Mat 26, 1887.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Salmon in the Connecticut.— Hartford, Conn.. May 

 18. — This year, as usual, a few salmon have been caught 

 In the Connecticut River in shad nets and pounds. On 

 Wednesday last, the 11th, a salmon weighing lOlbs. was 

 caught in a gill-net off Saybrook Point, just below the 

 Shore Line Bailroad bridge. On Friday, the 18th, a very 

 fine salmon was tallren in one of Mr. Chalker's pounds, 

 just east of Saybrook Light. It weighed 18ilbs., and 

 attracted much attention in a market in this eity where 

 it was exliibited. Another salmon is reported to have 

 been caught in Wethersfield Cove, three miles below 

 Hartford. — E. H. F. 



St. John River Salmon.— Fredericton, N. B.,May 20. 

 ==Tlie first salmon caught in this section of the St. John 

 River this season was taken by Mi-. Lunt, of Crock's Point, 

 ten miles above Fredericton, on Tuesday, May 17. It 

 weighed lllbs., and was purchased by the proprietor of 

 the "Queen" at 25 cents per pound. 



Hudson, N. Y.— Our game protector Mathew Kennedy 

 caught with a net in the river near this city a salmon 

 weighing 171bs. He will send it to Governor Hill as an 

 incentive to his reappointment as game protector. What 

 is the law on taking salmon, can they be netted? — G. 



Mr. Thomas J. Conrov, 65 Fulton street, New York, 

 has just issued a retail price list of fishing tackle, with 

 hints on fishing and camping. It is a full octavo of 129 

 pages, fully illustrated, 



A New Jersey Salmon.— Red Bank, N- J., May 17.— 

 An iSlib. salmon just caught at Port Monmouth in apound. 

 Boiled salmon, green peas, with gold seal; dinner at 5.— 

 Wild. 



Striped Bass.— Red Bank, N. J., May 10.— Took first 

 striped bass last Wednesday, May 5, weighed lllbs. This 

 Is the earliest I have ever ta.ken one. — Wild. 



"E&cUMiNAC'' advertises elsewhere to put a party of 

 angiers On Canadian Waters where fish are sure to be 

 found and when found sure to bite, 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Art of Angling; How and Where to Catch Fish. By 

 Wakeman, Holberton. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald. This is a 

 little book suitable for the pocket. There are only 96 pages, but it 

 is full of valuable suggestions to the angler, young or old . Mr. 

 Holberton is well known as an expert fly-fisher. 



SHAD CULTURE. 



THE present season has been the best one for shad fishing 

 in all the rivers of the Atlantic coast that is on record, 

 and the yield of eggs has been enormous. The. United States 

 Fish Commission began work with the expectation of getting 

 a large number, which was set at 30,000,000, and up to May 

 19 over 35,000,000 had been taken, Under the exact system 

 of measuring the eggs these numbers may be relied on as 

 exact. Three cars have been busy in transporting the fry, 

 and under the improved methods of Col. McDonald it is now 

 possible to hatch the fish in the car in a very small compass 

 which was not thought possible when the car-s were built. 

 Eighteen McDonald hatching jars will hatch a million eggs 

 and only occupy a table 6ft. long in one corner of the car. 

 We inspected 'car No. 3, in charge of Mr. F. T. Ellis, at 

 Albany last week, where 1,000,000 eggs were being hatched 

 for the Hudson, in addition to 1,500,000 fry which were taken 

 in the car from Washington. On the night before there had 

 been 850,000 fry planted at Greenbush, from the hatchery at 

 Cold Spring Harbor, from eggs previously sent from the 

 Potomac. This car had previously taken 2.500,000 to 

 Wilmington, Del.; 3,000,000 eggs and fry to Columbia, S. C; 

 5,000,000 eggs to Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y.; and has now 

 gone to Augusta, Me., with 2,000,0000. 



Car No. 2, in charge of G-. H. Moore, has been to Mont- 

 gomery, Ala., and to Mississippi with 1,000,000 for each 

 place. Car No. 1, Newton Simmons in charge, has been dis- 

 tributing from Battery Station, at Havre de Grace, while 

 Mr. Page, of the Central Station at Washington, has been 

 hatching and distributing by messengers to the Upper Poto- 

 mac and the Chesapeake. 



From Cold Spring Harbor, Mr. Mather has distributed to 

 the Hudson and to rivers on Long Island at Sniithtown and 

 Brookhaven. Col. McDonald is m charge of the whole work 

 of distributing the fish, and, while almost overwhelmed at 

 the magnitude of the season's work, has so perfected the 

 arrangements that the eggs have been taken care of without 

 delay. As the fish hatch in from three to six days, according 

 to temperature, this work needs prompt attention and speedy 

 action. The eggs, it will be remembered, are taken from fish 

 caught for market and which would otherwise be lost. The 

 men who take the spawn watch the fishermen and save the 

 ripe eggs. 



On the Pacific coast shad have been plenty in the Sacra- 

 mento River and have strayed up as far as Puget Sound. 

 The first plantings were made in the Sacramento some six 

 or eight years ago; previously no shad were known on the 

 Pacific slope. The New York Fish Commission will hatch 

 shad about Catskill; the fish in this river spawn later than 

 in the Potomac and more southern waters. 



SALMON IN THE HUDSON. 



IN our last issue we predicted that before long we would 

 hear of captures of salmon in the upper Hudson. On 

 Saturday last we saw a 141b. salmon at Mr. Blackford's which 

 was taken at Nyack. Mr. Gresham, of New York, had a 

 letter from Mr. L. B. Hoyt, of Troy, saying he had taken a 

 salmon with hook and line off Green Island, between Troy 

 and West Troy, which weighed 2S>»lbs., the largest fish yet 

 taken in the river. Mr. Mathew Kennedy, of Hudson, took 

 a 12-pounder near that city on Saturday last. In spite of 

 these evidences of the success of plantings by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission it looks as if the movement to build fish ways in 

 the upper Hudson would fail this year. The mill owners 

 oppose the bill, fearing that the fishways will diminish their 

 water supply. The facts are that the salmon run up in May 

 and June when the water is plenty, and during the August 

 drouth the fishways are not needed. If the State of New 

 York cares to preserve the salmon which have been planted 

 in this river, and have proved by their return that the river 

 is adapted to them, then fishways should be erected in order 

 that the fish may reach the spawning grounds; and the fish 

 should be protected from capture until the river is firmly 

 established as a self-supporting salmon stream, or one that 

 can furnish eggs enough to keep up the stock. 



Write Upthegbove & McLellan, Yalparaiso, Ind., for new 

 catalogue of sportsmen's and civil engineers' wear.— Adv. 



he Mmntl 



Address all imnmunicatimm to the Forest and Stream Pith. (Jo 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



May "i to 27.— Inaugural Dog Show of the Michigan Kennel 

 Club, at Detroit, Mich. Chas. Weil, Secretary, Newberry and Mc- 

 Millan Buildiug, Detroit, Mich. Entries close May 10. 



Sept. 1 to 3.— Inaugural Dog Show of the Pacific Kennel Club, at 

 San Francisco, Cal. J. E. Watson, Secretary, 516 Sacramento 

 street. San Francisco, Cal. 



Sept.. 12 to 17.— First Show St. Paul ana Minnesota Kennel Club, 

 St. Paul, Minn. W. G. Whitehead, Secretary. 



Oct. 12 and 13.— Stafford Kennel Club Show, Stafford Springs, 

 Conn. R. S. Hicks, Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 7.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Western Field Trials 

 Association. R. C. Van Horn, Secretary, Kansas City, Mo. 



Nov, 21.— Ninth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field Trials 

 Club, at High Point:, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Flathush, 

 Kings County, N. Y. 



Deceuiher.— First Annual Field Trials of the American Field 

 Trials Club, at Florence, Ala. C. W. Paris, Secretary, Cincinnati, 

 O. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 

 rpHE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

 of pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is 

 published every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in 

 early. Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed 

 envelope. Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany each entry. 

 No entries inserted unleaB paid in advance. Yearly subscription 

 .$1.50. Address "American Kennel Register," P. O. Box 2832, New 

 York. Number of entries already printed 5036. 



AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB METHODS. 



Editor Forest mid Stream: 



As you were kind enough to publish my letter under the 

 above caption I will, with your permission, proceed further 

 with the story, directing attention this time to the protests 

 which came up for discussion. 



The first was the Glenlivat case, which will never be heard 

 of more, though it would have been had it not been my mis- 

 fortune to have him accidentally killed a week ago. In 

 Forest and STREAM'S report of the A. K. C. meeting the 

 case is briefly dismissed in these words: "In Appeal against 

 Watson's protest delegate Peshall was sustained." It was 

 not my protest at all, nor will you ever catch my name at- 

 tached to such a silly protest as that was. And I am glad 

 to say that Mr. Terry acknowledged he had not been in- 

 formed of the whole circumstances, otherwise his name 

 would not have been attached to it. That leaves three other 

 protestors to be accounted for, and of these one had what 

 I cannot help calling the hardihood to tell me half an hour 

 after the "protest had been turned out of court that had he 

 known I had indorsed my entry blank he would not have 

 joined in the protest. The peculiarity of this statement can 

 best be understood when it is known that this gentleman 

 was present before the Newark show committee and heard 

 the indorsement on the entry blank read and discussed, and 

 an hour later was present as the representative of the pro- 

 testors when Mr. Peshall again discussed the force of the 

 indorsement and unhesitatingly overruled the committee. 



As Mr. Wade has referred to the Glenlivat case, and I do 

 not now see any prospect of it ever coming up for decision 

 on its merits, 1 think it due to myself that the whole story 

 be told: It appears that Mr. Kyle desired to breed his bitch 

 Mavis to Mr. Jas. Lindsay's Rex. Mr. Lindsay has stated 

 that Mr. Kyle was present when Rex and Mavis were mated. 

 This, Mr. Kyle tells ine, was not so. He sent Mavis by ex- 

 press to Jersey City and then, deciding to go to New York 

 on business, went over to Jersey City. He waited at Mr. 

 Lindsay's until it was time for him to leave, and just as he 

 stepped out of the house the express wagon drove up. He, 

 however, could wait no longer and left Mr. Lindsay to attend 

 to the mating, and on the following day Mavis was shipped 

 back to her owner. After the birth of the puppies, Mr. Kyle 

 tells me, he felt convinced that they were not" by Rex, and 

 decided to have Mr. Lindsay come up and see them. After 

 several requests Mr. Lindsay visited Sound Beach, and on 

 being shown the puppies acknowledged that they were by 

 Strephon. On the return of Mr. Kyle and Mr. Lindsay to 

 the house from seeing the puppies, and while seated on the 

 verandah, Mr. Kyle tells me that Mr. Lindsay gave him the 

 following explanation: He brought Mavis into the passage- 

 way of his house, left her there and went for Hex, who was 

 somewhere in the house. When he returned with Rex he 

 found that Strephon had slipped in unobserved and the dam- 

 age was done. This story Tie gave Mr. Kyle as from one 

 Mason to another. Mr. Kyle was much x»ut out at having 

 his suspicions verified, and 'did not want any of Strephon's 

 puppies. Mr. Lindsay was doubtless only too glad to get 

 them, and a deal wasjuade. Mrs. Kyle, however, said she 

 wanted one and picked Glenlivat. This almost broke the 

 sale off, but it ,was again made all right, and Mr. Lindsay 

 got two bitches and a dog. Nothing further was made pub- 

 lic about any of the litter until Mr. Lindsay entered his two 

 bitches in the collie sweepstakes and the purchaser of his 

 dog puppy also made an entry, all as by Strephon out of 

 Mavis. 1 came across Glenlivat at the Winsted show and 

 persuaded Mr. Kyle to enter him in the collie sweepstakes. 

 He said he was willing, and I wrote to the Collie Club sec- 

 retary asking him to please accept the entry if the books 

 were not closed — I knew they were being kept open after Dec. 

 1. This letter I mailed for Mr. Kyle. Mr. Smith, the secre- 

 tary, says I made the entry in person, but his memory is 

 incorrect on this point. The entry was accepted. 



Shortly afterward Mr. Shotwell unearthed the notice of 

 the service of Mavis by Rex in the American Kennel Reg- 

 ister and then the trouble began. Mr. Smith endeavored to 

 make a telling point on me by saying I had said that the 

 entries in the Collie Club sweepstakes should have been 

 made with both sires. The point failed, however, when I 

 willingly acknowledged the statement, but that subsequent 

 information had caused me to believe that Hex had never 

 been used. 



Perhaps I had here better state my connection with the 

 dog. I purchased him on Feb. 28 and it was before that 

 that Mr. Shotwell's discovery was made public, by which 

 the onus was thrown on Mr. Lindsay. He sought to get out 

 of the difficulty by saying he had never sent the entry to the 

 American Kennel Register, In a footnote to Mr. Shotwell's 

 letter to the American Kennel Register (see January, 1887) 

 I said: "It is for Mr. Lindsay to rise and explain about the 

 breeding of Mavis. The entry in the Breeding Register was 

 sent us by Mr. Lindsay." In a letter to me dated Feb. 3 he 

 says: "You make a mistake when you say I sent notice of 

 her breeding to Rex to the American Kennel Register. I 

 never did; must have been Mr. Kyle." 



1 commenced thinking over the'ease, and bit by bit it came 

 back to me. I soon distinctly recollected getting a letter 

 from Mr. Lindsay, in which he asked me to put in the breed- 

 ing of Maris to Rex, and he went on to tell me a queer story 

 of the condition Mavis was in when received by Mr. Kyle 

 from Dr. H. M. Perry. I further recollected that as Mr. 

 Kyle was not then allowed the privilege of the American 

 Kennel Register I placed the letter aside for one month's 

 issue to give it further thought. Before the number for 



February, 1886, came out I again had a lively note, asking 

 me to be sure and get the Mavis— Rex entry in, and it was 

 decided to do so. Mr. Lindsay at the same time sent in other 

 entries, which also appeared in the February number. I did 

 my best to get hold of the letters, but could, not find them, 

 search as I might. I felt convinced I had kept the first one, 

 but the second being only a short note of request I did not 

 expect to get. 



On Feb. 9 I wrote Mr. Lindsay and said I was certain he 

 had made the entry. On Feb. 10 he wrote, "You make a 

 mistake when you think I sent in record of Mavis's breed- 

 ing." I replied the same day, stating my recollection of his 

 letters of the year before, and on Feb.' 12 he again wrote: 

 "When I first met Mr. Kyle I saw Mavis and she was lame, 

 that I remember writing you. But I did not write you say- 

 ing that she was bred to Rex. I made a correct statement. 

 Should I on the other hand have said they were Rex pups 

 what would the result have been, any man can see Strephon 

 in them." After this Mr. Lindsay wrote to the A. K. R. 

 and his denial of his having sent notice of the service was 

 published without comment, as I did not wish to enter into 

 a controversy without proof. 



A few days before the Newark show I at last came across 

 the missing bundle of letters, and among them was this one: 



"Jersey CtTY.N. J., Jan. 23, 1886.— Mr. Jas. Watson— 

 Dear Sir: A. R. Kyle bought collie bitch Mavis (formerly 

 La Reine, A.K.R. 1651) and had her bred to Rex on the 18th 

 of this month, and he wants me to have the breeding 

 recorded in the Register. What do you say about it? The 

 more I hear of Dr. Perry the worse he appears. This bitch 

 Mavis has had her hip disjointed and is lame for life. * * * 

 Yours truly, Jas. Lindsay." 



I give the last sentence only to prove the correctness of my 

 recollection when I endeavored to prompt Mr. Lindsay's 

 memory. 



Perhaps I seem to have given too much space to this point, 

 but as the whole thing hinges upon Mr. Lindsay's veracity 

 and the value to be placed upon his statements, it is only 

 proper a determinable piece of evidence of this kind should be 

 fully set forth. 



As soon as I bought the dog I petitioned the American 

 Kennel Club to appoint a committee, to investigate and de- 

 cide the question of paternity. I had by that time heard 

 three separate and distinct stories of the breeding of Mavis 

 The one Mr. Kyle got from Lindsay, on the word of a Mason, 

 another directly from Mr. Lindsay, and the third from the 

 secretary of the CoUie Club. All could not be correct, for if 

 one was the other two were not. Subsequently I heard two 

 variations of previous stories and had such an ample assort- 

 ment to select from that I preferred to keep my choice as the 

 dark horse. Now that the best collie ever owned in this 

 country is dead, and his pedigree Is of concern to no one, I 

 will state what my opinion and belief were. My opinion 

 was that if an accident had happened there would have been 

 but one story afloat as to how it occurred. My belief was that 

 Rex was not capable of earning his stud fee. Therefore I 

 chose to throw tlje onus of a decision upon the alleged govern- 

 ing power of dogdom. 



Some day 1 may refer to the underhand work of certain 

 persons between the time of my purchasing Glenlivat and 

 exhibiting him at Newark, but that does not form a part of 

 the case as before the public. The dog was protested and, 

 as stated by Mr. Wade, the committee meeting was brought 

 forward with seemingly the special object of throwing this 

 dog out. People said I was a fool to take the dog there in 

 his condition — lame from a blow from a horse's hoof — but, 

 my good masters, there was a method in my madness. The 

 delegate to the A.K.C. of the New Jersey Club, Mr. Peshall, 

 is a lawyer, and with any person of legal training I felt safe. 

 Just as I expected, the show committee made a mistake and 

 chose to consider themselves entitled to investigate a pedi- 

 gree and decide it on ex parte evidence. I think the coun- 

 sel for the plaintiff at that Newark meeting must have 

 felt flat. When we were all in the upper chamber Mr. Lind- 

 say was, with great ostentation, called upon as a witness, 

 and three or four leading questions put to him, and then 

 with a Louis XIV. air I was requested to cross-examine 

 him. They mistook their man. I was there to prove that 

 the dog was identified as called for by Rule II., not to estab- 

 lish a pedigree at a few moments' notice, with every witness 

 I could produce, to testify to the various stories I had heard 

 as coming from Mr. Lindsay fifty or more miles away. 

 Leaving Mr. Lindsay alone, I did my best to impress upon 

 the committee the fact that they were not investigating the 

 dog's pedigree, but his identity; but they preferred their own 

 course, and in language only a grade less refined than the 

 offensiveness of the protestors, alleged my being party to a 

 misstatement. 



Mr. Wade has told the story of the disgraceful efforts to 

 turn me and my dogs out of the ring. I am only surprised 

 that men who did not hesitate to speak of my quietly assert- 

 ing my rights as "a damned outrage," etc., did not stop at 

 personal violence. Perhaps the practical lesson I adminis- 

 tered to oue of the parties the previous day had its effect. 

 If Mr. Wade had known as I did that the person who was 

 ordering hun to turn me out of the ring was doing it simply 

 as a fellow exhibitor he would have given him the proper 

 answer. 



This same exhibitor appeared as special counsel for the 

 protestors when Mr. Peshall heard my appeal. I do not 

 think I said six words to Mr. Peshall beyond saying that my 

 only defense was my entry form. That was produced, and 

 notwithstanding the' pitiful pleadings of the protestors' at- 

 | toafesrttthe committee's decision to throw the dog out was 

 "unhesitatingly overruled." The court was still instruct- 

 ing counsel for the respondent on the law of the case when I 

 left the room. The judging w r as then resumed, and my poor 

 lame dog, that had had no attention for three hours, had to 

 be hurried into the ring. The result matters not now, but 

 the horrible example he made of the sweepstakes entries is 

 not likely to be forgot by those who were spectators of the 

 scene. 



I did not propose saying anything about the Collie Club in 

 connection with this affair, but I cannot refrain from giving 

 one incident. I was much surprised to receive from the 

 Collie Club secretary a letter to the effect that if no objec- 

 tion was raised by Mr. Shotwell, whose entry came next to 

 Glenlivat in the decision of the sweepstake, I 'would be paid 

 the money awarded to my dog. Mr. Shotwell, the secretary 

 informed'me a few days later, had no objectiou, provided I 

 agreed to give it back if the dog was thrown out. I 

 never asked for the money, never even suggested that 

 it be paid over, for I knew a little more than to ex- 

 pect to get cash "attached" by a protest. Still the only 

 one who had claim to the money having waived his right, 

 one would suppose that it would have been paid over 

 as promised. Judge of my surprise, however, when I 

 received a letter from the secretary saying the Collie Club 

 committee had decided not to pay the money until the 

 appeal was decided. Bear in mind that it was perfectly well 

 known to all that the indorsement on the entry form had 

 saved the dog from disqualification, and yet we find the 

 committee saying the money should not be paid, although 

 the only person they were protecting had at their request 

 waived his claim, and at the next stage of the proceedings 

 Mr. Terry of the club committee and one of the prostestors 

 rises and says if the indorsement had been known the pro- 

 test would not have been made. There is a nasty mess then 

 somewhere. 



Mr. Peshall hit the nail on the head when ou looking over 

 Glenlivat at Newark he quizzically said: "It looks as if they 

 had reason to protest the dog." 



The Glenlivat case is settled, and I think those who have 

 followed me thus far will say they are glad of it. Still, gen- 



