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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Oct. 81, 1889. 



LAKE TAHOE TROUT. 



FROM Mr. Max Heilbronner, the genial secretary of the 

 Alaska Commercial Company, we have late reports 

 about the trout fishing in Tahoe Lake and other lakes in 

 the vicinity. Mr. H. went over from San Francisco with 

 some friends early in July, and the party had great suc- 

 cess with the trolling spoon, using minnows for bait. 

 Artificial flies were seldom used. In the latter part of 

 June and early in July the fishing is good. During 

 August, owing to the abundance of minnows, the trout 

 will not take the fly. In September the sport is fairly 

 satisfying, but nothing extra. Indians have made a great 

 deal of trouble by using traps in Tahoe Lake; this drain 

 on the supply, however, has been checked. The fishing 

 varies from year to year. Mr. Martin and Mr. Lydell, of 

 Yanks, Cal., are fishermen who furnish the hotels with 

 trout and take parties out. Boats holding four persons 

 are furnished at from $2 to $5 per day, this including 

 hues and bait. The Tallac House charges $3 per day. 

 McKinney's rates are $13 per week. Fallen Leaf Lake, 

 Floating Island Lake and Cascade Lake contain the 

 Tahoe species, but fishing is best in Lake Tahoe. Emer- 

 ald Bay and Carnelian Bay are lo rely sheets of water 

 near by. The route from San Francisco is by the Central 

 Pacific to Truckee, stage to Tahoe City, and boat to hotel. 

 The beautiful trout above referred to is figured in Forest 

 and Stream of April 4, 1889. In June and September all 

 the individuals found in the San Francisco markets were 

 moderately small ; perhaps at some other season large ex- 

 amples may still be observed. 



The Met abetchou an. — Westerly, R. I., Oct. 28.— 

 Editor Forest and Stream: In a recently published 

 communication concerning the winnanish fishing in the 

 Metabetchouan River, I noticed a rather startling series 

 of catches, claimed to be that of a single rod. The score 

 given was composed of a series of catches by four rods, 

 one of which was mine, with twenty-four fish to its 

 credit, in three outings, which weighed at the house 

 several hours after being caught, Si^lbs., viz., three of 

 llf, seven of 28, fourteen of 49i. Now, I am only too 

 pleased to hear of a brother's good luck in your eagerly 

 read columns, but when such a glaring misstatement is 

 given, one who knows the truth is apt to think it an 

 advertising scheme. To be sure the fishing in the river 

 is good, but in obtaining it one must take some very hard 

 tramps and put up with miserable food on his return 

 home at night. Give good trails to the pools and good 

 food and one could ask for nothing better. A. word to 

 the wise, etc.— Edwin R. Lewis, M.D. 



Where the Kingfishers Would Have Fared Better. 

 — Alpena, Mich., Oct. 19. — One can never tire of reading 

 such papers as those contributed by "Kingfisher." I 

 think his description of that tussel with the muscalonge 

 the most perfect pen-picture I ever read, as one almost 

 imagines that he is doing it himself. But he seemed to 

 have poor luck with black bass on Echo Lake. If he 

 had been on some of our lakes back here, he would have 

 found plenty. Another gentleman and myself with two 

 youngsters caught in five days 659 black bass and 37 pike 

 and muscalonge, all of which we turned loose in the 

 lake as soon as landed except what we wanted for eat- 

 ing of course. It is a day's journey by buckboard to 

 reach those lakes, but the roads are not bad in summer. 

 -H. B. 



Trout Fishing from San Diego, Cal. — The nearest 

 trout fishing is sixty miles northeast of San Diego, at 

 Polar or Smith Mountain. A gentleman went there in 

 the latter part of June and caught 23, averaging about 

 lOin. in length. There are no trout south of this locality 

 in San Diego county. All the streams except those in 

 the mountains dry up in summer; even San Diego River 

 does so and water is collected in wells sunk in the river 

 and pumped by engines into reservoirs, from which it is 

 piped to the city. — J. C. Van Hook. 



The Opaii in California.— We have received from a, 

 correspondent in San Francisco a photograph of a fish 

 previously unknown to the Calif oinia coast and entirely 

 strange to all who saw it. Upon examining the print we 

 recognized the species as the opah (Lampris guttatus), 

 which is occasionally found about the British Isles, rarely 

 in the western Atlantic, and more f requently in Japanese 

 seas. The. California example weighed 701bs., and was 

 caught about October, 188S, in Balenas Bay. 



Large Thimble-eye Macicerel. — A fine looking thim- 

 ble-eye mackerel (Scomber pneumatophoms) seen in San 

 Francisco recently weighed 31bs., which is far above the 

 weight of the largest individuals of the same species in 

 the Atlantic, as far as our observation goes. 



Potomac Bass.— Bass fishing in the Potomac is afford- 

 ing good returns and the proportion of large fish is much 

 greater than usual. Hancock and Sir John's Run are 

 favorite localities, but there is fine fishing all the way up 

 to Woodmont. 



Holbricot or Amber Fish.— In San Francisco the 

 amber fish or amber jack (Seriola lalandi) is styled hol- 

 bricot by dealers in Clay street market. 



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LATE APPEARANCE OF SHAD.— On Oct. 5, Mr 

 Thomas Reynolds caught a female shad weighing 3lbs. in 

 the Susquehanna River, near Havre de Grace, Md. The 

 eggs were so ripe that they ran out of the fish. This is said 

 to be a very unusual occurrence and may have been due to 

 the extraordinary season of cold and wet weather. Shad 

 are caught at the mouth of the Potomac late in the summer 

 and may be taken fresh at Leonardtown and other places 

 all summer in certain years. We believe that this and 

 other anadromous fishes will be discovered in Chesapeake 

 Bay when diligent investigation of the winter habitat of 

 our economic species has been completed. On the Califor- 

 nia coast shad are to be found in the brackish water of the 

 bays during the winter months. From December to Feb- 

 ruary some very large ones are captured in gill nets of Skin 

 mesh, set for salmon. 



EFFECTS OF SEWAGE IN RIVERS.— At the recent 

 Sanitary Conference in Worcester, Mr. Willis Bund, chair- 

 man of the Severn Fishery Board, read an important paper 

 on the standards of pitrity for effluents from sewage works. 

 He charged that experiments, with the exception of the 

 York, were limited to streams containing only members of 

 the carp family (Cijprinid(e), and related chiefly to the in- 

 troduced goldfish, which is one of the hardiest members of 

 this family. Tests which are satisfactory when applied to 

 this fish do not prove anything with regard to the salmon 

 family, whose genera are lovers of purity, and avoid filth 

 even at the expense of forsaking their birthplace. Mr. Bund 

 reasons that the presence of goldfish, roach and other coarse 

 minnows at the mouths of sewage effluents is no guarantee 

 that salmon and trout will continue to inhabit the contami- 

 nated waters, and he urges the necessity of establishing the 

 proper standard of purity with reference to the actual deni- 

 zens of each stream. 



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FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Dec. 5 to 7— First Dog Show of the Conlinental Kennel Club 

 at Denver, Col. L. A. Weston, Secretary. 



Jan. 6 to II, 1890.— Annual Dog Show of the Michigan State 

 Poultry and Pet Stock Association, at Bay City, Mich. W. F. 

 Brace, Seeretai-y- 



3m. 13 to 18, 1890.— First Annual Dog Show of the Georgia Pet 

 Stock and Bench Show Association, at Augusta, Ga. A. H. Von- 

 derleith. Secretary. 



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

 Pet Stock Association, at Denver, Col. 



Feb. 11 to 14, 1890.— Fourteenth Annual Show of the Westminster 

 Kennel Club, American Institute Building, New York. James 

 Mortimer, Superintendent. 



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

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



March 26 to 28, 1890.— Second Annual Dok Show of the Mass. 

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



A pi il 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. H.— Inaugural Field Trials of the Canadian Kennel Club, 

 at Chatham, Ont. C. A. Stone, Secretary, London. Ont. 



Nov. 11.— First Annual Field Trials (foxhounds) of the Bruns- 

 wick Fur Club, on the Albany Hills, South Paris, Me. Mr. J. H. 

 Baird, Secretary, Auburndale, Mass. 



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. 



Nov. 22 — Eighth Annual Field Trials of the Robins Island Club, 

 for members only. Walter L. Wellington, Secretary, Brooklyn, 

 N.Y. 



Deo. 2.— Inaugural Field Trials of the Central Field Trial Club, 

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

 York, N. Y. 



Dec. 18.— 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 Bakersfleld, Cal. H. H. Briggs, Secretary, 313 

 Bush si reel . San Francisco. Cal. 



Jan. 27, 1890.— All-Day Field Trials, at West Point, Miss. F. R. 

 Hitchcock, 44 Broadway, New York, Secretary. 



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

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



"POH PR1NNEH." 



DODGER, has become an old dog. The salubrious climate 

 of Pine Hill fails to restore bis youth. He goes around 

 with a stiff, mai'tial bearing. He refrains from altercations 

 and avoids those rude, boisterous curs that sidle and jostle 

 and infringe on his dignity, He never evinces surprise nor 

 betrays himself into a hasty movement. He loves repose. 

 He refuses now to accompany Kellup in bis rambles further 

 thau the brow of the hill, where he can look back at the 

 house. When requested to come further, he wags his tail 

 in a decrepit way and barks. Then Kellup concludes not to 

 climb the bars, but settles on a flat stone instead, and plucks 

 a spray of spearmint to crush out its odor, while the dog 

 stretches on the grass with his head averted from the ex- 

 pected lecture. He is not disappointed. The old gentleman 

 touches severely on the facts that he never would" "travel to 

 heel" nor under a wagon, and never retrieved a bird nor 

 even pointed one in his life; nor ever did a thing a man 

 might be proud of, but often brought derision on his master. 



When Dodger barked expostul atihgly at this, Kellup 

 could not fail to notice how mournfully hollow it sounded, 

 and how gray the muzzle had grown, and how well it 

 matched the eyebrows, and how bad the coat was getting— 

 rusty and unkempt. He tried to joke it off. and declared he 

 would shave the dog in artistic style, with a lion's mane 

 and a beautiful tuft on the tail, but concluded Susan 

 wouldn't allow it. Then he indulged in comparisons, and 

 recalled how the dog used to come panting, with tortuous 

 wrigglings and convolutions, after describing great circum- 

 ferences at full speed. He wound up with some reflections 

 on the character of Maria Muzzey for ever bestowing such a 

 nickname on the dog. 



'•' A great name," said he, " for a sporting dog. Might do 

 very well for apoodle." Then, with intense disgust, "Prin- 

 ney!" said he, "Pore Prinney!" But he couldn't say it 

 just like Maria, for his teeth were not gone iu the same 

 place. The truth was, she had bestowed this name onDodger 

 in memory of a pet long deceased, and claimed it was quite 

 as appropriate, for she never knew him dodge anything, not 

 even the broom sweeping the fireplace, and she said he 

 would lie in the sand and make wagons turn out. So she 

 persisted. 



One morning Dodger refused bis breakfast, and Maria 

 made him a bed of nice sweet hay in the stall. Toward 

 noon Susan tried him in vain with a tidbit, so Maria trudged 

 off to the village without a word. On her return, an hour 

 later, she unwrapped a brown paper, and proceeded to broil 

 a piece of sirloin over the kitchen fire. She dressed it with 

 butter, and was greatly pleased when Dodger mouthed it a 

 little. When Kellup came home, toward evening, he found 

 her where she had been all afternoon, beside the dog, with 

 her rocking-chair and knitting, " to keep him company/' 



That night she made an excuse to stay up late, and after 

 the old folks had retired she quietly hung a lantern on the 

 side of the house where the rays would shine through the. 

 barn door. In the morning when Kellup came down to 

 breakfast she responded to his salutation, "Oh, poh Prinneh ! 

 poh Prinneh ! he's dade." Jefferson Scribb. 



WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS FOX CLUB.— The West- 

 ern Massachusetts Fox Club will hold their annual hunt at 

 Chester, Mass., Nov. 13 and 14. On the evening of the first 

 day a dinner will be given by the club to the guests. Pol- 

 lowing is a list of the officers of the club: Pres., Geo. W. 

 Romback; Vice-Pres.. P. S. Gross; Sec, Dr. O. J. Shepard- 

 son; Treas., C. D. Smith; Ex. Com., Gurdon Bill, E. A. 

 Perkins, F M. Pease, R. B. Crane, R. M. Fairfield, Wm. M. 

 Williams, J. H. Casey, F. S. Hagar, E, T, Slocum and Dr. S. 

 C. Burton. 



PAST AND PRESENT CONDITION OF THEA. K.C. 



Editor Forest ami Stream: 



In December, 1887, the Forest and Stream published an 

 editorial in which was questioned the financial condition of 

 the A. K. C. At that time I was chairman of the Stud Book 

 Committee, and I sent a letter to the Forest and Stream 

 on Jan. 7, 1887, which was published in their issue of Jan. 

 19, as follows: 



I am very much surprised that you would permit the state- 

 ment to be made in your paper that the American Kennel Club 

 was indebted on account of the Stud Book, when the fact is that 

 the chib has paid all bills and now has $800 and over to Its credit 

 in bank. Again, it is not true that any money has ever been con- 

 tributed by individuals. The Stud Book has more than paid its 

 way, and the only money received has been for registration fees, 

 advertisements and for the book. I believe that next year we can 

 pay all expenses at 25 cents per dog. 



Please also permit me to say that all this howl about "bulldoz- 

 ing" is more bosh. You might as well say that it is "bulldozing" 

 to have a bench show committee require an exhibitor to pay an 

 entry fee of $3 for each dog. The regis! ration of dogs is to pre- 

 serve the pedigree. The giving of bench shows is not for the pur- 

 pose of making money; the object is to encourage and improve, 

 the breeding of dogs. Just look at the contest now going on in 

 your own paper over the breeding of the beagle Kino. If this 

 Rule 2 had been in force when this dog was first exhibited the 

 breeding would have then been settled. 



I hope m the next issue of your paper that you will correct the 

 statement you have made in regard to the financial condition of 

 the club; and I will say that if you doubt my statement of tbe 

 same, if you will send Mr. Hammond or an accredited reporter 

 for your paper to the office of the A. K. C, No. 44 Broadway, I 

 will take pleasure in showing him expense account, bank account 

 and all of the accounts of every name and nature, vouchers,etc., 

 of the Stud Book Committee. 



I do not charge that you have knowingly made this misstate- 

 ment, but believe that you have been imposed upon. 



C. J. Peshald, Chairman Stud Book Committee. 



New York, Jan. 7. 



1 was then of opinion that the fee for registration in the 

 Stud Book could be reduced to tweuty-five cents, and that 

 the Stud Book could be made self-sustaining. The Forest 

 AND Stream accepted my invitation and the books and the 

 accounts of every name and nature were opened for their 

 inspection. The inspection was made by Mr. Reynolds, one 

 of the. editors of the Forest and Strkam, and a bookkeeper 

 whom he brought with him. A few days after this inspec- 

 tion was made, Mr. Vredenburgh, who was the theu secre- 

 tary, sent the following statement to the Forest and 

 Stream, which was published in due course Jan. 26, 1888. 



STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES OF THE A. K. C. S. B. FOR 

 THE YEAR ENDING DEO. 31, 1887. 



Receipts. 



Received dues from A. K. C. members (not used for 



Stud Book purposes. . * $238.35 



" Entries for Vol. IV 1,089.50 



Advertisements, Vol. IV , Parts I., II., III. 



(Part IV. not yet due) 469.25 



" Subscribers. Vol. IV 221.00 



" Cash sales, Vol. IV., Parts I., IL, and HI., 



(Part IV. not yet published) 213.50 



" Cash sales, Vol. I., II. , and III 76.03 



" Tabulated pedigrees 110.00 



" Donation for a bookcase 10.00 



" Fees, charged for collections .65- 



$2,453.15 



Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1S88 $650.04 



Expenses. 



Paid for Club expenses from A. K. C. dues $58.27 



Librarian of Congress, Copyright 4.00 



Fees charged by bank for collections 6.50 



Petty expenses (telegrams, express, etc.) 8.03 



Gas bills H.19 



Postage stamps 67.75 



Office furniture 57.95 



Paid for Vols. I., 11. and 111 59.50 



Office rent 164.58 



Printing Stud Book, Part L, H and III. (including 

 a new issue of Vol. II. and 5,000 copies of the 

 bench shows edition, distributed at the. spring 



shows for the benefit of advertisers) 954.74 



Salary of Secretary 41)0.00 



Balance on hand _ 650.04 



$2,453.15 



Now, it appears from this statement that during the year 

 1887 the Stud Book was issued quarterly, and that the 

 entii'e cost of the issue and publication and the costs of the 

 A. K. C, including expenses of every name and nature, as 

 well as 5,000 copies of the Stud Book, as appears by the re- 

 port, which was pixblished and given away as stated in the 

 report, amouuted, all told, to the sum of 81,803.11; so that 

 the dog men and breed ei's of this country during that year 

 received the benefits derived from the A. K. C. for that sum. 

 During that year we had to contend against the rival regis- 

 ter, the A. K. M., which was being published and backed 

 with all of the influence of the Forest and Stream. In ad- 

 dition to that we had to pay very much more for the work 

 of registration, for the reason that very few dogs had sire 

 and dam previously registered, and consequently the pedi- 

 grees were extended as far as possible, also all winnings 

 were given as well, and the cost then of registration was 

 very much more than the present cost, for the reason that 

 most of the dogs now offered for registration have their sires 

 and dams registered and all that is necessary in such cases 

 is to give the name of sire and dam, and Stud Book num- 

 ber, breeder, owner and date of birth. 



During this year Rule 2, requiring compulsory registra- 

 tion, had not been passed, and dogs could be shown without 

 being registered. Also we must take into consideration 

 that the A. K. C. commenced the year with only thirteen 

 clubs, local members, and ended with nineteen, and not- 

 withstanding all these facts we find that the A. K, C. only 

 collected for the entire year the sum of §3,453.15, as appears 

 from the treasurer's report above submitted. And in addi- 

 tion thereto, from an examination of the. treasurer's report 

 made at the last meeting held Sept. 18, 1889, that the secre- 

 tary now has of the quarterly parts of the volumn for the 

 year 18S7, 703 copies, which he enters as assets valued at 

 $351.50, and I have no doubc but what $300 worth have been 

 sold since the publication of the secretary's report for 1887; 

 consequently we find that the club for that year, while it 

 perhaps was not governed or had in its possession "health, 

 wealth and wisdom," was yet willing to not only make a 

 detailed report but to invite and stand the critical examina- 

 tion of its books and accounts by those engaged in a rival 

 publication. 1888 was the trying year, for we not only had 

 to contend against the A. K. R., and the influence of the 

 Forest and Stream, with a vigorous opposition made by 

 that paper against Rule 2, but an opposition club sprang 

 into existence, numbering nearly 300 members, which in- 

 eluded among their number many of the most prominent 

 breeders in the country, and two of our most prominent 

 club members resigned, namely, the New Haven and Boston 

 clubs; yet with all this opposition we find that the Stud Book 

 prospered and flourished, and when the year closed all bills 

 of every name and nature were paid out of the actual income 

 earned by the club, and a balance was left in the treasury. 

 The Stud Book had appeared regularly each quarter, and 

 the following stock accumulated during the year: Volume 

 V., 498 copies, valued at $349, as will appear by the secre- 

 tary's report made at the last meeting, was on hand and 

 paid for, besides many numbers of this volume which had 

 been sold by the club since publication. We also find that 

 the club membershi p had increased during this year from 

 nineteen to thirty-five, and that the opposition club was 

 practically dead, and that through my many interviews and 

 efforts made with Mr. Grioneli, of the Forest and Stream 

 Publishing Co. . Mr. Grinnell, through Dr. Perry, offered the 



