Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, MARCH 24, 1887. 



t VOL. XXVIII.— No. 9. 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Across Lots to the Millennium. 



Bribery at Field Trials. 



"Forest Runes." 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Unofficial Log of the Stella. 



Winter Notes. 



A Night in the Mountains. 

 Natural History. 



A Laboratory for the Park. 



My Old Jim. 



The Jack Snipe as a Rustler. 



Mother Care. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Hunting Rifles and Bullets. 



New York Game Legislation. 



A Record of Failures. 



Hunting in the Rockies. 



Bruin in the Canebrake. 



Work of the Maine Legislature 



Facts in the Harmon Case. 



New Jersey Game Laws. 



The New York Law. 

 Camp-Fire Flickering^. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Sport on Lake Pend D'Oreille. 



A Giant Chub. 



Fly-Casting at the Tourna- 

 ment. 



Loafing on Timber Creek. 

 Weather and the Migration of 

 Fish. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Salmon Fisheries in Glial eur. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



The New York Commission. 

 The Kennel. 

 The Bliss of Ignorance. 

 Mastiffs of the Present. 

 Intestinal Obstruction in Dogs 

 Premium Lists. 

 Krehl— '•Porcupine"— Dalziel. 

 A. K. R, 

 Darkey. 



Newark Dog Show. 

 Cameron's Racket. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 



The Trap at Marion. 

 Yachting. 

 Second Cruise of the Pilgrim. 

 An English Sinslehand Yacht 

 Medusa. 



The Thistle's Challenge. 



Racing Classification. 



"From Forecastle to Cabin." 



Building Notes. 



Election of Officers. 

 Canoeing. 



A Cruise to Charlotte Harbor. 

 Bow-Arrow Point. 



A. C. A. Meets and their Costs 

 Answers to Correspondnets. 



THIRTY-TWO PAGES. 

 Four pages are added to the usual twenty-eight, and this 

 issue of Forest and Stream consists of thirty-two pages. 



BRIBERY AT FIELD TRIALS. 



WE have patiently waited a long time for Mr. D. 

 Bryson to furnish us with the proofs upon which 

 his insinuations against the integrity of reporters were 

 based. No gentleman would make such insinuations 

 without possessing proofs to substantiate their truth, and 

 we again call upon Mr. Bryson to furnish us these proofs 

 for publication or else withdraw the statement and 

 apologize for having made it. Not only will proof that 

 "pay-me-handsomely" reporters have demanded hush- 

 money or praise-money, be in order, but we will 

 also undertake to publish any proofs which may 

 be sent us of any instance of money or other valu- 

 able consideration being received by a field trial re- 

 porter for favorable or unfavorable criticism of any dog. 

 We have no knowledge that such an instance has ever 

 occurred. That it has not occurred, however, is not at 

 all the fault of the owners of the Bryson dogs. That 

 bribery has been attempted in at least one instance we 

 have ample knowledge, and the chief actor in that case 

 is so closely related to Mr. D, Bryson that the latter is 

 smirched with the taint and should be the last person in 

 the world to charge anybody with crookednes at field 

 trials . 



Here are the facts. ' At the field trials at Grand Junc- 

 tion last December, Mr. P. H. Bryson, brother and partner 

 in dog affairs of Mr. D. Bryson, approached the reporter 

 of the Forest and Stream, and offered to make him a 

 "handsome present" if he would favorably notice "our" 

 (the Brysons') dogs. Considerably surprised by such a 

 proposition from such a source, yet not at the moment 

 comprehending Mr. Bryson's full meaning, our reporter 

 responded that it was his invariable custom to give each 

 dog such credit as its work deserved. Mr. Bryson rode 

 away, but in a few moments, as if struck by an after- 



thought, returned and made clear his meaning by further 

 stating that he did not wish our representative to say 

 anything of the dogs that his conscience would not per- 

 mit. 



It was the immediately formed intention of our reporter 

 to embody this interesting little incident in his regular 

 reports of the day's proceedings, and on returning 

 to the house that night the matter was discussed with 

 Messrs. Briggs and Waters, the other reporters present; 

 upon consideration, however, the incident was omitted 

 from the report. It was related to us immediately upon 

 our reporter's return, and is now given timely publica- 

 tion as our contribution to the history of attempted 

 bribery at field trials. If Mr. D. Bryson knows of any 

 successful attempts let him furnish the proofs in justifica- 

 tion of liis insinuations. 



ACROSS LOTS TO THE MILLENNIUM. 

 r T , HE meat of calves killed when less than three weeks 

 old is called "bob" veal, and is so un wholesome that 

 the law forbids its sale. The carcasses of "bob" veal un- 

 lawfully smuggled into this city are estimated at 10,000 

 each spring. The sanitary authorities intercept and de- 

 stroy 50 per cent, of this stuff, but the rest is successfully 

 foisted upon buyers and consumed. Inasmuch as the 

 Board of Health can suppress only one-half of the "bob" 

 veal traffic, the best thing to do is, of course, to repeal 

 the partially enforced law and give the "bob" veal deal- 

 ers full swing. Then everything will run smoothly. 



The statute forbidding the sale of liquors in New York 

 saloons on Sunday is to a large extent evaded; the saloons 

 are on that day usually filled with customers, and do a 

 big business. As the police do not succeed in enforcing 

 the law, the proper remedy is, of course, to repeal it and 

 throw open the saloons on Sunday. Then everything will 

 run smoothly. 



The law forbidding woodcock shooting in the month of 

 July is set at naught by the pot-hunters, who kill birds 

 for summer hotels and city restaurants and club houses. 

 As the game protectors appear to be incapable of enforc- 

 ing this law the sensible thing to do is to repeal it alto- 

 gether. Then everything will run smoothly. 



"FOREST RUNES." 



THE volume of "Nessmuk's" poems, with the above 

 title, is now being sent out to all subscribers. It is 

 a handsome large octavo volume bound in cloth and gold, 

 and its outside appearance corresponds well with its liter- 

 ary excellence. With a few of the poems which it con- 

 tains the readers of Forest and Stream are familiar, and 

 those which have seen the light give a rich promise of the 

 contents of the book. 



It will take some time to wrap and send out all the 

 copies which have been ordered in advance. Notification 

 has been sent to all subscribers that the books are ready 

 for delivery, and all should complete their subscription 

 at once, so as to receive their copies as early as possible. 

 Volumes will be sent out in the order in which the advices 

 are received. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 '"ITBE tinkering with the game laws of New York 

 State which is going on at Albany this year is far in 

 excess of what usually takes place. There seems to be a 

 concerted attack on protective laws all along the line. 

 The game laws are already so intricate and confused, so 

 contradictory and mixed up with special provisions and 

 exceptions, that it takes a Philadelphia lawyer, or a man 

 who has followed the subject with the utmost watchful- 

 ness, to determine what the law is in any given section 

 of the State. As if this were not enough, however, a per- 

 fect avalanche of bills affecting game and fish have been 

 introduced at this session. These are backed by all sorts 

 of people, with all 'sorts of motives. Some of the bills 

 contain good provisions, but these are fairly smothered by 

 the bad ones in the same bills. 



A provision of the present law that is most bitterly 

 attacked is that relating to the preservation of song birds. 

 A tool of the milliners, one C. Smith, has introduced a 

 bill exempting from the provisions of the small bird act 

 any corporation or individual dealing in ornamental 

 plumage which has not been collected within the State. 

 This measure in effect would abrogate the bird protective 

 law, and would be productive of a vast amount of harm. 

 The act for the preservation of small birds passed in this 

 State last May was by far the most intelligent law on 



this subject that has yet been enacted in any of the States 

 of the Union, and it will be very unfortunate if the State 

 Legislature shall rescind it after it has been in operation 

 for only one year. 



The Maine Legislature has adjourned after declining 

 to materially alter the laws of that State which affect 

 fish and game. It was hoped that the penalties for vio- 

 lation of this law would have been made somewhat more 

 severe, and that it would have been made a penal offense 

 to kill a cow moose. This was not done. However, a 

 more liberal appropriation than ever before was voted to 

 the Commissioners, and in the face of the shameful 

 abuses to which these gentlemen have been subjected, 

 and the fact that charges have been brought against them 

 for failure to do their duty, this vote of confidence by the 

 Legislature is gratifying to all those who know the Com- 

 missioners, and is, perhaps, the highest compliment which 

 could have been paid to them. 



We have further advices from our midwinter Yellow- 

 stone Park Explorer. He has safely made the tour of 

 the Park, journeying through it as no man ever did be- 

 fore, and seeing sights on which no other mortal eyes 

 have ever looked. A part of his graphic report is al- 

 ready in our hands, and before long we hope to have it 

 all, and to present it to our readers. It will be interest- 

 ing to those who are watching the rapid extermination 

 of the large game in the West to learn that for several 

 days during his journey our Commissioner was con- 

 stantly in sight of elk, and that he saw some bison in 

 the Park. Our readers will find this tale of a journey of 

 200 miles on Norwegian skeys — the narrow wooden snow 

 shoes — very entertaining reading. 



The past winter has been the severest experienced in 

 the West for years. The papers have been full of accounts 

 of the heavy losses of cattle on the range, and of the deep 

 snows on the mountains. These snows have been so heavy 

 in many places as to drive the game down from their or- 

 dinary winter ranges to the foothills, where feed could be 

 obtained by the hard-pressed animals. The weather must 

 be very severe when hardy animals like the elk suffer, 

 but we have heard of more than one case recently in 

 which a band of these animals came near starving. 



Finn's free lunch short lobster bill has been passed by 

 the New York Assembly. As already explained lobsters 

 are now protected by statute until they are ten and one- 

 half inches in length, this being the size at which they 

 spawn. Lobsters under this size are desired by restaur- 

 ant people and by the proprietors of liquor saloons who 

 set out the immature crustaceans as alluring free lunch. 

 Finn is a New York saloon keeper, and in seeking the 

 repeal of the very wise law is presumably working for 

 himself and fellows of his ilk. 



Your born sportsman will undergo a vast amount of 

 hardship before giving up his favorite pastime. Physical 

 injury and maiming do not quench his ardor. There are 

 numerous one-armed shots w T hose skill amply demon- 

 strates that pluck must win. We have known a grouse 

 shooter, temporarily blinded in one bandaged eye, pursue 

 his game in the cover with no whit less of skill than be- 

 fore; and more than one gunner who has totally lost the 

 sight of one eye has found his aim no less certain than 

 when both eyes were bright and true. 



Have any of our fox-hunting friends ever tried their 

 hounds with foxes that live upon the eastern shore of 

 Virginia? We have heard grand stories of the runs to 

 be had on those level beaches and among those low sand 

 hills. Some one ought to take a pack of good hounds 

 down there and give tie foxes a trial. They are plenty 

 and the running is good. 



In New Jersey a bill has been introduced which does 

 away with spring shooting in the northern portion, but 

 curiously enough divides the State into two sections and 

 establishes different close times for each. It is difficult 

 to understand why this should have been done, but we 

 presume that it may have its cause in local jealousies. 



We think it would be well if the true friends of game 

 protection in New York State would unite to prevent any 

 game and fish legislation this season. This constant tink- 

 ering with the laws destroys all respect for them and 

 makes them so unintelligible that they lose their effect 

 even with those who wish to obey them. 



