Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, MARCH 22, 1888. 



j VOL. XXX.— No. 9. 



I Nos. 39 <& 40 Park Row, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Man on Snowshoes. 

 A Monument to Audubon. 

 One Hundredth Edition of 



Walton. 

 Henry Bergh. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Rock Climbers.— xiii. 

 The Sportsman Touuist. 



The Island of the Holy Cross. 



The Mysterious Misstissini. 



Salt-water Sketches. 

 Natural History. 



Birds and Specimens. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The Park Petitions. 



Maine Large Game. 



County Game Laws. 



A Challenge Accepted. 



Adirondack Deer. 



Bush River Big-Guns and Box- 

 Boats. 



Colorado Season. 



The Albany Game Law Mill. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Fly-Table Notes and Talk.-n. 



Maine Salmon. 



Talk About Tackle. 



Fishculture. 



The Menhaden Question. 

 Thb Kennel. 



Pacific Coast Field Trials. 



Indiana Field Trials. 



Waterloo Cup. 



English Pog Chat. 



Poached Reports. 



Arnold Burges. 



Boston Dog Show. 



New Haven Dog Show. 



Kennel Notes. 



Keimel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Recent Rifle Talk. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Canadian Trap News. 

 Yachting. 



Yacht Building on the Clyde. 



Corinthian Y. C., of Chicago. 



A New Steam Launch. 



Yachting Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



Canoe Building and Fitting 

 Up. 



Canoe Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



PROTECT THE PARK. 

 All Readers who are interested in the protection of the 

 Yellowstone National Park are invited to co-operate with 

 this journal in the endeavor to secure needed legislation. 

 Petitions will be sent to all who will undertake to have 

 them signed and forwarded to "Washington. 



A MONUMENT TO AUDUBON. 



A MOVEMENT is on foot to erect a monument over 

 the grave of John James Audubon. 

 The plan originated with the scientific men of the 

 country, and up to this time all the work has been done 

 by them, but the movement should be far broader and 

 far-reaching than this. The great painter-naturalist was 

 thoroughly an American, proud of his nationality, and 

 his work was more than national in its scope. This work 

 did more than has done that of any other man to popu- 

 larize the study of ornithology, and to instil into the 

 hearts of his countrymen a love for nature and her 

 creatures. 



Subscriptions to a monument of this character should 

 be drawn from every quarter of America, and should 

 come with a free hand, according to their means, from 

 the rich and from the poor. The movement should be a 

 national one. 



The design of the monument, which will be found in 

 another column, is graceful and appropriate. From a 

 base of granite, on which is sculptured a medallion of 

 the face of the naturalist, rises a column of North River 

 bluestone surmounted by a Runic cross. The shaft of the 

 column is ornamented with figures of typical birds and 

 mammals in which Audubon felt an especial interest, 

 and here and there on the monument are carved plants 

 and flowers which he was the first to bring to light. 

 The whole will be about twenty feet in height. It 

 is estimated that the total cost of the stone and the ex- 

 penses of putting it in position will be about $10,000, and 

 it is desired to raise this sum. 



More than almost any other class of men do the sports- 

 men owe a debt of gratitude to Audubon. He it was who 

 figured as the first plate in his incompai*able work the 



life-sized wild turkey, and by his magnificent delinea- 

 tions of North American birds made the sportsman 

 familiar with the feathered game of our broad continent 

 — those species which he has not pursued as well as those 

 which have fallen before his ready gun. Audubon was 

 not less a sportsman than- a naturalist, and many of his 

 sketches show the deep interest he felt in the scenes and 

 pastimes which interest us to-day. 



It is fitting, therefore, that sportsmen should take an 

 equal interest with naturalists in the erection of a stone 

 over the tomb of one who combined in himself the best 

 qualities of sportsman and naturalist. We believe that 

 this will be a welcome suggestion to sportsmen through- 

 out the land, and especially so to many of our clubs, 

 including as they do some of our most wealthy and pub- 

 lic-spirited citizens. Such associations as the Audubon 

 and Cuvier clubs, and many others, will be likely to take 

 action on an occasion like this, which will show how 

 sincere is the feeling that they have for the memory 

 of one to whom we all owe so much. 



But it is to the individual sportsmen throughout the 

 land, those to whom the nobler sports of the land and 

 water are their choicest recreation, who love nature, and 

 thus have so much in common with the naturalist, that 

 his memory is most dear. A monument which shall 

 fittingly express the affection and reverence and admira- 

 tion which is felt for Audubon by these unnumbered 

 thousands should be contributed to by each one of them, 

 so that each should feel that he has a personal share in 

 it. A small sum contributed by each man would serve 

 to raise a shaft which would be an honor to its donors 

 and a source of pride to the whole country. 



It is the hope of the committees which have this mat- 

 ter in charge that the subscriptions will be numerous 

 and general rather than few in number and large in 

 amount. The monument ought to represent as large an 

 area of our country and as many people as possible. 



The Forest and Stream believes that sportsmen, feel- 

 ing as they do the deepest interest in the objects which 

 Audubon so loved and to which he devoted his life, will, 

 with their well known generosity be largely represented 

 in the list of contributors to this good object. We shall 

 contribute to the fund, and will receive and hand to the 

 committee who have charge of the matter all sums sent 

 to us for that purpose. Such contributions will be 

 acknowledged in the columns of Forest and Stream, 

 and the names of the donors published, unless for- 

 bidden. 



THE MAN ON SNOWSHOES. 



THE man on snowshoes has been laughed at more or 

 less in the latitude and longitude of Manhatten 

 Island. Dwellers in more favored climes look on snow- 

 shoes in the same matter-of-fact way they regard top 

 boots and tallow to grease them with; snowshoes are 

 there necessary and accustomed aids to locomotion over 

 the deep snows. But in this vicinity the snow supply is 

 so fickle that snowshoes are the fad of enthusiasts; under 

 ordinary conditions their use is nothing more nor less 

 than sport. Snowshoeing may be capital sport, but it is 

 sport none the less, and does not rise to the dignity of 

 utility. 



With the prodigious downfall of snow last week the 

 conditions were changed. The steady-going citizen 

 floundered, and the man on snowshoes all of a sudden 

 found himself on top. He was in great demand He 

 flitted about the street like a sprite. The New York 

 World sent him out to interview snow-stalled railroad 

 trains. He came, if not like an angel with wings, at least 

 on errands of mercy, with succor to the famishing. One 

 incident of this character deserves notice. The secretary 

 of the Oritani Snowshoe Club of this city, Mr. Wakeman 

 Holberton, and the president, Mr. Geo. M. Fairchild. Jr., 

 live in Hackensack, New Jersey. When the winds blew 

 and the blizzard came the president was snowbound in 

 New York, and the secretary, at home in Hackensack, 

 spent Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, snowshoeing 

 about the town, conveying cheer, vegetables, meats and 

 milk to his imprisoned neighbors, among them the 

 family of the Oritani president himself. Subsequently 

 these two gentlemen made a tramp through the game 

 covers in the vicinity of Hackensack, where they came 

 upon the fresh tracks of a bevy of seven quail, showing 

 that they had fared bravely through the storm. 



One lesson to be drawn from the experiences of the 

 blizzard week is that snowshoeing is an accomplishment 



well worth acquiring. The snowshoe in this part of the 

 land is something like the six-shooter they used to tell 

 about in Texas; it may be along time before you need it, 

 but when you do need it you need it bad. 



HENRY BERGH. 



HENRY BERGH, the founder of the American Society 

 for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and up to 

 the time of his death its president, died in this city March 

 12. His death ends a notable career. Henry Bergh was 

 one of the men who made an impress on his generation. 

 His name stands for a distinct quality — humanity to the 

 brute creation; he established and built up in America 

 the great scheme of systematic protection for animals. 

 This system is now so familiar, so much a constituent 

 part of the civilization of the day, so universally indorsed 

 by all sensible people, that we can only with some diffi- 

 culty recall the time when Bergh and his protection of 

 animals notions were ridiculed and scoffed at. The rare 

 triumph was accorded the man of seeing the idea, which 

 he set out almost single-handed to promulgate, finally 

 given universal acceptance. 



The society he established has become a power in the 

 land. There are branches in thirty -six States, and simi- 

 lar organizations have been formed in Central and South 

 America. This amelioration of the hard lot of the ani- 

 mal world is so fully due to the life-work of this one 

 man that no words can adequately sum up the debt owed 

 to Henry Bergh. Like all enthusiasts Mr. Bergh occa- 

 sionally took ground on certain questions where others 

 could not follow him, but no one ever questioned the 

 lofty principle, zeal and singleness of purpose which ever 

 controlled him. The world is better to-day for the life- 

 work of Henry Bergh. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



A CORRESPONDENT calls attention, in another col- 

 umn, to the unwise proposition to allow box-boats 

 in the Bush River. This box-boat bill is intended to let 

 insuchmen[as he names in his communication: and as 

 far as the resident part of it is concerned, that is all bosh. 

 True, the people back from the river feel aggrieved at not 

 being allowed to trespass on the shores as of old, to get 

 a few ducks; and their representative undoubtedly thinks 

 this a good dodge to help him and his box-boat friends at 

 Havre de Grace as well. The bill is, of course, in effect 

 for the box-boat men and big-gunners from Havre de 

 Grace, and for no one else. 



Owing to delay of mails and enforced absence of ed- 

 itors many things which should have been published in 

 our last issue failed to appear, and are printed to-day. 

 The paper was put to press promptly on time last week, 

 Wednesday, in the face of extraordinary obstacles. The 

 Credit for that achievement — for an achievement in truth 

 jj, was — i s due chiefly to the undaunted energy and un- 

 tiring devotion of the Forest and Stream's printer, Mr. 

 Charles L. Schember. 



Some crank has come forward with the proposal to 

 enact a law at Albany requiring every dog to be equipped 

 with a collar bearing the owner's name, or in default to 

 suffer the penalty of death. This brilliant notion may 

 have come in the stilly night to some genius who, having 

 killed a sheep-worrying mongrel, could not identify its 

 owner; but he has undertaken a large contract to put 

 such a silly law on the statute books. 



The many friends of Mr. Franklin Satterthwaite, whose 

 acquaintance among American sportsmen is so wide, 

 will be sincerely grieved to learn that he is still very ill. 

 It is now many weeks since he was laid up with a severe 

 cold and he is still confined to his bed. All who know 

 him will unite in hoping that his long and tedious illness 

 may have a speedy termination, and that so good a sports- 

 man may soon be restored to full health. 



The Park petitions are going out in response to requests 

 from our readers in every portion of this broad land ; and 

 if the volunteered services of these individuals are to be 

 accepted as an evidence of popular sentiment, the feel- 

 ing in favor of Park protection is wide-spread and earn- 

 est. If all work together, Senate Bill 283 will become a 

 law. 



On or before May 1 the Forest and Stream will re- 

 move from Park Row to No. 318 Broadway, corner of 

 Pearl street. 



