Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 19, 1888. 



J VOL. XXX. — No. 13. 



I Nos. 39 & 40 Park Row, New Vork. 



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Editorial. 

 Mr. Plumb's Ignorance. 

 Audubon Monument Fund. 

 Snnp Shots. 



The Rock-Climbers.— XXX. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Reminis. ences. 



That Old Buck of Trimcane. 



"The Mysterious Mistassini. 

 Natural History. 



Spring Notes. 



Mountain Lions and Deer. 



Birds and Specimens. 



The Song Sparrow. 



Buffalo for Washington. 



A Chance for Cauada. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Maine Game Protection. 



Yellowstone Park Petition. 



Yellowstone Park Roads. 



Small Rifles for Deer. 



Sinall-Bore Guns. 



An Ohio Law. 

 Sea and .River Fishing. 



Tackle. 



Sunapee Trout Appear in a 



Dream. 

 Trout Prospects in Maine. 

 A Bad Bill. 



CONTENTS. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



A Big Grayling. 



The Coming Tournament. 



Fish Laws at Albany. 

 Camp-Fire Flick erings. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Work of the Grampus. 



Fisheries of British Columbia. 

 The Kennel. 



Boston Dog Show. 



San Francisco Dog Show. 



New Haven Dog Show. 



An Appeal. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Revolver Wranglers. 



The Trap. 



Canadiau Trap Notes. 

 Yachting. 



Yacht Sails. 



Lake Ontario. 



Yachting Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



A New Canoe Sail. 



Springfield Cup. 



Toronto Notes. 



Malay Canoes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



This loeeJc's issue of the Forest and Stream consists 

 of thirty-two pages^ 



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 feo secure needed legislation. 

 Petitions will be sent to all who will undertake to have 

 them signed and forwarded to Washington. 



MR. PLUMB'S IGNORANCE. 

 'T^HE flood of petitions for the proper protection of the 

 J- Yellowstone Park which is pouring into Congress led 

 to a rather remarkable exhibition the other day in the 

 Senate. 



Mr. Plumb, of Kansas, who voted for Senator Vest's 

 bill when it passed the Senate, and who acknowledges 

 himself entirely ignorant of the provisions of the bill, as 

 well as of the condition of things which it is designed to 

 remedy, rose in his seat and hinted that there was some- 

 thing behind the bill; in fact, that it was a job. His 

 reasons for suspecting this are based on two facts: first, 

 that he had received a letter from a constituent who had 

 paid a visit to the ' Park and had seen nothing wrong 

 there, and second, that a great number of petitions for 

 the passage of the bill are being received. He reasoned 

 that the printing and circulation of these petitions cost 

 time and money, and that no one would be fool enough to 

 spend time and money on anything unless he expected 

 some advantage from it. 



There is a good deal of human nature about Senator 

 Plumb, and his conclusions are in the main sound. Those 

 who advocate this bill, those who sign the petition for it, 

 do hope to gain something by its passage, and since Sena- 

 tor Plumb has fathomed these motives, we may as well 

 confess to him what this hoped for advantage consists of. 

 It is the protection from speculators of the great forest 

 tract which surrounds the sources of the streams sup- 

 plying water to a vast area in the Northwest, and the 

 establishment of a machinery of justice for the preserva- 

 tion of law and order and the enforcement of the regula- 

 tions of the Interior Department in the Park — the securing 

 to the great Northwest an abundant water supply forever, 



and the protection of the persons and property of visitors 

 to the Park. We expect to share in the benefit which 

 this bill will be to the country generally. 



If Senator Plumb had taken the trouble to inquire as to 

 the character of the signers of these petitions, he would 

 have learned that they are the representative men in 

 thousands of communities throughout the country; in 

 fact, that these petitions represent not the demands of 

 individuals or corporations or classes for personal gain, 

 but the demands of the whole people for the general wel- 

 fare. 



Mr. Plumb cannot get over the fact that it cost money 

 to print these petitions. That excites his suspicions, and 

 causes him to shake his head. Clever man, Mr. Plumb; 

 but with all his native shrewdness, it probably never 

 occurred to him that in a world in which the great 

 majority of men are striving each for his own selfish 

 ends at the expense of his fellows, the honest trusted 

 advocacy of the public interests might become a fairly 

 remunerative occupation. 



The Forest and Stream owes its position to the trust 

 that it has inspired in its honest, faithful advocacy of the 

 people's interests, and we should be blind to our own 

 advantage if we hesitated to incur exceptional expendi- 

 ture to give opportunity for the expression of the popular 

 sentiment on an important public question, when, as in 

 the present case, the indifference of our legislators to the 

 public good has rendered such a step necessary. 



Senator Plumb did not know where the petition eman- 

 ated from. He might have learned by a very moderate 

 use of Ms eyes, for Forest and Stream was printed on 

 each petition. Besides, our sending them out was not 

 done in secret, but was noticed and approved by the press 

 throughout the whole country. There are a lot of things 

 that Senator Plumb does not know, and it is a pity that 

 he should be called to legislate upon matters about which 

 he is as ignorant as he is about the Park and the Vest 

 bill. Perhaps he does not want to know about these 

 things. A man who makes a specialty of his ignorance 

 would naturally wish to have as much of it as possible. 



For sixteen years the Yellowstone Park has been a 

 National Reservation. For three succeeding sessions of 

 Congress bills providing for its care have passed the Sen- 

 ate and met the nation's approval, but owing to the neglect 

 of the House the region is still outside the jurisdiction of 

 the courts. A force of military is stationed there to pre- 

 vent crime, but there is no means by which crime can be 

 punished. Crimes have been committed in the Park and 

 the perpetrators are to-day free men with nothing to fear 

 from the hands of justice. 



Senator Plumb may feel assured of one thing; that is, 

 that all over this land there are thousands and thousands 

 ©f individuals and organizations, who, with no other 

 motive than the general good, insist that the Yellowstone 

 National Park shall be protected from railroad grabbers, 

 from timber speculators, and — worst of all — from indif- 

 ferent legislators. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE acquisition by the authorities of the Smithsonian 

 Institution at Washington of a male and female living 

 buffalo is a subject for congratulation, and Mr. Blackford, 

 the donor, will receive the thanks of a large number of 

 people for his wise liberality. If anywhere in the United 

 States there should be a herd of buffalo, it is at Washing- 

 ton, the scientific center of the country. If may be hoped 

 that Mr. Blackford's action will induce some one else to 

 add a buffalo or two to the Smithsonian's small herd. 

 There must still be a number of single individuals held 

 in a state of domestication in the Western country which 

 can do their owners but little good, but which would be 

 of priceless value if sent to Washington to be bred there. 

 We know of three considerable bunches of domesticated 

 buffalo in this country. One of these is said to contain 

 25 head, one about 40 and one 84, about 150 in all. If, as 

 we believe, there are single specimens scattered here and 

 there over the West, they certainly should not be allowed 

 to live alone, but should be brought together and utilized 

 as breeders. We should be veiy glad to learn from any 

 of our readers of the whereabouts of any domesticated 

 buffalo, or of any that are held in captivity. It is about 

 time to take a buffalo census. 



The letter on Maine game protection from the pen of 

 "Special," which appears elsewhere, will interest that 

 large class of readers who annually visit the Pine Tree 

 State. That the Maine Commissioners are doing every- 



thing in their power t© enforce the laws is not doubted 

 by those who have followed then- course, but that the 

 unfortunate change of law in regard to the payment of 

 the wardens has somewhat hampered these efforts seems 

 equally certain. We have reason to be'ieve that there 

 has been considerable poaching this winter in one or two 

 of the counties bordering on Canada. Arrests have been 

 made in Aroostook county, where Indians have been 

 slaughtering moose, and the attention of the Commis- 

 sioners is called to Whitneyville, Maine, and the sur- 

 rounding country. 



The paper by Mr. Thompson published in our Natural 

 History columns, in which he details the methods in 

 which he proposes to investigate the life history of the 

 song sparrow, is pregnant with suggestions. The time 

 for glittering generalities with regard to the habits of our 

 birds should by this time have passed away, and we may 

 now hope for information far more detailed and exact 

 than is contained in any of the published works on orni- 

 thology. That the young student of ornithology will 

 read Mr. Thompsons paper with great interest is certain, 

 and it is equally so that he will gather from it a vast 

 number of ideas which will make his future investiga- 

 tions much more profitable as well as pleasant. 



The bill introduced in the New York Assembly by Mr. 

 Piatt, of Poughkeepsie, to exempt Dutchess county from 

 the provisions of the game law has been reported ad- 

 versely. Why it was introduced is probably known only 

 to Mr. Piatt. It was in itself a disgraceful measure. 

 Further than that, it was an example of special local 

 legislation with regard to game laws which should never 

 be tolerated. 



A special dispatch to Forest and Stream states that 

 the bill, allowing the use of certain nets in the waters 

 of the St. Lawrence River, of Jefferson county, has been 

 forced to a third reading in the Assembly. It should be 

 caught on the final passage and defeated. 



Dr. C. E. Nichols, of Troy, announces that his club 

 has handed over to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument 

 Fund the sum of $1,500 profit from the Troy dog show. 

 This is a most excellent showing. 



THE AUDUBON MONUMENT. 

 T^HE subscriptions to the Audubon Monument fund 

 * have not come in at all in a way to meet our ex- 

 pectations, and we confess to feeling somewhat ashamed 

 of sportsmen for their lack of readiness in this matter. 

 Sportsmen as a class are generous and open-handed; they 

 are, moreover, men Avho have the means to gratify their 

 taste for outdoor sport, and they should certainly be will- 

 ing to contribute a small amount to an object like this. 

 Large sums are not desired, and if each one of our sub- 

 scribers would contribute a dollar the sum needed would 

 be raised twice over. We are not so sanguine as to ex- 

 pect this, but we do hope that a certain proportion of 

 them will contribute to this fund. 



The amount to be raised is not a large one, and there 

 should be no difficulty about making it up by voluntary 

 contributions, and if the sportsmen of America are not 

 willing to do their part toward rearing a monument to 

 one who was one of the first and best of American sports- 

 men, it will be a shame and a disgrace. Below we give 

 a list of the contributions received by the Forest and 

 Stream Publishing Company to date, and we regret to 

 say that without our own contributions the list would be 

 a very sorry one. We hope that next week a better show- 

 ing may be made for the sportsmen of the United States 

 and Canada. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE AUDUBON MONUMENT. 

 The Forest and Stream Publishing Company now holds: 

 For the Forest and Stream Sportsmen's Fund: 



Forest and Stream $25 00 



E. D. Ward 2 00 



Frank L. Page 2 00 



Peter G. Lamont 2 00 



L. H. North 2 00 



Sportsman 1 00 



An Admirer I 00 



835 00 



For the Audubon Society Fund: 



Forest and Stream Publishing Company for the 



Audubon Society §25 00 



Miss Florence A. Merriam 5 00 



Mrs. F. S. Foster 1 00 



Mrs. Henry N. Dodge 1 00 



Miss Mary D. Dodge 50 



Mrs. Sophia Hemp 25 



$32 75 



Total held by Forest and Stream for Audubon 

 Monument $67 75 



