Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, OCTOBER 6, 1887. 



) VOL. XXIX.-NO. 11. 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Volunteer's Victory. 



A Derelict Park Syndicate. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



We Met by Chance. 

 Natural, History. 



A Word About Opossums. 



Belated Wrens. 



A September Brood of Quail. 



Philo. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



In the Sawtooth Range.— n. 



Bear Trapping Again. 



The National Park. 



Shooting Notes. 



An Arkansas Deer Drive. 



Game Notes. 



Pennsvlvania Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



A Story of Horned Pouts. — I. 



Adirondack Extortion. 



The Big Trout of the Upper 

 Dam. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 A Question of Appetite. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Food and Digestion of Fishes. 

 The Kennel. 



The Paterson Dog Ordinance- 

 Dogs for Large Game. 



Spaniels for Bench and Field. 



Dayton Dog Show. 



The Linden Beagles. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Dunellen Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 



Toronto C. C, Fall Regatta. 

 Yachting. 



The International Rfices. 



An Expert Review. 



Thisth to Windward. 



After the Races. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



VOLUNTEERS VICTORY. 



THE excitement which, has prevailed throughout the 

 length and breadth of the nation for over a month 

 has at last given place to a wave of enthusiasm which has 

 carried the names of Paine, Burgess and Volunteer to all 

 parts of the globe, in connection with the great inter- 

 national races, which have resulted in such a triumph for 

 America. Only a few years since, these races were sailed 

 quietly in the presence of a few yachtsmen, while the 

 world went about its business without a thought of yachts 

 or yacht racing. Now, for a week at least each year, the 

 races engross the attention of all, land-lubbers and yachts- 

 men; on salt water and the great lakes, or far inland 

 on the western prairies, the prospects of Volunteer and 

 Thistle form almost the sole topic of discussion and 

 conjecture. In London, in Glasgow, in Boston, in New 

 York, in San Francisco the streets are thronged with 

 thousands watching for the latest yacht race news on 

 the bulletin boards. About the race course, on Sandy 

 Hook, on the Highlands, at Long Branch and along the 

 Long Island shore, were stationed watchers armed with 

 powerful glasses, while from the following tugs swift 

 carrier pigeons bore the news at intervals of a few 

 minutes, to be flashed by wire and cable across 

 the continent, beneath the ocean, and to the eager 

 watchers far and near. In front of one newspa- 

 per office a man stood on a platform high above 

 the multitude, a telegraph instrument suspended about 

 his neck and a huge blackboard behind him, on which 

 the latest of news of the race was written so plainly that 

 it could be read on the outskirts of the crowd. After fol- 

 lowing the race with breathless interest for hours, at last 

 the news came, "Voluutee%wins," the suspense was over, 

 and from the throats of the nation went up one great 

 cheer for the boat and men who had again won the 

 day and saved the old trophy. If Volunteer's victory 

 meant only that American yachts were the fastest it 

 would still be an occasion for a national rejoicing, 

 but it means far more now. It is an evidence of 

 improvement, of progress, which is truly characteristic 

 of all Americans. That the Cup has been held in the 

 paRt is comparatively little, the contests for it then in- 

 volved few important issues, but that it has been de- 

 fended so well for three years against worthy antagonists 



is a far different matter. There was a time when the 

 national fleet was generally open to criticism, when in 

 design, in construction, in sail and in rigging American 

 yachts were behind those of other nations. Now that it 

 is otherwise, the credit is far greater to those who have 

 been chiefly instrumental in this change, to the men 

 whose skill, labor and liberality has placed the national 

 pleasure fleet on an equality with any. The leaders in 

 this great work, Gen. Paine and Mr. Burgess, are reaping 

 now a fitting reward in the praise and honors so freely 

 bestowed, but further than this, their names, with those 

 of Puritan, Mayflower and Volunteer, will find a place in 

 yachting history as exalted and lasting as those of Steers, 

 Stevens and the America. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



T) RIG. -GEN. GEORGE CROOK is an officer whose tes- 

 timony with respect to any Indian trouble investi- 

 gated by him will have unchallenged acceptance. In the 

 report he has just sent to the Secretary of the Interior in 

 relation to the Ute "war" in Colorado he fully bears out the 

 Foeest and Stream's characterization of the manner in 

 which those people were treated as unwarrantable aggres- 

 sion, treachery and murderous brutality. A summary of 

 the report is printed on page 208. It makes one blush for 

 the actors in that disgraceful affair, chief of scouts and 

 all. 



Last week we took occasion to comment upon the cap- 

 ture of trout at the Upper Dam Camp, Maine, by Messrs. 

 T. B. Stewart, of New York, and Mark Hollingsworth, of 

 Boston. Our angling columns to-day contain a commu- 

 nication from Mr. Stewart, advising us that the informa- 

 tion upon which our unfavorable comments were based 

 was incorrect. Mr. Stewart states that the trout alluded 

 to were taken in a perfectly legitimate manner, and that 

 he has never jigged any fish. If we have made a mis- 

 take in accepting the reports which have come to us in 

 relation to this matter, Mr. Stewart has manifestly been 

 placed in a false position by our criticisms, and his dis- 

 claimer of the conduct imputed to him will be received 

 with satisfaction by all friends of legitimate angling 

 methods. 



The Maharajah Dhuleep Singh is not a Yankee, but he 

 is thrifty, and a Yankee with a white elephant on his 

 hands could hardly do better with it. Elveden Hall 

 is an English estate converted into a vast game preserve, 

 which could be neither sold nor leased. The happy plan 

 has been hit on of letting out the shooting week by week 

 to parties of four or more guns, each gun being charged $30 

 per day, the game to go to the owner, and keepers' fees to 

 be extra. As the first party in four days killed 500 brace 

 of partridges for the proprietor to sell, he evidently has a 

 profitable thing of it. 



They are handy with their guns in New Jersey when 

 private fishing interests are at stake. Coast fishermen 

 have a way of training cannon on menhaden steamers; 

 and last week when the State fish commissioners 

 attempted to destroy a weir in the Delaware River they 

 were routed by the owner, one Brink, a Dutch farmer, 

 who fired on them without any ceremony. They barely 

 saved themselves from the brink of destruction by 

 abandoning their designs on the weir. 



Boston takes pride in the increasing hosts of her dogs . 

 The total number licensed this year was 9,463, a total in- 

 crease over last year of more than 1,400. The city drew 

 into the treasury the snug sum of $23,501 in the way of 

 license fees. The New England Kennel Club ought to 

 be a prosperous institution if this thing keeps up. It 

 certainly deserves credit for improving the quality of 

 Boston's dogs. 



The President has appointed "William L. Putnam, of 

 Maine, and President Angell to act with Secretary 

 Bayard in the pending negotiation with the British Com- 

 missioners in relation to the fisheries. The appointments 

 have been received with much satisfaction, and with 

 confidence tha t the interests of the country will be ably 

 represented by these gentlemen. 



"Uncle Lisha's Shop," in dollar book form, will be 

 ready at once, and orders are now received for it by the 

 publishers, the Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 



A DERELICT PARK SYNDICATE. 

 rpi-IE act of 1883 provides that the Secretary of the In- 

 terior may lease small portions of ground in the 

 Yellowstone National Park, on which to erect hotels. 

 The grounds so leased cannot exceed in extent more than 

 ten acres to any one lessee. The Secretary is also pro- 

 hibited from granting any exclusive privileges in the 

 Park. 



The franchises are very valuable, for the travel in 

 the Park is large enough to pay a good rate of interest on 

 the money invested, and is each year increasing. These 

 privileges are to be had for a merely nominal rental, and 

 having been secured on such terms, the parties obtain- 

 ing them are bound to render to the visitors to the Park — 

 the public, for whom the Government holds the reserva- 

 tion in trust— a service which shall be satisfactory. As 

 this business of accommodating the public is one which 

 requires considerable capital, it has naturally fallen for 

 the most part into the hands of corporations, and these 

 corporations in the past have been very slack in perform- 

 ing their duty toward the public. During the last sea- 

 son matters have been better managed than heretofore, 

 but there are still many points to which attention must 

 be called. 



The National Park is under the exclusive control of the 

 Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Lamar, as is well known, 

 is deeply interested in the reservation and has been 

 watchful of its best interests. He has been fortunate in 

 having the advice of men most intimately acquainted 

 with its needs. 



The history of the now defunct Yellowstone Park Im- 

 provement Company needs no more than a passing refer- 

 ence. This corporation endeavored to secure exclusive 

 privileges in the Park, and having— as they supposed — 

 obtained these rights they entered into possession as if 

 they owned the Park. They cut with reckless hand 

 for their own use the timber owned by the Gov- 

 ernment, and slaughtered its game to feed their 

 laborers. They "wanted the earth," and imagined that 

 they had succeeded in obtaining it, but they had made 

 one miscalculation. They assumed that the Yellowstone 

 National Park was so far away from civilization that no 

 one would know or care anything about it, but they were 

 wrong. The Forest and "Stream learned of the project 

 to wrest from the people the rights which belonged to 

 them, and it protested vigorously against this high- 

 handed outrage. After it had shown up the matter in its 

 true colors, other papers took up the cry, and the result 

 was that the Improvement Company, after a brief strug- 

 gle, perished. A part of its property passed into the 

 hands of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and then into 

 those of the Yellowstone Park Association, of which men- 

 tion has recently been made in these columns. "We 

 learned during the past summer that this association has 

 in very many respects failed to carry out the terms of its 

 lease, and it is time now to draw attention publicly to this 

 matter, and to call upon the Yellowstone Park Association 

 at once to comply with the conditions. If it shall fail to 

 heed this warning it will be the duty of the Interior 

 Department formally to revoke their leases and to offer 

 the valuable privileges which this Associa' ion now enjoys 

 to other persons, who will comply with the terms on 

 which they are granted. 



It might be supposed that the Association would have 

 taken every pains to fulfill its contract with the Govern- 

 ment. Setting aside any question of justice and right, it 

 would seem that merely as a matter of business policy 

 this would have been the time course to pursue. As we 

 shall show, however, this has not been done. The man- 

 agers of this syndicate cannot plead ignorance as an ex- 

 cuse for their failure to carry out the terms of their bar- 

 gain. An extended and laborious search which we have 

 made through the papers of the Interior Department 

 shows that the Secretary of the Interior has more than 

 once called attention to their failure to fulfill the terms 

 of their lease. This, however, does not seem to have in- 

 fluenced them to do their duty. They need some stronger 

 spur. 



In his report on the condition of the Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park, made to the Secretary of the Interior in Sep- 

 tember, 1885, Mr. W. Hallett Phillips calls the attention 

 of the Department to the well-founded dissatisfaction 

 expressed by travelers at the poor accommodations fur- 

 nished them at hotels of the Yellowstone Park Improve- 

 ment Company. He stated that while the unfortunate 

 financial reverses of the company had much to do with 



