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Good Fishing in New Hampshire. — Sunapee Lake, 

 N. H., July 11. — Editor Forest and Stream: The trout 

 fishing here has been exceptionally fine this season, and 

 it is said that more trout of 41bs. and over have been 

 taken in this lake tban at any time in the Rangeley 

 region. Col. A. J. Hobbs, of the Union Metallic Cartridge 

 Company, has been up here for two or three weeks and 

 found excellent sport; his largest fish was about 81bs., but 

 he took several of 4 and olbs., which are quite common. 

 These fish are the new Sunapee "What is it," a discussion 

 as to their species having gone on in your columns a 

 short time ago. At this time of the year they are only 

 taken with bait. Col. Hobbs also took a brook trout of 

 61bs. during his fishing. Last spring a great many were 

 taken with a fly, more than have been taken any year 

 previous. —Sunapee. 



Bluefishing in Great South Bay.— The bluefishing 

 is better than ever this week along the south Bhore of 

 Long Island, but the menhaden are scarce and therefore 

 chumming is not as remunerative as trolling with the 

 squid. There is a rush of fishermen to all the villages on 

 the South Bay and boats are at a premium. Large catches 

 are reported and one man is said to have taken nearly 500 

 fish in five days. The prohibition of net fishing is credited 

 with this state of things, but, whatever the cause, anglers 

 are rejoicing. The towns on the bay can be reached by 

 the Long Island Railroad" in two hours, or less, and 

 strangers in this city can easily look up the time tables of 

 that road. Boats can be obtained at any of the ports on 

 the south side. 



Rainbow Trout from the Willow.— Hudson, Wis., 

 July 11.— June 24 H. C. Reed of this place caught from 

 the Willow River six rainbow trout and two brook trout. 

 The largest rainbow trout weighed 3ilbs., the smallest 

 21bs. , and the two trout weighed £lb. each. A few days 

 later L. G. Green took from the same stream two rainbow 

 trout that weighed when dressed 31bs. each. The rainbow 

 trout were all planted within the last three years. So 

 much for our State Fish Commission.— J as. P. Balsom. 



Jolly Hunting and Fishing Club.— At the annual 

 election, which was held about the middle of June, the 

 following officers were elected for the ensuing year: 

 Jas. R. Watt, president; Humphrey Mount, vice-president; 

 S. S. Hudepohl, secretary-treasurer; Samuel Atkinson, 

 assistant secretary; Herman Pannier, camp sergeant. 

 The other members of the club are: W. J. Siebert, L. E. 

 Hanky, John B. Bailie, Thomas Watt and David Jones. — 

 S. S. Hudepohl, Secretary (Creighton, Pa., July 13.) 



A Rare Visitor.— Perth Amboy, N. J., July 13. — A 

 strange fish, supposed to be a white whale, was seen to- 

 day in Raritan Bay off this town by several persons. It 

 was about 30ft. long, and rose to the surface at intervals 

 of about one minute. — J. L. K. 



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NEW YORK OYSTER LAW. 



THE following law relating to the oyster grounds of New 

 York has been signed by the Governor and is recorded 

 in Chapter 5S4, Laws of 1887: 



Section 1. The Commissioner of Fisheries.appointed under 

 Chapter 309. Laws of 1879, and his successor in office, shall be 

 known as the Shell-Pish Commissioner, and shall finish and 

 complete the survey now being made under his direction of 

 all the lands under the waters of the State suitable for use 

 for the planting and cultivation of shell-fish, and shall make 

 a map thereof as heretofore provided. He shall finish and 

 complete the survey now beiag made of all the beds of oysters 

 of natural growth located in the waters of the State, and 

 such beds of oysters of natural growth shall be set apart and 

 preserved, and shall not be deemed to be included in the 

 lands for which franchises are to be sold under the provis- 

 ions of this act. Said commissioner shall ascertain the oc- 

 cupants of all lands claimed to be in the possession or occu- 

 pation of any person or persons, and no grant of lands so 

 occupied or possessed shall be made, except to the actual 

 occupant or possessor thereof; provided said occupant or 

 possessor, within one year from the passage of this act, shall 

 make application for, and purchase the same. 



Sec. 2. For the further purposes of this act, the Governor 

 is hereby authorized to appoint an additional Commissioner 

 of Fisheries, who shall be a man of experience in oyster 

 culture, and who shall be a resident of Richmond, Queens, 

 Kings or Suffolk counties. 



Sec 3. Immediately after the passage of this act the Com- 

 missioners of Fisheries shall meet at some place, to be desig- 

 nated by them, in the city of New York, for the purpose of 

 making such rules and regulations as shall be deemed neces- 

 sary as preliminary to hearing and granting applications for 

 perpetual franchises for the purpose of shell-fish cultivation 

 on the lands under the waters of this State, mentioned in 

 section 1 of this act, suitable for planting and cultivation of 

 shell-fish. After such rules and regulations shall have been 

 agreed upon and formulated, the said Commissioners of 

 Fisheries shall proceed to grant franchise for the purposes 

 of shell-fish cultivation, as hereinafter provided. But no 

 such franchise shall be granted until one month's notice of 

 the application for a franchise or franchises shall have been 

 given by posting iu a conspicuous place, in the office of the 

 Shell-Fish Commissioner, and in the office of the town clerk 

 of the town nearest to the lands applied for. 



Sec. 4. No grant shall be made to any person or persons 

 who have not resided in this State at least one year preced- 

 ing the date of application, and no grant shall be made to 

 any person, firm or corporation in excess of two hundred and 

 fifty acres, and no person, firm or corporation shall be 

 allowed to hold, at any one time, more than two hundred 

 and fifty acres. 



Sec. 5. When the conditions precedent to the granting of 

 franchises, mentioned in the foregoing sections, have been 

 complied with, the Commissioners of Fisheries are hereby 

 empowered, in the name and behalf of the people of the 

 State of New York, to grant, by written instruments under 

 their hands and seals, perpetual franchises for the purposes 

 of shell-fish cultivation in the lands applied for under the 

 waters of the State, for the consideration of not less than one 

 dollar per acre if the lands are unoccupied or unused, and 

 not less than twenty-five cents per acre if the lands are in 

 present use and occupation, and the right to use and occupy 

 said grounds for said purposes shall be and remain in the 

 said grantee, his legal representatives or successors forever; 

 provided only that the said grantee, his legal representa- 

 tives or successors shall actually use and occupy the same 

 for the purposes of shell-fish cultivation, and for no other 



purpose whatever. And the moneys received for the sale of 

 such franchises shall be paid forthwith into the treasury of 

 this State. 



Sec. 6. The franchises thus granted shall be deemed to be 

 personal property, and courts of law and of equity shall have 

 power, authority and jurisdiction to determine and enforce 

 the rights of persons, firms or corporations thereto as though 

 such franchises were actually personal property owned and 

 possessed by such persons, firms or corporations, and such 

 franchises may be sold, transferred, assigned or conveyed 

 the same as other personal property. Immediately after the 

 receipt of the aforesaid instruments of conveyance, the 

 grantee shall at once cause the grounds therein conveyed to 

 Be plainly marked out by stakes, buoys or monuments, 

 which stakes, buoys or monuments shall bo continued by 

 said grantee, his legal representatives or successors. 



Sec. 7 The said commissioners are hereby authorized to 

 appoint and employ a clerk whose compensation shall not 

 exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum, which compensa- 

 tion and the necessary expenses for carrying out the pro- 

 visions of this act shall be paid bv the Treasurer upon the 

 warrant of the Comptroller, to the order of the said com- 

 missioners, upon vouchers to be approved by the Comptroller. 

 The said clerk shall give a bond, to be approved by the Comp- 

 troller, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, for the 

 faithful performance of his duties. 



Sec 8. The provisions of this act shall not be deemed to 

 limit or interfere with the powers of the Commissioners of 

 of the Land Office to grant to owners of uplands adjacent to 

 such fisheries any of the lands under the waters of this State 

 as is now provided by law. But in case anv grant shall be 

 made by the Commissioners of the Land Office of any land 

 actually occupied and in use under the provisions of this act 

 for the cultivation of shell-fish, such grant by said Commis- 

 sioners of the Land Office shall be subject to the right of the 

 occupant to occupy such grounds for two years thereafter 

 for the cultivation and removal of the shell-fish there 

 planted. 



Sec. 9, This act shall not apply to nor be held to affect in 

 any way lands under water owned, controlled or claimed 

 under colonial patents or legislative grants by any town or 

 towns, person or persons, in the counties of Suffolk, Queens, 

 Kings and Richmond: lands under the waters of Gardiner's 

 and Peconic bays, ceded by the State to the county of Suffolk, 

 pursuant to chapter three hundred and eighty-five of the 

 laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-five, lands under water 

 in Jamaica Bay, lands in the jurisdiction of the towns of 

 Hempstead and Jamaica or in the county of Westchester. 



Sec. 10. The sum of three thousand dollars, or so much 

 thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, payable 

 by the Treasurer on the warrant of the Comptroller to the 

 order of the said commissioners for carrying out the pro- 

 visions of this act, upon vouchers to be approved by the 

 Comptroller. 



Sec 11. This act shall take effect immediately. 



THE MOHAWK FISH WAYS. — A correspondent has ex- 

 amined the fishways of the Schoharie and Mohawk rivers 

 and reports them to be in perfect condition, although they 

 were subjected during the past winter to the heaviest ice- 

 floods known there for a number of years. Mike Crane, who 

 is in charge of the work connected with the canal at Schen 

 ectady, says that during May he and numbers of others fre- 

 quently observed bass, pike, suckers and other fish passing 

 the fishway freely during the day time. The fishway at 

 Schenectady has one fault — it is open — and evil-minded per- 

 sons have thrown rocks and sticks into it, which have made 

 obstructions which accumulate leaves and mud and are 

 liable to clog the working of the fishway. When Col. Mc- 

 Donald visited it this summer he promised to remedy this 

 by placing a heavy iron grating over the central opening, 

 which will allow nothing but leaves, sand and mud to pass 

 through and this will be swept out by the force of the cur- 

 rent. We learn from Mr. Shanahan, Superintendent Public 

 Works, that Col. McDonald has filed improved plans for the 

 Troy dam and for the fishways in the western part of the 

 State, which will obviate this difficulty entirely, by being 

 covered over and thoroughly protected "against damage by 

 ice or flood, and that there is also provided an automatic 

 means for discharging all sand and gravel that may enter 

 with the water. 



THE NEW YORK FISH COMMISSION.— Under the 

 provisions of the new oyster law, published elsewhere, the 

 Governor has appointed Mr. A. Sylvester Joline to be a 

 Commissioner of Fisheries. Mr. Joline, although appointed 

 under the oyster Jaw, has the same powers and duties as the 

 other Commissioners, and we think that the whole board 

 are now oyster commissioners as well as Messrs. Blackford 

 and Joline. Among the oystermen the appointment of Mr. 

 Joline is regarded as a good one. The State now has five 

 Fish Commissioners, namely: Hon. R. B. Roosevelt, Gen. 

 R. TJ. Sherman, E. G. Blackford, W. H. Bowman and A. 

 S. Joline. The address of the latter is Tottenville, Rich- 

 mond county. 



A TROUT PHOTOGRAPH— New York, July 7.— Editor 

 Forest and Stream: I send you a photograph which I took 

 at the State Hatchery at Caledonia of the trout being fed. 

 The old man throwing out the food is David, the first em- 

 ploye of the Commission and the one who struck the first 

 pick into the ground to erect the buildings. As you will 

 see, some of the fish are in the act of springing out of water 

 to get the food, and the commotion they make at such times 

 is fairly well reproduced. I thought you might like the print 

 as a sort of memento, if it is only the work of an amateur. — 

 R. B. Roosevelt. 



A LARGE CARP.— A carp weighing 291bs. lay on Mr. 

 Blackford's slabs in Fulton Market last Monday. It was 

 caught in the Potomac River. 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 



Map or the Auihondacks.— Mr. S. R. Stoddard, of Glens Falls, 

 N. Y., has issued a new edition of his "Map of the Adirondacks," 

 for 1887, showing the new railroad running into the Saranac re- 

 gion. 



Shooting and Yachting in the Mediterranean.— Cruising 

 yachtsmen will find much that is interesting and useful in the lit- 

 tle book under the above title, lately published by W. H. Allen & 

 Co., London. The author, Mr. A. G. Bagot, better known by his 

 tiwi de plume, "Bagatelle," attached to many papers on sport, is a 

 thorough yachtsman, familiar with all the routine of cruising, 

 and in the present volume, a brief log of a shooting cruise along 

 the coasts of the Mediterranean, he has gathered together much 

 useful information concerning the leading localities, as well as 

 the fitting out, provisioning and expenses of long cruises. In spite 

 of the amount of practical information the book is by no means 

 dry, but the writer has made a very interesting story of his cruise. 



Among the Northern Lakes of Wisconsin, Minnesota and 

 Iowa are hundreds of delightful places where one can pass the 

 summer months in quiet rest and enjoyment, and return home at 

 the end of the heated term completely rejuvenated. Each recur- 

 ring season brings to Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Beaver Dam, 

 Frontenac, Qkoboji, Minnetonka, White Bear, and innumerai le 

 other charming localities with romantic names, thousands of our 

 beat people whose winter homes are on either side of Mason and 

 Dixon's fine. Elegance and comfort at a moderate cost can be 

 readily obtained. A list of summer homes with all necessary in- 

 formation pertaining thereto is being distributed by the Chicago, 

 Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and will be sent free upon appli- 

 cation by letter to A. V. H. Carpenter, General Passenger Agent, 

 Milwaukee, Wis. — Adv, 



Wi? Beimel 



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FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 7 and 8. -Second Show of the Fox-Terrier Club, Newport, 

 R. I. Entries close Aug. 28. F. Hoey, Sec. Long Branch, N. J. 



Sept. 13 to 16.— lirst Show St. haul and Minnesota Kennel Club, 

 St. Paul, Minn. W. G. Whitehead. Secretary; Chas. Weil, Super- 

 intendent. 



Sept. 20 to 23.— Wisconsin Kennel Club's Annual Show, Mil- 

 waukee, Wis. R. D. Whitehead, Manager. 



Oct. 12 and 13.— Th rd Annual Show of" the Stafford Kennel Club, 

 Stafford Springs, Conn. R. S. Hicks, Secretary. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Sept. 8.— Manitoba Field Trials Club Field Trials. Derby entries 

 will close July 1; all-aged entries A.ug. 1. Secretary, Hubert Gait, 

 Winnipeg, Manitoba. 



Oct. 31.— First Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel Club 

 at Bicknel, Ind. Open to dogs owned in Indiana. P. T, Madison, 

 Secretary, Lock Box 4, Indianapolis, Ind. 



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, Flatbush, 

 Kings County, N. Y. 



December.— First Annual Field Trials of the American Field 

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



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 

 rpHE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

 A of pedigrees, etc. (with prize fists 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 unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription 

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

 ¥brk. Number of entries already printed 5206. 



AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB METHODS. 



Editor ForeM amd Stream: 



"Wacouta" is to be congratulated upon having elicited a 

 denial of at least one of the allegations against the president 

 of the A. K. C. As the latter has seen fit to deny one the 

 fair assumption is that that is the only one to which he can 

 make any reply. A little investigation of President Smith's 

 answer to "Wacouta" cannot, however, result in anything 

 but confirmation of the widespread opinion that he is per- 

 fectly incompetent to fill the position he now occupies in the 

 A. K. C. In speaking of the transfer of the proxy held by 

 Mr. Munhall to Mr. Hanna he says: "I told them that the 

 transfer of a proxy from one to the other was a question of 

 authority only, and a matter between the club giving the 

 proxy and the gentlemen in question, and none of my busi- 

 ness—I may now add, none of 'Wacouta's' business, too." 



The wind-up of the sentence is a true Smithism, and re- 

 minds me of the riding of the high horse in the mastiff 

 puppy correspondence in which Mr. Smith came to grief so 

 lgnoininiousfy. Is the action of an officer of an association 

 presumed to be national not a proper subject for criticism 

 and discussion? I rather fancy Mr. Smith will be left in a 

 minority of one in arrogating to himself such a freedom 

 from question. 



The position he takes is, however, entirely erroneous. 

 The duties of a president include those of seeing that every- 

 thing that is done is in proper parliamentary "f orrn, and to 

 prevent the exercise of the privilege of membership or repre- 

 sentation by any one not fully authorized to act. And I 

 maintain that the transfer of a power to vote on a proxy is 

 illegal. The customary form of a proxy is "to vote for'me 

 and in my name," and does not authorize its transfer to a 

 third party. If we look into the standing of President 

 Smith's Club in the Patti M. -Beaufort case we can hardly 

 evade the conclusion that the defeat of Mr. Mason's side of 

 the question was the object sought to be accomplished. At 

 the December meeting the Westminster Club declined to 

 vote on this question, and at the late meeting the club was 

 again silent on the question. At the same time the presi- 

 dent allowed the case to be reopened in a manner which 

 must either be charged to collusion or discreditable ignor- 

 ance. 



The vote to reconsider was taken upon the motion of Mr. 

 Vredenburgh, who was not entitled to the privilege of the 

 floor at all. In his capacity as employe of the A. K. C. his 

 duties are purely clerical, and he can exercise none of the 

 rights of a delegate. At the December meeting of the 

 A. K. C. he voted as the proxy representative of the Pitts- 

 burgh Club, and not as A. P. Vredenburgh. The vote was 

 recorded as that of the Pittsburgh Club, and a motion to 

 reconsider could only be made by the club he represented, 

 and not by himself individually. The club was represented 

 at the late meeting, and if Mr. Richards, who held the 

 proxy, had offered the motion to reconsider, it would have 

 been a legitimate one. 



Taking this view of the case. I have declined to vote on 

 the question of another reconsideration of the case. In my 

 letter to the secretary I have explained my views a% given 

 above, and advised him that at the next meeting of the 

 A. K. C. I shall upon the reading of the minutes move that 

 as Mr. A. P. Vredenburgh was neither a delegate nor a 

 proxy holder, he was not entitled to offer a motion, and that 

 it be stricken from the minutes. 1 fail to see how any dele- 

 gate can vote in the negative on that motion, and the whole 

 case will then revert to its original position as decided at 

 the December meeting. 



Again quoting from President Smith's letter in reply to 

 "Wacouta." ' r I also take issue with 'Wacouta,' in his 

 statement that Air. Vredenburgh was not entitled to vote at 

 the December meeting. In my judgment he was." I quite 

 agree with the president that he was, but that unfortunate, 

 official in his letter to the. secretary authorizing him to sub- 

 mit Mr. Drake's resolution to reconsider, mis-quotes Article 

 IV. as follows: "Officers of the American Kennel Club shall 

 not be privileged to vote upon proxies before the executive 

 committee unless regularly elucteu delegates from their 

 clubs." He cannot even quote rules correctly, much less de- 

 termine their meaning. 



Again he says: "In the absence of any rule, such motion 

 [Mr. Drake's] is in order." Considering that amotion to re- 

 consider is perfectly legitimate if submitted in proper form, 

 and that the rules of the A.K.C. provide for the decision of 

 questions by mail vote, the assertion that there is an absence 

 of any rule on the subject is but another iustance of the 

 blissful state of incompetence of the president. 



And now a few words more pertinent to the caption of 

 this letter. Mr. Drake's resolution bears date "St. Paul, 

 June 13," and should have been in the hands of the secre- 

 tary on June 15. President Smith's office is within five 

 minutes' walk of the A. K. C. establishment, and he should 

 have had it on the date of its reception by the secretary. The 

 letter of the president to the secretary bears date July 2, an 

 inexcusable delay of at least two weeks. The secretary can- 

 not, even if he wishes to make such an excuse, allege absence 

 of the president as the cause of the delav, for Mr. Child is 

 vice-president and holds office for the purpose of performing 

 the president's duties in the latter's absence. Allowing for 

 holiday time the president's letter of July 3 should have 

 been in the hands of the secretary on July 5, and on July b 

 he dates his circular letter asking for votes on the q 



