Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, JANUARY 22, 1891. 



( VOL. XXXVI.-No. 1. 



I No. 318 Bboadwat, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



BdITORIAI;. 



Suuapee Trout. 

 Yellowstone National Park. 

 The Zceiogical Park. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 

 In the Region Round Nicato- 

 wis. — II. 



NATTTRAti H.I8TORT. 



The Woodcock's Whistle. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Wildf' wl in Oregon. 



Game and Fish in W. Virginia 



Tramps of a Tenderfoot.— ii. 



Ohio's Ojd - Time Hunting 

 Grounds. 



Chicago and the West. 



Boone and Crockett Club 

 Meeting. 



Quebec Fish and Game Pro- 

 tective Club. 



Massachusetts Assobiation. 



Game Notes. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



The SunapeeTroul. 



A Carp's Dinner. 



Otsego Bass Take the Hook. 



Angling Retreats of Maine. 



Angling Notes. 



Suequphanna River Fishing. 



Fox River Fish and Game 

 Association. 



FrSHCULTURE. 



Michigan Fishculture. 

 The Kennel. 

 Coursing at Newark, Cal. 

 Gordon Setter Club Meeting. 

 Dog Chat. 



Southern Sportsmen's Asso- 

 ciation Meeting. 



The Bulldog Club. 



Binghamton Dog Show. 



Notes from Washington. 



Rochester NotPs. 



Greenville (S. C.) Dog Show. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 RiPLE AND Trap shoooteno. 



Range and GaUerv. 



Manhattan Club Scores. 



Massachusetts Riile Asso. 



The Trap. 



Western Trap. 7 

 Yachting. 



Singlestick Racing in 1890. 



Foreign Yaehts in American 

 Waters. 

 Canoeing. 



W. C. A. Executive Commit- 

 tee Meeting. 



A Canoe Cruise Down the 

 S usqueh anna.— II. 



Hoisting SaU Competition. 



THE ZOOLOGICAL PARK. 



THE management of the National Zoological Park in 

 Washington has recently been attacked in one or 

 two papers of Washington and New York, and appar- 

 ently on wholly insnfficient grounds. A resolution, 

 recently introduced in the House by Mr. Enloe, of Ten- 

 nessee, serves as a text for a disquisition on bad manage- 

 ment and misapplication of funds, but no facts justifying 

 the attack are brought to light. 



It is true as stated that the bill for the organization of 

 the Park became law May 1, 1890, but as has been duly 

 set forth in the Forest and Stkeam, there was required 

 a long time to acquire title to the lands selected for the 

 Park, for it was owned by a number of persons, some of 

 whom refused to sell, so that the land had to be con- 

 demned. It was therefore impossible to begin the neces- 

 sary improvements until late in the fall, and the winter 

 weather has made building operations progress but slowly. 



It is certainly to be desired that the work should go on 

 as rapidly as possible, for the animals are now suffering 

 greatly from their cramped quarters, and one of the 

 rarest of the animals — the mountain sheep — has died 

 from lack of exercise. It is clear, however, that the 

 animals cannot be removed until quarters are provided 

 for them, and it is stated that it was impossible to pro- 

 vide these last autumn. Moreover, the arrangement of a 

 great zoological park is something that has to be care- 

 fully planned. The Park is to be occupied not for one 

 week, but for all time, and care and deliberation are 

 required in making permanent arrangements. 



The claim that about three-quarters of the Park is to 

 be devoted to purposes other than the care of the animals 

 is not, so far as we can learn, supported by facts. If 

 large animals, like buffalo, elk and deer are to thrive, 

 t/bey must have plenty of room, and we understand from 



high authority that the portion "reserved," or a large 

 part of it, is to be pasture and range for these large 

 animals. If this is the case it is well that it should be 

 reserved. The average citizen would perhaps like to 

 have all the animals shut up in small cages, and wishes 

 to get close enough to them to poke them with his cane, 

 but if the animals are to do well they must have a good 

 deal of liberty so that they can get exercise, and be 

 healthy. 



All the facts connected with this Park will probably be 

 brought before Congress before long. Meantime we may 

 have something more to say on the subject. 



THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. 



THE end of the last session of the Fifty-first Congress 

 is at hand, and as yet no action has been taken by 

 the House of Representatives on the Senate bill for the 

 protection and maintenance of the Yellowstone Park. 



This bill, as it passed the Senate, deserved the support 

 of every citizen. After it reached the House, however, 

 it was amended in Committee and had a rider attached 

 to it, which authorizes the granting of a right of way to 

 a railroad through the Park. The amendment has met 

 with unsparing condemnation from press and public, 

 and has made the whole bill unpopular, giving to people 

 who know but little about the subject an impression that 

 the whole measure is a railway grabbling scheme. 



This is not true. As we have repeatedly said, the bill 

 is a thoroughly good one, except for the proposition to 

 grant the right of way to a railroad. If this amendment 

 were cut off the bill ought to pass. Those who feel an 

 interest in the Reservation should understand that this 

 greedy railroad corporation is trying to use this much- 

 needed biU in order to carry through the House its 

 scheme procuring a monopoly of railroad trafiac in the 

 Park. 



In the upper House of Congress there is but one feeling 

 as to this matter. Senators regard the passage of this 

 bill as of great importance. Senator Carey, of Wyoming 

 —in which State the Park for the most part lies— is said 

 to be heart and soul in favor of the bill without the 

 amendment. In the House the volume of business is so 

 large that it is difficult to bring up this bill. If it could 

 come to a vote, and if members generally could be shown 

 how good the measure was as it came from the Senate, 

 and how bad is the amendment which has been attached 

 to it, we have no doubt that the change would be rejected 

 and the bill passed in its original shape. 



In another column we report the action of the Boone 

 and Crockett Club on this subject. The feeling expressed 

 by this organization is shared by similar associations all 

 over the country. The newspapers— so far as we know, 

 without exception — are on the side of law and order 

 within the Park and of the preservation of its forests, its 

 natural wonders and its game. A very large proportion 

 of the more important newspapers have said that the pas- 

 sage of this bill is an urgent necessity. 



At this very moment the Park is practically imguarded, 

 Capt. Boutelle, the superintendent, has been ordered into 

 the field on account of the Indian troubles, and Lieut. 

 Edwards, with ten or a dozen men, is left alone to guard 

 the Park. 



It is greatly to be desired that this bill in proper shape 

 may pass the House during the present session, but mem- 

 bers should see to it that the Senate bill is not used to 

 carry through the railroad amendment. If the railroad 

 company wishes to secure a monopoly of traffic in the 

 Park, it should go to Congress and ask for this privilege 

 on the merits of the question. 



The chances of the bill coming up between now and 

 March 4 depends largely on the feeling of the chairman 

 of the Public Lands Committee. It is earnestly to be 

 hoped that he can be induced to bring up the measure. 



For about ten years the Forest and Stream has been 

 urging the passage by Congress of a bill to provide proper 

 protection for the Park. We have printed on this sub- 

 ject hundreds of columns from the pens of the men who 

 know most about the Park and its needs. Although the 

 legislation for which we have been hoping has not yet 

 come, our efforts have not been without result. It has 

 been a long campaign of education, enforced — as to a 

 small proportion of the public — by object lessons drawn 

 from the pages of nature's book which lie open in the 

 National Park. A general interest has been awakened 

 in this beautiful spot, and the newspapers of all classes 

 noY? call frequent attentloiv to its needs. Thus tbe work 



that we have done has told, and we may hope that the 

 day is not far distant when such a bill as is desired by 

 the real friends of the Park may become a law. 



THE SUNAPEE TROUT. 



IN this number of Forest and Stream will be found a 

 valuable contribution to the history and relations of 

 the golden trout, or Sunapee trout {Salveliniis aureolus). 

 It is gratifying to find that so eminent an ichthyologist 

 as Dr. Jordan, after a study of the materials first dis- 

 cussed in this journal by Dr. Bean, agrees with the latter 

 in considering aureolus as probably native to New Eng- 

 land lakes and not introduced from Europe. Dr. Bean 

 finds the gill rakers in saibling from Bavaria precisely as 

 in the Norwegian specimens. Col. Hodge has pointed 

 out the difference between the two trout in spawning 

 habits and adaptability to domestication. The saibling, 

 however, is said to spawn in lakes as well as streams. 

 ^ Now we incline most strongly to the belief that the 

 saibling and the golden trout have been sufficiently 

 talked about in technical phrase and we prefer to let 

 these two Dromios rest in their respective haunts unless 

 some brother of the angle will tell us how he went 

 fishing for one or the other or both together. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



JUST as we go to press the news comes to us from 

 Washington that Capt. Geo. Anderson of the Sixth 

 Cavalry has been appointed Superintendent of the Na- 

 tional Park. It is stated elsewhere that Capt. F. A. Boutelle 

 was ordered several weeks ago to take the fi.eld on account 

 of the Indian troubles, and it has been supposed for some 

 time that in the spring he would probably be sent to 

 join his regiment in the South, as he would then have 

 served two years as Superintendent of the Park. These 

 two years have been eventful ones for the reservation, 

 and the friends of Captain Botitelle may well look back 

 with pride and satisfaction on what he has accomplished 

 since his appointment. He has worked hard to render 

 the visiting public more comfortable, and has done a 

 vast deal for the protection of the forests and the game. 

 Through his efforts the barren waters of the National 

 Park have been stocked with valuable food fish, and 

 future generations of anglers for all time will rise up and 

 call Captain Boutelle blessed. Captain Anderson, the 

 new Superintendent, is a brave and good officer with a 

 fine record. His service has been mainly in the South- 

 west against the Apaches and other hostile tribes there, 

 but he has many of the qualifications needed in a Super- 

 intendent of the Park. 



It is hardly fair to criticise the idea of traveling and 

 seeing the world, but when one attempts to crowd 

 traveling and seeing the world into his fishing vacation 

 he is pretty likely to be disappointed in the one way or 

 the other; either his trouting is naught, or he goes to 

 the streams, the lakes and the woods where he knows 

 the grotind. In short, it is with trouting as with every- 

 thing else, it takes a good part of a lifetime to become 

 familiar with even a small part of the world. Then 

 there is the homelike feeling which begins to cling around 

 even the lean-to in the woods or the tent; we hate to see 

 it torn down, and we all want to see it again next year. 

 Then there is the stream and the pools, the lakes and the 

 bold, rocky shores, where "the trout do hide." There is 

 the very spot where we hooked that large one laet year. 

 There is no new spot just like it. Permanent camps are 

 getting to be the fashion, and a good and comfortable 

 fashion it is. 



There is an incident of one of the late Dr. Ferber's fish - 

 ing excursions to Florida, which admirably illustrates 

 the kind heart and unselfishness of the man. On an 

 island in Charlotte Harbor one time Dr. Ferber found a 

 man very ill with typhoid fever, contracted during a 

 cattle hunt in the Everglades. Dr. Ferber devoted him- 

 self assiduously to his patient, and by his skill and atten- 

 tion brought him safely through. The grateful man 

 insisted upon the Doctor's acceptance of a small island 

 in the harbor as a reward for his services, but this Dr. 

 Ferber would not hear to. "That island," said he after- 

 ward, "came to be worth a thousand dollars. It is not 

 every angling doctor that can pick up thousand dollar 

 islands wben he goes fishing." 



