Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 21, 1889. 



j VOL. XXXIII.-No. 18. 

 1 No 318 Beoadwat, New Yokk. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editori at,. 



The Bear Huiiting of Tc-Day. 



The National Park in 18b9. 



Snap Shots. 

 The sportsman Tourist. 



A Winter in Florida.— n. 



Running the Brule.— u. 

 Natural History. 



Annui 1 Congress of tbe 

 A. O. U. 



A Tamed Ruffed Grouse. 



Pawnee Hero Stories and 

 Folk-Tales. 

 Game Bag and Run. 



Trappers of the Rappahannock 



Tbe Gun Tests. 



Aiming Ahead. 



The Chester Fox Hunt. 



Wild Turkeys in New England 



Chicago and the West. 



Look Alter the Cripples. 



The South Carolina Season. 



On Taxing (iuns. 

 Camp-P'iue Flick erings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 



Bears. Birds and Fishes. 



By Way of Pro Lest. 



A Large New Hampshire Bass 



Chicago and the West. 



How to Treat Those Traps. 



Fishculture. 



Missouri Fish Commission. 



First Shipment of Carp. 

 The Kennel. 



Brunswick Fur Club Trials. 



Philadelphia Club Trials. 



Canadian Kennel Club Trials. 



Indiana Field Trials. 



Eastern Field Trials. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap shooting. 



Smokeless Powder. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



St. Paul Gun Club. 



Class and Daily vs. Kleintz 

 and Irwin. 

 Yachting. 



Measurement on Lake Ontario 



Skiff Racing on the St. Law- 

 rence. 



Yacht Building in Great Bri- 

 tain Under the New Rule. 

 Classification by Corrected 

 Length. 

 Canoeing. 

 A. C. A. Paddling Trophy. 

 A Paddle Across Lake Winne- 

 pesaukee. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



' THE BEAR HUNTING OF TO-DAY. 

 ^T^HIS is an age of progress and of ease and luxury. 

 J- And the bear hunter is keeping up with the pro- 

 cession, falling not a bit behind. The old fogies who 

 used to pose as bear hunters, what a laborious and fussy 

 and clumsy thing they made of it ! First there was the 

 muzzleloader; and then the bullet pouch, and the powder 

 horn, and the wadding, and the ramrod and the cap — 

 they thought it was a tremendous step ahead when they 

 discarded the tlint and invented the percussion cap. But 

 to load up with all these was not the whole of it, nor 

 a half of it; for when armed and equipped, they must 

 go out into the woods and hunt for the bear. Terribly 

 slow that was; and downright hard work, too. Then, 

 when they had found the bear, and one shot did not do 

 for him, came the process of reloading; first the powder, 

 then the wadding, then the bullet, then more wadding; 

 and all driven home and thumped down with a ramrod. 

 And after all, the bear might get away, if indeed it might 

 not set to and do for the hunter himself. 



This has changed, tbe bear hunter is up with the times. 

 For the muzzleloader there is the breechloader, for the 

 bullet pouch and powder horn and wadding and ramrod, 

 we have the machine- loaded cartridges, which can be 

 pumped out faster than Bruin can wink. And as for 

 hunting for your bear, taking the chances of finding 

 him, or of being found by him, a New York genius has 

 changed that. 



Bear hunting is to-day an exact science; its pursuit is 

 unattended by hazard or hardship or possibility of fail, 

 ure. The metropolitan "Nimrod" has shown how to do 

 it, He is the pioneer in the art of bear hunting as it is- 

 hunted. He went up to Union Society, a Catskill Moun- 

 tain summer boarder resort, where they had a young 

 pet bear chained up in the yard, doing time in amusing 

 the guests and serving as a stool-pigeon or decoy for 



other boarders with sporting proclivities. This was the 

 bear the New Yorker had been looking for. He bought 

 and paid for it on the spot, fifty dollars — a bear on the 

 chain is worth two in the woods. Then the gallant 

 sportsman, after schooling his nerves to stand the shock 

 of the exploding rifle, bravely did the brute to death; 

 paid the cook to skin the carcass and bore home in tri- 

 umph the skin as a trophy of his prowess. To-day it 

 adorns his residence; and he is rapidly coming by fre- 

 quent repetition to tell to admiring guests his thrilling 

 "bear yarn" by rote. 



This style of bear killing is certainly progressive: it is 

 in fact decidedly in advance of the spirit of the times; 

 and the great body of sportsmen, with their old-fashioned 

 notions and prejudices and sentiment, may be depended 

 on to write down the New Yorker as a bloodthirsty 

 noodle. His exploit of shooting a bear on chain is not 

 likely to be emulated. 



THE NATIONAL PARK IN 1889. 

 ^PHE year L :1! te been in many ways an eventful one 

 for the 1 . si ual Park. In the spring of the year it 

 was rumored thai i change was to be made in the Super- 

 intendent, and for a time those especially interested in the 

 Park felt great anxiety lest some officer might be ordered 

 to this duty who would prove inefficient or without in- 

 terest in the National Reservation. Early in the season 

 Captain Harris, who for three years had so acceptably 

 filled the difficult position of Superintendent, was ordered 

 to Fort Custer, and Captain F. A. Boutelle, of the First 

 Cavalry, was ordered to take his place. Captain Boutelle 

 is a man of intelligence, of strong will and great energy. 

 In addition to this he is a keen sportsman and an ardent 

 lover of nature. He appreciates as well as any one can 

 the importance of preserving the Park as a whole: its for- 

 ests, its natural wonders and its game. His share in the 

 good work being carried on in the Reservation by the U. S. 

 Fish Commission has already been alluded to. He will 

 strive with all his might to protect it from enemies with- 

 out and from enemies within its borders. He is making 

 an excellent Superintendent. 



Mr. Craighill, the new engineer officer in charge of the 

 roads, has spent a great deal of time in the Park and has 

 accomplished much good work. He has been cramped 

 this year, as his predecessors have been, by the picayune 

 policy of Congress, which refuses to make adequate 

 appropriations for the care of the Park, just as it refuses 

 to legislate for it in other ways. 



We have recently alluded to the great work in fish- 

 culture already inaugurated in the Park through the 

 wise appreciation of Col. Marshall McDonald, IT. S. Fish 

 Commissioner. Last summer Capt. Boutelle, himself a 

 veteran angler, seeing the possibilities of these waters for 

 fishculture, invited Col. McDonald to visit the Park and 

 look at its streams and lakes with this point in mind. 

 Col. McDonald came, and his experienced eye at once 

 took in the situation. He grasped the opportunity. 

 What he has done and what he intends to do was told in 

 these columns last week. 



The work of the IT. S. Geological Survey in the Park 

 has been very interessin g. Their investigations have been 

 carried on mainly in the Absaroka Range of mountains 

 on the east side of the Park, and they kave explored these 

 ragged peaks from Cook City south, penetrating the 

 mountains to the very head of the Stinking Water. 

 Among the interesting papers published by members of 

 this survey party are Mr. Hague's paper on the "Geologi- 

 cal History of the Paik," Mr. Iddings's on the "Obsidian 

 Cliffs," and three by Mr. Weed on the "Diatom Marshes 

 and Diatom Beds of the Yellowstone National Park," on 

 the "Formation of Siliceous Sinter by the Vegetation of 

 Thermal Springs," and on U A Deadly Gas Spring in the 

 Yellowstone National Park." 



Travel in the National Park this year has been large, 

 and this travel had its interesting features. "Campers" 

 were present in larger numbers than ever, and they 

 brought with them, as usual, their wives and their 

 babies, their horses and their dogs. Living in the open 

 air and traveling from place to place, as free as that air, 

 they made the Park seem more than ever what it is and 

 ought to be~a pleasuring ground for the whole people. 

 The regular tourists were not less interesting. It was de- 

 lightful to see their enjoyment of every tiling and to 

 observe the pride that.they took in the Park. A member 

 of the staff of Forest and Stream who sj>ent some time 

 in the Park talked with . many of them, and found tke 



universal sentiment one of wonder and satisfaction that 

 the United States had within its borders so lovely a re- 

 gion which belonged equally to every one of our people. 

 Many of these tourists were aware of the project to en- 

 large the Park, and all were loudly in favor of it. If 

 there was any complaint at all it was that the Govern- 

 ment did not have more soldiers and scouts to police and 

 protect it, and did not spend more money in building 

 roads and bridges. Many of these tourists expressed an 

 ardent desire to get away from the traveled roads and 

 into out of the way spots in the mountains of which they 

 had heard. 



The Park this year has suffered some misfortunes. A 

 season of drouth, unparalleled in the annals of Montana 

 and Wyoming, prepared the forests for fires. Many of 

 these were started, some perhaps from neglected camp 

 fires, others no one knows how; but one, a most serious 

 one, through the carelessness, as it is believed, of the 

 Syndicate's saw-camp. The men had had a roaring camp 

 fire, which was supposed to have gone out. It burned 

 for two days under ground, and during this time the 

 men were twice wqrned that it was alive. At last one 

 windy day it burst into flame, spread into the forest 

 swept down the lake shore, jumped the Yellowstone River 

 and burned far over toward Sulphur Mountain, destroy- 

 ing a vast quantity of green timber. Capt. Boutelle's 

 men worked like heroes fighting fire, and put out a great 

 many. 



The Yellowstone Park Association — the Syndicate, as 

 it is locally called — has completed its new hotel at the 

 Falls. It has also put up at the Lake, on a site which, 

 we believe, has not been even submitted to the Secretary 

 of the Interior, much less approved by him, a building 

 which they call one of the wings of the hotel there, but 

 which contains a hundred rooms. We do not clearly un- 

 derstand how they could have obtained permission to 

 erect this before the locality for the hotel had been ap- 

 proved at Washington. 



Another matter in this connection needs looking after. 

 We have reason to believe that although once put down, 

 the liquor traffic in the Park is again assuming alarming 

 proportions. This traffic is carried on at the hotels of the 

 Association, and liquor is openly sold to mechanics, labor- 

 ers, freighters, and even to the soldiers. We have heard 

 of more than one drunken man in the Park during the 

 past season, and it is reported that the manager of one of 

 the hotels boasted of the heavy receipts of his bar just 

 after pay-day. This is a serious matter, and will demand 

 careful attention by the proper authorities next season. 



On the whole, the year has been one of prosperity for 

 the National Park. We may hope that the next one will 

 be even better, and that before 1890 has gone Congress 

 may enlarge the National Park and provide a govern- 

 ment for it. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THERE are large numbers of well-meaning but morbid- 

 minded individuals, male and female, who by con- 

 stantly exercising their imagination and feeding on fan- 

 ciful portraits, have persuaded themselves that the aver- 

 age sportsman is a Raw-Head and Bloody-Bones, up to 

 divers sorts of red-handed cruelty, and delighting in the 

 torture of all animate beings, from a chippy bird to an 

 elephant. It is useless and purposeless to reason with 

 such people or to attempt to show them the foolishness 

 of their prejudices and misconceptions. There are some 

 things that are just as well not attempted; it is of no use 

 to descant to a blind man of the beauties of the sunset, to 

 look for emotion in a deaf and dumb person at a sym- 

 phony concert, or to expect a sentimental, bigoted and 

 misinformed person to appreciate what field sports and 

 woods-life mean to those who find pleasure in them. 



If some of the great Atlantic steamships, the ocean 

 greyhounds, which are competing for the time record 

 between this country and Europe, were owned in America 

 and carried the Stars and Stripes, what an interest would 

 be taken in the competition. We should have in effect 

 an international yacht race every week in the year; and 

 there would be abundant occasion for the booming of 

 eannon and the burning of bonfires to celebrate Ameri- 

 can victories on the wave. 



The time for lawful gale of venisonJn New York State 

 expired last Friday. . 



