Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 17, 1888. 



j VOL. XXV.— No. 21. 



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



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 Nos. 39 AND 40 Park Bow. New York Citv. 



CONTENTS. 



Bditorial. 



Our Grizrfy Beers. 



Game in the National Park. 



The Mad Dog Scare. 



To the Walled-In Lakes. -n. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Podrnk Pond. 



Climate of the West. 



A New Hunting Ground. 



In the Forests of New Bruns- 

 wick.— iii. 



An Outing in Michigan. 

 Natural Histort. 



Arctomys Monax. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The "Foiest and Stream" Tra- 

 jectory Test. 



Tiie Adirondack Deer. 



The Lyman Sight for Deer 

 Hunting. 



Game in the Park. 



A Cruise for Game. 



Vermont Deer. 



George H. Ferris. 



Deer m Michigan. 

 Camp Fire Flickerings. 



Sea and Rrv^a Fishing. 



The New York Fish Commission 



Castalia Creek. 



Salmon Angling in Maine. 

 Fishoctlture. 



Oyster Culture in Connecticut. 



"Suicide of Trout.'' 

 The Kennel. 



<3ircling at Field Trials. 



Black Poodle Styx. 



The Eastern Field Trials. 



The Winsted Dog Show. 



The National Field Trials. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle ant> Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



N. Y. C. 0. Annual Dinner. 



Wide or Narrow Canoes? 



Reforms in British Canoeing. 

 Yachting. 



Cruise of the Coot — iv. 



TUe Cutter Melusina. 



Open Boats at Sea. 

 Answers to Correspondents, 



UR GBIZZL T BEARS. 

 T AST Friday morDing, bright and early, the expressman 

 ^ left on the Park Row sidewalk in front of the Forest 

 AND Stream office, a great crate or cage, in which were two 

 grizzly bear youngsters. They had come all the way from 

 Northern Montana, whence they had been sent to the Forest 

 AND Stream by Col. Joseph Kipp, of the Blackfoot Agency. 

 The bears were not altogether strangers. A member of the 

 staff of this journal had last August made the acquaintance 

 of one of the cubs, having been one of three men by whose 

 united exertion the brute — then a captive in a barn — had been 

 relieved of his collar. 



The cubs were captured last May by a Piegan Indian, 

 whose civilized name is John. The Indian was hunting one 

 day when he came upon a grizzly bear cub, which by the 

 dexterous use of a lassoe he soon made bis own. The squeal' 

 Ing of the cub brought the mother rushing in hot haste to 

 the rescue of her offspring. John, by a single lucky shot, 

 killed the she bear, and then discovered the two more cubs 

 of an unusual litter of three. With his prizes he returned 

 to his cabin on Cut Bank Creek; and soon the young captives 

 become quite tame, running about with the dogs, and seem- 

 ingly quite resigned to their new surroundings. It was not 

 long, however, before the three disappeared, and after a most 

 vigilant quest, only two were recaptured. These subsequently 

 came into the possession of Colonel Kipp, and were confined 

 by him in an old log stable. 



Grizzly bear cubs are healthy animals. They have good 

 constitutions; and from cubs they all too soon develop into 

 Old Ephraims. Col. Kipp, with an interest not altogether 

 unmixed with solicitude and apprehension at the expansion 

 of girth and the muscular development of his interesting 

 pets, began to envy the man who had lost a bear. It was 

 probably with strangely mingled emotions, prompted by 

 his embarrassment at the possession of the growing bears 

 and his high regard for the Forest and Stream, that the 

 Colonel finally decided to inclose the incipient monsters in 

 a secure receptacle and ship them by express and so label 

 them that they would be delivered in our editorial office in 

 the heart of a great city. It is needless to say that the 

 FoBBBT AND Stbbam appreciated the gift. Our Bear Edi- 

 tor has lugged his rifle njany a wes^ry mile looking for bears, 

 |nd it W8| glorious |«oi 3fBf|UBi« ^ tad twa fri?,2U«s 



at hand, without even the necessity of crossing a ferry to 

 get within range of the game. 



The bears were kindly received and tenderly cared for. 

 We fed them several loaves of bread, and through the day 

 they held a reception on the Park Row sidewalk, where 

 thousands of pedestrians paid them their respects, and small 

 boys past all reckoning poked fun and sticks at them. The 

 bears took it all in good part. They also took in a collec- 

 tion of hats, cuffs and shreds of garments. 



So soon as the necessary negotiations could be completed 

 the grizzlies were sent up to the Central Park, where Super- 

 intendent Conklin has kindly consented to care for them, 

 and where they may now be seen. 



GAME IN THE NATIONAL PARK. 

 "r?VERY item of news which we publish in regard to the 



National Park emphasizes a recommendation that we 



have many times repeated. This is the need of more assist 

 ant superintendents for the Park. This year for the first 

 time the game found in that region has been protected, and 

 as a consequence of this protection it has gathered in great 

 numbers within the Park. Assistant Superintendent Wil- 

 son's report, printed on another page, gives some idea of 

 the numbers and the tameness of the elk when they are pro- 

 tected, and it is clear that with this region as a refuge this 

 splendid game need never become extinct. 



What is needed for this work is a superintendent— a head 

 interested, energetic and capable, and under him a force of 

 competent men acquainted with the country and with their 

 duties. 



To efficiently patrol so extensive a region as the Park re- 

 quires a force much larger than the one now employed, and 

 the failure to provide a sufficient number of police may re- 

 sult in serious injury to the forest through the spread of 

 fires, or in wholesale slaughter of game. 



Although there may be no very large number of either 

 buffalo or antelope in the Park, the large game, taken 

 altogether, is extremely abundant there. 



Colonel Wear has taken hold of the management of the 

 Park with a great deal of energy. Since he assumed charge 

 of the reservation in July there have been arrested and con- 

 victed the following individuals : Geo. Reader, fine $100 

 and six months in jail; J. Ferguson, fine $70; Box Miller, 

 fine $50; J. M. Pearson, fine $50; David Guard, fine $.25; 

 R. W. White, fine $25; John F. Hoskins, fine $50. Stephen 

 A. Apliu went in of his own accord and acknowledged the 

 killing of a buffalo and was fined $50. This is the only 

 buffalo killed in the Park, so far as known, since the 1st of 

 J uly last. The rifles of the seven convicted men were sent 

 to the Department of the Interior. Superintendent Wear 

 expects to remain in the Park all winter, and do what he 

 can to prevent the destruction of game by the skin-hunters 

 that have heretofore slaughtered it with impunity. 



It ia to be hoped that Congress will increase the number 

 of assistants, so that the game may have the protection 

 that is so necessary to preserve it. With proper care and 

 the right kind of assistant superintendents the hunting in 

 the Park can be wholly stopped. 



THE MAD DOG SCARE. 

 npHE daily papers are giving much space to alleged cases 

 of rabies and hydrophobia. The senseless mad dog 

 scare has in several localities reached the proportions of an 

 epidemic. Town authorities are making an indiscriminate 

 and unreasoning warfare upon all dogs. 



This deplorable condition of affairs may easily be ae- 

 counted for without the hypothesis that any one of the nu- 

 merous alleged mad dogs is actually afflicted with rabies. 

 We have seen scores and scores of dogs said to be rabid, 

 but which we were perfectly convinced were in fact not 

 labid, but simply suffering from some one of the various 

 harmless forms of fits to which dogs are subject. But in 

 each of these cases witnesses were not wanting whose igno- 

 rance and imagination converted the dog inga fit into a mad 

 dog; and we have no doubt that some of these people, 

 had they been bitten by the animals in question, might have 

 died, not from hydrophobia, but from the effect of fright 

 and imagination. Alleged cases of death from hydropho- 

 bia are in most instances simply death from fright. Of this 

 there can be no dispute. 



The publication of M. Pasteur's investigations and experi- 

 ments has had the natural effect of drawing public attention 

 to this subject, and people are more than ever ready to 

 accept and exaggerate all mad dog stories without stepping 

 to inquire into their tjruth. Fear ^dds to credulity, Not 

 ©ae iHd«.vi«!ual ia tea t^9U6§^4 PPSfQUej! mmi^ fegewU 



edge of the symptoms of rabies, and once the cry of mad- 

 dog is raised it is repeated from mouth to mouth, and the 

 community ia straightway beside itself with fright. 



The evil to contend with is not so much hydrophobia 

 itself as the ignorance about the disease and the prone- 

 ness of individuals to accept every false mad dog alarm. If 

 M. Pasteur shall succeed in perfecting his discoveries, the 

 preventive will be most valuable, not in lessening the few 

 cases of genuine hydrophobia, but in so reassuring the com 

 munity as that it shall not be imposed upon by unfounded 

 belief in hydrophobia. 



If by vaccinating dogs it shall be possible to render them 

 secure against rabies, and if by that security the community 

 shall be so reassured as to regard hydrophobia with indiffer- 

 ence, as something about which there need be no apprehen- 

 sion, then it may be wise and highly desirable that the vac- 

 cination of dogs should be required by statute. 



Pending the attainment of such developments, it would 

 be a capital thing if the editors of newspapers would refrain 

 from publishing the rabiacal rubbish with which they now 

 fill their columns, creating unfounded public alarm on the 

 subject, and getting up mad dog scares just for the sake of 

 sensation. 



The Game Season. — The ruffed grouse shooters report 

 from very many localities this year a good supply of their 

 favorite game birds. We heard the other day of one sports- 

 man in Springfield, Mass. , who in an af tenioon stroll with 

 a spaniel and without a gun, put up forty grouse — and not 

 go far from the center of the city either. The quail supply 

 of 1885 is also proving generally abundant. From all sides 

 come reports of many and full coveys. There are isolated 

 localities where poor shooting is always the rule, for in these 

 districts even in seasons which are exceptionally satisfactory 

 elsewhere, the birds have no opportunity to hold their own. 

 Woodcock shooting in the northern covers has not been 

 much of a success, and this for reasons stated in these col- 

 umns last spring when we foretold a poor season. The 

 birds migrated late, nested further south than usual and did 

 not reach the northern grounds in anything like the usual 

 numbers. Moreover, the sportsmen in the regions where 

 the birds tarried very injudiciously pursued them instead of 

 recognizing the unusual condition of affairs and making 

 allowance for it. 



Ice Yachts and Sneakboxes. — In answer to many in- 

 quiries concerning these two craft we are preparing full 

 working drawings of each. Next week we will publish 

 plans of the latest Hudson River ice yachts, and shortly 

 after will appear several articles on sneakboxes and Barne- 

 gat cruisers, giving lines of the old sneakbox, "Seneca's" 

 cruiser, and a new and improved boat of the sneakbox 

 model, designed specially for the Forest and Stream. All 

 of these designs will be to scale, with full instructions for 

 buildins. 



Irex and the America's Cup. — The report that has 

 been circulated through some of the daily papers during the 

 past week, to the effect that Irex has challenged for the 

 America's Cup, is entirely without foundation, as no such 

 challenge has been received. The club now have the chal- 

 lenge from Galatea, which they must consider before any 

 other. Mr. Jameson has not as yet expressed his intention 

 to bring Irex over next season, though it is not improbable 

 that he may do so. 



Oneida Lake Methods. — Game Constable Lindseyhas 

 recently captured a number of nets illegally used in Oneida 

 Lake. The netters, whose occupation has been taken from 

 them, have now turned their attention to target practice aad 

 amuse themselves hy shooting at such members of the 

 Onondaga Sportsmen's Club, of Syracuse, as venture out in 

 the lake duck shooting. Our correspondent "Onondaga" 

 reports his narrow escape from the poachers' bullets. 



Adirondack Deer. — Wherever the non-hounding law 

 has been enforced in the Adirondacks the people are satisfied 

 with its wisdom. An actual test of the new order of things 

 has won over many of its former opponents. There can no 

 longer be any reasonable question of the wisdom and bene- 

 ficial result of such a statute. Now friends of game protec- 

 tion must see to it that the law is not changed by the clique 

 who are inimical to all righteous game laws. 



The Woodchuck affords a subject for a most interesting 

 paper, pulJlished tlsewhere, from th§ pen of a well-koow^s 

 pfelriesftR Ce9tr»l 5?«W yprl?, 



