Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, MARCH 25, 1886. 



i VOL. XXYI.-No 9 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



African in the Woodpile? 

 The Document Repudiated. 

 Progress of the Work. 

 The Sportsman Toubtrt 

 A Visit to Tobique Lake. 



NATORiL HlSTOR*. 



The Feaiher Industry. 



Wild Asimals of Maine. 



Hawks anu Owls. 



The Tender Heart. 

 Game Bag and Ghk. 



The And Hounding Law. 



Hunting at Army Hosts. 



A Railroad in the Park. 



Club Rules. 



A White Quail. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Ne *r England Angling. 



A Large Trout. 



Anele-*, Guide and Trout. 



A Garni Catfish. 



Black Bass Angling. 



FlSHCFLTURE. 



irbort Lobsters. 



A Fisherman's Association. 

 The Kexnel 



That Unpaid Special at Chicago. 



Canine Lore. 



Pittsburg Dog: Show. 



The Newark Dog Show. 



Worms In Puppies. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and flallery. 



Rest Shooting. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



The A C. A. Trophy. 



"No Ballast" Cano^ Vesper. 



A Challenge for tbe Cup. 



A Plea for the Heavy Canoes. 

 Yachting 



Tbe Cruise of the Coot.— xvu. 



Yacht S ores. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE DOCUMENT REPUDIATED. 

 n^HE opening paragraph of the misleading document 

 relating to deer hounding sent to the New York Legis- 

 lature by Dr. Samuel B. Ward, President of tbe Eastern 

 New York Fish and Game Protective Association, of Albany, 

 was as follows : 



At a meeting of the Eastern New York Fish and Game Protective 

 Association, hi-ld on Jan. 13, 1886, the President stated that soon after 

 the organization of the Association the attention of the Executive 

 Committee had been called to the present condition of tbe law in this 

 State concerning the preservation of the deer in the Adirondack 

 region, and that he had been directed to correspond with well known 

 residents of the North Woods and others— those who were most 

 interested in the success of that district of the State, and knew most 

 about it-and ascertain what their views were on this subject. A 

 part of the letters, extracts of letters and documents which follow, 

 were received in reply. It is to be repretted that lack of space pre- 

 vents the publication of them all in full. 



It was further stated — 



The Executive Committee having attentively considered all the 

 8 igge>tions made in the various communications received, instructed 

 their counsel to draw up a bill to be introluce l in'o the Legislature 

 at as early a date as practicable, which should embody rhe views of 

 as many intelligent and interested parsons, and antagonize as few as 

 possible. 



In our comments on Ibis document (Feb. 11) we sai 1 that 

 because of its peculiar character it was not creditable to tbe 

 society, and we took the liberty to suggest: 



If the Eastern New York Association was Dot organized by active 

 deer bounders for the express p irpo*e of conjuring with its na-ne at 

 Alnany to help their eau-e, the members o »ve to rhe public a disclaimer 

 of this pamphlet sent in the society's name to the Legislature.— For- 

 est and Stream, Feb. II. 



In reply Dr. Ward wrote (Feb. 18) as follows: 

 The Eastern New York Fish and Game Piotective Association are 

 responsible for the pamphlet to just exactly the extent stated in the 

 opening paragraph. The meeting was regularly called by the secre- 

 tary and what occurred is distinctly reported. 

 Commenting on ibis we said: 



We did not que^-tiou the regularity of the meeting of the Eastern 

 Association, we simply intimated the suspicion, which Dr. Ward's 

 acknowledgment goes to confirm as a fact, that the association was 

 shrewdly organized by active deer hounding advocates to influence 

 the repeal of the present wi.-e law. 



This last statement, we have now ascertained, was unjust 

 to the Association, and we take much pleasure in correcting 

 it. The correction is tardy, but until the last part of last 

 week we bad no information warranting us in making it. 



We cheerfully state that, after a personal explanation by one 

 of the officers of the Association, we believe that the society 



was not "shrewdly organized by active deer bounding advo- 

 cates to influence the repeal of the present wise law." The 

 truth appears to be that the Association has been put forth 

 as champion of a practice which its members condemn, and 

 its name and influence have shrewdly been employed in the 

 attempt to effect something which the members, ten to one, 

 oppose. In other words, the hounding advocates did not 

 shrewdly organize the society for their purpose, but they did 

 shrewdly make use of it after it was organized. 



An officer of the Associaiion has declared to us in mo9t 

 unequivocal terms that the Eastern Association is not behind 

 the effort to repeal the l iw; that it is not responsible for the 

 misleading document which went to the Legislature ostensi- 

 bly with its sanction ; that it has never endorsed the bill 

 (contained in the pamphlet) prepared by its counsel; that it 

 refused to pay for the printing of the pamphlet, and that the 

 originators of the society had no thought that its name would 

 be used to bolster up the cause of the deer hounders. 



This statement is sufficiently comprehensive and emphatic. 

 It relieves the Eastern New York Fish and Ga,me Protective 

 Association of a certain degree of mistrust and sus- 

 picion oq the part of the public, a feeling which it would 

 have been difficult to overcome so long as the responsibility 

 for the pamphlet in question attached to the society. 



The disclaimer has been made in another way, equally as 

 effective ; although tbe credit for it belongs not to the Associ- 

 ation, but to the efforts of certain gentlemen whose interest 

 in Adirondack game protection induced them to make a 

 careful canvass of the Association's members, to determine 

 by what authority it was represented as a game protective 

 society occupying the extraordinary position of seeking to 

 repeal a game protective statute. Prepared blanks were 

 sent out to the 133 members of the society, requesting their 

 views on deer hounding. Following is the result up to 

 March 19, the total number of replies received at that time 

 being 72 : 



Have no opinion 5 



Uncertain 1 



Decline to vote 1 



In favor of hounding 6 



Opposed to hounding 58. 



THE PROGRESS OF THE WORE. 

 nPHE good work of protecting our birds from useless 

 slaughter goes bravely on. The readiness and even 

 eagerness with which it is undertaken by people of all classes 

 and all ages is most encouraging, though it is not surprising. 

 We have from tbe first felt confident that in order to abate 

 the evil it was only necessary to bring the harm which was 

 being done to the people's attention. To do this work effect- 

 ively; it was necessary that a strong and concerted effort 

 should be made, and that the aid of every one who loves 

 nature should be enlisted. To provide the machinery for 

 this united action the Audubon Society wa3 formed. 



During the six weeks that have elapsed since the plan of 

 the Society was annouoced in Forest and Stream we have 

 received a vast mass of correspondence on the subject, have 

 distributed many thousands of circulars and pledges, and 

 have received strong words of encouragement and sympathy 

 from many of tbe best people in the country. The move 

 ment is confined to no one section of the land. From Maine, 

 from Florida, from Louisiana, from California and from 

 Ciinada come assurances that our hands will be upheld iu the 

 work which we have, undertaken. Massachusetts is one of 

 the most earnest States in her attitude for protection. The 

 strong efforts of Mr. Geo. T. ADgell cannot fail to have a 

 most excellent effect. 



As an example of what may be done by one man, a case may 

 be cittd iu which twenty-five pledges were sent to a gentle- 

 man in New Bedford, and in three days the whole twenty- 

 five were returned, signed. The farmers, as might be 

 imagined, are very earnest in their support of the Audubon 

 Society, and more than one New England farmers' club has 

 placed itself on record as urging the formation of a branch 

 Audubon Society in its locality. 



The young ladies at some of our largest female colleges 

 have actively interested themselves in the movement, have 

 formed branch societies, and they are certainly most efficient 

 and useful workers in the cause. They can wield a tre- 

 mendous influence in checking forever this barbarous fashion, 

 and can thus contribute directly toward the end we have iu 

 view. We see every reason to predict for the young society 

 a vigorous and sturdy growth which nothing can check. 

 We hope before long to send out to every member of the 

 Audubon Society a certificate of membership. These have 

 been unavoidably delayed by the difficulty of getting a good 



portrait of the great naturalist from whom the Society tabes 

 its name, but we believe that they will shortly be ready for 

 distribution. 



We hope that othprs who may be interested in this subject, 

 but with whom this interest has not yet taken active shape, 

 may send in to us their names for information and pledges, 

 There is no reason why the membership of the Audcbon 

 Society should not in a short time run up into the hundreds 

 of thousands. Tbe good that can be done by these members 

 is enormous. 



IS THERE AN AFRICAN IN THE WOODPILE? 

 'T'HE Senate Committee on Railroads have submitted their 

 report on the bill granting the right of way to the Cin- 

 nabar & Clark's Fork railroad through the Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park to the Clark's Fork Mine. They have thrown 

 out the Senate bill, and favorably reported as a substitute 

 the House bill, which grants a similar right. 



The report is a remarkable document, and in its two 

 printed pages shows more superficiality and contains more 

 misinformation than can usually be found in this amount 

 of matter. It opens with the statement that the committee 

 has "given this bill very careful consideration," a statement 

 which, we are sorry to say, is flatly contradicted by most of 

 the succeeding paragraphs. If these gentlemen have "very 

 carefully" considered the bill, how can they tell us that "it 

 appears that the portion of the Park through which the rail- 

 road would pass contains no objects of public interest to 

 attract the attention of tourists, and that the preservation of 

 the timber and game of the Park is more hindered and the 

 game more extensively depredated upon by the present and 

 increasing travel upon the wagon road than it would be 

 under the operation of the railroad." Do these intelligent 

 and well informed gentlemen imagine that forests are pre- 

 served by cutting them down to make railway ties? or that 

 the game is to be made more secure by introducing settle? 

 ments of railroad hands into its haunts? or does it take all 

 the United States Senate for idiots? 



As a specimen of the "very careful consideration" given 

 the bill by the committee, the following sentence will do very, 

 well: "The total length [of the railroad] within the Park 

 would be about twenty five miles." Now, if any of these 

 amiable gentlemen had gone to the trouble of taking any ordi- 

 narily good map, and with the dividers or a slip of paper had 

 measured the distance along the Yellowstone, East Fork and 

 Soda Butte Creek, from Cinnabar to Cooke City, he would 

 have found without any very great amount of lalior, and 

 even without any "very careful consideration," that tbe total 

 length of the railroad within the Park, as laid down by this 

 bill, is not very much short of sixty miles. The truth is that 

 the whole line, except two or three miles, the distance from 

 Cinnabar to Gardner, is within the Park. 



In support of the absurd statements made in this report 

 the committee quote Lieut. Kingman's report of 1833, in 

 which he states that the present road {i. e., three years ago) 

 is in bad condition. Mr. Teller, a gentleman largely inter- 

 ested in mines and mining, is also quoted as recommending 

 the granting of the right of way. Mr. Gannett, who has ex- 

 plored portions of the Park, also recommends the route, as 

 does General Anderson. Neither of the latter are familiar 

 with the eastern tlope of ibe range. 



The committee appear to have taken pains to consult only 

 those who are in favor of the route through the Park, aud 

 they have omitted to take the opinion of several gentlemen 

 whose experience in this region is of more value than that 

 of any of those whom they quote. It is quite remarkable 

 that during this "very careful consideration" which ihey 

 gave this bill they failed to remember that within easy reach 

 of their committee room was Mr. Arnold Hague, whose long 

 txperience in the Park and familiarity wilb the Clark's Fork 

 country and Cooke City 6hould make bis opinion weigh 

 more than that of any number of less well-informed men. 

 They probably iorgot to), that Mr. W. flallett Phillips, of 

 Washington, who was sent out 1 tst year by the Secretary of 

 the Interior to examine into the condition of affairs in the 

 Park, would have had good opportunities for forming an 

 opinion as to the desirability of a railroad within tbe Park. 

 There are a number of other well-informed persons who . 

 might have been asked to testify on points connected with 

 tbe bill and who could have given the committee far more 

 reliable information than they seem to have been able to 

 obtain in the course of their investigiUioas. 



The fact appears to be that this committee have been 

 grossly misled, and as a consequence, they have made a report 

 which, to any one acquainted with the topography of the 

 Park, is a mere hodge podge of fatuities. We are accus- 

 tomed to stupid blunderings by Boards of Aldermen and even 



