Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 21, 18 8 7. 



t VOL. XXVIII.-No. 13. 



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



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Make it a Crime. 



A Duty of Show Managers. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Mlnter in Wonderland.— in. 



Springtime is Coming. 



Sam Lovel's Bee Hunting. 



A Coon Hunt. 



Note and Comment. 

 Natural History. 



Birds of Wood and Stream. 



Random Bird Notes. 



Is There Another Variety of 

 Quail? 



Camp-Fibe Flickerings. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Game in the Park. 



Quail in Confinement. 



On the East Fork. 



New Jersey Shooting Notes. 



Spots in Barrels. 



New England Fish and Game. 



Wentworth Association. 



The New York Law. 



Lewis Whitzel's Gun. 



Sea and River Fishtng. 



Canadian Salmon Streams. 



Rod F. siring for Halibut. 



Colorado Trout Law, 



Reels. 

 Fishcoxture. 



That New Trout of Sunapee 

 Lake. 

 The Kennel. 



Pittsburgh Show. 



Philadelphia Show. 



Eastern Field Trials Club. 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 RiETiE and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Wellington Tournament. 

 Yachting. 



Second Cruise of the Pilgrim. 



Mayflower and Arrow. 



Yachting Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



Delaware River Ducker. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



Books Received. 



THIRTY-TWO PAGES. 

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

 ■Issue of Forest and Stream consists of thirty-two pages. 



A DUTY OF SHOW MANAGERS. 

 r T , HERE was a disgraceful incident at Pittsburgh, which, 

 because the principles involved in it concern all 

 bench shows, deserves comment. 



D. Bryson put in an appearance at the show, where he 

 and his brother, P. H. Bryson — the self-confessed profferer 

 of bribes at field trials— had some setters on exhibition. 

 Among the visitors in attendance was Mr. Chas. H. 

 Mason, who was by special arrangement reporting for 

 the Forest and Stream. On Wednesday, as Mr. Mason 

 was engaged in taking notes of the dogs, he was ap- 

 proached by this fellow Bryson. The Memphis bully, 

 club in hand, pistol in pocket and "backed" by two burly 

 individuals presumably hired to help him, came up to 

 Mr. Mason in a menacing manner and assailed him with 

 profanity and foul language. Mr. Mason,too much of a gen- 

 tleman to lower himself to bandy words with a blackguard, 

 at once called upon the show managers to eject this band 

 of ruffians from the hall, pointing out to President Gregg 

 that fellows of their stripe never should have been suf- 

 fered to gain admission to the show. By reason of cow- 

 ardice or through subserviency to the Bryson clique, the 

 managers sucked their thumbs and did nothing. There- 

 upon Mr. Mason very properly repaired to the Mayor's 

 office, where a warrant was issued for Bryson's arrest, 

 and a police officer being sent to hunt him up, he was 

 put under bail to appear for trial in the police court at 9 

 o'clock the next day. At the appointed hour the com- 

 plainant was on hand, but Bryson jumped his bail, which 

 was then and there declared forfeited; and the Mayor 

 publicly thanked Mr. Mason for the very commendable 

 action he had taken. 



The conduct of the show managers in this affair was 

 simply disgraceful. It was a plain shirking of duty, and 

 one part of it has a worse look than even that. When 

 the policeman was hunting for Bryson, instead of help- 

 ing the officer to collar him, as they ought to have done, 

 Mr. Gregg and others actually denied to the policeman 

 any knowledge that such a person was attending the 



show; and this in the face of the fact that Bryson had 

 been constantly with Major Taylor, the setter judge, 

 both in the show building and out of it. 



There was but one right course for the Pittsburgh man- 

 agers to have pursued. When informed of the presence 

 of foul-mouthed brawlers, they should promptly have 

 taken some action which would at least have demon- 

 strated a desire on their part to secure for their patrons 

 immunity from ribaldry. This is the duty of all bench 

 show managers, if these exhibitions are to be kept within 

 the pale of respectability and dog show reports are not 

 to come under the head of police news. If Bryson and 

 others of his kidney are to have unrestrained license for 

 ruffianism like that enjoyed by them at Pittsburgh, self- 

 respecting exhibitors will cease to patronize the shows, 

 and the public will not attend them. No decent dog 

 owner cares to be mixed up with such a crowd; and the 

 ladies and gentlemen who now support the shows with 

 their gate-money will not be likely to risk their lives by 

 venturing into an exhibition hall where a shooting affray 

 may take place at any moment. 



This is a subject on which, if any, the American Ken- 

 nel Club should take immediate and decided action. The 

 ruffianly element must be eliminated from dog shows. 

 In this particular case, both members of the firm of P. 

 H. & D. Bryson should be debarred from entering their 

 dogs at field trials or bench shows. P. H. Bryson is, by 

 his own shameless confession, guilty of an attempt at 

 field trial bribery, and on this ground the Brysons' en- 

 tries should have been refused at Pittsburgh. In addi- 

 tion, D. Bryson is guilty of such conduct at a show as to 

 have caused his arrest by the authorities of the town 

 where the show was held. Bryson the field trial briber 

 and Bryson the bench s_how brawler should both be read 

 out by the kennel authorities competent to act. 



MAKE IT A CRIME. 



LAST Sunday furnished its quota of did-n't-know-it- 

 was-foaded fatalities. A half-breed in a Chicago 

 dime museum, to show the action of a revolver, pulled 

 the trigger, and as the press dispatches have it, "the 

 usual explosion followed," the bullet entering the breast 

 of a bystander. On the same day a party of friends, 

 among whom was Frank M. Fonda, superintendent of 

 the main stem of the Georgia Central Railroad, set out 

 for Savannah on a steamboat for a trip to Tybee Beach. 

 The excursionists were in high spirits, laughing and jok- 

 ing, and good feeling reigned. Here is what happened, 

 as told in the newspapers: 



While crossing the sound Fonda left the party in the pilot house 

 and went back to the cabin. Half an hour later he returned to 

 them. As he started up the ladder leading from the deck to the 

 pilot house he called to Abrams, who was leaning out of the win- 

 dow, "Jack, I'm coming." 

 Abrams laughed and replied, "No, you're not." 

 "Yes, I am," Fonda said and climbed up to the window. 

 Abrams picked up a Winchester rifle which lay on a seat in the 

 pilot house, pointed it at Fonda, not knowing that it was loaded, 

 and pulled the trigger. The weapon was discharged, and Fonda, 

 who was half way up the ladder, let go the rail to which he held 

 and fell back on the deck dead. The rifle which Abrams thought 

 was not loaded had been loaded by Fonda himself soon a,f ter the 

 tug left the city. The ball entered just under the left eye and 

 pierced the brain. Death was instantaneous. 



There should be a strict law, strenuously enforced, 

 making it a criminal offense to point a firearm at a 

 human being under any circumstances except where 

 actual shooting would be justifiable. Such a law is not 

 needed for the added punishment of the fatuous individ- 

 uals whose fatal foolishness brings wounds and death to 

 their victims and anguish and remorse to themselves. 

 Magistrate's fine and jailer's bar would add little to the 

 self- wrought punishment of a man who, in joke, slaught- 

 ers his friend on a sunshiny Sunday morning. The bene- 

 fit of such a statute and its enforcement would be found 

 in its preventive effect. If every time a pistol or shotgun 

 or rifle were aimed at a person, the fool at the stock was 

 haled before a magistrate and fined, people would, after 

 a while, begin to understand that this sort of play must 

 not be indulged in, and the jocular murders would de- 

 crease. So long, however, as a man who goes through 

 the pantomime of killing another in play, or who actual- 

 ly does kill, is let off without any punishment, the "acci- 

 dents" will be multiplied. 



The wild beast resources of the New England States are 

 by no means exhausted. They pay $10 a scalp for bears 

 in New Hampshire, and the crop yields between $800 and 

 annual bounties. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 T^HE British Columbia Game Protection act of 1887, of 

 which we give an abstract in another column, is 

 plainly inadequate in many of its provisions. Deer are 

 forbidden to be killed for their hide alone, but nothing is 

 said about the killing of elk, caribou, mountain sheep or 

 goats for their hides or heads. As British Columbia is 

 likely to be the coming hunting ground for big game 

 shooting, it is a great pity that some more satisfactory 

 provision with regard to these large animals was not in- 

 serted in the bill. The act is further open to criticism 

 because it affords no sufficient protection to birds other 

 than game. On the other hand the provision which per- 

 mits game to be sold only for three days after the com- 

 mencement of the close season might well serve as a 

 model to legislation in our own States. This law will, it 

 is hoped, be improved at another session of the British 

 Columbia Legislature, and when this is attempted, the 

 framers will do well to considt Mr. John Fannin, Curator 

 of the Provincial Museum at Victoria. Mr. Fannin is an 

 old hunter and a naturalist as well, and no one more com- 

 petent to advise on game legislation can be found in the 

 Province. 



Finn, the Park Row saloon keeper and Assemblyman 

 in the New York Legislature, who wants to serve baby 

 lobsters as free lunch to his patrons, has pushed through 

 the Senate his bill to repeal the present law. It is reported 

 that the bill was passed on the representation of Senator 

 Murphy, that Commissioner Blackford's opposition to it 

 had been withdrawn, and Mr. Blackford is said to be 

 highly indignant that he should have been so misrepre- 

 sented, and the Senate deceived. There is nothing novel 

 in this strategem of passing a bill by hoodwinking the 

 members. When it comes to game legislation at Albany 

 anything is fair so long as it carries a point. This repeal 

 of lobster protection is a vicious measure and is just the 

 sort of bill that Governor Hill may be expected to sign 

 with cheerful alacrity. 



Residents of Gardiner, Montana, who have tried the 

 Yellowstone for trout this year, complain bitterly of the 

 scarcity and small size of the fish. Before the railroad 

 was built it was an ordinary thing to catch a stiing of 

 from ten to fifty pounds of trout, while now an angler 

 has to be content if he carries home three or four pounds. 

 This is not in consequence of over-fishing, but it is a result 

 of the infernal devices employed by the road graders. 

 These lazy fellows— too lazy to fish— had a way of explod- 

 ing dynamite cartridges in the pools and then scooping 

 up such big fish as floated within easy reach, while the 

 rest were carried on by the stream. This depleted the 

 river. It is not the only river that has suffered in this 

 way, nor is it likely to be the last. 



Mr. George M. West, Assistant Superintendent of the 

 Chicago and Northwestern Railway Co, , sends us a hand- 

 somely printed volume, privately printed as a souvenir of 

 a canoe cruise taken by himself and companions from 

 Escanaba, Mich., to Traverse Bay, in August, 1886. The 

 illustrations are artotypes from negatives made by the 

 amateur photographer of the party, and some of them are 

 exquisite bits of work. The preparation of such a volume, 

 text and illustrations, is an admirable method of preserv- 

 ing the pleasant memories of cruise and camp. 



"Wolves" are said to be making great havoc with the 

 deer in the vicinity of Bog Lake, in the Adirondacks. 

 George Muir, the Lowville trapper, recently reported 

 finding six partially devoured carcasses of deer which 

 had been killed by "wolves." This comes of letting the 

 "wolves" go unchained, and turning them loose to forage 

 in the woods to support themselves through the winter, 

 so that when the city "sports" arrive in mid-summer the 

 "wolves" will be in condition to run deer into the water. 



Whatever has become of that scheme of buying up 

 thousands of acres of New Jersey pine lands and con- 

 verting them into a gigantic game preserve ? 



Arbor Day is an anniversary which is growing in favor, 

 and each year sees its wider observance. The influences 

 of the day are all good. 



April is not a decent season for deer killing, though it 

 is in practice an open month in some of the Southern 

 States. 



