Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 17, 1887. 



I VOL. XXVIII.-No. 4. 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Can They Hoodwink the 

 House? 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Unofficial Log of the Stella.-tr 



A Trip for Bob White, 



Sam Level's Thanksgiving.— H 



A Week in Bear Creek Valley. 

 Natural History. 



Do Squirrels Hibernate? 



Habits of the Beaver. 



"Gun or Field Glass?" 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Bears and Bear Dogs. 



Seafowl Shooting at Berwick. 



Winter in Camp. 



Montana Notes. 



An Analysis of the Trajectory 

 Test. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Five Dollars a Pound. 

 Surface Schools of Fish. 

 Death of Mr. Francis Francis. 

 Black Bass in the Mohawk. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



The U. S. Fish Commission. 

 Frog Culture. 



The Kennel. 

 English Spaniel Club Standa rd 



Our Dumb Relations. 



The Atlanta Dog Show. 



Spaniel Sweepstakes. 



The Tennessee Field Trial. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Experience With Revolvers. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Second Bullard Match. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



Seawanhaka C. Y. C. 



Larchmont Y. C. 



Shamrock. 



Mr. Forbes's Steam Yacht. 



A New Herreshoff Steamer. 



A Racing Classification. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Executive Committee 



The. Loss of the Zephyr. 



A Centerboard Canoe Yawl. 



Mohican C. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



CAN THEY HOODWINK THE HOUSE? 



THEY are trying to very hard. But will they succeed? 

 A good many people thought last December that 

 the project for running a railroad through the Yellow- 

 stone Park had, under the opposing leadership of Mr. Cox, 

 been finally defeated. That is where the public failed to 

 do the railroad gang justice. After having been crushed 

 under a vote of 170 to 65, the railroaders gathered up 

 their flattened forces, and retired into then* holes to wait. 

 Their opportunity has come again, and they are plotting 

 fresh schemes. 



Judge Payson of Illinois is still their leader, and as he 

 is a member of the Public Lands Committee he has a fine 

 opportunity for helping his co-conspirators, and for injur- 

 ing the National Park. Such an opportunity he is not 

 going to let pass him. Judge Payson is no such man. 

 Although he has been in the National Park, knows what 

 it needs, and knows that the public demands that it shall 

 be protected, he cares little for Park or public when the 

 question of the dollar comes up. 



We understand that he has so manipulated matters in 

 the Committee on Public Lands that an amendment has 

 been added to the bill, making the Yellowstone River, 

 East Fork and Soda Butte Creek the northern boundary 

 of a poi'tion of the Park. This cuts off from the reserva- 

 tion an extensive strip of territory, throws open to occu- 

 pancy a number of natural wonders, of which Soda Butte 

 and Soda Butte Springs are the most important, and— 

 here come in the railroaders — opens to any corporation 

 a way for a railroad up the Yellowstone, East Fork and 

 Soda Butte Creek to the Clark's Fork mines. 



The strip thus cut off from the Park contains a great 

 body of timber, which protects the waters of tributaries 

 flowing into the Yellowstone from the north ; it is an 

 important range for game. Elk are found there, so are a 

 few mountain sheep, so are the most of the few buffalo 

 yet remaining in the West. To cut off this strip is to 

 pollute with sawdust the waters of the Yellowstone from 

 the mouth of the East Fork down; to strip the mountains 

 on the northeast side of that river of their timber, and 

 turn them into barren, desolate wastes of volcanic rock; 

 to destroy a considerable part of the game which still re- 



mains in what was once the greatest game country in all 

 the West. 



This is a cunning dodge on the part of the railroad gang 

 under Judge Payson's leadership to pull the wool over the 

 eyes of the House of Representatives, and to obtain by 

 trick and device what the House squarely and flatly re- 

 fused to grant them when they asked for it in an honest 

 and open manner. Will the railroad gang succeed in 

 getting what they want ? Will the House in all simplicity 

 pass the bill as amended, and turn over to the railroad 

 many times more than the railroad asked for when the 

 request was refused V Or will some one be found in the 

 House with intelligence enough to fathom the deep game 

 of these astute land grabbers and to expose their plots? 



The public desires the passage of the Park bill as it came 

 from the Senate, and sooner or later its demand must be 

 granted ; but the public is not ready to have a large sec- 

 tion of its Park taken, just to please a band of schemers like 

 the Hobarts championed by Judge Payson. 



Two years ago a condition of things nearly similar to 

 that now existing prevailed. The House passed a Park 

 bill containing this same amendment, but that bill failed 

 in conference committee just at the end of the session. 

 This amended bill, if it should pass the House, will go to 

 the conference committee, where it will be likely to meet 

 the fate of its predecessor. The amendment is a piece of 

 barefaced robbery, added to the bill for no other purpose 

 than that of cheating the House into giving what has been 

 already refused. It will benefit ho one but the railroad 

 gang. It will be a serious injury to the whole public. It 

 is as shameful a piece of covert special legislation as has 

 been introduced into any bill in a long time. If the House 

 understands the purpose of this amendment, it will kill it 

 with great promptitude. 



The railroad gang show their usual shrewdness in using 

 the bill advocated by the friends of the Park as a catspaw 

 to draw out their own chestnuts. It is the old cry, "'If 

 you don't give us our railroad we'll bust the Park." 



Will the House, after having taken the stand it has, let 

 them " bust the Park ?" We hope not. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



'T^HE many Americans who, on the occasion of angling 

 -■- and hunting excursions to Canada, have tested the 

 ever ready and never failing courtesy of Mr. J. IT. Greg- 

 ory, Chief of the Bureau of the Ministry of Marine, at 

 Quebec, will learn with pleasure that his collected 

 sketches have just been published in book form. The 

 title is "Recits de Voyages en Floride, au Labrador, et 

 sur le Fleuve Saint Laurent" (Accounts of Travel in Flor- 

 ida, Labrador and on the St. Lawrence River). Many of 

 these papers appeared originally in the Forest and 

 Stream, whence they have been translated into French 

 for the present volume, to find a new circle of readers as 

 they deserve. Mr. Gregory is an accomplished angler, a 

 master of woodcraft, a quick and intelligent observer and 

 a traveler who keeps both eyes open. He has enjoyed 

 unusual opportunities to explore out of the way nooks 

 and corners and observe various interesting phases of 

 life. His book is a valuable addition to the already exten- 

 sive literature of Canadian life and travel. 



Land owners in certain parts of Long Island, having 

 tried every other means of protecting the birds, have at 

 last come to the conclusion that the only effective means 

 of accomplishing this is by posting their land. This course 

 is being so generally adopted and so strongly recom- 

 mended by the local papers that it seems likely that next 

 autumn strangers who go there to shoot will see trespass 

 boards staring them in the face all over good old Suffolk 

 county. The land owners are not only doing this, but 

 they are trying to care for the birds in winter by feeding 

 them and putting up shelters for them . All this is good 

 for the birds and good for the farmer. There seems no 

 reason why the latter should not derive some profit from 

 the birds reared on his farm. He does from the sheep, 

 the chickens and the ducks, why not from the quail? 



A New York genius claims to have invented a batten 

 for a canoe sail. The sail batten has been employed by 

 the Chinese for centuries, and some years ago the device 

 was copied and used in England, whence it came to this 

 country and many canoes have been fitted with it. The 

 "inventor" now comes on canoeists to pay him a royalty. 

 This is something like the rawhide-backed bow "inven- 

 tion." That style of bow had been in use by American 

 Indians and Eskimos for no one knows how long, but 



when the archery craze was in full blast a shrewd 

 Yankee who had traveled among the Indians "invented" 

 the rawhide bow and made money out of it. When the 

 archery fever was over this same genius let his hair grow, 

 cultivated a venerable appearance and went into the 

 manufacture of "magnetic" garments warranted to cure 

 every time. 



"Capt." Cloudman, who has gained some degree of 

 notoriety by his misadventures with the yacht Outing, in 

 which he set out ostensibly to circumnavigate the globe, 

 appears from all accounts to have been a land-lubber of 

 aggravated type. He is said not to have known star- 

 board from port, nor the jib from gafftopsail, while the 

 soundings on the chart were incomprehensible mysteries. 

 It is no wonder that in such lubberly hands the yacht 

 went ashore full tilt on Jupiter Inlet; and that the "Capt." 

 himself was not drowned must have been due to extra- 

 ordinary exertions by the sweet little cherub who sits up 

 aloft and mistook Cloudman for an actual sailor man. 



Herostratns, "the fool who fired the temple of Ephesus," 

 has been infamous for 2,000 years; but the name of the 

 man who introduced the English sparrow pest into this 

 country is already a subject of dispute. Another candi- 

 date for fame is the enterprising gentleman who proposes ' 

 to bring Jive rabbits from Australia to the United States. 

 The peril attendant upon the introduction of such pests 

 has already been pointed otit in these columns. One 

 game importing "crank" can bring upon this land a 

 nuisance beyond the ken of this generation to cope with. 

 The time to stop importing foreign species of hares and 

 rabbits is before it is begun. 



The proposed amendments to the New York game law 

 sent to Albany by the New York Fish and Game Protec- 

 ive Association are a combination of good and bad. The 

 change in the woodcock season, by which July will be an 

 open month, is a grave mistake, a retrograde step, and 

 directly in opposition to the general and approved efforts 

 now making in several States to abolish all summer 

 shooting. This amendment should not be permitted to 

 pass. Other points of the bill will be considered when 

 we have its full provisions. 



Memorials praying for the passage of the National 

 Park bill (S. 2436) have been adressed to the House of 

 Representatives by the American Humane Association, 

 Linnean Society, the Mystic Anglers, St. Augustine (Fla.) 

 Gun Club, Megantic Fish and Game Club, of Boston, 

 Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gun Club, Valley City (East Saginaw, 

 Mich.) Gun Club, National Gun Association, Amateur 

 Sporting (Wellsville, O.) Club, and a number of others. 



All sorts of folks go shooting, among them practical 

 jokers. One of these creatures was with a Beverly, 

 Mass., hunting party recently, and on the way home 

 rushed ahead to the wife of another, of the party and as a 

 joke told her that her husband had been shot. The woman 

 fainted, remained unconscious for a long time and on re- 

 covery was insane. There is no moral to this. Practical 

 jokers will joke to the end of the world; their race is 

 tenacious as that of the didn't-know-it-was-loaded idiots. 



The people of Georgia are becoming interested in the 

 protection of game in that State. They have in existence 

 local laws for nearly one-half of the counties, and at the 

 recent session of the Legislature a very stringent law was 

 passed for several other counties. The new law has been 

 approved by the Governor, and considerably curtails the 

 open season on all game and makes the penalty very 

 heavy for violations of the law. 



Paul, a restaurant proprietor, of this city, successfully 

 finished his task of eating two quail per day for forty-one 

 days, last Monday. 1 It is said that $10,000 changed hands 

 on the result. This is the second time under game pro- 

 tector Godwin's regime that a public quail-eating task 

 has been accomplished in close time without molestation. 



Capt. Nathaniel Clock, of the Mischief, died at his home 

 in Islip last Tuesday. Capt. Clock was one of the most 

 expert and famous yacht skippers of America, having 

 commanded the White Cap, Vixen, Magic (when she beat 

 Comet), Madcap and Mischief (in which he beat Atalanta). 



No less than eighteen bills have been introduced to 

 repeal the Arkansas game law. Public sentiment sus- 

 tains the law. 



Abolish spring and summer shooting. 



