Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JULY 22, 1886. 



I VOL. XXVI. — No. 36 . 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Darling's Fur Dodge. 



"Where are the Bluefish? 



A Woodcock Case, 



The International Rifle Series. 

 The Sportsman Tourisl 



Two Months AmoDg the Crees. 



The Muskoka Country. 



Death of "Ned Buntline." 

 Natural Histort. 



Disappearance of the Bobolink. 



Notes Concerning an Outlaw. 



Associations of Monterey. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Montana Wolves and Panthers. 



The Shore Birds. 



Handle With Care. 



Foxes and Foxhounds. 



A Tough Bear. 



Summer Woodcock Shooting. 



Muzzle vs. Breech. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Deep Sea Wishing. 



Lochleven Trout for Sunapee. 



The Trout of Monterey. 



Camps of the Kingfishers. 



The '*opey"and "Switch" Casts. 



Light Rods for Sea Fishing. 



I FlSHOTLTURE. 



| The American Fisheries Society. 

 pThe Kennel. 



Parasitic Diseases of Dogs. 



Home A. K. K. Statistics. 



Death of Champion Rush. 



Fox-Terrier Show. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



High Trajectory. 



The Internatioual Matches. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



The Four Large Yachts. 



Genesta snd Irex. 



Cruise of the Coot. 



Phoenix Y. c. Regatta. 



Beverly Y. C 



American Y. C. Regatta and 

 Cruise. 



Atlantic Y. C. Cruise. 



Carolina Y. C. Regatta. 



Annisquam Regatta. 

 Canoeing. 



A Day's Cruise on the Oswego. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



DARLING'S FUR DODGE. 



T T rather seems as if the case which was going to show 

 the way in which the Massachusetts courts would teach 

 a lesson to those of Maine upon the game laws of Maine had 

 somehow failed to do so. The well-known "Jack" Darling, 

 of Maine, brought a suit in the Municipal Court of the city 

 of Boston against the American Express Company for fail- 

 ure to deliver certain goods in Boston. The "goods," which 

 consisted partly of skins, horn9, etc., of deer and caribou, 

 were seized at Bangor by Game Warden Allen, the contra- 

 hand articles confiscated and the box containing the remain- 

 der of the articles, fox and beaver pelts, forwarded to the 

 Boston consignee. For this failure to deliver Darling brought 

 his action. The express company was represented by Louis 

 D. Brandeis, of the firm of Warren & Brandeis, of Boston. 

 It appeared in evidence that a regulation of the company 

 forbade the transportation of these articles and that Darling 

 knew of this regulation. That when Darling presented his 

 box to the station agent, who was also express agent, he was 

 asked what the box contained. He answered "Fur." The 

 agent swore that if he had known that deer or caribou were 

 in the box he would not have taken it. It was further 

 proved that "fur" in the language of those acquainted with 

 skins does not include deer. Two points among others grew 

 out of these facts: (1) The defendants contended, by Mr. 

 Brandeis, that if any contract to carry these deer or caribou 

 existed, it was a contract procured by the fraud of Darling, 

 and any loss must fall on him. (2) The agent, under the 

 regulation had no actual authority to bind the company, 

 and as the regulation was known to Darling, Darling knew 

 he had no authority, consequently the company was not 

 liable. The Court gave a verdict for the express company. 



Mr. Darling's fur dodge did not work. He may now sym- 

 pathize with the Pacific genius who shipped on the steamer 

 Queen of the Pacific a box labeled "Fresh Clams." When 

 the San Francisco customs officers investigated the clam box 

 they found beneath a strata of cinders and ashes an hermetic- 

 ally sealed tin case containing thirty cans of opium of five 

 taels each. The clam man was full of virtuous indignation, 

 but the matter was not taken into the courts. 



A WOODCOCK CASE. 



IN another column will be found a communication from a 

 correspondent, "Ajax," who relates that on repairing to 

 a favorite shooting ground when the New Jersey woodcock 

 season opened, he found that for three weeks prior to the 

 lawful time market-gunners had been killing the game. In 

 a note accompanying his communication "Ajax" tells us 

 that he has the names of the shooters, and can bring suffi- 

 cient evidence to convict them, witnesses being willing to 

 testify. He asks the substantial assistance of some of the 

 numerous advocates of proper game protection. The case 

 seems to us to be one which may be successfully pushed. 

 Our correspondent, who is well known to us, will probably 

 be satisfied with a much smaller sum than he asks for, and 

 we may state for him that if a sum sufficient to meet ex- 

 penses be furnished, the guilty parties will be prosecuted at 



WHERE ARE THE BLUEFISH? 



ANGLEES and marketmen aTe lamenting over the pro- 

 longed absence of the bluefish, and many think there 

 will be no bluefishing this summer. A trip through our 

 city markets will show a dearth of fish at this time when 

 they are usually plentiful. No species is now plentiful, and 

 the absence of the bluefish and weakfish at this time of year 

 is noticeable. Striped bass are scarce, kingfish are absent, 

 shad have gone and mackerel have not filled the gaps. We 

 believe, and have maintained, that the interests of anglers 

 and marketmen are identical, and but for the fact that a few 

 over-zealous anglers would restrict the sale of trout too 

 closely, or prohibit it entirely, and that some marketmen are 

 unscrupulous about observing close times, there should be 

 no differences between them. Both want to see fish abund- 

 ant, and the fact that the American Fisheries Society, form- 

 erly the American Fishcultural Association, carries on its 

 rolls of membership the following dealers in fishes attests 

 this fact: A. Booth, of Chicago, and Benj. West, S. B. Mil- 

 ler, Pulaski Benjamin, Gilbert Carman, Albert Haley, Caleb 

 Haley, J. N. Harris, W. Middleton, E. G. Blackford, Ernest 

 Miller, H. M. Rogers and Israel Woods, all of Fulton Mar- 

 ket New York. These men are with the fishculturists in 

 their endeavors to increase the food supply, and watch the 

 investigations of Prof. Baird at Wood's Holl with interest. 



For weeks the small craft have sailed out from Long 

 Island and from Barnegat laden with anglers on the lookout 

 for a school of bluefish, and the more scientific of them who 

 fish with rod and reel in the tideways, look in vain to see 

 the trollers strike the advance of the incomers. Night finds 

 them disconsolate, for like Rachel, they mourn for what is 

 not. Most of them blame the menhaden steamers for catch- 

 ing up the food of the bluefish and making oil and fertilizers 

 of it, and others go further and accuse the steamers of using 

 small bluefish for oil, when they can take a school of them. 

 This, they claim, is the cause of the decrease of the bluefish, 

 the weakfish and the striped bass. 



On the other hand Prof. Huxley has said that the efforts of 

 man are puny compared with the destruction of herring, 

 etc., by the fish, birds and seals, and this has has been in- 

 dorsed in this country by Prof. Goode and, we think, by 

 Prof. Baird. Mr. Blackford is reported to accept this view 

 of the case also, but with all respect to the weight of 

 authority of these names, we cannot agree with them. It is 

 possible that natural agencies destroy many times more of the 

 herring tribe, and of other defenseless fishes, than man does, 

 but nature provides for this, and before man invented and 

 used such destructive means of fishing as he now does the 

 balance was kept up. When man was content with the 

 hook and line, the seine and the gill net, the sea fishes had a 

 chance to escape, but with pound nets along shore and purse 

 seines at sea, and the continued dragging of our bays by nets 

 in order to get fish for fertilizers and oil, the menhaden is 

 not only thinned out but is not safe on its spawning grounds. 

 We cannot believe that with steam cruisers lining our coasts, 

 with men at the masthead on the lookout for a school of 

 menhaden, the capture of these fish on which our better 

 fish feed does not affect the supply of the latter, especially 

 when it is known that a school of menhaden sighted is as 

 good as captured entire by the greedy purse-net. 



It is possible that the bluefish are merely belated and may 

 come in later, but the striped bass are not belated, for they 

 are with us all the year and are gradually disappearing. In 

 our columns the "menhaden question" has been argued at 

 length by both sides. Mr. S. B. Miller, of Fulton Market, 

 is reported in the Evening Post as saying that he has seen the 

 menhaden steamers bring a load of 10,000 weakfish caught 

 with the bunkers (menhaden), and we do not doubt it. We 



believe that the capture of menhaden for oil affects the pres- 

 ence on our coast of the migratory fishes which feed upon 

 them, and that the menhaden oil and fertilizer factories are 

 a curse to the marketman, the angler, and the professional 

 fisherman. 



THE INTERNATIONAL RIFLE SERIES. 

 |"N our Rifle columns we have endeavored to bring into one 

 comprehensive group all the international matches in 

 which, since the advent of modern rifle practice, the Ameri- 

 can riflemen have taken part. For several years past the 

 National Rifle Association have failled to issue any reports, 

 and this has made the gathering up of official statistics no 

 easy task. The record is a proud one for our countrymen, 

 and though there are defeats to chronicle, the weight of 

 merit is largely on our side. In small-bore shooting we 

 remain champions of the world, with very little seeming 

 desire on the part 'of outsiders to take that championship 

 away. 



In military marksmanship we have the championship yet 

 to gain ; and it is not all to the credit of the National Guards- 

 men of over two score States that for three years there has 

 been not even a whimper of protest at the fact that the 

 British volunteers remain head marksmen in the citizen 

 soldiery. The error which the Amateur Rifle Club com 

 mitled in allowing the Canadians to score a victory at long 

 range work is one that should be corrected by sending up a 

 strong team and bringing back the championship. Perhaps 

 the live New York Rifle Club will take up the task, or the 

 Walnut Hill men could do it in fine style if they only will. 



It has been our pleasure and profit to witness the majority 

 of these matches, to note the progress of the interesting 

 battles, to see the team men fight wind and weather on the 

 one hand and their opponents as well. The whole series has 

 been of remarkable value in making the rifle of to-day so 

 vastly superior to the small arm of a dozen years ago. 



Death op Capt. H. C. Chester. — On Saturday last Cap- 

 tain Herbert C. Chester, of the TJ. 8. Fish Commission, died 

 at his home in Noank, Conn., of consumption contracted in, 

 the Arctic regions. Originally captain of a whaleship and a 

 man of giant frame and hardy constitution, he was one of 

 the ill-fated Polaris expedition, and after the burial of Cap- 

 tain Hall and the loss of the ship, built the raft on which 

 Lieutenant Buddington and his party escaped. At Noank, 

 in 1872, he joined the forces of the Fish Commission, and for 

 some years had charge of the dredging. For the past few 

 years he has been superintendent of the hatchery station at 

 Wood's Holl and has invented several forms of hatching 

 apparatus, besides the "Chester folding anchor." We saw 

 hitn last May, and while he said he was not well it was dif- 

 ficult to believe it. Captain Chester has rendered the Com- 

 mission great service and his loss will be severely felt . He 

 was about 52 years old and leaves a wife. 



A Superior Article in the Way of Cltjbs is manufac- 

 tured in New London, Conn., for the Aleuts of the Pribylov 

 Islauds, who annually club to death their quota of 100,000 

 seals. The clubs are from five to six feet in length, three 

 inches in diameter at the head, and the thickness of a man's 

 forearm where grasped by the hands. They would be just 

 the thing for Adirondack deer hounders, and Dr. Sam. B. 

 Ward, Mr. John T. Denny or some other great philanthro- 

 pist would win the gratitude of the oarsmen "guides" by pro- 

 viding them with a supply of these weapons against the 

 arrival of city "sports" next season, 



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Letters from the Yellowstone National Park speak 

 of the heat and drouth there as being very bad, and state that 

 it is very difficult to extinguish the forest fires. There has 

 been very little rain anywhere in the northern Rocky Moun- 

 tain region this year and the snows last winter were very 

 light, so that there is everywhere a scarcity of water. Owing 

 to the failure of Congress to make a timely appropriation for 

 the Park, the Government work there has stopped. 



Mr. J. H. Braybon, of Chicago, deserves sympathy. He 

 is an angler and had planned to spend his vacation fishing 

 with friends. Instead of that, however, he found himself 

 the other day among the twelve men selected to sit as 

 jurors in the Anarchists' trial. 



The New Jersey Doctor, who studied the sufferings of 

 broken backed dogs, has been fined in a court of justice. 

 The laws are not strict enough on these matters. 



This is a Good Bear Year. 



