Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 5, .1889. 



I VOL. XXXIIT.-No. 7. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Mitigation of the Mosquito 

 Pest. 



A Second Chapter of Acci- 

 dents. 



Pacific Salmon Fisheries. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Outdoors. 

 Natural B.istory. 



Quail in Dixie. 



The Woodcock's Whistle. 



The Mexican Wild Turkey. 

 CAMP-Fl!iE Flickerings. 

 Game Bag and gun. 



Chicago and the West. 



Pattern and Penetration. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Camps of the Kingfishers.-vni 



On the Oeage. 



The Sunset Club.— y. 



The Gaylord Club. 

 Fishctjlture. 



A British Fish Hatchery. 

 The Kennel. 



Collie Club Stakes. 



Western Coursing News. 



The Kennel. 



Training Beagle Puppies. 



Dog Talk. 



The Pointer Club. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Riele and Trap Shootesg. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Sea Girt Shoot. 



The Trap. 



Florence Tournament. 



Le Mars Tournament. 



Trap at Chicago. 

 Canoeing. 



British Canoe Association 

 Meet. 

 Yachting. 



Minerva. 



The Lake Y. R. A. Round. 

 New York Y. R. A. Regatta 

 Rhode, Island Y. C. Regatta. 

 Hull Y. C. Regatta. 

 Corinthian Y. C. Races. 

 Beverly Y. C. 

 Lynn Y. C. Regatta. 

 The America's Cup. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



MITIGATION OF THE MOSQUITO PEST. 

 ■nPHERE is a word of comfort and encouragement to be 

 spoken for the man in camp in the remotest wild- 

 erness, to whom these tidings shall come, as he smears 

 himself with repellants, chokes and gasps amid the 

 smudge and does battle against the hordes of humming, 

 buzzing, stinging torments. He and all of his unhappy 

 kind may take heart and hold their own against advers- 

 ity with renewed determination, for philanthrophy 

 v/edded to science extends her promise of a mitigation 

 of the mosquito curse. 



Mankind has signally demonstrated by a score of ex- 

 amples its ability to upset the balance of nature, and at 

 will to multiply or obliterate certain forms of animal life. 

 It is a well recognized principle that by the intervention 

 of human agency the natural enemies of a given species 

 may be so reduced as to foster the increase of that spe- 

 cies; and the supply of another species may be cut down 

 by simply caring for its enemies; thus we provide pro- 

 tection for certain birds in order that they may increase 

 and prey upon harmful insects. On a precisely similar 

 principle it is now proposed by a naturalist that a system- 

 atic effort shall be made to mitigate the mosquito 

 nuisance by giving aid and comfort to its enemies. 



The natural foes of the mosquito are the dragon-flies 

 and spiders. The dragon-flies, or devil's-darning-needles, 

 are known to devour mosquitoes in great numbers, and 

 are sometimes called mosquito hawks. Dr. Lamborn 

 has offered a prize for a preliminary study of the habits 

 of the dragon-flies, his purpose being to discover if it 

 may not be practicable to rear them artificially, as fish 

 are cultivated, as an offset to the mosquitoes. This may 

 appear Quixotic, but the proposal has the indorsement of 

 no less an authority that Dr. Henry C. McCook, who in 

 the current North American Review expresses an opinion 

 that the project is at least worthy of careful considera- 

 tion. 



It must be confessed that in this scheme, whose fulfill- 

 ment can come, if ever, only in the distant future, there 

 is at best but a small grain of cold comfort for him who 



in this present hour is encompassed by mosquitoes as by 

 a cloud. The satisfaction, such as it is, consists in that 

 unworthy trait of human nature which finds a certain 

 degree of solace in the resolve to some time square ac- 

 counts with one's enemies. 



PACIFIC SALMON FISHERIES. 

 HPHE depletion of salmon which is so marked on the 

 -■- coasts of Washington and Oregon, is now going on 

 perceptibly in most of the Alaskan rivers, and it will 

 be necessary to provide for their preservation by appro- 

 priate legislation, supplemented by fishcultural work. It 

 is to be hoped that wise and intelligent efforts will be 

 put forth tending to foster and preserve the valuable 

 fisheries of Alaska. 



As to the salmon fisheries of Oregon and Washington, 

 there is much needed, especially in the way of fishcul- 

 tural work. Prohibitory measures, closing the fisheries 

 for any great length of time, will not do, as it would 

 mean ruin to a majority of the fishermen. The men 

 employed in these fisheries would be compelled to seek 

 other kinds of work, the nets and seines would be a dead 

 loss amounting to thousands of dollars, and a general de- 

 moralization would result. The work of keeping up the 

 supply in the Columbia and McCloud rivers was com- 

 menced last year by the turning out of eleven million 

 salmon fry into those streams, and we understand that 

 this work of aiding nature by artificial methods will be 

 carried forward on these rivers, and extended as much 

 as possible in the near future. If these fisheries are 

 properly carried on, and a strict enforcement made of 

 the law regulating the close seasons, we believe that they 

 can be kept up. The close season should cover such a 

 period of time as to allow some of the best runs of fish 

 to reach the spawning grounds. Hatcheries should be 

 established near the mouths of the rivers, and the fish 

 kept in ponds or traps until they become yearlings, and 

 then turned loose into the ocean. If this system were 

 adopted very good results would follow. 



It is to be earnestly hoped that these fisheries will not 

 be wholly destroyed. Let Congress enact and have en- 

 forced laws protecting the important fisheries of Alaska. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE Kentucky Fish and Game Club, of Louisville, Ky. , 

 now enrolls five hundred members. The organization 

 is doing great good. It has procured numerous indictments 

 of parties who have killed fish with dynamite; and that 

 practice has been diminished to an encouraging degree. 

 The club members will try for suitable fish and game 

 laws next winter; and attention will also be given to a 

 revision of the trespass law. 



The citizens of Limestone, Tennessee, are making exten- 

 sive preparations to celebrate the one hundred and third 

 anniversary of Davy Crockett's birthday, on the farm 

 where he was born near that place . Among the guests will 

 be his grandson, Col. Bob Crockett, a former contributor 

 to our columns, who has inherited in large degree the 

 wildwoods proclivities of his grandfather. 



Put out the camp-fire before you leave it. Be sure that 

 it is utterly extinguished, not only on the surface but 

 below. At this season of the year a fool can start a fire 

 that an army of wise men cannot put out. Use common 

 sense in this matter. 



The deer is legitimate rifle game; to have the right 

 flavor, venison must be secured with a single ball of lead 

 out of a rifle barrel, and not with a charge of buckshot 

 from a scatter gun. 



A SECOND CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS. 



THERE is a class of accidents with firearms, which 

 naturally group themselves under the head of those 

 attendant upon the sometimes useful, often foolish and 

 always fascinating practice of shooting at a mark. The 

 class is so comprehensive that under it may be catalogued 

 the case of the small boy in San Francisco, who aimed 

 his parlor rifle at a fly on the door of an out-house and 

 killed a man inside, and that of the United States Navy 

 officer whose shell practice on the coast of Japan killed 

 certain of the natives and gave room for international 

 complications. 



A large proportion of the accidents of this class natur- 

 ally happen on the rifle ranges and in the shooting gal- 

 leries. A detachment of Illinois militia were shooting 



on the Highwood range near Chicago, when, after sev- 

 eral shots had been fired without any scoring by the 

 marker, investigation showed that the boy had been 

 killed by a bullet which had first passed through the tar- 

 get. In an out-door range in Union Park, in the upper 

 part of this city, a bullet went by the target and killed a 

 boy who was passing. In instances of this character the 

 shooter is clearly not to blame when the casualty is the 

 result of an improperly constructed range. It is to be 

 taken for granted that when a range is opened to the 

 public it is safe, particularly if it is a military range. 

 That a properly constructed open air rifle range may be 

 conducted for a long term of years, where tens of thous- 

 ands of shots are fired with perfect safety and without 

 accident, is abundantly demonstrated by the record of 

 the National Rifle Association at Creedmoor. No one 

 has ever been killed or maimed by a rifle ball at Creed- 

 moor. There have been other accidents. Markers at the 

 targets have now and then had their hands cut by the 

 splashing lead of bullets; a man was once severely in- 

 jured by falling on the point of a broken flagstaff, after 

 the manner of Saul upon his sword: and several people 

 have been injured by being caught between the cars and 

 the railway platform when rushing to leave the range; 

 but there is no record of accident by the premature dis- 

 charge of a rifle nor by a stray bullet. 



One of the curiosities of modern journalism is a paper 

 called the Celestial City, published in New York, whose 

 contents are largely made up of communications from 

 the spirit world. A recent number contained a letter 

 purporting to have come from a man who had been 

 killed while marking for a companion on a rifle range. 

 The letter read : 



My comrade was not to blame, it was from my own careless- 

 ness, and it could not be helped. I did not raise the signal as I 

 should have clone. I forgot it; therefore I cannot blame him in 

 the least. It was entirely my own fault, and it is much better 

 that it, was me instead of him, for he has a family and I have 

 none. Yes, I had a dream in which I saw myself shot, the same 

 as I found in reality, but I forgot it entirely on that day until the 

 fatal moment. Then it instantly flashed across my mind. O! I 

 am so sorry for Comrade Pope, he is feeling so badly over it. Tell 

 him for me that it is all right with me, and there can be no blamo 

 attached to him, for it was purely accidental, and I am all right. 



But while the individual shooter, who discharges his 

 gun at a target on a public range, where it is to be taken 

 for granted that the conditions of safety have been com- 

 plied with, is free from responsibility for casualties caused 

 by defective range conditions, the law makes provision 

 for punishing those who maintain such death traps. A 

 case has jus>t been decided in the Massachusetts courts 

 which it is hoped will serve as a precedent in affixing 

 legal responsibility upon careless managers of rifle ranges 

 and rifle galleries. The case was that of the people vs. 

 Serwyn G-leason and Georgiana E. Gleason, proprietors 

 of a shooting gallery in Worcester. On August 9 an ice- 

 man, William A. Pierce, Avas killed in the street by a 

 stray bullet, which was subsequently discovered to have 

 come from the Gleasons' gallery. They were arrested 

 and tried f or manslaughter, the indictment charging them 

 with having induced "a person unknown to shoot care- 

 lessly in their gallery, thus causing Pierce's death; also 

 with criminal carelessness in not taking proper precau- 

 tions to prevent bullets passing through the walls of the 

 gallery; also with being accessory before the fact to 

 Pierce's death." The result of the trial has been to find 

 Gleason guilty and to send him to prison for a year, the 

 woman being accoiittetl. If a shooting gallery is not 

 conducted without menacing the public safety, it ought 

 not be tolerated for an hour. 



The vast majority of accidents attendant upon shoot- 

 ing at a mark result from an amazing thoughtlessness on 

 the part of the shooter himself. Fools with pistols and 

 shotguns and rifles blaze away without in the least con- 

 cerning themselves about what may become of the mis- 

 sile they let loose on its fateful errand. It was not so 

 long ago that the papers related how a crowd of precious 

 young idiots in an Alabama town were shooting their pis- 

 tols at some improvised target in the street, when one of 

 the stray bullets striking a glass bottle, glanced, and killed 

 a merchant who was standing in his own doorway. In 

 New York city on the last Fourth of July, three youths 

 set up a target on a roof and fired at it with a rifle until 

 they had killed a little girl some blocks away. This 

 surely is bad enough, but it does not begin to compare 

 with the usual custom certain microcephalous individ- 

 uals have of celebrating the Fourth and other holidays 

 by discharging the bullets from their revolvers at ran- 



