Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, MAY 20, 1886. 



j VOL. XXVI.— No. 17 



1 Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, New York, 





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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



How the Case Stands. 



A "Shy" Senator. 



Cooke and the Clark's Fork 

 Mines. 

 The Sportsman Tourist 



Days With the Barmecide Club. 

 Natural Histoid 



The Audubon Society. 



Eagles Breeding in Captivity. 

 Game Bag and huts 



Days of the Texas Rangers. 



A Mo>quito -Proof Tent. 



Ways of the Ruffed Grouse. 



Notes on Quail Shooting. 



Recollections of a Sportsman. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Fly-Fishing for Shad. 



Towing for Kingfisri. 



New Engiand Trout Waters. 



Camps of rhe Kingfishers.— xii 



Eyen Hooks. 



S baero La ke. 



The Montreal Fly. 



Fish-culture. 



Fishculture— A Practical Art. 

 The Kennel. 



Eastern F. T. Derby Entries. 



National F. T. Derby Entries. 



We.-tern F. T Derby. 



The English Field Trials. 



The New York Show. 



The St. Louis Dog Show. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



Royal C. C. 



A 500-Mile Cruise on the Rivers 

 of Northern California. 

 Yachting. 

 Cruise of the Coot.— xxni. 

 The Lake Y. R. A. 

 In and About Boston. 

 International Racing and the Y. 

 R. A. Rule. 

 Answers to Correspondents, 



HOW THE CASS STANDS. 



IN tlie year 1872 Congress witbdiew from settlement, 

 occupancy or tale under thr laws of the United Mates, 

 the region now known as the Yellowstone National Park, 

 and decreed that it should be "dedicated ami set apart as a 

 public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit aud enjoy- 

 ment of the people." For a numtier of years atur the pas- 

 sage of this act, small appropriations were made for the 

 improvement of the Park, and as each year more people 

 visited it, the public interest in it increased. Th- n in the 

 autuuin of 1882 a syndicate of shrewd capitalists endeavored 

 to secuie a monopoly of the Park for a period of ten years. 

 This attempt was opposed by those best acquainted with the 

 region Tne press at large took up the question, and forced 

 the authorities at Washingiou to deny to the monopolists the 

 extraordinary privileges wh.ch they had almost secured. 

 The noise which this contest made awoke the public not 

 only to the importance of the Park as a region of rare beauty 

 and startling wonders, but to its value from an economic 

 standpoint. They learned now for the first time that, in 

 the pine-clad mountains of the Park the sources of two 

 great rivers which water immense tracts of arid desert on 

 either side of the main chain of the Rocky Mountains; that 

 the forests which clothe these mountains protect the stored 

 up waters, which fall during winter and spring, and give 

 them forth all through the summer, thus furnishing an 

 equable flow to these streams; for in the decaying vegeta 

 tation which forms the floor of this forest, the melted snows 

 of winter are held as in a sponge, and springs, rivulets and 

 brooks are supplied. They learned that if these forests 

 should be destroyed by fire or the axe, the rains would soon 

 wash away the forest floor, the waters would no longer be 

 arrested on their way to the streams, but thrown into 

 them at once on falling, would cause at first great floods, 

 to be succeeded by periods at drought. So the great rivers, 

 on which so many farmers depend for water to irrigate their 

 crops, would be useless for this purpose. 



It has been a hard struggle to protect the reservation 

 against the greed of the rich and the stupidity of the foolish, 

 but so far this difficult task has been accomplished. 



Now, a new danger threatens this Park, which has been 

 dedicated and set apart for the "benefit and enjoyment of 

 the people." Another attempt is being made to deprive the 



people of their rights in this region, and the attempt is so 

 strongly backed that it has been favorably reported on by 

 committees of both Houses of Congress. A bill has been 

 introduced in both Senate and House to permit a railway to 

 pass through the Park. If this bill should become a law, 

 the people's Park will be utterly destroyed. A railroad 

 through it means settlements in the Park, means game des- 

 troyed, means forest burned off, means barren deserts 

 along the Snake and the Yellowstone Rivers where they 

 traverse the plains. The Park, set apart for a pleasuring 

 ground for the people, will be swept bare of everything 

 which now makes it attractive. 



The danger is a most serious one and it is imminent. It is 

 a matter which concerns each citizen of our country. 

 Shall this Park, which was set apart for the benefit of the 

 people, now be taken from them and be handed over to a 

 railroad corporation? No poor man can go into the Park 

 and build a cabin there to spend a few months in the year, 

 and yet it is proposed to permit this projected railway, 

 which menaces all the objects which it is desired to preserve, 

 to have enormous privileges in the reservation. The plea 

 that the railway is necessary to develop a new mining region 

 is specious, but misleading. It has been clearly shown that 

 railroads can be built to this mining camp without threaten- 

 ing the integrity of the Park, and, therefore, Congress has 

 no excuse to grant permission for any railway to be built 

 within the Park. If the Anaerican people are prepared to 

 suffer this infringement upon their rights, we very much 

 mistake their temper. 



As stated last week, the property of the National Park 

 Improvement Company was sold on Wednesday, May 12, at 

 Evanston, the county seat of Uinta county, Wyoming Terri- 

 tory. It was bought by Mr. E. E. Thome, acting in the 

 interest of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. The 

 price paid was twenty three thousand dollars. The receiver 

 will report at once to the court for confirmation of the sale. 



A "SHY" SENATOR. 



AMONG those who voted in favor of the law to permit 

 the killing of Adirondack does and fawns with clubs 

 was Senator Cullen, of New York, known to his intimates 

 as "Jick" Cuilen. Wiien Senator Cullen voted for the law 

 which was to kgalize clubs and "tail holts," his knowledge 

 of the former was almost wholly confined to them as they 

 apptar when printed on card b >ard, and employed in the 

 fascinating but uncertain game of draw. Of the material 

 club he then knew nothing, exc< pt by hearsay. He is wiser 

 now. A practical application of clubs to his own Senator- 

 ial skull has entirely changed his views on the subject, and 

 it is probable that should the question of clubs or no clubs 

 ever come up before any body of which "Jack" Cullen is a 

 member, his voice will be recorded in no uncertain tones as 

 against clubs. 



The Senator has experienced a change of heart, and this 

 is bow it came about. A couple of weeks ago Senators Daly 

 and Cullen and ex-Senator Gibbs were riding down town in 

 a Third avenue car. It was during the strikes on that line, 

 and Cullen, who poses as the friend of the workiugman, was 

 inveighing bitterly against the outrages of capital and the 

 wrongs of the laboring man. Either through baulky horses 

 or the interference of another driver, the car in which they 

 were riding became blocked and could move neither for- 

 ward nor backward. The delay irritated Cullen, who stepped 

 out on the front platform and began to issue orders right 

 and left in loud and authoritative tones. So noisy did he 

 become that one of the police officers, who was trying to get 

 the car out of its difficulties, took him for a striker, and seiz- 

 ing him by the collar, pulled him off the platform, intending 

 to take him to the police station. The honorable Senator 

 pulled back as vigorously as the officer pulled forward, 

 and finally the latter, whose temper had become somewhat 

 soured by sleepless nights and numerous rows with 

 the strikers, lost patience, and raising his club, rained 

 down a shower of blows, beating the unhappy Senator 

 about the head most vigorously. It took but a brief season 

 of this to subdue the bewildered lawgiver, who, hatless, 

 torn and bleeding, was haled to the police station, whence 

 after a short detention he emerged, feeling no less injured in 

 his sensibilities than in his person. It is understood that 

 Senator Cullen has remarked that he has no further use for 

 clubs, though his experience has taught him that their use 

 does make those upon whom they are employed shy. So far, 

 he agrees with Dr. Ward, but he thinks that there are some 

 things more desirable than, being made shy just in this way, 



and he is clear in his own mind that hereafter he shall favor 

 no such methods. 



No doubt Senator Cullen, as he was being clubbed in the 

 streets and dragged along to the station house, congratulated 

 himself that in this way he was escaping from the hands of 

 the bad strikers, who but for this might be throwing bricks 

 at him, and in other ways abusing him. And it must have 

 been a great comfort to him to feel, as the club descended on 

 his honorable skull, that it was the club of an officer of the 

 law and not the brick of a striker. Such feelings, we sup- 

 pose, animate the exhausted Adirondack does when they are 

 being clubbed to death by the "true sportsmen." With 

 their last breath they thank Providence that they are not 

 being killed by bad still-hunters. 



The Enthusiasm which has been developed in connec- 

 tion with the Audubon Society shows very clearly that 

 our estimate of American women was correct. The bird- 

 wearing craze grew out of thoughtlessness, and now that atten- 

 tion has been called to the evil results sure to follow from it, 

 those who formerly led the fashion are the first to condemn 

 it. The press, the pulpit and the school are helping on the 

 good work. Within the past few days over a thousand cer- 

 tificates of membership have been sent out, and our last 

 order for circulars was for 20,000. The birds will not be 

 slaughtered this year as they were last. 



Capt. Chas. A. Bendire, after more than thirty years of 

 cavalry service in the United States Army, has been retired, 

 and is now devoting his time to arranging and perfecting the 

 National Museum collection of birds' eggs and nests. His 

 own collection, the most complete in the country, has been 

 presented to the museum. Students of o5logy are to be con- 

 gratulated that the National Museum collection has been 

 rescued from the condition of neglect in which it was rapidly 

 depreciating, and has been intrusted to the enthusiastic and 

 devoted care of one so competent as Capt. Bendire. 



"Days With the Barmecide Club" is the title of a 

 series of papers recounting the experiences of an angling 

 club during its Adirondack outing. The club's name is 

 thken from the "Arabian Nights" story of one of the princes 

 of Barmac, who, being importuned for food by a beggar, 

 treated the hungry man to a feast of imaginary viands. 

 Whether or no the pleasures of the Ba,rm cide Club were in 

 like manner wholly pretended or more substantial, will be 

 disclosed in successive chapter^ of the relation. 



Wild Turkey's fok Prhserves — It is stated that three 

 paiis of wild turkeys taken from America in 1880 by Count 

 Brenn* r and let loose on his estate in Austria have increased 

 and multiplied until the number is now estimated at 500, and 

 the count enjoys his shooting very much. This is an ex- 

 ample for some of the American game clubs who own 

 preserves adapted to the turkey. No nobler game can be 

 found for stocking island pre-erves. 



New Jersey Sportsmen are tal king about a convention 

 at Lake Hopalcong next autumn to prepare for the next 

 Legislature a codification of the game and fish laws. The 

 game laws should be made a chapter separate from the fish 

 laws. 



Changed Game Laws. — As changes have been made by 

 the various Legislatures in the game and fish laws, secretaries 

 of game societies and others are requested to notify us of 

 such changes, particularly changes of the open seasons. 



Reports of Catches. — Anglers are invited to send to us 

 for publication reports of their catches and any information 

 about fishing resorts which is likely to prove of service to 

 others. News notes are always welcome. 



Anglers are Flocking in force to the Maine waters; 

 and the reports so far received show that the catches are 

 good. The salmon anglers are jubilant over the restocking 

 of the rivers. 



Deer Hounding. — The deer hounding bill passed by the 

 New York Legislature having become a law, the practice is 

 now legalized for the season Sept. I— Oct. 5. 



In Time of Peace Prepare for War.— In another 

 column a valued London correspondent describes a device 

 for circumventing insect pests. 



