Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



'^^^^'^sxtl^o^Hs!'^^^^ NEW YORK, NOVEMBER B, 1885. Ucb^SpLYr^SSyobk. 



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AFFAIRS IN THE YFLL0W8T0NE PARK. 

 /"^OLONEL D. W. WEAK, the Superintendent of the 

 National Park, has made his first annual report to the 

 Secretary of the Interior. He assumed the charge of affairs 

 July 1, and, as might have been expected from what we 

 know of his predecessor, found things in a wretched state. 

 There was no discipline among the assistants, game was 

 being destroyed in considerable quantities and without 

 interference on the part of the employes. He states that 

 now the Park is full of game, and mentions elk and bison as 

 abounding. Under the direction of Lieut. Kingman, the 

 engineer in charge, sixteen miles of splendid road have been 

 constructed between the Mammoth Hot Springs and the 

 Geyser Basins. Bridges have been built and roads repaired 

 Attention is called to the extremely unsatisfactory hotel 

 accommodations in the Park and to the high prices charged 

 for them, and it is suggested that some officer be appointed to 

 see. "that there is something hke the equivalent given their 

 patrons." The Superintendent requests that the force be 

 enlarged from ten to fifteen, and that they be paid $1,000 

 per year and $100 per year for their horses and equipments. 

 Reference is made to the inadequacy of the present laws, 

 and it is suggested that instead of depending on the Terri. 

 torial laws of Wyoming, Congress establish a court within 

 the Park with power to remand for trial to the nearest court 

 having criminal jurisdiction. He states that travel in the 

 Park this year has been greater than ever before, recommends 

 the surveying of the lines of the Park, and asks for an 

 appropriation of $150,000. 



On the whole, the document appears to be a fair and in- 

 telligent setting forth of the condition of things in the Park. 

 It contains, however, at least one erroneous statement. This 

 has to do with the abundance of game there. Tliere are a 

 few antelope in the Park, and if carefully protected these 

 will, in the course of a few years, become numerous. Elk 

 and deer are quite abundant. It is a great mistake, however, 

 to assert that bison, or buffalo, exist there in great numbers. 

 "We made careful inquiry of a number of well-informed 

 persons whom we saw during a visit to the Park last 

 summer, as to the probable number of buffalo to be found 



within its limits, and were assured that the number was 

 small— under 200. 



There are said to be four small bands of buffalo in the 

 Park. One of these lives on the head of Slough Creek, 

 and between that and Hell Roaring; another on the leve] 

 prairie near the falls; the third near the head of Yellow- 

 stone Lake, and the fourth in Heart Lake Basin. There are 

 also a very few over near Henry's Lake— outside of the 

 Park. It is estimated that the four bands within the Park 

 contain from forty to sixty each— perhaps in all two hun- 

 dred individuals. Another estimate placed the number at 

 something less than two hundred. Mr. Wakeman thinks 

 that one hundred would be a liberal estimate of the number 

 in the Park. In May last he saw eighty one in Ilayden 

 Valley, of which about fifteen were calves. 



It is evident that the number is small, and that no pre- 

 cautions must be neglected to protect them from slaughter. 

 Tliey are the few remaining survivors of the grand race 

 which once covered almost the whole country, and we can- 

 not afford to have them swept out of existeuce. "We heard 

 of the kilJing of oue individual this summer, by a young 

 man who ought to have known better; but as be was fined 

 |50 for the act he will probably care less for buffalo meat in 

 the future. 



Sharp measures have been employed against the game 

 butchers this season, and before long we shall have more to 

 say on this point. At present it is enough to mention that 

 one notorious meat hunter was convicted of killing two elk 

 and eight beaver within the Park, was found guilty, fined 

 1100 and costs, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the com- 

 mon jail for six months. 



The work done in the Park by Lieut. Kingman is excel- 

 lent, and the roads reflect credit on him and his force. 

 The hotel accommodations in the Park are extremely bad, 

 the food and service being execrable, and there is great need 

 of improvement in this respect. A new and wealthy com- 

 pany are said, however, to have obtained leases for hotels, 

 and as the persons interested are men of large wealth and 

 business capacity, they will undoubtedly see the importance 

 of treating the public decently. The ridiculous and now 

 moribund National Park Improvement Company have never 

 pretended to do this. 



It is of the utmost importance that the force at the com- 

 mand of the Superintendent should be increased. We have 

 urged this again and again, and the need for more men 

 grows constantly more pressing. But it is the merest waste of 

 money, besides bringing the force into disrepute with natives 

 and visitors to send out political appointees from the East. 

 They are utterly unfit to perform the duties requiivd of them, 

 of which they know nothing when they seek the place. 



We saw several of these young men this summer. They 

 spent their time loafing about the hotel, and in the evening 

 got drunk at the bar, and made themselves extremely offen- 

 sive to ladies and others who were staying tliere. It is really 

 disgraceful that such men should occupy positions of 

 authority. 



We understand that since we left the Park two or three 

 men have been appointed assistant superintendents who are 

 old Western men, among them Jack Baronet, who is an old 

 timer in the country. Such men can and will do the work 

 required of them. 



Colonel Wear's request for an appropriation of .$150,000 

 ought by all means to be acceded to by Congress. It is little 

 enough when we consider the size of the region and its im- 

 portance. As to running the lines of the Park again, that 

 may well enough be postponed until we see whether Con- 

 gress will, at its next session, have the wisdom to enlarge the 

 Park so as to take in Jackson's Lake and the Tetons on the 

 south, and the country lying west of CJedar Mountain on the 

 eastern side. 



We hope that this may be done. 



AN INTERNATIONAL GUP FVR CANOES. 

 A MERICAN canoeists have always realized that while 

 they have now made the sport peculiarly their 

 own and advanced it to an extent unheard of elsewhere, 

 it is of English origin, and that they owe directly to such 

 men as MacGregor, Baden-Powell and Tredwen the creation 

 and introduction of the modern canoe. All that pertains to 

 English canoeing has been a subject of interest to our canoe- 

 ists, and they have always had the greatest desu-e to have the 

 fathers of the sport at one of their meets, and to try conclu- 

 sions with the best English canoes. As there was a proba- 

 bility of at least one canoeist from England visiting us next 

 year, the New York Canoe Club, the oldeet in the United 

 States, has taken the matter in hand and has made ar- 



rangements to offer a challenge cup, to be raced for under 

 the conditions given elsewhere. The defense of the cup will 

 not be restricted to members of the Now York Canoe Club, 

 but canoeists will be invited to enter a series of trial races, 

 one finally being selected to meet a representative chosen by 

 the British canoeists. 



For some years the canoes of the two nations have been 

 growing more and more different, ours being relatively 

 smaller, lighter, and with less sail and ballast. The evidence 

 thus far in the trials between the two types tends to show 

 that the smaller one, while more convenient and portable, 

 is no less speedy than its heavier and more complicated rival; 

 but the question can only be fairly settled by a series of races 

 between the best men and boats of each country. It is ex- 

 pected that a party of English canoeists will be organized to 

 visit the meet in 1886 and to take part in the races there, and 

 that either before or after the meet the races will be held in 

 New York for the challenge cup. 



SEVEN DOLLARS AND AN EAR. 

 'T^HEY are wrestling with a great problem down on Long 

 Island. The disputation has waxed hot for a month, 

 but its settlement is seemingly as far off as ever. It is all 

 about an ear. When the Island turned out en masse to extermi- 

 nate the deer, in the first week of October, there were mus- 

 tered on the average fifty hunters to one deer. There was 

 no occasion for dispute, when fifty men came home with- 

 out the game, for there was plenty of disappointment and 

 chagrin to go around, giving each one his share and some 

 left over. But when the fifty men killed the single deer, the 

 real fun began. There was just enough venison for 

 a most tremendous wrangle over the infinitesimal 

 fragment due each hunter and his dog. The 

 only expeditious way out of the bickering was to 

 sell the meat and divide up the coin. This was done in a 

 number of instances where the claimants were all of the same 

 party and each had an undisputed right to his share of the 

 booty. But a more intricate complication arose when one 

 deer was started by a party of hounders and driven to another 

 parly who had no dogs. One of this party shot it. When 

 the hounders came up they laid claim to the meat. This 

 was resented. Then hounders and still-hunters wrangled, 

 and the hounds hfted up their voices in unison. Finally a 

 compromise was effected. The man who had delivered the 

 fatal shot was awarded the promise of seven dollars and an 

 ear of the deer in consideration of his relinquishing in full all 

 claims to the. rest of the carcass. 



Seven dollars and an ear ought to be reward glorious 

 enough to satisfy the most ardent and avaricious sportsman ; 

 but this was only the promise of the reward, not the actual 

 tangible ear itself . As the event proved the promise was 

 illusory. The ear, we are informed, has not been delivered. 

 The wronged man did exactly what any sensible person 

 would do in similar circumstances; he wrote to the Fobest 

 AND Stkbam. Below are the two plaints : 



Editor Forest and Stream: In yesterday's issue of the Forest and 

 Stream we found your answer upon "Who Takes the Deer," which 

 leaves this question still a problem. As we are much interested in 

 the solving of it we take the liberty to asK you whether there is no 

 way to get a positive answer by interference of your so esteemed 

 sporting paper. By answering this in the following number you will 

 greatly oblige G J. T. 



Sayvillb, Oct. ^^o.— Editor Forest and. Stream: The last issue of 

 the Forest and Stream did not mention any moi-e about the question 

 "Who owns Che deer?" The interested parties being very anxious to 

 have a positive answer, without resorting to court or lawyers, would 

 be most pleased if your paper —exclusively dedicated to all sporting 

 matters— would aid them in solving this problem, by putting the ques- 

 tion in your columns for an answer, or in any other way as seems the 

 best to you. Respectfully yours, G. J. Klaassen. 



The problem is too much for tis. If the man got his ear, 

 we confess we do not see what there is to quarrel over or to 

 go to law about. If he did not get the ear he has a clear 

 case, provided he can prove the contract. 



And Yet Anothek. — A Michigan hunter the other day 

 saw a moving object in a cranberry swamp and shot it. He 

 took it for granted that it was a bear ; but the victim was 

 found to be a woman. The shot was fatal. There is no 

 special moral to be drawn from this. Men and women have 

 been taken for bears and deer and woodchucks, and they 

 probably always will be just as long as idiots who shoot at 

 everything that moves are allowed to go armed into the 

 woods. 



A Hint of the Wide Range of this journal is given in 

 to-day's issue by two communications on the same subject, 

 one coming from England and the other from California, 



CONTENTS, 



BniTORIAX'. 



Affairs in the Yellowstone Park. 



International Cup for Canoes. 



Seven Dollars and an Ear. 



The Yachting season of 1885. 



The Granary of the World. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Lamingtou River. 



Uncle Kellup. 



Different Sorts of Outers. 



In the Forests cf New Bruns- 

 wick. 

 Natural Historv. 



Habits of Cravflsh. 



The Birds Gone. 



Skeletons of Dogs. 

 Game Bag and Gdn. 



Notes of the W^ildfowl. 



Gun Sling^ for the Saddle. 



Game in Pike. 



The Boston Game Market. 



A Woodcock Playing Leapfrog. 



To Lake Megan tic. 



Panthers and Deer. 



Southwestern Kansas. 



Duck Slaughter at English Lake 



The Choice of Guns.— -vm. 



Shooting in Cuba. 



Bears and Bear Dogs. 

 Sea and Rfver Fishino. 



The Tale of a Fish. 



Sea and Rh'kr Fishing. 

 Lessons from the Tournament. 

 Fishing About Mr. Whitney. 

 Black Bass Fiy Fishing. 



FiSHOELTtTRE. 



The Soles Died. 

 The Kennel. 



Beagles at Philadelphia. 



The Eastern Field Trials. 



Philadelphia Kennel Club. 



Brahmin vs. Silk. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shootino. 



The "Forest and Stream" Tra- 

 jectory Test. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Great T— T— . 

 Canoeing. 



On a Barnegat Cruiser. 



Executive Committee Meeting. 



Racing and Cruising Canoes. 



The New Raf>.ing Class. 



An Internatlonl Challenge Cup. 

 Yachting. 



Galatea. 



The Cruising Yawl Bonita. 

 The Cost of Modern Yachts. 

 The Rig of Small Cruisers. 

 What Next? 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



