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NEW YORK, AUGUST 4, 1887. 



) VOL. XXIX.-No, 2. 



I Nos. 39 <fe 40 Park Row, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Life-Long Sportsmen. 



In a Civilized Land. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Grand Lac Mackinac. 



The Cruise of the Flying Clam. 



Hunting in tho Himalayas. 

 Natural History. 



Hummingbird and Sparrow. 



The "Gila Monster." 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



In the Cherokee Strip. — TO 



An Experience with Deer. 



The Shore Birds. 



The Game Outlook. 



Rifles and Bullets. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Ghost of Standing Stone. 



Bass for Breakfast. 



Converts to Angling. 



Tadousac. 



Menhaden Fishing in New 

 York. 



FfSHCULTURE. 



The New York Commission. 

 The Pennsylvania Commission 



The Kennel. 



Beagles for Bench and Field. 



The Dog for Big Game. 



Johnny and Drake. 



Goat's Milk for Puppies. 



B. M. Stephenson Reinstated. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



The Bullard Match No. 4. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Bandle Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 



W. A. C. Meet, Ballast Island. 



A Cruise Down Russian River. 



Royal C. C. Regatta. 

 Yachting. 



Cruise of the Brunhilde. 



Design of Steam Yacht Hulls. 



A Cape Cod Oatboat. 



Lake Y. R. A. 



Corinthian Y. C. 



New York Y. C. Cruise. 



Another Capsized Centerboard 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



New Publications. 



The Second Annual Yachting Supplement published 

 from this office is now in press, and will be issued in a day 

 or towo. There are original drawings of the Thistle, the 

 Volunteer and other boats, with descriptions of them, a 

 M&tory of international yachting, and other material. 



IN A CIVILIZED LAND. 



rpHERE was nothing startling in the recent cable re- 

 port that Stanley had been killed by the natives on 

 the Upper Congo. The explorer who turns his back on 

 civilization and penetrates the wilds of a barbarous 

 country, deliberately takes his life in his hands; when 

 .tidings come of the final catastrophe the world says, 

 ''We told you so," and goes on about its business. But 

 though death by violence is a contingency perfectly well 

 understood and always seriously to be taken into consid- 

 eration when one ventures among savage tribes, it is not 

 a possibility that at present receives much thought when 

 fine is setting out on a hunting or fishing expedition in a 

 highly civilized land like our own. There soon must be 

 a change in this regard, however, if Mr. Bill Star and 

 other border ruffians, together with New Jersey men- 

 haden fishermen and other coast pirates, are to have their 

 way about it. 



Four Arkansas hunters were camped on one of the 

 streams of the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory 

 last week when, on Friday night, Mr. Bill Star and fel- 

 low desperadoes swooped down upon them, opened fire at 

 short range and fatally wounded two of the four. The' 

 press dispatches intimate that Mr. Star and his friends 

 may have mistaken the game hunters for some other per- 

 sons against whom they had a grudge, or whom they sus- 

 pected of having designs upon them. This suggestion, 

 even if well founded, is not particularly comforting, nor 

 does it alter the case for the better. If a sportsman in 

 camp is to be liable at any moment to be called upon 

 instantly to prove his identity or be shot on the spot by 

 a frontier bandit, it is perfectly clear that the zest of 



oing hunting will be materially diminished. Under such 



circumstances the timid camper, who is not an expert in 

 getting the drop on an assailant, or who does not enjoy 

 these adventitious excitements of the chase, will do 

 well to curb his passion for field sports and stay at 

 home; or if he must go, he may provide as a part of his 

 camp equipage a large and legible sign, setting forth h's 

 name and the peaceable nature of his mission, the same 

 to be displayed in a conspicuous place in camp, where it 

 will be likely to catch the eye of any attacking party of 

 bandits in time to avert bloodshed— provided the bandits 

 can read. 



The New Jersey incident was less tragic only by reason 

 of the defective marksmanship of the attacking party. 

 Messrs. J. F. Zimmerman, of Philadelphia, and Win, 

 Millwood were in a rowboat sea fishing at Grassy Bay, 

 when a menhaden schooner rounding a point inclosed their 

 small boat in the sweep of the net. As the purse-strings 

 tightened, the boat tilted and threatened to capsize. The 

 two anglers shouted to the schooner's crew to be released in 

 vain, and saw before them only the alternative of cutting 

 their way out of the net or being drowned and hauled in 

 as a constituent ingredient of the schooner's fare to be 

 converted into "cod liver oil." They cut a buoy line of 

 the net, which released them and several bushels of fish 

 at the same time, whereupon the enraged fishermen 

 trained their guns on Messrs. Zimmerman and Miilbrook, 

 who escaped with their fives in their budet-splintered 

 boat. This adds to the list of angling perils incurred in 

 sea fishing the novel danger of being scooped up as a 

 legitimate "catch" by the menhaden men, or resenting 

 this of being bored by bullets. The incident is not with- 

 out its moral as illustrating on the part of powerful mon- 

 eyed interests a growing disregard for the rights of indi- 

 viduals. Menhaden fishermen, or for the matter of that 

 any fishermen who conduct their calling after the man- 

 ner of pirates, are afloat on the wrong waters when they 

 sail within the three-league limit of jurisdiction on this 

 coast. The mooted question of the destruction of food fishes 

 by the menhaden crews is insignificant in comparison with 

 the graver question of whether a peacably-dis posed 

 angler shall be allowed to follow his recreation without 

 being subjected to wanton outrages of personal rights 

 perpetrated by lawless ruffians in the public waters of a 

 civilized country. 



LIFE-LONG SPORTSMEN. 



A GLANCE over a Wimbledon report of 1887 notes 

 the old time names of Fenton, Eigby, Halford, 

 Milner, and many others who may be found mentioned 

 as leading marksmen far back one or two decades ago. 

 These long-range experts find a perennial source of en- 

 joyment in the rivalry and keen competition of the rifle 

 field. They do not think they have exhausted all the 

 pleasure a good rifle can bring when a single season's 

 shooting is over. Each opening year brings a new zest 

 for the sport and each closing season only brings a deter- 

 mination to be ready prompt and early for the following 

 year of pleasurable duty. Again and again they meet, 

 and undismayed by defeat they press on convinced that 

 victory must come to the one who works long and faith- 

 fully. 



How different here. Where is long-range shooting? 

 Where are the team men who, but a few short years ago, 

 were feted and petted by the public? Where are Gilder- 

 sleeve and Bruce, Blydenbufgh and Jewell, and all the 

 others who did so well and promised so much? They 

 seemed to be content with a sky rocket career, and after 

 the sudden dash into notoriety have flung aside the im- 

 plements of their sport and lost their character as sports- 

 men in the more prosaic one of fortune hunters. 



The difference between the long-range men of Creed- 

 moor and Wimbledon is clear, sharp and nationally 

 characteristic. The American marksmen shoot through 

 their meteoric career and drop from sight. The British 

 marksmen shoot on, and are finding always something- 

 new and fresh in the game, and when finally they drop 

 out of the active front line it is to become advisers and 

 coaches to the rising company of young men who have 

 learned to respect the "old uns" for the long and honor- 

 able record they have earned for themselves. In the one 

 country fine marksmanship of this type languishes and 

 dies. In the other a challenge shield flung open for com- 

 petition over twenty years ago is still fought for with the 

 true, vigorous sportsman's spirit. Creedmoor exists, 

 Wimbledon flourishes, and solely because of the different 

 sort of support given them. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 HP HE long continued period of extreme heat and humid- 

 *■ ity has been favorable to the development of mos- 

 quitoes and other insect pests, and campers out this 

 season are finding more than usual vexation from them. 

 Could the statistics be collected the list of outings con- 

 verted by this cause into sojourns of protracted misery 

 under canvas would be a long one. Old woodcock shoot- 

 ers who penetrated the swamps in July in those States 

 where summer shooting obtains report that they never 

 knew anything equal to it before; the attacks of the in- 

 sects were irresistible, and combined with the sultry 

 atmosphere effectually disposed of what pleasure there 

 might have been in midsummer pursuit of woodcock. 

 Canoeists who repaired to the Dundee Lake, New Jersey, 

 meet, and camped on the shore, found that sleep was 

 quite out of the question, and spent their nights in a 

 battle where the victory was not to the strong. 



It is an extremely low grade of thrift that recognizes 

 in a stream of water only an agency for carrying off 

 sewerage and waste; but just this grade of thrift obtains 

 in the average community of this country to-day. Towns 

 and villages empty their poisonous drainage into the 

 nearest stream, and mills and factories are erected on 

 sites chosen with special reference to a watercourse to 

 carry away the refuse. That the stream contains 

 valuable food fishes which will inevitably be exterminated 

 by the introduction of this poisonous material is not for a 

 moment deemed worthy of consideration. Tons Upon 

 tons of food fish have been sacrificed by this improvident 

 penny-wise system. We referred recently to the fish 

 mortality in the Loyalhanna River, Pennsylvania, 

 which ensued from poisoning by sewer and fac- 

 tory drainage; and in the last report of the Penn- 

 sylvania Fish Commission, extracts from which are 

 printed in another column, this subject of the pol- 

 lution of streams is discussed in terms which prove 

 that the fish commissioners in one State at least recog- 

 nize the folly of attempting to stock waters with food 

 fishes, only to see the fry destroyed by poisonous drain- 

 age from mills and mines. There are perfectly practica- 

 ble modes of disposing of these waste products without 

 permitting them to pollute the streams and destroy the 

 fish, and State Legislatures will do well to make this a 

 subject of legislation. 



One day last week three men were in a boat on Croton 

 Lake, the source of New York city's water supply, when, 

 after some boisterous scuffling, they managed to upset 

 the boat and one of them was drowned. An evening 

 newspaper heads its report of the occurrence "Drowned 

 While Fishing," and incidentally mentions that the trio 

 had a bottle along. Would it not be more correct to head 

 such an account "Drowned While on a Drunk?" and sink 

 the fishing part of it to the subordinate place it really 

 holds? There is all the difference in the world between 

 an angling excursion and a drinking spree, though some 

 folks appear not to know it. The silliest of the silly jokes 

 of the modern newspaper humorist hinges on the notion 

 that fishing and drunkenness are intimately connected. 



The insect plague has not been confined to outdoor 

 tourists. Summer hotels on the Atlantic coast and else- 

 where_ have suffered, and the receipts of the proprietors 

 have been diminished in consequence. The miseries of a 

 nocturnal combat with mosquitoes are cumulative. The 

 guest who is subjected .to it once will not endure it for a 

 second night if he can get away. The landlord then finds 

 himself in the cheerful financial situation enjoyed by the 

 shoe dealer who moved into a New Jersey town and laid 

 in a large supply of low cut summer shoes, only to dis- 

 cover that his customers in that mosquito-plagued region 

 would have none of them. 



Bears are migrating in a degree, their movements be- 

 ing governed by the mast supply. In certain Adirondack 

 localities where bears have been plenty in recent years 

 none are to be found this season. In the Androscoggin 

 region of Maine the bears are reported to be very numer- 

 ous: more pelts have been brought in to the furriers than 

 in any previous year for a long time. 



Do not give a boy a kitten for a playmate; give him a 

 puppy. Boy and kitten will grow up into a molly-coddle 

 and a cat. Boy and puppy will grow up into a young 

 man and a dog. 



