Forest and Stream, 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, MAY 16, 1889. 



J VOL. XXXH.-No. ir. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Liming Song Birds. 



A Summer Camp for Boys. 



Baggage Car Extortion. 



Snap Snots. 

 The Sportsman Tousist. 



Salmo Fontinalis. 



The Voices of the Season. 



The Magic Spell. 

 Natural History. 



Domesticated Wood Ducks. 



The Carnivora. 



A Natural History Camp. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



James River Tales. 



A Hunt in British Columbia. 



The Joys of Roughing it. 



Sebokegnet or Cross Island. 



How a Buck Gave Me a Heart- 

 ache. 



Deer Driving in Virginia. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 The Angling Tournament. 

 The Sunset Club.— in. 

 Reminiscences of Trout Fish- 

 ing. 



Anglers' Association of East- 

 ern Pennsylvania. 

 The Rangeley Lakes. 

 New England Trout. 

 Lake Lamoka. 

 St. Louis Waters. 

 The Lumpfbh. 



Trout and Wmniuishe in Cau- 

 ada. 



Take What You Can. 



Club 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 "Where the Trout Hide." 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Massachusetts Trout Spawn- 

 ing. 



Striped Bass in California. 

 Oamp-Fire Fmckerings. 

 The Kennel. 



The Spotting System. 



Some Noted Greyhounds. 



Russian \Y o 1 f h r> uu ds. 



The English Field Trials. 



American Fox Hunting. 



Eu stern Field Trials 

 Derby. 



Southern Field Trials. 



Toledo Dog Show. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notts. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Pittsburgh Tournament. 



McClure-Glass Shoot. 



Union Gun Club. 



Minneapolis Gun Club. 

 Yachting. 



Valkyrie's Challenge. 



The L. Y. R. A. Meeting. 



The Norton System Again. 



A Brief Statement of Facts. 

 Canoeing. 



A New Steering Centerboard. 



Flags for the A. C. A. Meet. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



LIMING SONG BIRDS. 



WITHIN the past few weeks great numbers of song 

 birds have been destroyed or captured within the 

 limits of this city. Men provided with bird lime and. 

 decoys have this spring visited the upper sections of New 

 York Island, where there are still fields and woods, and 

 during the migration have made away with thousands of 

 the beautiful creatures which were making their journey 

 from the south toward their summer homes. 



By Chapter 427 of the Laws of 1886 it is specifically 

 provided that no person shall catch with bird lime or any 

 similar substance any song bird or any wild bird other 

 than a game bird. The penalty for a violation of this act 

 is imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less 

 than five or more than thirty clays, or a fine of not less 

 than ten or more than fifty dollars, or both fine and im- 

 prisonment, at the discretion of the court. 



However difficult it may be in the country districts to 

 enforce this and similar laws, there should be no trouble 

 about doing it in the city, where it falls within the prov- 

 ince of the police to prevent infractions of the statutes. 

 The police who t patrol the upper end of the island, or 

 some of them, appear to be ignorant of their duty in this 

 matter, and it will be well for the captains of the various 

 precincts to bring this subject to the attention of their 

 men. 



We are informed that one of the favorite places for 

 this trapping of the birds is on the Ward property, which 

 is situated at about 170th street, in Captain Cortright's 

 precinct. We learn that complaint has more than once 

 lbeen made to the patrolmen whose beats cover this prop> 

 erty, but they have declined to take even the mild action 

 of warning away the offenders. The Ward property is, 

 we understand, leased as a shooting ground to the Wash- 

 ington Heights (rim Club, and complaints of these infrac- 



tions of the law have been made to the presideut of this 

 club, but it is stated that he paid no attention to the mat- 

 ter. It would seem that a sportsman would take suf- 

 cient interest in an affair of this kind to try and put a stop 

 to it. 



The provisions of the law are clear, and it is the plain 

 duty of the police to see that they are carried out. In- 

 spectors and captains controlling the suburban portions of 

 the city have the power to put an end to tin's destruction, 

 and now that the subject has been brought to their atten- 

 tion they probably will do so. 



A SUMMER CAMP FOR BOYS. 



IN our Natural History columns we print a communi- 

 cation from Worcester, Mass., describing the sum- 

 mer camp for boys maintained by the Worcester Natural 

 History Society, at Wigwam Hill, on the shore of the 

 beautiful Lake Quinsigamond. It must be confessed 

 that the account given might be thought to smack of 

 Utopianism, for the plan of the camp is one to be much 

 more readily projected than carried out. But the best 

 part of it is that the camp is an outgrowth of experience; 

 it has been gradually developed from a small beginning, 

 and the summer programme, as given by our correspond- 

 ent, is rather in the nature of a report than of a prospectus. 

 The camp is a natural growth; it has not been forced; and 

 it is established on what have been proved to be the right 

 lines. 



The Worcester Natural History Society was founded 

 more than a generation ago for the special benefit of 

 young people who had a love of nature. Its usefulness 

 has consisted in the opportunities offered by which natu- 

 ral history study might be stimulated in the minds of the 

 young; and this branch of usefulness has been developed, 

 rather than those advanced scientific investigations which 

 make up so large a share of the work of ordinary scien- 

 tific societies. The ambition of the directors has been to 

 awaken and encourage in boys and girls an intelligent 

 interest in botany, entomology, mineralogy and other 

 such pursuits, and thus to equip them with tastes and 

 knowledge which should prove a value and a gratification 

 through life. 



The Society has excellent collections of specimens. 

 From a study of these indoors, the next step was to 

 make field excursions for new specimens, then field 

 meetings for study; and these have now grown into 

 what has come to be a regular annual summer camp. 

 The establishment at Wigwam Hill is in shoi't a pleasure 

 or vacation camp where the pleasure is intelligently 

 directed and the vacation is profitably spent. It is camp 

 life with all the advantages of the ordinary camp and 

 added to them the influences of older persons who have 

 the faculty of imparting to the young something of 

 their own enthusiasm in the study of outdoor life. 



BAGGAGE CAR EXTORTION. 

 nTHE extortion of baggage masters when it comes to 

 A charging up transportation on a hunting dog is an 

 old cause of complaint; and a long-suffering public hails 

 with complacency the occasional instance when the biter 

 is bit. The report of such a case has just come to us from 

 Philadelphia. Two sportsmen of that city, one being 

 Mr. Joseph McKinney, of the Philadelphia Sportsmen's 

 Club, not long ago went over the Norfolk & Western 

 Railroad from Lynchburg, Va., to Roanoke and thence to 

 Christiansburg. They were on a quail shooting expe- 

 dition, and had two dogs. For these dogs the baggage 

 master, one Duyerlie, charged them $4.25 to Roanoke, a 

 distance of fifty -three miles, and $2.50 for the rest of the 

 way, thirty-two miles. These charges they paid, but on 

 the return trip they learned that the rule of the rail- 

 road company was that one dog could be carried 

 free, and a fee of twenty-five cents only was 

 due on the extra one. Now Mr. McKinney is a man 

 of pluck, as was amply demonstrated some years 

 since, when, having lost the sight of his right eye by a 

 charge of shot striking him, in a partridge cover, he set 

 to work and learned to shoot from the left shoulder. 

 Finding that he had been robbed, Mi-. McKinney com- 

 municated the facts to General Passenger Agent W. B. 

 Bevill, who at once took the case up, paid the expenses 

 of the two Philadelphians to Lynchburg, took their tes- 

 timony and swore out a warrant for Baggage Master Duy- 

 erlie. He was arrested,, prosecuted by the railroad com- 

 pany's attorney,- convicted and sentenced to jail for three 



months for larceny. The ending of the case did credit to 

 all engaged in righting the wrong. 



The same course of precedure ought to be followed by 

 every sportsman who is subjected to thievish extortion 

 by baggage masters. The officers of the roads are usually 

 more than ready to do their share in correcting these 

 abuses, and the individual who is robbed by an over 

 charge owes it to his fellows, to sportsmen as a class, to 

 report imposition. This sometimes involves one in added 

 trouble, but so long as the sportsman tourist is content to 

 pay the damage and give himself no further trouble, so 

 long will baggage car extortion flourish. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 TT is gratifying to learn that the sentiment for the pro- 

 -1 tection of does in the North Woods is on the increase. 

 However such a rale may be thought to be uncalled for 

 and needless in some other hunting districts of the coun- 

 try, it is recognized as most desirable for the Adiron- 

 dacks. This year's Legislature has done nothing what- 

 ever toward enacting a law for the protection of does, 

 but the feeling in favor of such a rule is making headway, 

 and where this sentiment exists a law is not absolutely 

 necessary. The guides have such things largely in 

 tbeir own hands, and they often refuse to put their 

 parties in the way of killing does. We have just learned 

 of a noteworthy instance of a North Woods guide's stand 

 for his principles. There is a certain famous surgeon of 

 this city whose name, by reason of his excesses in hound- 

 ing deer, has come to stand for wanton slaughter. Year 

 after year he repaired to the Adirondacks in the summer 

 and killed for the sake of killing. Last season, however, 

 when he set out upon his annual campaign, he found 

 himself blocked, because his guides would not be a party 

 to the business. They went with him only on condition 

 that only such deer should be killed as could be used; 

 and for once in his life this man of eminence in his pro- 

 fession had to conduct himself in the woods with decency. 



Messrs. Thos. B. Asten and F. L. Anthony have just 

 returned to this city from their winter cruise in the 

 Awixa on the east and west coasts of Florida. The 

 yacht has a record of eleven tarpon to its credit for the 

 season. The average weight of the fish was 115lbs. Com- 

 modore Asten is loud in his praises of the Florida waters 

 for winter cruising, and of the tarpon as a game fish. 

 "Al Fresco," our Jacksonville, Fla., correspondent, has 

 not lost faith in the invincibility of the St. John's River 

 tarpon. Years ago he contended that these fish could 

 not be taken with a rod and reel, and the success of tar- 

 pon fishermen on the west coast has in no wise shaken 

 him in his belief. The Charlotte Harbor tarpon caught 

 in winter are, according to "Al Fresco," comparatively 

 only infants; the mature, developed, hard fighters, wdiicb 

 make their way up the east coast and reach the St. John's 

 in June, July and August, are the glorious game crea- 

 tures sure to come out unsubdued from a battle-royal 

 matched against most perfect tackle and consummate 

 skill. 



The National Gun Association, whose demise was re- 

 cently announced by Secretary Etheridge, was in purpose 

 closely allied to the existing American Shooting Associa- 

 tion; it had a like purpose; and the scheme of the present 

 association was outlined and proposed by the managers 

 of the National. The first attempt may have been pre- 

 mature, for trap interests had not then the magnitude 

 they have assumed within the last years. Whatever 

 may have been the causes for its failure, the National 

 served a useful purpose as a forerunner; and in its way 

 it certainly did advance the interest in trap-shooting. 



There is no point on which the fond father expands 

 with more pride in talking of his son than when relating 

 the prowess of the youthful prodigy with gun or rod. 

 The skill of the youngster and his precocious sportsman- 

 ship—as told by the proud parent— would do credit to a 

 grown man ; and the boast is always made that in wood- 

 craft the son will be sure to prove himself a chip of the 

 old block. This is a healthy pride, and speaks well for 

 man and boy. The companionship and comradeship of 

 some fathers and their manly sons in their summer 

 woods life are altogether lovely. 



The compendium of the New York game laws pub- 

 lished by the Commissioners of Fisheries, is indexed in 

 a very slovenly manner, 



