Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 3, 1890. 



I VOL. XXXIV.-No. 11. 



! No. 318 Bboabwat, New York. 



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CONTENTS, 



Editorial. 



Wyoming Hide Hunting. 



The Yellowstone Park Bill. 



The Trout Spearing. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Voices and Tints of Nature. 



Attractive to Photographers. 

 Natural History. 



A Winter Trip to Montauk. 



Beavers for Preserves. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



The Olympic Range. 



Caribou Hunting. 



Ducking Trip in Minnesota. 



The Supervisor's Deer. 



From a Lumber Camp. 



Shall the Boy Have a Gun? 



The Park Bill Hearing. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Surf Fishing for Striped Bass. 



The Salmon of Alaska. 



Fish Protection in Kentucky. 



Texas Fishing. 



Blackford's Opening Day. 



Angling Notes. 



Random Casts. 



Fishcultuke. 



New Shad-Hatching Station. 

 The Kennel. 



Boston Dog Show. 



The Egotism of Fanciers. 



A Coyote Hunt. 



Kennel Club for St. Louis. 



Dogs of the Day. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



U. S. Cartridge Co.'s Tour. 



Rocky Mountain Tournament. 



Detroit Tournament. 

 Canoeing. 



1,500 Miles in an Adirondack 

 Boat.— an, 

 Yachting. 



A Cruise for Health. 



Making the Harbor Light. 



Size of Cup Challengers. 



International Racing. 



Who Win Defend the Cup ? 



Yachting Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE TROUT OPENING. 



THE ice king is losing his grasp on elevated lake and 

 mountain dell in his restricted dominion. "On low 

 seas over night the spring comes gently walking." 



Mossy banks are fragrant with the pink petals of the 

 trailing arbutus, and the blue hepatica is smiling on 

 sunny hillsides. The purple grackle is pouring out liquid 

 notes from the tops of the maples. Eobins are hopping 

 in squads over the grassy levels whereon the untimely 

 worm is dragging his slow length along, or are trying their 

 unpracticed notes from budding branches. The glossy 

 bluebird is twittering to his mate, and the cheery note of 

 the song sparrow salutes the early morning hour. There 

 are sounds in the air like the humming of bees and the 

 busy calls of nest builders. Something is going to hap- 

 pen, indeed is now in progress. 



This activity and bustle on meadow and hillside corres- 

 pond with a movement from the mysterious depths of 

 lake and ocean into the clear shallows and sheltered 

 pools of sunlit streams — a movement now swift but noise- 

 less, now slow and sly. There are men who cannot see 

 this "liviDg arrow of the mountain stream," as there are 

 people who cannot find trailing arbutus or the nest of 

 whip-poor-will; but the disciple of the gentle art is 

 abroad to-day, and he is rejoicing in the recognition of 

 his fleet favorite. 



For him the vermillion spots of Fontinalis glow on their 

 background of burnished silver and sparkle from dark 

 mottled sides. And what would our dappled warrior be 

 without his spots, his stripes of velvety black and milky 

 white, and his blushes of rosy orange ? We have seen 

 him coming from briny bays, leaving the rout of minnow 

 and silverside to seek the estuaries and upper waters of 

 swollen streams, possessing the form of Fontinalis but 

 lacking his rich livery, while we mourned his rusticity 

 and lack of spirit. In this plight he is beguiled to his 

 death by a damp, cold, wrinkled, squirming thing known 

 by the prosaic name of worm— a wriggling tube, "of the 

 earth earthy." A little further on his journey the somber 

 mantle is flung aside and the full glory of the crafty 

 warrior shines forth. 



The salt -streams of Cape Cod, the Vineyard and Long 

 Island know him now. The historic Marshpee feeds and 

 shelters him. In a little while he may be sought for in 

 the rapid brooks of Wayne and Pike counties, in Penn- 



sylvania, and later in the North Woods and the lakes of 

 Maine and New Hampshire. Moosehead is preparing to 

 shake off its fetters, and Winnipiseogee feels a thrill of 

 spring. The winter has been open, water abundant and 

 ice has not disturbed the spawning beds and smothered 

 the fish. Continued heavy rains may fill the streams 

 with food so that the most tempting lure of the angler 

 will remain untouched ; but the patient fly-fisherman will 

 have his reward when the flood subsides and the gentle 

 south wind blows from a sky tempered by warm gray 

 clouds. The sea-run trout are playing back and forth 

 with the tide in small streams of Long Island, Connecti- 

 cut and Massachusetts, and the large and brightly-colored 

 flies are bringing them to creel. Already the cowdung 

 and coachman, the professor and the ibis, with a cloud of 

 bright hackles, have lured the sullen trout from their deep 

 pools. Among them, brother of the angle, you may see 

 a mother fish not yet free from the duties of maternity. 

 Surely you will restore her to the gravelly rapids to com- 

 plete the round of her existence. So shall your eye be 

 quick to see the rise, your wrist prompt, but gentle to 

 strike, your alertness and skill in playing the fastened 

 prize superior to his desperate struggles for liberty. 



And now, lawyer, physician, capitalist, professor, 

 artist, merchant, fisher of men, clad in waterproof and 

 defying a possible unlucky turn of the weather, we fol- 

 low you down the rushing brook, while birds' songs thrill 

 you and the modest wind flower nods you greeting, 

 but for a while we cannot go with you except in spirit. 

 For us there is now only the trout in death or in captivity 

 — beautiful to look upon, but shorn of its chief glory. 



WYOMING HIDE HUNTING. 

 TN another column a correspondent calls attention to 

 the slaughter of elk which is now going on in the 

 wildest part of Wyoming, and urges that something be 

 done to stop it by enforcing the law which forbids the 

 shipment of hides out of the Territory. 



This butchery of elk is a matter which appears to be 

 wholly within the power of the railways to control. If 

 they would give stringent orders to all their station 

 agents to refuse to receive any hides, this traffic would 

 inevitably stop, and with the stoppage of the traffic 

 would stop the destruction of the game. We have been 

 assured by officials of the Northern Pacific E. R. that 

 they have for years employed every means in their 

 power to check such shipments over their lines, and so 

 far as we can learn from outside sources, very few hides, 

 if any, are shipped over this road. The Union Pacific 

 E. R. and its subsidiary lines on the other hand con- 

 stantly ship, we are informed, large numbers of hides. 

 Some time ago we communicated with this corporation, 

 calling its attention to the laws of certain of the Terri- 

 tories through which its lines run, and suggesting the 

 desirability of contributing to the enforcement of these 

 laws by means of their station agents. So far we have 

 had no reply from them. 



It would appear to the average man a perfectly plain 

 proposition that it is to the interest of the railway cor- 

 porations running through wild regions, where game is 

 to be found, to do all in their power to preserve that game. 

 The knowledge that there is fish or game, large or small, 

 in any section of the country, is the strongest possible 

 inducement to a large class of people to travel over the 

 railway lines which traverse that country. That the 

 railways understand this as well as any one, is shown by 

 the prominence given in their advertisements to state- 

 ments about the shooting and fishing resorts along their 

 lines. It seems strange, therefore, that the managers of 

 any road should for the sake of the very trifling returns 

 received on a few bales, or a few carloads of hides, be 

 willing to view with equanimity the destruction of an 

 attraction of the country, which, if preserved, would 

 bring over their lines a constantly increasing number of 

 travelers. 



It is easy to see why the inhabitants of Wyoming in 

 many sections disregard the laws and pay no attention to 

 the elk skinners. That is quite in line with the action of 

 the public in many parts of the country. What is 

 everybody's business is attended to by no one, and the 

 busy traders think more of the present profit of a dollar 

 on an elk hide than they do of the 20 or 30 per cent of 

 profit on a large bill of provisions and camp equipage 

 sold next year, and perhaps every year for ten years 

 thereafter, to a camping party. 



The existence of this feeling among the citizens of the 



Territory may be well enough understood, but the man- 

 agers of a great railway corporation ought to see a little 

 further ahead than this. 



THE YELLOWSTONE PARK BILL. 

 ^T^HE hearing had on Monday before the Public Lands 

 Committee of the House gives some indication of 

 what its report may be. 



There seemed to be a feeling in the committee that a 

 way for a railroad to Cooke City should be granted, and 

 the line that has always been urged by the Cooke City 

 miners is along Soda Butte Creek and the Yellowstone 

 River. The friends of the Park — in Congress and out of 

 it — will never consent to allow the granting of a fran- 

 chise to a railroad to run through the Park, and these 

 friends are strong enough to kill any bill which proposes 

 to grant such a franchise. 



As a compromise measure, and rather than to see this 

 bill fail, they are willing if necessary to have the north- 

 east corner of the Park cut off and thrown again into 

 the public domain, so that the proposed railroad may be 

 built wholly without the Park. Such a cut off will de- 

 stroy one of the great game ranges of the Park, but this 

 is perhaps better than to have no bill at all. 



It seems likely that the report will take this shape, but 

 however the Public Lands Committee may act, it is cer- 

 tain that no bill can pass which permits a railway in the 

 Park. Eather than that this should happen, the fight 

 will be kept up for years, with the result of making 

 Cooke City wait a long time for any railway which 

 should ran along the Yellowstone Eiver. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



IT IS understood to be Secretary Windom's purpose to 

 appoint Mr. Henry W. Elliott special agent to visit 

 Behring Sea and the Seal Islands of Alaska to collect all 

 possible information upon the present condition of the 

 Alaskan seal fisheries as a source of revenue, the effect 

 and extent of whatever injury has been inflicted upon 

 them by pelagic sealing, the status of the sea otter in- 

 dustry, and kindred lines of inquiry. No better selection 

 could be made, for no one is better qualified to deal with 

 this matter than Mr. Elliott. He has spent years on the 

 Pribyloff Islands, and is the author of an admirable 

 monograph on the seals and sea lions of the Northwest 

 Coast. 



The beautiful city of Louisville, Ky., is in ruins and in 

 sorrow, a prey to the fury of the elements, whose ternper 

 could not be guessed from the placidness we have all so 

 often enjoyed and described with pleasure. Nature may 

 be calm, and nature may present us spectacles upon 

 which to build figures of speech indicative of rage the 

 most tremendous and most terrifying. The city of 

 Louisville held within its gates many noble and hospit- 

 able sportsmen. We trust the great disaster has not in- 

 volved or robbed us of too many of these friends. 



It was in Louisville that the Kentucky Fish and Game 

 Club, the worthy organization of which we have often 

 had something to say, was projected and pushed to much 

 of its present proportions. While hinting at the question 

 of uniform laws we might add that it has been part 

 of the plan of this organization to secure as much uni- 

 formity as possible in the game laws in the three States 

 of Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri. The strongest 

 protective association of Tennessee has written to the 

 Kentucky Club for advice in the matter of cooperation, 

 and similar steps have been made by the leaders of such 

 work in the State of Missouri. 



W e have correspondence at this office bearing upon the 

 numbers of sportsmen's clubs in some of our larger cities. 

 Our columns have already shown something of the ex- 

 tensive club system of great and busy Chicago. Detroit, 

 not far distant from that point, is the home of many 

 large and vigorous organizations of a similar nature. 

 The city of Pittsburgh, Pa., has a remarkable number of 

 shooting and fishing clubs, much greater than is gener- 

 ally known. San Francisco is another great seat for 

 large and wealthy organizations of sportsmen fond of 

 the field and stream. Indeed, the growth of the club 

 system in our larger cities seems very general. 



Mr. Coggeshall's bill for the revision and codification 

 of the laws relating to the protection and preservation of 

 fish, shellfish, birds and quadrupeds. No, 222, has gone to 

 Governor Hill for approval, 



