Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 12, 1889. 



I VOL. XXXIII.-No. a. 

 I No 318 Broadway, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Sditoriajl. 



Our Christmas Number. 



Mormon Encroachments. 



Some Recent Happenings. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Sport in New Mexico. 



Photography as a Pastime. 



Civilization vs. Savagery. 



Rod and Gun in Siskiyou. 



Sporting in the Far West. 

 Natural History. 



Out-of-Door Papers.— vx. 

 Game Bag and uun. 



Ducks in the Great South Bay. 



Game Protection in Wyoming. 



A First Buffalo Hunt. 



Chicago and the West. 



New York Association. 



Guns and Gauges. 



Pattern and Penetration. 



Rifle and Revolver. 



The Connecticut Association. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The Material Benefits of Fish 

 Protection. 



An Open Letter. 



Trout and Game in West Vir- 

 ginia. 



Black Bass in Barker's Pond. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 



Smelts at Plymout h. 



Brass Ferules. 

 Fish culture. 



Missouri Fish Commission 

 Work. 



Central Field Trials. 



Eastern Coursing Meet. 



Indiana Kennel Club. 



American Fox-Terrier Club. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Class vs. Thompson. 

 Yachting. 

 A British 10-Rater. 

 "Ill-Considered Rules." 

 The Right Time to Tack. 

 The Changes in the Racing 

 Rules. 



International Skiff Racing. 



A Short Trip on the Pacific. 

 Canoeing. 



The Races of the A. C. A. Meet 



Toronto C. C. Annual Dinner. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



OUR CHRISTMAS NUMBER. 



r W^ HE issue of the Forest and Sibeam 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 

 "Nessmde." 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 Edwabd Wakefield. 

 The Reporter. A sketch of partridge shooting with a 



* 'reporter" dog in Sweden. By "Mabsteand." 

 Fishing- a la Mode. An amusing description by 



"Podgebs" 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 O. F. Ameey. 

 A Bun 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 Heney 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 "Antleb." 

 An Elk Hunt. A story of Rocky Mountain adventure. 

 By "Yo." 



The Trail of It. A mountaineers story of a scuffle 



with a bull elk. By Jebome Bubnett. 

 The Elk in Harness. An account of personal experi- 

 ence in capturing and taming elk and breaking them 

 to harness. By Chables M. Donnelly. 

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

 longs to a Wyoming horse ranch. By Millaed. 

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

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

 Higgins, Jb. With its double supplement the Christ- 

 mas Number will contain thirty-six pages. 



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

 illustrated. See announcement next week. 



MORMON ENCROACH3IENTS. 

 rpROM an entirely trustworthy correspondent it is 

 learned that during the past season there have been 

 considerable encroachments on the southwest corner of 

 the National Park by the Mormon settlers of Idaho. It is 

 reported that on the Falls Eiver meadows several thou- 

 sand tons of hay have been cut and stacked, some of 

 it in the National Park. Thousands of acres of country 

 here have been burned over. The Mormons claim that 

 these fires were set by Indians, who, after they had fin- 

 ished hunting, fired the country when they left. This is 

 not the Indian way of setting fires for hunting purposes. 

 On the other hand the hay haulers, most of whom are 

 Mormons, have left a great many camp-fires, and it is 

 probable that from some of these the fires got out. Much 

 of the heavy timber was burning in October and Novem- 

 ber about JEueas Park and Lake. The only person who 

 is known to have camped there is a German or Austrian 

 count, whose men were certainly careless about their 

 camp-fires, as appears from the fact that they left at least 

 one burning in the Park, near Yellowstone Lake. They 

 had thrown water on the middle of the fire, but it was 

 still burning about the edges. 



A fire started on the West Gallatin from the camp of a 

 well-known New York gentleman who was hunting- 

 there. It appears now— although it w T as not known at 

 the time— that this fire was due to the criminal ignor- 

 ance of the cook, who, while the party was out, whittled 

 kindlings and fired a "fat" pine tree "to see it burn." 

 This fire is said to have burned for twenty miles. The 

 cook ought now to be in the Deerlodge Penitentiary. 



It is further reported that at least one fire got out from 

 a Government road camp on the Firehole above Kepler's 

 Cascades. The road gang, it is stated, left their fire 

 burning when they broke camp in the autumn. In this 

 last case, if we had any laws for the Park, the offending 

 persons could certainly be detected and punished. 



If any further proof were needed of the importance of 

 Congress enacting laws for the protection of the Park, 

 the terrible fires which have raged there this season and 

 which have destroyed so many thousands of acres of 

 living forests furnish that proof. Through the supine- 

 ness of Congress the beauties of the National Park are 

 being destroyed by fire, and there can be no remedy for 

 this until laws shall be made for the punishment of care- 

 less and malicious persons. 



SOME RECENT HAPPENINGS. 



HPHE great football contest in this city on Thanksgiv- 

 -L ing Day between Princeton and Yale has moved the 

 New York Observer to view with alarm the hold athletics 

 are taking upon popular attention, and to deplore the 

 growing importance of "sport," under which designation 

 it lumps together athletic games, "hunting for amuse- 

 ment, racing and trotting horses, and the brutal exercises 

 of the prize-ring." As may be inferred from this jumbl- 

 ing of diverse ' 'sports," there is an odd mixture of sober 

 sense and fantastic nonsense in the writer's argument. 

 He fails to discriminate. And this subject of "sports" is 

 certainly one which calls for intelligent discrimination. 

 There is a point up to which athletic sports are justifiable 

 and praiseworthy. The harmful tendencies of the gen- 

 erous competitions of rival college students are hardly 

 deserving of grave discussion. It has been demonstrated 

 again and again that undergraduate interest and partici- 

 pation in college sports are not in the least incompatible 

 with a high attainment in scholarship. The young man 

 who excels in baseball or football often excels likewise 

 in Latin, and Greek, and chemistry. The leader in 

 athletic games may lead in the class-room as well. Some- 

 thing more than mere physical strength is required to 

 captain a football team : the same traits that put one to 

 the fore in athletic games may lead to success in college 

 work and in subsequent fields of activity after college 

 days are past. A striking example of this is afforded by 

 this number of the Observer itself, for on the same page 

 with the discussion of the harmful tendencies of college 

 athletics is printed a paper from a clergyman in the 

 West, who, when in college, was one of the foremost 

 baseball players of his class, and who since leaving col- 

 lege and entering the ministry has achieved in his special 

 field a success not attained by any of his classmates. 



The prosecution of a New York clergyman, Dr. W. S. 

 Eainsford, rector of St. George's Church, for having 

 killed a quail out of season on Long Island, has as a 

 matter of course, attracted much popular attention. The 



affair ended in Dr. Rainsford's paying $25 fine, not for 

 the offense with which he was charged and of which he 

 protested his innocence, but for another quail, which he 

 confessed to having killed unlawfully, but of which, he 

 said, no one knew. 



The discussion of this case has brought out in the daily 

 press certain criticisms on the propriety of a clergyman's 

 indulging in the recreation of shooting wild game. It 

 has been urged that the use of the gun for the killing of 

 game is at best only a relic of barbarism, inherited from 

 the more brutal ages of the past, that "hunting as a 

 sport is opposed to the humane spirit that is glorifying 

 and ennobling modern life," and that a Christian minis- 

 ter cannot engage in it without impairing his influence 

 and bringing reproach upon his calling. If it were true 

 that hunting ought properly to be classed among degrad- 

 ing pastimes, it would as a matter of course, be conceded 

 that no self-respecting individual, whether clergyman 

 or layman, should take part in it. But the fallacy of 

 any such contention is clue to the abnormal perspectives 

 with which mawkish closet philosophers regard field 

 sports. In their imagination, the sportsman delights in 

 cruelty, in the sight of suffering, in the infliction of pain; 

 and the effect on the hunter of indulgence in the pursuit 

 of game is debasing. As a matter of fact, there is no 

 reason nor shadow of truth in such a view. The facts 

 do not sustain it. Field sports do not brutalize those 

 who participate in them. Quite possibly the theory that 

 they should debase their followers is a very beautiful 

 and logical theory, as theories go; but in experience the 

 facts are not found to fit the theory. This does not and 

 never will daunt the closet theorizers. They will go on 

 denouncing the practices of shooting and fishing; and 

 holding up field sportsmen as monsters of brutality and 

 cruelty; and never omitting to take advantage of every 

 incident like this Eainsford case to air their fallacious, 

 foolish sentiment alism. 



If shooting and angling are, instead of demoralizing, 

 healthful and ennobling in their effect on the individual 

 and on society, it follows that they may with propriety 

 be engaged in by all men, of whatever profession and 

 standing in the community, so long as the participants, 

 however high their social position or important their 

 calling, shall respect the laws which are made to govern 

 all alike; and shall pursue their recreation in what the 

 consensus of their fellow men recognizes as a proper 

 manner. It is encumbent on each individual who shoots 

 to obey not only the letter, but the spirit of the game 

 laws; and the more prominent may be the place held by 

 a sportsman in the public eye. the more strongly is he 

 bound to conduct himself in the field without giving 

 cause for reproach. 



The Eastern Coursing Club, which is composed of gen- 

 tlemen who are known as owners and breeders of grey- 

 hounds, has been making an effort to introduce the sport 

 of coursing to Long Islanders. There being no native 

 supply of game suitable for this purpose, the club has 

 procured a number of jack rabbits from the West. These 

 were put out in a field at Hicksville; and when the men 

 and dogs gathered for the meet, one of the jacks was let 

 out of the corral, as described in our Kennel columns, 

 and the dogs were slipped. The fleeing rabbit was 

 turned from its course by an officer of the Society 

 for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and was 

 thus forced into the jaws of the greyhound and 

 killed. Two of the handlers were thereupon arrested 

 by the Society's officers; and one of them was 

 immediately given a trial and was acquitted. The 

 second trial was held last Tuesday. In the absence of 

 Col. ' ' Bob " Ingersoll, who was expected to represent the 

 Society, Mr. Chas. J. Peshall took part as associate coun- 

 sel for the prosecution. This trial ended like the first, in 

 an acquittal of the charge of cruelty. The coursing 

 club proclaims that it will course, and the Society pro- 

 claims that it will arrest. The end is not yet. As we 

 said of the Hempstead Coursing Club, the charge of cru- 

 elty as here involved is not one that will appeal to the 

 healthy mind. The practice of the Eastern Coursing 

 Club appears to be free from the objectionable features 

 that characterized the Hempstead mode of rabbit killing: 

 and the Hicksville coursing, as done last week, was not 

 open to the charge of unsportsmanlike surroundings. 

 If the truth about the Eastern Coursing Club's mode 

 w T ere generally known, we are convinced that it would 

 meet no opposition among the humane friends of the 

 animal kingdom, 



