Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 6, 1888. 



I VOL. XXXI.-No. 7. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Zoological Park. 



The Way of the Transgressor 

 is Hard. 



Taking the Bull by the Horns. 



Snap Shots. 

 The sportsman Tourist. 



The Singing Mouse.-n. 

 Natural History. 



Death of '•Crowley." 



The Pileated Woodpecker. 



Of Serpents. 



Manatees Exhibited in New 



York. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 

 Grouse About Boston. 

 The Woodcftuck Creek Coun- 



try.-n. 



A Deer Hunt on Red Chute. 



The Connecticut Association. 



A Fawn Scrape. 



Deer Hunting Ethics. 

 Camp- Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Lake Edward. 



Along Dungarvan. 



The Tobique Tragedy. 



A Voice from Sunapee. 



A Token from the Sc. Lawrence 



FlSHCrjLTURB. 



The Digestibility of Fish. 

 Some Observations Upon the 

 Grayling. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



Report of New York Fishery 

 Commission. 



Experiments with the Fry of 

 Whitofish. 

 The Kennel. 



The Coon's Whicker. 



"Disgruntled Associates." 



Mr. Belmont's Futile False- 

 hood. 



The Two Dog Clubs. 



Dog Talk. 



Toledo Dog Show. 



Buffalo Dog Show. 



Syracuse Dog Snow. 



Richmond Dog Show. 



Veterinary Department of the 

 U. P. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and GaRery. 



The Trap. 

 Yachting. 



Larchmont Y. C. 



Rhode Island Y. C. 



Hull Y. C. Open Regatta. 



Racing Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Meet of 18S8. 



A. C. A. Regatta Committee. 



Fatal Accident to a Canoeist. 



New York C. C. Trial Races. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR IS HARD. 



AT Lake Placid, in the Adirondack^, last "Wednesday, 

 Aug. 29, Assistant United States District Attorney 

 Daniel O'Connell, of this city, shot and seriously wounded 

 his guide, John Shea. It happened thus: O'Connell and 

 Shea had been out partridge shooting, and on the way 

 back Shea was putting up a target, when O'Connell, 

 having just loaded his gun with a charge of bird shot, 

 accidentally pulled the trigger; the gun went off, and the 

 charge striking Shea in the side, would have proved fatal 

 had not a part of the shot been diverted and warded off 

 by a watch in the guide's pocket. In like manner a 

 goodly share of the sympathy which Mr. O'Connell might 

 expect to receive over this tragic ending of his holiday is 

 diverted from him by the circumstance that in taking 

 hea out to shoot partridges he was breaking the law of 

 e land; and that if he, a lawyer and an Assistant 

 •lited States District Attorney, had not been violating 

 a law of the land the guide would not have been so 

 nelly wounded in body, nor he himself caused to suffer 

 keenly in spirit. 



The New York lawyer is not the only person who, hav- 

 r armed himself with a shotgun to kill game unlawful- 

 has inflicted grievous woe on humankind. There was 

 otable instance of a similarly instructive character in 

 "ne last June. It was literally a deed of darkness; 

 1 by reason of the prominence of at least one of the 

 lipants it deserves to be made light, 

 sportsmen who may have visited Tim Pond when it 

 \ mder the management of Mr. Kennedy Smith know 

 fcj the proprietor never winked at offenses against the 

 gf e law. His rule was that he was conducting a camp 

 fo entlemen; and no one who was not gentleman 

 er to h to observe the law was tolerated there. Mr. 

 Sir h w?s succeeded by Mr. Julian K. Viles. Unfor- 

 tu -iteK .or himself, as the event proved, Mr. Viles doer 

 no % - f j Mr. Smith's sentiment about observing the law. 



Four miles from Tim Pond is Barnard Pond. This is a 

 famous deer resort. One night about the last of June, 

 two young fellows named Scribner and Myers went to 

 this pond to jack deer. Unknown to them, three others, 

 Will Douglass, a guide, landlord Viles and one Walker, 

 repaired to the same pond on the same night for the 

 same purpose. There was but a single boat on the pond; 

 Scribner and Myers were in this with their jacklight. 

 Viles, Douglass and Walker, coming to the pond and 

 seeing by the jacklight that the others were looking for 

 deer, determined to take their chances to secure a shot. 

 They secreted themselves in the bushes and waited. 

 One of them having dropped something, they turned 

 up their light dimly and began searching. The 

 two hunters in the boat saw this light flash through 

 the interstices of the brush; and taking it for the reflec- 

 tion of a deer's eye, Scribner blazed away with his gun 

 loaded with buckshot, and Myers was about to follow 

 suit with his Winchester rifle, when the affrighted 

 Walker shouted in terror. And none too soon, for, as it 

 was, all three of the men on shore had been wounded 

 already; Walker had one buckshot through his arm, Viles 

 three in back and hip, and Douglass was wounded yet 

 more severely in the breast. At last accounts all the vic- 

 tims were doing well. 



If Mi'. Viles has not come to the conclusion that the 

 proprietor of a sportsmen's resort can be engaged in bet- 

 ter business than jacking deer out of season, he has at 

 least learned that when different gangs go out to jack in 

 June they will do well to have some understanding about 

 it, so that one party may not fire into the other, through 

 stupidly mistaking them for deer, when they are only 

 common poachers; or if they must shoot, let them shoot 

 to hit if it's a deer, and miss if it's a poacher. 



THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



AVERY large number of our readers will learn with 

 sincere regret that there seems to be no prospect 

 that the bill establishing a National Zoological Park at 

 Washington will become a law at this session of Con- 

 gress. The cry of one political party that there will be 

 no surplus this year is met by the determination of the 

 other political party to pass no appropriation bills which 

 can be held over until next year. The House conferees 

 have declined to agree to the passage of the bill, and it 

 will probably not be acted on. Next year, however, 

 we hope that the Park may be established. 



It is not always true that a matter of great scientific 

 importance is also one which interests the public as well, 

 but the project to establish at Washington a National 

 Zoological Park, is equally popular among scientific men 

 and among people who are entirely indifferent about 

 scientific matters. There should be in Congress a large 

 number of men with sufficient breadth of intelligence to 

 realize the importance of carrying through this measure, 

 and the sooner it becomes a law the better. 



Until this bill is passed the collection of living animals 

 now on exhibition in the Smithsonian grounds at Wash- 

 ington must suffer for lack of money to properly care for 

 them, and many opportunities for securing rare specimens 

 of our native fauna must necessarily be lost because there 

 are no funds with which to pay for them. We may be 

 sure, however, that the authorities who have the matter 

 in charge will make the most of the scanty means at their 

 command, trusting that before long Congress will see the 

 importance of providing more liberally for this interest- 

 ing collection. 



TAKING THE BULL BY THE HORNS. 



LAST week we explained the failure of the Commis- 

 sioners of Fisheries of New York to appoint a chief 

 game and fish protector. The reason given was that they 

 would not toady to the political behests of the Governor 

 by appointing a man who would be useful to him; and on 

 the other hand they hesitated to appoint a protector on 

 his merits who would be unacceptable to the Governor, 

 for in that case the Governor might ask for their resig- 

 nations. Our comments on this condition of affairs have 

 been widely copied and have evidently attracted much 

 attention. The press has recognized the fact that the 

 Forest and Stream has no political bias in the matter, 

 and our expressed opinion that the game protective sys- 

 tem of the State should be absolutely free from any 

 smirch of politics has of necessity been indorsed. 



The Commissioners have now taken the bull by the 

 ho T *s. Last Tuesday, at a meeting in this city, they 



appointed Mr. Fred P. Drew, of Washington Mills, chief 

 game and fish protector. There is no politics in this 

 appointment. The Commissioners have chosen the can- 

 didate whom they consider the best qualified to perform 

 the duties of the office irrespective of his political affilia- 

 tions. They have appointed him to do the work pre- 

 scribed and the character of his service will be measured 

 by its efficiency in game and fish protection, not by its 

 usefulness to politicians. 



The Commissioners adopted the following resolution 

 and acted on it in making their choice: » 



Resolve<l, That in the designation of a chief game and fish pro- 

 tector this board will take into consideration only the practical 

 merits of the candidates, and that as between those who have had 

 no experience as protectors and those whose qualifications have 

 been tested by such experience, preference shotild be given to the 

 latter, other considerations being equal. 



The office of a chief game and fish protector is exact- 

 ing. The appointee has had much experience as a pro- 

 tector in the Eleventh District. His practical training 

 there and the knowledge he has acquired of the devious 

 ways of offenders against the laws as well as of shifty 

 public officials will be of service to him in the wider field 

 to which he has been called. Next week we will print 

 the report which Protector Drew sent to the Commission- 

 ers giving bis work in 1887. The office of the protector 

 will be in Albany. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE death of Sir John Rose, the eminent Canadian 

 banker and statesman, adds another to the list of those 

 who have been overcome by excitement in the hunting 

 field. The cable reports that one day last week, as Sir 

 John was about to shoot at a stag in a deer forest in 

 Carthness, Scotland, he dropped dead. Last September 

 Lord Lovat died in a like manner on a grouse moor near 

 Inverness. Although it is not explicitly so stated, it is 

 probably true that Sir John's death was caused by de- 

 rangement of the heart, due to the excitement of the 

 moment, or what is known as "buck fever." 



By the death of "Crowley," the chimpanzee at the 

 Central Park, whose pranks have for several years 

 amused the children of this city and greatly interested 

 their elders, a severe loss is inflicted on the Central Park 

 collection. Under less careful and conscientious manage- 

 ment than that of Dr. Conklin it is doubtful if the chim- 

 panzee would have survived so long as he did. Kitty, 

 the younger chimpanzee, who survives, will not soon be 

 able to fill the place in the children's hearts left vacant 

 by the death of poor "Mr. Crowley." 



What morbid trait of human nature is it which so often 

 prompts friendless and poverty-stricken men and women 

 to befriend a horde of poverty-stricken dogs? William 

 Smalley, an eccentric old pauper, was removed to an 

 Ohio infirmary last week, and the officials found in his 

 home no less than thirteen dogs which the old man had 

 collected and was caring for. This is only one of numer- 

 ous instances which are constantly coming to public 

 notice of misanthropic individuals who have foresworn 

 human society for that of curs. 



At the Lake George canoe meet prizes were offered for 

 a proposed competition of campers. The plan was for 

 competitors to go into camp, cook supper, arrange and 

 remain in camp for the night, and cook breakfast in the 

 morning. Those doing these things most acceptably 

 were to be declared the winners. The project did not 

 succeed. Camping is not a pastime to be made the sub- 

 ject of competition, in spirit and essence it is something 

 that cannot be reconciled with mug-hunting. 



One of the Forest and Stream's readers, who is a 

 skilled field shot, owns a pointer who has been brought 

 up in the the way he should go. The dog knows when 

 Sunday comes, and he refuses to hunt on that day. He 

 will put in his best efforts from early Monday morning 

 till late Saturday night, but not a step will he budge 

 toward the field on Sunday. This is not a dog story; but 

 the facts are actually as stated. 



When one comes upon the heading "A Quail-Breeding 

 Farm," in a newspaper, he expects to find under it some- 

 thing more than the announcement that a man in New 

 Jersey has had ten out of sixteen quad eggs hatched out. 

 The tug of war is to come; to hatch out the birds is simple 

 enough; to rear them is quite another matter. 



