Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JANUARY 2, 1890. 



J VOL. XXXIII.-No. 24. 

 I No 318 Broadway, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



A Decade's Close. 

 Florida Game Fishes. 

 Mountain Adventure in the 

 West. 



Yellowstone Park Affairs. 

 The Sportsman Tocrist. 

 Slide Bock from Many Moun- 

 tains. 



A Week in Brier Land. 

 Natural History. 



The Warrigal Dingo. 



Weight of Grouse. 



The Ways of the Woodcock. 

 Jame Bag and g-un. 



Tramps with a Pocket Rifle. 



Floating for Ducks on the 

 French Broad. 



Chicago and the West. 



Incidents of Forty Years. 



Remind era and Old Memories. 



Aiming ihe Shotgun. 



A Texas Game Countrv. 



Maine Deer. 



The Chinese Pheasants. 



Taxing Guns in New Jersey. 

 3 amp-Fire Flickerings. 

 5ea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 



Notes from Worcester. 



Fishcexture. 

 Fisiiculture and Protection in 



Indiana. 

 Work of the U. S. Fish Com. 

 The Kennel. 

 Southern Field Trials. 

 Eastern Coursing Club Meet- 

 ing. 



Gordon Setter Club. 



New York Dog Show. 



The Bettye S.— Sally Brass IT. 



Mastiff Club Specials a t New 



York. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Riele and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 



Christmas Dav Shoots. 

 Yachting. 



Good Resolutions. 



Sea Fox. 



Hull Y. C. 

 Canoeing. 



Christmas Canoeing. 



1,500 Miles in an Adirondack 

 Boat. 



Philadelphia C. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



A DECADE'S CLOSE. 

 TVHE 80s are numbered with the past and the 90s have 

 been ushered in. The transition from the old de- 

 ;ade to the new marks the rounding of a completed 

 ;erm of ten years, during which the Forest and Stream 

 las been under the editorial control of its present man- 

 igement. 



The period has witnessed a number of notable changes 

 n the development of special fields of interest to which 

 he journal relates. The international long-range rifle 

 natches, which ten years ago filled so large a measure of 

 rablic attention, have become but a memory, and long- 

 ange work is to-day almost wholly relegated to the butts 

 >f the State and National soldiery. With trap-shooting 

 he case is quite the reverse. The glass ball, once our only 

 Substitute for game, long since gave way to improved 

 (artificial targets, and trap-shooting has increased a thou- 

 and fold. Field trials and bench shows, then compara- 

 ively experimental in this country, have grown in num- 

 ier and importance beyond anticipation of the most 

 toguine: while the old National Kennel Club, then in 

 sontrol of the kennel affairs of the country, has passed 

 way, and a new body has taken its place. So, too, the 

 National Sportsmen's Association, which ten years ago, 

 ndeed, had already filled its complete measure of activ- 

 ;y and influence, has been almost forgotten; and another 

 ssociation, whose lines were laid with the same anibi- 

 k)us scope, has had its brief day and passed away. If 

 he decade has proved anything with respect to game 

 'roblems, it has demonstrated the absolute futility of 

 iccornplishing anything substantial by convening in 

 lational assemblage and passing resolutions. 



It was at the beginning of the decade just passed that 

 he game protection enthusiasm of the time found cul- 

 mination in the organization of State associations for 

 he protection of fish and game. Of the numerous soci- 

 lies of this character then established few are now in 

 xistence; and of those few a small proportion only is 



dominated by the aims and enthusiasm of the founders; 

 game protective features have given away to the trap- 

 shooting activity, witness the New York State society 

 There is, however, no reason to suppose that the interest 

 in game and fish protection is any less sincere now than 

 formerly; the truth is that in these ten years the cause 

 has made substantial and notable advance. It is now on 

 a sounder basis than ever. In several States the work of 

 protecting game and fish has been taken up by the Legis- 

 latures, and State warden systems have been adopted. 

 The machinery may not do all that it should, nor all that 

 under better management it might, but this legislation is 

 in itself a recognition of the fact that the State has at 

 last come to appreciate the necessity of undertaking to 

 conserve of its game and fish wealth, and that game 

 protection has passed beyond the personal interest of a 

 class and has taken its rightful place in public economy. 

 When we recall the stupid apathy that reigned ten years 

 ago we may find here the sure evidence of distinct pro- 

 gress and abundant reason for hopefulness. 



Perhaps the most notable of the changes wrought in this 

 period, has been the growth of the hunting and fishing 

 club preserve system. The open territory accessible to 

 the shooter and angler has been enormously contracted. 

 Famous districts once free to all have been depleted of 

 their game, ruined by the incursion of new railroads, or 

 having fallen into the control of individuals and clubs 

 have been posted and withdrawn from the public. The 

 area of preserved territory is constantly growing. If the 

 movement progresses at a like pace for another ten years, 

 the game protection problem will have been solved in a 

 way altogether unforeseen by the older generation of 

 sportsmen. 



For the Forest and Stream the decade has been a 

 period of substantial growth, of broadened influence, of 

 more cordial recognition, warmer regard by its friends 

 and patrons. The numerous and hearty indorsements 

 it so often receives from new and old subscribers are sub- 

 jects of unalloyed satisfaction. Whatever the paper 

 has thus far attained has been in generous measure due 

 to the co-operation and support of its friends. We have 

 gathered about us a corps of correspondents whose inter- 

 change of experience, opinion and sentiment week by 

 week contains in itself after all the secret of the Forest 

 and Stream's success. Not content with the gains al- 

 ready made, but determined to seek still broader in- 

 fluence and popularity in the future, we must look to 

 that same co-operation. 



the hotel wing and to inclose it so far as might be necessar 

 for the protection of his workmen and of his kiln for dry- 

 ing lumber. As we stated, this structure was erected, 

 before the site for the hotel had been approved by the 

 Secretary of the Interior, The reason for giving this per- 

 mission to build was that work on the Lake Hotel might 

 be pushed forward so that it may be ready for visitors 

 next summer. 



There is reason to believe that in the paragraph refer- 

 ring to the sale of liquor an'implied.in justice has been 

 done to Captain Boutelle, the Superintendent of the 

 Park. It might be inferred from the quoted lines that 

 this sale of liquor has gone on without his knowledge, 

 and so without any effort on his part to stop it. This is 

 not the case. Captain Boutelle has watched the sale of 

 liquor, and has expelled at least one barkeeper from the 

 Park for selling liquor to persons to whom he should not 

 have sold. 



YELLOWSTONE PARK AFFAIRS. 

 T N our issue of November 21 appeared a review of the 

 past season in the Yellowstone National Park. Two 

 paragraphs in this article contain certain statements 



FLORIDA GAME FISHES. 

 /^UR next issue, Jan. 9, will have an illustrated supple- 

 ^ ment with portraits of more than twenty of the 

 game fishes of Florida waters. The accompanying text 

 will describe the several species and give directions for 

 their capture. In addition there will be accounts of fish- 

 ing in Florida, with other papers, all of which will make 

 this number of special and permanent value. The 

 supplement will be similar in preparation to the trout 

 number of last April, which was so well received. It is 

 our intention to publish from time to time illustrated 

 supplements on other subjects, and thus in 1890 to make 

 this journal more than ever a welcome visitor in the 

 sportsman's home. 



MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE IN THE WEST. 

 Y\J E take pleasure in announcing that we have on 

 hand a new series of papers descriptive of sport and 

 adventure in the Eocky Mountains and the Cascade 

 Range. The sketches are from the pens of "Yo" and "H. 

 G. Dulog," two of our contributors whose pen names are 

 ever welcomed. The first of the series, a poem, "The 

 Sleeping Sentinel," is published to-day. The others are 

 prose, and will be given early place, the second one, 

 "A Bull Moose and Bear," in our issue of Jan. 23. Those 

 to follow are: "Charity," "Meat in the Pot," "Batiste," 

 "A Tale of Blood," "A Night in the Forest," "The Lost 

 Sheep," A Story of the Old Frontier," "On a Glacier in 

 Summer," "A Desert Home," "At Last." 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 QOME fishing clubs offer special rewards to their mem- 

 ^ bers who capture the biggest fish, and occasionally 

 journalistic enterprise exhibits itself in a like manner, 



which are in some degree misleading and which require rewards being held out to those subscribers who shall 



explanation. The paragraphs referred to read as follows: 

 "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 

 understand 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, 

 laborers, freighters, and even to the soldiers. We have 

 heard of more than one drunken man in the Park dur- 

 ing the past season, and it is reparted 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." 



The statement that the building erected by the Hotel 

 Association at the Lake contains one hundred rooms is in- 

 correct. As a matter of fact no partitions have been run 

 up in this building; it is not, as yet, divided into rooms 

 at all. It is called a wing of the hotel there, and is a 

 large building of three stories, so constructed as ulti- 

 mately to contain a large number of sleeping apartments. 

 The manager of the Hotel Association was given permis- 

 sion by the Superintendent to put up the frame- work of 



land the heaviest bass, or trout, or tomcod. But we hold 

 that when a man takes in a big one, angling, like virtue, 

 is its own reward. We shall not mark the beginning of 

 a new year by holding out any such tempting bait for 

 angling readers in 1890. But it shall be our endeavor to 

 make each number of Forest and Stream so full of 

 acceptable and entertaining and valued reading for 

 anglers that he who catches the biggest fish may find in 

 these columns something to add to his joy, and that he, 

 too, from whom the biggest one shall have got away may 

 find an assuagement of his chagrin. 



We were not exact in our statement last week that the 

 notice given to dealers in venison in this city, that the 

 season closed Nov. 15, was given by Commissioner E. G. 

 Blackford, on his own interpretation of the law, for it 

 appears that the decision to that effect was made by the 

 Attorney-General on reading a part of the Statute only. 

 But wherever the mistake was made, the incident affords 

 a glaring example of the complexities and incongruities 

 of the New York game law, and emphasizes the urgent 

 need of codification and change from their botched text 

 into clear intelligible English. 



We commend to the attention of students of the ways 

 of wild game, as a specimen of personal testimony valu- 

 able because simply and honestly given, the notes con- 

 tributed by Mr. T. M. Aldrich, on the habits of the wood- 

 cock. Such records of the observations of a lifetime are 

 exceedingly valuable. If it were possible to gather the 

 experience of such men we might with some degree of 

 accuracy and fullness write the life histories of our game 

 birds. 



