Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 18, 1889. 



» VOL. XXXTI.— No. 13. 

 I No 318 Broadway, New York. 



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Editorial. 



Fishing in New York. 



Their Right to Roam. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Camps on the Menominee and 

 Brule. 

 Natural History. 



Bird Notes. 



Buffalo Cattle. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



.22 Cartridges. 



The Migration of the Ducks. 



New Arkansas Game Law. 



Butchery in Michigan. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Fishing near New York. 



North Carolina Sports. 



The Inglewood Club Dinner. 



A- Party for Pennsylvania. 



Loch Leven and Brown Trout. 



Propased New York Legisla- 

 tion. 

 Fishculture. 



Rhode Island Fish Commis- 

 sion. 



Tne Menhaden Question. 



CONTENTS. 



The Kennel. 



Indiana Field Trials. 



Worcester Dog Show. 



The Chicago Show. 



Philadelphia Dog Show. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



The Albany Tournament. 

 Suburban Shooting Associa- 

 tion. 



Canadian Trap Notes. 

 Yachting. 

 Cruise of the Orinda. 

 N. Y. Y. C. and the Challenge. 

 Valkyrie and the Cup. 

 1870-1889. 



New 70-Foot Yachts. 

 Wbo Made the Rule? 

 Which is It? 



Rather Hard on the Chal- 

 lenger. 

 Another Revision Needed. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



FISHING IN NEW YORK. 



LOCAL anglers will be interested in a series of articles 

 begun in the Forest and Stream of this week on 

 ''Fishing Around New York." These are from the pen 

 of that keen observer "Seneca," and will be of interest to 

 many an angler who can sometimes get off for a single 

 day, but can seldom afford the time or the money for 

 more extended trips. In these articles the best places 

 for angling about New York and the easiest methods of 

 reaching them are given. Where to get bait and boats, 

 fares on the railroads and many other matters are dis- 

 cussed, the series being full of interest for every one who 

 lives near New York. 



Anglers who live in the country know about the fish- 

 ing in their own neighborhood far more than any one 

 can tell them, but this is by no means true of the dwellers 

 in the city. These have a general notion that there must 

 be fishing in the stretch of waters that surround New 

 York, but of definite specific information about this fish- 

 ing there is very little, and this little is very difficult to 

 obtain. It is just this information that the present series 

 of articles supplies, and every salt-water angler who reads 

 them will learn something from these papers; something 

 that will be useful. 



It is a curious fact that salt-water anglers should be 

 much less given to narrating their adventures than those 

 who ply their gentle craft on the inland brooks, rivers 

 and lakes. Why should this be so ? The question has 

 been discussed in these columns in past years, but no 

 satisfactory conclusion was reached. The fact still exists 

 and still remains unexplained that salt-water anglers are 

 not given to narrating their exploits or discussing their 

 tackle. They write but little about their sport. There 

 are among our correspondents some notable exceptions 

 to this rule, but they are few. 



It is difficult to believe that the sea fishermen have 

 really nothing to say about their favorite sport. If there 

 is nothing more to record, the stage of the tide at which 

 their fish are caught, the bait they use, the season at 

 which the different species are most readily taken should 

 certainly furnish texts on which many an entertaining 

 sermon might be preached? 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE Connecticut Association of Farmers and Sports- 

 men seems determined to keep things moving in 

 the Nutmeg State. The officers of the society are cer- 

 tainly boiling over with energy and lose no opportunity 

 to prod the violators of the game and fish laws. Recently, 

 Detective Fielding, in the employ of this Association, 

 went to Glastonbury, where he found persons fishing 

 illegally. He presented a warrant for the arrest of these 

 persons to Grand Juror Risley, of that town, who re- 

 fused to sign it. Now the president of the Association, 

 Mr. A. C. Collins, has written Mr. Risley a letter, advising 

 him that if he does not sign the warrant, a writ of man- 

 damus will be issued to compel him to do his duty ac- 

 cording to his oath of office. The Connecticut Associa- 

 tion has found difficulty in a number of instances recently 

 in persuading local officers to enforce the laws. It is 

 doing good educational work. 



After the thousand and one delays and interruptions 

 which mark the preparations of an enterprise where the 

 utmost accuracy is aimed at, the^ Forest and Stream 

 shotgun tests have been opened, and now it will be possi- 

 ble, with the least amount of annoyance or delay, to get 

 at an exact knowledge of just what each and any gun 

 may do under all and every condition of loading. The 

 idea is to supplant in some measure the hazy and errone- 

 ous notions which many shotgun owners have of loading 

 then- weapons with something like definite scientific 

 knowledge. 



Mr. James M. Brown, who was recently elected Presi- 

 dent of the New York S. P. C. A. in place of Mr. Henry 

 Bergh, has resigned, and Mr. John P. Haines, of Toms 

 River, New Jersey, well known as a breeder of smooth- 

 coated St. Bernards, has been elected in his place. 



Deer were killed by dogs in Sullivan county, this State, 

 last month. It is one of the evils of dogs in a deer 

 country that they hunt deer the year around. 



THEIR RIGHT TO ROAM. 

 1 N our last issue we presented a mass of evidence prov- 

 ing that great injury is done to the game and forests 

 of the Yellowstone Park by bands of Indians, which come 

 up to, if they do not encroach on, its borders. We 

 pointed out that these Indians ought not to be per- 

 mitted to leave their reservations except in charge of 

 a responsible white man, who can be held accountable 

 for their actions while absent from their homes, and that 

 under no circumstances should they be permitted to ap- 

 proach the borders of the National Park. 



The question may fairly enough be asked, Why should 

 the rights of these Indians be abridged? Their treaties 

 with the Government provide that they shall be per- 

 mitted to hunt near the Park; why have they not the 

 same right to kill game there that the white hunter has ? 



We answer that they have precisely the same rights as 

 the white hunters and no others. White men and Indians 

 alike have the right to take game legally. The Indians 

 have the right to every head of game which they can 

 kill and use or carry away with them at the proper 

 season outside the limits of the Park, but they have no 

 right to kill game out of season, nor to fire the forests. 



Forest fires almost iuvariably attend the advent of an 

 Indian hunting party in any region. 



The theory on which the IT. S. Government has treated 

 the Indians — whether it is a wise one or not we need not 

 here discuss— is that they are wards. They are treated 

 like children, given no special voice, even in matters 

 which most nearly concern them, controlled and ordered 

 about. Generally they are directed to remain on their 

 reservations. White men who intrude on these reserva- 

 tions may be summarily expelled, ardent spirits are for- 

 bidden, and in a hundred ways it is shown that the Gov- 

 ernment does not consider the Indians capable of self- 

 command. 



Now, the Revised Statutes of Idaho, Wyoming and 

 Montana provide for the enforcement of severe penalties 

 against all persons who may fire the forests. If a party 

 of white men go to the southern border of the Park and 

 set fire to the forest, whether to help them in their hunt- 

 ing or for any other purpose, they stand in danger of being 

 captured by the officers of the law, and held to a strict 

 account in the courts. When Indians fire the forest 

 for whatever purpose, they should theoretically be held 

 to the same accountability as the white men. 



There is, however, this difference, that the white man's 



education and presumed knowledge of the statutes have 

 taught him that by firing this timber he commits a crime, 

 while the education and traditions of the Indian lead him 

 to believe that he is performing a natural and praise- 

 worthy act when he starts a fire to drive or hold the 

 game which he pursues. While, legally, there is, per- 

 haps, no distinction between the criminality of the two 

 acts, it is quite evident that in morals there is a wide 

 difference. Though committed in ignorance, the Indian's 

 offense is still a criminal one; and yet, considering his 

 past, no one with any proper feeling would advocate his 

 prosecution under the statute, if that can be avoided. It 

 is a wiser public policy to restrain the Indian and keep 

 him where there is no temptation to offend against the law. 

 To do this we must abridge his freedom by confining him on 

 the reservation, and so must deprive-him of the pleasure 

 of a summer hunt, and of the resulting meat and hides. 

 So far we injure him. On the other hand we protect him 

 from danger of a criminal prosecution, which might re- 

 sult in years of imprisonment, and at the same time we 

 guard against the danger of having our only forest pre- 

 serve swept away. 



We hold that the inherent rights of an Indian are pre- 

 cisely those of a white man. When his action is against 

 the general good his liberty must be curtailed just as in 

 the case of a white man. A city park is open to the 

 public. All persons have an equal right to enter and 

 enjoy it; but if an individual who enters it breaks down 

 the shrubbery, he may be punished, and after repeated 

 offenses may even be prevented by the officers in charge 

 from again entering it. The public must be protected 

 from injury done by one individual to that which is the 

 property of all. 



If the Indians were not prone to start forest fires, there 

 would be no excuse for ordering them away from the 

 neighborhood of the Park. The mere killing of game, 

 so long as it is done within the law, is something that no 

 one has the right to interfere with. But the forests of the 

 Yellowstone Park must be protected from danger. It 

 is to be remembered that on either side of the Rocky 

 Mountains there is an immense territory which depends 

 for its water on streams which head in the National Park. 

 Should these streams be dried up, or their volume materi- 

 ally lessened — as might readily result from extensive forest 

 fires in the Park— the interests which would suffer are 

 enormous. This danger to a large and growing agri- 

 cultural population in the West will be ever present so 

 long as the Indians are permitted to start fires in the 

 neighborhood of the Park. 



If there were, in the territory adjacent to that in which 

 these Indians hunt and in which they start their fires, 

 some hundreds of settlers, whose cabins and crops might- 

 be destroyed by fires carried to them from the Indians' 

 hunting grounds— if the horrors and the deaths which 

 have accompanied forest fires in Michigan were likely to be 

 repeated in these forests of the National Park — no one 

 would question the necessity of restraining these hunting 

 parties. Yet any extensive destruction of the Park forests 

 may work to thousands of settlers on the plains a ruin 

 just as certain and just as real as if their houses and their 

 grain had been devoured by actual flames. 



When the Indian has been taught to comply with the law, 

 he will have as much right to hunt on the borders of the 

 Park as any one has. Until he has learned this lesson he 

 should be restrained. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I am very glad to see the stand you have taken with 

 regard to the National Park and its surrounding territory, 

 and the interest it excites with all sportsmen, and I beg 

 to add my testimony to that you have already printed. 



In September, 1887, while hunting on Pacific Creek, I 

 was daily in contact with Indian hunting parties, whose 

 lodges were within a few miles of my camp, and the 

 amount of elk they killed must have been large, as their 

 rifles could be heard in every direction, and I often 

 counted six and seven shots in quick succession. Indeed 

 such a nuisance did this shooting become that my com- 

 panion — Col. James H. Jones — and myself pulled out in 

 disgust. About twenty-five miles further up, we came 

 across another large and permanent camp of Indians, and 

 so completely had all game been killed or driven out that 

 we did not start a single elk. In camp at Two-Ocean 

 Pass, and near Bridge Lake, I met Indians with their 

 traps coming from the direction of the Park, the southern 

 line of which was not over a mile or two distant. 



In 1888 I passed down the west side of the Park and 



