Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER SO, 1886. 



) VOL. XXVII.-No. 10. 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Reform in Ohio. 



The Government of the Park. 



Yacht Challenger of Next Year 



Beginning the Day Right. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Sam Level's Camps— vii. 



Travels in Boon Gah Arrrah- 

 biggee. 



Florida Life and Sport. 

 Natural Histort. 



The Audubon Society. 



Rattles and Fangs. 



Economic Ornithology, 



A Familiar Shrike. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The Troops and the Park. 



My Bear Hunting. 



Uncle Kellup Takes an Outing. 



Hunting in the Himalayas. 



North Carolina Deer and 

 Quail. 



An Opportunity for Dealers. 

 Game Preserving in Britain. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 Shanty Life. 



The Home of the Big Trout. 

 Fishing in Alaska. 

 The Vagaries of Fly Nomen- 

 clature. 

 Nepigon Trout. 

 A Sturgeon Yarn. 



Fishculture. 



The U. S. Fish Commission. 



Live Soles Arrived. 

 The Kennel. 



Caesarian Section. 



The Attleboro Dog Show. 



"Fancy" as Applied to Dogs. 



A Tennessee Fox Hunt, 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Creedmoor Meeting. 



The Army Competition. 



The Trap. 



The Savannah Tournament. 



Y^ACHTING, 



Another ChaUonge for the Cup. 

 Mayflower— Galatea Match. 

 The Eastern Y. C. Reception, 

 The Thetis— Stranger Matches, 

 The Matches for the America 

 Cup, 



Another View of the Question, 



Yachting Notes, 

 Canoeing. 



A Day's Canoe Cruise. 



The Amendments to the Con- 

 stitution. 



Notes on Practical Canoeing, 



Birch Barks. 



Toronto C. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



REFORM IN OHIO. 

 4 NOTEWOETHY change in public sentiment and 

 regard for the rights of the community in fish and 

 game has been achieved in some sections of Ohio, where 

 in years past the poachers have had things all their otvti 

 way— and a very bad way it was, too. This reform is 

 largely due to the new system adopted by the State, At 

 the last meeting of the Legislature a law was enacted 

 giving the Governor authority to appoint five State Fish 

 and Game Commissioners, These Commissioners were 

 empowered to make such regulations as they might 

 deem necessary for the more efiacient protection of 

 fish and game. The appointments were as follows: 

 C. v. Osborn (President), Dayton; A. C. Williams (Secre- 

 tary), Chagrin Falls; H.P. Ingalls, Huntsville, and Judge 

 Sadler, Sandusky. The selections were made from both 

 political parties, and, as will be seen from the addresses, 

 the board covers the State. Soon after their appointment 

 the Commissioners divided the State into districts by 

 counties, assigning as neaiiy as possible an equal division 

 of teri'itory to each Commissioner; and appointed in each 

 county a fish and game warden, with a warden also to 

 each of the reservou-s. Each Commissioner then ap- 

 pointed for his division two or three pohcemen to assist 

 the wardens. Thus, it will be observed, a machinery 

 for executing the law was provided; and that the new 

 order of things meant the law's execution very soon 

 became evident. The good results are already to be 

 noted in the abundance of fish for lawful taking in waters 

 where formerly the net impoverished the supply. From 

 the Lewistown reservoir, for example, where the netters 

 have in times past had things all their own way, the 

 Commissioners have taken over seven hundred unlawful 

 nets; and as a natural result there is now some attraction 

 there for those who fish in a manner legalized by the 

 statutes. The bass fishing is now at its height, some fish 

 weighing 8 and 8Wbs, having recently been taken there. 

 Commissioner Ingalls visits this lake. On a recent excur- 

 sion there he took with the fly a bass of 51bs. 14oz, 

 Anglers are attracted from a distance, and the residents 



in the vicinity are beginning to learn that it pays to pro- 

 tect fish for legitimate fishing. 



Much interest is taken in fishculture, particularly in 

 trout culture. Mr. Brad. Smith, of Zanesfield, has suc- 

 cessfully stocked a number of ponds in that vicinity with 

 trout, and some of the fi^h, having escaped in times of 

 high water, have stocked adjacent waters, much to the 

 satisfaction of anglers. 



With respect to game the present outlook is also very 

 encouraging. We are informed that in many portions of 

 the State it is anticipated that the quail shooting for 1886 

 will be better than for any season within the past eight 

 years. 



All this points to a changed public sentiment favorable 

 to game laws, without which sentiment the efforts of 

 officials can be at best only partially effective. Ohio is 

 on the right course to secm-e for the citizens of the Statjo 

 the most profitable use of this natural wealth of the fields 

 and streams. 



BEGINNING THE DAY RIGHT. 

 'T^HERE is everything in a good start. Begin right in 

 -■- the morning with a clear head and a good con- 

 science. This golden maxim applies to trade, business 

 and moose himting. To bounce out of bed betimes, swal- 

 low breakfast by candlelight, and get ahead of the sun on 

 the hilltops is a rule of procedure approved by all suc- 

 cessful hunters, and Boston sportsmen have the supple- 

 mentary tenet that the early riser must carry afield a 

 Kght heart, too. The behef they entertain is that if one's 

 conscience be troublous and heavy its voice will jar in 

 discord ^^dth the harmony of the woods. They believe in 

 "Nessmuk's" dictum to "go light." No burden of con- 

 science for them. 



This philosophy has just had a very pretty illustration 

 in practice. A Boston sportsman, who has been in the 

 Maine woods in seasons past with a rifle, two years ago 

 succeeded in killing more moose than he knew what to 

 do with. It was on the West Branch of the Penobscot, a 

 long way from civilization, and in the woods where ac- 

 cording to the old order of things crimes go unpunished. 

 So the dead-moose-burdened hunter abandoned the car- 

 casses to rot; that is to say, he thought he left them there 

 in the woods, but as a matter of fact he has been carry- 

 ing them about ever since on his conscience. And for 

 that size of conscience those dead moose have been a very 

 large load. 



Game Warden Allen, of Bangor, an officer whose 

 special duty it is to discover unhappy sportsmen with 

 moose-heavy souls, strack the ti'ack of the Bostonian, and 

 for two years has been persistently following it. Last 

 week the Massachusetts man started for his annual 

 Moosehead Lake excursion. He woke up very early the 

 other morning in his hotel bedroom at Kineo, not because 

 eager to reach his journey's end, nor because the weight 

 on liis conscience cried sleep no more, but because Game 

 Warden Allen, the conscience reliever, was pounding at 

 the door. The interview was not prolonged. The awakened 

 moose hunter then and there deposited with the officer of 

 the law the whole amount of the fine, $100 for each 

 moose unlawfully killed, and the probable costs of prose- 

 cution, as a surety for his appearance for trial at the 

 proper time, or, if he did not appear, to be used as the 

 law directs. Then, ha^dng begun the day aright, the 

 moose hunter went on with an rmburdened conscience 

 and a lighter pocketbook. 



that the Park was no longer under effective surveil- 

 lance, and as a natural result visitors have this season 

 committed depredations so extensive as to warrant us in 

 characterizing the new order of things as "letting loose 

 the vandals upon the Park." Moreover, while under the 

 care of Col. Wear's trained force of assistants these 

 vandals would have been compelled to perpetrate their 

 offenses covertly if at all, there have been cases this 

 year, where the troops in charge have actually given vis- 

 itors express permission to commit unlawful depredations. 



The reference to drunken soldiers, to which our 

 correspondent takes exception, was based on these facts. 

 In the last week of August a drunken soldier, one of the 

 Park guardians, "held up" a stage load of ladies and gen- 

 tlemen just within the Park, coming from Cinnabar, 

 cocked his revolver, and with profanity and obscenity de- 

 tained them until it suited his intoxicated fancy to per- 

 mit them to go on. On the following day a sergeant and 

 two enlisted men were dispatched by Captain Harris to 

 arrest this soldier. In due time all four returned, everj 

 one of them drunk. This is not an isolated case, for 

 our correspondent has been witness of drunken brawls 

 among the troops in the Park. It was with a knowledge 

 of these occurrences that we referred in the manner com- 

 plained of to the present guardians. 



Later advices from our correspondent, under date of 

 Sept. 21, give information of fires still raging fiercely on 

 the head of Blacktail Deer Creek, in the valley of the 

 Yellowstone below and above Tower Creek, on the west 

 side of Holmes Range and elsewhere. 



Taking it all in all, the summer of 1886 maybe set down 

 as a most disastrous season for the Park, 



THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PARK. 

 nPHE letter which Lieut. Wise sends us relative to the 

 present government of the Yellowstone Nationa 

 Park contains evidence good enough so far as it goes; but 

 it is mainly of a negative character, and does not of 

 necessity conflict vrith the positive testimony submitted 

 by the special correspondent sent out from this office. It 

 is quite unnecessary to reply to Lieut, Wise's intimation 

 that the Forest and Stream is "booming" the cause of 

 the supplanted force of superintendents for the sake of 

 regaining for those officers any personal advantage. Our 

 interest, and, as we take it, the public's interest, is to 

 have the Park well governed. 



Our remarks were not meant to imply that vandalism 

 was any new thing in the Park. There has always been 

 more or less of it, and it was not totally suppressed under 

 Col. Wear's administration. The unfortunate fact remains, 

 however, that upon the dismissal of the Superintendent 

 and his force an impression took hold upon the public 



THE YACHT CHALLENGER OF NEXT YEAR. 

 T>EFORE the Galatea's racing is fairly over, the news 

 comes by cable that another ventm-ous Briton stands 

 ready to challenge for the Cup, and we are once more 

 face to face with the probabilities ajid possibihties of the 

 near future. When Genesta and Galatea were built, 

 three and two years since, the confidence of British 

 yachtsmen in their rule was almost unshaken, and judg- 

 ing from the contests of the cutter and sloop there seemed 

 every probability that Genesta would easily defeat any 

 centerboard sloop that could be brought against her. The 

 newcomer, however, from a totally unexpected quarter, 

 beat her Avith her own weapons and opened up an exten- 

 sive field to the yacht designer, intermediate between the 

 existing English and American types. In spite of Gen- 

 esta's defeat a similar model was tried again this year, 

 and has been defeated by a newer Puritan. While we do 

 not consider the tests thus far as conclusive, owing to the 

 weather in which every race but one in two years has 

 been sailed; and while the results in these two cases can- 

 not nullify the conclusions on the other side which the 

 races in the smaller classes have given, they will carry a 

 great weight on both sides of the Atlantic, as fore- 

 shadowed in the extract from the London Field, on an- 

 other page. 



The movement abroad is strongly in favor of a rejec- 

 tion of the time-honored Y. R. A. rule and the substitu- 

 tion of a length and sail area rule similar to that in use 

 by the leading American clubs. The next challenger has 

 yet to be built, and a decision as to her elements and 

 details will be made under very different conditions and 

 with a much greater store of experience from those of two. 

 or three years since when the new type of American boat 

 was unknown. If it is considered worth while to build a 

 yacht to come here and race it is likely that the Y. R, A. 

 rule will be of little weight, and that the designer wUl 

 look rather to the future and to American conditions 

 than to the past and British traditions. If he can 

 build a faster yacht for our races and at the 

 same time sacrifice no esssentials by taking more 

 beam, it is hardly probable that he will re ject it, especially 

 as the qtiestion of "vested interests" has now disappeared 

 entirely. In short, the whole course of events for the 

 past two years has been such as to open up a new field to 

 the British designer as wide as that which Mr. Burgess 

 was the first to step into. While going back in propor- 

 tions to the boats of half a dozen years since, of what 

 may now be called moderate beam, the designer now has 

 the benefit of an enlarged knowledge of the lead keel and 

 its capabilities, as well as of improved methods of con- 

 struction; and if these are utilized with the same skill that 

 has been shown in working under the narrow limits of the 

 Y. R. A. rule, Americans cannot afford to go to sleep thi» 

 winter, secure in their dependence on the existing boatg. 



