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NEW YORK, JANUARY 6, 1887. 



J VOL. XXVII.— No. 24. 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



No Money for the Park. 



Good for Nothing Game Pro- 

 tectors. 



The New York Trout Law. 



The Little Big Horn Figlit. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



White Goat Hunting. 



A Night Cruise Down the 

 Anclote. 



The Thousand Islands. 

 Natural Histokt. 



Arizona Bird Notes, 

 Gajsie Bag and Gun. 



The Experiences of a Novice. 



The Empty Ivennol (I'oem). 



Tliree Grouse, 



Deer and Deer Hunting. 



Interest in the Park. 



Rifles Again. 

 Camp-Firb Flickbbings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Florida Resorts and Routes. 



A Bear on a Fly-Rod. 



A County Warden Scheme. 



Indiana Angling. 



The Six-Inch Trout Law. 



Massachusetts Sea Fisheries. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Landlocked Salmon. 

 Sea Trout of the Pacific Coast. 



FiSHCULTURE. 



Breeding Salmonidfe. 



Kentucky's Penny Wisdom. 

 The Kennel. 



Birmingham Bench Show. 



Mastilf Type. 



New York Dog Law. 



Pacific Coast Field Trials. 



Collie Club Sweepstakes. 



National Field Trials Club. 



National Association of Field 

 Trial Handlers. 



A. K. R. Numbers. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Budd vs. Graham, 

 Yachting. 



American Yachting in 1886. 



A Race Across the Atlantic. 



The New Y. R. A. Rule. 

 Canoeing. 



Canoeing in 1886. 



The Pecowsic's Cup. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



NO MONEY FOR THE PARK. 

 npHE Sundry Civil Service Bill, wliich has passed the 

 J- House of Representatives, included among its items 

 the miserable sum of $20,000 for the improvement of roads 

 and bridges in the National Park, but nothing at all was 

 appropriated for the care and maintenance of this pleas- 

 ure ground. It is extraordinary that so short-sighted a 

 policy as the one followed in regard to the Park should 

 prevail in the House of Representatives. This body does 

 not appear to realize that this country will surely have to 

 pay for the present neglect of that reservation. It does 

 not seem to be understood that the harm which is being 

 done in the Park, now that it is practically without guard- 

 ians, cannot be repaired by any expense of money, but must 

 be the work of nature alone. It will take the thu-d of a 

 century to reafforest the burned mountains; many years 

 must elapse before the geyser craters, smashed and pulled 

 down by selfish vandals who desire to carry a part of 

 them away, can rebuild themselves, and the game once 

 exterminated can never be replaced. To protect these 

 natural features of this wonderland, money is needed to 

 pay the men who are to look after it. With the best in- 

 tentions in the world the troops are incapable of caring 

 properly for the reservation, A civil force is required, 

 and it must consist of competent men. This force should 

 be a large one, for the territory to be covered is extensive 

 and it all requires watching. If no more than the old 

 appropriation of |40,000 can be secured for the Park dur- 

 ing the present session, we must be content with that, 

 but certainly no less sum than this should be made avail- 

 able. We hope therefore that the Senate will insert in 

 the Sundry Civil Service Bill an item of $20,000 for the 

 care and maintenance of the Park, and trust that it will 

 take a firm stand and insist upon its being accepted by 

 the House, 



We believe the Senate takes a far broader view of this 

 subject than does the House, and realizes that the people 

 of the country are determined that their Park shall be 

 preserved to them in spite of the attempts of corporations 

 to get hold of it, and the failure of Congress to do its 

 duty. Year by year this feeling is proving stronger; year 

 by year it is being more plainly expressed; and we believe 

 that the day is not distant when the irresistible force of 

 public opinion will oblige Congress to take the action 

 which we have for years pointed out as its plain duty. 



This duty is to provide for the adequate protection of 

 the Park, not by doling out the money in petty suras, 

 which renders abortive all attempts at protection, but by 

 authorizing liberal appropriations for a series of yeai-s 



until the necessary work has been done, and the vicious, 

 the lawless, the selfish and the heedless have learned that 

 the law will be sternly and unrelentingly enforced. When 

 people shall have been taught that it is no more safe to 

 hunt, to fire timber or to deface beautiful objects in the 

 Na^tional Park than it is to do these same things in one of 

 our great city parks, when the machinery for its care and 

 guardianship shall have been for some years in working 

 order and shall be running smoothly, then, and not till 

 then, will the question of necessity of economy come up. 

 Possessed of the grandest Park in the world, a spot 

 where are to be found natural wonders, organic and in- 

 organic, nowhere equalled, the American people cannot 

 be so dead to all national pride, to all patriotic feeling, as 

 to be willing that their representatives in Congress should 

 permit this Park of theirs to be plundered of all that 

 makes it most attractive. We do not believe they will 

 stand it. 



THE LITTLE BIG HORN FIGHT. 

 'T^HE WUd West show troupe of cowboys and Indians, 

 now performing at the Madison Square Garden, New 

 York, are giving daily exhibitions of how Gen, Custer 

 was killed in the battle of Little Big Horn, Buffalo Bill, 

 who takes the part of the hero, wears an auburn wig and 

 otherwise makes up to represent Custer. The performance 

 is thus desciibed in the Times: 



In the first scene is shown the camp of the troops commanded 

 by Gen. Custer. The troops and scouts march out of camp. One 

 of the scouts discovers the Sioux village. Sitting Bull and his 

 warriors are apparently engaged in the innocent pastimes of 

 prairie life. The scout retires and informs Custer that the enemy 

 is at hand and in fair condition to be wiped ofE the face of the 

 earth. The sound of a bugle is heard. The Indians instantly pre- 

 pare an ambush. Custer and his men dash into the open space 

 from the Madison avenue end of the Garden. The bugler sounds 

 the charge. Caster waves his sword, puts spurs to his chai'gcr, 

 and, followed by his men, rides down upon the Indian village like 

 a cyclone. Instantly the troops are surrounded by whooping 

 Indians, and terrific hand-to-hand combat" ensues. In an ex- 

 tremely short space of time the Indians gain a complete victory. 

 Custer is the last man killed, and he dies after performing 

 prodigies of valor. Then the surviving red men indulge in a war 

 hop and a shrieking match and the curtain falls to slow music. 



The battle of Little Big Horn was fought in the sum- 

 mer of 1876. The death of the gallant Custer, ten years 

 ago, has not yet become an incident of history so remote 

 as legitimately to be made the subject of a circus show. 

 If we are not mistaken, Mrs. Custer is now a resident of 

 this city. Under these circumstances the Wild West 

 performance is an outrage on decency. From the up- 

 roarious mimicries of the deaths of our Generals killed in 

 battle by Indians, it will be an easy transition to realis- 

 tic plays having for their subject the assassinations of 

 our Presidents. The depraved taste which applauds the 

 one would relish the other. 



There ought to be in this community siifficient respect 

 for the memory of the men who have served then* counti'y 

 and sacrificed their lives in the field to put the brand of 

 public condemnation upon showmen with ghoulish in- 

 stincts. If ordinary regard for the fitness of thmgs does 

 not suffice to secure respect for our dead heroes, we are 

 sure that in this case, at least, there must be those who, 

 like ourselves, have followed Custer as a leader in cam- 

 paigns on the plains and among the mountains, who will 

 join with us in protesting against such unseemly bur- 

 lesquing of the Little Big Horn ambush on that fateful 

 summer's day. 



THE NEW YORK TROUT LAW. 



\ S the Legislature of New York is now in session, we 

 expect to hear of all kinds of amendments to the 

 trout law, emanating from all som-ces. We think that it 

 is the sentiment of all anglers who are interested in the 

 preservation of trout, and who know that this object can 

 only be obtained by protecting the fry, that the six-inch 

 clause should be restored, and the killing of all trout of, 

 and under that measurement, be made unlawful. There 

 is, however, a difference of opinion about a unifonn date 

 for opening and closing the season throughout the State. 

 Such a date would be most desu-able if it could be shown 

 that it is entirely practicable, but there are, it appears to 

 us, insurmountable obstacles in the way. These are the 

 elevation and consequent temperature of the great Adiron- 

 dack region, where the ice is seldom off the lakes before 

 the first or middle of May, and where no angler cares to 

 go before those dates. In the middle and more southern 

 portions the streams are open and the trout are feeding 

 much earlier, while on. Long Island the anglers aro imr 



patiently waiting for the first of April. It has often hap- 

 pened that the latter date has been cold and even snowy 

 on Long Island, but the trout have fed all through the 

 pleasant days that have occurred through February and 

 March, and are in fine trim for the fly, a fact that stimu- 

 lates many eager anglers to brave the weather. Usually 

 the first of April is pleasant enough to fish, and on this 

 day all the Long Island clubs open their season, and we 

 speak their sentiments when we say that the season there 

 should be left as it is. We also speak the sentiments of 

 the best informed anglers who go the Adirondaoks when 

 we say that the first or the middle of May is early enough 

 to open the season there. We have advocated a central 

 line through the State, north of which the season should 

 open later than on the south of it, and our columns are 

 open for a discussion of this subject. 



GOOD FOR NOTHING GAME PROTECTORS. 

 npHEORETICALLY New York State has a sensible and 

 efficient system of game protection. Practically 

 there is a vast amoimt of rottenness in it. There are 

 game protectors who do not protect anything nor any 

 body except the law breakers. The force needs an over- 

 hauling. As a rule the game protectors are not worth a 

 rap. The law is openly and persistently violated before 

 their very noses, while they stand around and suck their 

 thumbs. The only diligence displayed is in accepting 

 the salary which the State thi-ows away upon them; they 

 draw their pay as regularly as Detroit-bound Jones of 

 Florida. 



One flagrant example of the way the New York game 

 protector system does not work has been brought to notice 

 before. The lower part of Oneida Lake, in Oswego county, 

 has been for months infested with nets set and drawn in 

 violation of the law. The fishermen are known to the pro- 

 tector of the district, William H, Lindley; the matter has 

 been repeatedly brought to his attention, but he has failed 

 to take action . Lindley did at one time , as we were given to 

 understand, bestir himself and j)ull up unlawful nets; but 

 he has for some occult reason found it better to let the 

 poachers have their way unmolested. 



Not less disgraceful is the condition of things in New 

 York city, where scores and hundreds of ruffed grouse 

 are now displayed in the market, in fiaunting defiance of 

 the statute which forbids their sale after Jan. 1, Joseph 

 H, Godwin, Jr. , who pockets the game protector's salary 

 for this district, meanwhile possesses his soul in patience 

 and "has everything running along smoothly." Perhaps 

 Godvpin does not know a grouse when he sees it, or it may 

 be that he is stone blind. Either plea, of ignorance or 

 infirmity, would satisfactorily account for the smooth- 

 ness with which affairs glide along in his district; but we 

 want game protectors who know a thing or two, can see 

 a thing or two, and once in four or five years, at least, 

 will do a thing or two. 



Other protectors vie with Lindley and Godwin in mas- 

 terly inactivity. How do these men manage to draw their 

 salary? The law explicitly provides that a protector shall 

 be paid only upon presenting to the Comptroller a certifi- 

 cate from the Commissioners of Fisheries that he has in all 

 respects faithfully performed his official duty. How do 

 these delinquent protectors come by any such certificates? 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 nnHE New York Wo7'ld has organized a winter snow- 

 shoe expedition to explore the National Park. Rightly 

 conducted the exploration will add considerably to our 

 knowledge of the Park in winter, and the reports of the 

 Worlds commissioners ought to do something toward 

 augmenting public interest in the Park. Mr, Schwatka 

 begins his exploration of the Park, at Rock Island, 111., 

 and what little information he has about it is evidently 

 drawn from some old guide book or report, and is wholly 

 unreliable. Among other things he states that only suffi- 

 cient game for his own use can be killed by the traveler 

 within the Park, and that no buffalo can be killed. It 

 seems a pity that the World correspondent should not 

 have taken pains to inform himself a little better about 

 the regulations governing the reservation. He will find 

 when he gets there that he can kill no game at all in the 

 Park, and we think that we know enough of the acting 

 superintendent to feel sure that if Schwatka or his party 

 violate this regulation, Captain Harris»will pi'omptly ex- 

 pel them from the reservation. 



The New Yerk dog ordinance i» in force all the year 



