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( VOL. XXVI.-No. 1. 



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Editorial. 



The Hartford Plan. 



A Deer Law Petition. 



The Adirondack Deer. 



To the Walled-In Lakes.— vni. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



At Seventy-One. 



Camp Flotsam — xxi. 



A Day with the Devil Fish. 

 Natural History. 



Evening Harmonies. 

 Gamk Bag and Gun. 



The Massachusetts Dinner. 



Shots Among Prairie Chickens. 



Kentucky Game Notes. 



The Adirondack Deer. 



Shooting in Cuba. 



Passaic County Association. 



Initiation. 



The Ducks of the Pacific. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



St. Lawrence River Work. 



Fishing at Key West 



Brown Trout. 



Two Hooks for Bass. 



The Striped Bass Law. 



Two Weeks with a Fly-Rod. 

 Fishculture. 



The Massachusetts Commission, 



CONTENTS. 



The Kennel. 

 The A. K. 0. Cumpion Rule. 

 Is the A. K. C. h Live? 

 The Newark D<> Show. 

 The Ancient am Modern Setter. 

 English Kennp Notes.— xxxiv. 

 Eastern Field Trials Club. 

 Kennel Managment. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Traishooting. 

 Range and GiUery. 

 The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 

 A Cni a*g ; a'nd Racing Canoe.l | 

 Cane/ . assification. 

 Ligh«a fcded. 



RatiT> 0l ; a noes for Time Allow- 

 ^ anc ls 



Snea pr< ? <es and Cruisers. 

 Yacht* , 

 Crui °)e the Coot — x. 

 The fee of the Pilgrim.— v. 

 Elec' > of Officers. 

 Correlative Power of Large 



ai idmall Vessels. 

 New - l0 hts. 

 Shaiohfjs and Dories. 

 Yacjib ig Notes. 

 Answi p\iio Correspondents. 



in America is not so large that help is required to pick out 

 the hest ones. 



The motives of the Hartford K. C. are of the best, we are 

 sure, but we can see that if they carry out their plan as they 

 have begun, they will meet a storm of insinuations of wrong 

 doing, which will certainly be very unpleasant. After the 

 show it will be easy for those who are dissatisfied to say 

 that the votes were manipulated in favor of this or that 

 judge, that pressure was brought to bear on weak-kneed ex- 

 hibitors to make them change their votes, that the Hartford 

 K. 0. Had not the knowledge or the independence to select 

 and appoint good judges, and that therefore they called 

 for votes; thus, while as a matter of fact they appointed 

 whom they chose, yet they put the responsibility for the 

 choice of men apparently on the exhibitors. These and such 

 things as these are sure to be said, and though none of them 

 be true, will not make it any pleasanter for the Hartford 

 K. C. when they are said. 



In all matters connected with dog shows, the interests of 

 exhibitors are of the first importance. On the exhibitor the 

 success of shows and so the improvement in form of our 

 dogs depends. If they are not satisfied, if the judges are not 

 men on whom they can depend, if they lose confidence in 

 the management, they will not exhibit. It is eminently 

 proper that they, or some of them, should be consulted on 

 the appointment of the judges. There is a great difference, 

 however, between consulting prominent and intelligent 

 breeders and opening a poll at which the unintelligent public 

 can vote. 



The Hartford plan ought to be abandoned. 



THE RARTFOEB \ tjLAN. 

 A NOVEL method of selecting judges for its coming 

 show has been adopted by the Hartford Kennel Club. 

 The bench show committee have w^tten to probable exhibi 

 tors, asking them to indicate their Werences for judges in 

 the different classes, and stating thJ the judge receiving the 

 greatest number of votes will be appointed. 



This plan is entirely new, and "it is wholly bad. It is 

 wrong in principle. It is unjust to Ixhibitors, to judges, and 

 to the Hartford Kennel Club. Th re is nothing to recom 

 mend it. J 



The wrong to the exhibitors Vm in the fact that it gives 

 each one an equal voice in the ijhoice of the judge. That 

 this should be a wrong may atyjftrst seem paradoxical, but 

 that it is so will readily appear, *rhe vote of a young fellow 

 who owns his first dog, and vfao is receiving primary in 

 struction in canine matters, shoved not count for as much a 

 that of an experienced breeder, who owns a large kennel of 

 the finest and best dogs. And yet the number of these olr! 

 breeders is so small that their selection, which is reasonably 

 certain to be intelligent, may be outweighed by the vc ices of 

 a number of unintelligent, ht) We ver well-meaning, voters. 

 Thus unfit judges may be selected, whose decisions will 

 work great harm. 



The wrong to the judges is serious. It makei the position 

 one for which votes are to be bought, and there are, no 

 doubt, some people so anxious for the suppositious glory of 

 this position that they will forget their dignity and canvas 

 for votes among their friends. Moreover, every inexperi- 

 enced exhibitor who has votcrd for the judge selected, will 

 feel a sort of proprietory interest in him, and unless he re- 

 ceives what he imagines to M his just dues will forever after 

 be very bitter against him,- 



But it is the Hartford kennel Club which must suffer 

 most severely. The attempt to please everybody will result, 

 as such attempts always do,, in pleasing no one. They will 

 receive the hearty curses of the disappointed exhibitors. 

 A bench show committee styould know enough about dogs 

 and dog matters to be &oie to make their selection of judges 

 without the aid of Exhibitors. Tha number of good judges 



THE ADIRONDACK DEER. 

 HWO game law bills were introduced at Albany last 

 L Tuesday ; one in the Senate by Mr. Parker, and the 

 other in the Assembly by Mr. Barnes. Mr. Parker's bill 

 prohibits jack-hunting deer; whether it allows hounding or 

 not we have not been informed. Mr. Barnes's bill allows 

 hounding deer and provides a penalty of $100 for jack- 

 hunting them. 



The proposal to forbid the jacking of deer is in itself most 

 excellent. Jacking is an abominable practice. It ought to 

 be abolished in toto. All right-minded sportsmen would 

 rejoice to see a law to that effect. 



But while we have the fullest and heartiest sympathy with 

 the proposal to forbid the jacking of deer in the Adirondacks, 

 we understand perfectly the real motive of Mr. Barnes in 

 introducing his bill. It is simply to restore hounding to its 

 old place. It is the final step in the well-planned scheme of 

 the Adirondack water butchers to harp on the evils of jack- 

 ing, to concentrate public attention on that one practice, and 

 to so magnify it that the other and actually greater evil of 

 hounding may be lost sight of. So long as the Adirondack 

 guides and soi disant sportsmen were permitted lawfully to 

 slaughter deer by the hound and by the jack, no voice was 

 raised against jacking. But just as soon as their favorite 

 cruel and destructive method of hounding was put an end 

 to, they raised a great cry in chorus about the atrociousness 

 of jack-shooting. The present agitation against night-hunt- 

 ing is not undertaken for the purpose of protecting the deer, 

 the aim is to put the hound back. 



Every resident of New Yo:k who is interested in the right 

 preservation of the game of the North Woods, should under- 

 stand the true meaning of this Assembly bill, and each one 

 should use such influence as he can bring to bear on the 

 representative t his district at Albany to thwart the scheme 

 of the bounders. 



Let jacking be forbidden ; by all means abolish it if pos- 

 sible—but not at the expense of the present just and sensible 

 law against the use of dogs. 



The Susquehanna Dodge. — The Pennsylvania fish 

 wardens, who were appointed to enforce the laws relating 

 fishing with nets in the Juniata and Susquehanna rivers, 

 have faithfully performed their duties— to their own pockets. 

 Their method of letting the fish go to the pot so long as 

 money went into their own pockets was exposed in a New 

 Bloomfield criminal court the other day. In the course of 

 the trial of a man who was accused of unlawful fishing, the 

 charge being brought by Pish Warden Josiah R. Dunbar, 

 the Court was amazed at the production of several receipts 

 for $5 each, bearing the signature of the fish warden, which 

 gave the holders the privilege of constructing fish baskets, 

 etc., in the streams in question. It is alleged that similar 

 eceipts to the amount of hundreds of dollars are held by 

 fishermen, and that the law is violated daily during the 

 fishing season. During the last session of the Legislature 

 Representative Sponsler, of Perry, boldly asserted that 

 officers having in charge the enforcement of the fish laws 

 were using their power, not for the protection of the fish in 

 the streams, but for blackmailing purposes. 



Days with the Devil Fish. — The interesting accounts 

 of recent adventures with the devil fish, published in our 

 columns, are supplemented in the present issue by a charm- 

 ing reminiscence of a day's sport long ago. The devilfish 

 is by no means extinct, but the pursuit of it for pleasure may 

 be classed among the amusements of the past. In the 

 imy days "before the war," when the famous Sea Islands 

 were the resort of a summer population intent ob pleasure, 

 the vampire of the ocean was recognized as a legitimate 

 object of pursuit, and many were the exciting adventures of 

 those who engaged in the exhilarating pastime of harpoon- 

 ing the monster. How the sport has been perforce abandoned 

 because of the disappearance of the prey, has already been 

 told. The devil fish is no longer to be found in its old 

 Atlantic coast haunts; but it appears to be fairly abundant 

 in the Gulf of Mexico; and as the Gulf coast of Florida in 

 the winter time attracts sportsmen, as did the Sea Islands in 

 old times, it is possible that the sport of devil fishing may be 

 revived. 



Jacking and Hounding. — Which of the two is the more- 

 destructive of Adirondack deer? Here is one consideration 

 which is a sufficient answer to that question. The men who 

 are crying out for permission to hound deer are one class of 

 city sportsmen and one class of Adirondack guides. Each of 

 these classes are greedy and improvident; that is to say, they 

 want all the deer they can possibly kill and kill now. They 

 are, therefore, in favor of whatever method will bring, 

 them the greatest immediate booty. If jacking would do 

 this, they would cry out for permission to jack. If hound- 

 ing would do it, they would cry out for permission to hound. 

 As a matter of fact, they do ask for hounding. 



A DEER LAW PETITION. 



ON another page will be found a form of petition to the 

 New York Legislature. It is a request to let a good 

 law remain intact. The petition concerns not only sports- 

 men, but all residents of the State. The interests of the in- 

 dividual deer hunter are merged in the broader interests of 

 the community. The two are identical. For them both 

 the deer of the Adirondacks should be given reasonable pro- 

 tection. This means that the hounds must not be put on 

 their trail to drive them into the water to be butchered. 



The form of petition may be cut out and pasted on a blank 

 for signatures. It should then be sent to Albany. 



What is done at once is done with double the effect of 

 tardy action. Prompt attention must be given to this mat- 

 ter. The deer hounding politicians are pledging members to 

 vote on their side. The Legislature should be advised at 

 once of the true feeling of the public ou the subject, 



The Michigan Sportsmen's Association will meet at 

 Kalamazoo February 9. The Secretary is Mr. Mark Norris, 

 Grand Rapids. Michigan needs a game warden system. 

 The Legislature of that State is short-sighted in its treatment 

 of the game interests. Petty parsimony is sacrificing the 

 deer to the hide and venison dealers. The Association has 

 tried repeatedly to secure an appropriation to pay for the 

 services of a competent warden, but in every endeavor it 

 has been blocked by the stupidity and penny-wise foolish- 

 ness of the Legislature. 



Florida Lands.— We have received several letters from 

 Florida correspondents in response to our recent remarks on 

 the sand swindles of that State, the writers urging that no 

 wholesale denunciation of Florida should be made. We 

 know that. Florida has tens of thousands of fruitful acres. 

 But that is no special reason why the paper town lot 

 swindlers should rob the gullible portion of the public. 

 Good land will always find a ready market. Florida cannot 

 be injured by an exposure of the robbers who deal in worth- 

 less sand. 



The Weather and the Birds. — Additional reports 

 from the South and West show that a very large number of 

 birds perished in the late cold weather. A correspondent 

 writing from Jewell county, Kan., relates that the market- 

 hunters had a bonanza when the cold wave came and killed 

 the birds ; one man went out in the morning and soon returned 

 having two corn sacks filled with the frozen game. A press 

 dispatch from Staunton, Va., reports that thousands of birds 

 were frozen in that vicinity. 



Jeckyl Island, Georgia, is to be converted into a. winter 

 rgsort for sportsmen. 



