Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, AUGUST 16, 1888. 



1 VOL. XXXI.-No. 4. 



1 No. 318 Bhoadwat, Nww YonK. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



| The Dynamite Fiend. 



The End of Wimbledon, 

 r Snap Shots. 

 I The Sportsman Tourist. 

 [ Early Days on the Missouri.-iv 

 I Huckleberries. 

 | Natural History. 

 ;! Hound and Deer, 

 f Who Knows the "Fantail" 

 Deer? 



[ Proposed National Zoological 

 Park. 



I Rattlesnake Venom Antidote, 

 i Game Bao and Gitn. 



A Day with the Black Buck. 

 | Names of Game Bird.-n. 



Connecticut Farmers and 

 Sportsmen. 



Fortst and Stream Gun Tests. 



"Let Her Go. Gallagher." 

 I The Game Outlook. 

 [Sea and River Fishing. 

 I T vo Weeks on the Dead Dia- 

 mond. 



Maine Fishing. 



Trout and Fly. 



Salmon in the Hudson. 

 I Trout Weights and Sizes. 



FisHctruruRE. 

 Food of the Fishes of the 



Mississippi Valley. 

 The Kennel. 

 The National Dog Club of 



America. 

 Chesapeake Bay Dogs. 

 Richmond Dog Show. 

 The Scent of Skunks and 



Dogs. 



Death of Howard Hartley. 

 Mr. Belmont's Charges. 

 "A Bit of Kennel History." 

 Dog Talk. 

 Kennel .Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap shooting. 

 Range and ftallerv. 

 Quebec Rifle Association. 

 The Trap. 



Central Illinois Tournament. 

 Yachting. 



New York Y. C. Cruise. 



Yacht Racing Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



10x29 Racing Canoe Vagabond. 



American Canoe Association. 



Canoeing Notes. 

 answers to Correspondents. 



THE END OF WIMBLEDON. 

 TT^ITH the close of the recent rifle meeting at Whn- 

 ^ * bledon, that common had its last use as a place for 

 the annual gathering of the National Rifle Association- 

 There was wide regret at the abandonment of the range 

 where for over a quarter-century so much has been done 

 for the advancement of modern rifle work. Circum- 

 stances, however, beyond the control of the Council com- 

 pelled the change, and now Wimbledon remains onlv a 

 name and a pleasant memory. As if to mark the event 

 in a most memorable fashion, the marksmen have made 

 I the meeting just past a most successful one. The list of 

 entries has been very large; and more important still, the 

 scores have been up to the top notch of merit. 



The fear now is that the eclat which attended the 

 •work at Wimbledon may not be transferred to another 

 range, and that the prestige of the famous range may not 

 pass to any other ground which may be selected. The 

 Council have been busy in seeming a new site, and the 

 meetings will go on affording sport and benefit to thou- 

 sands and pecuniary profit to not a few of the Volunteer 

 soldiery of the Kingdom. 



There are not a few, and in the ranks too* who would 

 not grieve if all rifle practice were abandoned, or at any 

 rate cut down to a point where it would be practically 

 unappreciable. Those who fail to make good scores in 

 some instances feel their self esteem hurt, and at once 

 look with envy upon "those shooting fellows," and begin to 

 think and preach that quite too much time and attention 

 is given to banging away with the rifle. It is quite cer- 

 tain that curling up on the ground to aim and getting re- 

 cords for all sorts of weather into one's score book may 

 not tend to keep the uniform spick and span, but the fact 

 remains that a body of men in uniform and armed, but 

 who are not capable of using those arms as intended, are 

 likely to receive only laughter and scorn from a deter- 

 mined mob, while before an enemy trained in shooting 

 they would stand no possible ghost of a chance. 

 In England it is a question whether the rivalry of the 



rifle range has kept up the Volunteer movement, whether 

 without Wimbledon and its work there wotdd be any 

 English Volunteer bodies to-day. The sudden rush into 

 citizen soldiering and the rush for the rifle ranges were 

 pretty nearly simultaneous less than thirty years ago. 

 and if the rifle shooting is not to be credited with what- 

 ever there is of the Volunteer movement, it is certainly to 

 be credited with a large share of it. 



Perhaps in this country, if properly fostered in those 

 States where the military establishment has no firm foot- 

 ing, rifle clubs might lead to the growth of a national 

 guard. 



It is not sui'prising that the great crowd of shooting 

 men who said good-bye to Wimbledon about a month 

 ago should do so with feelings of uncommon regret. A 

 history of that common and its range work might bear 

 also the title of a history of all that is worth knowing of 

 small arms work. It has seen great changes. At its 

 start it had crude weapons; to-day no finer arms exist 

 than those to be seen in the competitions held there. 

 Queen Victoria fired the first shot in the great Queen Cup 

 match with a carefully aimed Whitworth rifle; to-day 

 not one of that make appears in the list of rifles used. 



Wimbledon has done its work well; and the only 

 honest hope now is that the progress which the N. E. A. 

 has made may not experience even a temporary check by 

 a change of shooting ground. 



THE DYNAMITE FIEND. 

 TN another column one of our correspondents states 

 that the dynamite fiend is again abroad in the land 

 plying his detestable trade. This worthy deseiwes to 

 stand a little lower among the lawbreakers than the 

 clubber of deer and the jigger of trout. He of the "tail- 

 holt" and club may kill a doe in the red coat, which 

 leaves one or two little fawns to hustle for themselves 

 before they are of proper age to hustle; and he of the 

 jig may kill trout on, or near, their spawning beds; but 

 in each case they get exactly what they go for in their 

 special field. The dynamiter is not thus expert. Whether 

 his specialty be the blasting of salmon, trout or black 

 bass, with his dynamite he kills perch, eels, sunfish, rock- 

 bass, bullheads, minnows — in fact, nearly everything in 

 his vicinity but his worthless self, which last is to be re- 

 gretted. By blowing up an acre or such a matter of 

 water the dynamiter murders by wholesale; he kills 

 what he desires and also what he has no earthly use for; 

 he kills food fish and destroys fish food until even he is 

 surfeited with the slaughter. 



In this especial case the United States and the State of 

 New York are using their best endeavors to bring to our 

 very doors what is generally conceded to be the finest 

 food and game fish that swims, the salmon; and so far as 

 concerns the expenditure of money and brains to accom- 

 plish this result they are successful; which means an in- 

 creased food supply for the people, sport and recreation 

 for the angler, and many dollars in the pockets of the 

 railroads, steamboats, hotels, boarding-houses, guides, 

 boatmen, farmers along the banks of the river, and pro- 

 fit to the community generally. The pecuniary value of 

 the Hudson as a salmon stream may be better understood 

 by stating that Col. McDonald, IT. S. Fish Commissioner, 

 tells us that the river Tay, in Scotland, a stream not so 

 large as the Mohawk, yields a rental for its salmon fish- 

 eries of £40,000, or $200,000, annually. 



The dynamite fiend by his works says that he can 

 render void the efforts of the National and State Fish 

 Commissions to increase the wealth and the pleasure of 

 the people, by simply blowing the salmon out of the 

 water the first time they come up stream to spawn. It 

 remains with the State Fish Commission, through the 

 State game protectors, whom it controls, to see that the 

 dynamite fiend does nothing of the sort. As we under- 

 stand this particular case, mentioned by our correspond- 

 ent, the evidence against the accused is that of an eye 

 witness of their crime, and there should be no halting or 

 limping of justice in dealing out to them the punishment 

 provided by law for those who are found guilty of violat- 

 ing the law. 



Chapter 530, Laws of 1887, provides that: "No person 

 shall at any time kill or catch, or attempt to kill or catch 

 salmon in the waters of this State (New York) with any 

 device or in any manner, save that of angling with rod or 

 line held in hand. * * * Any person violating any of the 

 foregoing provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of 

 a misdemeanor, and, in addition shall be liable to a pen. 



alty of one hundred dollars, or one day's imprisonment 

 for each dollar of fine." 



Only a rigid enforcement of this law by those in author- 

 ity will encourage the U. S. Fish Commission to think 

 that the people of New York State are earnest in desiring 

 that the Hudson River shall be stocked with salmon, and 

 that the dynamite fiend shall be punished for his out- 

 rages. The first reported infraction of the law seems to 

 be a clear one, and we expect and believe that it will be 

 rigorously pushed to a successful conclusion. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 HPO judge by the letters which come to us inquiring for 

 localities where big game, such as elk, deer, ante- 

 lope, bear and mountain sheep may be found, a great 

 many of the readers of Forest and Stream are contem- 

 plating expeditions to the West this year. Such corres- 

 pondents must remember that the day of big game plenty 

 in the West is forever past and that it is no longer possible 

 to give explicit direction where game can be found. The 

 West is rapidly settling up, there are few spots where the 

 hunters have not penetrated, and the larger wild animals 

 are constantly driven from place to place. A section 

 which abounded in game last year may be deserted this 

 season. Moreover, there is a good deal of human nature 

 among hunters, and it can scarcely be expected, after 

 they have spent time and money — perhaps a good deal of 

 both — in discovering for themselves choice localities 

 where it is even yet possible to kill enough meat to keep 

 the camp going, that they should reveal such situations 

 to any one who may choose to ask them for this infor- 

 mation. There are still places in the Rocky Mountains 

 where fair hunting can be had, but those who know such 

 places do not usually make them public. 



In yesterday's reports of the yellow fever at Jackson- 

 ville, Fla., the telegraph told; "Dr. Ken worthy is the 

 hardest worked man in town at present. He has a thous- 

 and and one details to look after, but he bears up under 

 the pressure most heroically and has accomplished a vast 

 amount of work in the last few days." Dr. C. J. Ken- 

 worthy is the "Al Fresco" who is familiar to our readers 

 as an enthusiastic angler, an explorer of new hunting- 

 grounds, and a most entertaining writer on Forest and 

 Stream topics. We are sometimes forgetful that often 

 the men who seek pleasure and recreation in the woods 

 and on the stream are, when at home, to be classed among 

 the hardest workers of the community. It is in their "play 

 spells" that they gain that upbuilding without which , 

 when the time comes, as it has now come to Dr. Ken* 

 worthy, they could not bear the tremendous responsibili- 

 ties nor accomplish the heroic tasks. 



When a man charged with jigging trout or killing 

 "fingerlings" storms around and denounces the officials 

 as blackmailers, the chances are as ten to one that in the 

 end he will cool off, and if he cannot hush up the matter 

 by a settlement in private, he will plead guilty and pay 

 the price. That is just the way a case has ended where 

 a New York physician was arrested for having taken trout 

 of less than six inches in length. The case is recom-- 

 mended to the consideration of North Woods fishermen 

 who systematically "skin" the streams of baby trout. 



Brown's Creek, the Long Island stream which has been 

 filled up with wild rice, forms the boundary between 

 Bayport and Say ville. A fund has been contributed to 

 dredge out the mouth of the creek; it is hoped that by 

 providing a swift current the channel may be restored. 

 The result of wild rice planting in this stream ought to 

 be taken as a warning against repeating the experiment 

 of sowing the cereal in sluggish streams which it is desir- 

 able to keep open. 



Dr. J, Frank Perry, or, as he is better known to dog 

 owners, "Ashmont," has prepared for distribution a cir- 

 cular containing his own published letters in relation to 

 the National Dog Club and those of Mr. August Belmont, 

 Jr., the president of the American Kennel Club. He 

 proposes to lay both sides before the public and let the 

 public judge. That is fair, at least. 



Is not the attitude of "the boys" of Bismarck, Dakota, 

 toward the game laws, as set forth in a communication 

 printed elsewhere, a most extraordinary one to be held 

 by sportsmen? 



