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} VOL. XXVT.-No. 8. 



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CONTENTS 



Editorial. 



Mr. Palmer's "Shy" Deer. 



The Hopatcong Sulphuric Acid. 



The Audubon Society. 



A Superintendentof Protectors. 



To the Walled-In Lakes.— xv. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Hunter's Vow. 



A Rocky Mountain Sheep Hunt. 

 Natural Histors. 



Washington Doings. 



The Audubon Society. 



The Passing of the Buffalo. 



Some Quail Notes. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Hunting at Army Posts. 



Grouse m the Snow. 



Viva Los Gachupinosl 



A Tramp for Moose. 



A Day with the Cordelia Club. 



Game Protectors' Reports. 



The Trajectory Test. 



Saddle olingfor the Plains. 



The Deer Hounding Bill. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



An ley Bath. 



Canadian Trout Wa'ers. 



The Fish and Fisheries. 



New Trout of Sunapee Lake. 



Maskinonje, Mascallunge, Mas- 

 kinauga. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



The Record of a Line, 



Bampton Ponds. 



Color of Trout in Salt Water. 

 Fishculture. 



The American Fisheries Society. 

 The Kennel. 



That Unpaid Chicago Special 

 Again. 



The Newark Dog Show. 



The Hartford Dog Show. 



The St. Louis Dog Show. 



The Boston Dog Show, 



New Haven Kennel Club. 



Pittsburg Dog Snow. 



Judges as Competitors.. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



The A. C. A. Trophy. 



A Boat Cruise on the Severn. 

 Yachting 



Tbe Cruise of the Coot.— xvi. 



Sail Plan of the Mermaid. 



A Comparison of Types. 



A Word for the American Sloop. 



Triple Exp'sion Marine Engines. 

 Answer*? to Correspondents. 

 Publishers' Department. 



A SUPERINTENDENT OF PROTECTORS. 

 fT"HE bill recently introduced iuto the New York Assem- 

 bly, providing for the appointment of a superintendent 

 of game and fish protectors, is an admirable measure and 

 should be passed withouj*. hesitation. The full text of the 

 measure is as follows: 



Section 1. The Governor is hereby authorized to appoint, by and 

 with the advice and consent of the Senate, a person to be known as 

 the superintendent of game and fish protectors, v> ho shall receive a 



salary of dollars per annum, with all necessary and traveling 



expenses necessarily and actually incurred, not to exceed dol- 

 lars per year, to be audited and allowed by the Comptroller and paid 

 by the Treasurer out of aDy moneys not otherwise appropriated. 



Sec 2. For the purpose of the more effectual enforcement of the 

 laws for the protection cf fish and game, the game and lish protec- 

 tors now or who may he<eafter be appointed by the Governor shall 

 be subject to the supervision and direction of the superintendent 

 of game and fish protectors, who shall divide the territory of the 

 State into protection districts and shall assign to each protector his 

 district, and shall have authority also to assian for temporary duty in 

 any district a protector from any other district. The said superin- 

 tendent shall require of each protector at the close of each calendar 

 month a report in writing, and in deta 1 stating the service performed 

 by each proteetor during the last preceding month, including an 

 account of the suits commenced at his instance, the disposition made 

 of such suits, the result of any brought to trial, and the condition of 

 any undisposed of; and no payment for services performed, or trav. 

 enng expenses paid by any protector, shall be made until the claim- 

 ant shall present to the Comptroller, in addition to tbe usual oath 

 of performance and payment, a certificate from said superintendent 

 that he has made the report required by this act, and has in all other 

 respects faithfully performed bis official duty. The superintendent 

 of game and fish protectors shall report to the Governor all cases 

 of dereliction or neglect of duty of any protector which shall come 

 to his knowledge, together with such evidence as he may have touch- 

 ing the case, and the Governor shall have authority to remove from 

 office any protector to reported to be delinquent, after giving him an 

 opportunity to be heard in his defense. 



Sec. 3. Said superintendent of game and fish protectors, and his 

 successors who shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the 

 advice and consent of the Senate, shall hold office for three years 

 from the date of his appointment, and all vacancies in said office 

 shall be filled by the Governor, subject to a confirmation by the 

 Senate at the next session , for the unexpired portion of the term in 

 which the vacancy occurs. 



Sec. 4. The said superintendent is hereby invested with and shall 

 possess all the powers and privileges for the due and proper enforce- 



ment of the game and fish laws of this State, now had and possessed 

 by law by the game and fish protectors appointed by the Governor 

 pursuant to the provisions of chapter five hundred and ninety-one of 

 the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, and the acts amendatory 

 of the same or supplementary thereto. 



Sec. 5. Ic shall be the duty of tlae superintendent of game and fl?h 

 protectors appointed or who may be appointed under this act to 

 supervise and direct tbe work of the game and fish protectors, to in- 

 vestigate all complaints concerning their inefficiency or neglect of 

 duty, to assign them to duty wherever required, to see that they in 

 all things enforce the laws for tbe protection of fish and game, and 

 perform all the duties required of them by law. 



Sec 6. It shall be the duty of the said superintendent of fish and 

 game protectors appointed or who may be appointed under this act 

 to file in the office of the State Comptroller during the month of 

 December in each year, all reports made to him during the preceding 

 year by the fish and game protectors, and an account stating the ex- 

 penses paid or incurred by him in the discharge of the duties of his 

 office, which account shall be verified by the oath of said superin- 

 tendent that the same is correct and true in every particular, and 

 shall make and present, in January of each year, a written report to 

 the Legislature of his proceedings and the nature and extent of the 

 services performed by the State game and fish protectors, together 

 with such recommendations of further legislative or official action as 

 he may deem proper. 



Sec. 7. Section four of chapter three hundred and seventeen of the 

 laws of eighteen hundred and eighty -three is hereby repealed. 



Sec. 8. This act shall take effect immediately. 

 This supervision of the game arid fish protectors is now a 

 part of the duty of the commissioners of fisheries, and the 

 actual labor falls to the lot of Gen. R. U. Sherman, the secre- 

 tary of the commission. His position is an unsalaried one, 

 the duties relating to the fish commission proper are all that 

 such an unsalaried official could be expected to perform, and 

 it is quite right that he should be relieved of the supervision 

 of the protectors. 



The actual working of the proposed system will depend 

 altogether upon tbe man who may be selected for the appoint- 

 ment. If the new office is to be made a political sop, the 

 system may very readily be botched. If politicians are dis- 

 regarded and a superintendent appointed because of his 

 known and proved fitness for the post, the office may prove 

 a most valuable one in perfecting the protective system. We 

 know of no one more fitted to take the office and acceptably fill 

 it than Mr. A. N. Cheney, of Glens Falls. What Mr. Cheney's 

 politics may be we are not informed, but he has given re- 

 peated and signal proofs of his devotion to the cause of game 

 and fish protection, his information on the subject, practical 

 experience, familiarity with the Adirondack region and 

 known ability, are such as should be possessed by the first 

 superintendent to be appointed should the bill become a law. 



THE AUDUBON SOCIETY. 

 r pHE purpose of the Audubon Society is the protection 

 of American birds not used for food. To accomplish 

 this purpose it will 



1. Secure and publish information to show the extent of 

 the present enormous destruction of biids for millinery, de„ 

 corative and other purposes. 



2. Expose the outrageous and indefensible cruelty of such 

 wanton takiDg of feathered life. 



3. Point, out the damage to the agricultural interests of the 

 land which must certainly follow the decimation of the In- 

 sectivores. 



4. By thus presenting the subject in its ethical, humane 

 and economic aspect*, enlist the sympathy and active personal 

 co-operation of a large membership in the effoit to check the 

 evil. 



Three forms of pledges have been adopted, viz: 1. To dis- 

 courage the killing of any bird notU3ed for food. 2. To dis- 

 courage the robbing of any bird's nest or the destruction of 

 its eggs. 8. To refrain from the use of any wili bird's 

 plumage as an article of dress or adornment. 



The Audubon Society certificate of membership will be 

 issued to those who subscribe to one, two or all of the 

 pledges. Membership involves no expense whatever. There 

 are no fees of any kind. The funds necessary to carry on 

 the work are supplied entirely by voluntary subscription, the 

 immediate expense for organization being borne by the 

 Forest and Stream Publishing Company. The Society has 

 local secretaries in cities, towns and villages. The local 

 secretary will furnish the circulars of information and pledge 

 forms; will receive the signed pledges, keep a list of the 

 members, forward a duplicate list with the pledges for en- 

 rollment and file at the Society's office; and will receive in 

 return certificates of membership, to be filled out and signed 

 by the local secretary and given to the members. No certifi- 

 cate of membership will be issued to any person except upon 

 the receipt of a signed pledge at the office of the Society. 

 Where no local secretary has yet been appointed, individual 

 applicants for membership may address the Society at its 

 office, No. 40 Park Row, New York. 



If there is no local secretary in your town, you are in- 

 vited to act as such yourself. Upon application we will 

 supply copies of this circular and pledge forms. The society 

 furnishes to each member a handsome certificate of member- 

 ship. This bears a portrait of the great naturalist, John 

 James Audubon, after whom the Society very appropriately 

 takes its name. 



MR. PALMERS "SHY" DEER. 

 'T'HE strong plea of the deer bounders is— -or was, until they 

 were forced to back down from the position last Tues- 

 day — that the deer is such a stupidly tame and donkey-like 

 creature that it must be chased by dogs and clubbed by men in 

 boats to be made "shy" and "preserved" from the still-hunt- 

 ers. The hounders have drummed up all sorts of witnesses 

 to prove their "shy" argument, and among them Assembly- 

 man George W. Palmer, whom the voters of Clinton county 

 saw fit to send to Albany as their representative. Mr. Palmer 

 is fond of posing before the House as an "old practical 

 hunter," and when he gets up to deliver himself of some 

 choice bit of woodcraft his fellow members give him most 

 deferential hearing. Mr. Palmer made his little speech in 

 favor of deer hounding the other day, and told his little 

 story to show how the deer are made "shy" by the dogs. 

 This is what he said : 



Six Days of Hounding. Hoio it made them "Shy. " 



Now let me tell you a little in- The guides said to us, "Put your 

 cident that happened to me about dogs in the kennels, and to morrow 

 twenty-five years ago, on one of we will have some sport and you 

 those beautiful lakes that grace will have some deer.-' We fol- 

 the Adirondack region. A party lowed their advice, the dogs we 

 of four or five gentlemen went to shut up. The next day we went to 

 ttie upper Chataugeay Lake; on a the shores of that lake still-hunt- 

 little island in the middle we ing, and before noon we bagged 

 camped. We had half a dozen seven deer, 

 dogs, half a dozen boats, and half 

 a dozen guides. We spent the 

 whole week there with our dogs, 

 every day strimng a fresh track— 

 for six long days, and not a deer 

 did we get. 



To have such a relation of actual experience of this sort is 

 doubtless very gratifying to the hounders. Here is a 

 "sportsman" of forty years' experience, who gives definite 

 statistics to prove the "shy" theory. His party, he says, 

 hounded deer six days, and having by this time made them 

 "shy," went out still-hunting on the seventh day, and shot 

 down seven of them. Hceofabula docet. 



TEE HOPATCONG SULPHURIC ACID. 



A NOTE in our angling columns last week called atten- 

 tion to the outrageous destruction of the fish of Lake 

 Hopatcong, New Jersey, by refuse drained from a powder 

 mill into the lake. It is one of a series of hundreds of like 

 cases, but it happens to be a very aggravated instance. Lake 

 Hopatcong, because near New York, has been for some years 

 past a favorite angling resort. The lake was stocked with 

 black bass and these have been a great attraction for anglers 

 from this city and vicinity. With utter disregard of the 

 rights of olhers, a powder concern has been draining its 

 waste into the lake, and the result is that the fish are dying 

 off in such numbers that their utter extermination is soon to 

 be wrought. Tbe Evening Post reports that a late analysis of 

 the water of the lake, made by Dr. Newton, of Paterson, at 

 the request of the State Board of Health, proved that its 

 waters are highly charged with sulphuric acid, so much so 

 that it is a cjuestion of only a short time before nil the fish in 

 the lake will be killed. His analysis of water taken from the 

 stream, running through the powder works pi operty into 

 the lake, and aho of water taken a mile from the shores of 

 tbe lake, proves that it contains from forty to fifty grains of 

 sulphuric acid to the gallon. Live fhh placed in this water 

 by Dr. Newton died wiihin from six to eleven minutes. So 

 Hopatcong is to be ruined by the stupidity of powder manu- 

 facturers who see in that beautiful lake nothing more than a 

 cesspool for the waste from their mill. If "Jersey jus- 

 tice" cannot remedy this outrage the law should be amended 

 to fit such cases. 



A Clear Case, — At a pigeon shooting match in New 

 Jersey the other day, an account of which is given else- 

 where, the birds were mutilated in a barbarous fashion. 

 Their tail feathers were pulled out, their eyes were gouged 

 out, and they were otherwise maimed, so that their flight 

 might be erratic and puzzle the shooters. This is a case 

 which we hope to see brought to the attention of the authori- 

 ties. Every cowardly and brutal fellow responsible for the 

 pigeon torture should be indicted and punished. The open 

 air and sunlight are too good for them. Their proper place 

 is in jail. It is perhaps too much to hope that the richly- 

 deserved punishment will follow. There is too much apathy 

 on the part of officials and too much demoralization on the- 

 part of the public. 



