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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 24, 1887. 



) VOL. XXVIII.— No. 5. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Quail for Europe. 



"Jack Darling's Little Case." 



Wild Celery. 



The New York Law. 



The Ben Hill— Lillian Heat. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Cruise of the Hirondelle. 



On the West Coast. 

 Naturae History. 



Domesticating Ruffed Grouse. 



Hibernating Squirrels. 



The Terns of Matinicus Rock. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Deer Packing in Alaska. 



Growing Wild Celery. 



Hunting Rifles. 



Talk About Ammunition. 



In a Goose Pit. 



A Carom on Bruin. 



Maine Winter Notes. 



Adirondack Deer. 



Abolish Spring Shooting. 



Proposed New York Law. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Fish and Fish Protection. 



Angling in the Hebrides. 



The Rod and Reel Association. 



FlSHCDXTUHE. 



The Colorado Commission. 



The Nebraska Commission. 



Fish Propagation in Michigan. 

 The Kenned. 



English Spaniel Club Standard 



National Field Trials Club. 



New England Kennel Club. 



The Worcester Fur Company. 



Hare Dogs. 



Tennessee Trials. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Riele and Trap Shooting. 



Militia Rifle Practice. 



Military Rifle Drill. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Fitchburg Tournament. 



The Middlesex Tournament. 

 Yachting. 



A Cruise of the Tempus, 1885. 



The Ocean Yacht Race. 



Notes from the Delaware,. 



A Modern Five-Ton Racer. 

 Canoeing. 



Canoe vs. Sailing Boats. 



Publisher's Department. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE BEN HILL—LILLIAN HEAT. 



THE announcement in another column of the result of 

 the meeting of the ExecutiYe Committee of the 

 National Field Trials Club is full of significance. This 

 meeting passed sentence on Stephenson and on Bevan, 

 and took action looking toward the dissolution of the old 

 National Club. A new club was organized under the 

 name of the American Field Trial Club. 



The verdict passed on Stephenson and Bevan will seem 

 to many severe, but must be regarded by all who have 

 the best interests of field trials at heart as eminently 

 just. An offense of the most serious character was com- 

 mitted by these two men, and it w-as fitting that they 

 should be punished. While we cannot but feel sorry for 

 them, we must applaud the wisdom of those who passed 

 sentence on them. If Whitford's jockeying tricks had 

 been dealt with in a similar manner in 1880, Stephenson 

 and Bevan might not now occupy the position which they 

 do. It has been the fashion for the authorities in canine 

 matters to overlook offenses — to pass them by because 

 the perpetrator was a "good fellow." The result of this 

 easy good nature is seen in the commission, at fre- 

 quent intervals, of all sorts of violations of rules and 

 .regulations, of frauds like the Sans Souci matter at 

 Philadelphia, and the pulling of Ben Hill. It is high time 

 that an end was put to all this business, and it is a good 

 thing that men have been found with pluck enough to 

 look at things from the standpoint of justice merely. 



A spade is a spade whether it be in the hands of a friend 

 or an enemy. In matters of public interest things must 

 be called by their proper names. Stephenson has no one 

 to blame but himself. He seems to have gone into this 

 matter with his eyes open, to have made no secret of 

 what he was doing. Bevans's case is a harder one. He 

 is an Englishman, not long in this country, presumably 

 unfamiliar with our ways, and was acting under orders. 

 To him a year's suspension is a serious matter. While 

 we are heartily sorry for these two men, we cannot 

 regret the action of the committee. Dog jockeys will 

 remember their action, and tricksters will govern them- 

 selves accordingly at subsequent trials. Sharp prac- 



tices will not be so popular in the future as they have 

 been in the past. 



General Shattuc and his associates have shown them- 

 selves men of pluck and courage. Let them root out all 

 the rottenness that they find, and the honest men hi the 

 dog world will heartily applaud and sustain them. 



Comment on the action of the committee looking to ward 

 the dissolution of the National Field Trials Club may be 

 suspended until a full report of the meeting is received by 

 mail. 



WILD CELERY. 

 ^pHE reports from a Syracuse correspondent relating 

 his success in growing wild celery in wildfowl waters 

 are encouraging. The introduction of wild rice to waters 

 where it was not indigenous has, in many cases, furn- 

 ished an attraction for wild ducks and provided excellent 

 shooting. If wild celery can be successfully grown, as 

 in the case narrated, the shooting on old grounds may be, 

 by this Jrneans, vastly improved and new ones provided. 

 Now that the cultivation of wild celery has been tested 

 and proved practicable, it only remains for clubs, asso- 

 ciations and individuals to take up the work and add to 

 their annual wild duck supply. This is not an expedient 

 that need be left to organized clubs who control shooting 

 grounds. The wildfowl shooters of any locality might 

 join in the scheme of stocking their grounds with wild 

 celery, the benefits from the enterprise to be shared by all. 



Mr.. Cross, to whom our correspondent alludes as the 

 one who secured celery seed for him, might perhaps be 

 willing to assist others in the same manner, for we know 

 him to be most obliging; but it is quite possible that the 

 attention necessary to be given to the subject in compliance 

 with repeated demands, might be too great a tax upon his 

 time. If some one on the Chesapeake Bay or elsewhere, 

 where wild celery abounds, Avould undertake to supply 

 the seed and bulbs, he might find enough profit in it to 

 pay for the labor. 



A writer in The Epoch, noting the diminishing canvas- 

 back duck supply, suggests that by feeding domestic 

 ducks and other poultry on wild celery they can be made 

 to equal the wild duck in gastronomic qualities. That 

 may do for the bon vivants and gourmets of city restaur- 

 ants, but no cunning device of poulterers nor alchemy of 

 modern science can impart to barnyard fowl the distinct 

 and peculiar flavor which attaches to a wild duck which 

 a man has traveled five hundred miles and lain cramped 

 in a battery eight hours to shoot. 



THE NEW YORK LAW. 



r pHE New York Association for the Protection of Fish 

 J- and Game, the Eastern New York Fish and Game 

 Protective Association, the Anglers' Association of the 

 St. Lawrence River, the Fulton Fish Mongers' Associa- 

 tion and the Marketmen's and Game Dealers' Protective 

 Association have, after a number of conferences, pre- 

 pared and forwarded to Albany the draft of a new game 

 bill. For an authorized copy of the document we are 

 indebted to the courtesy of Hon. R. B. Roosevelt, presi- 

 dent- of the first named society. A summary of the 

 provisions is given on page 87. It has been announced 

 that the bill was to be a codification of existing laws, 

 with such amendments as the conferring parties might 

 deem expedient. As a codification the document is 

 clumsy, carelessly drawn, disconnected, involved and on 

 certain points obscure. Some of the amendments, 

 whether wise or unwise, ha ve at least the merit of pleasing 

 the particular classes for whose special benefit they are 

 presumably intended. Thus (Sec, 1) the month of May is 

 made an open season for deer, this no doubt as a conces- 

 sion to city anglers who visit the North Woods at that 

 time and want their trout and venison together all in the 

 merry month of May. To suit these same Adirondack 

 frequenters the ruffed grouse season up there is made to 

 open a month earlier than elsewhere (Sec. 2). July wood- 

 cock shooting is allowed (Sec. 2) as a concession to the 

 dealers; and it will also open the hotel kitchen back- 

 doors for chicken partridges to be placed as a sweet 

 morsel on the plates of guests who know a good thing 

 when they can get it in July. Protection is removed 

 from bobolinks, warblers and numerous other small birds 

 as a concession to the gourmet who wants to line his "fair 

 round belly" with reed birds, and to the milliners who 

 want song bird feathers for hat decoration. 



The seasons for sale of game are materially lengthened 

 (Sec. 6), and with the times as here prescribed it is under- 



stood that dealers will be satisfied and will aid in enforc- 

 ing the law. This last consideration is important because 

 the bill (Sec. 29) repeals the State game protector law and 

 leaves us dependent upon the pleasure of those who, as 

 they choose, may or may not observe the statute. The 

 privileged midsummer atrocities of hounding wet does 

 into Adirondack lakes and killing them there is still re- 

 tained (Sec. 7) as a concession to the New York brokers 

 and near-sighted old maids who do that sort of thing. 

 The "absolutely necessary" phrase in Sec. 15 is an all- 

 embracing concession to the corporations who are pollut- 

 ing our rivers and bays with their deadly refuse. 



There are numerous other points on which comment 

 would now be premature, for what the bill is now and 

 what it may be, after all the other interested classes have 

 harangued the game law committee into "codifying" for 

 their special benefit, is a mystery which only time will 

 reveal. 



QUAIL FOR EUROPE. 

 Z^iNE of the noteworthy branches of activity in foster - 

 ^ ^ ing a game and fish supply is. the transplanting of 

 various species from one country to another. Australia 

 and New Zealand have been stocked with trout and 

 salmon from Europe; America has received new food 

 fishes from the same source, and given others in exchange. 

 The introduction of foreign game birds has been under- 

 taken on a growing scale in this country. Now, Amer- 

 ican "Bob White" is to sound his whistle in Sweden. 

 Mr. James Frederic Dicksen, of Gothenburg, Sweden, 

 has commissioned his friend, Hon. W. W. Thomas, Jr., 

 of Portland, Me., late United States Minister to Sweden, 

 to procure for him a supply of American quail, which 

 Mr. Dicksen proposes to put out on his shooting preserves 

 on the peninsula of Onsala. The birds will probably 

 thrive there. The preserves, many thousand acres in ex- 

 tent, comprise cultivated fields, interspersed wdth rocky 

 knolls covered witli scrub, trees, bushes and heather. 

 The thermometer in winter rarely goes below +15° Fahr., 

 and the light snows melt off in a few days. The European 

 partridge abounds and thrives there. 



Mr. Dicksen's experiment will be watched with interest, 

 and we hope in time to chronicle its complete success. 



JACK DARLING'S LITTLE CASE." 



OTJR readers may remember that the suit brought by 

 Jonathan Darling, in June last, against the American 

 Express Company for failure to deliver certain deer and 

 caribou skins, horns, etc.. which were seized at Bangor, 

 Me. , by Game Warden Allen, resulted in favor of the 

 express company, and that Darling appealed from 

 the finding of the Court. The appealed case came up for 

 hearing in the Superior Court for Suffolk county, on 

 February 8, current, before Barker, J. The parties were 

 represented by the same counsel as on the former trial, 

 Messrs. Reed & Curtis for Darling and Louis D. 

 Brandis, Esq., of the firm of Warren & Brandis, for the 

 express company. Substantially the same story was 

 told by Darling as before^-that on March 17, 1886, 

 he had brought to the company's agent at Olamon, Me., 

 a shoe box nailed up tightly and containing beaver, fox 

 and muskrat skins, two deer's heads, with skins, etc., for 

 mounting, and two caribou heads with horns and neck 

 skins; that the agent marked the box and received and 

 receipted for pay for forwarding it; that the box, when 

 delivered hi Boston, looked as if it had been renailed, and 

 the deer and caribou skins were missing. Mr. Edward 

 Kakas, the consignee of the articles, told the same story 

 as to the box. Darling had never seen any notice by 

 the American Express Company refusing to carry deer 

 hides, etc., though he identified on cross-examination 

 some newspaper articles, etc., which showed his knowl- 

 edge of such a regulation. In his opinion, deer and 

 caribou skins were "fur," a point, however, in which he 

 differed from Mr. Kakas and the defendants' witnesses, 

 The only point upon which his memory had been re- 

 freshed was as to the conversation with the express agent 

 when this box w r as delivered. The express receipt reads, 

 "a box said to contain furs." The agent testified that 

 Darling told him it contained "furs" and that he would 

 have refused to accept the box if he had not so under- 

 stood it, and that Darling knew he would refuse. 

 Darling's subsequent recollection is that the agent said, 

 "I suppose these are furs?" and he answered "yes." This, 

 he claims, was not a fraud upon the express company, 

 whether the other was or not. 

 The defense contended that, as the contract was pro- 



