Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 20, 1888. 



j VOL. XXXI.-No. 9. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



An International Rifle Match. 



The Zoological Garden. 



Franklin Satterthwaite. 

 The Sportsman Tottkist. 



An Owl Hunt. 



A MidnigDt Scene. 



A Visit to the Park. 

 Natural History. 



The "Fantail" Deer. 



Indian Antidotes for Snake 

 Bites. 



The Sportsm an-Naturalist. 

 Snakes Swallowing Young. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 

 The Woodehuck Creek Coun- 

 try.— rv. 

 Notes from Quebec. 

 North Woods Incidents. 

 Bay Snipe. 



A New Georgia Association. 

 Tompkins County Game. 

 Drop of Stock. 



The Connecticut Association. 

 Park Petition Signatures. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 Lake Edward. 

 A Responsive Chord. 

 Some Bass Records. 

 Natural and Artificial Flies. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Grand Cascapedia Salmon 

 Score. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



The Cincinnati Exhibition. 

 The Kennel. 

 Buffalo Dog Show. 

 The Two Dog Clubs. 

 American Coursing Club. 

 Syracuse Dog Show. 

 Indiana Field Trials. 

 A. K. C. Meeting. 

 Dog Talk. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallerv. 

 The Creedmoor Meeting. 

 The Army Team. 

 The Trap. 



The Chamberlin Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 

 Campine at the Meet. 

 Ianthe C C. Fall Regatta. 

 Yachting. 

 Eastern Y. C. Fall Regatta. 

 Weld Challenge Cup. 

 New Rochelle Y. C. 

 Quaker City Y. C. 

 Racing Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



AN INTERNATIONAL RIFLE MATCH. 



SHALL we have another international match? This is 

 the query which is put to us a dozen times each 

 week, and the only answer is that there is no reason why 

 such a contest should not take place other than the 

 apathy of the marksmen. It is hardly likely that there 

 will be another small-bore match with fine rifles, simply 

 because there is no one to take hold of the match and 

 push it through. Just now the supremacy in the form of 

 shooting rests with the American shooters. They hold 

 the Palma trophy, and it remains with our English 

 cousins to come over and take it. There is very little 

 long-range work going on in America, and a great deal of 

 it in England, but the makers of the match rifle in Great 

 Britain would profit little by the bringing home o£ this 

 international emblem, and it is after all the manufactur- 

 ers who create the sentiment in favor of a public match 

 of this sort, who back the enterprise and who see it 

 through to a finish. No doubt if a challenge came an 

 American team could be put in the field very soon, and it 

 would be a good team too. The Walnut Hill men could 

 very soon step from their usual short-range work back to 

 the longer ranges where already several have made cre- 

 ditable records. The next international match, however, 

 should be a military one with military weapons, fought 

 out between the Militia here and the Volunteers of Great 

 Britain. The Volunteers have twice beaten us, once on 

 our own ground and once abroad, and we have quietly 

 taken the beatings, and have allowed season after season 

 to slip by without making the least effort to reverse the 

 record. 



It would be a comparatively easy matter to arrange the 

 conditions of a match which should bring these teams 

 again together. It is absurd to say that we have not 

 makes of special military rifles which would be the proper 

 weapon in such a match, every whit equal to the 

 fine arms used in their matches at Wimbledon. If we 

 have not the arms then the sooner that fact is demon- 

 strated the better. We have the men. New York State 

 has now a good, efficient system of rifle practice for her 



troops, and Massachusetts as well. Other States come 

 forward with a few marksmen, and many have none at 

 all. Either of these two States could put an American 

 team forward, which, so far as the men went, would be 

 fully up to a British team. Having the men and the 

 machines, all that remains is for some one with intelli- 

 gent enthusiasm to take up the matter and push it 

 through, to arouse the laggard pride of our marksmen, 

 to let the public at large know that it has a duty to pei- 

 form in properly supporting their representatives, and 

 then we would find the Britishers more than ready to 

 give us another brush . 



To be sure, it is no easy matter to carry through such 

 an enterprise. It is no small bit of work to get just the 

 right men for the team, and then to get just the right 

 work out of them; but it can be done, and some clever, 

 energetic inspector of rifle practice on one of our State 

 staffs is the man to head the scheme, to consummate it, 

 and to get full credit for the victory which ought to be 

 the outcome. 



FRANKLIN SATTERTHWAITE. 

 TT is our melancholy task to record the death of an old 

 friend and shooting companion. After an illness ex- 

 tending over six months, Franklin Satterthwaite died last 

 Friday at his home in Newark, New Jersey, aged forty- 

 six years. Mr. Satterthwaite was born in New York city. 

 His father was John Blackwood Satterthwaite, and his 

 mother was Ellen Duane, a great-granddaughter of Ben- 

 jamin Franklin. James S. and John Fisher Satter- 

 thwaite, of Franklin township, N. J., were his cousins. 

 Mr. Satterthwaite in his youth was employed by the 

 Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and later in life devoted 

 himself to literary work for the magazines and daily 

 papers. His death resulted from a complication of dis- 

 eases, ending in heart failure. Six or eight months ago 

 he was prostrated with throat trouble, after which came 

 neuralgia, rheumatism, lung trouble, and finally paraly- 

 sis of the spine. Mr. Satterthwaite leaves a wife, the 

 daughter of the late Jabez Pennington, and two children, 

 a boy and a girl. The funeral took place last Monday. 



Franklin Satterthwaite was essentially a sportsman, 

 and one of the best type. As a boy he was familiar with 

 the haunts of game on Long Island and in New Jersey, 

 and under the guidance of older sportsmen like Colonel 

 Depeyster and Eobert B. Roosevelt, he tramped the stub- 

 bles and the woodcock covers, and laid the foundation 

 of the ardent love for dog and gun that he always cher- 

 ished. 



Early in life, soon after his marriage, he had shot over 

 much of England and Scotland, and in many of the coun- 

 tries of continental Europe, and after his return to this 

 country he searched its length and breadth in his efforts 

 to find the best shooting grounds. Probably no man in 

 this country had given so much attention to this subject 

 as he, and certainly no one had so accurate a knowledge 

 of the best localities for small game east of the Missouri 

 River. He kept himself constantly informed by means 

 of correspondence with gunners in all sections of the 

 country as to the movements of birds, and each season 

 found him well equipped with information for his autumn 

 outing. Mr. Satterthwaite was a remarkably fine shot, 

 and this fact, combined with his knowledge of game re- 

 sorts, made him singularly successful in all his excursions. 



Although his favorite sport was with dog and gun, he 

 was also successful in more athletic sports. He was an 

 enthusiastic cricketer, and besides being a most skill- 

 ful player, he had an historical and theoretical know- 

 ledge of the game which was very unusual. This know- 

 ledge was such that at various times he held the position 

 of cricket editor on various periodicals in this city and in 

 Philadelphia. 



His great experience in the field, and with sporting 

 dogs, especially qualified him for the position of kennel 

 editor of Forest and Stream, and for a number of years 

 he filled this chair with credit to himself and to the paper. 

 He had seen too much of good field work to be imposed 

 upon by the tricks which might have deceived a man of 

 less experience, and his honesty was too unswerving to 

 permit him to wink at crooked work. It is not strange 

 therefore that his unsparing and fearless denunciation 

 of jockeying at field trials, while it won for him the re- 

 spect and admiration of all honest men, gained for him 

 also the hatred of the rogues among dog men. As a re- 

 porter he was fearless, acute, untiring, and he rarely 

 made a mistake. As a judge of field trial work, or of 

 bench show form, in sporting classes, he was competent 



and unswayed by any consideration save the merits of 

 the animal on which he was to pass. 



As a writer in the field of sport Mr. Satterthwaite made 

 his mark. He had a rich fancy, good powers of descrip- 

 tion and a keen sense of the ludicrous, and his sketches 

 were always entertaining. His contributions have ap- 

 peared in many of the periodicals of the day, among 

 which may be especially mentioned Forest and Stream, 

 Haider's Magazine and the London Field. But Mr. Sat- 

 terthwaite was by nature a journalist rather than a lit- 

 erary man. He had a keen appreciation of what was 

 news, and a rare faculty for getting at it, and putting it 

 in attractive shape. 



As a companion in the field Mr. Satterthwaite was a 

 charming associate. He had a rich fund of anecdote, and 

 his humorous stories were always full of point. During 

 long years of association with him, it was our good for- 

 tune more than once to make extended shooting trips in 

 his company, and these days spent with him on the snipe 

 marsh, the quail stubble, or along the seashore are days 

 always looked back to with pleasure — days never to be 

 forgotten. 



Franklin Satterthwaite, though still comparatively a 

 young man, was yet old enough to have known intimately 

 that older generation of sportsmen whom many of us 

 can remember, but which is now rapidly passing away. 

 He formed, as it were, a link between them and the 

 younger generation, now in the full pride and strength of 

 their manhood. Less than a year ago he was a picture 

 of l-ugged health and strength. Now the strong arm 

 that so unerringly poised the ready gun is nerveless, the 

 quick, keen eye is dimmed forever. A genial sportsman, 

 a warm-hearted friend has passed away. His untimely 

 death will carry sorrow to many hearts. 



THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN. 

 A S foreshadowed in our editorial remarks in our issue 

 of September 6, the Zoological Park bill was de- 

 feated Sept. 12, in the House of Representatives. We in- 

 dicated in the editorial referred to the probable ground 

 oil which this amendment to the Sundry Civil Service 

 Bill w T ould fail to pass, and the event has proved the ac- 

 curacy of our prophecy. One political party was trying 

 to make campaign capital out of the size of the appro- 

 priations passed by Congress, and the dominant party de- 

 clined to furnish political ammunition for its opponents, 

 and so for the year the project goes over. It is interest- 

 ing and encouraging to observe that the debate in the 

 House developed the fact that there is very little opposi- 

 tion to the establishment of this park, and that the bill 

 was defeated by its friends rather than its enemies, and 

 solely to gain a political point. The friends of the bill 

 have, no cause to be discouraged by its fate at this session, 

 and there seems good reason to hope that when the 

 measure comes up next year, as it certainly will, the re- 

 sult of the vote may be very different. Sooner or later 

 the Zoological Park must be established. 



There should be no disagreement between farmers 

 and sportsmen in Connecticut over the law which for- 

 bids the exportation of game. Whatever may be said for 

 or against the law, it cannot truthfully be urged that it 

 favors any one class at the expense of another. Its in- 

 tent is not to abridge the rights and privileges of the far- 

 mers nor of the farmers' boys in order that "city sports- 

 men" may be given sport. The law is directed against 

 the professional market hunters, who by wholesale snar- 

 ing destroy the game with profit only to themselves. 

 Neither farmer nor sportsman receives any benefit from 

 the work of the market hunter; it is to the interest of 

 both to discourage market hunting. The Legislature had 

 this in view when it adopted the non-export law. In its 

 application, as now enforced and as likely to be enforced, 

 the statute does not interfere with the farmer's boy who 

 wants to snare a few grouse. The farmer's boy traps to- 

 day and will keep on trapping with impunity. 



In the official compilation of the New York game laws 

 just published by the Commissioners _of Fisheries, the 

 galli mule persists in being defined as a protected game 

 bird, as indeed it must persist in any official copy of the 

 law. No one has any authority to change galli mule into 

 gallinule until it shall be done by act of Legislature. 

 Mistakes like this in a State game law are trivial in com- 

 parison with such a one as that in the River and Harbor 

 Bill which appropriates for Back Cove in Portland Har- 

 bor, Me., not $25,000 as was intended but $25,000,000, 



