Forest and Stream 



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NEW YORK, AUGUST 7, 1890. 



j VOL. XXXV.-No. 3. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Transfer of Illinois Fishes. 



Unworthy Officials. 



George Lee Schuyler. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 



Beaver Woman's Certificate. 

 Natural History. 



Habits of the White Goat. 



The English Sparrow Question 



Breeding Mink. 



Pointer Dog and Mother Duck 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Small-Bores and Squirrels. 



Deer in Adirondack Lakes. 



A Ducking Boat. 



Thf» Man in the Hollow Tree. 



Shooting Rights in California. 



Notes from the Hub. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



George and I Go Troiiting. 



Camp of "The Triad." 



Two Days After Black Bass. 



The Wausaukee Club, 



Angling Notes. 



Stubbing Around Home. 



Great Falls of the Potomac. 



Fish Preservatives. 

 The Kennel. 



The English Setter Club. 



The Kennel. 



Manitoba Field Trials Derby. 



Hydrophobia, Scares. 



Wilmington Dog Show. 



Detroit Dog Show. 



Kingston Dog Show. 



A. K. C. Affairs. 



Kennel Notes. 

 Ftshculture. 



American Brook Trout in 

 South Africa. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting. 



Range and Gallery. 



Creedmoor. 



The New Gas Arm. 



The Trap. 



Mak-saw-ba. 



Dallas, Tex. 



Brooklyn. 



Brewster vs. Class. 



Claremont Shooting Assoc'n. 

 Yachting. 



New York Y. C. Cruise. 



New York Y. R. A. Cruise. 



Indian Harbor Y. C. 



Herreshoff No. 163. 

 Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Transportation. 



Passaic River Meet. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



telle, Waters aud Cumins made a, clumsy but ineffectual 

 attempt to prove a conspiracy against Cumins. 



This investigation took place just as the season of travel 

 in the Park was opening, and for reasons not yet an- 

 nounced by the authorities, action in the matter has been 

 for the present deferred. From what we know of the 

 Superintendent, however, it may be assumed that another 

 year will find Waters, Cumins and Culver residing out- 

 side the Park. 



In the facts above stated there is room for abundant 

 comment. If the active managers of a corporation like 

 the Y. P. A., which employs hundreds of men, and which 

 has within certain limits almost absolute control within 

 the Park, violate the law, or connive at its violation, how 

 can their subordinates be expected to respect the regula- 

 tions of the Government 2 If these managers have them- 

 selves no sense of their responsibility to the Government, 

 as well as to their employers, how can their subordinates 

 be expected to feel such responsibility? And yet we believe 

 that among the great ma jority of employees of the Trans- 

 portation Company and of the Y. P. A. the feeling is 

 strong that the regulations should be obeyed. 



We have no doubt that the reasons which led the Super- 

 intendent and the Secretary of the Interior to withhold 

 the decree of expulsion in the case of these three im- 

 portant men were weighty, but at the same time it must 

 be confessed that the prompt ejection from the Park of 

 Cumins, Waters and Culver would have had a great moral 

 effect on the general public, and would have mightily 

 increased that public's respect for the regulations for the 

 Park's government, laid down by the Secretary of the 

 Interior. It would have been an object lesson not easily 

 forgotten. We presume that the question was one of 

 judgment, of expediency, and we are content to await 

 further information. 



UNWORTHY OFFICIALS. 



THE corporations who have controlled the hotel privil- 

 eges in the National Park have been singularly un- 

 fortunate ^in their employees. Most persons who have 

 been interested in this reservation will remember the 

 frightful condition of things under the old Yellowstone 

 Park Improvement Company, and recently Capt. Boutelle 

 has unearthed a scandal, which involves the three 

 local managers of the Yellowstone Park Association, and 

 which, except for certain reasons, would have resulted 

 in the summary expulsion from the Park of these three 

 managers. 



Some time last autumn information reached the Super- 

 intendent of the Park that R. R. Cumins, Superintendent 

 of Construction of the Yellowstone Park Association, 

 was preparing to hunt and trap from the Yellowstone 

 Lake Hotel, where he expected to winter. However, 

 during the early winter Cumins was called East, and 

 while there was taken sick, and did not reach the Park 

 again until near spring— too late for him to carry out his 

 plans. 



An investigation made by Capt. Boutelle revealed an 

 utter disregard for law on the part not only of Cumins, 

 but also of E. C. Waters, the manager of hotels for the 

 Syndicate, and one Culver, the Master of Transportation. 

 It was learned that Cumins had taken a rifle to the lake 

 as well as a large quantity of strychnine, presumably for 

 use in poisoning animals. It was learned that this gun 

 was carried to the lake in a buggy driven by E. C. 

 Waters, the General Manager for the Syndicate. Cumins 

 and Waters traveled together without other company, 

 and the latter must have known of the purposes of his 

 companion. It was further learned that ammunition had 

 been sent out to Cumins by Culver, who, after futile 

 attempts at denial, acknowledged his guilt. 



Paring the ip.Ye§>tig&tio& ewrie4 on by Captain Bou* 



GEORGE LEE SCHUYLER. 



THE death of Mr. George Lee Schuyler is an event of 

 moment in the yachting world; important as it 

 would have been under any circumstances, its signifi- 

 cance is doubled by the peculiar surroundings under 

 which it actually occurred. 



He was one of the prominent figures of American 

 yachting, famous as the sole survivor for many years of 

 the quintette of spirited yachtsmen who laid the founda- 

 tion of our national fame, and the last link that joined 

 the great pleasure navy of to-day with the little fleet of 

 the early days of organized yachting on this side of the 

 Atlantic. 



On the birthday of the club he helped to organize just 

 forty-six years ago. at the opening of the great annual 

 cruise, on board the magnificent steam yacht which now 

 carries the club flag, a striking contrast to the little 

 schooner on which it was first hoisted, and in the midst 

 of a fleet of over a hundred yachts under the same burgee, 

 this venerable yachtsman passed away quietly, and we 

 may confidently believe, painlessly. 



George Lee Schuyler, a giandson of Gen. Philip Jobn 

 Schuyler, was born at Rhinebeck. N. Y., on June 9, 1811. 

 From his early youth he was a resident of New York 

 city, graduating from Columbia College in the class with 

 Hamilton Fish. For many years he was interested in 

 railroads and steamers about New York, especially in the 

 New York and New Haven steamers and the New York, 

 New Haven and Hartford R. R. He married a daughter 

 of James A. Hamilton and grand daughter of Alexander 

 Hamilton, and after her death he married her sister. 

 Mr. Schuyler leaves three children, two daughters and a 

 son Mr. Philip Schuyler, owner of the steam yacht 

 Nooya, and long a member of the New York Y. C. 



Fifty years ago, when New York boasted less than a 

 dozen yachts, Mr. Schuyler was the friend and associate 

 of John C. and Edwin A. Stevens, two of the greatest 

 yachtsmen that America has known. After a few years 

 of desultory yachting, with no organization, these gentle- 

 men met aboard Mr. John C. Stevens's schooner Gim- 

 crack, anchored off the Battery at New York, on July 30, 

 1844, and organized the New York Yacht Club, with Mr. 

 John C. Stevens as the first commodore. There were 

 present at this meeting Mr. Schuyler and Messrs. John C. 

 Stevens, Hamilton Wilkes, John C. Jay, Louis A. Depau, 

 George B. Rollins, Jas. M. Waterbury and James Rogers. 

 From that time down to last Thursday Mr. Schuyler has 

 been one of the leading members and workers of the 

 club, an attendant on nearly every cruise. At one time 

 he owned the yacht Dream, but for many year§ he |ias 



not been a yacht owner. When the schooner America 

 was built in 1851 he was a partner with Messrs. John C. 

 and Edwin A. Stevens, Hamilton Wilkes and J, Beekman 

 Finley, sailing across on the yacht and sharing in her 

 victory in British waters. 



The death of the other four prior to any challenge 

 being received for the Cup which they presented to the 

 New York Y. C. in 1857, placed Mr. Schuyler in a very 

 responsible position, and twice he has been called upon 

 by the New York Y. C. to receive the Cup back and to re- 

 donate it to the club under newer and more stringent 

 conditions. Though both of these changes have given 

 rise to much controversy and have been severely criti- 

 cised, no one has ascribed to Mr. Schuyler any but the 

 highest motives so far as his part was concerned. He has 

 served with credit as the referee in a number of the Cup 

 contests, his decisions being fair and sportsmanlike; and 

 above all he has left an undying monument of his sense 

 of fair play and sportsmanlike spirit in the famous letter 

 of April 15, 1871, called out by the Ashbury case. The 

 sentiments he expressed twenty years ago apply as aptly 

 to international racing to-day as they did then, and show 

 that whatever his individual opinion may have been on 

 specific points, he was animated solely by a sense of fair 

 play and honest dealing. 



Mr. Schuyler's death is likely to have a very important 

 bearing on the question of the last deed of gift; it has 

 been generally understood that the whole subject was to 

 come up for discussion on the present cruise, the officers 

 and leading members of the club, including Gen. Paine, 

 being all with the fleet. What the fate of the famous 

 "New Deed of Gift" will be, only time can tell; the 

 history of the America's Cup from 1870 to to-day proves 

 that in the end the side of fair play, the side so ably 

 championed by Mr. Schuyler in 1871, comes out ahead; 

 but whatever verdict the future may bring over the dis- 

 putes and arguments of late years, American yachtsmen 

 will never fail to honor the memory of the kindly, 

 courteous gentleman and honest sportsman, the late 

 surviving donor" of the America's Cup. 



TRANSFER OF ILLINOIS FISHES. 



IN our issue of Nov. 28, 1889, we described in detail a 

 method of rescuing live fishes from overflow ponds 

 in Illinois and planting them in living streams. This 

 beneficent work, inaugurated several years ago by Dr. S. 

 P. Bartlett, the genial and accomplished secretary of the 

 Illinois Fish Commission, has been appropriated and 

 extended by the U. S. Fish Commission and is about to 

 be prosecuted this summer with greatly increased vigor. 

 The results of this plan are so gratifying and immediately 

 perceptible, that all engaged in it and profited by it are 

 anxious to carry it out successfully. The Commissioner 

 of Fisheries is too far removed from the scene of labor to 

 give it his personal attention, but has found in Dr. Bart- 

 lett a helper thoroughly familiar with all its details from 

 long experience, deeply interested in its successful ac- 

 complishment, and fertile in wise expedients for securing 

 the best results with the least expenditure of time and 

 money. The species which will be saved from starvation 

 and drying up are nearly all anglers' fishes, and include 

 black bass, croppies, wall-eyed pike, pickerel, pike, white 

 bass, yellow bass, ringed perch, spotted catfish, channel 

 catfish, white perch (gaspergou), sunfishes and buffalo. 



A pistol in a careless stranger's hand, a pull of the 

 trigger, and the keeper of a shooting gallery in the 

 Bowery in this city dropped dying to the floor. It was 

 an accident as such things go, but one which could hardly 

 happen in a carefully conducted gallery. In such a place 

 the attendant loads and stands close beside the shooter, 

 ready and watchful to reach out at once and take the 

 arm in hand if it be pointed anywhere but in the direc- 

 tion of the target. Rules and signs, however conspicuous, 

 are disregarded, but this trained attendant is at once a 

 monitor of his own life and of that of each and every 

 one else in the gallery. He is at a sort of perpetual 

 "place rest," but his eye never relaxes its close watch on 

 that arm until the weapon is placed, empty and harm- 

 less, back in the rack. 



The summer meeting of the American Forestry Con- 

 gress will be held at Quebec, Sept. 2 to 5. The corres- 

 ponding secretary $g Mr, Chas, G. Binnv, Philadelphia. 



