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at once. The fishing there is superior— as far as numbers 

 go— in July aud August, hut half a pound weight is a fair 

 overage. Later, the catch is not as large. The largest I 

 Baugbt wejefoed three-quarters of a pound, hut Dr. Gold- 

 thwaile, of Brocton. landed one or two that weighed a pound 

 each, But ii glorious air. beautiful scenery and a well-kept 

 camp count, then Tim Pond is a splendid fishing ground in 

 September, We enjoyed every minute. Two or three hours 

 were devoted to fishing morning and evening. The sweet 

 sleep one enjoys in the woods is no small item. We put in 

 our two weeks' vacation all too soon, and packing up our 

 rods and other impedimenta, we tore ourselves away, hoping 

 the time would quickly pass until we could return. 



A. G. McKke. 



Middletown, Conn.. December, 1885. 



Len. Jewell. — The famous guide and woodsman of 

 Northern Michigan. "Len." Jewell, died at Bay City on the 

 20 thinst. As the fishing companion as well as guide to Mr. 

 D. H. Fritzhugh, Jr., the one who introduped the trrayling 

 to the anglers of America, he piloted Norris, Hallock, 

 MUner, Mather, and others who visited the grayling grounds 

 iu their early day a dozen years ago. A giant in strength, 

 modest, sober, and with a knowledge of the woods that is 

 rare, he was the perfection of a guide, For over forty years 

 he had followed the business of looking up lands for lum- 

 bermen and settlers, and the Bay City Express says of him: 

 There were very few men in the Saginaw valley better 

 known than "Len."' Jewell, he having'been a citizen here 

 for about 42 years. Mr. Jewell was a modest, unassuming 

 man, of retiring disposition and held the respect of every 

 person with whom he came in contact in business or other 

 transactions. For over 40 years he has traversed the piner- 

 ies of Michigan as a laDd looker and his judgment as well as 

 his estimates were considered perfectly reliable, never being 

 known to give a false estimate in order to advance his own 

 pecuniary gains, as it is too often the case with men in the 

 same business. The fact is, the deceased if he had been 

 trickily inclined, has had scores of opportunities to practice 

 deception, and in the parlance of men of his class, "make a 

 stake," but he preferred to remain in poor pecuniary cir- 

 cumstances rather than to gain wealth fraudulently. He 

 was of a genial, social disposition, when in oompany with 

 Ins intimate friends, and was especially a firm and true friend 

 to those with whom his peculiar fancies gave him the incli- 

 nation for association. He will be missed and mourned by 

 many who had learned to esteem him for his true worth and 

 manly ti aits. Leonard Jewell was born in Borne, Oneida 

 county, N. Y , February 25, 1815, and was therefore in his 

 7l3t year. He came to "Bay City in the fall of 1844 and has 

 since resided here. He enlisted in the Fourteenth Michigan 

 infantry, company A, at the breaking out of the war, and 

 was mustered out of service in North Carolina. He re- 

 turned to Bay City and engaged in the business of looking up 

 pine lands, which he has followed ever since. He was au- 

 thority on pine property, showing good judgment and a 

 remarkable faculty of estimating. He was very fond of 

 hunting and was acknowledged to be one of the best sports- 

 men in the city. He was a member of TJ. S. Grant Post, 

 G. A.R , under whoae auspices his funeral was held. 



Tjp-Up for Pickerei,. — Editor Forest and Stream; Say 

 to your correspondent "Pickerel" that of all the forms of 

 tip-up that I have ever used to signal a bite when fishing 

 through the ice, there is nothing like the jumping jack of 

 the toy stores. I buy fifty at a time and stick them up over 

 the holes by suspending" them with a stout twine leading 

 from the head to a slanting tick wedged into a hole in the 

 ice. The line then leads to the string which works the legs 

 and arms, and from these to the stick, so that in case, of 

 breakage the fish is not lost. The chances of breakage are 

 very great, and it might be well to have them specially made 

 for the purpose. The fun of seeing the mannikin spread 

 himself in a most frantic manner is simply "immense."— 

 Limber Jim. 



Lake Ontario. — A bill has been introduced at Albany 

 by Mr. K-ilby to prevent the taking of fish, except by ang- 

 ling, in the waters of Lake Ontario adjacent to Jeffe rson 

 county. 



THE MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSION. 



WE have the twentieth annual report of the Commissioners 

 of Inland fisheries of Massachusetts for the year ending 

 Dee, 31, 1585. The fishways are in good working condition 

 except the one at Holyoke which will require some repairs in 

 the spring. All applications for the construction of new fish- 

 ways have been considered, and such as have been approved 

 of have been built, except that at Hamblin's mill at Acush- 

 net. By delay of the law, no decision has yet been reached 

 in this case. At the fishways at Lawrence, a record of the 

 fish ascending has been kept. The following species were 

 observed: Ale wives, May 6 to June 18; suckers, May 6 to Nov. 

 3; lampreys, May 7 to June 18; red-fin shiners, May 21 to 

 May 22. Two black bass went up in June, five in August and 

 one in September. One salmon went up in May, ten in June, 

 three in July, one in August and five in October. Five shad 

 were found in the hshway in June,. 14th to 19th. 



The distribution of trout has been increased and next spring 

 there will be about 350,000 ready for delivery. Land-looked 

 salmon have appeared in ponds which were not thought to 

 be suitable for them when planted, but which were stocked 

 at the solicitation of their owners. There has been an in- 

 creased run of salmon in the Merrimac the past year. A few 

 have been killed at the dams during low water, but the most 

 serious depredations were committed near Haverhill where 

 dead salmon were found with spear marks on them. Eggs 

 of the salmon were taken from Merrimac fish by Mr. E, B. 

 Hodge, of Plymouth, N. H., aud hatched and returned to the 

 river, in addition to those furnished by the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission. 



Shad batching was continued on the Merrimac, and to 

 avoid gilling the salmon, a net with 2§ inch meshes was used. 

 This developed the fact that the river was full of young male 

 shad from one to two years old. These young males return 

 with the mature females, while the young females do not 

 return until they are three or four years old, or until suffi- 

 ciently mature to spawn. An article on the result of shad 

 propagation on the Atlantic coast, by Col. McDonald, is quot- 

 ed, in which the statistics prove that the commercial value of 

 the increase, due to artificial hatching, has been ten times 

 greater than the sums spent yearly by the Fish Commissioners 

 upon the work of propagation. 



The appendices contain a list of ponds leased; "Carp and 

 Carp Ponds" by C. W. Smiley, from the Bulletin of the U. S. 

 F. C, ; "Directions for Constructing Carp Ponds" from Report 

 Maryland Commission, 1880; "Taking the Fish from the 

 Ponds" by Dr, Rudolph Hessel, from Report IT. S. F. O ; with 

 the laws and resolves for 1885 and tables showing the retina 

 pf wws, seines and gib* nets, 



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Address all communications to the Forest and stream JPiiblish- 

 ing Co. 



FIXTURES. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 22.— Eighth annual field trials of the Eastern Field Trials Club, 

 at Hif*h Point, N. C. W. A. Ooster, Secretary, Flatbusb, Kings 

 county. N. Y. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Feb. 8, 9 and 10 — Fourth annual exhibition of the New York Fan- 

 ciers' Club, at Madison Square Garden, New York. Chas. Harker, 

 Secretary, 62 Cortlaudt slreet. 



Iviarch IB. 17, 18 and 19.— Western Pennsylvania Poultry Society's 

 Dor Show, at Pittsburgh. Pa. C. B. Elben, Secretary. 



March 23, 24 and 25 -First Annual Dog Show of the New Jersey 

 Kennel and Field Trials Club. Newark, N. J. A. P. Vredenburgn. 

 Secretary. Bergen Point, N. J. 



March 30 to April 2.— Third Annual Dog Show of the New Havsn 

 Kennel Club. S. K Hemingway, Secretary, New Haven. Conn. 



April 6, ?, 8 and 9.— Second Annual Dog Show of the New England 

 Kennel Club. Edward A. Moseley, Secretary. Boston. Mass. 



April 14. lo and 16. Fir.,t Annual Dog Show of the Hartford Kennel 

 Club. A. C. Collins, Secretary, Hartford, Conn. 



May 4, 5. 6 and 7.— Tenth annual dog show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, at Madison Square Garden, *ewYork, James Morti- 

 mer, Superintendent. P. O. Box 1812, New York. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



THE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration of 

 pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is pub 

 'ished every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in early. 

 Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed envelope. 

 Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany each entry. No entries 

 inserted unless paid in advance. Yearlv subscription $1.50. Address 1 

 "American Kennel Register," P. O. Bo^ 2882, New York. Number 

 of entries already printed 3185. 



THE A, K, C. CHAMPION RULE, 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Mr, Smith is in error, I did not "impugn his motives," 1 

 said that unless explaiued, there could be no other conclusion 

 but that the proposed amendments were inspired by personal 

 motives; the time at which they were made, and the fact that 

 Sensation won at these two shows, pointed in the strongest 

 manuer in this direction. By reading between the lines of Mr. 

 Smith's letter, I think it is clear enough, that the reason 

 guiding him in these proposed amendments, was the previous 

 practice of the W. K, C. and other show clubs, and not the 

 wish to affect the standing of Sensation, and this is just the 

 avowal I called on him to make. It is always agreeable to 

 have a suspicion of interested motives removed and I canDot 

 but think that the W. K. C. in general would be wiser in 

 frankly meeting cases apparently against their good intent on 

 such matters. 



I really fail to see where my inconsistency was. I wanted a 

 list made of shows characterized by good classes, good man- 

 agement and good judging, and I cannot agree that the Bos- 

 ton and St. Louis stows were anything remarkable in this 

 line. Certainly neither of them approached either the Wash- 

 ington or Breeders' shows in either point, and if I mistake 

 not, the Ottawa and Toronto shows were either of them 

 ahead of those Mr. Smith selected. 



I cannot state my case stronger than I did by selecting the 

 cases of the mastiff judging at the Winnipeg and Breeders' 

 shows, and again I would urge on the A. K. C. the vital 

 necessity of getting rid of the narrow exclusiveness that so 

 poisons its whole body politic, and of which Mr. Smith's 

 letter is so striking an instance. 



Depend upon it, the breeder or dog owner does not care a 

 snap as to whether a dog won "at a show held under the 

 auspices of a club, a member of this association." What in- 

 terests htm is, who did the dog beat, bow good a class was 

 present, and who did the judging, and even the A. K. C. will 

 eventually find out that it is only by studying the feelings of 

 dog owners and exhibitors, that they will prosper. I cannot 

 see why there should be any difficulty in clubs arriving at 

 a satisfactory conclusion as to what shows were proper to be 

 counted for champion honors, when the public have no trouble 

 in determingthisipoint, and even if there may be trouble in 

 doing it, surely that is no excuse for positively refusing a trial 

 at it. 



It is with great regret that I find myself obliged to hold 

 away from the fight that I see impending over the A. K. C. 

 in general, but oculists will take no denial, and I make this 

 final effort, partly to do the justice to Mr. Smith that he has 

 not thought fit to do to himself, and partly to add a last word 

 of urgent entreaty to dog show clubs, not to ruin themselves 

 by the hide-bound exclusiveness that has done so much to 

 bring them into public contempt. "W. Wade. 



Hulton, Pa. Jan. 22, 1886. 



IS THE A. K. C. TO LIVE? 



Editor Forest and Stream: • 



£Mr» Wade's twice propounded inquiry is one that can only 

 be answered by the club itself, and not by promises but by 

 acts. Its growth or decay depends entirely upon the amount 

 of confidence it can elicit from those interested in shows. If 

 it transacts its business in a prompt and straightiorward 

 manner it will succeed in gaining support, but if carelessness 

 toward the interests of those it has undertaken to govern, an 

 inability to grasp the situation it aspires to, or a laxity in pun- 

 ishing the lapses of its own members becomes apparent, then, 

 like poor Joe, it may exist but it cannot live. 



Mr. Wade lays much stress upon the so called "Sensation 

 amendments," but as they were most summarily dealt with at 

 the last A. K. C. meeting", credit must be given the club on 

 that score. Mr. Elliot Smith, I am aware, stated to his fellow 

 committeemen that Sensation's qualifying for the champion 

 class was not the object of his amendment to admit the old St. 

 Louis, Boston and Baltimore shows, but it is nevertheless a 

 fact that th3 four votes cast against the amendment were 

 given by gentlemen who felt they were crushing a piece of 

 special legislation. There is, however, a portion of Sensation's 

 history which was brought to the notice of the American 

 Kennel Club which demands consideration and prompt action. 



We all remember the fight of a year ago over "construction," 

 and how Boston at first adopted the strange rendering of the 

 champion rule propounded by Major Taylor, but after Forest 

 and Stream had editorially condemned Boston's action it fell 

 into line with New Haven and New York, and called for three 

 firsts at shows given by members of the A. K. C. So much 

 fuss was made over this at the time that there was no excuse 

 for any person accustomed to show dogs making a mistake. 

 Yet in the face of this the Westminster Kennel Club's pointer 

 Sensation was entered in the champion class when it was not 

 eligible. Neither Mr. Elliot Smith nor Mr. Mortimer can 

 deny that they were aware of this at the time of the show, if 

 not before, and yet the prize for which Sensation had a walk 

 over is still held by his owners. This is singularly inconsistent 

 with the common dictates of honesty and is particularly con- 

 spicuous in view of the position the Westminster Club has 

 always considered itself entitled to, and also Ma-. Smith's being 

 the president of the A. K. C. 



What, may I ask, is the difference between the taking of 

 the prize Sensation had no right to and Dr. H. M. Perry taking 

 the kennel prise at the last Philadelphia show when he had 

 but four dogs present? Yet la the former case we have the 

 We&minst.ei- j£enue,l Club blandly smiling a wh#-are-ypu- 



the Sans Souci kennel, and at its last monthly meeting ex- 

 pelled Hext. M. Perry from the club, this action of course pre- 

 venting him from taking further part as an exhibitor at shows 

 held under A. K. C. rules. The A. K. C. cannot afford to 

 allow this Sensation blot to remain any longer, even if the 

 Westminster Kennel Club thinks that an ostrich-like blind- 

 ness on its part will prevent outsiders from seeing it. So 

 much for what the A. K. C. must do to preserve purity among 

 its own members. 



As to carelessness toward the interests of others, there is 

 the application of the New York Fanciers' Club for admission 

 as a sample. This application was presented at the meeting 

 of Dec. 16, and referred to the Committee on Credentials. A 

 month has elapsed and yet no advance has been made. When 

 the application was read I was allowed permission to say with 

 regard to it that an early answer was specially to be desired, 

 as the club proposed giving S8Q0 in prizes, and it was anxious 

 to announce at as early a date as possible its being a member 

 of the A. K. C. if it was elected. The entries close next week 

 for the Fanciers' show, and with an utter disregard to the 

 convenience or the interests of the applicant, the A. K. C. 

 still dawdles along in its slipshod, careless methods. 



Then we have the short-sighted policy of preventing the 

 growth of the A. K. C. by its restrictive champion class quali- 

 fication rule, which applies only to its own shows. What a 

 difference it would make to the strength and control of the 

 A. K. C. if its rule read a winner of three first prizes at shows 

 held under these rules, and at which not less than '600 entries 

 are made. Can the committee of the A. K. C. not see that 

 such a rule would enable the club to grasp the control of all 

 shows, while at the same time it is not ( ssential that the. con- 

 trolling body should be swamped by an excessively large 

 membership, if that is what the committee objects to? 



It is in the facing such as the foregoing and the action 

 thereon that will determine whether the A. K C. is to be a 

 live organization or a stumbling block to point the finger at. 



James Watson. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The letter of Mr. Elliot Smith, which appeared iu your issue 

 of last week, after I had already sent a communication on the 

 subject of the American Kennel Club, calls for a postscript 

 thereto, Mr, .Smith overlooked the fact of the last meeting of 

 the American Kennel Club being open to the public, and also 

 some points in his own club's history. The amendment, which 

 for convenience sake we will call the "Sensation amendment," 

 was proposed prior to the meeting to be held at Pittsburgh 

 last September. It did not meet with a very cordial reception 

 on the part of some of the clubs, and Mr. Nickerson, the 

 former secretary of the New England Kennel Club, informed 

 me when in Philadelphia in November last, that he had written 

 Mr. Smith about it. This brought forth a reply from the pro- 

 poser, in which he acknowledged the motives which had 

 inspired the amendment were open to misconstrution, and he 

 would withdraw it. At least one other member of the com- 

 mittee told me he understood the amendment would not be 

 proceeded with, hence it was somewhat of a surprise when it 

 came up for official action. 



Mr. Smith cannot fail to remember that upon Mr. Peshall 

 asking that other shows be recognised, he was at once met by 

 the motion made by Mr. Smith that the amendment be laid 

 on the table. The Westminster Kennel Club voted "aye," as 

 did two other delegates, while three votes were cast in the 

 negative, the tie being decided by the negative vote of Mr. 

 Morgan, then acting as temporary chairman. It will strike 

 most persons that if the amendment had been of such vital 

 importance, "a step in the right direction" as Mr. Smith calls 

 it, he should not have attempted to withdraw it on what was 

 so far opposition of the mildest form. The A. K. C. have 

 taken so few steps in the right direction, it was a great pity 

 to withdraw what Mr. Smith considered to be one. It must 

 also be borne in mind that the amendment then was to admit 

 only St. Louis and Boston. 



The amendment then provoked a lengthy discussion, but 

 mainly between Mr. Smith and Mr. Peshall, and after some 

 time Mr. Smith accepted Baltimore as a part of it, but re- 

 fused to make any further concession and finally choked off 

 further discussion by calling for the question, just as Mr. 

 Peshall and Mr. Osborn seemed about getting at a proposit ion 

 to include really good shows. Then would seem to have be en 

 the time to get in Mr. Smith's first love, an acknowledgment of 

 all shows previously recognized by the Westminster and 

 other clubs. Mr. Smith asks if Mr. W ade has ever heard of 

 shows at Mineola, Springfield, etc I have no doubt Mr. Wade 

 has. and also knows that the Westminster Club recognized 

 Springfield until lapse of time made it obsolete. It also re- 

 cogn ; zed Toronto and Ottawa, neither of which came under 

 the fearful ban of "speculations." When the.vote was finally 

 taken, it was seen that the majority of the committee was 

 not in favor of (to quote Mr. Smith) legislating for the recog- 

 nition of any of "these accidenntal brutes that had jumped 

 into the champion class through the inferiority of the class 

 they had won in, or through the incompetence of a judge." 



Mi\ Smith is also in error in saying that the aforeaid brutes 

 were favored by the original A. K. C. champion rule of the 

 Westminster and other clubs that took that line. The A. K. 

 C. rule first adopted choked them off. then Major Taylor's 

 "construction" with General Shattuc's "opinion" intervened, 

 only to be put aside by the leading clubs last spring. 



The objection urged against Washington and other shows 

 is that they were "speculations." What is the show Mr. 

 Smith manages? Evety show is a speculation— everything is 

 a speculation, if it comes to that, in which there is uncer- 

 tainty as to the future. Mr. Lincoln and I put up the money 

 for the first Washington show; Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Olcott and 

 a Chicago newspaper man were partners in the first Chicago 

 venture; Mr. Smith and some of his friends are partners in 

 the Westminster Kennel Club shows. Wherein lies the 

 difference? This is it: Mr. Mason judged at Washington; 

 Mr. Mason is not liked by the Westminster Kennel Club, and 

 to get over recognizing Washington the plea of speculations 

 was originated. My authority for that was Mr. Lincoln, and 

 it was an open secret at the time it was done. 



Mr. Smith's present proposition is to continue to advocate 

 the recognition of all important shows held by a club in good 

 standing before the foundation of the A. K. C. and only of 

 A. K. C. members thereafter. In the first placej what has a 

 club in good standing got to do with it, and which are im- 

 portant shows? Mr. Smith failed in his continuity of advo- 

 cating very much, I think, when he distinctly and very 

 emphatically declined at the meeting to allow any other club 

 shows to be added to his three selections. The action and the 

 statement make a very balky team 



Taking Mr. Smith's position as being the one likely to gov- 

 ern the A. K. C. , and then add to it the action of the com- 

 mittee on credentials in the case of the New York Fanciers' 

 Club, and what do we find? That this "holier than thou" 

 association for motives they think are only known to them- 

 selves, but can be read as through a glass, propose keeping 

 from its membership clubs of good standing without assigning 

 any reason therefor. The secretary of the A. K. C. says the 

 committee on credentials declined to approve of the applica- 

 tion of the Fanciers' Club. These gentlemen surely mistake 

 their duties, the province of a committee on credentials is to 

 see that the requirements of the constitution are complied 

 with. Wherein did the Fanciers' Club fail? It had previously 

 held dog shows, and so far as the credentials were concerned 

 they filled the bill. It rested with the committee itself to 

 elect or not as they saw fit. Messrs. Child, Webb and Pope 

 have mingled in one harmonious whole the processes of eert^ 

 tying to credentials, which is their sole province, .and jibs 



