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( VOL. XXVI.-No. 20. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Paul Sees a Great Light. 



A New Use for Dogs. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Trout Stream That Nobody 

 Knows (Poetry). 



Days With the Barmecide Club. 

 Natural History. 



Birds of Central Park, 

 t The Audubon Society. 



Game Breeding in Confinement. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Turkey Shooting for a Hat. 



The Elusive Blue Grouse. — n. 



Notes from the North Woods. 



A Winter Hunt. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



That Old Boat. 



Trout Fishing on Cedar River. 

 Salmon in the Hudson. 

 Eyed Hooks. 



Antrim County Association. 

 Decoration Day at Blooming 

 Grove. 

 Fishoblture. 

 Shad for the Hudson. 

 Salmon for the Androscoggin. 

 Fishways for New York Rivers. 



The Kennel. 



Irregular Benching at Dog 

 Shows. 



Dogs of the Occident. 



The A. K. C. Amendment. 



Mastiff Judging. 



Spaniel Judging at New York. 



An "Expert" in Cruelty, 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Holding on Flying Targets. 



The Minneapolis Tournament. 

 Yachting. 



The Conditions of the Cup Races 



Galatea and Irex. 



The Large Yachts. 



Onondaea Y. C. 



A Challenge for Genesta's Cups. 



Thetis. 

 Canoetng. 



The Local SpriDg Meets. 



Ontario. 



Brooklyn C. C. Cruise. 

 Cruise of the Lake St. Louis C.C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



PAUL SEES A GREAT LIGHT. 



THE forest warden of the Adirondacks, Mr. Samuel F. 

 Gorman, who has made an investigation of the wood- 

 lands of that region, reports to the Forestry Commission that 

 a vast amount of the State's timber has been and is now 

 being "converted to the use of private persons," which is a 

 polite way of saying stolen by timber thieves. Forester Gor- 

 man's inspection also developed the interesting fact that the 

 Northern Adirondack Railway Company has trenched upon 

 the State's land in Township No. 14 of Franklin county and 

 has cut off the woods. The Forestry Commission has 

 brought a suit against the Northern Adirondack Railway 

 Company for $25,000 damages. This railway, which now 

 extends from Moira to St. Regis Falls, has been authorized 

 to extend its line twenty-four miles further to Buck Moun- 

 tain, It is purely a timber road. Its contemplated extension 

 is for the purpose of opening a tract of dense forest of 

 30,000 acres, which is to be cleared. The construction of 

 such a road means that the woods will disappear before it. 

 Whatever the lumberman leaves is destroyed by fires set by 

 locomotive sparks. A timber railroad converts the land into 

 a desolate waste. The effect, if less speedy, is as sure as 

 that of a forest fire. The result of the Northern Adirondack 

 Railroad lumber operations will be a curse to the region. 

 Even so mentally myopic an individual as Paul Smith has 

 at last come to recognize this. 



Smith is a typical North Woods landlord. Last winter, 

 when the deer bounders were working to bamboozle the New 

 York Legislature, they brought him down from his Adiron- 

 dack hotel and put him on exhibiton on the floor of the 

 Assembly as a North Woods sage and philosopher. The 

 members were given to understand that Smith, who is re- 

 puted to own everything and everybody — men, souls and 

 boats, in his Adirondack bailiwick — was in favor of hound- 

 ing, as a potent means of deer preservation. The stratagem 

 had the desired result. Members who would not know a 

 deer from a hedgehog were so impressed by the sapient air 

 of the gray-headed wise man of the North Woods that they 

 voted clubs every time by an overwhelming majority; and 

 Smith went home to put his vassals in trim for the next dog 

 campaign. The deer in his region are so nearly extinct that 

 the "sports" who patronize his house can get venison by no 



other mode than dogging, and Smith with characteristic 

 logic reasoned that if hounding would only bring more pa- 

 trons to fill his till this year, the last deer ought to be clubbed 

 — for after Smith the deluge. 



When the forest destroying railroad was projected, inas- 

 much as it would bring tourists almost to his door, the thrifty 

 sage of the St. Regis was delighted. The certainty of 

 the desolation to be wrought disturbed him never a tittle; 

 the road would bring grist to his mill; if it ruined the 

 country, well and good— after Smith the deluge. But the 

 desolation has come before the arrival of the guests. The 

 ruin is already being wrought. The forests are thinned 

 out. The witchery of the woodland is gone. The hills 

 are shorn of their glory. And Smith is bewailing. 

 He is reported to "groan every time he hears of the prog- 

 ress of the road." His hounding philosophy has failed him. 

 As a sage he would now pose in sorry plight for the in- 

 struction of Assemblymen. Paul is beholding a great light. 

 It is not a miraculous manifestation from above like that 

 which shone about Saul of Tarsus on his way to Damascus, 

 but a feeble glimmering of common sense admitted by the 

 clearing away of the trees about the famous Adirondack 

 hostelry. Possibly when the last deer has been clubbed and 

 the last tree felled, every Adirondack Peter Simple may 

 have profited by the new dispensation of unobstructed sun- 

 shine and sense. 



A NEW USE FOR DOGS. 



SOME individuals value dogs as pets, friends and compan- 

 ions; some maintain them as guardians of life and 

 property; others as useful auxiliaries in the field; in some 

 part of Europe dogs are used as draught animals and beasts 

 of burden ; certain Indian tribes eat dogs; among some savage 

 nations the dog is worshipped; in other lands dogs are looked 

 upon as materalized souls of the departed; the Supreme 

 Court of the State of Maine holds that dogs are wild beasts, 

 ferw naturae., and as such may be lawfully made war upon 

 and exterminated; city dog catchers regard dogs as the 

 ligetimate plunder of highway robbery at thirty cents 

 apiece; and the pound man reckons up their value when 

 after drowning they are sold to the offal gatherers; fashion- 

 able ladies wear small or large dogs, just as they asssume 

 or put away new styles of headgear; Dr. John Brown made 

 use of a dog as the subject of a literary effort which -as 

 such things go — is immortal ; circus clowns train troupes of 

 trick dogs; blind men are led about by dogs to beg; some 

 dogs are life preservers, rescuing human beings from watery 

 graves; in Damascus dogs are protected as scavengers; in 

 London dogs are cut up alive by vivisectionists; the "best 

 dog in the world" is used chiefly for brag; and again, in 

 every part of the world there are dogs which are good for 

 nothing save drowning in a bucket before ever their eyes 

 open to give them a glimpse of the world. 



A New Jersey doctor, Beriah A. Watson, has discovered 

 a new use for this creature. He had the genius to recognize 

 in the dog an animal possessing a spine, which might, by a 

 proper device of a devilish trap, be broken for experimental 

 purposes. The doctor is an ' 'expert" employed by the Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad Company in accident damage suits. An 

 expert is a man who is employed to go on the witness stand 

 and swear to the best of his knowledge, belief, medical 

 skill and conscience, in defense of the side which retains 

 him. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has been annoyed 

 by suits brought against it by persons who claimed to 

 have received spinal injuries in railroad accidents. 

 The Jersey City doctor, being employed to give his 

 professional aid and comfort to the railroad as defendant 

 in such suits, conceived the brilliant notion that by subject- 

 ing a few hundred dogs to prolonged torture he might gain 

 some data that could be worked to the pecuniary advantage 

 of his employers. By carefully noting the death in life 

 of a sufficient number of brutes whose spines had been 

 broken in his trap, and making detailed memoranda of the 

 successive stages of their agony, he hoped to • save to the 

 Pennsylvania corporation the few hundreds or thousands of 

 dollars it might otherwise be compelled to disburse ; and thus 

 conscientiously earn his wages as its servant. 



The doctor at once became a dog fancier. He developed 

 a great taste for dogs. He liked them— that is, he liked to 

 break their backs in his trap and then study them as they 

 staggered about or fell down and died. Forty-one dogs, 

 gathered up by newsboys, had been led into the doctor's 

 barn and put through the trap, and their living and dying 

 duly recorded, without anything of material benefit to the 

 railroad "expert," when the Society for the Prevention of 

 Cruelty to Animals stepped in and put an end to the abom- 

 ination, There is every prospect that the doctor will be 



denied any further watching of broken-backed dogs 

 If he longs for new scientific fields to conquer, 

 there is an opening up on the Northwest coast. The 

 Kootenai Indians of British Columbia have a cheerful cus- 

 tom of carrying the helpless old people of the tribe to re- 

 mote localities and there abandoning them to die. Science 

 might profit by a minute and faithful record of the suc- 

 cessive stages of the subject's symptoms, as observed by a 

 dispassionate and coldly professional studen t. The savages 

 probably would not interfere, and the doctor, baulked of 

 fame and fortune from his investigation of broken-spined 

 dogs, would have the field of lingering Kootenai dissolu- 

 tion all to himself. 



Polluting New York Harbor. — Few persons are aware 

 to what an extent the waters of New York Harbor and the 

 western end of Long Island Sound have been polluted by the 

 oil refineries at Staten Island and Hunter's Point. These 

 refineries have for years poured a substance known as 

 "sludge acid" into these waters, and this has settled all over 

 the bottom, making a sticky mass which has destroyed the 

 oysters, lobsters, crab3 and the smaller life which attracts 

 fish, and has also left a scum upon the surface which is offen- 

 sive. We have repeatedly called attention to this matter as 

 an outrage upon the people, and now that the bill which was 

 introduced into the Assembly by Mr. Doyle has become a 

 law we hope to see it enforced. We referred to this in our 

 fishcultural columns last week, and now that Commissioner 

 Blackford has appointed a man to enforce this law, we hope 

 that the big oil refineries will be made to take care of their 

 refuse. The new law makes it unlawful for persons, cor- 

 porations, oil refiners, etc., to cause any refuse matter to be 

 placed in any of the waters within the jurisdiction of the 

 State, under a penalty of $1,000 for each and every offense; 

 and also forbids the throwiug from boats, scows and any 

 vessels whatever, of ashes, cinders, refuse or garbage, into 

 the waters of the Long Island Sound, west of Eaton's Neck, 

 or into any of the bays or harbors opening into the same, 

 under a penalty of $500 for each and every offense. Although 

 intended primarily to protect the oyster beds, it is just what 

 is needed for the fishing interests of the harbor and Long 

 Island Sound. We hope to hear that the great "Standard 

 Oil Works," which has so long made a sewer of Newtown 

 Creek and the harbor, will be asked to step up and pay 

 some heavy fines. 



Salmon in the Hudson. — Another triumph has been 

 scored for fishculture. Salmon have been taken in the Hud- j 

 son this season to the number of perhaps half a dozen at pres- • 

 ent writing. They are all recorded from Troy, below the State 

 dam, with exception of one taken in Gravesend Bay which 

 we noticed a few weeks ago. In former years an occasional 

 stray salmon has been captured in the river at rare intervals, 

 but these fish, coming just four years after the first stocking 

 of the river, point to the planting of 1882 as the source of 

 their origin. In that year a small plant was made for the 

 IT. S. Fish Commission, from the hatchery of Mr. Thomas 

 Clapham, at Roslyn, Long Island, by Mi*. Fred Mather, who 

 has since continued the work on a larger scale, from the 

 station of the New York Fish Commission, at Cold Spring 

 Harbor, under orders of Professor Baird of the IT. S. Fish 

 Commission. State Commissioner Blackford is making 

 efforts to get all the information possible concerning the 

 capture of salmon in the river, and we shall, no doubt, hear 

 of others being taken. The eggs from which these fish 

 were hatched came from the U. S. station at Orland, Me., 

 in charge of Mr. C. G. Atkins. The Hudson may yet be- 

 come a salmon stream. Put up the fishways now and pro- 

 tect the fish which have escaped the meshes of the innumer- 

 able shad nets of the lower river, and give them a fair 

 chance. 



A Typical Case. — The effort now being made by the 

 citizens of Antrim county, Michigan, to put a period to the 

 netting and spearing of the remaining fish in their waters is a 

 typical case. The illogical views of the spearers, the apa- 

 thetic attitude of the average citizen, the difficulties, opposi- 

 tions and hostilities encountered by the reformers, all have 

 their counterparts in every locality where similar reforms 

 have been attempted. The success of the Antrim County 

 Association — for it is backed by men who know how to 

 achieve success — will be an encouragement for other like 

 movements in Michigan. 



The Large Trout Record.— The record of brook trout 

 which weigh 10 pounds or more, now includes a fish of 10 

 pounds 10 ounces, caught in Lake Mooselucmaguntic, Maine s 

 last week. It is reported in our angling columns. 



