Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, MARCH 8, 1888. 



I VOL. XXX.— No. 7. 



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CONTENTS. 



.'EDITORIAL. 



In Behalf of the Park. 

 H Snap Shots. 

 i'j The Rock Climbers.— x. 

 JrHE Sportsman Tourist. 

 I A^ Dreamland Strike (poetry). 

 I Pilgrimage of the Saginaw 

 B Crowd. 

 Natural History. 

 | The Ways of Wolves. 

 I Birds and Specimens. 

 D Rattlesnake's Fangs. 

 B Dr. Joseph B. Holder. 

 Bame Bag and Gun. 

 ■ The Boone and Crockett Club. 

 I Mountain Sheep and Goats. 

 I Florida Quail Covers. 

 I North Carolina Large Game. 

 I The Crozet Island Castaways. 



Maine's Game Interests. 



Schultze Powder for Rifles. 

 -The Albany Game Law Mill. 

 Damp-Fire Flick brings, 

 ^ea and River Fishing. 



Sunapee Lake. 



Diamond Pond and Sunapee 

 Trout. 



"Fishing in the Potomac." 



IfrSHCULTURE. 



The Decrense of Food Fishes. 

 The Menhaden Question. 



The Kennel. 



In Quest of Light. 



Troy Dog Show. 



Philadelphia Dog Show. 



"Stonehenge." 



Boston Dog Show. 



New Bedford Dog Show. 



New York Show. 



The Worcester Fur Company. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and ftallerv- 



The Williamsport Meeting. 



The Trap. 



Capt. Bogardus Retires. 



Washington vs. Algonquin. 

 Yachting. 



Thistle in New Hands. 



Centerboards in British 

 Waters. 



The Fishing Fleet. 



Rushton's Boats. 



Biscayne Bay Y. C. Regatta. 

 Canoeing. 



The Present Tendencies of 

 Canoeing. 



Flat-Bottomed Canoes. 



Atlantic Di% 7 ision Meet. 

 New Publications. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



TO ADVERTISERS. 

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IN BEHALF OF THE PARK. 

 ^ BILL for the enlargement, government and proper 

 - protection of the Yellowstone Park is now before 

 Congress. It has been favorably reported from the Senate 

 lornmittee to which it was referred, and there is reason 

 io hope that in a very short time it may come up before 

 he Senate for action. 



This bill represents the combined wisdom of those most 

 familiar with the Park and most interested in it, of men 

 Who work for the Park because they know that it is a 

 ||?ossession enormously valuable to this country, and that 

 its preservation depends the development, almost the 

 |aabitability of a vast area of the Northwest. Perhaps 

 |;here are some points about which all these men are not 

 ligreed. Perhaps one man would like to see the bill 

 ishanged in one particular and another in a different 

 Aaoint, but they have sunk their individual differences 

 )f opinion. Being intelligent, caring intensely and disin- 

 ;erestedly for the protection and improvement of this 

 ■ "eservation, they see that the two points of overwhelm- 

 ing importance at the present time are (1) the enlarge- 

 ment of the Park, and (2) the establishment within its 

 porders of a government, an authority which shall have 

 J ;he power to punish offenders against the regulations of 

 t ;he Interior Department, and to protect the property and 

 persons of those who may visit it. These two essential 

 Joints are satisfactorily covered by the present bill, and 

 t?or this reason, if for no other, it should become a law. 

 The bill contains a number of other wise provisions, and 

 | as a whole is wisely drawn. 



There seems no reason to doubt that it will pass the 

 Senate without difficulty, just as did a similar bill, against 



which but eight votes were cast at the last session of Con- 

 gress. Whether it will be opposed in the House is not 

 known. Its importance, viewed from an economic stand- 

 point, should recommend it to every practical man who 

 has the country's good at heart. 



And now, what are our readers going to do to assist in 

 the passage of this wise and most important measure? 

 Every sportsman desires to have the great game which 

 inhabits this Park saved from the extinction which is so 

 surely impending for each species, unless rigid protection 

 is afforded it here. Every man who has traveled, or ex- 

 pects to travel, wishes to have the natural wonders found 

 within the Park preserved from defacement and destruc- 

 tion. Every citizen who has his country's good at heart 

 will be anxious to help forward the enactment of a 

 measure which will aid in developing an unsettled 

 country and will add, in the course of a few years, many 

 millions to the material wealth of the country. 



In another column will be found a form of resolution in 

 which are briefly set forth some of the reasons why this 

 bill should pass. It is hoped that every reader of the 

 Forest and Stream who is also a member of a gun club, 

 game protective society or association of any kind, will 

 endeavor to have the body to which he belongs pass these 

 or similar resolutions and send copies of them to the Con- 

 gressmen and Senators from the district in which he lives. 

 We have also prepared blanks and forms of these reso- 

 lutions in the shape of a petition, which will be sent to 

 any one who may apply for them for circulation and 

 signature among his neighbors. 



We propose to publish from time to time in the Forest 

 and Stream the names of all signers of these petitions, 

 and those who take the matter in charge are requested to 

 send us the names of the signers as fast as they come in. 



The prospects for the passage of this bill were never 

 as bright as they are to-day. Never before were so many 

 people alive to the importance of saving this reservation 

 from the dangers which threaten it. If the readers of 

 Forest and Stream, who more than any other class of 

 our people are interested, will bestir themselves in the 

 matter, we believe that the bill can be carried through. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THEY are discussing the census of deer in the Adiron- 

 dacks, and one and another declare the exact num- 

 ber existing there. Hunter and Guide Warren Humes, 

 of Harris ville, in Lewis coimty, says there are just 60,000, 

 and if floating were abolished they would increase to 

 100,000 in five years. He has the wolves down to exactly 

 100. while the bears are 2,000. Mr. Humes is probably 

 right; he has at least an impregnable position from which 

 no one can rout him, for all he has to do is to stick to his 

 count, and no statistician can prove him in the wrong. 

 It is one of those things about which nobody knows any- 

 thing, and anybody can safely profess to know everything. 

 Some months ago a New York gentleman who had been 

 out to the Western game regions was credited with 

 having counted all the buffalo on the continent, and he 

 had them ciphered down to exactly 700; he now reports 

 their number at 437. 



The New York State Association for the Protection of 

 Fish and Game will hold its annual convention at Auburn 

 next June. Some years ago we pointed out that as this 

 body was purely a trap-shooting society it would conform 

 to the eternal fitness of things by a change of name, elim- 

 inating the protection portion of its title. Nothing would 

 be lost by the change, but much would be gained. Some 

 such name as the New York Trap Shooting Association 

 would more truly represent the character cf the associa- 

 tion, and would not subject it to the embarrassment which 

 occasionally attends the wearer of a misleading name. 

 This hint is not intended as any criticism on the present 

 membership of the association, and there is no call for 

 the Niagara contingent to wax indignant about it at this 

 time. It is hoped that the desirabilty of a change will be 

 considered at Auburn next June. 



In Helen Gray Cone's story of "Hercules: a Hero," in 

 the Century for March, one of the leading characters, 

 who is by no means a hero, goes shooting with a breech- 

 loading gun; and his unlettered host is made to speak of 

 it as a "britch-loader." This mode of indicating the pro- 

 nunciation implies that the author of the story thinks 

 that breech is not correctly pronounced with the short 

 sound of i— britch; but Webster says that it is. The Im- 

 perial Dictionary, an English authority, on the contrary, 



gives it as "brech," the e long. There is excellent author- 

 ity in current good usage for either. The word breech is 

 a singular form developed from the plural breeches. 

 Breeches, an article of male attire, is commonly pro- 

 nounced britches, and it was pronounced in the same 

 way hundreds of years ago, for the word occurs in "Dam- 

 pier's Voyages" (1695), where it is spelled "britches," and 

 there is abundant evidence in Dampier's pages that he 

 spelled words as he heard them pronounced. If his ships 

 and his crews had been fitted out with breechloaders, he 

 would have spelled it "britchloaders." 



This is a great year for the bench show giving clubs 

 The New York show brought out an unprecedented lot 

 of dogs, the greatest collection ever gathered under one 

 roof in this country. Philadelphia had more entries than 

 ever before, and it is reported that the exhibition was a 

 financial success. Boston has up to date three times as 

 many entries as were in for the corresponding period last 

 year, and the indications are that it will share in the 

 show prosperity of 1888. All this goes to prove that, the 

 taste for fine dogs is increasing; more people are engaging 

 in dog breeding; the quality of dogs is improving so that 

 more owners have specimens which they are willing to 

 put on the bench; and the public by increased patronage 

 of the shows testifies to a growing appreciation of the 

 several breeds. Take it all in all, this is a great year for 

 dog shows in America. 



Our Albany correspondent reports that Mr. Verplanck 

 Colvin's Adirondack Survey enterprise is in straits be- 

 cause of restricted appropriations. This is a tremendous 

 pity. We do not profess to know anything of the value 

 of Mr. Colvin's work in the woods, but his printed annual 

 reports have afforded much mildly thrilling literature 

 adapted to use in young ladies' seminaries. Verplanck'a 

 interminable recitals of tenderfoot adventure might 

 reasonably be expected to go on, like the Adirondack 

 brooks, forever, if the appropriations held out; to cut him 

 off short is a fine example of parsimony wedded to 

 cruelty. 



Business is business; sometimes it is easily practicable 

 to combine business with play; but it takes a real genius 

 to get advertising for his wares out of an outing. A^New 

 York man has done it, as witness this paragraph from 

 one of the daily papers: 



, of & Co.. the Sixth avenue druggist, has gone to 



Florida with his family for rest from overwork in his business, 

 which has been rapidly increased from one of simple retailing to 

 that of large manufacturing. He will go direct to Green Cove 

 Springs, where he will be met by a yacht, and wil! amuse himself 

 with hunting, fishing, &c. 



Thirty different bills relating to game and fish have 

 been presented for the attention and more or less intelli- 

 gent action of the Senate and the Assembly at Albany. 

 They range in quality from fairly good to thoroughly 

 bad. Some of these days a system will be devised by 

 which no bill will be favorably considered by the Legis- 

 lature unless it shall first have been approved by the 

 sportsmen of the State, their will expressed through a 

 duly authorized representative. 



The Committee on Agriculture of the Massachusetts 

 House of Eepresentatives has reported that it is "inex- 

 pedient to legislate on an order relative to bounties for 

 destroying birds and other animals injurious to crops." 

 This wise action is largely due to the efforts of Mr. H. A. 

 Purdie, of Boston, who appeared alone before the com- 

 mitte and brought to its notice the investigations of Dr. 

 B. H. Warren and others into the question of the food of 

 rapacious birds. 



Capt. A. H. Bogardus announces his retirement from 

 the field of trap-shooting. He has won his honors and 

 worn them long. Advancing years bring dimness of 

 sight and dull the edge of ambition. The Captain retires 

 on his laurels; but he has a son, Henry, aged ten, who is 

 his father's pride as a youthful shot and some day may 

 be heard of in contest for high honors with the gun. 



A large stuffed eagle, seven feet and one-half inch from 

 tip to tip of wings, will perch on the helms of the victo- 

 rious party next November, in Olney, 111. It was shot 

 last week, and has been set up at the expense of the 

 Logan Republican Club and the Democratic Club, the 

 ownership to be decided by the results of the Presidential 

 election. 



