Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 2, 1886. 



) VOL. XXVII.-No. 6. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Blueflsh and Menhaden. 



The International Matches. 



The Brahmiii and the Scribe. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Travels in Boom Gah Arrah- 



A Day in Simimer. 4» 



Sam Lovel's Camps— IV, 

 NATuiiAt, History. 



Bird Migration. 



Two Indian Bird Stories. 



The Audubon Society. 



The Habitat of the Quail. 



Puget Sound Cougars. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Won and Lost. 



New England Game. 



The Quails of California. 



Target Tests and Shot. 



Rifled Chokebores. 



Muskrats in a Flood. 



Muzzle vs. Breech. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Spanish Mackerel off More- 

 head. 



The Carp as a Game Fish. 

 The Salmo Sunapee. 

 A Catch in the Dark. 

 Susquehanna Bass. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Silkworm Gut. 



How to Catch Speckled Frogs. 



FiSHCULTURB. 



List of Fish Commissioners 

 and Officers. 

 The Kennel. 



The Eastern Field Trials. 



Spratts Biscuit. 



Mastiff Character. 



The Disappointments of Dog 

 Breeding. 



Texas Field Trials. 



The Fos-Terrier Show. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Trap-Shooting Reform. 



Georgia Tournament. 



Barbecue and Shoot. 

 Yachting. 



Tlie Trial of the Sloops. 



The America Cup Matches. 



Beverly Y. C. Regattas. 

 Canoeing. 



The Meet of 1886. 



The N. Y. C. C. Cup Races. 



Tippy C. C. Regatta. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE BRAHMIN AND THE SCRIBE. 



THE great summer camp ground of the Methodists at 

 Ocean Grove, N. J., was invaded tiie other day by 

 S. Govinda Eow Sattaj^, a peregrinating Hindoo, who, 

 wherever he could collect a crowd, inveighed against the 

 Christian missions in India, and passed his hat. He 

 finally made his way into a hotel parlor and addressed 

 the ladies there, and, according to the Sun, "denounced 

 Christianity in terms of unaffected candor. He said that 

 he was unfamihar with the forms of English speech, and 

 if what he might say should oifend the sensibilities of his 

 hearers he begged them to believe that the fault was en- 

 tirely due to his lack of understanding of our language 

 and customs. He then launched into the most indecent 

 and obscene tirade against the practices of American 

 missionaries in Indi£t* causing consternation among his 

 little congregation. Many ladies left the room in great 

 embarrassment, and others remained only because they 

 were ashamed to rise up and go out in the presence of a 

 room full of people. The Brahmin's speech created a 

 great scandal, and then he went out along the board walk 

 and harangued. He declared that American missionaries 

 lied in their accounts of the good they had accomplished 

 in India. Their efforts were, in fact, he said, without 

 such results as were sought, and they made no conver- 

 sions," and much more in the same strain, which -all in 

 good time landed Mr. Sattay in the nearest convenient 

 jail. 



Now, had Mr. Leander Richardson, who is, we believe, 

 a New York newspaper scribe, gTdped down the Hindoo's 

 ; clownish vaporing as a competent statement of the con- 

 dition of the Indian missions and sent it to the Boston 

 Herald, its publication would have been a piece of gross 

 impertinence to the hundred thousand intelligent readers 

 of that great journal. Mr. Richardson did not send the 

 Brahmin's orations to the Herald, for one reason, perhaps, 

 because he was up in Maine sending down to the Boston 

 newspaper office rubbish of an equally foolish nature 

 relating to game and fish protection in Maine. Certain 

 guides and cupidinous landlords who want summer deer 

 killing and spawning bed trout kilHng potu-ed their denun- 



ciations of Maine's righteous laws into the willing 

 ear of the visiting scribe, and the plaints flowed 

 from his pen, and for some inscrutable reason were given 

 light in the Herald cohimns. They represented only the 

 views and interests of men who would overthrow game 

 and fish j)rotection for the sake of immediate individiial 

 profit. To judge of the success or failure, wisdom or 

 folly of the Maine law by these letters wi-itten by a vaca- 

 tionist scribe and signed Leander Richardson in the Bos- 

 ton Herald, would be equally as silly as to determine the 

 failure or success of Cliristian missionary effort in India 

 by the declamations of the Hindoo Sattay. Something of 

 this same view of the subject appears to have been enter- 

 tained by the Herald itself, for in its editorial columns of 

 Aug. 29 we find the following, which is just such an hi- 

 dorsement of the Maine protective system as we should 

 expect from that journal: 



It is a fact that the State of Maine has the most rigid and the 

 best enforced code of laws for the protection of game and game 

 fish of any State in the Union. This is as it should be, for there is 

 no Eastern State, at least, which contains so vast an extent of 

 forest, the natural home of the larger game, and so great an area 

 of inland waters. It is a,lso a curious fact that a large percentage 

 of this woodland is valueless for any other purpose than the 

 growing of timber and the furnishing of a sporting ground for 

 the hunter and a breathing place for the lover of nature. That 

 the larger game, moose, deer and caribou, were in danger of find- 

 ing the fate of the bison, once abundant on the plains, now reduced 

 to a few straggling herds, till the strong arm of the law took hold 

 to stop the ravages of the hunter for the mere hides and the mar- 

 ket hunter, there is no doubt. That this larger game lias Avonder- 

 fully increased in Matae under the enforcement of its more 

 stringent game laws, enacted by the Legislature of 1883, is ad- 

 mitted by even those who would now ask for their repeal. One of 

 the strongest proofs of the value of these later enactments is to be 

 found in the Boston market, w^here, in the winter season before 

 the enactment forbidding the transportation of game, there were 

 received by actual count nearly 1,000 Maine deer, which were sold 

 for a very small price or permitted to rot: but since the existence 

 of that law scarcely a dozen deer find tMs market from that State 

 in a season. That a correspondent of the Herald should find 

 objectors to such a law in the person of guides, hotel keepers and 

 stage owners is not at all strange or unnatural. They prefer the 

 nimble penny to the dollar that is longer coming. It is perfectly 

 natural for the people whom the law is framed to regulate to 

 desire more license, but the bare fact of the great success of the 

 present code of game and fish laws in Maine, in the way of a 

 wonderful increase in the very game and fish which they are pre- 

 sumed to protect, is one of the strongest reasons in the world for 

 letting those laws remain just as they are till such time as when 

 the Commissioners and those who have the perpetuation of the 

 game and fish in question the nearest at heart shall think it 

 prudent to grant a longer open season and greater license to kill. 

 That such greater license will, at the proper time, be granted, we 

 have the best of assurance, and until that time every honest citi- 

 zen of Maine, and every visitor, should accord a cheerful obedi- 

 ence to a code of laws which permits all to share alike to the 

 fullest extent of open season and privileges of transportation that 

 can be granted with safety to the future existence of the fish and 

 game in question. 



What the wandering, scribes think of Maine game and 

 fish is of little moment; what the Boston Herald thinks 

 is worth while considering. 



THE INTERNATIONAL MATCHES. 

 YT7 ITHIN the next ten days two very important series 

 ' * of races will be held in American waters be- 

 tween the leading boats of America and England; races 

 which cannot fail to attract the attention of all interested 

 in water sports and sailing. Naturally size tells in this as 

 in all other matters, and in the excitement over the two 

 huge white cutters, the tiny canoes are apt to be over- 

 looked. Though small they are, however, no less import- 

 ant than the larger craft, nor is less of skill and science 

 involved in their construction and handling. In this 

 pigmy contest too the question of type is involved even 

 more fully than in that of the large keel cutters and cen- 

 terboard cutters; for the American canoes, though derived 

 originally from the English, are smaller, finer in lines, 

 much lighter in ballast and displacement and sailed in a 

 different manner. Of course the majority of spectators 

 who follow both these races are animated by purely 

 patriotic sentiments, hut among American yachtsmen 

 there are hundreds of intelligent men who are look- 

 ing to the result to guide them a step nearer 

 to perfection; while the doings of the musquito fleet 

 are studied no less attentively by young men in all 

 parts of the country who are intent on an improvement 

 of the models and rigging of their boats. Within the 

 past five years the spread of the elementary princij)les of 

 naval designing has been wonderfully rapid among 

 American small-boat and canoe men, and it would sur- 

 prise a person not familiar with canoeing to learn how 

 many there are who can turn out a creditable design for 



these comiilicated little craft, or who can intelligently 

 pass judgment upon existing boats. In yachting the 

 same advance has taken place, and for one person who 

 understood anything of the principles involved in the 

 Cambria or Livonia races there are a hundred to-day 

 who are looking, beyond the popular hurrah over a vic- 

 tory of either nation, for results that will lead them fur- 

 ther in their work. It is in this phase of the contests that 

 is found the greatest promise for the future of our 

 supremacy afloat. A defeat or victory for either side is 

 only a matter of to-day; but the lessons which many will 

 draw from these two series of races, whatever the results 

 may be, will have their influence on naval design in 

 America for many years. 



BLUEFI8H AND MENHADEN. 

 \ FEW bluefish have been taken on the south side of 

 Long Island during the past week. The menhaden 

 nets have been hung up because there are no menhaden 

 worth trying for, and the steamers have left the vicinity 

 of Fire Island and South Beach. On the north shore of 

 Long Island some bluefish have been taken in Cold Spring- 

 Harbor and Oyster Bay, and in the bays toward the east- 

 ern end of the island. There is very little chumming be- 

 cause of the lack of menhaden, and no other fish pos- 

 sesses such an attraction to the bluefish as that afforded 

 by the menhaden. The menhaden is so oily that the 

 scent of the bait is carried a great distance by the cur- 

 rents. 



Most of the bluefish taken by anglers have been 

 captured by trolling the artificial squid or by playing a 

 "silverside," menidia, or other small fish, but a few 

 anglers have been fortimate enough to obtain a limited 

 suj)ply of menhaden, and have used them in chumming. 

 The fish taken by the latter method have been small, run- 

 ning from half a pound to a j)ound; but the troUers have 

 taken some larger ones of two and three pounds. No 

 large bluefish are reported, and the same condition of 

 affairs exists all along the northern Atlantic coast as is 

 found about Long Island. 



There are all sorts of theories to account for the absence 

 of the bluefish, and iiimor has it that they are plentiful 

 far out at sea where they are feeding on some fish found 

 out there; but there is a lack of evidence on this point. 

 The majority of anglers lay the absence of the bluefish 

 to the disappearance of the menhaden, and charge it 

 all to the menhaden steamers. Should the bluefish 

 come in good numbers later in the season, or come next 

 year in force, there would be need of some new theory 

 we must wait and see. 



Signatures should be plainly written. No matter how 

 illegible the text of a business or other letter, most folks 

 can get along with it if only the name of the writer be 

 plain. Many people who happen to be perfectly familiar 

 with their own names in their peculiar chirography , appear 

 to think that others know them too. Correspondents who 

 favor us with trap and rifle scores, kennel notes, reports 

 of club meetings, yacht and canoe races, etc., will greatly 

 oblige by writing jproper names plainly. 



TRAP-SHOOTING HANDICAPPING is a Subject of much 

 interest to shooters in all parts of the country, if v/e may 

 judge from the number of comnmnications which have 

 come to us from widely diilerent sources. The qitestion 

 is one which will bear agitation. Free discussion of the 

 points at issue is the surest way to bring about needed 

 changes. 



An Illustrated Yacht Race Supplement of sixteen 

 pages has been jprepared by the Forest and Stream and 

 will be on the news stands next Saturday. It contains 

 an loistorical review of past international yachting con- 

 tests, and a fund of information which will be found ex- 

 ti'emely useful in connection with the coming matches. 



"OCR New Alaska." — The publication of Mr. Chas, 

 Hallock's forthcoming book "Our New Alaska" has been 

 delayed by causes beyond tha control of the Forest and 

 Stream Publishing Co. It is hoped that the volume wiU 

 within a very short time be ready for dehvery. 



Rural Grove, a little village in Montgomery county, 

 N. Y., boasts that for a year no dog has been owned or 

 sheltered within its limits. That must be a poor place to 

 bring up children in. 



