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i VOL. XXXIII.-No. 16. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Old Order and the New. 



The Volcanoes of Alaska. 



St. Lawrence Anglers' Asso- 

 ciation. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Unc' Jim's 'Speyuuce. 



The Isle of Cormorants. 

 Natural History. 



Out-of-roor Papers.— in. 



Woodcock in Town. 



Ways of the White-Footed 

 Mouse. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Woodcock Hunt. 



His First Buffalo. 



About Taxing Guns. 



A Tenderfoot Duck Hunt. 



A Moose. 



The Weed Bullet. 



The Cruise of the Lallie-Poo. 



Chicago and the West. 



On tbe Megantic Club Terri- 

 tory. 



Pattern and Penetration. 



An Afternoon with the Quail. 



The Delaware Situation. 



Connecticut Game. 



Connecticut Wardens. 

 Camt Fire Flickerings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Association of the St. Law- 

 rence. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Cape May Drum Fishing. 

 A Crank Speaks Up. 

 American Sea Trout. 

 That Metabetchouan Score. 

 Fishing Clubs in Canada . 

 Newfound Lake. 

 Angling Notes. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



A Large Carp. 

 The Kennel. 



American Coursing Club Meet 



A Transaction in Dog Flesh. 



Dog Talk. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Riele and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



New York Suburban Tourna- 

 ment. 



Trap Shots in a Palace Car. 

 Yachting. 

 Minerva and Corrected 



Length. 

 A Race of St. Lawrence River 



Skiffs. 



Classification by Corrected 

 Length. 

 Canoeing. 



On the Shenandoah. 



American Oanoe Association. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE VOLCANOES OF ALASKA. 

 nHHE Aleutian chain of islands constitutes a very in. 



teresting group. There are more than a hundred 

 in all, which crowd so closely upon each other or else 

 are separated by such shallow waters that there are only 

 half a dozen channels through which ships can be safely 

 navigated. No less than twenty-five of them have been 

 active at some titne or other since the advent of the Rus- 

 sians in 1743. So also of the sixty or more craters in the 

 mountain ranges of the mainlands. In fact from Mount 

 Wrangell on the east to the Commander Islands in the 

 extreme west there is a continuous chain of volcanoes, 

 which scientists aver are the vents for a subterranean 

 channel of lava, which finds an outlet first through one 

 and then through another. There is no more extensive 

 theater of volcanic activity known. 



Here in the Aleutian archipelago men have witnessed 

 the birth and growth of island?. In 1796 a Russian 

 trader named Kruloff , stationed at Urnnak, discovered a 

 column of smoke rising from the sea about twelve miles 

 off. This was on the morning of the 19th day of May. 

 In the evening a black object, projected from the waves, 

 was visible under the smoke, and during the night the 

 sky was brilliant with ascending flames. At the same 

 time convulsions shook the earth, and rocks were thrown 

 across the sea to the land, twelve miles distant. On the 

 third day the tremors ceased, the flames subsided and a 

 newly created cone loomed up from the waves, which 

 grew apace and expanded into the island which was 

 later known as Bogoslov on the charts. 



By 1800 it had ceased to smoke, but a party who visited 

 it then found the surrounding water still warm and the 

 rock too hot to permit a landing. A few years later it 

 had cooled off sufficiently to attract a colony of sea lions, 

 with whom it eventually became a favorite resort. By 

 1823 it had largely increased in circumference and 

 attained a height of 1,000ft. Then it began to diminish, 

 and finally sank back into the depths of the sea gradually, 

 until a few years ago, when it broke out with renewed 

 eruption, a second commotion took place, and in a single 

 night it disappeared altogether, another islet of about the 

 same circumference making its appearance about two 



miles away. And now the new Bogoslov is gradually 

 rising, though as yet it presents a comparatively flat sur- 

 face at an elevation of not more than 200ft. above the sea 

 level. From it theie is a constant emission of steam and 

 smoke. 



This is one of the most suggestive and authentic inci- 

 dents of the world's ovology. It affords a practical ob- 

 ject lesson, from which it would be deduced that most 

 of the Aleutian Islands have been produced by gradual 

 elevation rather than volcanic eruption — that is, the 

 piling up of lava and debris thrown out from craters. 

 The history of Bogoslov is being constantly repeated. 

 Indeed, it is the opinion of some geologists that the en- 

 tire eastern half of Behring Sea is steadily decreasing in 

 depth by a gradual elevation of its bottom, though the 

 great floods of the Yukon and other rivers which empty 

 into it and deposit vast quantities of alluvial matter, are 

 doubtless mighty contributory agents in increasing its 

 shoalness. There is every prospect that it will become 

 an archipelago or a part of the mainland. The western 

 part of the sea has a uniform depth of a hundred fathoms 

 or more, the bottom gradually shelving upward until in 

 the eastern half there are but a few places where it is 

 safe for a vessel of ordinary draft to approach nearer 

 than fifty miles of the shore. Some say that it will be 

 dry land in the course of a century. 



THE OLD ORDER AND THE NEW. 

 TN the November number of the Century Magazine^ in 

 the "Topics of the Time" discussions, is a paper on 

 "American Game Laws." Most of what is there said is 

 a familiar story to readers of these columns, where the 

 subject of game protection is constantly a topic of discus- 

 sion; but it is worthy of remark and emphasis that 

 the importance of the subject is meeting a fuller 

 recognition among journalists and magazine editors. 

 The conservation of our natural resources of game and 

 fish has a distinct place in national economy; the time 

 has already gone by when communities can afford to 

 neglect the question, leaving it to ignorant or indifferent 

 or shiftless and dishonest legislators and executives. An 

 appreciation of this fact is set forth in the Century 's com- 

 ments. Its suggestions relative to the growing tendency 

 to preserve the shooting and fishing privileges are so 

 true and timely that they will bear repetition here: 



The American " poacher," however, will always be a very dif- 

 ferent offender from his English prototype. All that the Ameri- 

 can law will require will be a due respect for the rights of the 

 people. Game is not to be preserved for particular persons, but 

 for all; and during the proper time limit all men may become 

 "poachers" so far as the American game laws will concern 

 themselves with him. All this may seem to many quite incom- 

 patible with the fact that, even within proper time limits, no one 

 may pursue game upon the land of another without express or 

 tacit permission, and they may conclude that there is not to be 

 any essential difference between English and American game 

 preservation after all. Such a belief confuses two different 

 things, land ownership and game protection. If we are to have 

 land ownership, the owner must be owner altogether, and his 

 ownership must cover the live stock on the estate, be it wild or 

 tame. But this is just as it always has been. It is true that there 

 is an increasing unwillingness to grant permission for the intru- 

 sion of others in pursuit of game; but the permission has always 

 been legally necessary, as a part of land ownership, and should 

 not be attributed to the new system of game protection. The 

 change is merely a corollary of the country's development; the 

 permission to hunt or fish, which was once valueless and was' 

 given with corresponding liberality, is now valuable and must be 

 paid for. 



It would not be fair, however, to leave even an implication 

 that the change, legal as it may be, is withal an injury to the peo- 

 ple. When one tract of wild land after another is taken out of 

 the market and reserved as a hunting or fishing park, when the 

 people of successive neighborhoods find that the lakes, brooks 

 and forests over which they and their fathers have fished and 

 shot from time immemorial are now closed to them, it is easy to 

 suggest to them that they have been injured in some way. 

 One must take the development as a whole, not in parts. The 

 case is not one in which powerful barons have entered by force 

 and outsted the people from their natural privileges. It is 

 merely that the lake, the trout brook, or the shooting ground 

 has acquired a new value from a general development which^ 

 in another part of it, has enriched our tables with fish and game 

 from the most distant parts of our own country, and with food 

 products from all over the world. The parts must go together. 

 He who wishes to turn back the years, and fish and shoot as freely 

 as his grandfather did, cannot surely expect to enjoy the North- 

 western salmon, the Southern berries, ti e Florida oranges, the 

 California figs, the Western beef, the tinned or glass goods from 

 all over the world, for which his grandfather possibly would have 

 been glad to barter all his meager privileges of the chase. Such 

 details of development are enough to show that, while there is 

 always a scale of popular loss, it is altogether outweighed by the 

 scale which represents the popular gain. 



In this change from an old order to a new is also to 



be found the justification and reasonableness of all those 

 restrictive regulations which are so often complained of 

 as tyrannical abridgments of individual rights and privi- 

 leges. It is because an old order of things has given 

 place to new conditions, that in Maine, for example, 

 where once every hunter was free to kill all the game he 

 wished and at any time he wished, without directly im- 

 pairing the public interest, he is now restricted as to 

 both the manner and the extent of his hunting. 



There is a class of men, who, having enjoyed the licenBe 

 of former years, do not take kindly to the new order 

 They refuse to recognize the justice of the game statutes 

 they break the laws, defy the officials, and stand on their 

 individual "natural rights." The most notorious repre- 

 sentative of this tpye in Maine is Jonathan Darling, 

 whose arrest for breaking the game laws is elsewhere re- 

 ported. Darling is out of his place in history. He re- 

 fuses to be reconstructed. He has set out to stem an ir- 

 resistible cm-rent, and though he shall be convicted and 

 sent to prison, we question if he will acknowledge even 

 to himself that he is other than a wronged man, the 

 victim of harsh and oppressive laws. Because it was 

 once permitted to him to hunt unmolested, that permis- 

 sion he regards as an inalienable right, and resents being 

 deprived of it. 



THE ST. LAWRENCE ANGLERS' ASSOCIATION. 



WE invite special and thoughtful attention to the 

 account of the grand work accomplished by the 

 Anglers' Association of the St. Lawrence River, as re- 

 lated by the founder of the society, Mr. W. W. Byington. 



The brief but comprehensive history of dozens of fish 

 protectective movements may be summed up in one 

 word — talk. The netting evil or some kindred abuse is 

 recognized; and with all zeal men set about organizing 

 an association for reform; but the campaign begins with 

 talk, progresses with talk, and ends in talk. The review 

 of the work done on the St. Lawrence River would be 

 valuable, if for nothing else, because it shows in the first 

 place that in fish protection, as in every other field of 

 effort, the one way to accomplish anything is to set to 

 work and do something; and it demonstrates as well the 

 encouraging truth that such activity will be crowned 

 with an adequate reward. 



Immediately upon recognition of the extent of the de- 

 structive netting in the St. Lawrence, and being assured of 

 the illegal nature of the practice, Mr. Byington and his as- 

 sociates, without delay for organization, took off their 

 coats and went to work; or rather they did not wait to 

 take off their coats, but plunged in, as Cassius challenged 

 by Caesar to swim the Tiber's flood — 



Upon the word, 

 Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, 

 And bade him follow, so indeed he did. 



The work so promptly and energetically undertaken 

 has been carried forward with intelligence, determina- 

 tion, courage and success. The St. Lawrence River to- 

 day is in large measure purged of the illicit and destruc- 

 tive traps for game fish. The Association has stood be- 

 hind public officials with money and moral support, and 

 it has furnished the funds for fighting doubtful cases in 

 the courts. It has waged the war with enthusiasm, and 

 it has been guided by discretion. It has not only cleared 

 the bays of deadly devices, but it has cleared the moral 

 atmosphere, and wrought a healthful change in public 

 spirit. The Association deserves all support; we heartily 

 second Mr. Byington's appeal for the co-operation of all 

 anglers of the United States who repair to the St. Law- 

 rence waters for their annual outings. 



"What has been done for the St. Lawrence might be 

 done for all the waters cursed with unlawful engines of 

 destruction, if only there were available a like energetic 

 and determined spirit to control the workings of associ- 

 ated bodies of anglers. The St. Lawrence work is an 

 object lesson, showing what associated effort can do. It 

 demonstrates also what one man can do, for after all the 

 Association of the St. Lawrence River grew out of the 

 personal enterprise of Mr. W. W. Byington; to him is due 

 in large measure the credit for what has been accom- 

 plished. He organized the society; drafted its constitution 

 and by-laws; was its secretary until elected president; for 

 five years did a large part of the work connected with 

 the Association, even when it encroached upon his private 

 business; and now that he has insisted upon being re- 

 duced to the ranks, is there proving himself to be a host. 



