Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, MARCH 1, 18 8 8. 



I VOL. XXX.-No. 6; 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 The National Park Bill, 

 .lohn E. Develin. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Rock Climbers.— x. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Sam Lovel's Camps. — VII. 



Wilderness Canoe Routes. 

 Natural History. 



The Food of Rapacious Birds. 



Birds and Bird Specimens. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Pilgrimage of the Saginaw 

 Crowd. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



East Florida Waters. 



A Talk About Tackle. 



An Anglers' Club. 



The Kineo Association. 

 Fishculture. 



The Mission of the Menhaden. 

 The Kennel. 



The St. Bernard Club. 



The Kennel. 



New York Dog Show. 



Boston Dog Show. 



Kennel and Champion Prizes. 



Philadelphia Dog Show. 



American Kennel Club. 



Death of "Stonehenge." 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallerv. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



Two Timely Warnings. 



Something in Prospect. 



Chicago Yachting. 



A Yacht Cruise in the South. 

 Canoeing. 



Early Canada Canoeing. 



The Present Tendencies of 

 Canoeing. 



Atlantic Division Meet. 



Cruising Canoes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



TO ADVERTISERS. 

 Hereafter it will be necessary that all advertisements 

 which are to appear in Forest and Stream of any week, 

 shall be received at this office not later than the after-noon 

 of Monday of that week. To this ride no exception can 

 be. made. 



JOHN E. DEVELIN. 



/~~\NE by one the old sportsmen of New York are passing 

 ^-J away, and we look about us in vain for those who 

 are to take their place. The men whose memory goes 

 back to a time when New York was a town of but less than 

 300,000 people, who used to shoot woodcock and quail and 

 snipe where now stand close blocks of buildings, and the 

 roar and rattle of business fill the air all day long, are 

 growing few in number. Their experience in and about 

 the city of their home can never be repeated. Tbe ever 

 changing conditions of our American life have made im- 

 possible for the future what happened in the past. 



It is but little more than a year ago since one of the 

 noblest and best of these old-time sportsmen, Shepherd 

 F. Knapp, was laid away for his long sleep, and the 

 touching tribute to his memory which appeared in these 

 columns was written by the hand of his old friend John 

 E. Develin. Now Mr. Develin has followed. 



John E. Develin was born Aug. 31, 1820, on the old Van 

 Courtland estate, now a part of this city, but in those 

 primitive days far out in the country. His early education 

 was received at the old grammar school in Murray street, 

 and he afterward entered Georgetown College in the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, from which he graduated with honors. 

 He studied law in the office of Jonathan Miller, then a 

 leading lawyer of this city, and after his admission to the 

 bar became a partner in the firm. Mr. Develin succeeded 

 Mr. Miller in the Direction of the Mutual Life Insurance 

 Company, and at the time of his death was one of its 

 Trustees. As a lawyer he was sagacious, acute and elo- 

 quent. 



He was very active in the political arena for many 

 years, and few men have done so much to purify city and 

 State politics as he. He was many times sent to the 

 Legislature, and from 1844 up to the time of his death his 

 influence was constantly felt in the politics of New York 

 city and State, and always for good. At the breaking 



out of the war Mr. Develin became a strong war demo- 

 crat, and did much to aid the government in the trying 

 times which ensued. Later he fought and was largely 

 instrumental in the overthrowing of the Tweed ring. 

 The good that he did in this and other ways can hardly 

 be overestimated. 



He was a man of abounding charity, and his benefac- 

 tions in all directions, though privately given, were very 

 large. He was one of tire trustees of St. Patrick's Cathe- 

 dral, and was in one way or another closely connected 

 with the New York Catholic Protectory, the St. Vincent 

 Hospital, the Foundling Hospital, and other charitable 

 institutions. 



The number of positions of trust and honor which he 

 honorably filled during his long career in this city was 

 very great. 



Mr. Develin was an enthusiastic sportsman and devoted 

 to shooting, angling and yachting. He was a successful 

 breeder of red Irish setters, and his dogs were equally 

 good in the field and on the bench. One of the founders 

 of the Southside Sportsman's Club, of Long Island, the 

 Wawayanda Club, and long a member of the Southamp- 

 ton Sportsman's Club, he was a leader among that body 

 of old-time sportsmen who were, in their day, the types 

 of all that was best and most honorable in American 

 sport. Such names as Hackett, Arthur, Rogers, Folger, 

 the Knapps, Jones, Waldo, Banks, the Wilmerdings, and 

 the Johnsons, come up to us as we recall his associates 

 and friends in the field and by the trout stream or salmon 

 river. Up to within a comparatively short time he would 

 follow the dogs over the stubble fields with the enthusi- 

 asm and energy of a boy of twenty. It seems but a year 

 or two ago that he consulted us as to the prospects of 

 sport in Newfoundland, and made the journey thither 

 with the intention of shooting caribou and ptarmigan, 

 though owiug to an attack of illness, his trip was a fruit- 

 less one. In recent years he had taken most of his sport 

 on the grounds of the Southside Club on Long Island, 



No man has done more for game protection in New 

 York than John E. Develin. His eminence in the law 

 and his familiarity with politics especially qualified him 

 to advise in matters connected with the improvement and 

 change in the law, and his eloquence made him a potent 

 advocate of such changes. The subject deeply interested 

 him, and he was ever ready to freely give his time to 

 those who wished to consult him on this topic. He fre- 

 quently went to Albany to speak before game law com- 

 mittees, putting off important business matters -so that he 

 might give his powerful aid to further measures that he 

 believed would benefit sportsmen. 



Mr. Develin was one of the most genial of men and 

 delighful of companions. Highly educated, possessed of 

 eminent powers, a gifted conversationalist and a man of 

 wide and varied reading, and withal witty and bright, 

 his society was eagerly sought for by all who knew him, 

 and an hour passed in his company was one long to be 

 remembered. 



To few men is it given at their last hour to look back 

 on a career so honorable, so uniformly successful, and so 

 highly creditable to himself and to the community among 

 whom he passed his life, as was John E. Develin's. 



And now T he is gone. The active brain is at rest. The 

 voice whose eloquence could sway listening multitudes is 

 hushed. The hand which wielded with equal skill the rod, 

 the gun or the pen, is stilled forever. And we can only 

 say, a good man has passed away from earth. 



THE NATIONAL PARK BILL. 

 rpHE Senate Bill (S. 283) relating to the Yellowstone 

 National Park was on Feb. 20 reported by Mr. Man- 

 derson with these chief amendments: The civil and crim- 

 inal jurisdiction of the Park is that of the county or 

 district of Wyoming in which the Park is situated ; and 

 the courts of that district are given jurisdiction of all 

 indictable offences committed within the park. Persons 

 charged with non-indictable offences or violation of the 

 rules of the Park are tried and punished by a Commis- 

 sioner resident in the Park, who may also cause arrest 

 for indictable offenses and turn the accused parties for 

 trial over to the Wyoming courts. The willful violation 

 of rules or regulations for the control and management 

 of the Park is declared to be an offence (instead of a mis- 

 demeanor) punishable by fine or imprisonment. 



It is made the duty of the officer in charge of the Park 

 to act as superintendent of the reservation, and to employ 

 five (instead of three) persons from civil life to act as 



policemen and scouts. Hunting or killing game is pun- 

 ished by a penalty of not less than $50 nor more than 

 $200 (instead of $20 and $100) or imprisonment, or both. 

 The period for which leases may be granted for hotels is 

 extended from ten years to twenty, and the site may be 

 within one-eighth (instead of one-quarter) of a mile of 

 any of the geysers, the Yellowstone Falls or the Grand 

 Cation; or one-eighth of a mile (instead of 300ft.) of the 

 Mammoth Hot Spring; and such leases must contain 

 proper provisions for their forfeiture in case of breach of 

 conditions or covenants. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



r pHfi bearer of this note came into the office last Friday 

 and presented it to the editor: 



Forgive me for introducing the bearer if he annoys you. He 

 goes to New York to look up a boat load of potatoes, wliich he 

 sent by a brother Canuck, but he is burdened with a story which 

 he hopes yoti would publish. When you hear it you can judge. 

 It is something like Uncle Lisha's adventure with a bear, which 

 he hiis heard, but thinks his better. He has worked for me more 

 than for any one else; is honest (for a Canuck, i. c, will not steal 

 much), and if you can help him to linrl his canal boat, you will 

 oblige me. If he wants to borrow money I would advise polite but 

 Arm refusal. As he cannot read, I write, freely. With kind re- 

 gards, yours truly, R. E, Robtnson. 



To introduce, Pierre. Dubuque, and if he does not light his pipe 

 within live minutes, it is not he. 



Mons. Dubuque did not appear much like a. Canuck, 

 though he spoke the lingo with the purity of an Antoine 

 Bassette; nor was there any of that Yankee twang which 

 might mark the speech of one coming fresh from the 

 neighborhood of Danvis. It did not take long to dis- 

 cover in the bogus Dubuque the author of "Uncle 

 Lisha's Shop"' himself, whom though knowing for lo 

 these many years we knew not. And may the identity 

 of every friend and stranger who comes sailing into 

 one's office under an assumed name be determined in a 

 way equally pleasant and gratifying. 



Michigan duck shooters are much interested in the pro- 

 longed dispute over the ownership of the Marsh Middle 

 Ground in Saginaw Bay. In 1883, Mr. H. H. Warner, of 

 patent-medicine fame and a great duck shooter, bought 

 Maison Island, in Sagmaw Bay, for a duck-shooting pre- 

 serve. The island comprises one hundred acres, and 

 adjacent to it is an island of seven hundred acres, known 

 as the Marsh Middle Ground. This is a famous shooting 

 ground, and Mr. Warner has sought to gain control of it 

 on the plea that it is an accretion to his own island of 

 Maison. His claim has been disputed, and in the Forty- 

 eighth Congress the representative from Rochester intro- 

 duced a bill to confirm the Warner title. The State of 

 Michigan, which also claims the ownership, succeeded in 

 defeating the bill. The matter was referred to the Gen- 

 eral Land Office, which decided after special survey that 

 the lftnd was an accretion to Warner's island. This was 

 met by testimony that the island was hundreds of 

 years old and had produced crops of hay from the time 

 of the settlement of the State. In spite of this, a decision 

 has just been rendered giving to Warner the island as 

 accreted land. This decision has been appealed. The 

 ground will not be surrendered without further conten- 

 tion,for though only a waste marsh it is said to be worth 

 over $50,000 for a game preserve, and the Lansing Gun 

 Club will purchase it at that price whenever the State 

 can give a good title. 



The proceeds of the Troy dog show will be devoted to a 

 fund for the Troy monument to the soldiers and sailors of 

 the civil war. The dogs will all wag their tails with 

 patriotic pride and the citizens of Troy ought to swell the 

 door receipts, for they have here a rare opportunity to 

 combine patriotism and the acquisition of canine lore. 



It is proposed by the Alpine Club of Portland, Oregon, 

 to petition Congress to set apart Mount Hood as a national 

 reservation. The territory will consist of seven town- 

 ships, and as none of it has been settled the public park 

 project will not interfere with any vested rights. There 

 cannot be too many of these reservations. 



Catskill Mountain waters have been receiving attention 

 from the New York Fish Commissioners. Big Indian, 

 once a magnificent trout stream, has just received 30,000 

 fry; and the hotel men and boarding-house mistresses in 

 that part of the country are 30,000 degress happier than 

 they were before. 



