Forest and Stream 



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» vol. xxix.-No. r. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Sitka as a Summer Resort. 



Camping Out. 



Yachts as Life Savers. 

 The Sportsman Toukist. 



A Two Weeks' Outing.— n. 

 Natorai, History. 



A Nebraska Collecting Trip. 



Notes of the Fields and Woods. 



Forestry Proposals. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Coffee and Bear Meat- 

 Some Notes from the Rockies. 



Jerry Greening's. 



Notes from the Park. 



Labor and Refresliment. 



The Rifle on Flying Game. 



Two Days on the TraiL 



Hunting in the Shoshone. 



A Morning Shoot. 



Game in Eastern Ontario. 



Quail in the Oak Woods. 

 Sea and Rtver Fishing. 



Camping on the Sauk. 



Bass in the Delaware. 



FffiHCUI/rURE. 



Lake Superior Fish Migration. 



FlSHCUDTURE. 



New York Fish Commission. 

 The Kennel. 



Beaufort-Patti M. 



Raising Hound Puppies. 



Hornellsville Dog Show. 



Beagles for Bench and Field. 



The Evolution of Dog Shows. 



Fox Terrier Show. 



Kennel Management. 

 RiFiiF vnd Trap Shooting. 



SeP-Registering Tai-get. 



Range and frail fry. 



The Dominion Wimbledon. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



Canoe Racing and Classifica- 

 tion. 



The A. C. A. Constitution. 



The Canoes of 1887. 

 Yachting. 



Early American Yachting. 



Thistle and Mohican. 



Larchmont Y. C. Regatta. 



Measurement and Sail Area. 



"Steam Yachts and Launches" 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



"frizzled" on as rude a spit and plattered on a clean chip 

 or sheet of bark, and no fish was ever more toothsome 

 than when broiled on a gridiron improvised of green 

 wands, or roasted Indian fashion, in a cleft stick. 



"What can make amends for the loss of the camp-fire, 

 with innumerable pictures glowing and shifting in its 

 heart, and conjuring strange shapes out of the surround- 

 ing gloom, and su gesting unseen mysteries that the 

 circle of darkness holds behind its rim? 



How are the wells of conversation to be thawed out by 

 a black stove, so that tales of hunters' and fishers' craft 

 and adventure shall flow till the measure of man's belief 

 is overrun? How is the congenial spark of true com- 

 panionship to be kindled when people brood around a 

 stove and light their pipes with matches, and not with 

 coals snatched out of the camp-fire's edge, or with twigs 

 tha L burn briefly with baffling flame? 



But it will not be long before it will be impossible to get 

 a taste of real camping without taking long and expensive 

 journeys, for every available rod of lake shore and river 

 bank is being taken up and made populous with so-called 

 camps, and the comfortable freedom and seclusion of a 

 real camp are made impossible there. One desiring that 

 might better pitch his tent in the back w r oodlot of a farm 

 than in any such popular resort. This misnamed camp- 

 ing out has become a fashion which seems likely to last 

 till the shores are as thronged as the towns, and the 

 woods are spoiled for the real camrers, whom it is possi- 

 ble to imagine seeking in the summers of the future a 

 seclusion in the cities that the forests and streams no 

 longer can give them. Let those who can study the de- 

 lightful and practical pages of "Woodcraft," and go while 

 they may to practice its lessons and get a taste of real 

 camp Life. 



Yet, let it be understood that make-believe camping is 

 better than no camping. It cannot but bring people into 

 more intimate relations with nature than they would be 

 if they stayed at home, and so to better acquaintance 

 with and greater interest in the mother who deals so 

 impartially with all her children. 



CAMPING OUT. 

 5 /"DAMPING out" is for the most part becoming merely 

 ^ a name for moving out of one's permanent habita- 

 tion and d we" ling for a few weeks in a well-built lodge, 

 smaller, perhaps, than one's home, but as comfortable 

 and almost as convenient; with tables, chairs and crock- 

 ery, carpets and curtains, beds with sheets and blankets 

 on real bedsteads, a stove and its full outfit of cooking 

 Utensils, wherefrom meals are served in the regular ways 

 of civilization. And so, living in nearly the same fashion 

 of his ordinary life, except that he wears a flannel shirt 

 and a slouch hat and perhaps fishes a little, and loafs 

 more than is his ordinary custom, our "camper" imagines 

 Uiat he is getting quite close to the primitive ways of hunt- 

 •ecs and trappers; that he is living their life with nothing 

 lacking but the rough edges, which he has ingeniously 

 smoothed away. But he is mistaken. In ridding him- 

 self of some of its discomforts, he has lost a great deal of 

 -&e best of real camp life; the spice of small adventure, 

 and the woodsy flavor that its half -hardships and niake- 

 tifcift appliances give it. If one sleeps a little cold under 

 Ihb one blanket on his ted of evergreen twigs, though he 

 does not take cold, he realizes in some degree the discom- 

 fort of Boone's bivouac when he cuddled beside his hounds 

 to keep from freezing — and feels slightly heroic. His 

 slumbers are seasoned with dreams of the wild woods, as 

 l|*e balsamic perfume of his couch steals into his nostrils; 

 Jus companions' snores invade his drowsy senses as the 

 growl of bears, and the thunderous whir of grouse burst- 

 : * g out of untrodden thickets. When he awakes in the 

 Jjray of early morning he finds that the few hours of sleep 

 fcave wrought a miracle of rest, and he feels himself 

 nearer to nature when he washes his face in the brook, 

 tiian when he rinses off his sleepiness in bowl or basin. 

 ?he water of the spring is colder and has a finer flavor 

 •when he drinks it from a birch bark cup of his own mak- 

 ing. Tea made in a frying-pan has an aroma never 

 inown to such poor mortals as brew their tea in a teapot, 

 and no mill ever ground such coffee as that which is tied 

 up in a rag and pounded with a stone or hatchet-head. 

 A sharpened stick for a fork gives a zest to the bit of poik 



SITKA AS A SUMMER RESORT. 



THE old Russian town of Sitka, in Alaska, has already 

 acquired celebrity as a summer resort, and the 

 stream of travel thitherward increases apace. A splen- 

 did steamer, the finest on the Pacific coast, now makes 

 fortnightly trips in twelve days, and table luxuries are 

 supplied now which were lacking a year or more ago. 

 Last year a large number of public officials, including the 

 Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, made 

 the excursion, moved by curiosity to learn the real truth 

 regarding; our new Territory and its wants and capabili- 

 ties, and also incited by the multiplied descriptions and 

 photographs of its marvelous scenery. This season the 

 miscellaneous rush of tourists has not only been much 

 increased, but we find that several of our Members of 

 Congress have been prompted to make personal investi- 

 gations of a problem which has long been before our Na- 

 tional Legislature. We bope, therefore, from what we 

 are sure they must report, that Alaska will next winter 

 receive that legislation which she has so 1 ng prayed for, 

 and that her political and industrial disabilities will be 

 removed. 



Those who visit Sitka in 1837 find very much of the 

 old rust and rubbish removed. Eyesores which dis- 

 figured the town for almost twenty years have disap- 

 peared. The quaint and very picturesque Greek Church 

 has been refurbished within and without, at a stated cost 

 of $13,000; the public buildings have been restored or at 

 least partially repaired; the old Russian bath houses at 

 the neighboring hot springs have been replaced, and a 

 sanitarium established; the Indian River Park has been 

 embellished; the ascent of the extinct volcano of Mt. 

 Edgecumb has been made easy; excursion steamboats run 

 to the Lake Mountain Mines and ply among the islands; 

 balls and hops on board the mail steamers and naval 

 vessels, as well as ashore, are of regular occurrence, and 

 the Indian ceremonies and performances add to the in- 

 terest and gaiety of the passing season. 



Last year several yachting pa: ties from San Francisco, 

 Chicago and Seattle passed very agreeable weeks and 

 months at the old Russian capital, and every monthly 

 steamer brought artists of both sexes to transfer the 

 inimitable scenery of the archipelago to canvas and 

 camera. Some photographers obtained complete sets of 

 the most picturesque and interesting places along the 



entire coast. On the whole, Sitka is a lively and inter- 

 esting place, and those who have r ad Mr. Hallock's 

 graphic work entitled "Our New Alaska" will feel 

 assured that none who make the excursion to that far-off 

 locality will be disappointed or regret the journey. The 

 trout begin to run by the middle of July and are at their 

 best in the month of August. Some shooting of bay birds 

 and deer may be obtained. 



YACHTS AS LIFE SAVERS. 

 TT SPEAKS well for the seagoing powers of the Thistle, 

 whatever her success as a competitor f o the Cup may 

 be, that she went safely through a sea in which a large 

 steamer foundered, and further than this, was able to 

 save the crew of the steamer. It has already been told 

 how, on her passage from the Clyde to the South Coast, 

 she rescued the captain and crew' of the steamer Hark- 

 away, and she now carries in her cabin a hearty testi- 

 monial of the gratitude of those she saved. Her compan- 

 ion, Mohica^, owned by two of the Thistle syndicate, and 

 now in New York that her owners may witness the races, 

 promises to rival Thistle's achievements, as she too was 

 the means of rescuing many lives on her passage over. 



Since her arrival in American waters, Thistle's crew 

 have hauled four more persons from the water who had 

 capsized in sail boats. Thus far these two yachts have 

 been the direct means of saving over thirty lives, a record 

 that seldom falls to the lot of pleasure craft. In both 

 cases at sea the rescue was no child's play, but meant 

 hours of hard and dangerous work against the mighty 

 power of sea and gale, and that success finally rewarded 

 the rescuers was due to the skill and bravery with which 

 the long combat for helpless lives was conducted. Thistle 

 and her crew have already made many friends in America, 

 but none will pray more heartily for her success in the 

 coming races than the poor mariners who owe their lives 

 to Scotch seamanship and courage. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE ethics of bear hunting are again under discussion; 

 and in another column a correspondent, who bases 

 his comments upon an article in the current Seribner's, 

 written by the Rev. W. S. Rainsford, questions whether 

 to first trap and th n shoot grizzly bears can be reckoned 

 legitimate sport. Quite apart from this is the question 

 raised by a writer in a New York daily, referring to the 

 same magazine article, who dubs the rector's bear hunt- 

 ing "applied Ch istianity," and asks whether a minister 

 of the Gospel can consistently hunt grizzly bears. At 

 this stage of the world's development he can. By and 

 by, when the lion gets ready to lie down with the lamb, 

 it may be different, and when that time comes, the senti- 

 mentalists, who are unable to harmonize applied Chris- 

 tianity with the killing of large game, can safely hug to 

 their bosoms the sweet-tempered, edentulous and anony- 

 cous grizzlies of that millennial period. 



The salmon of the Connecticut River are a bone of con- 

 tention for Connecticut and Massachusetts. The fisher- 

 men of Massachusetts complain that the fishermen of 

 Connecticut gobble up all the salmon on their way up the 

 river, so effectually netting them in the lower part of the 

 stream that none are left for the upper waters. This con- 

 dition of affairs has its counterpart in the salmon fisher- 

 ies of the Rhine. The dwellers on that river and its tribu- 

 taries, particularly those of Switzerland, complain of the 

 rapidly diminishing salmon supply. The rewards of sal- 

 mon fishing are decreasing annually, and the fish threaten 

 soon to be extinct. It appears, however, that the true 

 reason why the Germans and the Swiss get no salmon is 

 not because there are no salmon in the Rhine, but because 

 the thrifty Dutch, who control the mouths of the liver, 

 net the fish for themselves. It is the story of the Con- 

 necticut over again. 



Here is the New York Evening Post complaining that 

 because of railroad delinquincies its subscribers who are 

 summering in the Adirondacks cannot get the paper on 

 the day after publication, and further, calling the express 

 companies to account because baskets of fruit are not ex- 

 peditiously sent through to their destination in the North 

 Woods. And yet there was a time when men were wont 

 to go to the Adirondacks as to a far country, and could 

 catch fish and hunt deer with perfect satisfaction, even 

 though they did not get their daily papers on time nor 

 pamper their palates with city market delicacies. Truly 

 these be evil days. 



