j ult 24, 1890,] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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FISHING NEAR NEW YORK. 



FOR practical ami specific directions to reach several hundred 

 HsliitiR resorts within easy distance of New York city, see 

 issues of 1889 as follows: April 18, April 35, May 3, May B, May 30, 

 Juno (i, June IS, June 20, June 27. 



ANGLING NOTES. 



FOR some unknown reason the black bass seem rather 

 shy and backward fcbia season. It was expected 

 from the way the trout season opened that the bass would 

 show up in good shape, but with few exceptions most of 

 the favorite bass waters near New York have disappointed 

 the anglers. 



The best catches reported lately were made in the 

 Walkill. and strange to say the best score was made by an 

 angler fishing with a rubber frog. 



The upper waters of the "Walkill River contain a large 

 number of bass and they take the fly well on the right 

 kind of a day— that is cloudy or showery weather or 

 toward night. The proper way is to wade the stream 

 and upc flies dressed on a No. 5 or 6 sproat hook. Gales- 

 ville Mills is said to be an excellent spot to commence at; 

 this place is a short dm^e from Walkill. The angler can 

 start in at Galesville Mills and wade and fish to Walkill, 

 where he will find comfortable quarters. The largest bass 

 (big-mouth) so far heard from weighed a trifle over 81bs. 

 and was caught in Greenwood Lake. W. Holberton took 

 41 small-mouth bass in an evening's fishing recently. All 

 but 7 were returned to the. water. These fish were 

 caught on a 4^oz. 8 section bamboo fly-rod and the flies 

 were the Brandreth, Lottie, Martin, and brown-palmer, 



A few fine weakfish and striped bass have been taken 

 in the Hudson River near Sing Sing, but the mainstay of 

 the salt-water anglers has been the bluefish, which con- 

 tinue to run in great numbers. 



In sending in reports of catches it would be well for 



geople before they "make up" their reports to do a little 

 guring. We saw the following published in one of the 

 weekly" papers: "Total catch of weakfish, 19; largest, 

 lolbs.; smallest, Bibs.; total weight of catch, 501bs."' 

 Now 19 multiplied by the weight of the smallest gives a 

 total of 571bs, ! 



The fishing of the Adirondack Club is better now than 

 in the early part of the season. A number of large lake 

 trout have been killed in Lake Henderson. Considerable 

 damage was done by the storms lately, particularly in 

 Hamilton county. Some of the cottages and hotels on 

 Racmette Lake suffered from the violent winds. 



Scarlet-Ibis. 



Newport Striped Bass.— Sachuest Neck, R. I., July 

 15. — Bass are proving unusually plenty this season, and 

 reports from all of the fishing points here show good 

 catches for the week ending July 12. Graves's Point, 

 Gooseberry Island, West Island, all report fish plenty. 

 At Sachuest Neck 28 were taken during the week, rang- 

 ing from 5 to 191bs. At Rough Point one of 411bs. is re- 

 ported. Monday West Island reported 14 taken during 

 the morning fishing by one rod, Graves's Point reported 

 7, one of 33 and one of 371b? . At Sachuest Neck 11 were 

 taken, one of 371bs.; Tuesday morning 9, largest I4flbs. 

 Other points not heard from as yet. Will send you re- 

 ports as I get them, such as I think are reliable. Floun- 

 ders are so plenty one tires of catching them. — W, M. 

 Hughes. 



To wanda, Pa. — Fishermen are hard at work pulling 

 black bass out of the Susquehanna River at this place. 

 Two persons here make it a business trolling for Susque- 

 hanna salmon. Their catch runs from 10 to lBlbs. per 

 day. Occasionally a large one adorns their string. A 

 7-pounder is the largest one I have seen. J. W. Snider, 

 a prominent sportsman of this place, just presented me 

 with a 3-pound black bass caught below the bridge. Jim 

 knows where they are and how to catch them. — W. F. D. 



Hell Gate Camp.— Dead Diamond River, July 20.— 

 Our party took here yesterday, within 25 rods of the 

 camp, two brook trout weighing 41bs. and.51bs. respec- 

 tively. Also 9 men dined on two baked trout yesterday, 

 each having plenty. Smaller fish are innumerable; the 

 stream is literally alive with them. I have fished for 

 many years and do not hesitate to say this is the finest 

 fishing I have seen. Good fishing continues here until 

 the middle of September.— C. E. Swtnerton. 



PENNSYLVANIA FISH COMMISSION, 



ri^HE annual meeting for the election of officers and the 

 JL transaction of other business was held at Delaware 

 Water Gap, Pa., July 15, 1890. The full board was present. 

 A resolution of considerable public importance was 

 introduced, discussed and passed ; it relates to the distri- 

 bution of trout fry and provides that all applicants shall 

 have trout unless they wish them for personal profit or 

 market purposes. The growth of brook trout work in this 

 State is remarkable. Three years ago the output of fry 

 was only 600,000 ; in 1889 it amounted to 3,500,000. Last 

 year some adult yellow bass (Morone interrupta) were 

 introduced from Lake Erie into the Perkiomen, the Schuyl- 

 kill, the Delaware and Silver Lake. This year about 250 

 mature fish were placed in the Delaware, Schuylkill and 

 Susquehanna. A few white bass {Roccus chrysops) were 

 planted in Ithe Susquehanna, the Schuylkill and the Dela- 

 yt ire, and this fall the number will be increased. Crappie 

 »> d calico bass (Pomoxys spa/roides and a nnularis) will be 

 introduced at the same time. The calico bass has already 

 m de an impression on the Susquehanna, as announced in 

 FOREST and Stream, June 26. The Fish Commission has 

 distributed during the last two weeks 3,000 black bass, 

 generally six or seven inches long and some larger. Hon. 

 H. C. Ford, President of the Commission, to whom we are 

 indebted for the above information, was told by Hon. Simon 

 Cameron that the wall eyed pike was introduced into the 

 North Branch of the Susquehanna, or its tributary, the 

 Chemung, from Seneca Lake, New York, just after the war 

 of 1813 by a French priest and an English, gentleman. 



THE PROPOSED FISH COMMISSION TRANSFER 



THE Pennsylvania Commissioners of Fisheries, at their 

 annual meeting, held at Delaware Water Gap, July 15, 

 1890, adopted the following resolution concerning the pro- 

 prosed transfer of the H. S. Fish Commission to the De- 

 partment of Agriculture: 



Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Commissioners of Fish- 

 eries deprecate the proposed transfer of the United States 

 Fish Commission to the Department of Agriculture, believ- 

 ing that its efficiency and economical administration is best 

 promoted by its continuance as an independent bureau. 

 They at the same time bear witness to the thorough cooper- 

 ation of its present efficient head, Col. Marshall McDonald, 

 with the Pennsylvania Fish Commission, and attribute 

 much of the expansion of fishcultural work in Pennsylvania 

 to his energetic and systematic methods. 



Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be forwarded by 

 the secretary to each Senator and member of Congress from 

 Pennsylvania, and also to the chairman of the U. S. Senate 

 Committee on Fisheries. 



F IXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sent. 3 to fi.— Dog Show of the Wilmington Fair Association, at 

 Wilmington, Del. F. R. Cars well, Hupt., 101 West .sixth street. 



Sept.. 3 to 4.— Dog Show of the Midland Central Fair Associa- 

 tion, at. Kingston, Ont. C. H. Corbet.t, Secretary. 



Sept. 3 to 5.— Third Annual Doc Show of the Michigan Kennel 

 Cluh, at Detroit, Mich. M. V. B. Sannders, Secretary. 



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

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

 Secretary. 



Sept. 23 to 36.— Second Annual Dos Show of the Central Canada 

 Exhibition Association, at Ottawa. Alfred Geddes, Chairman 

 Committee. 



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

 tural Societv, at Danbury Conn. B.C. Lynes, Secretary. 



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

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

 39 North Market street. 



1891. 



Jan. 20 to 3$. — First Annual Dog Show of the Louisiana Poultry 

 and Pet Stock Association, at New Orleans, La. A. E. Shaw, Sec- 

 retary, Box 1658. 



FIELD TRIALS. 



Sept. '.).— 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, Auburndale, 

 Mass. 



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

 Club, at Carlisle, lnd. 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, Ont., 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. H. 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. 31 to 25.— Fifth Annual Meet of the American Coursing 

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



AMERICAN KENNEL CLUB AFFAIRS. 



Editor Forest a nd Stream; 



Mr. Peshall in attempting to qualify the statements 

 made to me regarding the alleged $1,000 present from Mr. 

 Belmont, and what led up to the supposed necessity for 

 that gift, betrays a lack of memory I did not, expect. In 

 the first place, he told me of it at the New York show, and 

 it was during that show and at the annual A. K. C. meet- 

 ing I asked the question of Mr. Vredenburgh, who went 

 further than I did in his answer and specified the amount 

 with the name of Mr. Belmont. This story was repeated 

 to me on various occasions by Mr. Peshall without any 

 bibulous accompaniments. What was particularly said oh 

 the occasion referred to by Mr. Peshall, when Mr. Winslow 

 was present at the Lafayette Hotel, was this : When I 

 showed Mr. Peshall the envelope with the figures in Mr. 

 Vredenburgh's writing, he said that he could now explain 

 the whole business. Whereupon he proceeded to unfold 

 his theory. Mr. Vredenhurgh had, according to Mr. 

 Peshall's story, been very anxious to close up the accounts 

 and start for England, and Mr. Peshall said he had a letter 

 from Mr. Vredenburgh urging him to get the matter settled 

 up. That it was on that account the balance was struck on 

 July 12. Two weeks ago I said it was June, but on 

 reference to the original memoranda on the envelope, I 

 found the date to be July 12, and the balance $651.40. Now, 

 said Mr. Peshall, out of this balance we gave Mr. Vreden- 

 burgh $500 to go to Europe with. That left $151.40, out of 

 which {the half year's rent was paid, Mr. Lewis's contract 

 calling upon him to pay the remaining half of the rent. 

 This with other small payments reduced the balance in the 

 bank to $5 at the beginning of December. To that was 

 added the dues received from clubs at the close of the 

 year, which helped to swell the balance to $228.28, and then 

 came Mr. Belmont's $1,000 to raise it to the $1,228.28. 



First of all the story was that the $1,000 was paid in 

 between January 2 and January 11, but after I got Mr. 

 Vredenburgh 's figures the date was shifted and I was 

 assured by Mr. Peshall that December 6 to 8 was the actual 

 time of the deposit of the $1,000 at the bank. That it was 

 by check, and that when the time came he would have not 

 only the bank book but the actual check put in evidence. 



It will thus be seen that Mr. Peshall has no reason to say 

 that he meant that Mr. Vredenburgh got the $500 in May. 

 His whole argument is based upon the $500 reducing the 

 July 12 balance of $651.40 down to $151.40, and in my letter 

 of two weeks ago I showed that the payments were made 

 in May, two months prior to July 12. 



With regard to the second contradiction which involved 

 the "exhaustive" contract with Mr. Lewis, ham amply 

 supported by Mr. Schellhass, Mr. Terry and Mr. Lewis 

 himself. I will admit that their statements are somewhat 

 contradictory and indefinite, but that only makes one point 

 clearer, and that is that they have had no talk or under- 

 standing as to what should be' said. It must be remembered 

 that it is two years since that agreement was made with 

 Mr. Lewis. It was something that was never brought to 

 the surface until within a few weeks, and we can well 

 understand that the exact terms of a contract which was 

 so very indefinite as to the exact amount to be paid would 

 under such circumstances be apt to be forgot, at least by 

 Messrs. Terry and Schellhass. With regard to Mr. Lewis, 

 there is this important difference. He got the money and 

 his recollection is bound to be clear on that subject. His 

 reply to Mr. Peshall's statements is flatly contradictory just 

 as I said in my letter. Now Mr. Peshall has the deniai he 

 craves for; we await the fulfilment of his promise "with 

 equal promptness not only convince your readers, but these 

 two gentlemen themselves by evidence over their own 

 signature of their error." 



Skilfully evading all reference to the $1,000 accusation, 

 Mr. Peshall proceeds to discuss the duties of the auditing 



committee and what he thinks they did and did not do. 

 And here is where he puts his foot in it, right up to his 

 neck. It was my suggestion to have an auditing committee, 

 and that committee was to audit the accounts of 1889. That 

 is to say, from the balance of $1,228.23 to the close of 1889, 

 and yet these gentlemen are being dragooned because they 

 did not verify accounts prior to the $1,228.28 balance. 

 Why, they had nothing to do with that at all. Just look at 

 the thing sensibly and see what a, ridiculous position Mr. 

 Peshall and his friend Mr. Levesey have placed themselves 

 in. Keep that fact prominently in mind, also this one— the 

 alleged $1,000 present was made before there was any Kennel 

 Gazette. 



In place of replying to the statement that there was no 

 $1,000 deposited at any time between July. 1888, and 

 January, 1880, Mr. Pesliall calls for an itemized statement 

 of accounts for 1888. Well, Dr. Perry in his able letter of 

 last week gives him these figures. The $1,228.28 is made up of 

 $285 39, being the addition received from clubs to the $5 

 balance of Dec. 5, and from the stud book account comes 

 $948>89. What can be plainer than that? It is not to be expected 

 that these figures will satisfy Mr. Peshall, who is cornered 

 and does not want to acknowledge that he hasn't a leg to 

 stand on. Imadehim a fair proposition lastweek to go with 

 me to the A. K. C. office on Monday of this week, or any day he 

 suggested, and have his mind set at rest. No notice of 

 appointment has yet reached me and I feel pretty certain 

 none will, for with it will disappear all this thereotical 

 duplicity, with nothing but the apology by way of a head- 

 stone to mark the last resting-place of Peshall's speciotts 

 specifications. 



Mr. Peshall's friend, Mr. Livesey, asks mo a question or 

 two. He wishes me to obtain the items of " deposits 

 appearing on the bank book between April 1 and Dec. 31, 

 1888, or the deposits made during the time Mr. A. D. Lewis 

 was running the Stud Book, as they will tend, I believe, to 

 settle the question relative to Mr. A. D. Lewis's connection 

 with that book." 



I fear Mr. Livesey has a theory too. Well, I cannot give, 

 the items and I will not go to the trouble of doing so, be- 

 cause they won't settle anything of the kind. I will tell 

 Mr. Livesey this. All deposits were made by Mr. 

 Vredenburgh between the period named, and Mr. Lewis 

 made none during Mr. Vredenburgh's absence in Europe, 

 but within a day or two of Mr. Vredenburgh's return, Mr. 

 Lewis turned over cash enough for Mr. Vredenburgh to 

 deposit $284.50, and that out of a total receipt of $670. 

 Does that look like an exhaustive contract? And here is the 

 accOlint during Mr. Vredenburgh's absence : 



Mr. Lewis in account with A. K. C. : 



Receipts from Sept. 6 to Dec. 11 $670.00 



Expenses 385.50 



Balance handed treasurer $284. 50 



If that will not settle the matter to Mr. Livesey's satis- 

 faction, then nothing will that I could get for him as he 

 suggests. 



In conclusion, I will once more renew my offer to Mr. 

 PeShall that he name a date on which he will meet me, 

 together with the editor of Forest and Stream as umpire, 

 at the office of the A. K. C, and I will then exercise my 

 right as a delegate and answer his questions from the 

 books. He knows in calling upon Mr. Vredenburgh to 

 give him itemized accounts, that he is asking for what be 

 will not get. but he knows also that he can get this infor- 

 mation through me, and if he does not accept my offer 

 it is because he does not really want to get the figures he 

 pleads for. 



P. S.— The following telegram was received in my office 

 on Sunday evening: "If you are in city to-morrow, will 

 meet you at Forest and Stream office at 12 o'clock. C. J. 

 Peshall." Sunday is my day off at the Philadelphia Press 

 office, consequently I did not get the telegram until this 

 (Monday) afternoon. Meanwhile my letter had been 

 received by Forest and Stream. The telegram alters 

 the complexion of affairs to a certain extent, it is a reply 

 to my proposition, hut there is no indication at all that it is 

 an acceptance. There is nothing to take me to New York 

 at present, but I shall be pleased to go if I can get matters 

 arranged as I have suggested. I have neither time, nor 

 inclination, nor do I care about being at the expense of 

 going to New York simply to meet Mr. Peshall and talk 

 over matters at Forest and Stream office. Of course Mr. 

 Peshall may have meant to accept the proposition, but he 

 does not say so, and I have written asking him to make his 

 acceptance and the appointment publicly iu this week's 

 issue, and I presume he will do so if he is willing to accept 

 the proposition, otherwise not. J. W. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



After reading the many articles on the A.K.C. -Peshall 

 affairs I have come to the con elusion that it is time for every 

 man who is interested in dog affairs to speak his mind on 

 the subject. If Mr. Peshall is right give him credit; if the 

 A.K.C. is right, then give them credit, and whichever of 

 them is wrong should be brought to account. 



There is a very old saying and a very true one, that where 

 there is lots of smoke there must be some fire. Now it seems 

 to me as if there had been lots of smoke for the past year 

 on the A.K.C. affair with Mr. Peshall. It seems to me 

 if I Avas sitting on a jury and some of the witnesses 

 were to swear what they had written in behalf of the 

 A.K.C, it would have little weight, as every one of them 

 seems to contradict each other. After reading each one's 

 statements from the highest official down and summing 

 it all up, it reads like a very hard lesson which all 

 had failed to get correct; and in reciting it all seem 

 to tell a different story. I have been much surprised to see 

 what short memories some of them have; also how differently 

 a committee of three saw the duty they had to perform, 

 as in the report of Messrs. Terry, Schellhass and Lewis in 

 your issue of the 17th. Every one of them gave a different 

 answer to the same question. It reminds me of what I 

 heard an old lawyer say once, that the best witness he ever 

 saw was one that didn't know anything; and it seems to me 

 that every time any of the management of the A. K. C. was 

 asked anything of the club affairs not one of them knew 

 anything, and for that reason no one could find out any- 

 thing. For these reasons, if I understand it correctly, Mr. 

 Peshall has written a number of very able letters and asked 

 to see the accounts, which, if I understand it rightly, every 

 member has the right to do. But for his pains he has been 

 showered with wrath, from the great mogul down. As I 

 have never happened to see any explanation from any of the 

 Auditing Committee but Mr. Wilmerding, which I think a 

 very weak one, I will say, in order to help his memory out a 

 little, that on February 17, 1890, I happened in New York 

 on business; and in course of the day went to 44 Broadway, 

 the A. K. C. office, to see what news there was in dog 

 matters; and to my surprise I found the Auditing Committee 

 at work on the books of the A. K. C. After passing the 

 time of day with those present, I sat down for an hour or so. 

 and talked with different ones that came in; and to my 

 great surprise the committee finished up its work on the 

 books while I was there. As far as I could learn it found 

 everything all O. K. and Mr. Peshall wrong in every 

 particular. 



Now, what I wish to remind the committee of is this: A 

 number of times when they came to something they could 

 not make out they would ask Mr. Vredenburgh what it was 

 or meant, and he would on all occasions explain to them, 

 which seemed to give satisfaction. After I had sat there 

 for half an hour the auditing committee came on, to m 



