Sept. 19, 1889.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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sheet of water, is much taken up by clubs of Aurora and 

 Galesburg, III. Board is very reasonable and the place 

 is pleasant. 



"When you get as far north as Beaver, on the same line, 

 you approach the Peshtigo, and in fact border on the 

 country which I have tried to describe in a late series of 

 articles on the trout country of that region. There is 

 good bass and pike fishing in adjacent lakes. That whole 

 country is full of lakes, and the lakes are full of fish. I 

 have covered fifty miles or so of the country in there, 

 but I did not get so far north as Floodwood, Mich., 325 

 miles north of Chicago. The station agent there writes 

 that the trout fishing eight miles from the railway is ex 

 cedent. At Wltheo'c, six miles further north, one i-s near 

 Witch Lake, and that there are 3 and 41b. trout in that 

 lake I know to be a dead moral certainty. When you 

 are so far up as this, you are in the middle of a bound- 

 less trout country, and if you are patient and determined 

 you will find your stream and come away happy. 



There is some good fishing on the south side of this 

 city, but I don't know very much about it, except in a 

 general way. Other Indiana rivers have plenty of bass 

 naturally, but are speared out a good deal. Cedar Lake, 

 on the Monon, is a pleasant place for boating and fishing 

 for small Percidce. The Cttlin and Cedar Lake boat 

 clubs of Chicago have headquarters on this water, and it 

 is quite a pleasure resort. 



There is another Cedar Lake, on the Chicago and 

 Atlantic road, and there is bass fishing there, but I have 

 never been there. The fishing is said to be good. 



A pleasant trip often made by Chicagoans is the one 

 by boat across the lake to St. Jo. There is some hVhing 

 on the river there for pickerel and bass. I wouldn't 

 recommend it as a sure thins; for bass. The whole of 

 the southern peninsula of Michigan, accessible as it is 

 from this city, is full of bass and trout waters. There is 

 gofid trout fishing in Michigan within 100 miles of 

 Chicago. I don't see how I can ask i-pace to write more 

 than passingly of this and the other angling wealth of 

 this strangely fortunate region, and to leave specific 

 mention to such fortunate trips northward as in the 

 course of human events are bound to become necessary. 



Sept. 13. — A singular instance of the fatuity of the 

 average daily newspaper man on field sport matters was 

 lately well exemplified here. A Chicago p^per sent a 

 man up into the Gogebic country. In return for the 

 privileges of the paper, the Lake Shore and Western Rail- 

 way gave this man a pass. He, thinking to earn his way, 

 perhaps, or possibly burning with ambition to tell a bigger 

 fish lie than anybody, wrote a glowing account of a fish- 

 ing trip on Lake Gogebic, and sent a marked copy of the 

 paper to the rail way folks. In his article he gave" minute 

 account of the number and weight of the fish taken by 

 himself and party, and had occasion to state and com- 

 ment upon the large numbers of exceptionally large mas- 

 callonge taken; weight, length, etc , of each mascallonge 

 given, also total number of pounds. The youth who 

 wrote this thought it would tickle the Lake Shore folks 

 about to death. He didn't know, poor fellow, that there 

 are no mascallonge in Lake Gogebic ! 



Mr. Julius DeLong, of Brooklyn, N. Y.. a cousin of the 

 noted Aictic explorer, and himself a well-knowu yachts- 

 man and clubman of the East, is back from a pleasant 

 fishing trip through the Fox Lake system, in which he 

 met abundant success. 



Mr. John White, son of Judge White, of Pittsburgh, 

 Pa., in company with seven friends from that city, has 

 just passed north through here on the way to Lake 

 Gogebic. 



Mr. L. F. Loeb, of A. G. Spalding & Bros., has just re- 

 turned from two weeks of good fishing up Lake Maria 

 way. He brought down a box of big bass, total weight 

 over 401bs., and reports the sport as good, especially for 

 the last few days before he left. An S^lbs. pickerel had 

 just been caught by a lady. Previous to that, Mrs. Dell 

 Flint, wife of the Chicago base ball player, "Old Silver" 

 Flint, had been high hook in that region, having taken, 

 besides abundance of smaller lake fish, a pickerel of 81bs. 

 weight. 



The bass are biting as well as ever. In the lakes of the 

 further north the vegetation is said to be cut down some- 

 what in the water, and the mascallonge are reported to 

 have begun their fall biting. Plenty of sport to the north 

 of us now, and no one will miss it by going in on a fall 

 trip. 



Mr. C. Christy of Pittsburgh, Pa., has just passed 

 through this city on his return from a trip on the king of 

 all trout rivers, the Nepigon. It goes without saying 

 that the sport was magnificent, as it always is on that 

 magnificent stream. 



I note that the types make me say (in the Gaylord Club 

 article, Sept. 5) that I have been catching bass on a 1 'No. 

 20 hook." I never saw a hook quite that small, and be- 

 lieve it would be a trifle fine for the most delicate bass 

 fishing. What I wanted to say was that I used a 2 O 

 hook, but I am not sure I have said it, even now. 



E. Hough. 



Burning Out a Ferule. — Reading Mr. Hough's ex- 

 perience with a broken rod in last week's Forest and 

 Stream, I am moved to give him and others of tbehreth- 

 eru a "pointer" on burning out a ferule when the broken 

 stump of a rod is to be removed. It may be assumed 

 that the ferule in question was a brass one, or nickel 

 plated brass, as German silver won't bend to "an angle 

 of 45" " after heating. When brass is heated red hot and 

 plunged in cold water the effect is exactly opposite to 

 that produced on iron or steel. It takes the' stiffness out 

 and makes it so soft that it may be readily chipped or 

 whittled with a knife. The next time the worthy brother 

 has occasion to burn out a ferule, let it cool off in the air, 

 and he will find it "jest as stiff or a leetie mite stiffer'n 

 it was before."- Kingfisher. 



The Dolphins.— A review of the species of dolphin, by 

 T. W. True, Curator Department of Mammals, U. S. 

 National Museum, has jttst been issued from the Govern- 

 ment Printing: Office, Washington. It forms Bulletin 

 No. 36 of the TJ. S. National Museum, and is the forty- 

 seventh of a series of papers intended to illustrate the 

 collections belonging; to the United States, and consti- 

 tuting the National Museum. The pamphlet contains 

 191 pages of text, 47 plates, 102 figures. Mr. True had 

 figured all of the material accessible, and the figures are 

 for the most part good. This will be found a valuable 

 work to those specially interested in this family of the 

 cetaceans. 



The Cutlass Fish. — Washington, Sept. 10.— This 

 species {Trichiuriis Jeptums) made its appearance in the 

 Center Market, Washington, last week. The dealers 

 had never seen the fish before and were at a loss to 

 know what to do with them. I took home a pair and 

 cleaned them, an easy operation, as they have no scales. 

 In the stomach of one I found the vertebral column, with 

 short ribs attached, of some small fish. The flesh, like 

 the skin, is a pretty silvery white in color and is very 

 good. It is sweet, like the eel's, not strong but of a very 

 delicate flavor. The body is of a long baud-like form, 

 tapering to the tail, which is thread-like. It grows to a 

 length of 4 or 5ft,, and is fished for with hook and line. 

 The fishing is done before day, when it is taken very 

 readily. They aie said to be eaten in Florida and in the 

 West Indies, where they are considered a good food fish. 

 It is extremely voracious, aud has powerful jaws armed 

 with large strong teeth. An allied species, the frost fish 

 of New Zealand, is, according to Hector, esteemed the 

 mo t delicious fish of that island, and is sold in Dunedin 

 at 2s. 6d. per pound. The cutlass fish is found in our 

 waters from Florica to Massachusetts. The specimens 

 here referred to were probably from Piney Point, Mary- 

 land, at the mouth of the Potomac River. The 1 irgest 

 were about 20in. long.— Bab. 



Fishing in Round Bay, Severn River.— Messrs. Done, 

 Becker, Miller and Floeckher, of Washington, and Holli- 

 day of Annapolis, have just closed a successful camp at 

 Round Bay, Severn River, about eight miles from An- 

 napolis, Md, Fishing for yellow perch was very good, 

 the fish being of a large size and plentiful. White perch 

 were scarce, but ihose taken were of a large size. Two 

 years ago the yellow perch were very scarce and the 

 white perch plentiful, just the reverse of this season. 

 Striped bass, or rock fish, were taken in small numbers. 

 Croakers and spots of a small size were rather plentiful, 

 and the boys thought of an extra fine flavo'r. Rod and 

 line was used, with soft or shedder crabs for bait. Crab 

 was the only bait used. These gentlemen were much 

 pleased with this locality, and thoroughly enjoyed the 

 two weeks they were there, and speak of their treatment 

 as of the best.— B. 



FISHES FOR THE FISH COMMISSION AQUARIA. 



MR. W. P. SEAL, superintendent of Aquaria, TJ. S. Fish 

 Commission, accompanied hy D, W. Kenly and L. Har- 

 ron, has gone to St. Jeromes, Md., where he will commence 

 the work of collecting fishes, mollusks, crabs, etc . and all 

 manner of marine life, including plants, for the aquaria at 

 Washington. This party is supplied with live-boxes, tanks 

 and cars, besides large wooden transportation boxes iu 

 which to ship the collections. Mr. Seal will have the steam 

 yacht Bluewing to carry his party and collections from 

 point to point. He will start the work at St. Jeromes and 

 go southeast as far as Cherrystone, Va. Large collections 

 will be made if possible as the aquaria is in need of marine 

 animals. We will look forward with interest to Mr. Seal's 

 return, which will he in about two weeks, as the results of 

 this trip will probably add much to the attractiveness of 

 these aquaria, which now form one of the chief points of 

 interest in the Capital City and are well patronized. 



LAKE ERIE.— In a conversation with Frank L. Mont- 

 gomery, of Erie, Pa., your correspondent was told that the 

 fishing for lake herring this season has been a very success- 

 ful one, and that there occurred such a glut of these fish a 

 few weeks since that the fishing had to be stopped, as the 

 packers were unable to hauclle such great quantities of fish 

 at one time. Whitefish fishing has been poor, and the sea- 

 son, usually commencing about the middle of Julv, had not 

 yet been fairly started (Sept. 10). Mr. Montgomery says the 

 storms of the past two months have undoubtedly caused 

 the backwardness of the present season, but that they still 

 hope for a good catch of whitefish. To the question : What 

 is your opinion and the opinion of the Lake Erie people 

 generally concerning the work of propagation beirg carried 

 on there by the Fish Commission? Mr. Montgomery replied 

 that the results for good fishing wert%) ready apparent, aud 

 that it is his belief that much can be done to add to and 

 keep up the supply of food fishes in Lake Erie. 



FISH EXHIBIT AT~~ DETROIT,-The exposition at 

 Detroit was opened on Tuesday. One of the principal fea- 

 tures of this show is the live fish exhibit. Large aquaria 

 and tanks have been erected, and fifty varieties of fish are 

 shown, such as sturgeon, whitefish, lake trout, buffalo fish, 

 etc. The U. S. Fish Commission contributes to' this exhibit. 

 During the exposition there will be a grand fish fry. 



Jjlmwmi io (^arresftondmis. 



^*No Notice TaK8ii oi Anonymous Correspondents. 



H. C. EL, Cleveland.— We cannot give you the address. 



R. C. B., Jersey City, N. .r.— A dog that has had his leg broken 

 would not be penalized on the bfncli if the leg has been properly 

 treated and no bad effect remains. 



L. B. K., Huntingdon, Ph.— For full description and points of 

 Dandle Dmrnnn i terrier gee "Standards and Points of Judging 

 for all Breeds of Doge," published at this office. 



Constant Reader. Brooklyn, N. V. — A d' g with one white aud 

 one brown eye is not consequently h mongrel. 2. It is impossible 

 to state the number of St. Beroards in this country. 



C. R.— Of the four concern^ you name * he Winchesters are the 

 only ones we know to be responsiole. A licence fee of $10 is ex- 

 acted from non-rt'sideuts to hunt in Richmond county. 



W, H. P.— Please tell me how to make a cement to hold paper 

 in a brass shell, so that I can crimp thtm; also where I can 

 get a 20-bnre Damascus steel shotgun barrel, one that will 

 weigh three and a half pounds. Ans. 1. Gum tragacanth will stick 

 paper to glass, and ought, to act the same on brass. We do not 

 understand what you mean by crimping brass shells. 2. Tne 

 barrel can be supplied by any of the large manufacturers or 

 dealers. 



F. B A., Rochester, N. Y.— 1 have on my farm a tract of some 

 fifty acres of (in^ i u'est near a village, and wish to know what 

 means 1 should take to preserve the game in these woods, what 

 signs I should put up aud if there is any special size that the 

 notice must be made, and if any one is detected trespassing what 

 is the penalty. a«d if the offense is merely tiesp.issinir? Ans, 

 The requi' ements are contained in the sections of the law which 

 we send you hy mail. 



X. Y. Z.— A gentleman visited bis trout pond several days ago 

 and found floating among some large rocks, a large dead trout, 

 somtwhat decomposed. There was a large round hole iu his belly 

 just under the stomach, no otu^r sign of a hurt or bruise was to 

 be seen on him. What lulled him? He weighed 2oz. less than 

 61bs. Ans.. Of course it is impossible to tell what caused this fish's 

 death. If there were no signs of disease it most probably died a 

 natural death, and the hole in nisa.domen caused by decomposi- 

 tion only, or it could have been madp by some other fish. Such 

 cases, when observed, should be examined carefully and reported 

 upon. 



%e Mennel 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



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

 Club, in connection with thp Industrial Exposition at Toronto, 

 Canada. Capt. C. G-reville Harston, Seet'y. Entries close Sept. 4. 



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

 mi ra, N. Y. J. Otis Eellows, Superintendent, Hornellsville, N.Y. 

 Entries close Sept. 7. 



Oct. 1 to 3 -Third Annual Dog Show of the Bristol Park Agri- 

 cultural Society, Bristol, Conn. F. C. Barnes, Secretary. 



Oct. 8 to 13.— Eighth Annual Dog Show of the Danbury Agri- 

 en I Mi nil Society, nt Danbury, Conn. B. C. Lynes, Secretary. En- 

 tries close Sept. 3s. 



Nov. 14 to 16.— First. Dog Show of the Continental Kennel Club, 

 at Denver, Col. Claude King, Secretary. 



Jan. 27 to Feb. 1, 1890.— Dog Show of the Colorado Poultry and 

 Pet Stock Association, at Denver, Col. 



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

 Kennel Hlub. New York. James Mortimer, Superintendent . 



March 11 to 14, 1890.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Rochester 

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



Mai-rh 25 to 28, 1890.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Mass. 

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



April 1 to 4, 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 Chat ham. Out. C. A. Stone, Secretary, London, Ont. 



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

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

 toga Springe, N. Y. 



Dec. Inaugural Field Trials of the Central Field Trial Club, 

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

 York, N. Y. 



Dec. 10.— 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 Rakersfleld, Cal. H. H. Briggs, Secretary, 313 

 Bush street, San Francisco, Cal. 



Feb. II, 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. 24.— Annual M-et of the American Coursing Club, at Great 

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



THE GORDON SETTER CLUB. 



To the Members of the A merican Gordon Setter Club: 



A meeting of the American Gordou Setter Club has been 

 called to take place Oct. 9, 1889, at Baltimore, Md., the 

 principal business of such meeting being the election of 

 officers. A blank proxy has been sent to the members, re- 

 questing them to sign the same, giving Mr. Norris, the 

 secretary of the club, the power to vote for the list of names 

 attached to the proxy as the officers of the club for the 

 ensuing year. This I, as a member of the club, make 

 serious objection to for various reasons, among which are 

 the following: 



First— In the opinion of several members of the club a 

 radical change of officers is ueceseary, as nothing has been 

 accomplished by them during the past year worth speaking 

 of; on the contrary, considerable injury to the interests of 

 the Gordon setter and his admirers has been done by the 

 president, Mr. Malcolm, in advising every owner of Gordon 

 setters not to run their dogs in the field trials. If our dogs 

 are not to be run in field trials, how are their field qualities 

 to be made known to the public? Certainly not by news- 

 paper writing alone. 



Second — The constitution of the club, as 1 interpret it, 

 is very defective and conflicting, and it should be amended 

 in several respects. Sections 3 and 9 seem to conflict. 

 Sec. 3 provides that two members merely are to be elected, 

 while Sec. 9 provides that five members are to be elected 

 annually. The constitution says nothing whatever about 

 allowing voting by proxy, which it certainly should do if 

 proxy voting is to be the rule or law of the club. Many 

 good objections, however, can be made against proxy 

 voting, and it seems to me the opinion or will of all the 

 members of the club should he consulted first, and if a 

 majority so desire, then it should be engrafted on the 

 constitution. 



Third— The constitution provides that the annual meeting 

 shall take place in New York about the time the annual 

 bench show is to be held there. If this was done it would 

 insure a larger personal attendance of the active members. 

 Another phrase, however, in the constitution permits the 

 president to call the meeting elsewheie, which he has done. 

 This looks bad for a young club only a year in existence and 

 struggling for a prominent position. This action of the 

 president in calling the meeting at Baltimore and asking 

 for proxies to re-elect the old officers looks very much as 

 though there was a clique already running the club and de- 

 siring to perpetuate themselves in position. No other ticket 

 has been put iu nomination, the members in general have 

 not been requested to manifest their desires in the premises, 

 therefore no alternative is left them but either to vote the 

 ticket fixed up for them by the officials at Baltimore or not 

 vote at all. 



Having the above objection to this meeting in mind I ad- 

 dressed a. letter to Mr. Norris on Sept. 8, requesting him to 

 send to me the names and addresses of the members of the 

 club, but up to the present time I have not received them, 

 and am therefore compelled to reach the members through 

 the press, and ask any and all of them who have similar 

 opinions to those expressed above to send me their written 

 authority to present to the committee requesting them to 

 have this meeting of Oct. 9, 1889, postponed for at least 

 sixty days, so that each and every member of the club can 

 be communicated with, and have his unbiassed choice re- 

 corded for whom he wishes to vote, as well as any sugges- 

 tion he may wish to make as to the policy to be pursued by 

 the committee in forwarding the best interests of the Gordon 

 setter. 



Our club should be progressive in its policy, and when 

 any opportunity is given the club to forward the interest of 

 the Gordon setter, advantage should betaken of such oppor- 

 tunity, and not neglected, as it was in the past year in my 

 opinion. I therefore hope that all those interested will com- 

 municate with me at their earliest opportunity. 



John H. Meyer, 159 West Thirty-fourth street. 



New York City, Sept. 17. 



"TRAINING BEAGLE PUPPIES "— Wrigbtsville, Pa. 

 In my article in your issue of Sept. 5 occurs an error in the 

 third line of the third paragraph, where the word "dog" ap- 

 pears, wbereas it should be "brace." The sentence should 

 read thus; "After your pupoy has an idea of the work be- 

 fore him. and the age and strength to follow a brace or pack, 

 he may then be hunted in such company."— A. C. KRUEOER. 



GERMAN MASTIFF OR GREAT DANE STANDARD. 

 — The standard for the German mastiff or great Dane, as 

 published last week, contained an error in the- value of points. 

 It should read ears 3 instead of 5, and nose, muzzle and lips 

 should read 4 instead of 2. 



