Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 14, 1888. 



I VOL.. XXX.— No. 21. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



New York Shooting Ground. 



Railroads and Sportsmen. 



The Seizure of Nets. 



Snap Shots. 

 Thb Sportsman Tourist. 



New Fields for Gun and Rod, 

 Natural History 



The American Buffalo. 



Panthers Climb Trees. 



A Troup of Educated Animals. 



Bite of the Gila Monster. 



Rifles for Small Game. 

 Game Bag and Gun 



Game in Central Nebraska. 



The Wild Pigeons. 



Game Notes. 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Automatic Reel. 



Sjals Destroy Salmon. 



A Test Net Cast. 



Angli'ig Notes. 

 Fishculture. 



Menhaden in Raritan Bay. 



The Kennel. 



First Impressions. 



Type and its Interpretation. 



Richmond Dog Show. 



The Late English Field Trials. 



In Relation to Registration. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and ^allerv. 



The Paine-Bennett Match. 



Canadian Military Practice. 

 Canoeing. 



Capt. Kendall's Cruise. 



Atlantic Division Meet. 



The a. C. A. Meet. 



A. C A. Prize Flags. 

 Yachting. 



The Coming Yachting Season 



Larchmont Spring Regatta. 



Rochester Y. C. 



Southern Y. C. Regatta. 



Atl» mic Y. C. Ri gatta. 



Racing Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



RAILROADS AND SPORTSMEN 



AMONG the very best patrons of the railroads are the 

 sportsmen. The nature ©f their recreation obliges 

 the larger number of them to travel, and as a rule, they 

 are men whose means enables them to indulge their 

 desire to journey from place to place in search of sport. 

 The railroad companies appreciate this fact, and the fur- 

 ther one that the sportsman is always either considering 

 the trip which he is on the point of making, or is plan- 

 ning, perhaps a year or two in advance, the one he has 

 in contemplation. To him the saving of time is the great 

 object. He wants to leave his business at the last 

 moment, to go by the quickest and shortest route to his 

 destination , there to plunge into the woods or to take to 

 the water, and spend his vacation far from civilization. 

 Then when the time for leaving has come, he must return 

 without delay to his every day cares and occupations. 



Whether he desires to kill salmon in Canada or bears 

 in the Eocky Mour tains, prairie chickens in Minnesota or 

 tarpon in Florida, he wishes to go by the quickest and 

 easiest route, and he is always trying to get information 

 about the best means of transportation. It is not strange, 

 therefore, that the sportsman studies railroad routes, nor 

 that the railroads appreciate the importance of keeping 

 the advantages presented by their lines before his eye. 

 A glance at the list of roads whose advertisements appear 

 in the Forest and Stream shows that there is no branch 

 of sport which cannot be had on some of these railroad 

 lines. 



Does the sportsman desire to kill big game in the Rocky 

 Mountains, to visit the Yellowstone Park, the Pacific 

 coast, Alaska? Does he plan a summer's trip to Canada 

 for salmon, or an autumn expedition for moose or cari- 

 bou? Does he want to spend his vacation where trout, 

 bass, pickerel and maskinonge are abundant, or is he 

 thinking of prairie chicken and fowl shooting as the 

 autumn sets in, or of a winter's trip for quail, ducks and 

 snipe? Whatever his destination, east, north, west or 

 south, he will find out how to get there by a study of the 

 railroad line3 whose announcements we are constantly 

 publishing. 



As game and fish become more scarce the sportsman is ! 



obliged to go further and further for his recreation. It is 

 well within bounds to say that the number of men who 

 annually make long trips north, east, west and south in 

 search of sport is now ten times what it was ten years 

 ago, and this number is increasing and will continue to 

 increase each year. This increase will benefit the rail- 

 roads by adding to the travel over their lines, and as new 

 routes are opened and competition grows more keen, it 

 will be more than ever important for them to bring to 

 the notice of their sportsmen patrons the advantages of 

 their routes. As there is no traveler more important to 

 the railroads than the sportsman, so there is no one who 

 is so dependent on the railroads as he is. To him — up to 

 the time when he reaches the last station on the line- 

 time and comfort are everything, and he is willing to 

 pay liberally for quick time, good service and the best 

 accommodations. These he insists on having, and to the 

 credit of the railroads be it said, he almost always gets 

 them. 



THE NEW YORK SHOOTING GROUND. 

 rpHE projected New York Suburban Shcoling Ground 

 Association has filed its certificate with the Secre- 

 tary of State of New Jersey, and so soon as the prescribed 

 forms can be complied with the association will be a duly 

 incorporated institution, prepared to equip and maintain 

 shooting grounds. The proposed choice of location is at 

 Claremont, which is within the city limits of Jersey City, 

 accessible by railroad and within fifteen minutes from 

 this city. It need not be said that the facilities which 

 will be afforded by the new grounds will be highly prized 

 by lovers of the gun in the metropolis. 



One great drawback to trap shooting practice in New 

 York has been the lack of a convenient resort where a 

 business man might find conveniences for indulging in 

 this sport without giving up his time for a long journey 

 to and from the grounds. But if the promises held out 

 by the Suburban Association are made good it will be 

 practicable for shooters to go and come in half an hour 

 from the ferry on this side and the time thus consumed 

 will virtually not be counted. 



The Suburban Grounds will be equipped with full sets 

 of traps and targets; trap-pullers will be in attendance, 

 and all the shooter will find incumbent upon him will be 

 to hit or miss his quantum suf. of targets, pay his moder- 

 ate bill and betake himself home. The advantages of 

 membership in the Suburban are such as should induce 

 the active participation of all trap-shooters in this vicinity, 

 whether members of clubs or not. 



THE SEIZURE OF NETS. 



WE print the full text of the opinion of Judge Wil- 

 liams in the Jefferson county fish net seizure case, 

 and with it is given an appeal from the Jefferson County 

 Association asking aid from other societies in carrying 

 the case to a higher court. 



This appeal is one which should meet with a prompt 

 and liberal response. The principle at stake concerns 

 every fish-protective society in the State and elsewhere 

 as directly as it does the Jefferson County Society ; and 

 it is of vital concern to the interests of the community, 

 for what is a fish-protective society after all but the 

 organized efforts of enlightened citizens who recognize 

 and labor to advance the public good in this particular 

 regard? For this reason, that all are concerned, the fish- 

 protective associations of the State should give a prompt 

 and liberal response to this appeal. No community 

 counting fisheries among its natural stores of wealth can 

 afford to let the decision stand so long as there is a hope 

 of reversing it in the higher courts. It strikes at the 

 very heart of fish protection. If illegal nets may not te 

 summarily seized when and where discovered by the 

 officers of the law — and Judge Williams holds that they 

 may not be — then there is an end to protection of fish 

 against the netters. 



Experience has demonstrated clearly and repeatedly 

 the futility of attempting to abate netting by trying to 

 discover who sets the nets, who owns them and who is 

 responsible for their use in forbidden waters. The only 

 efficient way to remove an illegal net is to take it then 

 and there, and make an end of it. This has been done in 

 the past under sanction of the act of the Legislature 

 which declares illegal nets common nuisances and au- 

 thorizes their seizure and destruction as such. But 

 Judge Williams holds that in making nets common 

 nuisances, the Legislature has exceeded its authority, 



hence the law is void. If this decision be not reversed 

 the nets will multiply not only in the waters of Lake 

 Ontario, but in all the lakes and bays and rivers and 

 streams, wherever fish are found. It is said that already, 

 as a direct result of this decision, large quantities of nets 

 have been manufactured or their manufacture ordered, 

 and the netting campaign promises to be waged more 

 actively and ruthlessly than ever. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 "ORIVATE advices from northern Texas, where Mr. 



Jones has been at work capturing buffalo, advise us 

 of the taking and saving alive of six calves and one cow. 

 Up to late in May only twenty-three head besides the 

 calves had been seen, and of these it was necessary to kill 

 three in self-defence while catching the calves. Later 

 news from the camp announces the capture of two more 

 calves, and the giving up of the idea of roping and hob- 

 bling the adult buffalo, as was at first contemplated. In- 

 stead of this the more laborious but much safer plan of 

 running them down has been adopted, and apparently 

 with a degree of success. About June 1 a bunch of 

 twenty buffalo, most of them cows, and with no calves 

 among them, was discovered, and after suitable prepara- 

 tions had been made, were started. The first day they 

 are said to have run about eighty miles and were pretty 

 tired, and the following day seemed disinclined to ran 

 much, but still kept well ahead of their pursuers. Each 

 day they became less wild, and after being followed for 

 seven days Mr. Jones says that they are under perfect 

 control. The present intention is to stay with them 

 until they can be handled without trouble, and then to 

 drive them to the ranch where the other animals are now 

 under fence. If this can be done, Mr. Jones, even if he 

 gets no more, will have succeeded in gathering in about 

 thirty head of buffalo, and may congratulate himself on 

 having accomplished what no man has ever done before, 

 and certainly what no man will ever do again. We hope 

 before long to be able to lay before our readers full de- 

 tails of the trip. 



At Fort Ontario, N. Y., one day last week, a squad of 

 United States soldiers were engaged in rifle practice on 

 the lake shore, when one of the bullets passing the target 

 sped out on to the lake and severely wounded a man on a 

 scow a mile from shore. The reports of this piece of 

 carelessness are so meagre that it is not easy to determine 

 the degree of blame attaching to those in charge of the 

 practice, but it may be said that the United States troops 

 are sometimes extremely reckless in their target firing. 

 The range at the St. Francis Barracks, in St. Augustine, 

 Fla., is in line with the Matanzas River, and we have 

 been told that on more than one occasion Doatshave been 

 struck by bullets. 



The New York fish and game protectors have per- 

 formed their duties under the supervision of the Com- 

 missioners of Fisheries, but they have been appointed by 

 the Governor. To secure more efficient service the last 

 Legislature passed a bill to put the appointing power 

 into the hands of the Commissioners, and the Governor 

 has just signed the bill, stating his belief that by making 

 such officials directly responsible to the appointing power 

 a more reasonable and satisfactory admini-tration of the 

 game and fish laws of the State will be attained. 



The genius who considers it a fine joke to set his dog 

 on people to scare them has received some attention in 

 the courts. Recently a Baltimore youth was convicted 

 of assault by setting his dog on a man. The judge who 

 passed sentence said that "a person who set in motion a 

 series of events which, like this, resulted in another per- 

 son being severely wounded, is responsible, although it 

 appeared that he tried to stop the dog when he saw the 

 person attacked was likely to be wounded." 



Pezon, the famous French lion tamer, owed his success 

 to his system of "Training vs. Breaking." In his manual 

 of lion taming he wrote: "Learn to love, study and 

 know and, above all, not to fear your animals. This is 

 the key to the whole thing." This, with the exception of 

 the injunction against fear, is also the key to successful 

 dog training. 



New Brunswick has made a eloso time on moose and 

 deer extending te 1892. 



