Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 5, 1889. 



) VOL. XXXIIT.-No, 30. 

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CONTENTS. 



Editobial. 



Our Christmas Number. 



Snap Shots. 



The Yellowstone Park. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Sand-Spit (poetry). 



James Feniniore Cooper. 



Slide Rock from Many Moun- 

 tains. 

 Natural History. 



Names of the White Goat. 



Notes on the Snowy Owl. 

 GtAme Bag and Gun. 



Good Luck on a Friday. 



Tne Story of a Buck. 



Aim With the Shotgun. 



Adirondack Deer. 



Pattern and Penetration. 



California Deer. 



AU-Around Gauge. 



Wild Celery. 



Maine Large Game. 



Chicago and the Wesr. 



Taxing Guns — Personalties. 



Drop a Dollar in the Slot. 

 Camp-Fire Flickekings. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Maine Angling Interests. 



Sunapee Trout from Dan's 

 Hole Pond. 



Salt- Water Fish in Fresh 

 Water. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Destructive Fish Weirs. 

 Florida Fishes Under Ground. 

 Pond Fishing in Connecticut . 

 Angling Notes. 



FlSHOULTURE. 



V r on Behr Trout. 



New Hampshire Woods and 

 Waters. 

 The Kennel. 



The Fox Hunts of America. 



Eastern Field Trials. 



Central Field Trials. 



The Westminster Judges. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



How to Shoot. 



The Nebraska Tournament. 



The Shooting Tour. 



Chicago aud the West. 



Y r ACHTING. 



Report of the N. Y. Y. C. Com- 

 mittee on Measurement. 

 Capt. Root. B. Forbes. 

 Canoeing. 

 Lake Winnipiseogee and Mer- 



rimac River. 

 The A. C. A. Racing Rules. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



OUR CHRISTMAS NUMBER. 



HP HE issue of the Forest and Stream for Dec. 19 will 

 be the Christmas Number. Many good things are 

 in store for that occasion. Here is a list of some of them: 



IN FOREIGN LANDS. 

 On the Trombetas. An account of a daring expe- 

 dition on the Trombetas River, North Brazil. By 

 "Nessmok." The story is in the author's best vein, 

 and we need not add that it is intensely interesting. 

 Dogs, Dingoes and Kuris. An intelligent descrip- 

 tion of the native wild and domestic dogs of New 

 Zealand. By Edward Wakefield. 

 The Reporter. A sketch of partridge shooting with a 



"reporter" dog in Sweden. By "Marstrand." 

 Fishing a la Mode. An amusing description by 



"Podgers" of one of the dude anglers of Paris. 

 Big Game in Boer-land. A letter descriptive of 



hunting in the wilds of South Africa. 

 First Spear. An account of a novice's first experience 



in pig-sticking in Scinde. By C. F. Amery. 

 A Run after the Long Tails. Kangaroo hunting in 



Australia. By W. H. Limond. 

 Three Days in Jamaica. A short account of a re- 

 cent visit to the island. By "F. J. M." 

 Notes from the Ten Thousand Years House. 

 A letter from Tokio, Japan. By Henry Macdonald. 

 A vivid and picturesque description of the phases of 

 life that impress the American traveler in Japan. 

 DAYS WITH THE ELK. 

 Running Down an Elk. An account of the pursuit 

 on snowshoes, and the tiring out and capture alive 

 of one of the last elk in the wilds of Pennsylvania. 

 By "Antler." 

 An Elk Hunt. A story of Rocky Mountain adventure. 

 By "Yo." 



The Trail of It. A mountaineer's story of a scuttle 

 with a bull elk. By Jerome Burnett. 



The Elk in Harness. An account of personal experi- 

 ence in capturing and taming elk and breaking them 

 to harness. By Charles M. Donnelly. 



Old Joe. Notes on a semi-civilized bull elk, which be- 

 longs to a Wyoming horse ranch. By Millard. 



Illustrations. There will also be a double-sheet sup- 

 plement with careful drawings of elk. By A. S. 

 Higgins, Jr. With its double supplement the Christ- 

 mas Number will contain thirty-six pages. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE Jekyl Island Club's game preserve has recently 

 been recruited by the receipt from the West of a 

 female elk and a calf, which were shipped from Chey- 

 enne and landed in Brunswick, Ga., in excellent order 

 and condition. Wnen they wore transferred from cars 

 to boat they entered a protest, as if in their opinion that 

 sort of thing had been going on long enough, and they 

 positively refused to be bundled aboard; but by the united 

 efforts of half a hundred darkies they were carried bodily 

 on to the boat. When it came to landing them at the 

 island the same process had to be gone through, requiring 

 the whole force to persuade them to go ashore. At last 

 accounts they had thought better of their sulks and were 

 consuming their rations with great complacency. The 

 club is in. the market for a gentleman elk .intending to stock 

 their preserves with that interesting specimen of zoology. 



Mr. Austin Corbin, whose attempts to keep in confine- 

 ment deer, elk and antelope have been regarded with 

 interest by those acquainted with their progress, has met 

 with a serious misfortune. A shipment of 21 animals, 

 all in good condition, left Dakota Nov. 16 for his farm in 

 New Hampshire. On the way East, while passing over 

 the Nickel Plate road, the train carrying these animals 

 collided with another, and the car on which Mr. Corbin's 

 collection were was wrecked. Four deer escaped to the 

 woods, an elk was so badly hurt that it had to be killed, 

 and one moose died from injuries received. Ou.t of the 

 21 animals, including 11 deer, 6 antelopes and 2 elk and 

 2 moose, there are left alive only 1 elk, 1 moose, 1 ante- 

 lope and 2 deer. These are all badly cut up and lame. 

 These are " hard lines." 



The issue of Jan. 9 will be a special Florida number, 

 illustrated. See announcement next week. 



On Sunday. Dec. 1, there was born at the Zoological 

 Gardens in the Central Park a young hippopotamus. 

 The parents of the new arrival, known as Caliph and 

 Fatima, are eight and six years old respectively. The 

 male weighs nearly three tons, while the female is only 

 about two-thirds that weight. The young one is a male. 

 At birth it weighed but forty pounds; its length is about 

 thirty inches, and it stands fourteen inches in height. 

 Although there have been several cases of the birth of a 

 young hippopotamus in Europe, this is the first for 

 America, and the progress of the youngster will be 

 watched with interest. Of the three born in the London 

 Zoo two died. Our specimen has made his appearance 

 at a bad season of the year, but it is to be hoped that he 

 may survive. 



Senator Vest will at once bring up before the Senate 

 his bill for the enlargement and protection of the Na- 

 tional Park. This bill, it will be remembered, has passed 

 the Senate three times and the House once. It is now 

 more than ever needed, and there is nothing to be said 

 against it. The bill has been so thoroughly discussed in 

 the Senate, that all members of that branch of Congress 

 must be familiar with its provisions, and it ought to pass 

 that body without delay, so that it may reach the House 

 in time to be acted on at this session. As soon as intro- 

 duced the bill will probably be referred to the Senate 

 Committee on Territories. Senator Manderson of this 

 committee has in the past struggles over this bill always 

 been an ardent supporter of the measure, dividing the 

 honors in the Senate with Mr. Vest. He will no doubt 

 again do all in his power to hurry tne bill through the 

 committee, and bring it to a vote in the Senate. 



For shooting, the weather of the autumn of 1889 has 

 been in this latitude simply execrable. There were sur - 

 prisingly few October and November days when the air 

 was crisp and outdoor scenes exhilarating. Rainy, foggy 

 and dismal days have been the rule. The only consola- 

 tion to be found in such a condition of affairs is that 

 it suits the Can't-get-away Club members who profess 

 to care nothing about weather conditions. 



The Long Island duck netters are putting in their fine 

 work. Thousands of broadbills are coming to the 

 markets without a shot mark on them; mostly from the 

 vicinity of Good Ground. The game warden of that 

 district promised to give this matter his immediate at- 

 tention; but those wrfo shoot there ought to lend a help- 

 ing hand. 



Thanksgiving was a great day for the dogs. Thousands 

 of them were out galloping over fields and through brush, 

 and every one of them had in tow a man or two or three 

 men with guns. 



THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. 



'"F'HE report of the Superintendent of the Yellowstone 

 *- National Park for the year ending June 80, 1889, has 

 just been issued. As the Park for eleven months of this 

 year was under the charge of Captain Moses Harris, who 

 was relieved by Captain Bou telle on June 1, the docu- 

 ment consists of two parts covering these periods. 



Captain Harris mentions the expulsion from the Park 

 of three persons, two for trapping beaver and one for 

 drunkenness and disorder. One of the men expelled is 

 believed to have returned to the Park after being ejected, 

 and to have maliciously started a forest fire. The scouts 

 made by Ed. Wilson and Corporal Boyce, noticed at the 

 time in these columns, are described. Forest fires were 

 numerous, owing to carelessness of campers and other 

 causes, but all were extinguished by the troops before 

 they had caused any great damage. A list is given of 

 leases and business permits granted during the year. 

 The hotel accommodations and transportation facilities 

 toward the close of the season of 1888 were inadequate, 

 and many travelers suffered inconvenience from this 

 cause. Owing to the lack of any appropriation no work 

 was done on roads. Captain Harris again calls attention 

 to the fact that there is no government in the National 

 Park, and alludes to the impossibility of enforcing rules 

 and regulations laid down for the care and management 

 of the Park, since legislation provides no effective method 

 for such enforcement. The law passed by the Legisla- 

 ture of Wyoming Territory, and its failure to work, is 

 referred to; the visit of the Congressional committee in 

 1885 mentioned and its report quoted, and the significant 

 fact is noticed that Congress, notwithstanding this report, 

 has failed to provide any legislation for the Parle. Cap- 

 tain Harris, as in previous reports, recommends an appro- 

 priation for a civil force to protect the Park. His list 

 calls for one superintendent, one chief game keeper, ten 

 assistant game keepers, one chief of police, thirty police- 

 men and one clerk, the pay and equipment of this force 

 to be, according to his estimates, about $49,000. Captain 

 Harris urges that it is high time that the question of the 

 government of the Park should be settled one way or the 

 other; either that it should be turned over to the civil 

 authorities or else definitely assigned to the military to 

 look after. Attention is called to the depredations of 

 Indians along the southern border of the Park, and papers 

 on this subject which were printed some months since in 

 Forest and Stream form an appendix to the report. 



Captain Boutelle's report covering but one month is 

 very brief. He alludes to the clanger of fire in the Park, 

 and to the entire absence of any proper fire equipment 

 for the use of the force at the command of the Superin- 

 tendent. If Captain Boutelle's request for such equip- 

 ment had been granted when it was first made, many 

 square miles of green timber burned over this summer 

 and autumn might have been saved. As it was, the 

 Department delayed a long time before acting on his re- 

 quest, and a gentleman traveling through the Park,, who 

 had heard of the entire absence of buckets, axes, shovels, 

 etc., offered to put his hand in his pocket and give the 

 Superintendent a sum of money, with which to purchase 

 these necessary articles. Had such an offer been accepted, 

 we should have had the spectacle of the Yellowstone 

 National Park belonging to the U. S. Government, de- 

 pending in part for its protection on the charity of a 

 private individual. 



Captain Boutelle's report refers briefly to the good work 

 done on the roads by Mr. Craighill, to needed work on 

 the trails, to a possible pasture for elk, deer and antelope 

 to be inclosed along the road, where they may be seen by 

 tourists, and to the supposed destruction of game by the 

 carnivora in the Park. He also refers to the work of 

 stocking the barren waters of the Park with fish, in 

 which so good a beginning has been made by Col. Mc- 

 Donald. He calls attention to the fact that the boundary 

 line of the Park is nowhere marked, and recommends a 

 survey. A suitable residence for the Superintendent is 

 needed. He refers to the fact that there is a scheme on 

 foot looking to the cutting off of a portion of the north- 

 western portion of the Park and remarks that such an 

 attempt should be opposed, as it would thrown open to 

 the hunter some of the principal winter ranges of the 

 elk and buffalo. 



Captain Boutelle states that the building operations of 

 the Yellowstone Park Association have been delayed by 

 the regulation prohibiting the cutting of green timber in 

 | the Park, and this regulation has been revoked. The 



