Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 7, 1887. 



I VOL. XXVIII.-No. 11. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Railroad to Cooke. 



Winter in Wonderland. 



Harmon's Brag. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



In the Pocono Mountains. 



Unofficial Log of the Stella. 

 Camp-Fibe Flickerings. 

 Naturae History. 



Odds and Ends. 



Another Crow Story. 



Habits of the Striped Squirrel. 



English Sparrow Destruction. 



Erratic Migrations. 



W eight of Quail. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Bear Stalking in Canada. 



The Sporting Mania. 



The Maine Commissioner 

 Charges. 



The New York Game Law. 



Number 9 as a Tale Varnisher. 



Mississippi Woodcock Nesting 



The Park as a Game Preserve. 



Minnesota Game Laws. 



Analysis of the Trajectory 

 Test. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Tarpon at Charlotte Harbor. 



The Coming Tournament. 

 Fishculture. 



British Salmonidse. 

 The Kennel. 



The Bench Shows. 



The Providence Show. 



The Boston Dog Show. 



Canine Surgery. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Graham vs. Brewer. 

 Yachting. 

 Second Cruise of the Pilgrim. 

 Thistle. 



A Seasonable Warning. 

 Lake Ontario. 



New York and the New York 

 Y. C. 



Yaciting at Detroit. 

 Canoeing. 



A Washing-ton C. C. Cruise. 



A. C. A. Regatta Programme. 

 Answers to Correspondnets. 



THIRTY-TWO PAGES. 

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

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



THE RAILROAD TO COOKE. 

 'TTHE projectors of the Rocky Fork & Cooke City R. R. 



propose to begin at once the construction of their 

 road from, the Northern Pacific R. R. to the coal mines on 

 Rocky Fork and thence to Cooke. A surveying party, 

 under the direction of G. L. Knowlton, chief engineer of 

 the road, is said to be already in the field establishing a 

 line. 



The agents of the company have recently been at St. 

 Paul making arrangements with the Northern Pacific 

 Company for the building of the line, and it seems very 

 probable that as soon as the actual route has been decided 

 on construction will be begun. They have made contracts 

 with the mine owners of Cooke for handling the output 

 of ore from that camp, which contracts are exclusive and 

 tie up all the mines for a period of twenty years. 



In view of these facts it would seem clear that the Cin- 

 nabar and Clark's Fork Railroad project is dead beyond 

 the possibility of a resurrection. 



The officers of the Rocky Fork & Cooke City Railroad 

 are James L. Piatt, President; Hamilton Browne, Vice- 

 President; J. B. Hubbell, Secretary; Walter Cooper, 

 Treasurer, and Samuel Ward, Attorney. It may be 

 hoped that the failure of the Cinnabar & Clark's Fork 

 road to get a footing in the Park will discourage any 

 similar attempts in future. 



WINTER IN WONDERLAND. 

 \\f E print this week the first instalment of the report 



» ' of our special Commissioner, who made the tour 

 of the Yellowstone Park on snowshoes. The interesting 

 relation of what he did and what he saw will be read with 

 pleasure by that very large portion of the public who 

 have followed the history of the Park, and have noted the 

 many attempts by various individuals and corporations 

 to obtain possession of this reservation which belongs by 

 law to the nation. 



The story told by our correspondent is wholly novel. 

 Nothing has ever been written of what goes on in the Yel- 



lowstone Park in winter. Few men have visited the 

 points of interest, though many have traveled along the 

 roads, and no one has ever made the complete toxir which 

 was accomplished by Mr. Hofer. His narrative needs no 

 introduction. It is a plain tale graphically told, and 

 speaks for itself. In the chapters which are to follow the 

 interest will be fully sustained, and the series may well 

 be ranked as one of the noteworthy accounts of winter 

 exploration. 



It is perhaps fitting that, with assurances of distinguished 

 esteem, we proffer to the New York World our sympathy 

 for it for the mysterious disappearance of its widely 

 heralded Mid- winter Yellowstone Park Exploring Expedi- 

 tion, which, with Crow scouts, Esquimau dogs, Arctic 

 clothing and bottled ammunition, we are apprehensive 

 has been snowed under. The World will hail with a 

 pulse of faint joy the relic of the party winch our Com- 

 missioner sends us. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 'T^HE proposition to set apart a district in the Catskill 

 Mountains as a State Park, is eminently wise; and if 

 the reservation be stocked with deer and other game it 

 will materially add to the available hunting area of the 

 Eastern States. The Catskills w r ere once well filled with 

 deer, and the reason that there are none there now is 

 that a former generation of hunters and hounds ex- 

 terminated the stock. Bears and wildcats have held their 

 own in the rocky fastnesses; there are foxes to call forth 

 the music of prized Catskill Mountain strains of fox- 

 hounds; and squirrels and raffed grouse reward the 

 sportsman; while the trout brooks have been of late 

 years restocked, and in many instances afford fine sport. 



The rifle article written by "P." and published in the 

 last issue of the Forest and Stream, was printed the 

 same week in two other journals. A correspondent who 

 happens to subscribe for all three papers, hailed "P.'s" 

 article with joy in the Forest and Stream, and with 

 bare sufferance when he found it in his mail-box the 

 second day; but when it bobbed up serenely the third 

 time, bubbling over with indignation and disgust he sat 

 down and wrote us a moving protest. His feelings may 

 be assuaged by the suggestion that a rifleman would be 

 none the worse from a third reading of the article. 

 Moreover, the average reader of the Forest and Stream 

 probably does not take many other journals relating to 

 kindred topics; the Forest and Stream is his Koran, 

 and he looks upon other papers as Kalif Oman, who 

 burned the Alexandrian Library, regarded the books in 

 it. "If," said he, "these books contain what the Koran 

 contains, they are superfluous. If they contain anything 

 contrary to what the Koran contains, they are mis- 

 chievous." 



With the article on field trial bribery (in our issue of 

 March 24) before him, D. Bryson writes us a windy letter 

 (in the Brysonese dialect) averring that at Grand Junc- 

 tion the other Bryson not only made an attempt to bribe 

 our reporter, Mr. S. T. Hammond, but actually succeeded 

 in his fell design. "The facts in the case are simply 

 this," writes Bryson. The facts then are certainly a sad 

 one. It was very cruel in the other Bryson to lead astray 

 a person of Mr. Hammond's tender age and unsuspicious 

 susceptibility, and both Brysons ought to feel the 

 gnawing of remorse. 



There is one point which may not have occurred to 

 Bryson: were his statements to be taken seriously there 

 would at once arise a question of veracity between D. 

 Bryson and S. T. Hammond; and cannot this illiterate 

 Memphis bulldozer muster gumption enough to compre- 

 hend what an issue like that would mean for him? 



A veracious tale from New Mexico is to the effect that 

 an Albuquerque editor who expected a gang of lynchers 

 to come for him in the night betook himself to the cellar, 

 leaving a pet grizzly bear in his place in bed. The 

 lynchers did not bring any light, but made a plucky 

 attempt to get the bear out and lynch it, but gave up after 

 three of them had lost an eye apiece, two of them had 

 suffered the loss of thumbs chewed off, and the other six 

 were more or less deprived of skin. This prompts us to 

 remark that the Forest and Stream has two grizzlies, 

 guaranteed rough on lynchers, which will be loaned to 

 frontier editors in distress on most reasonable terms. For 

 further particulars apply at this office. 



Deputy Fish Commissioner F. R. Shattuck, of Boston, is 

 winning his sboi-t-lobster cases without exception. Last 

 Tuesday six of the defendants in the appealed cases plead 

 guilty and paid fines and costs. These are likely to 

 afford such emphatic precedents that the illicit short-lob- 

 ster trade in Boston will be given up entirely. If Finn, 

 the free lunch saloon man, gets his bill through at Albany, 

 the short lobsters unlawfully exported from Maine will 

 find a market in New York. In any event they will 

 probably be disposed of here, since there is in this city 

 no individual to exercise the watchfulness ©f the gentle- 

 man who has single-handed suppressed the Boston traffic. 



The Secretary of the Interior has recently agreed to 

 and signed a new body of rules and regulations for the 

 government of the Yellowstone National Park. These 

 are essentially those recommended by Mr. W. Hallett 

 Phillips, who has twice visited the Park as the special 

 agent of the Department, and are such as we have many 

 times urged on the Department. They will strengthen 

 the hands of Captain Harris, the acting Superintendent 

 of the Park, and will be productive of much good. To 

 the Secretary of the Interior and to Mr. Phillips are due 

 the thanks of all who are interested in the Park. 



"Folks down our way want this" and "folks up where 

 I come from ask that," and "my constituents demand an 

 exception here," and "we think we ought to have per- 

 mission to do so and so," and "you vote for my milldam 

 and I'll take care of your meadow lot" — so it goes at Al- 

 bany, with thirty-six game bills already put in and several 

 counties yet to be heard from. The patent coffee mill is 

 giinding; what will be the grist only the guides at the 

 crank can begin to know, or what will become of the 

 game. 



Lecture bureaus, who are on the lookout for new attrac- 

 tions, will find it to their advantage to make early appli- 

 cation to Adjutant-General George M. Harmon, of Con- 

 necticut. His new lecture, "What I Know About Im- 

 peaching Maine Game Officials," is said to be very moral 

 and instructive. As an impeacher the General is a dismal 

 failure, but there is no reason why he may not shine on 

 the rostrum, particularly if he can be induced to cart 

 around that deer's head a s an added attraction. 



"The last buffalo" has been killed so often, in so many 

 different ways and by so many different people, that he 

 must now be getting quite accustomed to it. By and by 

 people will begin to weary of reading of him; and already 

 there are indications that the newspaper slayers of- "the 

 last buffalo," having killed him once too often, will be 

 obliged to switch off their magazine repeater imaginations 

 to "the last elk," or "the last Florida alligator." 



In Ontario deer hounding is largely on the increase, 

 and as the system there practiced is virtually that of the 

 Adirondacks, where the deer are driven into the water 

 and butchered at arm's length, the annual destruction is 

 very great. The Ontario law ought to take cognizance of 

 this and put a stop to it. 



There are hunting souvenirs and hunting souvenirs. 

 The author of a Manitoba deer hunt recently described 

 in our columns is now languishing indoors with "a 

 sprained leg, a souvenir of my last hunt," and indoors he 

 is likely to remain until the flowers shall bloom in the 

 spring. 



What about that game protector superintendency 

 measure that was to be introduced at Albany this year? 

 Would it not be wiser to appoint such an officer and; give 

 the system a further trial than to abolish the protectors 

 altogether, as Mr. Langbein proposes in his bill? 



Graves, the assassin of the Maine game wardens at 

 Fletcher Brook, has just been captured at Oakland, Cali- 

 fornia. This is a pretty big country, but it is astonishing 

 how little room there is in it after all when a rnurderer 

 is looking for a place to hide. 



At this writing the open season for trout in New York 

 will begin April 1, save in the Adirondacks, where it will 

 begin Mayl: but no one knows what changes may be 

 made by the Legislature before that time. 



The March enrollment of Audubon Society members 

 was larger than for any month previous. The member- 

 ship now exceeds 27,000. 



