July 10, 1890.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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at the time of greatest depletion and that an overstock was 

 introduced as is generally the case when done at public ex- 

 pense, leaving of course a larger portion of the Eastern types 

 as survivors. 



I find that I have passed over the paragraph concerning the 

 "market" fisherman, impliedly the fish hog. Now, while I 

 never raised a trout or caught one for the market, I think T 

 know all about the genus "fish hog." The so-called market 

 fisherman (for trout) is a whisky bummer who hangs around 

 the saloons and goes a-fishing just often enough to keep 

 himself in whisky monev for such occasions when he can- 

 not spunge treats. 



It is rare that any other character catches trout for sale. 

 This class has not and will not in all time catch as many 

 trout as the professional anglers catch in a single season. 

 The real fish hog is the unprincipled lout who generally 

 under the guise of membership in some club, brings to his 

 creel the scores and hundreds of fingerlings which so often 

 figure in reported scores, like Mr. Byers' sixty-four, but with 

 no mention of weight. I trust that Mr. B.'will yet tell us 

 how much the sixty-four fish weighed. I am also desirous 

 to have that list of fifty or a hundred trout streams which 

 have been so improved by stocking. Let him publish it in 

 Forest and Stream. The R. R. Co. which runs that special 

 daily fishing train would doubtless assist in the information, 

 providing a considerable number of them discharge their 

 waters into the South Platte. 



There is no doubt that the State of Colorado reaps benefit 

 from the tourists who visit its picturesque scenery, and a 

 small proportion of whom may occasionally go a-fishing. 

 but, I do not think that the fishing factor has much to do 

 with it. The railroad fishing racket is well understood by 

 many Eastern tourists, and they too well know that it "plays 

 out" with the native stock of fishes, and they are con- 

 stantly seeking "pastures new." One thing more. Will Mr. 

 Byers please publish a list of that number of people in the 

 region of Denver who are engaged in artificial trout culture. 

 There are thousands of readers of Forest and Stream who 

 will be glad to hear of and from them, if they are making a 

 success of the business. During the past decade, I have had 

 scores of letters from Colorado concerning fishculture. and 

 not one of them ever referred to a case of success in trout 

 culture, nor do I believe that a solitary case of success can 

 be shown in all the State. If there can be, I am sure that 

 the public will be glad to have corroborating facts and fig- 

 ures, and I am equally certain that Forest and Stream 

 will eagerly spread the information throughout the coun- 

 try, and 1 will certainly aid to the extent of mv limited 

 ability. Milton P. Peirce. 



Colombus, Ohio. 



NEW JERSEY FISH LAW VIOLATORS. 



HERE in the Highlands of New Jersey we have waters of 

 every variety, from streams tumbling and roaring 

 down the mountain sides to those which seem to lazily drift 

 through the meadowlaud into the swamp, and at times half 

 hiding under the bank overhanging with alder bushes — 

 streams that are small and suitable for fingerlings, to others 

 which are large enough for salmon. What a variety of bot- 

 toms for streams we find as we pass from the Delaware to 

 the Passaic. Slate, limestone, granite, red shale, clay and 

 muck; each one seeming to have its influence on the water, 

 more especially so in the spring, when it draws color from 

 the soil it goes through. The granite, limestone and shale 

 vary but slightly from each other, while the clay with its 

 yellow, the muck with its black, and the shale with it rosy 

 tint, give an individuality to each which is very pleasant to 

 remember in after times when the season is over. Brooks in 

 the limestone formation, which come into life from a single 

 spring, to those in the granite region, where it takes hun- 

 dreds of trickling springs to form a stream large enough to 

 be the home of the finny tribe. There is probably not an- 

 other place of its size in this country where such a variety 

 of streams and lakes can be found that are so well suited to 

 the habits of the game fishes. 



Are there trout in the streams and bass in the. lakes? 

 Certainly; all the recklessness of the legislature in the past in 

 allowing six months to catch trout against three and one- 

 half now, the man who goes out at night to spear eels and 

 suckers, but also brings back trout to his friend, who goes 

 out to take a walk but also takes a net with him under his 

 coat— all these have not been able to utterly destrov the 

 fishing. 



For a few years no fish baskets were allowed, but an old 

 gentleman,. who had been sent to represent his party in the 

 legislature, advocated the replacing of the baskets. He 

 represented that the eels and suckers of Paulens Kill and 

 other streams were getting large and fat and being wasted, 

 and the legislature good- humoredly passed the bill, to please 

 him. These baskets are not supposed to kill trout anil bass, 

 but they do kill hundreds every year and I have never 

 known a basket that did not kill trout as well as suckers 

 and eels. 



The law has been enforced but a vei'y few times, as you 

 may easily tell by the naive way in which the native of Sus- 

 sex, Warren, and Morris will tell you how many suckers he 

 caught the last time he was out with his net, and then he 

 will hold his hands apart, showing how long were the trout 

 he caught. 



The larger lakes, like Hopatcong and Budd's Lake, have 

 Their regular seiners, and in some towns, as Morristown 

 and Hackettstown, there are men who have seines and use 

 them whenever they have a chance, for the bass and pickerel 

 of the Passaic and Shongum to the trout of the Musconet- 

 cong. 



A new fish commissioner has been appointed at Morris- 

 town and we have every reason to believe that he will be en- 

 tirely harmless, as far as the prosecution of those that break 

 the game law is concerned, for he is a member of a club 

 which has a small lake a few miles from Morristown, and 

 some of this club's doings would not look quite correct if 

 viewed impartially. The lake that this club has is but a 

 few miles in area; they want to keep it highly stocked with 

 bass, and as the natural increase is not sufficient they have 

 to adopt other means to keep the fishing up to the standard. 



One way to keep it stocked is to buy small bass and put 

 them in the lake, but they also have a document from the 

 commissioners giving them authority to net any public 

 stream in the State for stocking public waters, and the pub- 

 lic stream they stock is the one that empties into their lake. 

 This stream is hardly large enough for a good trout stream 

 and 



a contract with a well known poacher who agreed to furnisL 

 bass of various sizes, which he did, some of them weighing 

 41bs. and over. This commissioner may help stock our 

 streams with trout, which is more of a favorite with him 

 than bass, but we can hardly expect him to enforce law. 



Hopatcong also has a commissioner, and he has done a 

 great deal of good this summer by preventing illegal fishing, 

 and every person he stops or drives away will deter ten 

 others from attempting it. With strict enforcement of the 

 law and judicious stocking of streams we could in a few 

 years time have sport that would satisfy any reasonable 

 devotee of the rod and line. Hopatcong. 



SHAD IN UTAH LAKE. — The Commissioner of Fisher- 

 ies is informed by Mr. Musser, Fish Commissioner of Utah, 

 that more than 100 shad averaging IkTbs. each were caught 

 in Utah Lake in November, 1889. The experiment of intro- 

 ducing shad may, therefore, be considered worthy of repeti- 

 tion. 



INCREASE OF POTOMAC RIVER SHAD. 



r PHE inspector of marine products in Washington, Mr. 

 JL Gwynne Harris, has made the following report of the 

 shad and herring catch of the Potomac River for the spring 

 of 1890: 



Number of shad lauded in Washington 420,391 



Number of shad lauded in Alexandria 21.000 



Shipped by steamer Sue to Baltimore 9,300 



Shipped by steamer Corcoran to Baltimore 7,340 



Sold a.ud salted on the different shores and shipped by 

 gillers and trap-netters 28,900 



. ..48<),931 



.8,264,568 

 .3,151,450 

 . 192,000 

 .3,378,000 



Total ... 



Number of herring landed in Washington. . , 



Number of herring landed hi Alexandria 



Shipped by steamer Sue to Baltimore 



Sold and salted on the different shores 



Total 14,986,018 



The Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, Hon. Marshall 

 McDonald, informs us that this is a larger catch of shad 

 than we have had since 1880, and shows an increase of about 

 100,000 over last year. 



DELAWARE RIVER FISHES.-Hundreds of large shad 

 were seen going down the Delaware. River July 3. " These 

 have finished spawning and are on their way to sea. Hon. 

 Henry C. Ford, while fishing in the vicinity of Delaware, 

 Pike county, Pa., saw a Kennebec salmon leap a rift less 

 than 20ft. from his boat. He thinks the fish was fully S^ft. 

 long and would weigh 25 or 301 bs. Oovernor Beaver has 

 just reappointed, for three years, the present Board of Fish 

 Commissioners. Mr. Ford has shown himself to be a most 

 efficient president, a man of liberal and comprehensive ideas, 

 and his successful administration has received the approval 

 and indorsement of the public, which is now reflected in 

 the official act of Governor Beaver. 



CHANNEL CATFISH REARED IN PONDS. — Mr. J. .1. 

 Stranahan, Superintendent of the Put-in-Bay station of the 

 U. S. Fish Commission, has informed the Commissioner of 

 the successful rearing in small ponds of the channel catfish 

 (Arniums alMdus). In two ponds near Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 

 neither of them containing over a quarter acre, examples of 

 last year's hatch have been taken early in June. It has 

 been considered doubtful by the Commissioner and fishcul- 

 turists generally whether this species would breed in small 

 inclosures. 



BROOK TROUT PLANTING IN MICHIGAN. -Mr. 

 Alexander Starbuck informs us nn the authority of Mr. F. 

 G. Heath, a former official of the Grand Rapids and Indiana 

 R. R., that the number of brook trout fry deposited by the 

 State Fish Commission last spring in streams reached by 

 the northern division of that road, amounted to 449.000\ 

 The waters have been amply stocked for several seasons and 

 anglers are coming from far and near to enjoy the fruits of 

 intelligent labor. 



SUCCESSFUL ARTIFICIAL HATCHING. -Marine fish 

 have been artificially hatched in Norway and afterward kept 

 three years in a salt water pond, where they thrived and 

 grew wonderfully and will soon be matured and ready to 

 spawn. 



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FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept.. 2 to 4.— Dog Show of the Midland Central Fair Associa- 

 tion, at Kingston, Out. R. W. Meek, Secretary. 



Sept. 2 to 5.— Third Annual Dog Show of the Michigan Kennel 

 Club, at Detroit, Mich. M. V. B. Saunders, Secretary. 



Sept. 15 to 19.— Second Annual International Dog Show of the 

 Industial Exhibition Association at Toronto, Canada. C. A. Stone, 

 Seeretarv. 



Sept. 23 to 26.— Second Annual Dog Show of the Central Canada 

 Exhibition Association, at Ottawa. Alfred Geddes, Chairman 

 Commi ttee. 



Oct. 6 to 11.— Ninth Annual Dog Show of the Danbury Agricul- 

 tural Society, at Dauburv Conn. B. C. Lynes, Seeretarr. 



Dec. 30 to Jan. 3, 1891.— First, Dog Show of the Buckeye Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association, at Canton, O. James Sterling, Sec'y, 

 39 North Market street. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Sept. 9.— Field Trials of the Manitoba Field Trials Club. Thos. 

 Johnson, Winnipeg, Secretary. 



November.— Second Annual Field Trials Of the Brunswick Fur 

 Club, at Brunswick, Me. J. H, Baird, Secretary, Auburndalc, 

 Mass. 



Nov. 3.— Fourth Annual Field Trials of the Indiana Kennel 

 Club, at Carlisle, Ind. P. T. Madison, Indianapolis, Ind., Sec'y. 



Nov. 10.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Canadian Kennel 

 Club, at Chatham, Ont. C. A. Stone, Toronto, Out., Secretary. 



Nov. 17.— Twelfth Annual Field Trials of the Eastern Field 

 Trials Club, at Otterburn Springs, Va, W. A. Coster, Saratogo 

 Springs, N. Y., Secretary. 



Dec. 1.— Second Annual Field Trials of the Central Field Trials 

 Club, at Lexington, N. C. C. IL Odell, Mills Building, New York, 

 Secretary. 



1891. 



Jan. 19.— Eighth Annual Field Trials of the Pacific Kennel Club, 

 at Bakersfield, Cal. H. H. Briggs, Secretary. 



Feb. 3.— Third Annual Field Trials of the Southern Field Trials 

 Club. T. M. Brunby, Secretary, Marietta, Ga. 



COURSING. 



Oct. 21 to 35.— Fifth Annual Meet of the American Coursing 

 Club, at Great Bend, Kan. I. D. Brougher, Secretary. 



THE A. K, C, AFFAIRS. 



THE Advisory Committee of the American Kennel Club 

 met at the office, 44 Broadway, July 2, to hear the 

 charges preferred by Secretary A. P. Vredenburgh, on which 

 he asked for the permanent disqualification of Mr. C. J. 

 Peshall. All the members of the committee were present, 

 Messrs. Terry, Perry, Wise, Anthony and Belmont. Mr. 

 Peshall did not appear, but sent a letter (which was pub- 

 lished in our last issue) refusing to acknowledge the consti- 

 tutional existence of the Advisory Committee and its 

 authority to act in this affair. The letter was read, but as 

 the question of constitutionality had already been decided 

 at a previous meeting, no weight was given to Mr. Peshall's 

 contention. The charges, as served on Mr. Peshall were 

 these: 



Charge L That Charles J. Peshall did circulate and con- 

 tinue to circulate false, malicious and libelous letters calcu- 

 lated to impair the authority and usefulness of the American 

 Kennel Club and its publications, and to injure my reputa- 

 tion and standing as an officer of said club. 



Charge II. That Charles J. Peshall wilfully violated rule 

 32 of the rules governing bench shows as adopted May, 1887. 

 Specification: In that he exhibited a dog, at a show held 

 under A. K. C. rules, in his own name as owner, at which 

 time said dog was not his property. 



Charge III. That Charles J. Peshall wilfully violated 

 rule 25 of the rules governing bench shows, as adopted 

 December 6. 1888. Specification: In that he misrepresented 

 the value of a dog, at the time of making a sale. Specifica- 

 tion: In that he conspired with one John N. Lewis to give 

 a fictitious value to the dog, for the purpose of enabling said. 



Lewis to offer the dog for sale, at a price beyond its real 

 value. 



There was a prolonged discussiou respecting the jurisdic- 

 tion of the club to try Mr. Peshall on the several charges. 

 It was urged by Mr. Wise that the offense named in charge 

 one was not an offense in connection with dogs, dog shows 

 or field trials, and therefore could not be heard hy the club. 

 They also urged that the second charge was outlawed by 

 the lapse of time, the offense charged having been the show- 

 ing of the clog Nick of Naso at the Waverl>\ N. J., show, in 

 1887'. The three charges were taken up and voted upon 

 with respect to jurisdiction. On the first charge, Messrs. 

 Wise and Perry voted that the Committee could not con- 

 sider the charge. Messrs. Terry and Anthony voted that it 

 could consider it, and Mr. Belmont refused to vote on the 

 ground that this was a personal matter. The vote being a 

 tie was lost. Mr. Wise voted against taking up the second 

 charge, the rest voted for it. As to the third charge the vote 

 was unanimous that the club had jurisdiction. On motion 

 of Mr. Belmont, however, charge second was deferred until 

 the Committee could assure itself that it had jurisdiction; 

 and t he hearing of charge three was taken up. 



Mr. Vredenburgh stated that after the alleged sale of the 

 dog Nick of Naso, Mr. Peshall had come into the office of 

 the A. K. C. and had exhibited to him a note for $1,000, 

 which he asserted he had received from Mr. John N. Lewis 

 in payment for the dog. Upon Mr. Vredenburgh 's saying to 

 him that he had understood that Lewis had previously 

 owned an interest in the dog, Mr. Peshall declared that he 

 had been sole owner of Nick of Naso and had sold the dog 

 for the $1,000 as shown in the note he exhibited. Mr. A. D. 

 Lewis was present when this conversation took place and he 

 corroborated Mr. Vredenburgh's account of it. Mr. Vreden- 

 burgh further stated that in proceedings instituted by one 

 Ralph to recover the sum of $1,000 from Mr. Peshall, Mr. 

 Peshall had stated in a deposition that Messrs. Livesly and 

 Lewis and himself had owned the dog Nick of "Naso 

 conjointly, each having a third interest : but that Messrs. 

 Livesly and Lewis had never paid their share of the 

 purchase, and therefore Mr. Peshall had taken the dog back 

 and had subsequently sold it to Mr. Lewis and at Mr. Lewis's 

 request had taken from him a note for 81,000, in order that the 

 dog might have this fictitious price put upon it, but that, 

 as a matter of fact, Mr. Lewis had never intended to pay the 

 $1,000, and that Mr. Peshall had never expected to receive 

 the $1,000; and that the agreement between the two was 

 that the note was never to be given into the hands of a third 

 party, but was to be held by Mr. Peshall. Mr, James H. 

 Elliot, the attorney who was engaged in the action to re- 

 cover the $1,000 from Mr. Peshall in behalf of Ralph, was 

 present at the meeting and corroborated Mr. Vredenburgh's 

 statement, saying further that it had been his inten- 

 tion to attach the Lewis $1,000 note, and that Mr. 

 Peshall's representation as to its worthlessness had been 

 made by Mr. Peshall to prevent such an attachment. 

 He further stated that the so-called deposition by Mr. 

 Peshall quoted by Mr. Vredenburgh had never been signed 

 by Mr. Peshall; that it was a statement drawn up from Mr 

 Peshall's conversation, and Mr. Peshall after looking it 

 over had assented to its correctness, and had agreed to sign 

 it before the referee, but when the time came to sign it he 

 had given Mr. Elliot the slip and had not signed it. After 

 the testimony on these chaiges had been given, Mr. Wise 

 submitted the following resolutions, which were unani- 

 mously adopted as reported in our last week's issue: 



Resolved, That, it is the sense of this committee that if, should 

 decline to act upon the charges this day presented by A. P. Vred- 

 enburgh, Secretary, against C. S. Peshall. 



Resolved. That, it is the unanimous sense of this committee that 

 the rocent publications made bv Mr. Peshall in the sporting jour- 

 nals concerning the American Kennel Club and its Secretary, Mr. 

 A. P. Vredenburgh, are unjust, untrue and libellous. 



Hi'fnlvixl, That the Secretary of this Club bo authorized and 

 directed to exhibit the books and accounts and vouchers of this 

 Club to any delegate member of this Club at any time. 



Revived. That we have absolute confidence in the integrity and 

 veracity of the Secretary of this Club. 



Besolved, That the conditct and language of Mr. Peshall in the 

 controversy, out of which these charges arose, have been in our 

 opinion so extroardinary and outrageous as to make us seriously 

 doubt whether he is in possession of his normal faculties. 



Besolved, That the proceedings this day had and the evidence 

 this day taken he submitted to the American Kennel Club for 

 such action as it may seem best. 



The official report of the meeting was expected in time 

 for publication this week, but has been deferred, and Sec- 

 retary Vredenburgh advises us that it will be ready for , 

 publication in our next issue. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



Not to embarrass the question to be below referred to with 

 auy mention of the other features of the attack of Messrs. 

 Peshall, Malcolm and a few others, upon the management 

 of the A. K. O, and Mr. Vredenburgh and myself in particu- 

 lar (I refer only to official duties), I beg to state that I have 

 not at any time or iu any manner paid into the treasury of 

 the A. K. C. any money whatsoever to fill a deficit directly 

 or indirectly, nor has auy one else. 



The accounts of the club have been kept strictly on busi- 

 ness principles, and the earnings aud expenditures as stated 

 from time to time by the treasurer are the honest and legiti- 

 mate receipts for the regular and legitimate work rendered 

 and privileges granted by the A. K. C. organization, dis- 

 bursed for only that which was honestly and legitimately 

 required. There has been no juggling with the accounts. 

 The amount of $1228.28 rendered as a balance in one of the 

 treasurer's reports, which it has been claimed was not 

 properly obtained, has been explained and proved to the 

 satisfaction of the Auditing Committee, and any delegates 

 who desired to see the books. 



August Belmont, Jr., Pres. A. K. C. 



Hempstead, N. Y„ July 7. 



Editor Forest, and Stream: 



Vent, vidt, and if I didn't conquer I at least, got down as 

 gracefully off the fence as I could, fully prepared to give my 

 assistance to the A. K. C. in its fight with Mr. Peshall over 

 the accounts. It came about this way: Last Wednesday 

 morning I was engaged with the Spaniel Club committee in 

 an out of the way place to which Mr. Wilmerdinghad taken 

 us, when who should walk in but Dr. J. Frank Perry and 

 Mr. Vredenburgh. I do not know whether the sight of them 

 or the reason for their arrival was the greater surprise. 

 They had come to ask me to go down and make as close an 

 examination of the A. K. C. books as I could and convince 

 rnvself that there was nothing wrong. Dr. Perry was the 

 spokesman and said that he had spent an hour or more in 

 looking into things, but, to use his own expression, he felt 

 a little rusty as to the exact charges that had been made. 

 That he had asked Mr. Vredenburgh to let me make as com- 

 plete an examination as I thought fit, and together they 

 sallied forth from 44 Broadway to find me. I should say in 

 this connection that Dr. Perry had written from Boston 

 asking whether it was in my opinion essential for him to be 

 in New York at the Advisory Committee meeting. That I 

 sent a postal card in response saying his presence was im- 

 peratively necessary, also that I would be in the city and to 

 let me know where I could meet him. His reply I did not 

 get till I returned to Philadelphia. I mention this to re- 

 move an j r suspicion that the request made of me was at all 

 premeditated. The spaniel club business being soon over, 

 I was at liberty to accompany Dr. Perry. 



To let my readers know what I proposed looking for I 

 will tell as briefly as I can what Mr. Peshall has repeatedly 

 told me within the past two or three months. 



