Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JULY 8, 1886. 



I VOL. XXVI.— No. 24. 



I Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, New ¥ork. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Concerning Consistency. 



A Racing Classification. 



A Consideration of Dollars and 

 Cents. 



June Deer Floating. 



Celebrating the Fourth. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Days With the Barmecide Club. 



Hunter berg Castle. 



The Magalloway of To-Day. 

 Natural History. 



Domestication of the Buffalo. 



Two Hints in Taxidermy. 



The Audubon Society. 



New York Song Bird's. 



Moose Measurements. 



A Proposed Desecration. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Open Seasons. 



Dakota Game and Resorts. 



On a Runway. 



Hunting Rifle Sights. 



Transplanting Quail. 



June Deer Floating. 



The Prairie Chickens. 



How Long Can Foxhounds Run? 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



A HuDt for a Trout Stream in 

 Alaska. 



Camps of the Kingfishers. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



The Muddy Potomac. 



Trout and' Rears. 



Camp of the Big Six. 

 Fishculture. 



The American Fisheries Society 



Salmon in the Hudson. 



The Mackerel Season. 

 The Kennel. 



Parasitic. Diseases of Dogs. 



A Fraudulent Medal. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



Beverly Y. C. Regatta. 



New Jersey Y. C. Cruise. 



"Loyally" on Deck Again. 



Boston City Regatta. 



Eastern Y. C. Regatta. 



Larchmont Y. C. Regatta. 



A Song of the Sea. 

 Canoeing. 



The A. C. Meet. 



The Canoe Exhibition. 



New York C. C. Trial Races. 



Cruise of the K. C. C. 



Royal C. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



CONCERNING CONSISTENCY. 



f~pHE Audubon Society for the protection of birds was 

 founded by the Forest and Stream, a sportsmen's 

 journal. That is the alleged paradox which in this present 

 year of grace is vexing the souls of certain more or less well- 

 meaning men and women. The editor of an obscure reli- 

 gious paper in Chicago is grieved because a letter received 

 by him from this office relating to the Audubon Society 

 was written on a sheet of paper bearing at its head the pic- 

 tured rod and gun — implements of bird destruction. A Cin- 

 cinnati doctor, who has entered the lists as the champion 

 knight of befeathered Dulciueas, wants people to go on 

 killing song birds because the Audubon Society was 

 founded by a journal devoted to the interests of a class of 

 men who shoot birds for sport; and the good doctor is also 

 apprehensive lest the wicked journal should actually be given 

 some credit by the public because of these bird protective 

 undertakings. 



The worthy individuals are unduly perturbing their spirits 

 in this warm July weather. There is nothing inconsistent 

 in the attitude of Forest and Stream toward song bird de- 

 struction. It represents the general sentiment of sportsmen. 



Simply because a man pursues and kills game birds and 

 animals which, so far as we may reason from analogy, were 

 created expressly for men to hunt and kill, it does not follow 

 that he is bent on the foolish and wicked extermination of 

 other birds which were created to gladden the world with 

 their beauty and song and to wage their warfare upon the 

 noxious insect hosts. As a matter of fact, the average 

 sportsman recognizes more fully than the average non-shoot- 

 ing man, the economic value of such birds as the Audubon 

 Society is concerned with. The sportsman, through his 

 clubs and journals, has secured many of the best bird pro- 

 tective laws now in force, and he hits secured them, too, in 

 the face of stupid opposition and in spite of the lethargic in- 

 difference of just such individuals as are now fault rinding 

 because the Audubou movement was not put in motion by 

 themselves. 



Jt is always easjer to stand out oije side and carp and 



whine than to put one's own shoulder to the wheel ; and 

 after a thing has been done in one way it is always easy to 

 gain passiDg notoriety by loudly proclaiming that it might 

 have been done better iu some other way. 



The friends of song bird protection invite the eo operation 

 of all sincere workers in the cause. They ask for honest 

 united, and, if honest and united, effective working together 

 for the common end. 



To ask that there should be absolute unanimity of opinion 

 among those who are honestly concerned for the success of 

 the campaign against the song bird feather fashion would be 

 seeking too much from human nature. Differences, misun 

 derstandings and dissensions have been the attendants of 

 every laudable public movement. The cause of the Amer 

 can Colonies was hampered year after year by the want of 

 harmony between the American representatives in Paris. 

 But Lee and Deane and Franklin were patriots, and, though 

 they could not understand each other and worked at cross 

 purposes, all had at heart the interest of the Colonies. It is 

 to be hoped that the several individuals who have criticised 

 the Audubon Society because of its origin in this office are 

 sincerely interested in securing the objects sought by the 

 Society; and more than this, it is already an established cer- 

 tainty that the movement, critics or no critics, is a success 

 ful one. 



CELEBRATING THE FOURTH. 

 A PART from the barbaric noise inseparable from the 

 occasion, the distinguishing and suggestive feature of 

 the Fourth of July has come to be the variety of outdoor 

 sports on that day, and the numbers of people who, as par 

 ticipants or spectators, are interested in them. The bare 

 catalogue of these pastimes discloses the place open-ai 

 amusements occupy in the public taste. First and foremost, 

 of course, were the base ball matches innumerable, witnessed 

 by hundreds of thousands of spectators; with lacrosse, 

 cricket and lawn tennis matches; Scottish and athletic 

 games; rowing, yachting and canoeing regattas; horse 

 races and bicycle races; polo; whippet racings; rifle and 

 trap-shooting matches; each engaging its special share of 

 public attention and demanding full reports in the morning 

 papers of the next day. The anglers were out in force, and 

 July woodcock shooters sweltered in the covers. 



The old style of celebrating the national holiday is gradu 

 ally giving away. In its observance of the day society may 

 be divided into two classes, the first of those who try 

 to get away from the noise and heat, and pass the 

 hours in quiet; and the other of those who seek 

 amusement. The latter is rapidly learning that more satis- 

 faction is to be derived from some form of outdoor sport, 

 than in the aimless methods of celebrating once in vogue, 

 when a big crowd and a big noise, with a spice of patriotic 

 spread-eagleism, furnished the regular programme. The day 

 as a holiday gives more satisfaction because of these regu- 

 larly organized forms of entertainment. It is more of an 

 event to look forward to. 



There are not wanting those who decry the new form of 

 holiday, and who would restore the patriotic programme of 

 earlier days with orations and public reading of the Decla- 

 ration of Independence. It cannot be said, however, that 

 the Fourth does not accomplish its purpose, even though 

 there be no such formal public recognition of the event it 

 commemorates. The day, even though wholly given over 

 to sensible forms of amusement, has an educational influ- 

 ence of incalculable value, and its influence is to stimulate 

 patriotism none the less, though the direct appeal to that 

 fentiment once so common be now omitted. 



A YACHT RACING CLASSIFICATION. 



ON another page we touch on the question of classifica- 

 tion, a subject that is made still more emphatic in the 

 race at Larchmont this week. Here the classes are based on 

 sailing length, namely, a length taken parallel with the load 

 waterline and at a certain distance above it. By this rule 

 Cinderella and Clara, 52 and 53 feet waterline, are classed 

 with Gracie, Bedouin and Fanny of 70 feet load waterline. 

 Ulidia, 42 feet load waterline, goes in with Athlon, 51 feet 

 load waterline, a boat of double her beam. As it happened, 

 none of the 70 feet class were in, and Ulidia was too late to 

 enter formally, so the evils were of no great consequence 

 for the time. They suffice, however, to prove the impera- 

 tive need of a concerted and intelligent action on the part 

 of the leading clubs. There may be some excuse in the 

 past for the growth of such a faulty and unjust state of 

 affairs, but its continuance is little credit to the enterprise 

 and intelligence of American yacht clubs. 



A CONSIDERATION OF DOLLARS AND CENTS. 

 npIIE woodcock season in the vicinity of Saratoga and 

 Newport and other great pleasure resorts opens in 

 June. This is in conflict with the general laws of the States, 

 but the average landlord of a big hotel is beyond, outside of 

 and above the law. His back door is always open to the 

 furtive or brazen entrance of the market shooter, and his 

 guests eat what is set before them and pay the bill. Pub- 

 lic sentiment in the neighborhood of summer resorts is made 

 by the hotel keepers; if the hotel wants June woodcock, the 

 general sentiment is that June woodcock are quite the cor- 

 rect thing. The birds have been potted in the vicinity of 

 Saratoga this year, and are now pretty well exterminated. 



In Rhode Island there are many square miles of cove 

 admirably adapted to ruffed grouse. Were the birds given 

 anything approximating a fair chance the State would afford 

 the best grouse sliooting in the country. But the covers are 

 depleted by the market-shooters. Woodcock shooting is in 

 order in July; and the multitude and variety of game birds 

 that pass muster as woodcock at the hotel back door are not 

 by any means limited to the species usually recognized as 

 game. These market-hunters kill almost every feathered 

 creature that comes in their way, robins, thrushes, and 

 whatever flies. They cut down great numbers of chicken 

 grouse, and by this constant slaughter of immature birds for 

 the hotel kitchen the grouse covers are made lean and barren 

 by the time decent and law-abiding citizens are ready to go 

 shooting. 



If spring and summer shooting could be done away with 

 thoroughly and universally, the supply of legitimate game in 

 legitimate season would furnish a permanent source of pleas- 

 ure to sportsmen and of revenue to the citizens of the State. 

 The annual profit from birds killed out of season and covertly 

 smuggled into hotel back doors, does not equal one-hun- 

 dredth part of the revenue these same birds would bring if 

 preserved for sportsmen who would pay stage fares, board 

 bills, guide fees and other expenses for the privilege of shoot- 

 ing game in sea son. 



JUNE DEER FLO AUNG. 

 \ SUGGESTIVE communication is printed in our Game 

 Bag and Gun columns, where a Keene Valley, New 

 York, correspondent cites the case of a local great man who 

 has been floating for deer in June. This is a typical case of 

 the corpulent and lazy nabob, who finds it in his power to 

 use indebted employees as tools in his illicit sport. There 

 are many such men in the Adirondacks; they are hotel keep- 

 ers upon whose nod depend the fortune of guides and oars- 

 men; or manufacturers who conceive that when they hire 

 men to work for them they may also demand of them com- 

 plicity in violating the game laws. 



These men have about had their day. Their extraordinary 

 position of defiance to the legal restrictions upon shooting 

 and fishing cannot be maintained in the face of the new sen- 

 timent forming in many localities in the North Woods. An 

 encouraging sign of the growth of such a sentiment is 

 afforded in the formation of guides' associations for the en- 

 forcement of the game laws and the punishment of offenders, 

 be they big or little. Such insubordination on the part of 

 guides naturally provokes the choler of many of the hotel 

 keepers, who toady to the local great man as well as to city 

 guests in quest of June venison. The landlords announce 

 that as retaliatory measures they will prevent the law-abiding 

 club members from obtaining employment as guides. Such 

 tactics may be temporarily successful ; but if the guides have 

 pluck enough to fight the contest through to the end, they 

 will be supported by visitors and in time by the hotel keepers 

 themselves. 



It happens in the present instance that the June floater is 

 one of the persons active in securing the repeal of the New 

 York hounding law last spring. The advocates of the re- 

 peal, it will be remembered, made a great deal of noise over 

 the enormity of the abuses attendant upon floating. This 

 June floater is a-fair specimen of the hounding advocates; 

 his June floating is a fair sample of the actual practice of 

 the hounders who harangued the loudest and longest against 

 deer floating. 



"Galli Mules" are included in the birds not protected in 

 New York by one of the new laws. The galli mule is a 

 woesome fowl and ought to have fared less harshly at the 

 hands of the Albauy politicians. 



Bets are not decided by the Forest and Stream. It is 

 taken for granted that those who bet will have intelligence 

 to determine the winner and loser without taxing the ingenu - 

 tv of newspaper men, 



