Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 12, 1888. 



) VOL. XXX.— No. 12. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Interest in the Park, 

 f The Dog Breeders' Club. 

 I Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 

 Salmon Fishing on the Grand 

 Cascapedia. 

 I A Snowshoe Trip. 

 Natural History. 

 Aquatic Turkeys. 

 The Chipmunk. 

 Easter's Couriers. 

 Birds at a Government Post. 

 Game Bag and Gun, 

 Yellowstone Park Petition. 

 Ontario Game Law. 

 Shooting Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 A Piscatorial Round-up.— in. 

 An Angler's Rhyme. 

 Mr. Page Before the Senators. 

 Trout Day. 



Protection for Richmond 



County. 

 Tackle. 



"Win. F. Whitcher. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



The Menhaden Question. 

 The Kennel. 



Boston Dog Show. 



A Dog Bleeders' Club. 



Spaniel Field Trials. 



Cincinnati Dog Show. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Armv Scores. 



The Trap. 



A Pigeon Shoot in Havana. 



Fast Day Shooting. 



Canadian Trap Notes. 

 Yachting. 



The Fisherman's Race. 



A Winter Cruise in the South. 



Judging by Exceptions. 



Capt. Crandall's Spinaker 

 Boom. 



Yachting Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



Atlantic Division Meet. 



Primitive Boats or Canoes. 



The New A. C. A. Cups. 

 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 

 pthem signed and forwarded to Washington. 



INTEREST IN THE PARK. 

 CpROM Maine to Montana and from Minnesota to 

 Eg Florida requests have come to us for copies of the 

 fe'OREST and Stream petition, praying Congress to pass 

 Senate Bill 288, and so to protect the National Park. 

 The signers of the petitions number thousands, and each 

 mail brings us requests for blanks from people whom we 

 >ver heard of before, and who perhaps until this subject 

 ame up never heard of us. Every one has heard of the 

 'ational Park, however; every one knows that it is a 

 wonderland, unequalled for majesty, for beauty and for 

 strangeness. In urging its preservation, one set of men 

 lay be influenced by one consideration and another by 

 some different one, but they are united on this main 

 point— the Park must be preserved, This feeling is uni- 

 versal. It is only necessary to let the fact of the exist- 

 ince of the petition be known to secure signatures. 

 In stating that we would publish the names of signers 

 re promised to undertake a much more formidable task 

 han we supposed. "We have already received vastly 

 fcnore names than we imagined would come in in this 

 short time, and the publication of this long list must of 

 essity be spread out over several weeks. 

 Some of the newspapers have already rendered valu- 

 ble aid in circulating these petitions, and they can still 

 o a great deal to help on the good work. We shall wel- 

 ime their assistance. It is not necessary to urge people 

 j sign, but it is important to let them know that the fate 

 6f the Yellowstone Park is now hanging in the balance. 

 I The future of this grand national possession must be a 

 matter of interest to every patriotic American, and each 

 Bme who feels a pride in his country will wish to see it 

 Preserved uninjured to this nation for all time. 



This very widespread interest, to which public ex 

 pression is now for the first time given, is encourag- 

 ing. It does not at all surprise us, for on this sub- 

 ject we have had our finger on the public pulse for some 

 years, and understand very well how the people feel 

 about it; but to those who have not watched the matter 

 carefully this expression of feeling will be startling, 

 From all quarters of the land petitions are being sent to 

 members of Congress, by clubs, associations and individ- 

 uals. The signers, too, are the most intelligent and sub- 

 stantial of our citizens, people of the highest standing in 

 the communities where they reside. Such names cannot 

 fail to ha ve an influence when presented to Representatives 

 and can hardly fail to prepare the way for a speedy and 

 favorable consideration of the bill when it is reported 

 from the Committee on Public Lands. It is of great im- 

 portance that all who are interested in the bill should 

 every way aid its passage through the House. A per- 

 sonal letter from a constituent to his Representative will 

 often carry great weight, and each one of our readers 

 who is watching the progress of this bill is urged to ac 

 quaint his Representative with his feelings about the 

 measure. It is believed that only a concerted effort is 

 required to carry the bill through the House in triumph. 



The bill has gone in due course to the House of Repre- 

 sentatives, where it was referred to the Committee on 

 Public Lands, and in this committee was turned over to 

 General Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama. This gentleman 

 is well known as a brave soldier, a gentleman of cultiva- 

 tion, and of broad and liberal ideas. He has given some 

 attention to the question of the National Park, and is im- 

 pressed with the necessity of legislation for its preserva- 

 tion and protection. The measure will no doubt receive 

 prompt consideration at his hands, and we hope for a 

 speedy and favorable report from the Committee on Pub- 

 lic Lands. When the bill comes before the House, it is 

 hoped that the Committee will seize every opportunity of 

 securing recognition for it, and endeavor to have it acted 

 on at once. 



The Yellowstone Park bill passed the Senate very 

 nearly as it was reported from the Committee on Terri- 

 tories. One important amendment was made, however. 

 This was striking out the word "willful" in the eighth 

 section, making the clause read, "the violation of any 

 regulation made and published by the Secretary of the 

 Interior * * * is hereby declared to be an offense," etc. 

 The introduction of "willful" before the w r ord violation 

 nullified the provision of the section, and as Senator 

 Vest remarked, violates all the principles of law in quasi 

 criminal proceedings. It deals with intentions, which 

 cannot be proved, and would be a most serious bar to 

 prosecutions under this section. The change is one 

 which we have often urged in this and other bills. 



THE DOG BREEDERS' CLUB. 

 pY FAR the most important event of the week of the 

 Boston dog show was the founding of a Dog Breeders' 

 Club. The idea of establishing such a club at this time 

 seems to have originated with Dr. J. Frank Perry, the 

 well-known authority on canine diseases. At all events 

 he was the first to move in the matter. 



Without taking the public into his confidence, he com- 

 municated with fifty well-known breeders, setting forth 

 his views of the case. The responses to his letters were 

 prompt and overwhelmingly in favor of forming such a 

 club. In fact, it seemed as if breeders had only been 

 waiting for some one to take the initiative, and were now 

 all eager to hold up the founder's hands. The practical 

 unanimity of those from whom he heard encouraged 

 "Ashmont" t© continue his efforts. He called a meeting 

 at the Boston show, and in an admirable speech, which 

 we print elsewhere, outlined what he believed should be 

 the policy of the new club. At this meeting, and at the 

 show wherever breeders talked over the matter, the senti- 

 ments exju'essed were almost without exception in its 

 favor. 



It seems strange that no club of this kind should ever 

 have been established before, and that breeders as a class 

 have never organized for protection. Many of them are 

 men who have large sums of money invested in live stock, 

 and it would seem only natural that they should wish to 

 have .their property protected, yet they have never taken 

 any united action for the assertion of their rights. The 

 clue to this seeming indifference may no doubt be in the 

 jealousies which too often exist, aud in the fact that 

 rings and cliques whose seemingly divergent interests 



kept them apart have been far too common in the 

 dog world. It is time that these petty feelings were 

 laid aside, and that breeders should care for their own 

 interests. If they will not do this, no one can be expected 

 to do it for them. 



In his speech Dr. Perry has touched on some of the 

 possibilities of the club, but to our mind these are more 

 far-reaching than he has hinted at. The power which 

 the new club may acquire under judicious management 

 is simply incalculable. It will hold the dog interests of 

 America in the hollow of its hand, and can do with them 

 what it pleases. And yet, since the question is one of 

 self-interest, it is reasonably certain that all its actions 

 will be for the general good. 



In this as in every other association, the success of the 

 club will depend on the wisdom and intelligence of the 

 governing body. If their rule shall be wise, firm and 

 far-seeing the club will prosper and grow strong, until it 

 will be the greatest power ever known in dog matters in 

 this country. But if it shall be weak, vacillating, de- 

 voted too much to good fellowship and too little to the 

 improvement of the dog, the club's membership will fall 

 away, and its influence will depart. 



We have confidence in the success of this club, for 

 from what we can learn of its composition it promises to 

 be very strong. It is formed on lines which we have 

 often advocated, and we cannot help thinking that it is to 

 this association that we must look for the raising of dog 

 matters to a higher standard in this country than they 

 have ever held. The National Breeders' Club may be a 

 great power for good. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 A CONDITION of things is reported to exist on Long 

 Island near New York which certainly calls for 

 action on the part of the Long Island game protector. 

 The Rockaway Rod and Gun Club control six miles of 

 territory between Jamaica Bay and the ocean, the land 

 being posted according to law. This land and that ad- 

 joining it is daily overrun by gunners, said to come 

 mainly from New York and Brooklyn, who slaughter the 

 song birds now on their spring migration from the south. 

 Not the slightest regard is paid to the law — highholders, 

 robins, meadowlarks, song birds generally and small snipe 

 are killed here every day and in the most open manner. 

 The principal day for this shooting is Sunday, when the 

 woods and fields are overrun with a horde of city gunners 

 who destroy everything that has feathers. These law 

 breakers pay no attention to the signs of the club warn- 

 \ off gunners and trespassers except that occasionally 

 they use them as targets and shoot them down. Efforts 

 have been made by the Rockaway club to induce the 

 local constable to do his duty in the matter of protecting 

 their property, but he makes no arrests, and it is freely 

 asserted that he fears violence at the hands of the shooters. 

 This is a shameful condition of things, and the Long 

 Island game protector ought to do what is necessary in 

 the matter without delay. The abominable killing of 

 migrating song birds was checked last year, and it is a 

 shame that it should have broken out again this spring. 



The old Audubon place at 155th street, near Twelfth 

 avenue, for many years the home of the naturalist and 

 the house in which he died, is to be sold at auction one 

 week from to-day. The spot is one of the loveliest on 

 New York Island, and it is one of the few localities still re- 

 maining in the city which the noise, dust and confusion 

 of business have not yet invaded. It is rather sad to see 

 the old place sold and to think that the purchaser will 

 perhaps tear down the homestead, about which cluster 

 so many associations, and cut the land up into building 

 lots. 



The text of the Ontario game law, recently enacted, 

 which we print in another column, will interest all those 

 who belong to clubs located in that Province.. We called 

 attention a week or two since to the fact that by the text 

 of this bill as first introduced the rights of such club 

 members seemed to be seriously threatened. The law as 

 it stands, however, works no injustice to Americans, and 

 many of its provisions are excellent. 



The unusual pressure upon our columns by the publica- 

 tion of the names of the signers of Yellowstone Park 

 petitions, and by our report of the Boston dog show, ob- 

 liges us to leave over to our next issue our usual "Rock 

 Climber" letter and a considerable amount of other in- 

 teresting matter. 



