Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, MAY 17, 1888. 



I VOL. XXX.— No. 17. 



I No. 31S Broadway, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Hanging in Committee. 



Fair Play in the Cup Races. 



Dog Shows. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Sam Level's Camps. — IX. 



Through Miramiclii with Rod 

 and Rifle. — I. 

 Natural History. 



Snake Bite and its Antidote. -u 



Edible Fresh Water Mussels. 



Range of the White Goat. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Pete, the Dog Without a Pedi- 

 gree. — rr. 



Early Field Literature. 



Brant Shooting at Chatham. 



Our Moose. 



Yellowstone Park Petition. 



Ohio Fish and Game Laws. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Ely-Casting Tournament. 



Trout Fishing on the Nameless 



Mountain Trails and Parks in 

 Colorado (poetry). 



The Automatic Reel. 



Boston Anglers in Maine. 



Maine Trout Resorts. 

 Fishculttjre. 



The Menhaden Question. 



TnE Kennel. 



The Baltimore Dog Show. 



Southern Field Trials. 



Eastern Field Trials Derby. 



The Pointer Club. 



The Exaggeration of Type. 



The Pointer Standard. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



A New York Shooting Ground. 



The Ohio League Shoot. 



The Tucker System. 



Canadian Trap Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



The Man in the Rag Canoe is 

 Coming. 



Tippy C. C. 



Flag Circular. 

 Yachting. 



A Novel Siugle-Hander. 



The Bridesmaid — Atlantis 

 Match.- 



New Method of Setting Top- 

 sails. 



Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 

 Larchmont Y. C. 

 Dickenson's Patent Propeller. 

 Yachting Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



DOG SHOWS. 



THE success of dog shows has been considered so 

 problematical in the past that few individuals have 

 been plucky enough to risk these ventures on their own 

 responsibility. The rule has been for club members to 

 pledge themselves to stand whatever losses might be 

 } incurred by the exhibitors, or to divide the profits which 

 might accrue. This year has been unusually favorable 

 for dog show projectors, the shows of all the clubs have 

 been remunerative; and individual enterprise has been 

 tempted to speculations in the same field. The show 

 recently given at Baltimore* was the individual under- 

 taking of Mr. Frank Hall, of Philadelphia, who is 

 reported to have cleared $1,500 profits oh the venture. 

 This has encouraged Mr. Hall to give other shows, and 

 he announces that the next one will be held in Washing- 

 ton. 



Mr. Hall has thought it necessary to adopt the expedi- 

 ent of organizing himself and his employes into so-called 

 kennel clubs. His Baltimore show was announced to be 

 under the auspices of the "Baltimore Kennel Club," 

 although it appears that exhibitors, judges and other 

 persons concerned understood perfectly well that it was 

 I "Hall's show," and it was commonly spoken of as such. 

 At Washington a similar plan is to be followed ; the show 

 there is to be given by a supposititious "Washington 

 Kennel Club." 



To this mode of doing things it is rather late in the day 

 to object, for the same thing has been done before. There 

 can be no harm in it so long as the public understands 

 the true state of affairs. If Mr. Hall, or any other man 

 wishes to conduct bench shows for profit, he has a per- 

 fect right to do so; and if he pays his prizes and dis- 

 charges his obligations to the satisfaction of those con- 

 cerned, his enterprise is legitimate and should have its 

 reward. 



The more dog shows, the better. American shows are 

 destined to be developed until the annual exhibitions 



HANGING IN COMMITTEE. 

 rpHE bill for the protection of the National Park is still 

 in the hands of the Committee on Public Lands. 

 There seems little prospect of its being brought before 

 the House for several weeks, for the debate on the tariff 

 is at present occupying all the attentiqn of Congress. 

 Spring is opening in the mountains, and before long the 

 tide of summer travel will reach the borders of the reser- 

 vation. From the Northern Pacific Railroad, on the 

 north, and the Union Pacific, on the south, sight-seers in 

 greater numbers than ever before will flock to the won- 

 derland of America. 



They will find it, as it has always been , unprotected by 

 law, but with a guardian who will do for its protection 

 everything that is possible under the circumstances. 

 His force, however, is not nearly so large as it should be 

 to adequately patrol the Park, and especially does he need 

 half a dozen more competent mountain men, to act as 

 scouts and locate evil doers. 



If it happens this year, as it did last, that people who 

 offend against the rules and regulations established for 

 the Government of the Park by the Secretary of the In- 

 terior, find themselves summarily ejected from the reser- 

 vation, without process of law, they will have to thank 

 only their representatives in Congress, through whose 

 neglect the Park remains without courts or any 

 machinery of justice. 



It is possible that the bill may come before Congress 

 for action before travel in the Park opens, but this is not 

 at all probable, and it may be midsummer before any ac- 

 tion is taken o n it. 



FAIR PLAY IN THE CUP RACES. 



IN alluding to Thistle and her races, Land and Water 

 of May 5 indulges in the following splenetic attack on 

 Americans, as well as on some British yachtsmen: 



There is no doubt that, by side issues and unsportsmanlike con- 

 duct, the Yankees (so far as the yacht racing section are con- 

 cerned) organize victory by any shabby means, and unquestion- 

 ably, as was the case with Cambria and Livonia, the Thistle was 

 another victim. We advisedly leave the Genesta out of the list, 

 as Mr. Beavor-Webb was a whitewashed Yankee before that boat 

 went over, and "British Yachtsman" (save the mark!) of the 

 Field went out of his road to explain away the defeat of the Gen- 

 esta. Mr. Henn, R. N., undertook to uphold the merit of the tank 

 Mr. Webb designed for him, but it was a sorry business; and in 

 our opinion the only boat which may be called "'representative" 

 (other than the Cambria) that has sailed for the America's Cup, 

 was the Thistle, We can only reiterate our expressed opinion 

 that the Thistle is a marvel of speed, and wish that some of the 

 Yankee bastard cutters would come over and give her a chance 

 round some of our regatta courses. 



After the conclusive beating that Thistle received in 

 the final race, there was but one thing for fair-minded 

 sportsmen to do — to concede freely their defeat; and as 

 all connected with Thistle have done so, such comments 

 as the above by one who witnessed none of . the races of 

 1S85-86-87, are of little account. As far as the races of 

 Thistle, Galatea and Genesta are concerned, the Land 

 and Water can produce no instance in which perfectly 

 fair play was not accorded, if we except the retention of 

 the inside course. It is only too true that there are illib- 

 eral and unsportsmanlike men on this side of the Atlan- 

 tic as well as the other, and they have been heard often 

 enough in connection with international yachting, from 

 the days of Ashbury down ; but in spite of their efforts, 

 there are no instances in the late series of races where 

 the challengers have not had perfectly fair play and the 

 most courteous treatment. To this all have borne ample 

 testimony— Sir Richard Sutton, Mr. Beavor-Webb, Lieut. 

 Henn, Mr. Bell, Mr. Watson, and the many visitors who 

 accompanied them last year; and in the face of all this 

 such insinuations as those quoted above can carry no 

 weight whatever. Lieut. Henn has promptly answered 

 them as follows in a letter to the Land and Water : 



Having witnessed the races between 'the Thistle and the Vol- 

 unteer I can testify that they were conducted throughout by the 

 New York Yacht Club in the fairest and most sportsmanlike 

 manner, and the universal wish that I heard expressed by Amer- 

 ican yachtsmen, and in fact by every one, was, "May the best 



boat ,win." The reason the Thistle failed! to win the America's 

 Cup was simply this: She wa s unable to saihas fast to windward 

 as the so-called bastard cutter. I have sailed many races in 

 American waters and on every hand have mot the most sports- 

 manlike and honorable treatment. 



The attack on Genesta and Galatea and those con- 

 nected with them is no less disgraceful than that on 

 Americans. When Genesta challenged she had beaten 

 Irex and was the representative yacht of the year, in 

 type and in record; and Galatea, whatever her faults of 

 model, was the legitimate product of the rule so strongly 

 upheld by all British yachtsmen for many years. Both 

 yachts were owned by gentlemen who came here as 

 strangers but left friends behind in every port they called 

 at; in spite of their defeats they carried the national flag 

 with honor, and it little becomes a British journal to 

 throw discredit on ventures that, though unsuccessful, 

 were bold, manly and sportsmanlike throughout. The 

 sort of fair play that the Land and Water would accord 

 to a visiting yacht may be easily inferred from the last 

 sentence; it would choose a course where the center- 

 board could not be used on account of draft, where tides, 

 currents and shoals make the race a mere question of 

 local knowledge, and consequently in favor of the home 

 boat. This was what Mr. Chamberlayne proposed for the 

 Arrow-Mayflower match. It is very much to be re* 

 gretted that the action of the committee of revision of 

 the deed of gift gives ground for such attacks as the 

 above; but fortunately the new deed does not represent 

 the sentiments of American yachtsmen any more than 

 the Land and Water does the British sportsmen. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 HPHE fly-casting tournament will be held at Harleni 

 Mere, in the Central Park, this city, Wednesday 

 and Thursday of next week. The Mere is at the upper 

 end of the Park, and may be reached by either of the ele- 

 vated railroads. The prize committee have made a 

 change this year in the manner of awarding prizes. 

 The prizes are assigned in order, and winners are not 

 left to choose from the entire list, as has been the prac- 

 tice in the past. The intent of this, we presume, is to 

 discourage any tendency to "mug-hunting." Every an- 

 gler who is sincerely interested in the success of these' 

 tournaments must deprecate the creeping into them of 

 anything like a mercenary spirit. Here, if anywhere on 

 the broad earth, emulation should be generous, and each 

 should rejoice in the cast of his competitor even more 

 than in his own. 



One of the shooting matches at the coming tournament 

 of the New York Association for the Protection of Fish 

 and Game, at Auburn, will be what is called a walking 

 match. The contestants starting from a given point 

 walk toward the traps, and the birds are sprung at the 

 option of the trap puller, when the shooter is at different 

 distances from them. By the use of more than one trap, 

 birds may be made to rise from different quarters of the 

 field. This is the nearest approach in artificial shooting 

 to the actual work of the field; and it is as near to actual 

 work as many trap-shooters ever come. The walking- 

 match was devised by Mr. J. E. Bloom, formerly con- 

 nected with the clay pigeon manufacturers. 



It is a curious condition of affairs that the largest city 

 on the western continent should have no shooting ground 

 convenient of access where business men may repair for 

 recreation with trap and gun, yet such is the case with 

 New York to-day. These conditions are, however, in a 

 fair way of change. At the meeting last Friday of gentle- 

 men interested in providing a trap-shooting ground, the 

 initial steps were taken, and it will not be long before it 

 will be practicable for a business man to leave his office 

 and within half an hour find himself gun in hand at the 

 traps. Notice of the proposed organization of the New 

 York Suburban Shooting Ground Association will be 

 found in our trap columns. 



A dispatch from our Yellowstone National Park corre- 

 spondent announces that the Excelsior Geyser, sometimes 

 called Sheridan Geyser, has resumed action, after a rest 

 of six years. This geyser is in the Midway Geyser Basin; 

 its spoutings occur at intervals of from forty-five to fifty 

 minutes. It is attracting many visitors. The roads in 

 the Park are now so free from snow that wagon traveling 

 is practicable over them, 



