Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, OCTOBER 27, 1887. 



» VOL. XXIX.-N0. 14. 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Experiments with Venom. 



Local and National Shoots. 



The Proposed Monument to 

 Audubon. 



Notes and Comments. 

 The Sportsman Toukist. 



In the Sawtooth Range.— V. 

 Natural History. 



Ceteceans of the United States 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Hunting the Elk. 



Adirondack Deer. 



Shooting Notes. 



The Can vas backs. 



Our Fourth Day Out. 



A Day in the Woods. 



Moose in Maine. 



Adirondack Guides. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Sheepshead. 



Quebec Trout Fishing. 



Fishing Notes. 



Long Island Sound. 



FlSHCULTTJRE. 



Lobster Culture. 



The Kennel. 



Dog Shows in the South. 



Eastern Field Trials. 



Spaniels for Bench and Field. 



The Edinburgh Dog Show. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Chicago Tournament. 



The Trap. 

 Canoeing. 



Through the Wyoming Valley. 



My Partner Gets Tipped Out. 



A Sneakbox on the Potomac. 



The Executive Committee 

 Meeting. 



A Spring Meet on Newark Bay. 



Canoeing Notes. 

 Yachting. 



The Launch of the Yampa. 



Challenges for the Cup. 



Volunteer and Thistle. 



Conditions of the Deed of Gift. 



Invention of the Centerboard. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE PROPOSED MONUMENT TO AUDUBON. 



AT the recent meeting in New York of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, the fact 

 that the remains of the great naturalist Audubon lie in an 

 obscure and little visited portion of Trinity Cemetery, 

 New York city, and that his tomb is unmarked by any 

 distinguishing monument, was brought to the attention 

 of the members. The demands upon the time of all in 

 attendance at that meeting were so great, that no action 

 was taken by the Association, although the most lively 

 interest was expressed by individual members, and the 

 propriety of marking the resting place of the founder of 

 American ornithology by a suitable monument was ap- 

 preciated. 



The Audubon plot in Trinity Cemetery will probably be 

 disturbed by the continuation westward of One Hundred 

 and Fifty-third street. The trustees of the cemetery have 

 with commendable liberality assigned the Audubon family 

 a new lot close to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street, in 

 full sight of Audubon Park, and near the end of Audubon 

 avenue, when this shall be continued from the north; and 

 they are in hearty cooperation with the monument enter- 

 prise. 



At the first autumn meeting of the New York Academy 

 of Sciences, a committee was appointed to solicit funds, 

 and make all arrangements for a monument. Vice-Presi- 

 dent Trowbridge then appointed as the committee, Prof. 

 Thomas Egleston of the School of Mines, Chairman; Prof. 

 Daniel Martin of Rutgers Female College, and Dr. N. L. 

 Britton of Columbia College. This committee has organ- 

 ized with Dr. Britton as secretary and treasurer, and is 

 now ready to receive subscriptions, which will be properly 

 acknowledged, Checks should be made payable to N. L. 

 Britton, treasurer; and post office orders should be drawn 

 on Station H, New York city. 



The committee estimates that between $6,000 and $10,000 

 will be required to erect and engrave a shaft worthy the 

 m niory of America's great naturalist, and while confident 

 that this amount will be forthcoming, desires to have in- 

 terest taken in the project by scientists in all departments 

 jn all portions of the country. 



LOCAL AND NATIONAL SHOOTS. 



f~pHE Chicago rifle meeting, of which the final re- 

 port appears in our present issue, is significant in 

 that it drew together marksmen from the East and their 

 fellows from the West. It had the appearance of a 

 Creodtnoor of a few years ago, and the results are highly 

 gratifying from a shooting point of view. The Massa- 

 chusetts team showed what persistency of practice and 

 intelligent study of the science of fine shoot'ng can do, 

 while these Bay State shooters found when they reached 

 the West that there were others than themselves who 

 were experts in holding, had given time and patient 

 study to the captivating art and were very satisfactory 

 rivals. It was a good and profitable experience for all 

 who took part and is particularly encouraging to those 

 who rightly think that a strong love for and proficiency 

 with small arms is a great national safeguard. 



The Chicago meeting is interesting in another aspect. 

 It truly deserved the name of a national gathering. 

 There have been many attempts to make some sort of 

 national gathering of marksmen, either with the rifle or 

 the shotgun, an annual event. These endeavors havs 

 not been very satisfactory and their promoters have not 

 been much encouraged. The fault seems to lie in a mis- 

 conception of the motives which lead men to go into 

 contests of this sort. Apart from the "boodle" hunter 

 who would go to the end of the earth if the "pot" was 

 large enough, there is the great company of truly ama- 

 teur shooters. These do not expect to pay their way from 

 the proceeds of their sport. They shoot from love of the 

 sport, because they feel better after a good day's hard 

 work before butts or trap: and then they love to come 

 together in meetings to gratify the pugnacity which is at 

 the bottom of every rightly constituted human organism. 

 Man is a fighting animal and the score makes a capital 

 battle ground. 



Why, then, do we not have frequent national meetings? 

 Why do not the trap-shooters come together in grand 

 conflicts and enjoy their combative bent to the top? 

 Simply because in these wholesale straggles almost all 

 the keen enjoyment of the conflict is lost. Local matches 

 are fought out day after day, dozens of them every day 

 in various parts of the country. It is more pleasure for 

 the crack shooing squad of Squn Point to beat the crack 

 squad of Squn Centre, and to do the fighting right then 

 and there with their respective admirers about to enjoy 

 the fight and applaud the winners, than it is for either 

 of the teams to get lost in a rift of shooting groups at a 

 National meet. It is easy to get up a shoot between com- 

 pany teams in the same regiment, while it would be dif- 

 ficult to get up a regimental team to go off a hundred 

 miles to meet a stranger foe. 



As we have said, the great bulk of the shooters are 

 amateurs, and the money question involved in the prepa- 

 ration and carrying out of any participation in a national 

 s oot is an important one; but even with the same out- 

 lay we think that the popular preference is so strongly 

 shown for these local shoots that they will always hold 

 their own, while the national or international gatherings 

 will come only at rare intervals, and be brought about by 

 some special circumstances. 



It is a favorite notion of some that the United States 

 should show such an annual gathering as that at Wim- 

 bledon. That each State should have its own State meet- 

 ing, and that then there should be a rash of team and in- 

 dividual shooters to the central gatherings. If there is to 

 be such an institution as Wimbledon in the United States, 

 it will not come for a long time, if ever. The geo- 

 graphy of the country is against it. A man may pack up 

 his traps after dinner and find himself ready for work on 

 the London Common the next morning, and this from 

 any part of the kingdom. Not so in the United States. 

 Then there is a large leisure class there, and one intensely 

 fond of sport of any sort. As yet we have not that class 

 in America. Moreover, the English Volunteer movement 

 came into being under the pressure of a grand national 

 scare, and it has been kept up by careful nurture. In the 

 United States our free and easy indifference to the possi- 

 bility of any national trouble is against the formation of 

 a militia, and the Government does next to nothing in 

 the way of encouragement or support. Hence it is that 

 our National Guard is a most fragmentary sort of an 

 organization. Now and then there will be spasmodic 

 efforts toward a national tir or general shooting festival 

 but the conditions are not yet favorable for making it in 

 any wise a permanent institution. 



There is no lack of opportunity for those who would 

 enjoy the rivalry of bullseyes and blue rocks. Let any 

 dozen men get up a club in any village of the United 

 States and issue a challenge to their next neighbor vill- 

 age, and we think it safe to wager that a match will be 

 the result. So the old rivalry between California and 

 Nevada is kept up. The Gulf States sustain a series of 

 tournaments. Through the Western States there is a 

 standing and well sustained struggle, while in New 

 England minor matches come with more than weekly 

 regularity. All this means that there is a wide and wid- 

 ening circle of men, who year by year know more of 

 shooting. They demand a better class of arm. They 

 point out from their own experience the faults of the 

 present weapons and thus keep the inventive talent in 

 continuous working order, and when the time ever comes 

 with a demand for marksmen, Uncle Sam may rely 

 upon a generous response from every part of his domain. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH VENOM. 

 4 VERY interesting series of experiments has been in- 

 stituted by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, with a view to discover an antidote for the 

 venom of the rattlesnake. Some years ago, it will be re- 

 membered, Dr. J. B. de Lacerdo, of Brazil, published an 

 account of experiments made by him, which had shown 

 the antidotical efficacy of permanganate of potassium 

 injected into the bite. Subsequent experiments in France, 

 based on those of Dr. de Lacerdo, failed to give the re- 

 sults expected; and now Dr. Yarrow is to repeat the 

 tests in this country. His experiments will not be con- 

 fined to the permanganate of potassium ; but he has col- 

 lected all available herbal preparations and other cures 

 reputed to possess curative virtues, not omitting a "mad- 

 stone." All these will be thoroughly tried. The experi- 

 ments will be made on pigeons and rabbits; the subject 

 will first be poisoned by a hypodermic injection of rattle- 

 snake virus, and then the antidote to be tested will be 

 given in the same way. For his virus supply Dr. Yarrow 

 has secured a number of large snakes; they are made to 

 strike at a bit of cotton wool saturated with glycerine; 

 when the wool is saturated with venom the poison is 

 soaked out in glycerine, and in this way the experimen- 

 talist has already secured enough to kill thirty men. 

 The result of Dr. Yarrow's tests will be looked for with a 

 great deal of interest. 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 

 VI/'E recently commented on an illicit mode of trout 

 fishing practiced at the Upper Dam, Rangeley 

 Lakes, Maine. The names of two individuals were men- 

 tioned. From one of them a disclaimer was received and 

 promptly published in the next number. To conclude 

 from printed comments and innuendoes on our course in 

 this matter, it would seem that there is held to be by 

 some people only one important question involved here. 

 It is not "were the trout jigged?" nor "was the vice- 

 president of an angling association wrongfully accused?" 

 but "will the Forest and Stream be sued for libel?" 



A new postal regulation restricts the writing or print- 

 ing which is permissible on the wrappers of packages of 

 fourth class mail matter. Books are third class mail 

 matter. A copy of the book "Training vs. Breaking" 

 recently sent by mail fully prepaid to a Boston purchaser 

 reached him with a demand for nineteen cents, due on 

 the ground, as explained by the Boston office, that the 

 book was fourth class matter and the printing on the 

 wrapper subjected it to first class rates. Evidently some- 

 body in the Boston office blundered in this. If other 

 recipients are called upon for any extra postage on matter 

 sent from this office we will undertake to find out where 

 the fault lies, provided a statement o e the facts is sent to 

 us, accompanied by the wrapper of the package. 



American fishing rods are acknowledged by English- 

 men to be superior to those of British make. The London 

 Times of Oct. 1, in its comments on the international 

 yacht race, expressed this opinion when it said of us: 

 "The truth is that, with them, yacht racing is an even 

 more serious and absorbing pursuit than it is with Eng- 

 lishmen, and when an American devotes himself to the 

 task of practical skill he is apt to be hard to be beat in it. 

 Americans have not so many outdoor pursuits as we have, 

 but such as they have they take very seriously. They 

 have given us the best fishing rods and their skill in cast- 

 ing a fly would put our best anglers on their mettle." 



