Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 21, 1888. 



J VOL. XXX.— No. 22. 



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CONTENTS. 



R DITORIAi. 



The Demise of the Grizzly. 

 A Chapter of Accidents. 

 Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 

 Reba (poetry). 



In the Moose River Country. 



Coeur D'Alene. 



The Pocono Paradise. 

 Natural History. 



Mussel, Bowfin, Otter. 



Treatment of Snake Bite. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



In the Matter of Buffalo. 



A Texas Deer Hunt. 



Ducks on Bean's Lake. 



Yellowstone Park Petition. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



To a Fisherman (poetry). 



Cape Breton Trout Waters. 



Silver Sheen of the First Sal- 

 mon. 



Billy. 



Speaking of Trout. 

 Fishculture. 

 An Imperial Fishculturalist 

 Gone. 



Hatching the Sturgeon. 



The Kennel. 



Indiana Kennel Club's Derby. 



Pacific Coast Derby. 



The Mortality of Puppies. 



Albanr Dog Show. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Ranee and Gallerv. 



The Paine-Bennett Match. 



Canadian Military Practice. 



The Trap. 



South Side vs. Union. 



The Illinois State Shoot. 

 Canoeing. 



The Canoe Speaks (poetry). 



Passaic River Regatta). 



Duckers versus Canoes. 



Ian the C. C. Regatta. 

 Yachting. 



Norton System of Naval Con- 

 struction. 



An Earlv Crop of Capsizes. 



Quaker City Y. C. Regatta. 



Jersey City Y. C. Regatta. 



Racing Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents 



THE DEMISE OF THE GRIZZL Y. 

 TT has become our unwelcome duty to chronicle the 

 -■- death of one of the Foeest and Stream's grizzlies. 

 The record of a bear's death usually has in it a flavor of 

 exultation at the triumph of human skill and daring over 

 brutal strength and ferocity. A different sentiment per- 

 vades this record; ratber is it tinged with sorrow and 

 regret. No arduous pursuit by hunter over long and 

 rugged trail had its final crown and reward when this 

 bear died; no fateful combat was terminated in victory 

 for man over brute when our grizzly gave out his life. 



He died a captive, far from the home that had given 

 him birth. It might partake of the romantic and the 

 pathetic to write that his spirit was broken and that be- 

 hind the bars he languished and pined away, until death 

 came and set him free; but reverence for the truth com- 

 pels us to record that our grizzly died not of a broken 

 heart, but of the blizzard. Dr. Conklin advises us that 

 in the ever memorable storm of last March this bear — 

 who had come from a blizzard land — contracted a severe 

 cold, which settled on his lungs, and developing into 

 acute pneumonia has carried him off. 



Though the circumstances of this bear's death lack 

 the picturesque elements which have rendered note- 

 worthy the last scenes in the career of many another of 

 his kind, his life was in a peculiar degree eventful and 

 worthy of a passing note. At an early age this cub 

 abandoned the home of his fathers, and thenceforth his 

 ways were not their ways. Other grizzlies might live 

 and die ursine Selkirks, monarchs of all they surveyed ; 

 holding themselves aloof, remote from the haunts of 

 men, in sequestered fastnesses, amid the awful solitudes 

 of the mountains, spending their days in ignoble grub- 

 bing for roots and sordid rooting for grubs, holding con- 

 verse with the cataract and growling in sullen answer 

 to the thunder. Our bear was endowed with higher 

 aspirations; a broader plane of experience was his. He 

 was domiciled in a spacious den in the Central Park of 

 the largest city on the continent, and his life was one 

 continued, never ceasing levee. The multitude flocked 



to him. As he grew in bulk and length of claw, the 

 wonder faded from his eye, and a cynical cast 

 took its place; philosopher that he was he improved 

 his opportunities and was a student of human kind as 

 it presented itself before him. And what opportunities for 

 study they were. Youth and age came there, the hand- 

 some and the plain, the beautiful and the ugly, the rich 

 and the poor, the ignorant and the learned, the wise and 

 the foolish, the cultured and the coarse, the mayor was 

 there with the mob, the cut-throat with the clergyman, 

 the priest with the pick-pocket, the matron with the out- 

 cast. There were winsome little girls with peanuts in 

 their pockets and the blue of heaven in their eyes, and 

 he took the peanuts and would have taken the little girls 

 with the heavens' blue in their eyes too if he could. And 

 there were bearded men with blood in their eyes and in 

 their hands canes, which they pointed at him and 

 squinted along, after the manner of bear hunters with 

 guns, and these men too he fain would have drawn near 

 unto but that the bars forbade. There came also men 

 who were moved by the sight of this bear to relate in- 

 credible encounters with grizzlies wherein they had 

 played the parts of star performers, and their long lies 

 never ended until the surly policeman who stood outside 

 6f the cage (but ought to have been inside) hustled them 

 away. There were other hunters, too, who spent long 

 hours studying caged grizzly anatomy, that they might 

 know where to aim when they encountered uncaged 

 grizzly anatomy. 



So in all its varied phases of pride and abasement 

 humanity passed before him; and as the thousands and 

 tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands filed in 

 review before him, he sometimes wearied of the innumer- 

 able caravan, and what wonder that then he beheld it not. 

 Now and then a captive lion in his cage in the open 

 air halts in his restless pacings to and fro, lifts his head, 

 and with a regal and magnificent spurning of the throngs 

 before his cage, looks over and beyond them and fixes on 

 the distance a gaze, intense, steadfast, far-piercing, as if 

 his vision extended to the shores of that other continent, 

 in whose green jungles lions roam at large. So have we 

 seen an imprisoned Apache, squat on his haunches on the 

 battlements of old Fort Marion, in Florida, hands clasped 

 over knees, crooning the wild melody of a savage song 

 and gazing intently toward the setting sun, where lay 

 his desert home. So looked our grizzly beyond the people, 

 the parks, the houses and the city smoke away off, per- 

 haps even to that Montana mountain park, where, the old 

 she bear having been slain, he and his sister were kid- 

 napped by Cut-Bank John and shipped thence to the 

 Forest and Stream. 



In their conception of a future life the Indians make 

 provision for those wild creatures which are man's 

 brothers and are like him immortal. The hide of our bear 

 is here in a New York taxidermist's shop, but a Blackfoot 

 would tell you that his soul had taken the trail to the 

 setting sun and pursuing its rapid course over fields and 

 forests, past populous cities and far stretching prairies, 

 had found its way at last to the Sandhills, and there, in 

 company with the shades of its fathers, it is to day 

 "rustling for grub' through the shadows in pursuit of sha- 

 dow beetles, or feasting on the phantom remnant of a 

 phantom buffalo slain by phantom brave. 



A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. 



rpHE big fish that pulls the fisherman into the water 

 -L has long been a favorite theme with the humorists. 

 The occurrence actually happened near Jeffersonville, 

 Ind., the other day in all seriousness. An angler from 

 that town who was fishing for catfish and had made his 

 line fast to his wrist, was dragged down in the rapid cur- 

 rent by a big fish and drowned. The newspaper report 

 estimates the weight of the catfish at 250 pounds, but 

 a much smaller fish might very well have overcome the 

 unfortunate fisherman's stability, in a rapid flow of 

 water where footing is precarious at the best. 



On Silver Lake, N. Y., last Sunday morning a young 

 man was out in a boat trolling for pickerel. His com- 

 panion was a young woman to whom he was shortly to 

 be married. The pickerel fisherman was seen to stand 

 up in the boat as if to haul in a fish, when the boat cap- 

 sized, and both its occupants were drowned. 



The papers of Monday reporting this catastrophe con- 

 tained also an account of the death of four residents of 

 Port Philip Bay, Australia, who, bent on a week's fish- 

 ing and shooting trip in a yacht, were drowned by the 



foundering of the craft and were presumably devoured 

 by sharks. 



From Missoula, Mont., comes a story of what befell a 

 party of campers on Six Mile Creek. One of their num- 

 ber went down to the creek to capture some fish for 

 supper. He had no pole nor rod nor line nor hook, but 

 an abundant supply of giant powder, and the untoward 

 ending of his endeavor to get some fish for supper illus- 

 trates not the perils of angling but the hazard of fishing 

 with fire. When his companions discovered this unhappy 

 wight he was armless and his body and face mangled 

 beyond recognition. The fate of this man differed not in 

 swiftness and degree from that which overtook the youths 

 who said "Go up thou baldhead." 



SNAP SHOTS. 



T7t7 E print two communications respecting the Toma- 

 * » hawk Lakes of Wisconsin. Both writers assert 

 that there are fish to be caught in those waters, but there 

 is a difference of opinion as to the measure of patronage 

 that sportsmen, with due regard for their own self-respect 

 and their principles, should bestow upon the Messrs. 

 Mann. If a half of all that is alleged of the Manns be 

 true, they certainly cannot ask much consideration at the 

 hands of anglers. These men are not, however, peculiar 

 in their double characters of fish netters and sporting re- 

 sort keepers; the North Woods of this State and many 

 other popular hunting and fishing regions will furnish 

 examples of men whose greed has prompted them to skin 

 game out of season and sportsmen in season, as long as 

 the supply of victims held out. 



The fate of the wild pigeon is under discussion; and a 

 very widespread opinion appears to prevail that because 

 these birds are not seen in many sections where they 

 formerly abounded, they have disappeared from this 

 continent. It is probable that this hypothesis can be 

 proved an unsound one, and the wild pigeons may still be 

 found in scattered flocks in the far West, their flight and 

 nesting grounds changing with the fluctuations of the 

 mast supply on which they depend for food. Such 

 flocks have been reported within a few years, and 

 since that time there has been no event which might 

 be accepted as an adequate explanation of their ex- 

 tinction. The fact remains that the wild pigeon has 

 not held its own, nor stemmed the current of settle- 

 ment and civilization which has swept it from the great 

 areas where its hosts once darkened the heavens. 



In this connection interest attaches to a resolution 

 adopted by the Owl Gun Club, of Toronto, which is to 

 the effect that the club discountenances the trap-shooting 

 of pigeons between May 1 and Sept. 1, that the birds may 

 have an opportunity to breed. This is quite opposed to 

 the usual custom in pigeon shooting, which is to take the 

 game whenever it can be secured and preferably at the 

 nesting ground, because there most readily captured. 

 In live-bird shooting, however, tame birds are generally 

 used; these are bred expressly for the purpose; and their 

 destruction has no bearing whatever on the wild pigeon 

 supply. 



The columns of this journal from time to time contain 

 accounts of new hunting and fishing regions, whose dis- 

 coverers describe their advantages for the benefit of our 

 readers. It would be difficult to find anywhere else so 

 valuable and reliable a store of information of this nature. 

 Not only are the descriptions of the^.e favored resorts re- 

 markable for their number and variety, but they have in 

 them the element of truth; they may as a rule be ac- 

 cepted as the genuine article, written not to puff trans- 

 portation line nor hotel, but to give acceptable aid to the 

 shooting and fishing fraternity. 



The New York game protective system has been 

 smirched with politics, and a very suggestive admission 

 to that effect was made by Governor Hill in the memor- 

 andum he sent in with the new law, when he said that 

 he had concluded to sign the bill " notwithstanding the 

 fact that this change deprives the Executive of the selec- 

 tion of some sixteen officials." If the proposed change 

 were likely to secure more efficient service, there ought 

 not to have been any " notwithstanding" about it. The 

 legal fences that shield game and fish cannot be con- 

 structed of political wiies. 



