Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JANUARY 23, 1890. 



( VOL. XXXIV.-No. 1. 



} No. 318 Broadway, New York. 





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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



A Black Army. 



A Philadelphia Menu. 



Bits of Talk. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Slide Rock from Many Moun- 

 tains. 

 Natural History. 



Wild Horses of Australia. 



The Hibernation of Bears. 



Out-of-Door Papers. 



Grouse in Confinement. 



Aquaria Notes. 

 Camp-Fire Flickerings. 

 Game Bag and Gun, 



Aiming with the Shotgun. 



Texas Game and Varmints. 



Seen in Mexico. 



An Eskimo Reloading Tool. 



Ducking In Great South Bay. 



A Michigan Deer Scrimmage. 



Game of Maine Forests. 



Chicago and the West. 



Rifles and Deer Hunting. 



Adirondack Deer. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Burntside Lake 'Salmon" a 

 Lake Trout. 



Angling Notes. 



Trout Lake. 



Mountain Mullet of Vera Cruz 



Chicago and the West. 

 Fish culture. 



Fish Commissioners of the 

 United States and Canada. 



Work of the Commissions. 

 The Kennel. 



A. K. C. Bench Show Rules. 



The Kennel. 

 A. K. C. Meeting. 

 A. K. C. By-Laws. 

 Reporting Dogs. 

 New York Dog Show. 

 Dogs of the Day. 

 Two Coursing Stories. 

 Dog Talk. 



Training House Dogs. 

 Augusta Dog Show. 

 Bay City Dog Show. 

 Great Danes. 

 Inter-State Field Trials. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 Riflemen at Dinner. 

 High Grade Revolver Scores. 

 The Tobin Trophy. 

 The Trap. 



New Trap Grounds for Chi- 

 cago. 



Claremont Shapting Grounds 

 Association^ 



The American Shooting Rules 



Ohio Notes. 

 Yachting. 



Tacking Off Shore (poem). 



Capt. Alexander Cuthbert. 



Whitewings. 

 Canoeing. 



1,500 Miles in an Adirondack 

 Boat. 



Red Dragon C. C. 



W. C. A. Executive Commit- 

 tee. 



Nicholas Longworth. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



A PHILADELPHIA MENU. 



r pHERB was a great ball in Philadelphia last Saturday 

 night, and the Sunday morning journals vied with 

 one another in glowing accounts of the "society leaders" 

 who were present, the general gorgeousness of the affair, 

 and the ultra fashionable character of it all. Along with 

 the description of the belles, the dresses and the dancing, 

 they gave the menu, among other details being roast 

 grouse and broiled quail. As both of these species of 

 game are now out of season, and it is forbidden to have 

 them in possession, the sportsmen of Philadelphia are 

 naturally indignant at the peculiarly aggravated act of 

 defiance of law on the part of the Assembly Ball managers 

 and their caterer. The managers, we observe, are trying 

 to dodge responsibility by averring that although they 

 saw and approved the menu when submitted to them by 

 the caterer, they did not know that the grouse and quail 

 were out of season. It is Major J. Biddle Porter who 

 makes this curious defense, curious because anyone who 

 enjoys enough intelligence to manage a "society event" 

 of this magnitude presumably knows that there are open 

 and close seasons for game; times when they can law- 

 fully be served and other times when those who supply 

 them must do it in a sneaking, dodge-the-detectives 

 covert way — or would do it in that way if by reason of 

 ineffective machinery for their punishment they did not 

 feel safe in violating the law openly and shamelessly. 

 If Philadelphia sportsmen's . clubs are so lax in their 

 methods that an individual occupying Major Porter's 

 place in society actually knows nothing of the game 

 laws applicable to such a case, they would do well to 

 bestir themselves now, and by making a notable example 

 of this grouse and quail-serving caterer and his em- 

 ployers, give the pulbic some needed enlightenment. For 

 it stands to reason that if things have come to a pass 

 where unlawful game is served quite as a matter of 

 course at a public event of this prominence, the unlawful 

 game consumed in Philadelphia in ordinary channels 

 must be computed by barrels and carloads. 



By an odd and instructive coincidence Fish and Game 

 Warden Hague, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has just brought to 

 conviction and fine six res! auralit keepers and dealers of 

 that city, who, when taxed with having quail out of 

 season, rubbed their eyes in alleged awakening from a 

 slumber of innocent ignorance, but in the end put their 

 hands into their pockets and paid up. 



When Warden Hague shall have thoroughly purged 

 Pittsburgh, he might find a wider field for further efforts 

 in the fashionable circles of Philadelphia. 



BITS OF TALK. 



THE HYDROPATHIC TREATMENT OF GUN-SHYNESS. 



" W ONI)ERFUL > wonderful! " sai<3 the Lieutenant from 

 ' ' the Minnesota. "And just a length ahead of any 

 fish story I happen to have about me at the present time. 

 I've heard of big fishes jumping over boats, of course, 

 and I have a yarn of that sort that I tell; but I never yet 

 found myself in a company where I thought I could 

 make the monster of the deep go through the sail like a 

 circus rider through a hoop. But how is it that you 

 never wrote anything about it to Forest and Stream? - ' 



"Well, until we had secured the land we wanted, we 

 did not care to attract any more attention to that country 

 than we had to," replied the Artist, "your fisherman of 

 these days sometimes proves to be a keen-nosed land 

 speculator, up to choice building sites, game preserves, a 

 lodge in the wilderness — for speculative purposes only — 

 and all that sort of thing. So we kept mum." 



"Oh, I see. Judging by the size of that fish yarn, you 

 must have secured what land you wanted; and now you 

 are throwing out your bait. Fish stories for revenue 

 only. What did you say the name of the station was? 

 Would you consent to sell me a portion of the water front, 

 just enough for a fishing stand, at a long price?" 



"It's a sadly mercenary world," reflected the Major, 

 sententiously. "The time was when there was nothing 

 more in a Camp-Fire Flickering than a good joke; but 

 nowadays, when a man sets out to tell you how much 

 game he killed or how many fish he caught, just as 

 likely as not he winds up by trying to stick you for an 

 investment in backwoods real estate." 



"Well, he could not sell me any land," said the Lieu- 

 tenant, "I have an invitation from a brother in Texas to 

 visit his ranch, where the game is well worth the trip. 

 The ranch is—" 



"For sale, of course," put in the Major. 



"No, I was going to give you the location. I am neither 

 a land speculator nor a dog-in-the-manger. When I 

 know of a good thing I am perfectly free to give it 

 to somebody else. Now, last year I was at Beaufort, 

 South Carolina, and a delightful time I had; perfect 

 weather and fourteen days' shooting out of the twenty- 

 five days there. While I didn't make as large bags as I 

 have in former years, I had great fun. My total was 256 

 quail, ranging from thirty -four, highest daily score, to 

 seven, the smallest." 



"Any ducking there?'" inquired the Artist. 



"Yes, but I don't go much on ducking. It's all very 

 well for fellows who think it fun to undergo the hard- 

 ship of -duck hunting,' but I get enough hardship aboard 

 ship. When I am ashore and go shooting, I go for fun." 



"Beaufort, that was where you broke the gun-shy set- 

 ter by hydropathy, was it not? By the way, I never 

 heard the particulars of that." 



"I had a very handsome English setter, which had 

 been brought from Louisville, Ky., to South Carolina, 

 for breaking and the season's work. He had never been 

 in the field, and was but indifferently yard-broken. He 

 was very soon taken out by his admirers, and certainly 

 showed promising qualities, until the first crack of the 

 gun; then he showed that his strongest hold was as a 

 runner. He ran a mile and a half to the landing; and 

 had to stop there, thanks to the limits of the island, or 

 he might be running still. After my friends found out 

 that Shot was gun-shy, they eyed him with contempt 

 and jeered me unmercifully. 



" About this time the tides were serving right for shoot- 

 ing marsh hens. It was suggested that the dog be taken 

 out in the boat on the marshes, and the gunners to shoot 

 away and simply ignore him. This was done with strict 

 injunctions to the paddler not to touch the dog unless 

 ordered to do so. 



"A bird flew up, the gun went off, and out went Shot, 

 overboard into the brine. We paid no attention to him, 

 but popped away. At every report he would give a 

 frantic lunge, as if a shark had him; but we just let him 

 swim and plunge and have a good time out there, while 

 we went on shooting. It was a mile to solid ground, he 

 could not get there, and after several approaches and 

 retreats at the sound of the artillery, he finally came 

 back to the boat, pretty well tuckered out, and we pulled 

 him in. He had not any more than shaken a bucket or two 

 of water over us, when bang went the gun again, and Shot 

 was once more floundering about in the water. This opera- 

 tion was repeated several times; but each succeeding swim 

 was shorter, and the dog came more quickly and gladly 



to the boat. We voted the method a sure success, and 

 tried some more of it the next day. He went overboard 

 only once and quickly returned; and then seemed to have 

 made a grim determination to stick to the boat, gun or 

 no gun. Soon after that he was taken into the field and 

 worked to the close of the season, a little timid, perhaps, 

 but certainly cured of his nonsense. Cold water did it; 

 no more trouble with gun-shyness, if only you can get 

 the victim to tidewater." 



"It's worth while taking pains even with a gun-shy 

 dog," said the Major, "for if you do cure him, the re- 

 wards in after years are worth the trouble." 



"They may be sometimes," reflected the Lieutenant, 

 "but as for Shot, poor fellow, he died the next spring 

 from a rattlesnake bite." 



"Hydropathy is well enough in its way," concluded 

 the Artist, "but cold water won't cure snake bite." 



A BLACK ARMY. 



HP HE project of making a great public park in the 

 Adirondacks has again come to the front. By the 

 present law,- lands which are forfeited to the State for 

 taxes are held as public possessions in perpetuity; and in 

 this way the State has acquired title to numerous tracts, 

 varying in dimensions and values, and for the most part 

 separated by private lands lying between them. If these 

 intervening private lands could be secured and a large 

 territory of State lands thus be merged into a continuous 

 tract, New York would possess a great woodland park 

 whose present and future value as a forest preserve for her 

 river water supply and as a sanitarium for her people 

 would be beyond computation. 



In a message sent to the Legislature last Monday Gov. 

 Hill recommends that steps be taken to assign limits 

 within which lands now owned by the State shall be re- 

 tained, and outside of which State lands shall be disposed 

 of. His scheme contemplates the sale of public lands 

 outside of the proposed State park limits, or the exchang- 

 ing of them for private lands. Gov. Hill's plan is that a 

 special commission shall be created "to investigate the 

 whole subject, and recommend to the Legislature a plan 

 for the creation of a State park in the Adirondacks, and 

 fix and define the limits thereof, and for the leasing of 

 small parcels thereof for summer camps, cottages and 

 buildings, and for acquiring all forest lands within its 

 limits.'" 



It is clear that if the private lands could be secured for 

 a fair compensation, if the exchange of public for private 

 tracts could be made honestly and with ample protection 

 of the State interest, in short if the transaction could be 

 conducted by shrewd, public-spirited commissioners 

 with an eye single to the public good, the scheme is one 

 deserving of cordial support and immediate adoption. 



But it is well enough known that the chances are tremen- 

 dously against the scheme ever being carried out in that 

 way; the probability, so strong as to be reckoned almost 

 an absolute certainty, is that the people's interests would 

 not be protected, but that the whole project would be 

 turned to the private benefit of the lumbermen. This 

 is the most natural conclusion in the world to adopt, and 

 the newspaper correspondents at Albany are already be- 

 ginning to explain with respect to Gov. Hill's proposal, 

 that there is a "nigger in the woodpile." There is in 

 fact in this Adirondack forestry scheme abundant room 

 for forty thousand Africans— a black army, one con- 

 cealed behind every tree. 



WORK OF THE FISH COMMISSIONS. 



tTNDER this title will be found in our columns the 

 J most satisfactory statement of results accomplished 

 and hoped for in Fish Commission bureaus that has yet 

 been presented. Everywhere can be observed evidences, 

 of activity and wise methods of work. The angler will 

 see that his interests have been well looked after and that 

 the future for his outing is bright. Steadily and surely a 

 healthy public sentiment in faver of a rational use of the 

 inhabitants of stream and lake, coupled with efficient 

 protection when circumstances demand it, is being re- 

 flected in the speech and action of the people. To this 

 we owe our societies for the protection and increase of 

 fishes and our State legislation for the same objects. We 

 wish to express our thanks to the contributors who have 

 furnished these valuable notes, and will be obliged for 

 information as to corrections that may be necessary on 

 account of changes since the end of 1889. 



