Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JULY 24, 1890. 



( VOL. XXXV.-No. 1. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 Railway Transportation of 



Doge. 

 The Black Bass. 

 Snap Shots. 

 The Basses and their Allies: 

 Basi and Bass Islands of Lake 

 Erie. 



Some Personal Recollections. 



Peculiarities of Bass Fishing. 



Bass of the Tippecanoe. 



The Helgratmte. 



A Rhyme of the Morning. 

 Natural History. 



Nesting of Sunfisb.es. 

 Game Bag and Gust. 



Life with the Old Hudson Bay 

 Company- n. 



An Illinois Game Decision. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 

 FtShoultiire. 



The Proposed Fish Commis- 

 sion Transfer. 

 The Kennel. 



Railway Transportation of 



The Kennel. 

 A. K. C. Affairs, 

 Kirlutt— Elsie Litter. 

 Dog Talk. 



English vs. American Beagles. 

 Coursing Notes. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting, 

 Range and Gallerv. 

 Our Riflemen in Germany. 

 A New Explosive. 

 The Trap. 



Saratoga Tournament. 



Springfield. 



Chicago. 

 Yachting. 



By Naphtha to Nag's Head. 



Keel vs. Board. 



Chesapeake Bay Y. C. 



Rhode Island Y. C. 



Atlantic Y. C. Cruise. 

 Canoeing. 



The A. C. A. Meet. 



Mohican C. C. 



N. Y. C. C. International Cup. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



RAILWAY TRANSPORTATION OF DOGS. 



WE publish in another column the rules of some of 

 the important railroad lines, relative to the trans- 

 portation of dogs. Many of the lines, it will be noticed, 

 make no charge for carrying dogs and on the others the 

 rates are reasonable. It is not many years Bince the man 

 with a dog was looked upon by many a baggage-master 

 as his legitimate prey — a sort of private gold mine which 

 was worked for all it was worth — and not least among 

 the items of expense to be considered by the would-be 

 pleasure seeker in distant Eldorados, where game 

 abounded, was the cost of transporting his dog. We 

 hare, scores of times, heard sportsmen declare that the 

 extortionate charges of such harpies of the rail alone pre- 

 vented them from visiting game resorts in distant places. 

 It was not the actual expense incurred that prevented 

 them from taking the trip, so much as the feeling that 

 they were being robbed. The sportsman as a rule is 

 liberal^-often prodigal— in distributing coin to those who 

 minister to his pleasure and never more so than when 

 the recipient has shown kindness to his four-footed com- 

 panion; but when cash was demanded, often insolently, 

 for scant favor, the most liberal sportsman rebelled. 

 Often the profitless discussion that followed stirred up 

 feelings that were anything but conducive to the state of 

 mind that is so essential to the enjoyment of a pleasure 

 trip, and no doubt the recollection of these unpleasant 

 episodes often proved an important factor in determining 

 the route to be chosen for the next outing, and in many 

 cases, as above stated, distant journeys were entirely 

 abandoned. It is satisfactory to note that on many lines 

 the old order of things has been changed, and the man 

 with a dog can now travel in comparative safety from 

 extortionate demands and with the assurance that his 

 companion will receive proper care. 



Railroad managers, as a rule, are good business men 

 and are generally wide awake to the interests of their 



calling, and as soon as they learn that there is money in 

 it. there is no fear that the man with a dog will not 

 receive the consideration that he is entitled to. 



THE BLAC& BASS. 



IF we may accept the signs of the times, the black bass 

 is the coming game fish of this country. This is not 

 saying that in the qualities of a game fish it excels the 

 trout and the salmon. It is rather to assert that more 

 people fish for bass than for salmon. His followers— and 

 devoted followers they are— out-number and out- vote the 

 adherents of trout and all other fresh-water fish com- 

 bined. For one thing, the bass is more accessible than 

 the others. People can find time and opportunity to meet 

 him at home. Bass fishing comes best when the general 

 vacation time is here, and when it is convenient for men 

 to "get away" from business and go fishing. 



"We pay a fittting tribute to this game fish in the nine 

 pages devoted to his honor to-day. The material here given 

 if put into book form, and set in ordinary book type, would 

 make an octavo volume of a hundred pages or more, 

 constituting a manual of instruction and chapters of 

 entertainment to the bass angler. We trust that our 

 angling readers will find this special number " to their 

 pleasement," to borrow a phrase from "Kingfisher." 

 There is a variety of material to suit all tastes ; but full 

 and rich as these pages are they do not contain all that 

 we had in hand for to-day. In fact, there is left over, 

 simply for lack of space even in our enlarged issue, 

 sufficient material for another black bass number ; and 

 these papers will be given from time to time as we can 

 provide the way. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



IN the bill admitting Wyoming Territory to Statehood, 

 as passed in the House, no reference whatever was 

 made to the Yellowstone National Park, which as is 

 well known, lies for the most part in Wyoming. This 

 omission the friends of the National Park were quick to 

 notice and to bring to the attention of the Senate. Mr. 

 Manderson, of Nebraska, always a consistent advocate of 

 the National Park, has from the beginning said that he 

 would see that a proper amendment should be inserted in 

 that bill when it came to the Senate. The amendment, 

 which we print below, appears to be carefully drawn and 

 to meet all the requirements of the case. It reads as 

 follows: 



Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall repeal or 

 affect any act of Congress relating to the Yellowstone National 

 Park, or the reservation of the Park as now defined, or as may be 

 hereafter defined or extended, or the power of the United States 

 over it; and nothing contained in this act shall interfere with the 

 right and ownership of the United States in said Park and reser- 

 vation as it now is or may hereafter be defined or extended by 

 law; but exclusive jurisdiction in all cases whatsoever shall be 

 exercised by the United States, which shall have exclusive con- 

 trol and jurisdiction over the same; but nothing in this proviso, 

 contained shall be construed to prevent the service within said 

 Park of civil and criminal processes lawfully issued by the au- 

 thority of said State; and the said State shall not be entitled to 

 select indemnity school lands for the sixteenth and thirty-sixth 

 sections that may be in said Park reservation as I he same is now 

 defined or may be hereafter defined. 



The Philadelphia Times, of July 13, contained an inter- 

 esting sketch stated to be "from a correspondent of the 

 rimes," written from An glesea, N. J., July 11, and des- 

 criptive of "good gunning at Anglesea with Italian Joe." 

 The paper is nothing more nor less than the sketch en- 

 titled, "Italian Joe and de Plov'," prepared originally 

 and expressly for the Forest and Strkam, and published 

 in our "Western Number," of June 12. Joe is simply 

 tiansported to Anglesea and made to decoy his plover on 

 New Jersey marshes. The Times has evidently been im- 

 posed upon by the Anglesea correspondent, who likewise 

 shows himself to be an impudent thief. 



The Rutland, Vt., Fish and Game Club held its second 

 banquet at the Berwick, Rutland, last evening. These 

 social gatherings of anglers and sportsmen appear to be 

 growing in popularity in this country. In Great Britain 

 there are hundreds of them annually. 



An esteemed correspondent who believes in a wood- 

 cock open season for New York beginning Sept. 1 and 

 closing Nov. 15, takes us to task for what he is pleased to 

 term our "lamentation as to shutting off August wood- 

 cock shooting," We have not lamented that at all, 



What we have deprecated and do deprecate is the man- 

 ner in which the change was made. The Attorney-Gen- 

 eral's office declares that the word "woodcock" was 

 smuggled into a bill, which the Legislature in passing it 

 thought referred only to grouse. Now good law or bad 

 law, there is no excuse for legislative forgery. Better 

 lose our game altogether and have done with it than to 

 protect it by "hugger-muggery." If we cannot care for 

 our game by legitimate methods and equitable dealing, 

 it may as well go. A man must be daft on saving the 

 woodcock if he can approve or condone that rottenness 

 which must pervade the Capitol at Albany when game 

 laws are tampered with in this way. The question of 

 right open and close seasons for any bird or for all birds 

 is less important than it is to make sure that whatever 

 law is enacted shall be put on the statute books by meth- 

 ods open, fair and honest. And the principle involved is 

 precisely the same whether the law applies to capital 

 punishment or to shooting woodcock. 



The inter-State commerce bill, which passed the Senate 

 May 29, related only to liquors. Last Tuesday the House 

 adopted in place of the Senate bill a substitute reading 

 as follows: "That whenever any article of commerce is 

 imported into any State from any other State, Territory 

 or foreign nation, and there held or offered for sale, the 

 same shall then be subjected to the laws of such State: 

 Provided, That no discrimination shall be made by any 

 State in favor of its citizens against those of other States 

 or Territories in respect to the sale of any article of com- 

 merce, nor in favor of its own products against those of 

 like character produced in other States or Territories; 

 nor shall the transportation of commerce through any 

 State be obstructed except in the necessary enforcement 

 of the health laws of such State." The House bill is 

 comprehensive in scope, applying to "any article of com- 

 merce," and is clearly applicable to game and fish brought 

 into a State. There is a decided difference of opinion as 

 to the propriety of such action by Congress, but it is rea- 

 sonable to urge that if any law relating to this subject is 

 to be enacted, it should be made to cover all commodi- 

 ties, the sale of which, like that of game and fish, it is 

 essential for the State to control. 



We print to-day the text of the Illinois decision up- 

 holding the law of that State, which forbids killing quail 

 for sale or selling birds which have been killed for sale. 

 As we said last week, while the decision is sound and 

 will do much to advance game protection , Judge Craig is 

 manifestly in error in adopting the principle of State 

 ownership of game as laid down in the Magner case. By 

 a reference to our issue of Aug. 16, 1883, it will be 

 learned that we there set forth at length the principles 

 governing the subject as determined by the English and 

 American interpretations of the common law and by 

 numerous precedents. The well established principle is 

 that the landowner has qualified property in the game 

 or fish on his territory, the qualified property consisting 

 in the exclusive right to take the same. But the^Statehas 

 authority to limit both the taking of game and its dispo- 

 sition after it has been taken. This authority, however, 

 is not rightly based on any claim of ownership by the 

 State, but it is a part of the police power. This power is 

 ample warrant for game laws, and in it must be found 

 the defense of the Illinois law in question. 



Travel in the Yellowstone Park has been very heavy 

 so far this season. Every wheel and every team that the 

 Transportation Co. has or can get hold of has been pressed 

 into the service to accommodate the throngs of tourists 

 who are flocking into the Wonderland. Numbers of 

 travelers are going into the Park from the south by way 

 of Beaver Canon, though of course the great majority 

 enter it over tfte Northern Pacific Railroad from Cinna- 

 bar. 



Next week we shall publish a portrait of the Chinese 

 pheasant, which has been introduced into the Northwest 

 and bids fair to take its place among the game birds of 

 the United States. It is a handsome bird and in every 

 way a worthy addition to the list. 



The world is growing better every day. The Sac City, 

 la., Democrat recently suspended publication of a weekly 

 issue that its force might go fishing. 



