Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 22, 1887. 



1 VOL. XXIX.-NO. g& 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 Robber Rule Number Two. 

 Who is He? 



River Pollution in Ohio. 



Notes and Comments. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Gray Pine. 



A Christmas Week Memory. 



Among the Bonin Islands. 



The Spotted Hyena. 

 Hunting in Florida in 1874.— vi. 



Longbills and Longtails. 



Autumn in the "Game Pre- 

 serve." 



By the Housatonic. 

 Natural History. 



The Ground Rattlesnake. 



Sex Markings in Grouse. 



Plumage of the Mallard Drake 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Game in Idaho. 



Massachusetts Game Notes. 



Non- Resident in New Jersey. 



Shooting Notes. 



Adirondack Deer Hounding. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Rod and Reel Association 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Charles Frazee Murphy. 



FlSHClTLTURE. 



Rearing Shad in Confinement. 



The Connecticut Commission. 



New Hampshire Commission. 

 The Kennel. 



American Field Trials. 



Eastern Field Trials. 



Winsted Show. 



The Booming of Artillery. 



Johnny and Drake. 



Imperial Chancellor. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



The New Burgess Schooner. 



The Cruising Cutter Pilgrim. 



Getting There Fast. 



International Racing. 

 Canoeing. 



A Zinc Canoe. 



A. C. A. Northern Division. 



New Division of the A. C. A. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



It is clear that one section of the country has no inten- 

 tion of submitting quietly to the dictation of the A. K. C, 

 a dictation repugnant to all our institutions and our 

 modes of thought. The course of the clubs in other sec- 

 tions will be awaited with interest. We are already in 

 receipt of inquiries as to what the Westminster Kennel 

 Club intends to do in the matter, and Philadelphia will 

 have to decide before long. 



We have yet to hear, among disinterested dog owners, 

 the first word in favor of this rule, while on the other 

 hand we have received a. great number of indignant pro- 

 tests against it. It is not that the money called for by 

 the rule amounts to anything, but the principle involved 

 is a vital one. If the A. K. C. can swoop down on the 

 dog-owning"public with a ride like this, and command 

 them to register their dogs in a certain place, there is 

 literally no limit to their powers. 



ROBBER RULE NUMBER TWO. 



THE New England Kennel Club and the New Haven 

 Kennel Club have withdrawn from membership in 

 the A. K. C. These are the first results of the passage of 

 the obnoxious rule ordering exhibitors to register their 

 dogs in the so-called official stud book, the first guns in 

 the battle against the petty oppressions of the A. K. C. 



Not only have the Boston and New Haven clubs with- 

 draAvn, but, as will be seen by reference to our kennel 

 columns, the Hartford Kennel Club views the new rule 

 with such disfavor that it seems probable that if a dog 

 show is to be held by it this year it will be conducted 

 under other rules than those of the A. K. C. The old 

 New England spirit is not dead. Boston has ever been 

 quick to resist injustice and oppression. 



It is not surprising that this attempt at coercion should 

 have been met by determined action on the part of the 

 Boston Clab, and it can hardly be doubted that the stand 

 taken by this, the strongest and most influential kennel 

 club in the country, supported, too, by New Haven, will 

 induce other clubs to withdraw unless the obnoxious and 

 arbitrary rule shall be promptly rescinded. If an attempt 

 should be made to enforce the rule the result can easily be 

 predicted. 



There is perhaps room for a difference of opinion as to 

 whether the New England clubs have in this matter pur- 

 sued the course which is for the best interests of dogs and 

 dog shows. It may be thought by some that it would 

 have been a wiser policy, while declining to hold their 

 shows under A. K. C. rules, to have remained in the asso- 

 ciation and to have resisted this extraordinary attempted 

 tyranny within that body; but even those who reason in 

 this way must respect the promptitude with which the 

 clubs have shown then- independence, and the courage 

 with which they have made their position clear. Such 

 decided action wall leave no room for doubt in the minds 

 of any one as to where the New England clubs stand. 



This was a case where prompt and decided action was 

 needed. It was no time for backing and filling, for argu- 

 ments pro and con, or for waiting to find out what one's 

 neighbors were going to do. A principle is involved and 

 these clubs Were quick to show the stuff they are 

 made oft 



RIVER POLLUTION IN OHIO. 



THE once clear and beautiful rivers and streams of Ohio 

 are rapidly being converted into foul nuisances. The 

 cities and towns of the State now without exception dis- 

 pose of their sewage by turning it into the streams to 

 poison the waters, and spread disease and death to the 

 people who live upon their banks. The pollution destroys 

 the fish, and by wicked waste one of the valuable natural 

 food supplies of the State is being ruined. Before a 

 remedy can be applied some plan must be devised for the 

 disposal of sewage other than by turning it into the 

 rivers. 



This question has been brought to the attention of the 

 City Council of Columbus by Mr. P. E. Fleck, of that 

 city, and it is proposed to take action, which may lead to 

 devising the required remedy. 



It so happens that the Ohio State University, an insti- 

 tution admirably equipped with a competent corps of 

 science in its various departments, and having a com- 

 plete chemical and mechanical laboratory, is situated on 

 a large farm, lying adjacent to a portion of the city of 

 Columbus, which is at present without sewerage and 

 with natural watercourses (small rivulets 1 ) flowing from 

 the district in which sewerage is needed through the 

 farm. All the circumstances and conditions are favor- 

 able for the experiment of sewage farming or purifica- 

 tion. 



This is something to secure the attainment of which 

 the fish and and game clubs of Ohio might very properly 

 join forces With those who have started the reform move- 

 ment. Legislation will be needed to secure an appropria- 

 tion for funds to carry on the sewage experiments. If a 

 remedy should be devised, either by the discovery of some 

 new method of treating the sewage, or by the adoption of 

 one of those already in practice, the waters of Ohio could 

 be made once more to teem with food fish. Under 

 present conditions it is folly to spend money to propagate 

 fish and then to put the fry into polluted rivers and 

 poisoned streams. 



Ohio is not alone in having permitted this gigantic 

 folly. There is not a State in the Union where the same 

 conditions do not hold, in a measure determined only by 

 the density of the population. The problem of the scien- 

 tifi disposal of sewage or its conversion into useful pro- 

 ducts is one of the momentous questions of the day; and 

 it is assuming greater and greater importance every year 

 as the population increases and stream pollution grows 

 more baneful. City and town authorities and State leg- 

 islatures cannot afford to shirk the task of providing the 

 remedy so imperatively demanded. 



put into official reports, have a tendency to shake public 

 confidence in the Commissioners' stimulative theory. 

 That theory will obtain most strongly w^here the public 

 has no correct information of the actual state of affairs 

 in the North Woods. It is a theory that battens on 

 popular ignorance. 



It must be said for Messrs. Roosevelt and Bowman, 

 however, that they are by no manner of means alone in 

 holding this theory. Others there are who have such 

 faith in the productive efficacy of exercising a deer In- 

 putting a mongrel hound on its track to drive it into the 

 water, that they believe in keeping up the practice in 

 season and out of season. To increase the deer supply 

 they hound even in close season. Gen. Sherman in the 

 passages objected to by his associate Commissioners 

 reports: 



As an illustration of how things are working, it may be stated 

 that last summer there was detected and arrested a gentleman of 

 high personal standing, hounding deer out of season, who at t lie 

 legislative session appeared before the Game Law Committee in 

 advocacy of the present hounding law! 



Who is this "gentleman of high personal standing?" 

 Just how high must a gentleman's personal standing be 

 to elevate him one whit above the lowest skin-hunter 

 when hounding out of season? How often in the course 

 of six months can a gentleman of high personal standing 

 be detected in the commission of a misdemeanor without 

 having his character fall, or as they say in Wall street, 

 take a slump? One of these days we hope to reach a 

 point where it will be an impracticable feat for a gentle- 

 man of high personal standing to go into the woods, there 

 bribe guides to hound or jig unlawfully, and then bring 

 his high personal character out again imsmirched and 

 untarnished. The time may be far off, but present indi- 

 cations are that we are making headway in that direction. 



WHO IS HE? 



IN another column we print three paragraphs from the 

 draft of the annual report of the New York Commis- 

 sioners of Fisheries, which is to be presented to the 

 Legislature at its next session. The passages are given as 

 read by G-en. Sherman at the meeting of the Com- 

 missioners in this city the other daj . They will not be 

 embodied in the report as it goes to the Legislature, 

 because Commissioners Roosevelt and Bowman took 

 exception to them. These gentlemen believe that run- 

 ning deer with dogs into the water and firing bullets 

 into them from the rifles of cockney "sports'' stimulates 

 them to breed and increases the game supply. These 

 gentlemen have been selected by the State to care for its 

 game interests; their opinion on such a subject is entitled 

 to deferential respect. They did well to suppress these 

 paragraphs Such statements of the facts as these are, 



NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



THE late Philip Embury, of West Orange, N. J., who 

 died Dec. 11 at the ripe age of ninety-six, was a con- 

 spicuous example of the gentlemen of the old school. It 

 is said of him that "he had a contempt for idleness and 

 society airs, and retaining his faculties to the last, was 

 probably the most prominent representative of genuine 

 democracy of his age at the time of his taking off." In 

 his younger days Mr. Embury was a devoted sportsman; 

 he with Messrs. Aycraigg, of Passaic, and Palmer, of 

 New York, formed a trio who made their duck shooting 

 headquarters at Princes Bay; and in those days there 

 were ducks in the bay to reward them. 



Forester Frank Parker, in behalf of the New York For- 

 est Commission, has selected a site for a deer park. It is 

 in the town of Deming, in Ulster county, and the agent 

 finds that there is in the tract ample browsing material, 

 such as deer need. A temporary park of one hundred 

 acres will be inclosed, with two smaller ones, and when 

 the work is well under way these parks will be thrown 

 open. We trust that the Forest Commissioners will not 

 forget to avail themselve of the counsel of those members 

 of the Fisheries Commission who know all about stimu- 

 lating deer to breed by chasing them to death with dogs. 

 The establishment of the State deer park w-ill afford a 

 magnificent opportunity to demonstrate the efficacy of 

 dogging. The officials wall find no trouble about buying 

 a sufficient force of hounds at a low figure in some of the 

 game-depleted Adirondack districts, where dogging deer 

 has not w r orked beneficently as it should have done if the 

 stimulating theory were correct. 



Some weeks ago the Forest and Stream had occasion 

 to expose the capture of big trout in Maine by unsports- 

 manlike methods. A journal in this city at once came to 

 the defense of the accused parties, and insinuated that 

 we had been threatened With action for libel, and so 

 frightened off from saying anything more on the subject. 

 In due time we showed by conclusive evidence that the 

 charges which we had made were w-ell founded. A 

 month has now elapsed, and we have been patiently wait- 

 ing to see whether the motive of self-respect might not be 

 strong enough in these defenders of trout jiggers and 

 manufacturers of spiteful insinuations against the Forest 

 and Stream's motives to prompt them to abandon the 

 position which they at first took. 



James Carson Brevoort, whose death was recorded last 

 week, made a number of contributions to natural history. 

 He was specially interested in ichthyology, and a genus 

 of fishes, the Brevoortia, was named in his honon 



