July 25, 1889.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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the top of a lumber pile, when a couple of miles down 

 the river, we relieved the tension on our good feelings 

 struggling for a rent in a brief but highly artistic sand- 

 hill crane dance, greatly to the amusement of the other 

 boys and a couple of Indian passengers for Church's 

 Landing, who occupied reserved seats on the camp chests. 



"Go it, Hickory," shouted old Kuots. "Sail in, Snake- 

 root," screamed Charley, "that off leg o' yourn needs a 

 little ile in the pastern jint, but I'll bet on old Ken tuck." 

 "Hump yourself, James Mackerel, or you'll get left," 

 from the ledge, and similar fragments of encouragement 

 and shouts of laughter, even the stoical Indians .Joining 

 in the hilarity, filled the air till old Snakeroot, exhausted 

 and the sweat streaming from his face, wound up the 

 festivities with a prolonged Kentucky whoo-oo-p, that 

 moved our Indian auditors to manifest their approval of 

 the performance by a violent outburst of merriment and 

 sundry nudges and grunts of satisfaction that we failed 

 to appreciate for lack of an interpreter. But we had our 

 dance of rejoicing a little too early in the day. 



It was after 1 o'clock in the afternoon when we rounded 

 in at the saw-mill dock to leave the scow, but we would 

 still have plenty of time to reach our camping place long 

 before sundown and get the tents up before nightfall. 

 We went forward to see the Captain about getting our 

 baggage on the tug and securing the small boats to tow 

 astern, but he was nowhere to be seen. Our cook was in 

 the wheel house, but came out on the deck looking sour 

 and morose without saying a word, and directly Captain 

 Dave emerged from the engine room, blear-eyed and 

 with his throat and face scratched aud bleeding and 

 bunged up, looking as if he had been interviewing a sau- 

 sage machine. 



"Without looking to the right or to the left, or uttering 

 even a grunt, he staggered into the wheelhouse, took his 

 little ship's compass from the box, a book — his account 

 book perhaps — and his charts, bundled them awkwardly 

 under his arms, got ashore with some difficulty, and 

 still without a glance at us, a word or a grunt, zigzagged 

 off across the common and disappeared in the woods a 

 couple of hundred yards away, "permit" and all, chuck 

 full of "Dominion pine top," and "United States tangle 

 leg," and "drunker'n a biled owl." Then Louis told us 

 the Captain had come aboard at the Sault with a couple 

 of bottles of whisky in his pockets besides the load in- 

 side, and when down the river a few miles had called 

 him to the wheel and gone into the engine room, where 

 he soon after got into a fight with the engineer, a big, 

 powerful man. and from the general appearance of Capt. 

 David Tate when he left the boat the engineer must have 

 mistaken him for a bunch of waste and used him to mop 

 up the floor of the engine room to give it a tidy look for 

 the next day, Sunday. 



As Louis finished his tale of the skirmish, told in very 

 good American, the engineer came ashore and laid us out 

 flat with, "Well boys. I'm sorry for you, but I guess 

 you're in a fix. I can't take you any further, for it's a 

 $50 fine to move a boat without the master, and I don't 

 feel like paying it, even to get you to your camp. Capt. 

 Tate's got the devil in him and gone home, he lives over 

 in the woods a mile or so back and it looks like you're 

 left." We began to see it in the same light. 



After some further talk of a decidedly sulphurous 

 nature, in whieh we held up our end in a creditable man- 

 ner, the engineer said that the only thing left for him 

 was to put out the fires, leave the boat in charge of the 

 mdl men and go back to town and report the case to the 

 owner, Mr. Church, and as a tow was just then confine: 

 up Lake George two or three miles away, he asked that 

 one of us take a smallboat and go out in the stream with 

 him when they went by and he would get aboard. I 

 went out with him, and. as the great propeller went by, 

 towing three big, deeply-laden schooners, the captain was 

 hailed and nodded permission to get aboard, and as the 

 last of the tow went rushing past, a line was thrown us 

 by a sailor, and as we swung alongside the engineer went 

 up and inboard, and I pulled back to the boys, who sat 

 around on the camp chests with long faces, dazed and 

 crushed by this unlooked-for calamity. 



There we were, in a category this time of somewhat 

 alarming dimensions, and no visible way out of it. 



"Shipwrecked, b'gosh," said Snakeroot, with a visage 

 as long as a bats rod, "an' 700 miles from home. Con- 

 found (this was Sam's strongest form of profanity) a 

 drunken half-breed, anyhow; you can't trust 'em with a 

 drop o' the critter no more'n you can a nigger in a water- 

 melon patch." 



The situation was certainly annoying, but it would 

 not do to sit down and wait for something to turn up. 



"Where are we now, Old Hickory V" asked Knots, puff- 

 ing in a vague sort of way at his pipe. 



"What'll we do now, James Mackerel?" from the Jedge, 

 as he squirted a half gill of tobacco juice in the water, 

 to watch a half score of small sunfish rush to the surface 

 in a wrangle for an instant over the supposed morsel and 

 then back away in disgust. 



What's to become of us all now, Old Calamity V" husk- 

 ily from Snakeroot, and Charley said, "Think fast, and 

 ' let's get out of here," which was more practical. 



It was decided to load the boats and start for Echo 

 Lake at once, leaving one man to look after the luggage 

 till we came back, if it was midnight, and the other two 

 boats were slid in the water from the scow and the work 

 of loading about to begin, when Louis, who had been a 

 silent spectator, said, "Boys, if you'll listen a minute. I 

 think I can help you out of the scrape, for I'm goin' to 

 stick to you and see you through, after the way you 

 have been treated." We were ready to catch at any 

 kind of a straw, and waited to hear what he had to 

 propose. "I know a couple of Indian boys," he went on, 

 up around the bend at Cunningham's Landing, that own 

 a good big Mackinaw boat with two sails and a jib, and 

 if one of you will go with me in one of the boats I'm 

 sure I can get them to take you to Echo Lake, and the 

 boat will carry you all and everything you've got and 

 tow the boats behind." 



In ten minutes the little fellow and the Jedge were out 

 of sight around the bend, and we walked around and 

 waited, and watched the big saw cleave its way through 

 a log at the roofless mill a few yards back from the river, 

 made a few "general remarks" about Captain Tate mean- 

 time, and wished — at least one of us did — that there was 

 not a solitary drop of "cussed licker, fermented or other- 

 wise, on the face of this livin' airth." 



At the end of nearly an hour, which seemed three, we 

 saw a boat come around the bend with'a sail set, but not 

 till it was within a few hundred yards did we make out the 



j occupant to be the Jedge, and alone. "Another back- 

 set," said old Sam, but we would know when the Jedge 

 arrived. 



This, the larger of the three boats, had a centerboard, 

 and the mast and sail having been left in, the Jedge was 

 playing sailor, and just now, as he went by well over 

 toward Squirrel Island, was trying to lower the sail, but 

 something had fouled and it stubbornly refused to come 

 down. Every minute or so the wind heeled the little 

 craft over till our hearts were in our mouths, and becom- 

 ing vexed at the Jedge's awkward efforts to lower the 

 sail and yet more alarmed lest he capsize and drown be- 

 fore our eyes I took the smaller boat and started after 

 him, now well down toward Church's Landing, but when 

 two-thirds of the distance between us had been gone 

 over the. sail came down and I pulled back to the dock 

 "mad as a nest o' hornets," but thankful the "episode," 

 as Sam called it, had no more serious termination. When 

 he came ashore and received a good scoring for the scare 

 he had given us, he eased our minds with the informa- 

 tion that "Louis and two more Injuns would soon be here 

 with the Mackinaw." 



Another half hour of impatient waiting brought the 

 boat, and after the briefest kind of a pow-wow, in which 

 Louis acted as interpreter, Tom, the elder of the two 

 Chippewa brothers, agreed to take us to Echo Lake for 

 $5. Without parley, for the charge was reasonable, the 

 calamities were put aboard and then we waited some 

 more while Louis made a trip down to his house at 

 Church's Landing, where he lived with his family, after 

 his "turkey." (In lumberman's parlance his turkey is 

 his blankets, clothing and other "household effects" 

 strapped or tied into a compact bundle readily carried.) 



Kingfisher. 



[to be continued.] 



A Pennsylvania Warden's Work. — Fish Warden 

 Hague is the first of all such officials in this State to 

 hand in his annual report to the Fish Commissioners. 

 It being his first makes it an interesting document, inas- 

 much as it contains an account of prosecution and con- 

 viction of 36 persons in this section for unlawful fishing 

 and names the reason for the arrest of each. This infor- 

 mation gives the public a better idea of what consti- 

 tutes illegal fishing than even the production of the fish 

 laws. Warden Hague was appointed last June, and has 

 accomplished in that time more than all of his colleagues 

 in the State combined, as not one of them has up to date 

 brought about a prosecution and conviction in his dis- 

 trict. The following are the names and cause of arrest: 

 B, Lazarous, County Detective of Beaver county and 

 Chief of Police of Rochester, was caught violating the 

 law iu seining in company with Thos. B. Lukens,' Jacob 

 Stahl and George B. Hoyt, foreman of the Phoenix Glass 

 Works of Phillipsburg, below the dam at Bridgewater, 

 Beaver county. Geo. Brockett, Jas. McCall, Wm. 

 Schade, Chas. Rodgers, John Sweeney and Frank. Ellis 

 violated the law with dip nets at Dam No. 1, Mononga- 

 hela River. David Grounds, Matt Lewis, Jos. Carothers, 

 John Ford, John Metz, Herman Hartner, H. C. Stevens. 

 Chas. Hadrihgton, for violating the law with rod and 

 line out of season at Cork's Run. Henry Billy, Samuel 

 Webster, Samuel Mackey, Michael Ryan, Herman 

 Schweitzer, M. Hellring, Ed. Laughlin and Frank Schidle, 

 alias Frank Nick, prosecuted for fishing on Sunday. 

 Daniel Mackey, for catching bass under 6in. Wm. Mul- 

 cahey, Jas. Fleming, E. Laughlin, Frankie Schidle and 

 Peter Bailey, for out-line fishing. Ed. Laughlin and 

 Franklin Schidle, for gill net fishing. Col. Jos. Reed, 

 of Beaver county, for possessing a hoop net, and Jos. M. 

 Reed, Jr., of Beaver county for catching bass and salmon 

 out of season. 



Eutopia and Trout Lake Club.— The territory of the 

 Eutopia aud Trout Lake Fish and Game Association, at 

 St. George, New Brunswick, has . recently been visited 

 by one of the members, Dr. B. F. Vosburgh, of this city, 

 who writes to the secretary as follows: "lean assure the 

 members that we have secured most desirable property 

 and privileges in St. George. The scenery is magnificent, 

 the air dry and bracing and the fishing I believe to be 

 equal to any obtainable in Canada. My visit was not for 

 purposes of fishing, but to investigate the property and 

 desirability of the club house site. I am pleased beyond 

 measure with the lakes and streams to which we obtain 

 access and fishing privileges. In several of the same we 

 have exclusive rights. I was surprised at my success in 

 fishing, having taken thirty-seven fine trout in about two 

 hours. This for July, considered the poor month for 

 trout fishing in New Brunswick, was to me a satisfactory 

 performance. I am familiar with the lake region of New- 

 York and other trouting territories, and can truthfully 

 say that St. George is beyond comparison: superior to 

 any place I know of for magnificent scenery, invigorat- 

 ing atmosphere and climate, ease of accessibility and 

 abundance of fish; consisting of brook, lake trout and 

 landlocked salmon. I am informed that deer are abund- 

 ant and near at hand. Partridges are plentiful; I saw a 

 covey of half-grown ones near the site of the club house, 

 as well as several pairs of black ducks. I am enthusiastic 

 over the place, and am positive the members of the club 

 will not be disappointed when they visit their property, 

 in obtaining sport and game, such as I believe is rarely 

 obtainable in so short a distance from New York." The 

 club has a membership of thirty-seven, and the secretary 

 is Mr. J. McGrath, of 120 Broadway, this city. 



Taunton, Mass. — I have been trouting in Massachu- 

 setts but twice this year, so I have tried for the large 

 ones. First day I got nine beauties, averaging about 9oz. 

 They were all gamy fish, and I caught nearly all on the 

 finest hook I could buy, with May flies (natural) for bait. 

 Fourth of July I went six miles out of this city and in 

 three hours' fishing caught eight trout and three pick- 

 erel. The pickerel were small brook pickerel. But the 

 eight trout weighed over 4£lbs. The 'largest weighed 

 17oz. and three others weighed +lb. each. I enjoyed 

 the day very much, and spent some time looking for 

 woodcock signs. They are very plenty, as are those 

 of partridges. One old hen sat on the railroad 

 track with a brood of a dozen or more chickens large 

 enough to fly. Dr. Chas. Atwood brought iu a creel of 

 fifty trout last week, all of a size, and would average 

 about i\b. Whillenton Junction is high hook this year 

 with a 31bs, 7oz. trout.— Cohannet. 



Seines, Nets of every description. American Net & Twine Co., 

 Mfrs., 34 Commercial st„ Boston, or 199 Fulton St., N, Y.—Adv. 



Indiana Bass.— Camden, Ind., July 14.— Fishing with 

 the fly may have been a lost art or it may never have 

 been at all, but it is now the wonder of this vicinity. 

 My friend and companion, Hon. Char leg E. Scboll, hav- 

 ing seen me cast the fly while outing, quickly saw its 

 advantages and delights and secured a fly-caster's outfit. 

 Now his Furguson lights like the snowflake full 50ft. dis- 

 tant. Last Wednesday we brought to creel an even 

 dozen of as beautiful small-mouths as were ever taken 

 from the stream. Having learned to tie flies from Tha- 

 deus Norris's descriptions published long ago in Forest 

 and Stream, I taught Dr. Scholl, and we use none 

 other but our own make. Our surest killers are yellow 

 or old-gold bodies, with brown hackles, stiff and bristl- 

 ing along body, with heavy hackle at head, red tag, red 

 black and brown wings or red and white, all cut or 

 bunched, tail yellow and red, We dye our own feathers 

 and use only such material as we can get here except 

 gut and sproat hooks.— J. P. H. 



Providence, R. I.— Three young men left this city one 

 morning the last of April and brought back fifteen hand- 

 some trout. They averaged jib. each, the largest not 

 over ^lb. One week later one of the young men took me 

 to the same brook after a shower, and we caught twenty, 

 the largest weighed fib. These trout were very even in 

 length ard resembled salt-water fish, very light color and 

 bright spotted. Tho brooks in this State wero stocked with 

 trout fry a year or so back, and it is very noticeable in 

 the size of the fish caught. They are nearly all of a size. 

 I have noticed a great many woodcock borings while fol- 

 lowing the trout brooks, and I should judge these birds 

 would be quite plenty this summer.— Cohannet. 



Long Island Flounders. — Thirty flounders were 

 caught by one party of fishermen in the Great South 

 Bay, at Sayville, Long Island, last Saturday. This catch 

 was an unusual one in season and in score. 



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FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS, 



Sept. 7 to 11.— First A nnual Dog Show of the Brooklyu Kounel 

 Club, at, Brooklyn, N. Y. Charles Dict>leni m. Secretary. 



Sept. t) to 13.— Dog show of the Farmers' Lancaster County Fair 

 Association, at Lancaster, Pa. A. A. Herr, secretary. 



Sept. 10 to 13.— Sixth Annual Dog Show of the London Kennel 

 Cmli, at London, Ont. C. A. Stone, Manager. 



Seot. 10 to 13.— Dog Show of the Central Canada Exhibition As- 

 sociation, at Ottawa, Can. Capt. R. C. W. MaeCu'da-, Secretary. 



Sept. 11 to 13— First Annual Dor Show of the Toledo Kennel 

 Club, Toledo, O. T. B. Lee, Secretary. 



Sept. 16 to 19.— Dog Show of the Dominion of Canada Kennel 

 Club, in connection with the Industrial Fxposition at Toronto, 

 Canada. Capt. Grevtlle Harrison, Secretary. 



Sept. 17 to 20.— Dug Show of the Pet Stock Association at El- 

 nrira, N. Y. J.Otis Fellows. Superintendent. Hornellsvtlle, N.Y. 



Oct. 7 to 12.— Eighth Annual Dog Show of the Danbury Agri- 

 cultural Society, at Danbury, Conn. B. O. Lynes. Secretary. 



Jan. 37 to Feb. 1, 1890.— Dog Show of the Colorado Ponltry and 

 Pet Stock Association, at Denver, Col. 



Feb. 18 to 21, 1890.— Fourteenth Annual Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Ohio. New York. James Mortimn'. Superintendent. 



March 11 to 11, 1*90.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Rochester 

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



March 25 to 28, 1890.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Mass. 

 Kennel Club, Lynn, Mass. D. A. Williams. Secretary. 



Apiil 1 to 1, 1890.— Sixth Annual Dog Show of the New England 

 Kennel Club, at Boston, Mass. J. W. Newman, Secretary. 

 FIELD TRIALS. 



Nov. 4.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel Club. 

 P. T. Madison. Secretary, Indianapolis. Ind. 



Nov. 11.— Inaugural Field Trials of the Canadian Kennel Club, 

 at Chatham, Out. C. A. Stone, Secretary, Loudon, Ont. 



Nov. 18.— Eleventh Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, at High Point, N. C. W. A. Coster, Secretary, Sara- 

 toga Springs, N. Y. 



Dec. 2.— Iuaugural Field Trials of the Central Field Trial Club, 

 at Lexington, N. C. O. H. Odeli, Secretary, Mill's Building, New 

 York, N. Y. 



Dec. 16.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field 

 Trial Club, at Amory, Miss. T. M. Brumby, Secretary, Marietta, 

 Ga. 



Jan. 20, 1890.— Seventh Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Coast. 

 Field Trial Club at Rakersfield, Cal. H. H. Briggs, Secretary. 313 

 Bush street, San Francisco. Cal. 



Feb. 11, 1890.— Fourth Annual Field Trials of the Texas Field 

 Trial Club, at Marshall, Tex. W. L. Thomas, Secretary. 



COURSING. 



Oct. 9 to 12.— Fall meet of the National Coursing Club at Hutch 

 inson, Kan. M. E. Allison, Manager. 



Oct. 21.— Annual M-et of the American Coursing Club, at Great, 

 Bend, Kan. F. K. Doan. Secretary, St. Louis, Mo. 



BLACK AND TAN SETTER STAKE. 



DR. MEYER sends for publication the following appeal 

 to owners of black and tan setters: 

 The Central Field Trials Club has offered a special stake 

 of $100 for black and tan setters, providing there are ten en- 

 tries or eight starters. The black and tan setters to be 

 drawn together, the winner to take the stake, and then to 

 be drawn as his position indicates from the number of heats 

 he has won with the English setters. This is au opportunity 

 to bring the black and tan setters to the front and give 

 them the position they deserve. Besides winning the black 

 and tan setter special stake, the winner has an opportunity 

 to compete for the regular setter stake. If the owners of 

 black aud tan setters feel disposed to add to the stake by 

 private subscription, the stake might be increased in that 

 way to, say, $250. I will personally give 835 toward it. I 

 hope you have a dog that you will enter. Please let me hear 

 from you at an early date. John H. Meter. 



159 West Thirty-fourth Street, New York. 



THE ENGLISH MASTIFFS TURK AND BIG BEN. — 

 Editor Forest and Stream. Some months since I wrote you 

 on mastiffs, and remarked that Mr. Nichols was really the 

 breeder of the famous champion Turk, as he bred Hilda to 

 King and sold her to Miss Aglionby in whelp. By a letter 

 from Mr. Nichols I learn that I was mistaken in the some- 

 what non-essential point of Mr. Nichols having sold the 

 bitch in whelp. He sold her to Miss Aglionby on the con- 

 dition that the bitch be bred to King, and he have second 

 choice of pups, which choice was Turk. For all practical 

 purposes, I was right in my original statement, although 

 not correct as to all details. I was;very, very far wrong, 

 however, in my statement that there was ground for suspect- 

 ing that Hercules and not Turk was the sire of Big Ben. 

 This suspicion was based on bothdogsbeingio Mr. Nichols's 

 kennels at the same time, with various minor matters, but 

 Mr. Nichols cuts the ground from under me by saying that 

 he did not buy Hercules until after Big Ben was whelped, so 

 an "accident" could not have happened in that matter, and 

 I am glad that another suspicion as to a pedigree is so effect- 

 ually laid at rest.— W. Wade (Hulton, Pa., July 15), 



