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j VOL. XXVI.-No. 5. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Railroads and Game. 



Needs of the Yellowstone Park. 



The Deer Hounding Bill. 



To the Walled ln Lakes.— xn. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Camp Flotsam — xxv. 

 Natural History. 



The Audubon Society. 



'•Murder Most Foul." 



Birds and Bonnets. 



A Sensible Gunner. 



Spare the Birds. 



A Pet Squirrel. 



Moose in the Adirondacks, 

 Camp Fire Flickering.?. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Hunting at Army Posts. 



The Michigan Association. 



In Michigan Wjius. — i. 



With the Quail in Virginia. 



Shooting in Cuba. 



Frratic Bullet Flights. 



The Utica Association. 



The Maine Deer Law. 



The Economic View of Deer 

 Hounding. 



Mr. Hague on the Park. 

 Sea and Kiver Fishing. 



Florida Bass. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Wind. 



Fisb Laws of New York. 



My First Bass. 



Black Bass in Lake Erie. 



A Bass Fishing Reminiscence. 



FlSHCtTLTURE. 



Breeding of Black Bass. 

 The Kennel. 



A Four- Footed Account of It. 



The Unpaid Special at Chicago. 



The New York Dog Show. 



The New Haven Dog Show. 



The Alexandria E'ield Trials. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Individual Championship. 

 Canoeing. 



The A. 0. A. Trophy. 



Some Questions for Canoeists. 



The Rules of Boat Racing. 



The New Canoes of the Year, 

 Yachting. 



The New Steam Yachts. 



Cruise of the Coot — xiv. 

 Combination Pump anuWindlass 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



RAILROADS AND GAME. 

 'T^HE rapidity which large game is disappearing in the 

 West is so startling as to he almost beyond belief. Old 

 timers, who have been in the East for two or three years, go 

 back to their former hunting grounds, and find that the 

 place of the deer and elk and antelope have been taken by 

 cows, horses and sheep. Nowadays one does not know 

 where to look for large game. 



The hunting grounds which have been the least frequented 

 are along the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and to 

 this region the sportsman must turn if he hopes to succeed 

 in securing a fair share of the great game which in the old 

 days was so plenty, and is now so scarce in the Rocky 

 Mountain region. But the sportsman after all has little 

 chance of success as compared with those men who make a 

 business of hunting for the meat or the hide market. His 

 outing is at best but a short one, and so bitter and relentless 

 is the pursuit of the game that its feeding grounds change 

 from year to year and the man who starts out from the 

 East to hunt, must seek each season fresh fields in which to 

 look for the objects of his search. 



A blindly foolish and short-sighted policy has been pur- 

 sued by many of the railroads leading into the game countries 

 of the West. They have sought eagerly for the transporta- 

 tion of meat and hides from the regions where they were 

 killed by hunters, forgetting that by thus encouraging the 

 slaughter of this game, they were cutting off one of the 

 greatest attractions to passenger traffic over their lines. Thus 

 for the few present dollars received for freight they have 

 thrown away the certainty of receiving vastly greater sums 

 for the transportation of passengers. 



In sharp and striking contrast to this mistaken policy is 

 the far broader one adopted by the Northern Pacific Rail- 

 road. For a long time parties in the neighborhood of Lake 

 Pend d'Oreille have been making application to the freight 

 department of this corporation for special rates on wild meat 

 by the car load from the lake to the East. These applica- 

 tions have been turned over to Mr. Chas. S. Fee, the Gen- 

 eral Passenger Agent of the road, who has given directions 

 that all such applications for special rates shall be denied. 

 In giving his reasons for this course, he recites that to a very 

 considerable portion of the trayeHog public, the game and 



fish of the region traversed by the Northern Pacific consti. 

 tute its chief attraction. This large and ever increasing class 

 of travelers are well-to-do people, who have money to spend, 

 and are thus desirable patrons of the road. Any course 

 which will decrease the supply of the game which they seek ) 

 will tend to reduce the travel over the road by this class, who 

 will go where they believe game to be most abundant. For 

 this reason, if for no other, the Northern Pacific Railroad de- 

 sires to preserve, by every means in its power, the game 

 which is so great an attraction to a large class of travelers. 

 It will not give special rates on wild meat by the car load, 

 nor by the hundred pounds. It will discourage, so far as it 

 can, the shipping of such wild meat at all. It will, so far as 

 lies in its power, preserve the game. 



Looked at simply from a business standpoint, this is a wise 

 course; and yet how few communities, corporations, or in- 

 dividuals have the foresight to recognize this, to see that in 

 no way can the game be made to pay so large a return as by 

 preserving it, so that outsiders, who will pay liberally for the 

 privilege of pursuing it, shall be attracted from afar and pay 

 their dollars to the people who live where the game does. 

 Usually it is a headlong race to see who shall get the most 

 game in the shortest time, and very often the railroads are 

 not far behind in the general scramble for a share in the 

 spoils. It is encouraging, then, to see a great corporation 

 like the Northern Pacific Railroad taking a firm and deter- 

 mined stand for game protection in a region where game pro- 

 tectors are most needed. Its example'should not be without 

 its effect on others. 



THE DEER HOUNDING BILL. 



THE bills for the repeal of the present wise anti-hounding 

 law have been consolidated into one bill which 

 repeals the present law prohibiting the hounding of deer; 

 provides that the hunting season shall open Aug. 15, and 

 permits the hounding of deer from Sept. 1 until Oct. 15. 

 The transportation of venison is prohibited except from Aug. 

 15 until Nov. 15, during which time two carcasses of venison 

 may be transported, provided, however, the venison is 

 accompanied by the owner of it. Violation of the provisions 

 of the bill is punishable by a fine of $100. The bill will be 

 voted on to-day. 



The purpose of such a law as that contemplated by the 

 bill is to license the outrageous slaughter of deer in the Adi- 

 rondacks by rich city sportsmen, whose taste for butchery is 

 developed to an abnormal degree. The effect of such a law 

 will be the speedy extermination of Adirondack deer. 



The bill provides for hounding in the nursing season, and 

 will legalize the atrocities inseparable from the dogging of 

 does and fawns in summer. 



The hounders have given up the clause forbidding jack- 

 ing. They do not want more protection. They ask only 

 for greater license to destroy. Months ago we foretold that 

 their course in regard to jacking would be just what it is 

 now. 



The prohibition of marketing game is a good one, but it 

 can work no possible benefit to compare with the bad results 

 of hounding. Market-hunting has not depleted Adirondack 

 deer; hounding has done it, and if legalized will do it. 



To check market-hunting make it unlawful. But to do 

 that it is not necessary at the same time to make hounding 

 lawful. 



That to right one wrong it is necessary to sanction another 

 and a greater one, is not the logic on which sensible legis- 

 lation is founded. 



The members of the Legislature have been grossly mi«led 

 and deceived by false reports of a great slaughter of deer by 

 still-hunters last fall. They are actually asked to sanction, 

 hounding on the plea that if the deer are not made shy by 

 hounding the poor things will fall an easy prey to the market 

 still-hunters. The hounders resent any imputation of ques- 

 tionable motive, but it is difficult to contemplate their "shy" 

 argument without a feeling of impatience that they can suc- 

 cessfully impose such stuff on the gentlemen whose votes 

 will decide this question. It is a disgrace that the merits of 

 a subject of such grave moment as the perpetuity of the 

 Adirondack deer supply can be covered up and hidden by 

 the misstatements and fallacious reasoniug of selfish and 

 greedy deer killers. 



In the use of these tactics and the employment of manufac- 

 tured statistics to carry their case to-day, the advocates of 

 deer hounding studiously ignore the consideration that the 

 effect of game laws is not limited to one single year. The 

 results of present legislation, good or bad, will concern the 

 citizens of the State in future years. Those who come after 

 us will hold responsible the Legislatures of the present. 

 •They cannot, shirk that, responsibility. A law to sanction 



the extermination of Adirondack deer by hounding and 

 water-killing may not be fully understood by the public to- 

 day, but in a few years its effect will be patent beyond the 

 possibility of concealment by misleading "shy" arguments. 

 Then, too, the wisdom and motives of the men who to-day 

 are working for or against the present bill will be clearly ex- 

 posed by the irresistible logic of facts. To that final judg- 

 ment the supporters of the present anti-hounding law may, 

 with all confidence, appeal. 



NEEDS OF THE YELLOWSTONE PARK 

 TN another column we print an important letter on this 

 subject from Mr. Arnold Hague, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, to Senator Manderson. 



The letter is important because it is written by a gentle- 

 man thoroughly familiar with the National Park and with 

 that region to the south and east of the present boundaries 

 which it is proposed to add to the reservation. He has also 

 traveled long and extensively in the West and is familiar 

 with the various industries of that great and growing 

 country. Understanding mining, acquainted with the needs 

 of the stock grower and the agriculturist, his opinion on the 

 possibilities of the region to be added to the Park is the 

 highest authority we can have on the subject, and should be 

 convincing to every intelligent man, 



Mr. Hague points out, as we have done, that the preserva- 

 tion of the forests about the headwaters of Yellowstone, and 

 of Snake River, and'the tributaries of both, must be carefully 

 looked after if the arid regions, away from the mountains, 

 which are watered by these streams, are to be of any value 

 to their inhabitants. He gives facts and figures bearing on 

 the rapid destruction of these forests and recites the evils 

 which must follow any extensive timber cutting in the 

 region in question. 



The subject is one which will interest every practical man 

 and which has an especial and particular meaning for all 

 those who live on the plains, to the east or to the west of 

 the Continental Divide. 



It is to be hoped that the suggestions contained in Mr. 

 Hague's letter may be regarded in the final reporting of the 

 bill, and that this clear exposition of the requirements of the 

 Yellowstone Park may be read and comprehended by every 

 Senator and Co ngressman. 



He Writes Feelingly.— The subjoined extract is from 

 the Boston New England Farmer of Jan. 23. We have heard 

 it hinted that the editor, himself an accomplished sports- 

 man, missed a bevy of quail which he had fondly imagined 

 no "other fellow" knew of; Mm Mm lacrimee: 



The Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association had its 

 annual dinner in this city a few days ago. After the dinner was over, 

 addresses were made by several gentlemen, lamenting the weakness 

 of the game laws of the Commonwealth. As far as that goes, we en- 

 tirely agree with the speakers, that more stringent laws for the pres- 

 ervation of birds, their nests and eggs, are imperatively demanded ; 

 but we do not by any means agree with the speaker who said opposi- 

 tion to such laws "comes largely from the farmers who own the soil 

 and who argue, not logically, that because they own the land they 

 own the game " We do not consider this a fair statement of the ar- 

 gument of the farmers; they are, so far as we know anything about 

 it, as well convinced of the necessity of protecting the birds as any 

 sportsman can be, but they do want the right to keep outside sports- 

 men from wandering over their fields and through their woods, and 

 shooting off the game which they themselves, the owners of the soil, 

 have been watching and protecting durins the close season. It is 

 precious poor satisfaction for a farmer who has known of the exist- 

 ence of a bunch of quail within half a do2en rods of his door all sum- 

 mer, to find that on the first day of the season, before he has had a 

 chance to shoot the birds, even if he has wanted to; some lazy feHow 

 from the city, with nothing better to do, has turned up witb a dog 

 and gun and cleaned out the whole bunch. The sporting gentlemen 

 may rest assured that the farmer is not going to be "educated up" 

 to the point of protecting game birds on his own land for them to 

 have the fun of sh ooting. 



A Conviction for Trespass,— Recently at Patcbogue, 

 Long Island, Howell D. Smith, of Sayville, was convicted 

 for the purpose of shooting on the lands of Mr, A. A. Frazer, 

 of the same place. The case was tried before Judge John 

 R. Smith and a jury, and District Attorney Wilmot S. Smith 

 wa3 the prosecutor. The conviction cost the defendent $20. 

 This is an advance on any previous attempts at game pro 

 tection by means of the trespass law on Long Island. 

 Usually the jury give the plaintiff six cents; sometimes 

 when very liberal they raise the sum to a quarter of a dollar. 

 The conviction in the present case was largely due to the 

 energy of District Attorney W. S. Smith, who is very much 

 in earnest in his efforts to see the law enforced. 



The Forest and Stream's Grizzlies were "at home" 

 to thousands of visitors on Washington's Birthday. They 

 are the favorite quadrupeds of the entire Central Park col» 

 lection. 



