Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 29, 1887. 



1 VOL. XXIX.-No. 23. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Rumors and Talk. 



The Meaning of Rule Two. 



National Fish Commission. 



Notes and Comments. 



The Rock Climbers. 

 The Sportsman Touhist. 



The Gray Pine. — n. 



Dale Andrews. 

 Natural History. 



Notes of the Fields and Woods. 



Notes of a Pasture Lot. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Death of John W. Newton. 



Fif tv-four Geese. 



The Big Buck of High Island. 



Hunting t he Cougar in Texas. 



Duck Shooting on Chesapeake. 



Adirondack Deer Hounding. 



The Taking of Chatfield. 



Peleg's Experiences. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



New Hampshire Trout Law. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Fish Protection in Ohio. 

 The Kennel. 

 American Field Trials. 

 Eastern Field Trials. 

 Fox-Terrier Club Stakes. 

 American Kennel Register 



Entries. 

 Rule No. 2. 



English Dog Chat.— XI. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Pistol Champions. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



The Cruising Cutter Pilgrim. 

 Canoeing. 



Clubs in the A. C. A. 



The Canadian Canoe. 



Cruising Canoes at the Meet. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



RUMORS AND TALK. 



EARLY last autumn rumors reached the Forest and 

 Stream that two hunters, Vic Smith and his part- 

 ner Rock, were hunting on the eastern border of the Yel- 

 lowstone National Park, making their headquarters at or 

 near Round Butte, which is -said to be within the Park. 

 They were reported to have shipped out last spring two 

 wagon loads of elk horns, and the hides of elk, sheep, 

 deer, beaver, lynx, fox and other animals, and last fall to 

 have sent out two more loads of elk horns, also to have 

 killed five head of buffalo on Specimen Ridge, within the 

 Park. 



We at once took measures to have these reports investi- 

 gated, but owing to detention in the mails and the fact 

 that some of the persons to whom we were obliged to go 

 for information were absent in the mountains, far from 

 railroads and post-offices, we are only now able to lay 

 before our readers the results of our inquiries. 



Vic Smith and Rock did occupy the cabin at the Round 

 Butte during the months of November and December, 

 1886, and no doubt killed a large quantity of same. 

 They were constantly watched by Captain Harris's scout- 

 ing parties, however, and it ia not believed that they 

 killed anything within the Park. The cabin which they 

 occupied has always been regarded as outside the Park, 

 but what its exact position" is no one knows, since Con- 

 gress has never provided for a survey of the boundaries 

 of the Park. 



It is learned that when these two men took possession 

 of the cabin, Capt. Harris sent Barronette, then Govern- 

 ment scout, to their camp to caution them, and to see 

 that they did not hunt inside the Park. They stated, and 

 Barronette reported, that they hunted exclusively on 

 Hellroaring Creek, still further away from the Park lines. 

 Hellroaring is a favorite resort for elk, bison and other 

 large game. 



During the months of November and December, Bar- 

 ronette, sometimes accompanied by non-commissioned 

 officers of the Superintendent's force, visited Smith's 

 camp at frequent intervals, and uniformly reported that 

 the game which Smith marketed was killed in the Hell- 

 roaring Basin. 



During this time other hunting parties attempted to 

 locate near Smith's Cabin, but within the Park, and 

 were ordered off. These parties knew where Smith was 

 camped, but none of them are known to have asserted 

 that he was in the Park. 



Late in December, 1886, Smith applied to Capt. Harris 

 for permission to transport his meat through the Park, in 

 order to ship it by rail from Cinnabar, stating that the 

 snow was so deep in the mountains that he could not get 

 it out except by the route down Hellroaring Creek. Per- 

 mission was granted to transport the meat, which rep- 

 resented about thirty-five elk, across the reservation, and 

 it was shipped to Livingstone. Soon after this, however, 

 reports began to be circulated that it had been killed in 

 the Park. 



This year notice has been served on all professional 

 hunters in the region about the Park, that they will not 

 be permitted this winter to transport game meat through 

 the Park. Orders have been issued by the Superintendent 

 that all parts of the carcasses of game found in the Park 

 are to be seized, and the wise measure has been adopted 

 of throwing the burden of proof on the persons found 

 with such things in possession. 



Early last September the Rev. Dr. Nevin, of Rome, 

 Italy, and Mr. Lispenard Stewart, of New York city, came 

 into the Park from a hunting expedition in the country 

 to the south. They brought with them as trophies seven- 

 teen parrs of elk antlers and two bear skins. These articles 

 were seized by the military, but upon the declaration of 

 their owners that none of their trophies had been taken in 

 the Park, and that all of their hunting had been done well 

 south of the Park line, they were restored to them, and 

 were shipped by rail from Cinnabar. Their shipment may 

 have given rise to reports that antlers procured by hunters 

 in the Park were being shipped. It is probable, however, 

 that Vic Smith may have shipped some antlers, for it is cer- 

 tain that he gathered some in the Park last spring, from 

 elk that had died during the winter. Many wagon loads 

 might have been procured, and while no permission was 

 given to any one to collect them, no measures were taken 

 to prevent it. 



The Territorial newspapers are savage in their attacks 

 on Captain Harris, and are somewhat given to printing 

 complaints from offenders against the regulations of the 

 Department, who have been interferred with by the 

 Superintendent's force. They write as if they would like 

 to see all the barriers about the Park thrown down so that 

 the lawless public might be free to work destruction in 

 the reservation. They seem to forget that the existence 

 of the Park is a great thing for Montana, that it brings 

 into the country people who spend money there, and 

 draws the attention of the outside public to the resources 

 of the Territory. 



Captain Harris's administration in the Park has been 

 firm, but we believe that it has always been wise and 

 just. , 



THE NATIONAL FISH COMMISSION. 



WHEN the bill creating the United States Fish Com- 

 mission was prepared, it was worded with special 

 reference to the appointment of Prof. Baird to the office; 

 and with his approval it was made a condition of the 

 office that no salary should attach to it. Prof. Baird 

 undertook willingly the building up of the bureau, but 

 he saw with characteristic acumen that he could not 

 carry through the great work to a successful conclusion 

 if the Commission were to be plagued by the importuni- 

 ties of office seekers and imperilled by office appointing 

 intrigue. 



When Prof. Baird died the bureau had grown to be an 

 important and complex branch of the public service, 

 with a disbursement of $500,000 per annum, and demand- 

 ing for its control and guidance high scientific attain- 

 ments, rare executive ability and capacity of physical 

 endurance. The law provided that the head of the Com- 

 mission must also be a civil officer of the Gevernment. 

 It was manifestly impossible to find a man who could 

 perform the duties of Commissioner and those of another 

 office as well. Prof. G. Brown Goode, the Assistant 

 Director of the National Museum, has held the position 

 since Prof. Baird's death, but he has urged the President 

 to relieve him at the earliest practicable day, as he has 

 not the physical strength to attend to the duties of both 

 posts. 



A bill has been passed by the Senate providing for the 

 office of Fish Commissioner, with a salary of $5,000 per 

 year, and it is hoped that the House will pass it. If the 

 bill becomes a law, we presume that Prof. Goode will be 

 asked to retain his place in the Commission and will be 

 relieved of the National Museum directorship. Such a 

 law will abolish the anomaly of requiring exacting ser- 

 vice of a public officer and paying him nothing for it. 



THE MEANING OF RULE TWO. 

 T3EF0RE accepting a measure it is well to consider the 

 motives and true purposes of those who propose it. 

 A clique within the American Kennel Club has proposed 

 a new measure to the effect that before a dog can be 

 exhibited in any show under the club's control it must 

 have been entered in the club's stud book. What is the 

 motive prompting this measure, and what are the true 

 purposes of those who are trying to foist the rule on dog 

 owners? Neither motive nor purpose is occult. Then- 

 motive is to save their own pocketbooks. Their purpose 

 is to get at the pocketbooks of others. Under some condi- 

 tions the motive and purpose would be highly laudable. 

 In this instance they will not present themselves in that 

 light to reasonable minds. 



Some time ago a few individuals thought that they saw 

 a way of gratifying their personal spite, and providing 

 one of them with a fat berth where for little work much 

 pay might be reaped. The scheme was to publish a stud 

 book— an "official" stud book — and to give Mr. Vreden- 

 burgh, the club's "official" secretary, an "official" salary 

 for editing it. They acquired control of the malodorous 

 and dead-alive National American Kennel Club Stud 

 Book, which after having died several times under cir- 

 cumstances more or less "shady," was gladly handed 

 over to them, with the cordial blessing of its then "pub- 

 lisher." The costly character of the concern, as shown 

 by the past, made it quite clear that some one must stand 

 the prospective loss of the book in its new hands. The 

 individuals who were at the bottom of the scheme 

 had no money of their own; so they set about persuad- 

 ing somebody else into going security. A sufficient 

 number were induced to pledge themselves to make 

 good whatever loss might attend the "official" stud book 

 venture. These sanguine individuals, it appears, put too 

 much faith in the rosy promises of the Vredenburgh 

 clique. They did not anticipate a deficiency. They did 

 not expect to be called on to put their hands into their 

 own pockets to "shell out" for stud book expenses. This, 

 however, is just what they have been called on to do. 

 And instead of doing it, they propose to save themselves 

 and shift the deficit off on to others by recourse to an 

 "official" ruling that the dog owners and breeders of this 

 country must contribute fifty cents all around. In other 

 words, instead of paying the stud book bills out of their 

 own pockets, as they agreed to do, these financiers are 

 going for the pockets of other people. 



It was a sharp game, and one that would succeed most 

 admirably in some undiscovered country where all dog 

 men are fools and are crying to be gulled. But those 

 conditions do not obtain in this country to-day; and it is 

 to be very seriously questioned whether the pocketbooks 

 of the sureties will be saved at the expense of other 

 people. 



The Fox Terrier Club managers announce that they 

 will stand the expense of the compulsory A. K. C. regis- 

 tration of dogs entered for their sweepstakes. This is 

 virtually a concession by them that the head money is an 

 unjust tax, which the exhibitor cannot reasonably be 

 expected to pay, but which— out of magnanimity and a 

 desire to see a good entry list— they will pay for him. 



ADIRONDACK DEER. 



COMMISSIONER ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT explains 

 1 that the theory that hounding deer stimulates them 

 to breed was put out by himself and his fellow Commis- 

 sioner Bowman as a joke. That is to say at a meeting of 

 the Fish Commission of this State, when the topic of dis- 

 cussion was the right or wrong of hounding does heavy 

 with fawn, Messrs. Roosevelt and Bowman conceived 

 that they were discharging their duty by indulging in 

 frivolous and disgusting jocularity over it. The public 

 will accept this explanation for what it is worth. If any 

 one shall have the temerity to suggest that something 

 more than jokes are demanded of the men charged by 

 the State with the care of its game interests he should 

 remember that Commissioner Roosevelt has had so much 

 experience in game protection that his official foolings 

 are to be treated with respect. The more reverence is 

 due this present deer hounding idiosyncracy because the 

 recommendation over which they cracked their joke was 

 made by Gen. Sherman, who, as Mr. Roosevelt tells us, "is 

 as well informed as any one" on the effect of hounding, 

 while, as is quite clear from Mr. Roosevelt's letter, he 

 himself is not informed about it at all. 



