Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, MAY 29, 1890. 



( VOL. XXXIV.-No. 19. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Commissioner Can Stand 

 It. 



Old Stories Retold. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman: Tourist. 



Angostura— m. 



Bridal Tour of the Kennedys. 

 Naturae History. 



Canada Grouse in Captivit y 



Water Life. 

 Game Bar and Grra. 



An Elk Hunt in Wyoming. 



W'ldcat Chase on tbe North 

 Fork. 



Aiming tbe Shotgun. 



Stewed Parrot. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Pocono. 



A Cape Fear Fishing Point. 

 Pennsylvania Angling. 

 Tie North Woods. 

 The New Hampshire Season. 

 The Barracuda of California. 

 Caicgo and the West. 

 New England Fishing. 

 Angling Notes. 

 Nessmuk. 



Fishcultdre. 



On the Red Snapper Banks. 



Utility of Trout Culture. 



Proposed Transfer of the Fish 

 Commission. 

 The Kenned. 



American Kennel Club. 



St, Loui-i Coursing Meet. 



Dog Talk. 



Death of Duke of Leeds. 

 Kpnnel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Riede and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Zettler Shoot. 

 The Trap. 



New York State Shoot. 



Peoria Gun Club Tournament. 



Kansas Tournament. 

 Yachting. 



Making the Harbor Light. 



Mosquito F'shermen. 



We Give It Up. 



Seawanhaka Spring Races. 



Change of Buoys. 

 Canoeing. 



Oakland C. C. 



Canoeing Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



A WESTERN NUMBER. 

 The issue of June 12 will be a Western Number. 

 It will be brimful of good things picturing sport 

 with rod and gun in the Great West. 



OLD STORIES RETOLD. 



THERE is a well recognized tendency among tellers of 

 old stories, to rehabilitate their tales and give them 

 an air of truthfulness, by assigning them to some famil- 

 iar locality or fastening them upon some individual 

 known to possess the traits of character they illustrate. 

 Thus, many of the old stories about dogs and dog owners 

 are periodically revamped and retold with circumstan- 

 tiality of name and place and date, like the story told in 

 England of a guardsman who evaded the dog-muzzling 

 law by fastening the muzzle on to the dog (but on its 

 tail), the same thing being related in this country of Ben 

 Butler. There is that venerable legend, related in all the 

 ancient English works on sporting, of the faithful pointer 

 or setter, as the case happened to be, which pointed its 

 game, and the sportsman not coming, remained stead- 

 fastly on point, to be discovered long aftprward a skele- 

 ton, still faithfully pointing the bones of the covey of 

 birds. This very yarn, as familiar as iEsop's fables, has 

 within the last year been told in the Providence, R. I. , 

 Journal, of a pointer dog "Leo," owned by a well-known 

 sportsman of Providence, and by the Atlanta, Ga., Con- 

 stitution, of a white pointer, owned by the father of 

 Capt. W. W. Lawson, a famous hunter of Burke county, 

 Ga. 



We received the other day a copy of the Des Moines 

 News, in which Judge Kavanagh, of that city, who is 

 well known to be a dog fancier, is credited with having 

 one day returned home with a covered basket on his arm; 

 to be met at the door by his mother, who was told : 

 «. ( 'Mother, I have just made $25 the easiest you ever saw,' 



Of course the good lady wanted to know how and he said 

 'I have just bought a $85 dog for $10, and here he is,' 

 pulling from the basket a bull puppy to the disgust of his 

 mother, who detests all kinds of dogs." This will be 

 recognized as an old story which has been current for 

 years and years, and has probably been told of every 

 prominent dog lover in every county in the Union. Judge 

 Kavanagh belongs to a vast army of men who have made 

 equally advantageous dog trades. 



Very many of the "good stories" of hunting and fish- 

 ing are told over and over again, each locality having its 

 particular "sporting character" of whom or by whom 

 the tale is related. An amusing illustration of this 

 recently came to notice. It was the story of the man 

 who, while hoeing corn or cradling wheat, saw the big 

 buck in the field, chased it and captured it floundering in 

 a snow drift. There came to the Forest and Stream 

 not long ago a version of this story, sent us by a Kins- 

 man, Ohio, contributor; the hero being "Uncle Charlie 

 Kellogg," who was said to have captured the buck in a 

 hay field in July, in the eastern part of Ohio. A day or 

 two after the receipt of this communication came an- 

 other from an Ithaca, N. Y., correspondent, written on 

 the same day, and relating the same story of a certain 

 "Uncle Dick E.," a Forty-Niner of that town. Subse- 

 quent correspondence developed the fact that each of 

 these men had told and retold this tale, each one making 

 himself its hero. If the census takers should note all the 

 old sportsmen in this country who have captured big 

 bucks in July snow drifts, the regiment of them would 

 perhaps outnumber the surviving veterans of the Mexi- 

 can War. 



THE COMMISSIONER CAN STAND IT. 

 r r , HE New York Press has recently made a rabid po- 

 J- litical attack on U. S. Fish Commissioner McDon- 

 ald, which will excite for him the sympathy of all who 

 have kept track of the Fish Commission's work in recent 

 years. Much of what is said by the Press is true, but is 

 so put that it has all the effect of falsehood. The Com- 

 missioner is bitterly attacked because under his rule ex- 

 penses are much larger than they were in the past under 

 Professor Baird, but nothing is said of the fact that the 

 work done at present is vastly greater than formerly. It 

 is stated that the Commissioner has doubled his force, 

 but it is not stated that more men are constantly needed 

 to run a Commission of which more and more service is 

 demanded by the people. 



Besides statements which are true, the Press makes 

 many that are false, and the whole article bears every 

 evidence of having been concocted in the interest of the 

 bill before the Senate to turn over the Fish Commission 

 to the Agricultural Department, and to make it a bureau 

 of political rewards for hangers on of Congressmen and 

 Senators. 



The people of the country are perfectly capable of 

 judging whether this most efficient Commission ought to 

 be used for political purposes. If they do not wish it to 

 be so used, let them speak out all over the country as 

 they have already done on the Massachusetts coast and 

 along the Great Lakes. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



TO the tarpon record given in our issue of last week 

 may now be added the further score of Mr. Thomas 

 J. Falls, of this city, who between May 8, the last date 

 given, and May 15, took sixteen more fish. His total 

 score for the season was sixty-eight fish, weighing 6, 9751bs. 

 The first twenty fish were caught successively, none being 

 lost; and the entire catch was made with rod and reel and 

 without assistance except in gaffing. This marks the 

 change in tarpon fishing within a comparatively brief 

 period. It was only a few years ago that "Al Fresco" 

 and others were expressing doubt about the probability 

 of capturing these fish with rod and reel, and were offer- 

 ing to pay the traveling expenses of any one who would 

 accomplish the feat. From that primitive stage tarpon 

 fishing has now developed into a competition for big 

 scores, individual fishermen taking as many as three, 

 four and five fish in a day. Tarpon fishing is no longer 

 a novelty; but it is a form of angling which is most de- 

 cidedly growing in popularity. 



At a meeting of the Appalachian Club in Boston last 

 Saturday a movement was discussed looking to the pur- 

 chase, for public possession, of parts of the picturesque 

 New England coast, Mr, J. B, Harrispn pointed out that 



very soon there would be a continuous town all along the 

 New England coast, where all the cliffs and beaches hav- 

 ing been taken up for cottages and hotels, the public is 

 even now practically shut out. It must be conceded that 

 there is good reason for this view ; no one understands 

 that more clearly than the man with the gun, who has 

 been wont in years past to range these beaches unimpeded, 

 but now finds his passage barred by trespass notices. 

 The same holds true of much of the Atlantic coast. 

 Hardly a week goes by without press announcements 

 of enterprises undertaken by capitalists and syndicates 

 to "improve" shore properties, and convert present wastes 

 into summer or winter resorts. Between the hotel re- 

 sorts, private cottagers and shooting club preserves, the 

 area of free country is annually diminishing, and the 

 available coast shooting grounds are becoming beauti- 

 fully less. Meanwhile there is no flagging of interest in 

 shore-bird gunning and wildfowl shooting; and judging 

 from the growth of clubs to take up game grounds, and 

 the eagerness with which membership in these clubs is 

 sought, it is evidently believed to be a case where every 

 man should acton the principle of "save himself who can." 

 A Norfolk correspondent wrote the other day of a club on 

 the Virginia coast, where the members enjoyed unusual 

 sport with the bay snipe. His paper was published in 

 our issue of May 15; on May 17 he had received, from 

 readers of the article, fifty-four letters about it, most of 

 them from persons who wished to join the club. This 

 country of ours is so large, that at first thought it appears 

 ridiculous to talk about there being little available free 

 shooting territory left, but on the other hand, when the 

 situation is examined, the free grounds are found to have 

 diminished to an alarming degree. 



William N. Steele, of Clayton, N. Y., was for several 

 years a State game protector, whose special district was 

 the St. Lawrence River and adjoining Lake Ontario 

 waters. His services as game protector were far from 

 satisfactory to the officers of the Anglers' Association of 

 the St. Lawrence River, under whose direction he largely 

 woi-ked, and he was discharged. Recently Steele was 

 arrested for illegally using nets in Eel Bay, and after a 

 trial lasting nearly a week was convicted and sentenced 

 to pay a fine of $25 and to be incarcerated in the county 

 jail for fifty days. In case the fine of $25 is not paid, he 

 is to serve twenty-five days longer. The secretary of the 

 Anglers' Association, Mr. W. H. Thompson, of Alexandria 

 Bay, N. Y., has shown very great and commendable zeal 

 during the past winter in seizing nets illegally set in the 

 St. Lawrence River, and particularly in the arrest and 

 conviction of this man Steele. In the last seizure of nets 

 made by the Anglers' Association about ten days ago it 

 was found that the nets were filled with pike, bass and 

 muscalonge; thousands of small fish had become en- 

 tangled in the meshes of the nets and were destroyed. 

 The larger fish were replaced in the river. Owing to the 

 vigilance exercised by the officers of the Anglers' Associa- 

 tion in destroying nets placed in the river, it is believed 

 that legitimate fishing this summer with rod and line 

 will be better than it has been for very many years past. 



An "original package" game case came up in Pitts- 

 burgh, Pa., last Monday. William Wilkinson was on trial 

 for having sold quail out of season. His counsel proved 

 that the quail had been lawfully killed in Missouri, and 

 had been brought into Pennsylvania in their original 

 packages. The plea was not accepted by the judge, 

 Ewing, who refused to be governed by the United States 

 Supreme Court decision; and Wilkinson was convicted. 

 The Wilson Senate bill, of which note was made last 

 week, has been so amended as to apply only to liquors. 

 In the absence of any specific or general exception by 

 which the sale of imported game would be forbidden in 

 the several States, such a plea as that of the Pittsburgh 

 dealer would, we presume, hold, good, unless the judge 

 should share the opinion of Judge Ewing that the Su- 

 preme Court decision was wrong, and refuse to accept it. 



We have taken occasion in times past to commend the 

 sensible and praiseworthy stand taken by the Western 

 railroads which instruct their freight agents carefully to 

 observe the laws respecting killing and shipment of game. 

 The Union Pacific system has just sent out a circular to 

 its agents directing attention to the Wyoming law of 

 1880, which forbids shipping large game or its hides on 

 horses. When freight and baggage managers thus work 

 in co-operation with game law enforcement, the problem 

 is in large measure solved. 



