Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, AUGUST 18, 1887. 



) VOL. XXIX.-N0. 4. 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editobial. 



Portuguese of Boston Harbor. 

 California Deer. 

 Memorial of the Great Plains. 

 Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 

 Mount Yo. 



Moosehead in Fly Time.— i. 



Maine Fish and Game. 

 Natural History. 



The Pied Duck. 



Whip Scorpion and Gila Mon- 

 ster. 



Some Bird Notes. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



In the Cherokee Strip. — rx. 



Bear Trapping. 



Bears in Arkansas. 



Hunting in the Himalayas. 



Notes from California. 



Summer Sanitation. 

 Camp-Fire Flickebings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Camp Adams. 



Marking Fishing Lines. 



Sea and Riveb Fishing. 

 Why we Fish with the Fly. 

 The White Perch. 

 Washington Anglers' Resorts. 

 Something about a Porcupine. 



FlSHCDLTDRE. 



Pennsylvania Fish Interests. 

 The Kennel. 



The Medal Rule. 



Dogs for Big Game. 



A. K. R. Numbers. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



Washburn Interstate Cup. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A. and W. C. A. 



Northern Division Meet. 

 Yachting. 



Thistle. 



New York Y. C. Cruise. 

 L. Y. R. A. Round. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



CALIFORNIA DEER. 



IF the half told of it be true, California is a paradise; 

 but it is a paradise cursed with two wretched speci- 

 mens of human kind — the skin-hunter and the conven- 

 tional "sport." It is an undecided question which of the 

 two is the worst half of the curse— the out and out 

 butcher who kills for profit and makes no bones about 

 the business, or the would-be sportsman who kills for 

 brag. One takes the hide and leaves the venison to 

 waste; the other takes only the antlers or the legs and 

 likewise abandons the carcass to the buzzards. Honors 

 are even between them; if either one be ahead it is the 

 skinner. 



The deer supply has bravely withstood the enormous 

 drains made upon it by both these classes, but the game 

 has disappeared at a tremendous rate. Multitudes of 

 deer have been killed by the skin-hunters. The industry 

 has been carried on from year to year, with a zeal only 

 now diminished because the pursuit no longer yields the 

 same large returns as formerly. 



Could the killing for the sake of the hides be wholly 

 suppressed even now, there might be maintained a sup- 

 ply sufficient for all the demands of the sportsman, 

 though those demands are annually increasing as the 

 numbers of sportsmen visiting the State multiply. New 

 regions are coming within reach of the tenderfoot and 

 cockney who follow the railroad builders. The California 

 and Oregon Railroad, which traverses a region of rare 

 attractiveness between Redding and the Klamath River, 

 has opened a new field for the sportsman, and unfortu- 

 nately, too, for the game slaughtering tourist who kills 

 because he conceives it to be quite the proper thing to 

 have a deer to brag about. 



The old residents of that region of northern California 

 estimate that there must be in that part of the State 

 more fishermen than there are trout in the streams, and 

 more hunters, by forty to one, than deer. Such estimates 

 may not amount to much for accuracy, for no one knows 

 anything about the actual number of deer, but they are 

 significant as showing the magnitude of sporting travel 

 there; and what this means for the game supply of 

 Northern California it is not difficult to comprehend. 



A MEMORIAL OF THE GREAT PLAINS. 

 fTTHE game is going, and one after another different 

 species of wild creatures are disappearing from the 

 face of the American continent. On the extermination 

 of each one there is manifested a desire to perpetuate the 

 memory of its existence, and we see individuals, corpora- 

 tions and Government bureaus uniting to provide memo- 

 rials of these vanished races and to write of them, "Gone 

 but not forgotten." In our Natural History columns is 

 given an illustration of the pied duck, one of the wild- 

 fowl thought now to be extinct. The National Museum 

 has been advised of the success of an expedition sent out 

 to dig up skeletons of the great auk, another extinct 

 species. Agents of the same institution were not long 

 ago dispatched on a cruise to the Pacific breeding grounds 

 of the sea elephant, bent on the same mission of securing 

 specimens to be preserved after the elephants had been 

 exterminated from the coast by the hunters. Later an- 

 other party of National Museum agents went out to secure 

 buffalo bulls to be set up in that institution as effigies of 

 another extinct race. 



The largest bronze casting ever made in one piece in 

 this country was cast at a foundry in this city last week. 

 It is a huge buffalo head, modeled by Edward Kemeys, 

 Jr., which is to be placed over the east portal of the Union 

 Pacific Railroad bridge over the Missouri River, between 

 Council Bluffs and Omaha. There will be more poetry 

 clinging to this memorial of Great Plains life than 

 attaches to the average railroad bridge decoration. To 

 old-timers it will recall the days in the early history of 

 the road when the trains thundered past far-stretching 

 herds of bison, and cockney sportsmen fired from car 

 window and platform into the great stupid beasts. The 

 plains are there, and the trains and the passengers, who 

 lack only opportunity to exhibit the same old style of 

 abominable cruelty; but one may pass and repass from 

 East to West and see no sign of bison save the mounted 

 heads which ornament some of the stations, and this 

 bronze cast over the Missouri bridge. 



THE PORTUGUESE OF BOSTON HARBOR. 



THE Boston papers are full of sentimental gush in 

 regard to that city's removal of the Portuguese fisher- 

 man from Long Island in Boston harbor. It was long 

 ago decided that the island was needed for the public 

 good — the erection of public works, for the good of the 

 poor. The property was taken for all it was worth some 

 two years ago by right of eminent domain, and the Por- 

 tuguese were given notice to quit. But they refused to 

 quit, and the other day they were moved by the strong 

 arm of the law and their houses torn down. It is a fact 

 that they have herded together there ever since they 

 came to America, but they never desired to become 

 American citizens. Their only wish has been to control 

 the lobster fishing of the harbor and vicinity. Their right 

 to this industry they have hung to and fought for with a 

 zeal worthy of a better cause. In fact, to them more 

 than to any other fishermen or class of fishermen is due 

 the almost complete destruction of the lobster in the im- 

 mediate vicinity of Boston Harbor; and since the 

 Massachusetts Fish and Game Association has attempted 

 to rigidly enforce the law for the protection of 

 the lobster, these foreigners — this clan of lobster 

 fishermen living in a little village of their own on 

 Long Island, have given Deputy Commissioner Shat- 

 tuck and Capt. Gould more trouble than all the rest 

 of the fishermen put together. In fact the majority of 

 the celebrated short lobster cases brought to trial last 

 winter were against these Portuguese. "What have they 

 done since? They have become the most bitter ene- 

 mies of the lobsters too small for sale. The Beach hotels 

 have been furnished with short lobsters by them; and 

 they have made a practice of crushing those too small 

 for sale with this feeling, "if we can't have them, no 

 Yankee shall." They have lived together, worked to- 

 gether, and violated the laws together, and it has been 

 very hard to obtain evidence against them to convict 

 them of poaching. One of them expressed the truth the 

 other day to a newspaper writer when he said there was 

 no other place in the harbor where they could go, "it 

 would not do to be too far from the lobster fishing 

 grounds." It might be added that nowhere else could 

 they be so successfully banded together for the evasion of 

 the short lobster law. In their eviction by the city, the 

 Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association 

 may congratulate itself on the breaking up of a clan of 



lobster fishermen that were in love with the laws no fur- 

 ther than they interfered with the Yankee fishermen, but 

 which laws they were bound to respect themselves no 

 further than they could help. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 /"\NE reason why summer woodcock shooting should 

 be forbidden is that the pursuit of these birds in 

 July and August affords an excuse and pretext for gun- 

 ners who pot whatever comes to their gun; and among 

 the game killed are immature ruffed grouse, or "chicken 

 partridges." July woodcock shooters do not confine their 

 operations to proper woodcock cover; they range the 

 sidehills and ridges where the longbills are never seen, 

 but where the average man with a gun manages to get in 

 a good many shots, and birds of some sort go to fill up 

 his bag. This explains how it is that young grouse may 

 be noted in abundance in a given locality, but mature 

 birds are not to be found by the most diligent search 

 when the open season comes around. 



Public, interest in yachting is perhaps greater this year 

 than last, and it hinges mainly on the coming interna- 

 tional races. The newspapers are "giving space" to the 

 topic and lavishing column after column upon the cruises 

 and races. The Thistle's arrival in this port last Tuesday 

 gave a new stimulus to the yachting talk one hears on 

 the street, in the cars and everywhere; if one may believe 

 his ears there must be a vast amount of sailing lore among 

 the people he meets. There is no telling the result of the 

 trial races for selection of an American champion, but 

 everything points to the success of Volunteer. Gen. 

 Paine's new boat has had it all her own way so far; and 

 it may be accepted as a sure thing that she will be selected 

 to compete with Thistle. 



The condition of drought prevailing over the West 

 demands the exercise of great caution on the part of gun- 

 ners and campers with respect to fire. A careless shot or 

 a burning wad may ignite inflammable material which is 

 awaiting only a spark to burst into flames; or the neglected 

 embers of a camp-fire may start a forest or prairie con- 

 flagration. In the East where the rainfall has been 

 abundant there is less apprehension of destruction from 

 this cause, yet none the less should care be exercised to 

 provide against the spread of a camp-fire and to thor- 

 oughly extinguish it before leaving the spot. There is 

 happily an increased sense of responsibility in this matter 

 among campers, but the gross carelessness and indiffer- 

 ence to consequences often displayed are nothing short of 

 criminal. 



Will some one versed in kennel affairs kindly explain 

 the intent of the American Kennel Club's rule that unless 

 a dog show club medal be of gold or silver "no descrip- 

 tion shall be given of its material." ■. There presumably 

 must be some weighty reason for this, but common minds 

 cannot comprehend it. Or is it another piece of Ameri- 

 can Kennel Club stupidity? A curious complication has 

 already come up in the case of the Hornell Kennel Club, 

 which giving bronze medals cannot come out and say 

 that they are bronze; but according to the course pursued 

 by the American Kennel Club, with reference to such 

 matters in the past, were the Hornell medals pewter it 

 would be quite the correct thing to proclaim them silver. 



The Atjdtjbon Society membership numbers 38,400, 

 and shows a steady increase month by month. It cannot 

 be said of the movement that it was not called for nor, 

 in face of such figures, unappreciated. The influence 

 exerted by the Society, the rapidity of its growth and 

 its present strength afford a capital example of what may 

 be done in the way of reform when once it is set about in 

 earnest. 



In the summer resort letters to the metropolitan jour- 

 nals the Adirondack "camp" figures as a "model of rustic 

 elegance and taste." It is the sort of "camp" to harmon- 

 ize with the Adirondack hotels, which boast elevators, 

 electric lights and colored servants in uniform; but one 

 wonders what he of "Woodcraft" fame would have to 

 say to it all, 



The index of contents of Volume XXVIH. is published 

 with this issue. 



