Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JANUARY 30, 1890. 



I VOL. XXXIV.-No. 2. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The New Park Bill. 



Hare Coursing and Deer Hunt- 

 ing. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Stanley (poem). 



By the Way. 

 Natural History. 



Out-of-Door Papers. 



Snowy Owls. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Kentucky Fish and Game Club 



Concerning Happiness. 



Buffalo Types. 



In Wisconsin Wilds. 



Ruffles in New Jersey. 



Aiming the Shotgun. 



Chicago and the West. 



Western Large Game. 



Game Notes. 



Canadian Game Interests. 



New York Game Legislation. 

 Camp-Fire Flickwbinqs. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 



The Yellow-Fin Trout. 



Oregon Salmon Angling. 



On the North Shore.— I. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Mysterious Stocking of Ponds. 



A Fish eh will Remember. 

 Fish culture. 



The Howietoun Fishery. 



Providing Natural Food for 

 Fish Fry. 



Care of Young Trout. 

 The Kennel. 



Inter-State Field Trials. 



Setters vs. Pointers. 



Dogs of the Day. 



Another Phase of Coursing. 



A Case of Dog Murder. 



Chicago Dog Show. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Chicago Trap Matters. 



U. S. Cartridge Shoot. 

 Yachting. 



A Trip to Wading River. 



New Yachts. 

 Canoeing. 



1,500 Miles in an Adirondack 

 Boat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



HARE COURSING AND DEER HUNTING. 



A BILL has been introduced at Albany, the purpose of 

 which is to exempt from interference by the Society 

 for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals the coursing 

 of bares, when conducted by regularly incorporated 

 coursing clubs. This measure originates with the East- 

 ern Coursing Club; and it has been criticised as being a 

 virtual acknowledgment by the coursing men, that 

 their practice would naturally fall under the head of 

 cruelty to animals, unless so exempted by special statute. 

 Such, however, is a decidedly erroneous view to take of 

 the bill, as is well understood by those who are cognizant 

 of the circumstances which have led to its preparation. 



"When the Eastern Coursing Club announced its first 

 meeting, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 

 Animals decided that it would make a crusade against 

 coursing. Its officers arrested two of the participants; 

 but after trial by jury they were acquitted of the charge 

 of cruelty. At the next meet the same performance was 

 gone through; arrests were made and trial and acquittal 

 quickly followed. Having entered on this campaign, 

 however, the S. F. P. C. A. , it is understood, proposes to 

 keep up the programme of arresting, even in the face of 

 the certain acquittals; and thus to worry and annoy the 

 coursing men until they shall give up the meets. It is to 

 escape this interference, which may well be termed per- 

 secution, that the members of the club have sought to 

 secure relief by statute. 



In this connection it should be remembered that the 

 S. F. P. C. A. derives its powers from special statutes; 

 and by some of the individuals who are at this time the 

 guiding spirits of the Society, those statutes are regarded 

 as giving it a field whose scope is not fully realized by 

 the public. Thus the president of the Society holds that 

 hunting deer with dogs in the Adirondacks and on Long- 

 Island is cruelty to animals within the law; and that it 

 would be the Society's duty to punish the deer hunters 

 were there not a special statute legalizing this form of 



sport. The Long Island hare coursers are then only ask- 

 ing for a statute which shall afford them the same im- 

 munity which his special statute gives to the Long 

 Island deer hunter. To aver that in doing this the cours- 

 ing men acknowledge the cruelty of coursing is no more 

 logical than it would be to contend that because of their 

 deer hunting law the deer hunters concede the cruelty of 

 their, sport. It is a logical conclusion that if the Legis- 

 lature of New York is to be guided by the notions said 

 to be entertained by the S. F. P. C. A. respecting the 

 pursuit of wild game, and shall refuse to enact the law 

 asked for by the coursing men, it should for consistency's 

 sake take from the deer hunter his permission to kill 

 deer. It must not be forgotten that those who are 

 opposed to hare coursing are also opposed to certain 

 other practices which have always been regarded and 

 are to-day upheld as legitimate, manly, healthful sports. 

 Their views have not been held by former Legistatures, 

 as our game laws prove; we do not believe that there is 

 any large proportion of the present Legislature holding 

 to the opinion that they should be guided by a sentiment 

 which classes hare coursing and deer hunting together 

 in the category of cruelty to animals. 



THE NEW PARK BILL. 



SENATOR VEST'S bill for the protection of the Park, 

 introduced in the Senate Dec. 4, and referred to the 

 Committee on Territories, has been favorably reported 

 by Mr. Manderson. The bill, which is known as S. 491, 

 differs somewhat from that which passed the Senate at 

 the last session of Congress. It is provided in the first 

 section that the northern boundary of the Park shall fol- 

 low the northern boundary of the Territory of Wyoming, 

 from the northwestern corner of that Territory as far east 

 as its intersection with the meridian of 110° west longi- 

 tude, thence it follows that meridian south to the parallel 

 of 44° 50', thence due east along this parallel to the meri- 

 dian of 109° 30' west longitude, thence south to the 44th 

 parallel, thence west along this parallel to its point of in- 

 tersection with the western boundary of Wyoming, and 

 thence north to the point of beginning. This section pro- 

 vides for an accurate survey of the boundaries so estab- 

 lished. 



Sections 2 and 3 set aside the Park as established as 

 under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United 

 States, provide tkat the laws of Wyoming shall be en- 

 forced in it, and that, until otherwise provided, the Park 

 for the purposes of this act shall constitute a part of the 

 third judicial district of that Territory; the land in the 

 Park is specially withdrawn from settlement, occupancy 

 or sale, and the territory so set apart is placed under the 

 control of the Secretary of the Interior. 



In Section 4 the Secretary is authorized to make regu- 

 lations for the protection of the Park, to call on the Sec- 

 retary of War for troops to enforce such regulations, and 

 to employ five civilians as scouts and policemen. All 

 sums received from rents, or from fines or forfeitures, 

 shall constitute a separate fund to be applied to the care 

 and preservation of the Park in its natural condition. 



Section 5 prohibits hunting, killing, wounding or cap- 

 turing wild animals or birds, except dangerous animals; 

 prohibits the taking of fish except by hook and line; pro- 

 vides that offenders against this prohibition shall be fined 

 for each offense not less than $50 nor more than $200. 

 Possession of the dead bodies of game unlawfully taken 

 is to be prima facie evidence that persons having the same 

 are gsalty of violating the act: persons transporting such 

 game or fish are to be fined $250. 



Section 6 permits the leasing of small plots of ground, 

 and provides that structures erected on such leased land 

 must be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. In 

 Section 7 the President is authorized to appoint a com- 

 missioner, to reside in the Park, who shall hear and act 

 upon all complaints made of violations of the law or of 

 the regulations. The commissioner's powers are defined. 



Section 8 provides for the payment of court expenses 

 and makes the violation of any regulation established by 

 the Secretary of the Interior a misdemeanor, to be pun- 

 ished by a fine of not more than $100 or by imprisonment 

 for three months or both. 



Section 9 provides for the erection of a jail in the Park. 



Section 10 requires the Secretary of War to detail an 

 officer of the Engineer Corps to reside in the Park at 

 least three months in each year and specifies his duties. 



It will be observed that the present bill cuts off the 

 narrow strips of the Park territory lying in Montana and 



Idaho, and makes the northern and western boundary 

 coincide with the boundary line of Wyoming. The bill 

 extends the southern boundary of the Park to the forty- 

 fourth parallel, or about nine and one-half miles south- 

 ward; the extension eastward is about twenty-five miles, 

 so that the added area is, all told, about 2,000 square 

 miles. This added territory consists wholly of very high 

 rough mountain country, which is absolutely valueless 

 for agricultural purposes and is destitute of mineral 

 wealth. Its sole value is that of a water preserve. 



It is unnecessary to go over again the reasons which 

 make the passage of this bill most desirable. They have 

 again and again been printed in Forest and Stream. 

 Without the enactment of some bill such as this, the 

 forests, the game and the natural wonders of the Park 

 are likely to be destroyed, and close upon the heels of 

 any destruction of the forests will follow the drying up 

 of streams which now supply water to a great area of 

 territory on the plains east and west of the mountains. 

 At its lowest stage, the Yellowstone River below the 

 lake flows 34,000,000 imperial gallons of water per hour, 

 and it is estimated that the amount of water flowing out 

 of the National Park through its five main drainage 

 channels would make a river 5ft. deep and 190ft. wide 

 with a current of 3 miles per hour. This water for 

 several months in the year is used by the farmers on the 

 plains to irrigate their fields. They cannot do without it. 

 If it ceases to flow they will be ruined. 



Besides the question of water-supply, game protection 

 and the preservation of natural wonders, that of the 

 personal safety of visitors to the Park demands consider- 

 ation. Instances where visitors have been robbed in the 

 Park have not been very infrequent, and there is now no 

 law to punish the perpetrators of such offenses. The 

 present bill provides the appointment of a local magis- 

 trate, who shall have power to try minor offenders and 

 to arrest and hold those committing indictable crimes. 



On the whole it may be said that the bill now before 

 the Senate is one which ought to become a law, and 

 should reach the House as soon as possible. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



MR. C. J. JONES, of Kansas, perhaps better known as 

 "Buffalo Jones," was in this city last week on his 

 way to Washington, D. C. Mr. Jones had with him 

 some capital photographs of buffalo. What was much 

 more remarkable than the buffalo photographs was a lot 

 of buffalo meat, taken from a buffalo steer, which Mr,; 

 Jones killed shortly before he left Kansas. This meat 

 was fat, juicy, tender and delicious, and those who had 

 an opportunity to taste it will not soon forget its delicacy 

 and its rare flavor. It is many a long year since we have 

 tasted fat buffalo meat, and the dinner that we ate with 

 Mr. Jones seemed to carry us back into the past more 

 years than we like to count. The eating of buffalo meat 

 at the present day, and in New York city, is such a re- 

 markable event that it deserves to be chronicled. 



The Maine courts have decided that a person who cap- 

 tures alive game in the close season acquires thereby no 

 title to the game ; and in the specific case under discus- 

 sion it was held that a game warden could not be held 

 liable for having released a live moose captured in close 

 time. It was also held that the warden was liable for 

 having set at liberty a live deer which the owner of it 

 had captured in the open season, and to which good title 

 had thereby been acquired. The text of the decision 

 will be given in full in our next issue. Tbe case will 

 serve as a precedent; and the Commissioners will prob- 

 ably see their way to stopping the practice of capturing 

 alive large game in the deep snows of spring and holding 

 it for sale. This was a test case, several parties having 

 combined to put it through the courts; and the decision 

 was given by the full bench of judges. 



Judge Sidney T. Holmes, who died at Bay City, Mich., 

 Jan. 16, was a fine example of the hard-working pro- 

 fessional man, who seeks and finds recuperation in the 

 sports of hunting and fishing. Occupying a foremost 

 rank at the bar, charged with many important responsi- 

 bilities, Judge Holmes found time, or made it, to engage 

 in these out-door recreations, of which he was fond. 

 He took an active part in the Michigan Sportsmen's As- 

 sociation, and was always alert in schemes to promote 

 the highest interests of legitimate sport. 



