fact, that society 

 is doing its best to have the bill changed, at least enough to 

 make it a sensible one, and the probable result will be that 

 no bill at all will be passed this year. The friends of fish 

 and game protection in Massachusetts are becoming more 

 than ever convinced of the utter inefficiency of the Com- 

 mittee on Agriculture, composed, as it generally is, of good 

 enough farmers or theoretical agriculturists, to comprehend 

 and intelligently handle the precarious interests of game birds, 

 greatly depleted and fast going to extermination. This one 

 point is always topmost ; "We want our boys to have all 

 the partridges"— just when the boys choose, and against 

 the city sportsman, they mean. This celebrated committee, 

 which usually roosts on Beacon Hill from the first of Janu- 

 ary till the weather gets absolutely too hot— and it can stand 

 considerable heat— is responsible for the most of the defeat 

 which true game protection has suffered in Massachusetts 

 for a couple of years at least. An effort will be made next 

 year to have a special committee appointed to look after an 

 interest of so much importance. In no other way can Mass- 

 achusetts hope for any advance in the fostering of her game 

 supply. 



FOREST FIRE LAW. 

 n^HE Province of New Brunswick has a new forest fire 

 -*- law, which is in many respects similar to the provi- 

 sions respecting fire in the forestry law recently enacted in 

 this State. Certain sections of the New Brunswick statute 

 are specially directed against the practices of careless camp- 

 ers and sportsmen, to whose thoughtless unconcern so many 

 destructive conflagrations have been due. It is directed that 

 every person who, between May 1 and Dec. 1, may start a 

 fire in or near the forest, for the purpose of cooking or 

 obtaining warmth, shall: First, select a locality in which 

 there is the smallest quantity of vegetable matter, dead wood, 

 branches, brushwood, dry leaves or resinous trees. Second, 

 clear the place in which he is about to light the fire, by re- 

 moving all vegetable matter, dead trees, branches, brush- 



He is Everywhere.— It matters little toward which of 

 the thirty -two points of the compass your way is turned, you 

 are sure to encounter the fellow who masquerades in the 

 guise of a sportsman, and in that guise acquits himself 

 worthy of a carnivorous brute. In the recesses of the forest 

 he plies his murderous work, and the fair streams are pol- 

 luted by the stain of his butchery. Here are two recent in- 

 stances that have come to our notice. In the Indian River 

 country, last winter, a party of three Englishmen, rigged 

 out in corduroys and baggy trousers, kept up a perpetual 

 fusilade with their 8-bore guns at every living thing that 

 came in their way. The gulls, the white herons, even the 

 buzzards fell victims to these men. They had an Arkansas 

 record of 500 ducks shot and left to rot, and by the time 

 their Florida trip was over they had in that State a 

 record which equalled the other. The Wisconsin summer 

 sky looks down on deeds of this nature quite as aggravated 

 as this Florida case. Last summer Lake Gogebic was a 

 virgin lake, teeming with black bass, and by reason of well 

 directed effort on the part of railroad managers, large num- 

 bers of fishermen were attracted thither. Men from Chicago 

 and Milwaukee going in the guise of anglers, hastened to 

 the new grounds, and in numerous instances left the dead 

 fish in heaps on the shore, to poison the air and offend the 

 nostrils and the souls of decent men. Why is it that such 

 things are tolerated? Why is not public spirit so strong on 

 this subject that the low minded creatures whose instincts 

 lead them to commit such slaughter should be deterred from 

 it by the very fear of being branded with shame by that 

 public sentiment? One reason, perhaps, is because sports- 

 men do not do enough missionary work, each one in his 

 own neighborhood. 



The Hotel Man comes in for frequent mention in the 

 correspondence sent to this journal by the sportsman tourist. 

 Sometimes the over praise given to a landlord is blue-penciled 

 by the manuscript reader, and sometimes the mention of the 

 host is permitted to appear. The rule governing this is not 

 very well defined. It is to be taken for granted that sports- 

 men wish to know what sort of accommodations are to be 

 had at the various places of resort. This is an important 

 consideration, and when a writer refers to such matters for 

 the evident purpose of conveying this desired information to 

 his readers, the communication is generally printed in full. 

 On the other hand, there are very many individuals, not 

 much used to traveling, who, when they are well-treated at a 

 hotel (as the landlord is presumed to be paid to treat them) 

 are quite overwhelmed with gratitude therefor, and try to 

 discharge a portion of their supposed debt by singing out the 

 host's praises in the Forest and Stream. Such corres- 

 pondents sometimes complain because their letters are 

 trimmed, but we cannot believe that aside from the corres- 

 pondent and the landlord any one else misses the expunged 

 sentences. The sportsman who finds nothing more interest- 

 ing than his hotel experience 'to write about cannot be said 

 to have an ideal outing. 



Adirondack Forestry Commission.— The Governor's 

 appointment of Messrs. Dowd, James and Basselin as For- 

 estry Commissioners for the State of New York appears to 

 have been most unfortunate. The first two gentlemen are 

 well-known public-spirited citizeus, who have been friends 

 of the forestry movement, and had they time to give to the 

 work their places couid not be better filled. It is under- 

 stood, however, that neither Mr. James nor Mr. Dowd can 

 give to the Adirondack work the necessary time, and so as a 

 matter of fact the working member of the commission, if it 

 remains as at present, will be Mr. Basselin. Mr. Basselin 

 is a lumberman. He is said to have represented the lum- 

 bermen and to have acted as their principal agent in the 

 Albany lobby that has fought so persistently to defeat forest 

 legislation. Such a man is surely not fit to be entrusted 

 with the office which has been given to him. The success 

 of this new movement will depend upon the wisdom, faith- 

 fulness and honesty of purpose of the Commissioners. New 

 York can hardly afford to entrust the work to other than 

 those whose attitude toward forest preservation is known to 

 be right. 



Canoeing is one of the growing recreations, if any in- 

 ference is to be drawn from the rapidly multiplying litera- 

 ture devoted to it. Within as many mouths the publishers 

 of this journal have issued three books on canoeing; first 

 Mr. Stephens's "Canoe and Boat Building," then Dr. Neide's 

 "Cruise of the Aurora," and now comes Mr. Vaux's "Canoe 

 Handling." 



The Brooklyn Gun Club has just taken out incorpora- 

 tion papers, the charter members being Messrs. H. F. Aten, 

 J. L. Hill, G. Walter, J. W. Douglass, P. J. McDermott, I.' 

 C. Monroe, J. McKewen, J. L. Logan and G. J. Seabury. 

 The club has secured a lease of 6,000 acres, on which it has 

 been preserving the game with encouraging success. During 

 the past season it has put out fifty -nine dozen of quail, mak- 

 ing a total of one hundred and sixty dozen which it has 

 wrought from the South to Long Island. Three pairs of 

 blue quail from Texas have been liberated on the club's 

 preserve, and are reported to be doing finely. An effort will 

 be made to introduce w? Scotch grouse. The Brooklyn 

 Gun Club is one of the few organizations in this vicinity that 

 practice game protection as well as they preach it. They 

 have set to work in a sensible way to replenish the Long- 

 Island game lands, and their present success promises well 

 for the future. 



A Fishway for Shad.— For the past ten years our fish- 

 cult urists have been looking for evidence that shad have 

 passed over any of the numerous models of fishways which 

 have been built on our rivers. Other fish have gone over 

 most of them, but the wary shad has declined to even enter 

 their passages. In another column we quote from a letter 

 from Mr. C. J. Huske, Superintendent of Fisheries for 

 South Carolina, in which he says he has been told by good 

 authority that shad have passed the fishway on the Saluda 

 River. If this proves to be true, as there seems to be no 

 doubt, it will give an impetus to fishway building all over 

 the country, for many have been waiting to find a form of 

 fishway which shad would enter, hence the passage of shad 

 over a fishway is an event worthy of especial notice. 



The reception held Monday last at the American 

 Museum of Natural History at Central Park, was an inter- 

 esting and enjoyable occasion. One of the most instructive 

 of the recent additions to the collections is the Jessup col- 

 lection of woods. This embraces most of the species of 

 trees occurring in the United States, and is designed to illus- 

 trate the forest wealth of this country. The specimens of 

 the woods are polished on a portion of their surface. Ac- 

 companying these are a series of life-size water colors, 

 sketches of foliage, flowers and fruit. An herbarium accom- 

 panies the collection, which is for the present on exhibition 

 on the first floor, the hail of mammals. 



Amicably Adjusted.— We are much pleased to be able 

 to state that Major Joseph Verity and Mr. J. P. Squibob, 

 who have been glaring at each other across a thousand miles 

 of this fair land, have come to an amicable adjustment of 

 their little differences. Each of these old gentlemen is a bit 

 choleric, but neither one of them is vindictive nor long per- 

 mits the clouds of un charitableness to overshadow the calm 

 serenity of a green old age. So they have patched up their 

 differences, and in future, like the lion and the lamb of 

 inspired vision, will lie together in sweet unison. 



The Deer Hounding Bill has not been heard from 

 since it was a second time passed by both houses at Albany 

 and sent to the Governor. Why does not Governor Hill put 

 his signature to it and have the credit of doing so? 



