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J VOL. XXVI.-No. 6. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Newark Panic. 

 Trout Laws of New York. 

 Guides. 



To the Walled-In Lakes.— xiii. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Silver Fields 

 Natural History. 



The Audubon Society. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The Deer Hounding Bill. 



Hunting at Army Posts. 



In Burton's Woods. 



A West -Virginia Step Ahead. 



Grizzly Hints from Shasta, 



Quotations for Furs and Skins. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Tip-Ups for Pickerel. 



Early Obstructions in Maine 

 Rivers. 



A Trip to i he Canadian Lakes. 

 Read in a Fly-Book*. 



FlSHCULTTJRE. 



An Old Carp. 



The American Fisheries Society. 

 The Colorado Commission. 



The Kennel. 

 The Alexandria Field Trials. 

 Kennel Record and Account 

 Book. 



Cocker and Field Spaniels. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shoot :ng. 

 Range and Gallery 

 New York Armory Practice. 

 The Trap. 



Chamberlin Cartridge Co.'s 

 Rules for Trap-Shooting. 

 Canoeing. 



The A. O. A. Trophy. 



The Canoe Exhibition. 



Summer Cruise in Long Island 

 Sound. 

 Yachting 



A Rough Water Cruiser. 



Yacht Building in Boston. 



The New Atlantic. 



Ice Yachting. 



Mayflower. 



Another Vindication. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE NEWARK PANIC. 

 'T^HE scare is over. After having been nursed along for 

 -■- many weeks by ignorant medical men and fostered by 

 newspapers eager for a sensation, the bottom has finally 

 dropped out, and the senseless, inexcusable folly of the craze 

 stands confessed. The seven dogs, bitten by the original 

 Newark mad dog, and since that time kept in confinement, 

 have shown no signs of disease, and are at last to be released 

 from theii imprisonment. The veterinary on whose respon- 

 sibility the original dog was pronounced rabid, and who 

 gravely announced that one of the bitten animals would 

 become mad within twenty-four hours because, forsooth, it 

 would not drink water at his bidding— this veterinary has 

 acknowledged that these dogs are healthy. 



During the prevalence of the New Jersey insanity we 

 declined to refer to it further than to deprecate it, and to 

 state that it was merely a panic without any foundation 

 whatever. Now that this panic is over, and that those who 

 originated it have acknowledged it to be without foundation, 

 we speak of it only to condemn those who are responsible 

 for having created it. 



The outrageous story of this mad dog scare is well known, 

 but all the harm done by it can never be told. The accounts 

 of streets filled with mad dogs, and of, police practicing at 

 them with revolvers, while the bullets were flying through the 

 air were positively terrifying to women and children. The 

 little ones dared not venture out of doors; they were afraid 

 to go to school ; their parents endured agonies of anxiety. 

 Nervous women and girls suffered untold tortures from 

 fright. 



Of the brutalities enacted under the influence of this in- 

 sane terror, set on foot by wickedly foolish men for their 

 own base advantage it is needless to speak. The tales of 

 horror that have come to us from Newark and Jersey City 

 within the last two or three months have been enough to ex- 

 cite the indignation of the most cold-hearted of men. 



The responsibility for originating this mad dog craze lies 

 with two or three feather-brained medical men of New Jer- 

 sey, and the New York Herald promptly took the matter up 

 and worked the sensation as long as there was anything in 

 it. On these men and on this journal must rest the onus of 

 the great wrong done to the community at large and to the 

 brute creation, a wrong which cannot be too severely con- 

 demned. 



There is not, nor has there been, during the whole cour.se 

 of the craze, one particle of evidence published to show that 

 any one of the New Jersey dogs was rabid, and yet these 

 doctors and this newspaper, to advertise themselves, to in- 

 crease their business, to bring to their pockets a few more 

 dollars, to get themselves talked about, did not hesitate to 

 frighten almost out of their wits — perhaps in some cases to 

 frighten literally to death — human beings, and to cause hun- 

 dreds of dogs to be put to a torture which was wholly with- 

 out justification. 



The Newark dog scare had its origin in the grossest ignor- 

 ance and in a great journal's avidity for sensationalism, for- 

 getful of its plain duty to the community. Such ignorance 

 and such carelessness are wholly without excuse. 



TROUT LAWS OF NEW YORK. 



F AST April a law was suddenly passed by the Legislature 

 ^ of New York which closed the season after it had 

 been legally opened on April first. The law for years had 

 permitted trout fishing throughout the State on that day; 

 and while many anglers were on the streams, suddenly and 

 without warning, the new bill passed about April 15 and 

 became a law, forbidding the capture of trout until May 1 

 in any portion of the State except the counties of Queens 

 and Suffolk. We referred to this in our issues of April 23 

 and May ?, 1885, and showed the injustice of the measure. 

 The argument that aDglers who had gone forth in the belief 

 that they could legally capture trout in April is not applica- 

 ble now, but the other objections still remain. 



The two counties which are excepted form the eastern end 

 of Long Island, are, with the streams of Sullivan and Ulster 

 counties, the favorite resorts of anglers from the city. The 

 trout rise to the fly freely in these waters in April, and have 

 entirely done with the work of depositing their eggs. The 

 fish are ready for the opening season, and the anglers are 

 anxious for it, and only the law keeps them from obeying 

 their instincts and coming together. Yet the city anglers — 

 and most of the men who fish Long Island streams are from 

 the city— members of clubs or not, can go down and capture 

 trout to the extent of their ability, but dare not take a fish 

 across the East River to their homes. To the clause forbid- 

 ding fishing for trout through the ice there can be no objec- 

 tion from men who capture them fairly in open water, nor 

 should this class of anglers object to that part, of the new law 

 which forbids the capture or sale of trout which measure 

 less than six inches in length; but the opening season, as 

 now fixed, is at least one month too late for some parts of 

 the State, especially the southeastern portion. 



There is no doubt whatever that the first of May is soon 

 enough to open the trout season in the Adirondack region, 

 where the ice often remains on some of the lakes until the 

 middle of that month; but under these very different condi- 

 tions of climate it seems absurd to make a law which shall 

 place the whole of the State under a restriction which is 

 only proper to that elevated mountain region where winter 

 reigns supreme until about the first of May or later. We 

 have no doubt that the new law would have covered Long 

 Island also but for the fact that Senator Otis was chairman 

 of the Committee of Fish and Game last year, and tacked on 

 a clause exempting Queens and Suffolk counties from the 

 operations of all bills of a general nature. He did so when 

 the bill forbidding the hounding of deer came up, and a law 

 was passed forbidding the chase of deer by hounds in all 

 parts of the State except on Long Island, where, of all places, 

 the few deer that are left should be rigidly protected. 



If the trout law could be amended so as to allow trout fish- 

 ing on April 1 south of the Mohawk River from Utica east, 

 and from thence south of the New York Central Railroad, or 

 other near boundary, and prohibiting it until May 1 north 

 of that line, it would no doubt coper what the framers of the 

 last law desired, the prevention of all ice fishing and the pro- 

 tection of trout until nature opened the season in the Adi- 

 rondacks. Or, if it should be thought that this line is too 

 far north, let it be brought down to the forty-second parallel, 

 which would leave the counties of Suffolk, Queens, Rich- 

 mond, Kings, New York, Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess, 

 Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, and parts of Delaware and [Jl. 

 ster below it, and in which fishing for trout could begin on 

 the first of April. By a glance at the map it will be seen 

 that this line forms the southern boundary of the State west 

 of Delaware county and separates New York from Pennsyl- 

 vania. Either of these lines would satisfy most of the 

 anglers who live below the last one named, and would not 

 interfere with trout protection in the northern part of the 

 State, 



6? U1DES. 



UNDER this general term may be found grouped a most 

 heterogenous lot of mankind from the simple boatman 

 on Greenwood Lake, who aspires to the name, to the thor- 

 ough woodsman who can take a tourist many days' journey 

 through a dense wilderness and bring him safely to his des- 

 tination. The perfect guide is one who to a perfect acquain- 

 tance with his region has a familiarity with all those forest 

 signs, camping, cookery, and the generalities of all that 

 varied knowledge which we sum up in the term "wood- 

 craft." Added to this he is sober, truthful, active, strong 

 and self-reliant. Possessed of these qualities he is naturally 

 quiet, willing, respectful and companionable. Such men 

 are by no means rare, but in the host who style themselves 

 "guides" there are many who fall far short of many of these 

 qualifications; yet they pass themselves off on strangers as 

 first-class men, and demand wages as such. The Adiron 

 dack region has plenty of both classes ; the first being, as a 

 rule, the "independent" guides, as they call themselves, and 

 the latter are more frequently found attached to some fash- 

 ionable hotel, their knowledge being mainly confined to one 

 lake and the management of a boat. 



Some years ago one of these self-styled guides betrayed his 

 trust and committed a crime which cost him his life, and 

 when the newspapers spoke of him as an Adirondack guide 

 the well-known and respectable guides about Long Lake de- 

 nied that he had any claim to the title ; that he was a saw- 

 mill hand who had gone in and taken up the profession 

 without any special knowledge of the woods, merely know- 

 ing how to row a boat and where a few of the carries in his 

 immediate vicinity were to be found. The affair cast dis- 

 credit on many good men whose reputation is their capital, 

 and such men should protect themselves from the possible 

 recurrence of such a thing in future by having some sort of 

 an organization from which an}' who are proved to be guilty 

 of dishonorable practices should be expelled. This would 

 tend to their advantage in many ways. We personally know 

 of Adirondack guides to whom a man might leave uncounted 

 gold, his family and all that he values, and trust them to go 

 through the woods for weeks without fear for their safety', 

 and these men owe it to themselves to see that all "scala- 

 wags" are* kept from classing themselves with them by as- 

 suming the name of "guide." 



While it is true that the guides are as a rule trustworthy, 

 they are not all expert, first-class woodsmen, and perhaps the 

 average tourist or sportsman does not require this qualifica- 

 tion. Nothing is more common than to hear some third-rate 

 guide cracked up by one whom he has served once or twice 

 but who knows nothing of the woods himself. To the green 

 sportsman, the little knowledge of woodcraft which his 

 guide has seems a perfect marvel of wood lore, because it 

 happens to exceed his own stock of forest wisdom, and he not 

 only marvels at it, but his "guide" becomes a hero whose 

 praises he is disposed to sing on every possible occasion, little 

 dreaming that if once off the carry, or the beaten track, his 

 famous "Natty Bumpo" would be lost. 



Short Lobsters. — Mr. F. R. Shattuck, who is the treas- 

 urer of the Massachusetts Fish and Came Protective Associ- 

 ation, and also a deputy fish commissioner, has been giving 

 his attention to the detecting and punishing of lobster fisher- 

 men who deal in "short" lobsters, that is those which are 

 under the size prescribed by law, ten and a half inches exclus- 

 ive of claws and feelers. Mr. Shattuck's vigilance and ac- 

 tivity in the important public work are crowned with success, 

 and he is doing much to correct thi3 great abuse. It is a 

 curious but not at all unusual commentary on the short- 

 sighted spirit of the fishermen that they would, if not 

 checked by the public-spirited intervention of gentlemen 

 like Mr. Shattuck, actually bring to a speedy end their own 

 occupation by marketing baby lobsters and once and for all 

 destroying the stock. 



The Deer Hocndlng Bill.— The Assembly passed the 

 Deer Hounding Bill by a vote of 93 to 23. We hope that for 

 its own credit the Senate may refuse to concur in approving 

 the bill. The Assembly plainly ignored the merits of the 

 question. If the Senate follows suit, we have much mis- 

 taken the spirit of its members. Elsewhere we print Mr. 

 Hadley's speech in the Assembly. His whole argument is 

 based on statements which have absolutely no foundation in 

 fact ; they are, on the contrary, so absurd that the Assem- 

 bly might justly have resented being called upon to listen to 

 them at all. 



