Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 4, 1886. 



( VOL. XXIV— No. 19. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Past and Future. 



The Need of Experiments. 



( an We Keep the America Cup ? 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Ho foe the Woods. 



On the Great Mexican Desert. 

 Natural History. 



The Lesson of a Market. 



Aiizona Bird Notes. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The Antiquary's Armory. 



The Big Boar of Oktibbeha. 



A Moderate Charge. 



The Ark. 



The Choice of Guns. 

 Sea and Eiver Fishing. 



Camps of the Kingfishers.— j. 



Wes-- Virginia Bass Fishing. 



Maine and New Brunswick 

 Waters. 



Wax and Varnish Recipes. 



The Most Killing Fly. 

 Fishotlture. 



Hibernation of the Black Bass. 

 The Kennel. 



Englisn Kennel Notes. - xxx. 



English and Native Foxhounds. 



The Mastiff Type. 



Proper Age for Derby Entries. 



The Eastern Field Trials Club 

 Rules 



Chicago Dog Show. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Inter-Club Contests. 



Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The National Qud Association. 



The Minneanolis Tournament. 

 Canoeing. - 



Harvard C. C. Races. 



Pittsburgh C. C. Races. May 30. 



Suggestion to Regatta Com- 

 mittee, A. C. A. 



Cruise of the Lake St. Louis C.C. 



The Newburgh Meet, May 29-31. 

 Yachting. 



Atlantic Y. O. Opening Race. 



Seawanhaka C. Y. C. Opening 

 Race. 



Knickerbocker X". C. Opening 

 Day. 



South Boston Y. C First Race. 



Dorchester Y O. First Race. 



Newark Y. C, May 30. 



Fall River Y. O, May 30. 



Sandy Bay Y. C. 

 Lynn and West Lynn Clubs. 



Williamsburg Y. C. Annual Re- 

 gatta. 



The Races Next Week. 



The Racing Season Abroad. 



Genesta and Galatea. 



Test of a Sharpie. 



Atlantic Y. C. Ladies' Day, 

 June 2. 



Catamarans — The Jessie— Iris 

 Matches. 



New British Yachts. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



PAST AND FUTURE. 



BY no means everything has been told as to the extremely 

 unsatisfactory condition of things in the National Park 

 under the late Superintendent. As time passes, new facts 

 come to light, showing his hopeless inefficiency. Travel had 

 already begun in the Park by the middle of last month, and 

 tourists were arriving in considerable numbers. Game was 

 very plenty on the reservation at that date, and hunters 

 were preparing to begin their work of destruction. The 

 presence of all these visitors made it important that the 

 assistant superintendents should be alert and active, moving 

 about from place to place and protecting the game from 

 molestation, the geysers from destruction and the forests 

 from fire. 



At this time there were in the Superintendent's corral at 

 the Mammoth Hot Springs five mules and four horses, and 

 about tbe headquarters were seven assistant superintendents, 

 two constables and a game keeper. These men were unable 

 to do any work, because they were not allowed to use the 

 horses, but Carpenter's family used them whenever they 

 wished to for their own riding or driving, and in fact it is 

 said that the sole duty of one of the assistants was to drive 

 about the members of the Superintendent's family. These 

 subordinates were literally unable to get horses to patrol the 

 Park, and it seemed as if the then Superintendent expected 

 them to walk, packing their grub and blankets on their 

 backs through the snow in pursuit of violators of the law, 

 who were well mounted and equipped. 



Ex-Superintendent Carpenter's shortcomings are such un- 

 pleasant ones, that we are very willing to bid them farewell, 

 and we shall not refer to them again except when necessary. 



The future promises better things. From various quarters 

 come to us comforting assurances of the interest which is 

 felt in the Park by prominent members of the Government 

 at Washington. 



A well-known gentleman, in whose judgment great con- 



fidence is felt, and who has met Col. Wear, the new Super- 

 intendent, says of him: "He is a man with a backbone and, 

 I think, a level head.'' 



When the new Superintendent reaches the Park, he will 

 find an abundance of work to do. We hope that he may 

 select as his advisers men of the right stamp, and we have 

 reason to know thai he has already made an admirable be- 

 ginning in this respect. Col. Wear may feel assured that it 

 will be an ea9y matter to win the cordial approval of all 

 those who feel an intelligent interest in the Park. 



We hope that better times are coming. 



THE NEED OF EXPERIMENTS. 

 HPHE season of 1885 is to be a busy one on the home 

 -■- ranges. There is not, it seems, any chance of a match 

 against a visiting team of foreign riflemen, but with the 

 growth of shooting here and the multiplication of clubs it 

 is coming to be recognized more and more that there is 

 no end of good and exciting sport in shooting club against 

 club, in telegraphic or mail matches. 



In some respects these matches fall far below a personal 

 meeting of the men on the same range at the same time for 

 a shoot under exactly the same conditions, but the very fact 

 that two clubs are in shooting rivalry, leads them to study 

 each other's methods, to read conditions critically, and to 

 apply them exactly, and most of all, it teaches a rifleman that 

 most important lesson, that there is somebody else who can 

 shoot as well as he, and perhaps a bit better. 



The new army target is now going into use at the various 

 posts, and has provoked a great deal of talk and comment. 

 There is much to be said in its favor; much more against it 

 as a theoretically correct target. The best test will be to 

 have one of the new targets on each of the civilian ranges 

 throughout the country and then a body of scores will be 

 made up for comparison with the records of the army marks- 

 men. Where there is an army post there should be at once 

 a team of militia shooters ready to do battle with the boys in 

 blue. This will show the people not to place too much re- 

 liance on the professional, and at the same time urge the 

 army men up to the very best class of work. This was the 

 plan by which, during the past ten years, the regular soldiers 

 were made into shooters, and by which they have learned 

 no end of valuable lessons about rifles, their make and load- 

 ing, from men who shoot because they love the sport, and 

 who bring brains and money to the development of their 

 hobby. 



There is not enough of this experimental work on the 

 range. Each association should devote a portion of its 

 efforts and treasury contents to this important pioneer 

 branch. On every range where more than a dozen shooters 

 congregate there is some one who will undertake these ex- 

 periments, and give his time and labor provided the neces- 

 sary expenses of arms, ammunition and appliances are met. 

 These need not be very great, and with the suggestions and 

 hints which all may offer, much that each man may use in 

 his own practice will be the outcome of the effort. There 

 is too much pot-luck banging away at preseut. Each man 

 thinks he has a trick of getting bullseyes, and proceeds to 

 put his notions into practice. Instead of that the art of 

 rifle shooting is an exact one, which any man of proper 

 physical abilities may acquire, and which he may teach to 

 his fellows with assurance and ease. Experlmentia docel ap- 

 plies here, as well as in any other department of human 

 knowledge. 



CAN WE KEEP THE AMERICA CUP? 



WHILE scarcely two opinions exist as to the superiority 

 of the cutter over the sloop under most conditions of 

 wind and weather, recent information has enabled us on this 

 side of the Atlantic to gather fresh hope that the America 

 Cup may not go abroad after all. The agent on the .part of 

 the English challengers is likely to be compelled to accept 

 the three courses proposed by the committee of the New 

 York Yacht Club to make the matches at all possible. 

 As far as known these courses include one of twenty 

 miles to windward and return, outside the Hook, one 

 triangular drive, and one over the club course of the 

 New York Yacht Club. Manifestly the chances are strongly 

 in favor of the best reaching boat, and on that 

 point of sailing the sloop seems to have the best of it, so far 

 as opportunity for comparison between the two types has 

 been afforded during past years. But, with an over- 

 confidence not justifiable, the English also appear to be 

 on the point of sending out green vessels whose performance 

 is a matter of speculation rather than certainty. Thus, 

 while Genesta was unquestionably a good one to windward 



last season, she has at the last moment undergone radical 

 alteration in the addition to her outside ballast and more 

 hoist to her mainsail. This may all be an improvement and 

 it may not. To take her departure without full and satisfac- 

 tory trial is to send across a vessel whose capabilities are not 

 truly known, and a corresponding risk of failure will have 

 to be shouldered. 



On the other hand, the new Galatea is now being sub- 

 jected to preliminary ordeal with other "British yachts, and 

 up to date has not fully borne out expectations. Much must 

 be allowed for her green state and the lack of a practiced 

 crew, so that with sundry improvements in trim, and with 

 the limbering up of her gear, she may yet make her mark as 

 a fitting representative. At present, however, despatches 

 indicate that she is not the equal of the yawl Wendur, and 

 not specially bright either in running or turning to weather. 

 Apparently she attains a tolerable average, but that is not 

 enough to warrant sending her across as the champion flyer 

 of the small-waisted family. 



It is to be regretted on the English side that both Genesta 

 and Galatea emanate from the same source, and that neither 

 is up to the mark in reaching, the most essential attribute in 

 three matches, four-fifths of which will likely be with sheet 

 stuck out. We regret that Irex is not among the visitors ex- 

 pected. Last year she carried off the palm as a readier, 

 and this year is doing famously at turning as well. It would 

 not surprise us to find Irex at the top of the heap in this 

 season's record in English waters. 



What further experiment may do for Galatea, and how 

 Genesta will show up with her alterations, no one can yet 

 positively say. But so far as the pair have made any display 

 we may summon fresh courage on this side of the Atlantic, 

 for it is doubtful after all whether we are to meet the best 

 or only the second best of the squadron of big foreign 

 cutters. 



It is not out of place here to compliment the New York 

 Herald for keeping us informed by cable upon the doings of 

 the cutters abroad, supplying through its enterprise more 

 information concerning Galatea and Genesta than is to be 

 gleaned from all the English publications right on the spot. 



The National Gtjn Association.— In a letter printed 

 in another column, Mr. J. E. Bloom announces that he 

 proposes to retire from the active management of the .Na- 

 tional Gun Association. Mr. Bloom, as is well known, was 

 the originator of the association, and since its formation he 

 has been its head and front— the man who did the work. 

 He has given to the project a very great deal of thought and 

 time, and has labored diligently and courageously to estab- 

 lish the concern on a self-supporting basis. But the associ- 

 ation is not yet so strong that it can dispense with such an 

 executive officer as Mr. Bloom has proved himself to be. 

 When he steps out, then, it is extremely important that his 

 successor should be a man of the same devotion to the work 

 and ability to perform it, for without such an officer the 

 association will just naturally fall apart. Who is the man 

 for the place? _____ 



Mutability. — The report, of the Woodmont Rod and Gun 

 Club (of Washington) just at hand, contains a striking illus- 

 tration of the mutability of human affairs. The president of 

 the club, Mr. S. H. Kauffman, of the Washington Star, 

 notes that of the twenty-five members originally constituting 

 the club in 1880, but nine are now connected with it. These 

 changes have come with the common mutations of life. 

 Death has played his tragic part with the little circle; busi- 

 ness reverses may have caused some to withdraw, and re- 

 movals to other localities have in some instances rendered 

 resignations unavoidable. 



The Deer Hounding Bill has not yet been signed. 

 When Gov. Hill intimated that his objection to it lay in the 

 clause respecting giving of evidence, and when he assented to 

 sending the bill back for alteration in this particular, he as 

 much as said by that action that in its amended form tbe meas- 

 ure would receive his sanction. We do not understand how 

 he can now creditably withhold his name from it. Certainly 

 the bill is not one of those which he can avoid signing on 

 the plea that he did not have time to consider it, for he has 

 considered it and must know that it is a righteous measure 

 demanded by the people. 



Summer Reading.— In cosy camp, quiet cabin, carvel 

 canoe, cornfield corner, conspicuous castle or crashing 

 caboose, the Forest and Stream will prove just the sort 

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