Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 28, 1887. 



1 VOL. XXVIII.-No. 14. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Over the Snow. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Winter in Wonderland.— rv. 



An Outing in Canada. 



The Kind of a Chap He Was. 

 Natural History. 



New Mexican Bird Notes.— n. 



My Last Meeting with Buck- 

 land. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Yellowstone Park Regulations 



In the Bear River Country. 



Spots in Barrels. 



Three days on Great South Bay 



The Beef Issue. 



Hunting Rifle Sights. 



On the Kankakee. 



Maine Deer and Moose. 



New York Game Bills. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



On Moosehead Waters. 



To the Memory of Angling 

 Writers. 



Kill Fish When Caught. 

 Fishculture. 



A Goldfish Pond. 



FlSHCUXTURE. 



New York Legislation. 



American Fisheries Society. 



That New Trout of Sunapee 

 Lake. 

 The Kennel. 



Philadelphia Show. 



Hartford Dog Show. 



Mastiff ClubCups. 



A. K. R. Entries. 



The Bench Shows, 



Kennel Management. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



Creedmoor Programme. 



The Trap. 



Decoration Day Trophy. 

 Yachting. 



Arrow and the Queen's Cup. 



Among the Builders. 



Catboat Cruise up the Hudson 



Yachting Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



A Cruise on Lake Michigan. 



A Cruise, in a Fog. 



Brooklyn Notes. 



Eastern Division Meet. 

 Answers to Correspondents, 



THIRTY-TWO PAGES. 

 Four page* are added to the umial twenty-eight, and this 

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



OVER THE SNOW. 

 /~"\UR readers who have followed with so much inter- 

 ^-^ est the story of our special explorer over the snow- 

 drifts of the Yellowstone Park will welcome the map of 

 his route which we publish to-day. On this map is 

 shown Mr. Hofer's trail, and on it all the points are noted 

 where game was seen by him. It will be remembered 

 that from the Mammoth Hot Springs to the Upper Geyser 

 Basin our correspondent's route followed the road. From 

 the Upper Basin he struck off across the Divide, as told 

 in the portion of the report published to-day, camping on 

 Pacific waters, reached Shoshone Lake, and after travel- 

 ing some distance on the ice, recrossed the range and 

 marched on the ice of Yellowstone Lake down to the 

 outlet. His route is indicated on the map by the double 

 dotted and crossed line which runs from the Upper Basin 

 to the outlet of the lake. From this latter point the road 

 was followed to the Falls, and from there the trail leads 

 over the mountains between Mts. Dunraven and Wash- 

 burne to Yancey's. After leaving Yancey's the Cooke 

 City road was followed down to its junction with the 

 road from Gardiner to the Hot Springs. 



The localities where he saw game are plainly shown on 

 our map, and in this way a very clear idea is given of the 

 winter range of game in that portion of the Park traversed 

 by our correspondent. It will be observed that elk were 

 seen in the Swan Lake Basin and along the Yellowstone 

 Eiver from the lake down; that buffalo were noticed on 

 Specimen Ridge and to the east of the Yellowstone, and 

 that antelope were seen about Mt. Evarts. No deer were 

 observed, for these animals all leave the Park in winter, 

 returning very early in the spring. 



The map is reproduced for the benefit of our readers 

 from the new map of the U. S. Geological Survey just 

 published, and contains the latest and most accurate in- 

 formation about the Park. 



In our next issue the concluding instalment of our cor- 

 respondent's report will be published, and the story of the 



two hundred miles of travel over the snow will be told. 

 The concluding letter will deal principally with the game 

 seen, and will emphasize and confirm the position which 

 Forest and Stream has always taken with regard to the 

 danger which would ensue to game from the building of 

 a railroad up the Yellowstone River to Cooke City. 



All our information from the Park points to abundance 

 of large game there, and the good results of two years of 

 protection are now being seen. Early in April John Yan- 

 cey caino into Gardiner, Montana, from his place in 

 Pleasant Valley, in the Yellowstone Park near Lost Creek. 

 He reported that he saw on the hills toward the Yellow- 

 stone, north of the Cooke City road near the mouth of 

 Geode Creek (Little Blacktail) a band of about 500 elk. 

 John Yancey is an old hunter, and a man who does not 

 get excited when he sees a band of elk and "guess" that 

 there are twice as many as there really are. We believe 

 that the day is not distant when game will be so abundant 

 on the reservation that even the tourists who go through 

 the Park on the traveled roads will be able to see it now 

 and then from their stage coach seats. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



"VTANY wails are heard in lament of diminishing game 

 grounds and restriction of shooting territory open 

 to the public; but your true sportsman of the red abo- 

 riginal descent is the one who has a real grievance in the 

 matter. The limitless hunting grounds of his ancestors 

 have disappeared before the westward progress of civil- 

 ization and the wire fence man. His wide rolling 

 prairies have been given over for pent reserva- 

 tions. The vast herds of antelope and buffalo, the 

 noble game which fell to the arrow of his hardy sires, 



have been exchanged for tame cows and spiritless steers, 

 doled out by a patriarchal government to be shot with 

 civilized rifles. The buffalo hunt of other times may 

 not have been entirely devoid of brutality, yet was there 

 about it a certain excitement and picturesqueness which 

 one looks for in vain in the corraled cow hunts of to-day. 

 It would be difficult, too, to find in a Sioux beef issue any 

 of the romance which, however mistakenly none the 

 less actually, is credited to Indian hunting, as it was con- 

 ducted in the buffalo days. The degenerate savage doubt- 

 less enjoys the "sport" so kindly provided for him by 

 the Indian Bureau, and for that matter it is enjoyed by 

 the women who are sent out to teach the Indians, but 

 described in cold type it is a sorry style of amusement and 

 very poor way to butcher beef. 



Elsewhere is printed an account of a beef issue on a 

 Western Indian reservation. The cattle are turned loose 

 and the Indians chase them on horseback and shoot them 

 with repeating rifles. Mr. Harrison rightly characterizes 

 the proceeding as a "brutal and brutalizing spectacle." 

 It is almost incredible that the authorities at Washington 

 should countenance such atrocities as those described in 

 this account. The chapter is taken from a little volume 

 entitled "The Latest Studies on Indian Reservations," 

 written by Mr. J. B. Harrison, and sent to us by the 

 Indian Rights Association, of Philadelphia. It is intelli- 

 gently written and contains a store of solid truth. 



Among persistent superstitions is the belief in the 

 death-foreboding significance of a dog's howl at night in 

 the neighborhood of a sick chamber. The mental strength 

 of rugged health may scoff at the notion and pooh-pooh 

 it as fit for fools, but when days and nights of sickness 

 have weakened body and nerves and brain, when weird 

 imaginings and eerie notions supplant dethroned com- 

 mon sense, signs and tokens of evil import find all too 

 ready acceptance, and a dog's mournful midnight wail 

 brings terror and apprehension. Just now the New York 

 Board of Health is concerned with providing relief for 

 hospital patients who are distressed by dogs howling at 

 night. The dog pound, where hundreds of waifs and 

 strays and stolen dogs are huddled, pending consignment 

 to death in the flood of the East River, is between two 

 hospitals in close proximity to it. The hospital physi- 

 cians say that most of their patients are very superstitious, 

 and the continuous howling of the dogs has a decidedly 

 injurious effect on them. Aside from the superstitious 

 notions, the racket is most trying to the nerves, and the 

 piteous wailing of a cage full of dogs as they are run down 

 to the river to drown is enough to drive a sick man fran- 

 tic. It is proposed to remove the pound to a distant 

 wharf. While they are about it the authorities might, 

 with great credit to themselves, devise some more 

 humane system of destruction than the crate drowning. 



A bill has recently passed the New York Legislature by 

 which a number of gentleman, among them Mr. Dana of 

 the Sun and Mr. Ottendorfer of the Staats Zeitung are 

 authorized to form a corporation to carry on a zoological 

 garden in this city. The lack of an institution of this 

 kind has long been a disgrace to the largest city of the 

 Union, and we hope that the present proposed organiza- 

 tion may succeed in accomplishing the object it has in 

 view. Those who remember the number of previous 

 schemes of this character, which have been ushered in 

 with a tremendous flourish of trumpets, and have then 

 promptly perished in the quietest and most unobtrusive 

 way, will be disposed to pause a little before offering 

 their congratulation to the new company. New York 

 ought to havo such a garden. Its influence as a public 

 educator can scarcely be over-estimated, and that it 

 would be a source of constant pleasure to the people is 

 shown by the crowds that flock to Central Park to inspect 

 the few beasts that are exhibited there. 



We are informed that the young salmon planted by the 

 United States Fish Commission in a stream about North 

 Creek, Warren county, N. Y., have been captured by 

 trout fishers. Our correspondent says: "I was told re- 

 cently that a number of salmon were caught from Balm 

 of Gilead Brook last year and were not put back in the 

 water. We ought to have the six-inch law again, and I 

 hope we will." As these fish are not found in the brooks 

 after they have grown to a length exceeding six or eight 

 inches it is wrong to kill them. All right-minded anglers 

 will at once return small salmon to the water if they are 

 hooked while trout fishing. The people who live near 

 the brooks which have been stocked by the Fish Commis- 

 sion at considerable expense should interest themselves 

 to protect those fish. 



We have examined with interest and pleasure a series of 

 winter views of the Park, taken by Mr. F. Jay Haynes, of 

 Fargo, Dakota, during his recent snowshoe trip in the 

 Yellowstone Park. It will be remembered that Mr. 

 Haynes started with Schwatka, and when the latter's ex- 

 pedition gave out, Mr. Haynes pluckily kept on, visited 

 the Geyser Basins and the Falls and returned by the way 

 of Mount Washburne and Yancey's to Gardiner. The 

 views secured are artistically beautiful and represent 

 wonderful examples of nature's handiwork. To those 

 who have read Mr. Hofer's story of his joiuney through 

 the Park they will have a double interest. 



The Westminster Kennel Club's bench show at the 

 Madison Square Garden this year, will be notable as the 

 final exhibition of the kind given in that building, which 

 is to be torn down to make room for a larger and more 

 elaborate structure. The garden will always have a 

 prominent place in American dog show history, for it 

 was here that the first impetus was given to bench shows 

 in this country. The Westminster Kennel Club show of 

 1877 was not the first held in this country, but it was the 

 one from which dates the beginning of the annually 

 increasing list. 



That the supply of fish in angling waters must be main- 

 tained by artificial stocking is rapidly coming to be an 

 economic tenet of general acceptance. Even some of the 

 Adirondack hotel men and guides — a class of men not 

 blessed with a too liberal supply of gumption and fore- 

 thought — have come to see this and have undertaken to 

 restock their lakes and streams. The Fulton chain of 

 lakes have been stocked year after year, and the supply 

 has been maintained, while the Raquette waters, in 

 default of such attention, are now nearly depleted. 



It is estimated that an Algerian lion kills $2,000 worth 

 of cattle per annum; and Achmed-ben-Amar, a mighty 

 hunter, having slain 200 lions, is credited with saving his 

 grateful countrymen a vast sum of money. He has re- 

 ceived the order of the Legion of Honor, and doubtless 

 deserved it as fully as some others of the order whose 

 decoration has been won by feats of killing their fellow 

 men. 



The New York game law bill, known as the Roosevelt 

 bill, has been withdrawn because of the opposition it ex- 

 cited, and the promoters now propose to begin earlier 

 next year and secure the cooperation of other societies. 



Germany will soon celebrate the centenary of Baron 

 Munchausen. The event will be one in which, of course, 

 anglers will take a lively interest the world over. 



