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depopulated the Clyde, aDd nearly did so on the Medway, 

 which fared better because the dams were further up the 

 river. The dams on the former were opened in 1879, and on 

 the latter a few years earlier, but in both cases the sawdust 

 continued to run freely, as it does still. 



CLYDE RlVEK, NOVA SCOTIA. 



Salmon, lbs. Alewives, bbls. 



1879. Dams opened — — 



1880 — — 



1881 — — 



1882. 



1883.. 

 1884.. 

 1885.. 



1888. 



1878 



1879.... 

 1880.... 

 1881.... 

 1882.... 



1883 



1884. . . . 



1885 



1886.... 

 1887.... 

 1888 



300 



2,480 ' 



.3,570 



3,975 



MED WAV RIVER, NOVA SCOTIA. 



Salmon, 

 lbs, 



22,871 



11,896 



5,313 



.... 7.615 



8,388 



21,169 



20,315 



30,230 



23,005 



22,984 



18.-150 



Trout, 

 lbs. 



915 

 1,650 

 2,050 

 2.375 

 2,615 



Alewives. 

 bbls. 

 70 



262 

 725 

 4,864 



s;t4? 



3,262 

 3,082 

 3,005 

 3,505 

 3,837 



h 



10 

 20 

 35 



120 

 90 



130 



Smelts, 

 lbs. 



2,000 

 4,000 

 3,750 

 7,400 

 8.550 

 15,200 

 16,000 

 18,250 

 21.500 

 22,700 



Sawdust in large quantities has not Mlled the fish here. 



1 have never yet been able to obtain any such facts to sus- 

 tain the opposite view. This is an age of investigation, and 

 few things are taken for granted in the absence of facts or 

 evidence to sustain them ; and we have a right to ask of 

 those who claim that sawdust, is ruinous to fish to produce 

 , their proof. 



"Sportsman" is also in error when he says that sawdust 

 covers up the spawning beds. I have never been able to dis- 

 cover such, and I have examined many rivers for that pur- 

 pose. The fact is the current is too strong where a salmon 

 ior trout would spawn to allow it to remain, hence such 

 spawning beds are as clean to-day as ever they were, no mat- 

 ter how much sawdust has been coming down the river. 

 0But even if it should lodge in such places, he must prove by 

 tactual facts how and why it would injure them. 



Sawdust does not rot uuder water, nor does wood of any 

 30rt, where it miugles with sand or mud in coves along the 

 shores or about the heads of estuaries where the water set- 

 tles away from it by the ebbing of the tide, or in fresh 

 [water. When it is left dry in summer, it will of course rot 

 and soon disappear, and by far the greater portion of what 

 falls into the streams from mills driven by water power dis- 

 appears in that way. So far as I have been able to ascertain, 

 the fish-killing effects of sawdust in any way or place has 

 Vet to be proven, and until such indubitable proof is pro- 

 duced, I, for one, shall continue to disbelieve it. I have 

 had considerable experience in this matter, but am always 

 willing to bow to well-authenticated facts. The matter 'is 

 an important one and calls for intelligent settlement, aud, 

 in my humble opinion, it is not difficult to settle right 



PlSCATOK. 



Vh$ Mennth 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Jan. 1 to 4.— Fourth Dog Show of the Meriden Poultry Associ- 

 ation. Joshua Shute, Secretary, No. 430 Pratt street, Meriden, 

 Conn. 



Jan. 15 to 19, 1889.— Seventh Annual Dor Show of the Southern 

 Massachusetts Poultry Association, at New Bedford, Mass. F. 

 W. Dean, Secretary. 



January, last week.— Western Pennsylvania Poultry Societ y's 

 Fourteenth Annual Show, Pittsburgh, Pa. C. B. Elben, 8ec'y. 



Feb. 5 to 8, 1889.— First Annual Doer Show of the Columbus 

 Fanciers' Club at Columbus O. Thos.B. Sparrow, Secretary. 



Feb. 7 to 12.— First Annual Show of the Hudson River Poultry, 

 Dog and Pet Slock Association, at Newburgh, N.Y. J. H. Dreven- 

 Stedt, Secretary, Washingtonville, N. Y. 



Feb. 12 to 15, 1880.— Fifth Dog Show of the New Jersey Kennel 

 Club, at Jersey City, N. J. Geo. L. Wilms, Secretary, 142 Monti- 

 cello avenue, Jersey City, N. J. 



Feb. 19 to 22, 1889.— Thirteenth Annual .Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent. 



Feb. 26 to March 1, 1889.— Second Annual Show of the Renssalaer 

 Kennel Club, Troy, N. Y. Alba M. Ide. Secretary. 



March 5 to 8, 1889.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Albany 

 Kennel Club, at Albany, N. Y. Geo. B. Gallup, Secretary. 



March 13 to 15, 1889.— Second Annual Show of the Fort Schuyler 

 Kennel Club, Utiea, N. Y. James W. Dunlop, President. 



March 19 to .'22, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Maryland 

 Kennel Club, at Baltimore, Md. W. S. Diffendcrffer, Secretary. 



March 213 to 29, 1889.— First Annual Dog Show of the Massachu- 

 setts Kennel Cluh, at Lynn, Mass. D. A. Williams, Secretary. 



April 2 to 5, 1889.— First Annual Show of the Rochester Kennel 

 Club, at Rochester, N. Y. Harry Yates, Secretary. 



April 2 to 5, 1889.— Annual Show of the New England Kennel 

 Club, Boston, Mass. J. W. Newman, Secretary, No. 6 Hamilton 

 Place. 



April 9 to 12.— First Dug Show of the Worcester Kennel Club, at 

 Worcester, Mass. Edward W. Doyle, Secretary. 



April 9 to 12, 1889— First Annual Dog Show of the Mascoutah 

 Kennel Club, at Chicago. 111. John L. Lincoln, Jr., Secretarv. 



April 16 to 19, 18S9.-Tbe Seventh Dog Show of the Philadelphia 

 Kennel Club, at Philadelphia, Pa. Wm. C. Child. Secretary. 



May 22 to 25, — Pacific Kennel Club Show, San Francisco, Cal. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Jan. 14, 1889.— Sixth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Coast 

 Field Trial Club, at Bakers field. Cal. N. P. Sheldon, Secretary, 

 320 Sansome street San Francisco, Cal. 



A. K. R.-SPECIAL NOTICE. 



rpHE AMERICAN KENNEL REGISTER, for the registration 

 ■*• of pedigrees, etc. (with prize lists of all shows and trials), is 

 published every month. Entries close on the 1st. Should be in 

 early. Entry blanks sent on receipt of stamped and addressed 

 envelope. Registration fee (50 cents) must accompany each entry. 

 No entries inserted unless paid in advance. Yearly subscription 

 81.50. AddreBB "American Kennel Register," P. O. Box 2832, New 

 York. Number of entries ab-eady printed 6850. 



ROBINS ISLAND CLUB. 



SEVENTH ANNUAL FIELD TRIALS. 



PKCONJC, L. 1.— Editor Forest and Stream: Another 

 year having passed, it is again my pleasant duty to 

 report for the Forest and Stream the running of the dogs 

 at the seventh annual meeting of the Robins Island Club. 

 The trials of this year of 1888 in reality should be the eighth, 

 but the unfortunate burning of the club house last season 

 on the day before that named for the trials made a post- 

 ponement necesssry, so that this becomes the seventh. 



The Long Island Railroad manages to get up more dust 

 in winter than any other running to your city. As a sequence 

 those members aud guests who traveled to New Suffolk on 

 Saturday and Sunday last presented the appearance of 

 having lately visited a flouring mill, the dust on them was 

 so white and so thick. The weather was of the most charm- 

 ing character, and all concerned were in the highest spirits 

 over the prospects of a successful meeting. The island 

 being in due time reached, the noble proportions of the ne*w 



club house struck the eye at once. Indeed it was the cyn- 

 osure of all eyes as the yacht drew close to the shore of the 

 island. The last time your correspondent was on the island 

 was the morning after the fire, and so clean v*as the destruc- 

 tion and so depressed were the members aud officers on that 

 eventful day that the visit has been one of no pleasing kind 

 to dwell upon. This year all is changed. Out of ruin has 

 grown beauty. As a matter of fact the loss has proved a 

 benefit. The old club house was a thing of patches. An 

 addition had been built here, an L added there, so that the 

 effect upon one looking from the outside was anything but 

 pleasing. There was a lack of harmony, an appearance of 

 incongruity in the parts that made the whole. I grant 

 that once within the doors'everything was homelike and 

 comfortable. It answered, no doubt, the purposes of the 

 members who loved the shooting of the preserved grounds, 

 but to the others who preferred a visit with their f ami] es 

 during the heat of summer it was at the best a makeshift. 

 While comfortable, it lacked all these little elegancies that 

 adding so much to looks at the same time are so necessary 

 to meet in full manner the needs of the present day. 



In thisconneetijjn, before proceeding to a description of the 

 trials, it may be as well to mention the appearance of their 

 new building. To premise, it has been placed some two 

 hundred feet northeast of the old house, and has been put on 

 the crown of a little knoll, from the top of which the ground 

 slopes in most gradual manner in every direction, fj.iloss 

 told, no one would believe that the altitude is just twenty 

 feet above that of the old site. Having been placed so much 

 higher and somewhat nearer the shore, it has given views of 

 land and water, on three sides, which are simply incompara- 

 ble in beauty to anything I know of. The general style of 

 the edifice is what is known generally as modified Queen. 

 A style which admits of all sorts of departure from a more 

 rigid manner of architecture; a stricter adherence to any 

 close copy of a single style. On the west is the reception 

 room, irregular in shape, but most pleasintc in effect. It is 

 33ft. long by 21ft. at one end and 17ft. at the other. The 

 lessening of width is owing to the north end being carried 

 around the segment of a circle, this circle being a gradual 

 one from the grand old fireplace to the hall ou the far side. 

 The "round" of this room is but a succession of windows, 

 giving a view of many miles in extent over the bay and its 

 northern shores. Two doors open from this apartment to a 

 piazza which encircles the house on this side. The fireplace 

 deserves mention. The chimney is some 12ft. in width, 

 and this width is earned full, but with a backward slope 

 to the ceiling. The fireplace is nearly 7ft. across and 

 3ft. in depth. Its crown is an oval arch of brick, sur- 

 mounted with a front of large rough boulders, gathered 

 from the island, on top of which follows stained brick to 

 the full height of the room. It is as massive as it is hand- 

 some. Wrought iron andirons, ornate in style, fill almost 

 the chimney's front; over them a wrought iron grating, 

 upon which rests the eordwood, which is here burned with- 

 out a second cutting. Across the front of this great chimney 

 hang suspended, over and around, the antlers of a moose, 

 firearms of varied dates of manufacture, as well as ancient 

 weapons of warfare— pikes, swords, etc. From this large 

 reception room one passes through a wide doorway to the 

 main hall. This hall boasts of an open fireplace, but not 

 furnished in as ornamental style as the first-mentioned. 

 The shape of the hall is that of the letter T, the top cross- 

 ing the house from north to south, the long part of the let- 

 ter representing the ball leading to the dining room. On 

 either side of this hall is a room; on the right the smoking 

 room of the gentlemen, on the left the ladies' reception 

 room. The dining room is another one of large dimensions, 

 34ft. in length by 15 in width. At the south end it opens to 

 a large butler's pantry, which in turn opens to the kitchen, 

 20x20ft. in size. Outside of the kitchen is an addition in- 

 closed with glass. The views from the dining room win- 

 dows are as beautiful as those seen from the windows of the 

 general sitting room on the other side. Each room of those 

 on this floor have open fireplaces of greater or less size and 

 of different appearance. On the second floor are no less than 

 nine sleeping apartments, the majority of them having the 

 open fireplace. 



The third story has not as yet been finished, but the space 

 admits of as many more bedrooms as are now on the floor 

 below. A cellar is under the whole building, in which is the. 

 brick-inclosed furnace. A peculiar feature of this cellar is a 

 small room known as th e drying room. It is a room say 7x7ft. , 

 built up with brick partitions. Through this room runs the 

 foot-in-diameter hot-air flue leading to the floor above. 

 When the door of this room is closed the air is extremely hot 

 and dry iu character. Around the walls and in the ceiling 

 are hooks. When a shooter comes in wet from head to foot, 

 his foot gear aud clothing are placed in this drying room, 

 and the dry air sucks the moisture from clothing and" leather 

 like a sponge. It is a feature of the house. The furnishing 

 of the house has been of such a character that speaks vol- 

 umes as to the taste of the secretary of the club, S. B. 

 Duryea. Everything is in harmony with the room of which 

 it is a part. Indeed, -~o delicate are some of the effects that 

 I feel assured no one but a lady could so have chosen and 

 then grouped in such a manner the various purchases. The 

 club should be proud of its club house, and more than proud 

 in having such a secretary to care for its interests. Taste 

 and money have combined to make a most charming edifice, 

 both without and within. When the two are united an 

 excellent effect is gained, while the possession of one with- 

 out the other renders failure more than possible. 



Monday Morntng. 



This, the day appointed for the opening of the trials, began 

 with a stiff wind blowing from the southeast, bringingwith 

 it a mist so heavy and dense as to threaten the stoppage of 

 the running aud make a postponement necessary. After 

 breakfast those interested met in the reception room to 

 make their entries and discuss the chances as to a day of 

 rain or a partial clearing up, enough so, at any rate, to 

 enable a commencement of the work. Those entering in this 

 discussion were Messrs. S. Fleet Speir, S. B. Duryea, W. 

 M. Van Anden, William Stanley, W. Hester, and the judges 

 invited to attend the trials, Judge O. E. Pratt and Jacob 

 Pentz. Many regrets were expressed at the enforced absence 

 of many of the shooting members of the club, especially so 

 as to those whose interest iu the year's field trials has always 

 been of the warmest kind. The absence of Messrs. Chann- 

 cey Marshall, Harry Polbemus. Alden S. Swan, K. Welling- 

 ton, and others equally interested, was indeed a matter of 

 regret. 



The. entries to the Derby were few in number but rich in 

 quality. Distemper has played havoc among the youngsters 

 belonging to the different members. The best and most 

 promising had, as usual, been carried off, so that instead of 

 a dozen or more but three came to the front. These Were S. 

 B. Duryea's Guy, a handsome blue belton of large size, and 

 in breeding by owner's Ned out of Midwout Linda: W. M, 

 Van Anden's Rheuma, a medium-sized red and white (Diet- 

 rich's Tip— Spower's Grace). This pup showed a strong in- 

 fusion of Irish blood, and possessed all the deviltry and high 

 courage of that blood. Dr. S. Fleet Speir's Belle; this bitch 

 was a blue belton in color, of medium size. She was sired 

 by Count Rapier ex Dell. 



"It will be recalled by the readers of the Forest and 

 Stream that the judging of the work done by the competing 

 animals at the trials of t he Robins Island Club is made by 

 comparing their work with a tabulated statement of points, 

 as will be found further on, and which table explains itself. 

 For convenience sake two dogs are run together, not in light 

 of making one work against the other, but to save time and 

 insure the arriving at a correct judgment in regard to each 

 animal's "backing," disposition when in company, etc. 



belle And rheuma 

 were started at 8:35 in a rolling field to west of club house, 

 the former handled by Dr. Speir, the latter by W. M. Van 

 Anden. The weather was so dismal in kind that birds lay like 

 stones, and withholding scent by lying iu compact shape in 

 endeavor to evade the beastly storm, great difficulty was ex- 

 perienced in finding and then in locatiug them correctly. A 

 long tratnp was had backward andforward. Walking south 

 Belle got a point near what is now known as Cedar Mead. 

 Stopping for a. few seconds, she roaded on, and after a few 

 yards stopped again. Rheuma was called up for a back, 

 but with the impetuosity of his breed he went in an oppo- 

 site direction. The quail got up wild. Dr. Speir fired and 

 missed; Belle was steady to wing and dropped to shot. This 

 was a pretty piece of work. Rheuma having been found by 

 her handler was brought back so that both could run to- 

 gether. A long walk here followed. Steps were retraced 

 northward, and the rolling hills hunted and quartered in a 

 most thorough manner. Not a bird was found, save a single 

 quail, which got, U p in front of Captain King, of the club's 

 yacht, who almost stepped on it before it flushed. A turn 

 w r as made to Cedar Mead again (due south) and after passing 

 the clump of cedars, from which this part of the island is 

 named, Rheunia drew to a stiff point, which was well 

 backed by Belle. After a half minute, as if not sure of the 

 scent, the. dog roaded on and stopped again with his head 

 pointing due west to a little bit of cover. As he moved 

 forward, so did Belle- when he stopped she also stopped. 

 After this had been done two or three times Belle turned 

 her head to the left while following the red dog and in- 

 stantly came to a solid point, which Dr. Speir claimed. 

 Birds were ordered up aud were Hushed not a dozen yards in 

 front of Belle's nose. The dog was evidently off in scenting 

 power, for he was following the back track and was moving 

 in directly opposite directions from where the birds were 

 located by the bitch. 



The woods in the center of the island were entered and 

 gone through, the party entering the open fields east of the 

 kennels. A hare, was jumped by the red dog, who made a 

 run to follow but was checked to command after a rod or so 

 had been covered. The rain, which had been falling steadilv 

 since 10 o'clock, now came down fast and furiously. It beat 

 through rubber coats as if they had been made of gossamer, 

 while feet and legs were — well, wet? A postponement of 

 the work for the day was absolutely necessary. My note 

 book was about ruined, while what was saved was so much 

 blotted and blurred that the memoranda made looked like 

 unto the sides of an Egyptian obelisk — covered with 

 hieroglyphics. The first brace of pups had been run close 

 to four hours, under the most discouraging conditions, and 

 the outlook was anything but a promising one. The club 

 house reached, clothing changed, a general cleaning fol- 

 lowed. The comforts of the house "soon dispersed the 

 gloomy feeling all had, the brightly burning fires in the 

 huge hearths doing much to dispel the disappoiutment felt 

 at the want of success that had been meted out to the con 

 testants. 



Tuesday's Work. 



During the night the weather clerk had again chauged his 

 programme. A wind sprang up from the southwest, veer- 

 ing gradually to the southeast. Blowing at first hardly 

 strong enough to carry off the masses of fog, it steadily in- 

 creased in strength until at 9 o'clock in the morning it was 

 a howling gale, accompanied by occasional "'spitting" of 

 snow from passing clouds. It grew steadily colder, the 

 secluded spots, shaded from what sun there was, freezing 

 fast and solidly. If Monday was bad. this day was worse. 

 A start was made at 8:40, the direction through the big 

 home pasture easterly along the woods. The dogs went off 

 better than on the day before. Bowling along over the field 

 and quartering nicely, a bevy of thirty birds flushed them- 

 selves 20yds. ahead. Marked down and hunted for without 

 result. Then still east to Quail Run, where Belle found and 

 pointed what proved to be a single bird. The red, called up 

 for a back, did so in very indifferent fashion. Along tramp 

 followed with but little result, Belle stopping once to a stiff 

 point. Judge Pratt moved up to shoot and bitch ordered 

 on. No bird was found. Dogs ordered up at quarter past 

 10, after having been run nearly six hours in the two days. 



According to the rules of the club the animal having a 

 bye must run — for the purpose of trying action in company 

 and backing— with a dog previously selected for making 

 comparison. Thus Jock was selected to run the bye with 

 the puppy G-uy. Moving south from Spinmount (the hill at 

 upper or north end of the long East bluff) Guy jumped into 

 a point in elegant style. The bird ran; Guy roaded along 

 rapidly and soon stopped again. This time the bird flushed 

 itself some distance ahead of him. Moving forward Jock 

 pointed nicely; Guy. called in for a back, did it most grace 

 fully. Bird put up and shot by Mr. Stanley over Jock's 

 point. Guy, sent to retrieve, did so, but not in good form, 

 mouthing his bird considerably. Belle and Guy both tried 

 for a retrieve on this quail, which was thrown for them. 

 Both did so, Belle much the better of the two, but neither 

 in high degree. Puppies taken up at 10:45. Summary of 

 the event is herewith given. The birds were in goodly num- 

 ber, but a good point was seldom arrived at. They had been 

 shot at so much since the commencement of the season, that 

 they seemed to know instinctively that to lie to the dogs 

 meant destruction, so flush of both bird and bevy was con- 

 tiutially happening, and these flushes were not the fault of 

 the dogs in any way. 



DEBBV, HOB1NS ISLANU CLUB, 1S88. 



Name of dog. 



Points of Merit. 



Demerits. 



Guy 



Belle 



Rheuma . , 



20 7 6 



20 7 

 20 4 



ft! hi ^ ^ a 



1: 



ALL-AGED STAKES. 



GOUT (W. M. Van Anden), red and white dog (Duke— Dora) . 



Jock (W. Stanley), black and tan dog (Jock, Jr.— Betsy). 



Bang (W. Stanley), black dog (Smith's Jack— Belle). 



Steve (W. Stanley), blue belton dog ( ). 



General Arthur (S. Fleet Speir), blue belton dog (Em- 

 peror Fred— Wanda). 



Ned (S. B. Duryea), blue belton dog (Blunder — Fannie). 



Argus (S. B. Duryea), Gordon dog (Blossom — Moll). 



Bob (W. Hester), blue belton dog (Roybell— Native bitch). 



Doris (H. Polhemus). liver and white bitch (Diplomat- 

 Ruby). 



Forge (L. Waterbury), lemou and white dog (Van.de- 

 vort's Don— Bessie). 



The last two were the only pointers entered in the stake. 

 In drawing for places the dogs were paired as follows: 



Bang against Gout. 



