Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 26, 1890. 



( VOL. XXXIV.— No. 23. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Yachting on the Great Lakes. 



The Preserve System. 



Snap Shots. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 



Two After Trout. 

 Natural History. 



Miss Cooper's "Rural Hours." 



Sally. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



British Columbia Game. 



Shot Count and Weight. 



Parrot Pot-Pie. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Pennsylvania Angling. 



Florida, Fly-Fishing. 



Maine Fishing. 



The Nessmuks. 



Adirondack Mountains. 



Random Casts. 



Angling Notes. 



FlSHCUDTtJRE. 



Newfoundland Fishculture. 

 Pond Culture. 

 Maine Plantings. 

 Game Notes. 



The Kenned. 

 English vs. American Beagles, 

 Dogs of the Day. 

 Dog Talk. 



A Disagreeable Person. 

 Fun at Dog Shows. 

 The Indiana Derby. 

 The English Setter Club. 

 Claremout Patsy. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Riede and Trap Shooting. 

 Range and Gallery. 

 The Trap. 



Missouri State Shoot. 

 Yachting. 



Regatta Week. 



Beverly Y. C. 



St. Lawrence River Skiffs. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Signal Code. 



Toronto C. C. 



Ualt C. C. Regatta. 



Cruising Cups and Canoe 

 Yawls. 



Answers to Correspondents- 



YACHTING ON THE GREAT LAKES. 

 fT^HE growth of yachting in America has naturally 

 been strongest on a part of the Atlantic coast, and 

 about two or three of the larger seaports, the fleet along 

 the thousand miles of coast between Maine and Virginia 

 outnumbering in size and far surpassing in quality the 

 rest of the pleasure fleet of the entire country. For 

 -various reasons the growth of yachting along the Atlan- 

 tic coast south of Chesapeake Bay is likely to be slow, 

 the shoal bays, the stretches of exposed coast line and 

 the few harbors being serious obstacles. Though pro- 

 gress be barred in this direction, it is free enough in 

 another quarter, and in a very few years the Great Lakes 

 are likely to be the scene of a growth and development 

 of yachting no less remarkable than that of the last ten 

 years on the coast. 



A single glance at a map of the United States is suffi- 

 cient to show how insignificant are the present yachting 

 centers of the country, Long Island Sound and Chesa- 

 peake Bay, compared with the expanse of even the 

 smallest of the Lakes; while the coast line of the Lakes 

 is nearly three times the length of that portion of the 

 Atlantic coast from Eastport, Me., to Norfolk, Va., which 

 forms the established cruising ground of the Atlantic 

 fleet. In the Western Number of the Forest and Stream 

 Mr. E. J. C. Cleaver discussed very fully the drawbacks 

 and disadvantages which hinder yachting on Lake Michi- 

 gan; obstacles which, though serious, may be overcome 

 in time as the work of building artificial harbors ad- 

 vances, but more particularly as the love of sailing 

 increases and yachtsmen learn better the style of craft 

 that is necessary for their work. 



One cause perhaps of the present condition of yachting 

 about Chicago and Lake Michigan may be found in the 

 fact that none of the yachts on the laie have been 

 specially designed to meet the peculiar conditions which 

 our correspondent so clearly states. The fleet has been 

 gathered from all quarters, from New York and Long 

 Island Sound, from the other lakes, and even from the 

 distant Clyde; and it is by no means surprising that the 



boats have not proved the best possible for such peculiar 

 waters. The revival of yachting on Lake Michigan will 

 probably come at the hands of some of the younger 

 sailormen who are now racing and cruising in such small 

 craft as can be conveniently used on its boisterous 

 waters, and the craft that they will man will be different 

 from all of the old fleet ; staunch and sturdy keel craft 

 of moderate draft and sail area, ranging from 40 to 60ft. 

 in length, boats that will give room and comfort and yet 

 will ride in safety the heavy storms of the Upper Lakes. 



The problem of turning out such a craft, suited exactly 

 to existing conditions, without regard to those of distant 

 waters, must be solved by the yachtsmen of Lake Michi- 

 gan, and by no others. Already there are competent 

 designers and builders on its shores who have done much 

 for the sailormen in sizes below 30ft., and who will prove 

 competent to meet the demand for larger craft when the 

 call for them comes. From the nearer lakes, from Erie 

 and Ontario in particular, we hear nothing but promises 

 of more and better yachting, of improvements in all 

 directions, and it is probable that a dozen years more 

 will see a distinct and firmly established system of yacht- 

 ing, with models and rules specially adapted to it that 

 shall extend from the head of Lake Superior to the 

 mouth of the St. Lawrence. 



THE 



PRESERVE SYSTEM. 

 r F , HE system of buying and leasing territory for shoot- 

 ing and fishing purposes is progressing with great 

 strides. The latest and most extensive transaction is the 

 taking up of a hundred thousand acre tract in the North 

 Woods by the Adirondack League Club, articles of incor- 

 poration of which have just been filed. The land ac- 

 quired is a portion of the Blake estate, lying in Hamilton 

 and Herkimer counties. It comprises a number of trout 

 waters, among them Moose, Panther, Deer, Jones, Otter 

 and Jock's lakes, and West Canada Creek. The purchase 

 price is given at $500,000, which is to be raised by the 

 sale of 500 membership shares at $1,000 a share. The 

 shares, which are also certificates of membership, will 

 give individual title to five acres of land as a building 

 site, rights of camping, fishing and hunting throughout 

 the club's territory, and a share in the profits of a lum- 

 bering business, which it is said will yield an annual in- 

 come of $30,000. The trustees named in the articles of 

 incorporation are Warner Miller, M. W. Barse, O. L. 

 Snyder, Robert C. Alexander, Mark M. Pomeroy, Warren 

 Higby, A. G. Mills, Henry E. Howland, Henry C. Squires, 

 De Witt C. LeFevre, Henry Patton and Alexander R 

 Harper. 



This withdrawal of the Jock's Lake country from the 

 public means a serious diminution of available hunting 

 and fishing grounds in the Adirondacks. It is in line 

 with the coming of a new order, under which the angler 

 or hunter who does not belong to a club will eventually 

 be shut out. These changed conditions are coming with 

 a rapidity little dreamed of a few short years ago. 



Everywhere the tendency is toward great fish and game 

 clubs, purchase and control of lands and lakes and streams. 

 Report says that Mr. Austin Corbin of New York has 

 lately consummated the purchase of 4500 acres of land 

 near Sullivan Harbor, Me. This purchase has been made 

 in connection with Mr. Clyde D. V. Hunt, and for the 

 Moose-a-beck Game Club. The property was formerly 

 known as Great Wass Island. It has twelve miles of 

 shore front, and also a long stretch of forest. As soon as 

 the officers of the club are chosen and the preliminaries 

 agreed upon, it is proposed to invest some $50,000 in 

 game and fish for stocking the preserve. Such a move- 

 ment is looked upon with open-eyed wonder by local 

 sportsmen, who have hunted over .these lands for years 

 unmolested. There are growlings of discontent, the re- 

 sult of which only time can tell. All is not serene in the 

 Parmacheene Lake region, if the voice of guides and 

 hunters is to be trusted. It is true that the party of 

 sportsmen has bought out John Danforth and taken his 

 leases off his hands, and obtained promises of further 

 leases, but the thing is to control the waters of Parma- 

 cheene. It has been repeatedly decided by Maine courts 

 that lakes and ponds above a small number of acres in 

 extent— we think it is ten — are open waters, waters open 

 to the public. It is true that the lessees of the land can 

 prevent sportsmen from landing to the extent of the 

 amount of trespass, but the Maine oourts have put them- 

 selves on record as often in the past awarding 1-cent 

 damages in such cases. 



The feeling is very strong among sportsmen who have 

 formerly visited Parmacheene against the attempt to 

 close this region to the public. It is now proposed, we 

 learn, not to attempt to close the preserve to the public 

 this year, but after this year the public will be excluded 

 from the John Danforth camps at least. There is a good 

 deal of under growling expressed among guides and 

 others who have formerly hunted and trapped in winter 

 in the Parmacheene region. They say that if the lessees 

 of the Danforth camps attempt to make a game or fish 

 preserve of the region, they will not be responsible for 

 the consequences. 



No reasonable man, however, who thinks that he has 

 an opportunity to secure for himself a desirable game 

 and fish preserve, is apt to be deterred from such an 

 enterprise by the mutterings and vague threats of indi- 

 viduals who have formerly had the free range of the 

 woods in question. The average sportsman differs in no 

 respect from the average man who is not a sportsman , 

 when it comes to a matter of personal advantage as 

 against public benefit. Options on the control of deer 

 forests and trout waters will not be refused for any 

 promptings of philanthropy. Individuals and clubs will 

 go on securing their territory, without regard to the de- 

 privations imposed on the public. As we said last week, 

 it is only human nature to have regard for one's personal 

 interests in such affairs; and the average sportsman and 

 angler has just as much human nature in his make up as 

 his fellow men. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



/"tAPT. CHAS. A. BENDIRE has progressed so far in 

 ^ the preparation of his "Oology of North American 

 Birds" that he hopes to put the material of the first 

 volume into the hands of the printer by the close of the 

 year. The initial volume will comprise the Game Birds 

 and the Raptores. This undertaking, in which Capt. 

 Benclire has been engaged for several years, and the com- 

 pletion of which will consume five or six years more, is 

 with him altogether a labor of love; and he is putting 

 into it all the care and thoroughness and devotion char- 

 acterizing a work of that nature. The patient investiga- 

 tion and untiring industry with which he is gathering 

 and winnowing his material are such as to insure for his 

 completed volumes a first place among works on Ameri- 

 can ornithology. The text will treat not only of the nest 

 and eggs, but of the range, haunts and habits of each 

 bird. As the Oology will be a Government publication, 

 it is to be hoped that the work may be given a form 

 commensurate with its high character. 



Mr. A. C. Collins, of Hartford, Conn., is deserving of 

 great credit for the energy and shrewdness with which he 

 is following up the violations of game and fish laws. His 

 latest exploit was the detection of shad pounds unlaw- 

 fully set on Sunday, the offenders being staid and promi- 

 nent citizens of Saybrook, some of them worth very re- 

 spectable fortunes. Mr. Collins has succeeded in getting 

 convictions in the lower courts, and there is little doubt 

 that he will carry the cases successfully through the 

 higher courts, to which the convicted netters have ap- 

 pealed. Not the least public service accomplished in 

 cases like these is the showing up of the prominent citi- 

 zens aforesaid as tricksters and dishonest sharpers, who 

 for their own selfish gain have been cheating the com- 

 munity. 



The Webster, Mass., Times records the death, at the 

 age of eighty-eight, of Miss Mary Jaha, the last member 

 of the once great tribe of Nipmuks. The Nipmuks were 

 the Indians celebrated by "Nessmuk," and among whom 

 he first imbibed that taste for a woods life which be- 

 came his life-long passion. It is a curious and striking 

 commentary upon the possible far-reaching influence of 

 even the humblest individual, that thousands of readers 

 of a journal of to-day should have owed the pleasure 

 found in the writings of one of its contributors to the 

 chance impress upon his character of an illiterate 

 woods-haunting Indian in the forests of Massachusetts 

 more than half a century ago. 



An illustration of the decadence of rifle shooting is 

 afforded by the action of the New York Rifle Club, which 

 on last Tuesday was, on petition of it trustees, dissolved 

 by the Supreme Court. The petition was based on the 

 decline of interest in the sport, 



