Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, MARCH 12, 18 91. 



) VOL. XXXVI.-No. 8. 



( No. 318 Broadwat, New Yot?.k. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 Amateur Revolver Champion- 

 ship. 



Tbe National Park Bill. 



The Corbin Game Park. 



Snap Shots. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 



A Stampede in the Storm. 



In the Region Round Nicato- 

 wis.— IX. 

 Natttral Histort. 



Dragon Flies and Mosquitoes. 



Horn Snake— Fox Sparrow. 



The Corbin Game Park. 

 Game Bag akd Gun. 



Bears and Bear Hunting. 



Rearing Pheasants. 



New System of Sighting Shot- 

 guns. 



Adirondack Deer Killing 



Methods. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 St. Louis Notes. 

 New .Jersey Codification. 

 Game Notes. 

 Sea and Rrs'^ER Fishing. 

 Fly-Fishing for Shad. 

 Riparian Nights. 

 A West Tirginia Resort. 

 The Unknown River. 



Sea and Rn'ER Fishing. 

 The Pickei^el Fishermen. 

 Tarpon at Fort Myers. 

 Auglirg Notes. 

 New York Game Bill. 



FrSHCtJLTURE. 



New York Fish Commission. 

 The Kennel. 



The Baltimore Dog Show. 



Pittsburgh Dog Show. 



The Omaha K. C. 



Dog Chat. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 Rifle and Trap Shootinq 



Range and Gallery. 



Zettler Tenm Shoot. 



Magazine Gun Test. 



The Trap. 



Chicago Trap Experts. 



Elliott— Wolstencrof t. 



L^nion Gun Club. 

 Yachting. 



St. Lawrence Y. C. 



Cruising Cat Yawl Kuma. 



Demurrage on Yachts. 



Biscayne Bay Y. C. 

 Canoeing. 



Cruise of the Shenandoah C. C. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



AMATEUR REVOLVER CHAMPIONSHIP. 



ME. WALTER WINANS, who is well known to 

 American marksmen as the best revolver shot of 

 Great Britain, has asked Forest and Stream to act as 

 his representative in fixing the amateur revolver cham- 

 pionship of America. In his letter to Forest and Stream 

 he announces his desire to ofi:er a piece of bronze as the 

 emblem of that championship. The objet d'arf which he 

 contributes will be of his own make. For years it has 

 been a work of loving pleasure on the part of Mr. Winans 

 to fashion the daintiest bits of sculpture in wax, have 

 them cast in enduring bronze and present them to ap- 

 preciative and specially honored friends. It is not im- 

 possible that in a response to a demand which has been 

 often rejjeated, some of these works may find their way 

 into the regular channels of art sale and thus come 

 within the reach of those who would gladly possess 

 these quaint artistic samples of wax sculpture. It is one 

 of these pieces, a figure of a mounted cowboy, we be- 

 lieve, which is to come over here as the emblem of the 

 championship. 



The problem now is, and one which we invite our re- 

 volver-shooting friends to share with us in solving, to fix 

 the conditions; our own notion is to make the conditions 

 so free that no one will feel that he is shooting under a 

 handicap of any sort in striving for the honor of being 

 the first revolver s=hot of America. Briefly stated, the 

 conditions will probably be fixed so as to have the shoot- 

 ing at 20yds., by any revolver, with any sight, with 

 any trigger pull, with any ammunition, strictly off-hand, 

 6 shots, at a target which will enable the shots to be 

 measured each in inches and fractions from th,e fixed 

 center. With such a target it wSlbe possible to translate 

 the record into the scores of any target of the dozens now 

 in use. An open match first, with scores from anywhere, 

 and then a final struggle of the leading ten or a dozen 



shooters, under strict scrutiny at a fixed time and place, 

 will determine who shall have the honor of first holding 

 the trophy, to be defended for a certain length of time 

 against challenge before becoming personal and perma- 

 nent property. 



These, in a general way, are the conditions which 

 strike us as about right for such a match, and likely to 

 give the widest satisfaction. On these and all points, 

 however, we shall be glad, before fixing finally the rules 

 of the contest, to hear from the Massachusetts Rifle Asso- 

 ciation's revolver shots, from those who do such fine 

 work of this sort at Conlin's famous New York gallery^ 

 or the members of the New York Revolver Glub meeting 

 at the Zettler gallery. St. Louis has revolver marksmen 

 whose opinion will be welcome as prospective competi- 

 tors, and the Philadelphia galleries are also to be heard 

 from. We invite the widest discussion and, by a prompt 

 expression of opinion from all sides, hope to have the 

 competition on at a very early date. 



THE NATIONAL PARK BILL. 

 'T^HE lobby which was working to obtain the right of 

 J- way for the Montana Mineral Railway through the 

 National Park has again succeeded in preventing Con- 

 gressional action on the bill for the enlargement and pro- 

 tection of that reservation. Almost up to the last hour 

 of the session there was some slight hope that the Senate 

 bill might come up for action, but in the hurry of confer- 

 ence reports and other matters this important measure 

 was crowded into the background. The lobby— if their 

 agents are correctly quoted — do not hesitate to boast of 

 the means which they employed in their attempts to 

 monopolize the National Park; and in a recent interview 

 Col. May, the "promoter' of the Motana Mineral Railroad, 

 is reported to have said: "We had a powerful lobby, * * 

 but the opposition was too strong." Except for the efforts 

 of the railroad lobby to put through their iniquitous 

 ischeme the measure would probably have become law 

 before now, and the next season would have seen the sur- 

 veying of the boundaries of the Park and the establishment 

 there of a form of government which would have been 

 not only a great benefit to the Park at large, but also a 

 security to each individual who might visit it. All this 

 is now indefinitely postponed, as is also the prospect 

 for building any railway from Cinnabar to Cooke City, 

 something which might have been done had the Montana 

 Mineral Railway people been willing to assent to the cut- 

 ting off the northeast corner of the Park. 



The statement is now made that the road will be con- 

 structed, but that a new route is to be selected, which 

 will not enter the Yellowstone Park. It is said that the 

 work of construction will be begun as soon as the surveys 

 are completed, which last seems to us to have a familiar 

 sound. 



The mine owners at Cooke have only that lobby to thank 

 for their present isolation. If they want an outlet to the 

 Northern Pacific R. R. we would suggest that they now 

 take an active interest in pushing the construction of 

 some railroad between Cooke City and the Northern Pa- 

 cific which shall not threaten the integrity of the Park, 



THE CORBIN GAME PARK. 

 II IR, AUSTIN CORBIN'S game park in New Hamp- 

 shire is an enterprise so generous in scope, so 

 praiseworthy in spirit, and so important in its bearings 

 on game preservation, that it has excited widespread 

 interest among sportsmen and naturalists. In response 

 to our request Mr. John R. Spears has written an account 

 of what has been accomplished up to the present time; 

 and the story is printed in our game columns to-day. 

 Mr. Corbin is engaged in an attempt to bring together all 

 the large game species of our continent adapted to the 

 climate of New Hampshire, and to maintain them there 

 under conditions as nearly as practicable approaching theu- 

 native haunts. His great preserve is admirably adapted 

 to the purpose, since theie are within its boundaries 

 diversities of cover fitted for each species. The results 

 sure to follow the successful maintenance of game under 

 these conditions will be of immeasurable value; and we 

 speak for every sportsman in the land when we bespeak 

 for the promotors of this New Hampshire enterprise every 

 encouragem^t and a cordial public support. 



The market hunters of the lower Potomac call canvas- 

 back ducks "white-backs," And sportsmen they cnW 

 "sports." 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 T^HE telegraph brings us the news of the death on Tues- 

 day last, at Neosho, Kansas, of Col. N. S. Goss, the 

 State ornithologist of Kansas, and a member of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union. Col. Goss was one of 

 the best known men in Kansas, and had a wide acquaint- 

 ance among ornithologists. In the pursuit of his favorite 

 science he had traveled over a great deal of the North 

 American continent, for he was anxious to have a per- 

 sonal acquaintance with each species of our birds. His 

 collection of birds, and also of insects, was very large, 

 and the results of his ornithological labors was seen in 

 the papers which he has published on the birds of Kansas, 

 and the numerous additions to the avifaima of that State 

 which he had recorded. A much more ambitious work 

 from Col, Goss's pen on the Birds of Kansas was received 

 at this office only the day before his sad death, and is 

 now on our table for review-. Col. Goss, who was no 

 longer a yoimg man, died of heart disease. When his 

 death was announced to the Legislature, the Senate 

 adopted resolutions setting forth his invaluable services 

 and the irreparable loss to the State by his death. 



A well known Boston commission merchant has a let- 

 ter from a merchant down in the Province, asking for a 

 bid on a live caribou. The owner desires to sell him. He 

 is tame, will eat hay, oats and turnips like a horse, would 

 be likely to run faster than any of the trotters of Beacon 

 Park. He is three years old, or believed to be. Has a 

 fine pair of antlers. Some of the boys in the produce 

 trade think of forming a stock company and bringing 

 that caribou to Boston. The game laws of the Provinces 

 permit of taking and sending deer and caribou out of the 

 country in close time if alive. Some of the dime museums 

 will doubtless get the animal, but Mr, Austin Corbin can 

 doubtless have him, if he will bid against the showmen 

 and pay enough. 



Now that the cartridge trust has removed all restrictions 

 as to the selling price of cartridges, it is to be expected 

 that ammunition will be to the dealer in sporting goods 

 what sugai- is to the grocer, a line on while the profits 

 are nil. Under the old rule, which the Ammunition 

 Association held up prices, the rates fixed by them were 

 such that on all ammunition there was a profit of at least 

 10 per cent. There are so many dealers who will cut 

 prices down to bare cost, to make a "leader" of ammuni- 

 tion, that the prices will inevitably di'op all around. The 

 buyer will gain, to be sure, but the individual purchaser's 

 benefit will be so slight, after all, that he will hardly feel 

 it. 



Whether or not the trout season will open in New York 

 on April 1 is something nobody can tell. ' The codifica- 

 tion bill retains the date of May 1 as the opening day. 

 The bill provides that the new law shall take effect im- 

 mediately upon its enactment. If the Legislature shall 

 retain the date of May 1 and shall pass the bill sometime 

 in April, say the 10th, after the season under the present 

 law shall have opened, it will complicate things for the 

 angler who may have left home for the trout streams on 

 the 9th, But this is borrowing trouble. There is time 

 enough yet for the opening to be put back to April 1, 

 where it belongs. 



Why should the New England States not have uniform 

 game laws, or so nearly uniform as to secure the advan- 

 tages of cooperative protection? The Massachusetts 

 Association for the Protection of Fish and Game, through 

 its secretary, Mr, Richard O. Harding, invites correspond- 

 ence from other societies on this subject. It is hoped 

 that a convention may be held in Boston at an early date. 



The work of the Boston society toward stocking the 

 covers of the Old Bay State with game birds is going 

 bravely on. The acclimatization committee has received 

 OA^er 1,000 quail and 143 prairie chickens, with more to 

 come. It is to be hoped that the spirit of the association 

 and its object in increasing the game supply of the State 

 may be so thoroughly appreciated that the birds may 

 have necessary protection. 



The New York codification game bill has been largely 

 modified; and numerous concessions have been made to 

 suit local interests, The bill is now in the printer's hands. 

 We hope to give the details of the changes next week. 



