Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, MAY IB, 1890. 



f VOL. XXXIV.-No. ir. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Landowner's View. 



Mr. Carey's Responsibility. 



A Question of Ethics. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Immutable. 



"A Light in the Window." 

 New Hampshire Woods and 



Waters. 

 Angostura— i. 

 '"Nessmuk." 

 Natural History. 

 Blanchard on Nomenclature. 

 Hare Coursing. 



California's First Fish Com- 

 missioner. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Memory of Jersey. 



Jacksnipe in Nebraska. 



Bay Snipe Shooting. 



Chicago and the West. 



New York Gamo Legislation. 



Massachusetts Game Law. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling in Oanada. 



Moon's Effect on Anerling. 



Salmon as Bait for Codfish. 



Notes from Cape Cod. 



Trout at Sylvan Lake. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Maine Trout Season. 

 Random Casts. 

 Angling Notes. 

 Chicago and the West. 



FlSHCULTURE. 



New York Fish Commission. 

 The Kennel. 



English Field Trials. 



English Setter Club. 



National Beaerle Club. 



Shooting Dogs. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Riele and Trap Shooting, 



Range and Gallery. 



The Trap. 



Minneapolis Tournament. 



The Pittsburgh Shoot. 



Brooklyn Events. 



E. W. Yerrington. 

 Canoeing. 



A.C.A. Eastern Division Meet. 



War Canoes on the Delaware. 



Passaic River Meet. 

 Yachting. 



The New Yachts of 1890. 



Boilers for Small Launches. 



International Racing. 



Launch of the Iverna. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



THE LANDOWNER'S VIEW. 

 r pHE question of the moral right of sportsmen's associa- 

 tions to buy up or lease large tracks of lands for their 

 own exclusive use is one that is -more and more forcing 

 itself on the attention of the public. "We have had in 

 these columns a good deal of correspondence on this sub- 

 ject within the last few years, and almost all of it on one 

 side of the question. It has been and still is rather the 

 fashion to talk of these large associations as monopolists 

 and oppressors of the poor, and to speak of them and 

 their action in securing and preserving large tracts of 

 land as little less than criminal. There are few questions 

 to which there are not two sides, and it is quite clear that 

 this one is no exception to the general rule. 



It may be taken for granted that the game of any 

 State belongs to the people of that State at large, 

 and not to a few individuals nor to any restricted class 

 of this people, but it is also well established that this 

 common ownership is limited in one important particular. 

 "While the game may belong to whomever can take it, the 

 person who has the first right to attempt its capture is 

 the man on whose land the game is. Further than that, 

 the statutes provide a legal remedy for this landowner 

 against any one who may venture on his property for the 

 purpose of taking game or for any other purpose. 



Of course, it seems very hard, in sections where the 

 shooting and fishing have always been free, that those 

 of us who have been accustomed to wander over the 

 country without let or hindrance should now be pre- 

 vented from going where we please; but there is another 

 view to be taken of this matter. There seems to be no 

 good reason why the acres owned by the farmer should 

 not return him all the income he can get out of them, pro- 

 vided he does not use the land for any purpose which is 

 in conflict with the laws of the State. He may dig pota- 

 toes from his field, may cut timber from his woodland, 

 quarry building stoneg from hfs rock ledges, may eatch 



and sell fish which swim in his brooks and ponds, and 

 may capture the birds which feed in his stubble fields. 

 If he lias a right to do all these things, he also has the 

 undoubted privilege to lease this right to any one else. 

 If by leasing the shooting on his land he can add to his 

 income $20 or $25 a year and a like amount by leasing 

 the fishing, why should he not be at liberty to do so? 



"When a joint stock company leases an immense tract 

 of land for the purpose of growing wheat upon it, as is 

 done in Minnesota or Dakota, no one hears the cry of 

 monopoly raised against the stockholders. That is re- 

 garded as something perfectly legitimate, a mere business 

 enterprise. They purchase or lease the land with the 

 expectation of making money, But when a joint stock 

 company or an association leases 100,000 acres in Virginia 

 or North Carolina for the purpose of preserving the game 

 and fish which are found upon it, people cry out that the 

 public is being robbed of its rights. 



One thing seems very clear, that if we are to have 

 game and fish in this country much longer, it is neces- 

 sary that game and fish must be preserved. The universal 

 experience is, that this protection will not be undertaken 

 unless it is looked after by a few people who are directly 

 interested in it and deeply interested, because they expect 

 in the sport which they are likely to have on this pro- 

 tected territory, a direct reward for their]efforts. Such 

 people incidentally benefit the country which surrounds 

 their preserve by protecting the game, and the overflow 

 from the preserve stocks the adjacent country. 



It is popular just at present to talk against this system 

 of preserves, but it is just as well for people to remember 

 that there are two sides to the question. 



A QUESTION OF ETHICS. 



AT the meeting of the American Fisheries Society, in 

 Philadelphia, a year ago, it was proposed to hold 

 the next meeting of the society at Put-in-Bay, Ohio. 

 There was a difference of opinion among the members 

 present as to where it should be held, some of them 

 preferring "Washington to any other place. After a 

 spirited debate, during which Mr. Osborn, President of 

 the Ohio Fish Commission, assured the Society, that if 

 the next meeting was held at Put-in-Bay, the members 

 should have the finest bass fishing in America, the vote 

 was taken and it was decided, by a majority of one, to 

 meet in 1890 at Put-in-Bay, Ohio. 



An interesting question presents itself in this connec- 

 tion. In the debate above referred to, a member asked 

 whether they took black bass in Ohio during the month 

 of May, and the reply was made that there was no law 

 against it. 



The black bass are spawning in this month, and in 

 many States they are protected by law, as they ought to 

 be everywhere. Members of the American Fisheries 

 Society may be supposed to be acquainted with the habits 

 of the bass, and to know whether it is or is not wise and 

 proper to take them at this season, whether the law- 

 makers of the State have seen fit to protect them or not. 

 The example of such a bcdy of men as the American 

 Fisheries Society ought to have weight with anglers gen- 

 erally, and a good many people will be interested in their 

 action in this matter. 



Without ourselves expressing any opinion on the point 

 we submit it to our readers as a question of ethics : Should 

 a self-respecting angler take a game fish from the spawn- 

 ing beds, providing such taking is not in violation of any 

 statute? 



MR. CAREY'S RESPONSIBILITY. 



THERE is a bit of history with regard to the report 

 of the Public Lands Committee which has yet to go 

 on record. It has to do with the position taken on this 

 bill by Mr. Carey, the delegate from Wyoming Territory. 



The people of that Territory are very anxious that the 

 National Park bill should pass. The Park lies almost 

 wholly within Wyoming and the bill gives Wyoming- 

 courts jurisdiction over the reservation. A very few 

 citizens of Wyoming are financially interested in the 

 railroad project and want it to pass; many thousands are 

 interested in agriculture, see the danger which threatens 

 their water supply if a railroad should enter the Park, 

 and so are bitterly opposed to the Public Lands Commit- 

 tee amendment. There is thus a strong feeling among 

 Mr. Carey's constituents that he ought to use every means 

 in his pcw?F t-9 pass the bill without a railroad amend; 

 rnent, 



"We have already stated that in committee it was de- 

 cided by a majority of one, to add to the bill the amend- 

 ment granting a right of way to the Montana Mineral 

 Railway, the minority desiring to report the bill just as 

 it came from the Senate. And we have it on the author- 

 ity of a member of the committee that Mr. Carey voted 

 for the amendment, in other words, for the railroad. 



By his vote in the Public Lands Committee, Mr. Carey 

 has arrayed against the bill all those friends of the Park 

 who are opposed to the railroad, and unless the House 

 cuts ©ut the amendment recommended by the Public 

 Lands Committee these people will do all they can to kill 

 the bill. Moreover, his vote in the committee will oblige 

 Mr. Carey to speak on the floor of the House in favor of 

 the amendment. He will thus have to take openly a 

 position which is directly opposed to the wishes of the 

 people of Wyoming, and it cannot be dotibted that his 

 taking such a ground, without being able to give any 

 reason for it which will appeal to the common sense of 

 people generally, will greatly injure him in Wyoming 

 Territory. 



Now Mr. Carey, besides being Delegate from Wyoming 

 Territory, hopes to be elected Senator when that Territory 

 is admitted to Statehood. He is a candidate for a seat in 

 the upper house of Congress, and was thought to have fair 

 prospects of being elected, but it is quite possible that 

 when the people of his Territory find that he has allied him- 

 self with a railway corporation and has thus endangered 

 the passage of the Park bill, his popularity may not be 

 so great among the people of Wyoming as itjias been. 

 It is quite possible that his vote in this matter may se- 

 riously jeopardize his Senatorial prospects. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



\\T E present as an object lesson the complete record of 

 ' ' the game legislation at Albany this year. The 

 list shows that fifty-five bills were introduced, of which 

 forty-six were not passed, six became laws, and three 

 were passed but remained in the Governor's hands at the 

 close of the session. This is the last time such an exhibit 

 should be made. The newly appointed commission on 

 game law codification, it is hoped, will put the statutes 

 into such shape that future legislation in this field will be 

 simplified. The commission is empowered to "revise and 

 codify the laws" and "report such codification to the Leg- 

 islature" by Jan. 15, 1891. The members of the commis- 

 sion are E. G-. Whitaker, from the Attorney-General's 

 office; Gen. R. U. Sherman, from the Fish Commission; 

 Hon. Robt. B. Roosevelt, from the New York Association 

 for the Protection of Game. The act, with characteristic 

 Albany shiftlessness, calls it the "New York Society for 

 the Protection of Game." 



From a member of the U. S. Fish Commission who 

 has just visited the Delaware we learn that the 

 shad fishermen are destroying the "mamoose" in large 

 numbers on that river. They are caught in the gill-nets 

 and killed merely out of spite. When told that the fish 

 so destroyed are the young of the commercial sturgeon, 

 one of the most valuable species in the river, they de- 

 clared them to be a distinct kind of sturgeon without 

 value and simply a nuisance. This is all wrong, and the 

 State authorities should stop it at once, for the "mamoose" 

 is really the young of the species which adds so much to 

 the revenues of the Delaware River fisherman. 



We are told that the Michigan game warden system is 

 working well. Arrests are being made in all parts of the 

 State, and everything is done to prevent violations of the 

 law. Since January, 1889, the total amount of fines and 

 costs are about $1,989.00, and about 200 arrests have been 

 made. Success is reported in preventing the shipment of 

 game from the State thus far. 



The ice on the lakes of the Province of Quebec still 

 holds, and there is yet a great deal of snow in the woods. 

 It is probable that anglers will not get at the trout there 

 before June i. A correspondent writes: "Our season is 

 short, but what there is of it is awfully good." 



Here is a sign of the times. There have been taken at 

 Tuxedo Park 5,600 trout up to Saturday night, May 10; 

 5,000 trout have been sold from the hatchery, and the 

 club has on hand 25,000 two-year-olds, 40,000 yearling:?: 

 and a large number of this year's hatching. 



