Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun, 



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NEW YORK, MAY 28, 1891. 



« VOL. XXXVI.-No. 19. 



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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Fflth' rs and Sons. 



Thp Fur Seals. 



Jack- Hunting Deer. 



Snap Shots. 

 Sportsman Totteist. 



On the North Shore.— v. 

 NATtTRAL History. 



Hint to Collectors. 



Thp Pn'cupme. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



A Phan'om Gobtiler. 



A Springtime Hunt. 



Cnit ago and the West. 



Eph. Brown and the Bear. 



Six Years Under Maine Game 

 Laws.— vu. 



Gamp Notes. 

 Sea anl River Fishing. 



Washington City Notes. 



Angling in Canada. 



Plea^^ant Lake. 



Tons of Fish Dried Up. 



Angling Note'. 



A Day on the Potomac. 



New Hampshire TroiitSeason. 



Chicago and the West. 



The Kennel. 



A. K. C. Meeting. 



Eastern Field Trials Derby 

 Entries. 



Beagle Training. 



Notes and Notions. 



"The American Book of the 

 Dog." 



Dog Chat. 



Kennel Notes. 



Kennel Management. 

 RiELE AND Trap Shootinq. 



Range and Galler^ 



English Revolver Matches. 



The Trap. 



Washington Tnter-State. 



Iowa Slate Annual. 



New York State Shoot. 

 Yachting. 



Maid of Honor. 



In the Delaware Tides. 



Bt-nding Wood. 



New York Y. R. A. 

 Canoeing. 



Canoe YawlF. 



Northern Divisiori Meet. 

 Answers to Correspondents 



FATHERS AND SONS. 



WITHIN a few vfeeks past an unusual number of 

 deaths have been reported from accidents to 

 persons engaged in outdoor recreation. Several cases 

 have occurred of young men being shot by companions, 

 who took them for -wild animals, v^hile deaths by drown- 

 ing vphile outsailing have furnished texts more than once 

 for newspaper sermons. Ifc is well understood that acci- 

 dents such as these do not commonly happen to persons 

 of intelligence and experience; but, on the other hand, 

 no one can begin his career as a sportsman knowing all, 

 or indeed any considerable part of, what he ought to 

 know. It is by hard knocks and by himself seeing 

 things done, and done well, that the heedless, ignorant 

 boy becomes the intelligent and competent sportsman. 

 The lesson which such accidents as these teach is not 

 that the use of guns and boats should be abandoned, but 

 that the young should learn how to use them under com- 

 petent instruction. 



The boy is an imitative animal and looks with respect 

 upon his elders, who are familiar with matters about 

 which he knows little or nothing. If he goes into the 

 jfieli with a thorough sportsman, the boy will uncon- 

 sciously imitate him and will act as he acts. He will 

 soon by intuition take care not to point his gun at dogs 

 or men, not to shoot toward his companion in thick cover, 

 not to fire at a bii-d that belongs to another. His manners 

 and habits in the field will be formed on those of the 

 elder friend, whose skill he admires and whose knowledge 

 he respects. 



On the other hand, if he goes out alone or with some 

 one whose only thought is to get all the birds possible; 

 who is careless with his weapon ; is willing to risk his 

 companion's eyes, or perhaps his life, by shooting towai'd 

 him; who races toward the fallen bird in order to get to 

 it before his ill-trained dog has eaten it up, or at least re- 

 duced it to a mass of pulp, the boy may very likely become 

 a careless, noisy field rowdy. 



What is true of the gun is also true of the boat and the 



canoe. No power on earth can keep the boy from loving 

 and indulging in outdoor recreation. He will sail and 

 paddle if his surroundings admit of this form of sport, 

 and to make it safe for him, see to it that his first excur- 

 sions are taken under the charge of some older friend or 

 relative, who is competent and careful. 



Good habits, in sport as in other things, are easily in- 

 stilled into the youthful mind, and once adopted are not 

 easily forgotten or abandoned. The boy will shoot, will 

 sail, will ride. It is the duty of parents to see that he is 

 so taught to do these things that he shall do them well. 

 His pleasure will be vastly increased, and the uneasiness 

 and anxiety so often felt by the anxious parent will be no 

 longer experie nced. 



THE FUR SEALS. 

 TDEESONS who are interested in the preservation of 

 the fur seals from extinction seem to feel very little 

 hope that anything will be done by the Government in 

 time to be of benefit this year. The season for killing is 

 about to open, a large number of Canadian vessels — 

 forty-nine — have left British Columbia ports to engage 

 in pelagic sealing, and still the Government officials are 

 silent and no reply is given to England's proposition to 

 make a close time until a more definite knowledge shall 

 be had of the conditions which prevail on the seal islands. 



The excuse is given, by those who wish to get the skins, 

 that before a close season can be ordered a report must 

 be had from the agents recently appointed to look after 

 the interests of the Government. This is a flimsy pre- 

 text and means nothing. These newly appointed agents 

 know nothing about the fur seal, nor can they acquire 

 any knowledge of the animal or its habits until they 

 have devoted a season or two to studying it. If the kill- 

 ing is allowed to continue while they are carrying on this 

 course of study, their observations will have a certain 

 historical interest, but will not affect the preservation of 

 this interesting and useful mammal, for by the time their 

 reports have been printed the work of extermination 

 will be practically complete. 



As things stand at this writing, the North American 

 Commercial Company has the right to slaughter 60,000 

 young male seals on the Pribylov Islands; in other words, 

 to destroy the whole stock of male seals on which the 

 crop for ten years to come depends. It is difficult to 

 understand how intelligent men can contemplate such 

 action as this. It might be supposed that even the Com- 

 mercial Company would realize that this action will 

 destroy their future business, will wipe out any profits in 

 the years to come. This is on the hypothesis that the 

 management of this company have taken the lease of 

 the seal islands as a matter of legitimate business. Of 

 com"se, if it is a mere piece of stock jobbing, if these 

 managers are nothing more than "promoters," if they 

 wish to declare a large dividend one year, hoping on the 

 strength of that dividend to peddle out their stock in the 

 company at a great price to a gullible public, then their 

 action is natural enough. But, if this is the case, it 

 seems a thousand pities that the United States Govern- 

 ment should lend its aid to any such scheme. 



JACK-HUNTING DEER. 



COLUMNS and columns of discussion have been 

 printed for and against the practice of hunting 

 deer in the Adirondacks by floating for them at night 

 with a jack-light. Opponents of this mode of hunting 

 have repeatedly urged the Legislature to forbid it; but 

 the existing law permits jacking. 



The Adirondack League Club is an association which 

 has control of a large territory in the Jock's Lake district, 

 and in addition to the State game laws there are rules of 

 the club regulating the taking of game and fish by its 

 members. These forbid the taking by any member of 

 more than fifteen pounds of speckled trout or ten in num- 

 ber of lake trout in one day, and the same limitation is 

 put on fish carried from the preserve. Another rule 

 reads: "Jacking or floating for deer is absolutely pro- 

 hibited." This regulation was adopted, we are told, 

 because the members were convinced that jack-hunting 

 resulted in the wounding and maiming of more deer than 

 werekiUed, and in the lingering deaths of more deer than 

 were "reduced to possession." 



The adoption of such a rule by the Adirondack League 

 Association is significant and worthy of note, because 

 the attitude of the State toward its game at lai-ge should 

 be in no respect different from that of such a private 

 prganizatjon toward the game in its preserves, 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 "pvR. JAMES A. HENSHALL, who has in charge the 

 preparation of the angling exhibit of the World's 

 Fair, has been visiting some of the tackle makers, and 

 reports a growing interest in the subject. With the co- 

 operation of dealers and anglers, it is hoped that the 

 Chicago display will far surpass anything ever done in 

 this line. The scheme is comprehensive and is gradu- 

 ally being elaborated in detail. The exhibition will in- 

 clude all forms of tackle and angling appliances, and an 

 extensive aqtiarium of living specimens. This will be 

 under the charge of Mr. Wm. P. Seal, of the Fish Com- 

 mission, and well known to our readers as the author of 

 valuable studies of water life. The exhibition will ad- 

 join the Government exhibit, and will be contained in a 

 building of spacious dimensions. Dr. Henshall will 

 gladly receive suggestions from all who are interested. 

 We hope to give a detailed plan of the exhibit in an early 

 issue. 



The Cranberry Lake waters of the Adirondacks have 

 yielded another large trout. Sir. Frank Paddock, of 

 Watertown, scored a fish in the inlet the other day weigh- 

 ing 4ilb3. It was here that Mr. A. Ames Hewlett, of 

 Syracuse, in July of 1888, captured the trout of Slbs. 14oz. 

 whose birch-bark outline still adorns the office of the 

 Forest and Stream. The fish was mounted and is now 

 in the museum of Syracuse University. Mr. Howlett's 

 fish was only second to an Adirondack trout taken by 

 Mr. Walter Aiken, of< Franklin Falls, N, H.; who in 1884 

 caught a trout of 61bs. 2oz. This was at Spring Pond, 

 near the Second Pond of the Chain of Ponds. The best 

 of this incident was that the big fish was one of a num- 

 ber which when smaller had been transferred by Mr. 

 Aiken from other waters and planted here to grow big 

 enough to make a record on. 



We have received for the Helen Keller Fund, since last 

 Thursday, the following: 



Dr. J. Frank Perry, Boston $5.00 



"Big Reel," Morristown, N. J. 2.00 



A Friend (through Mr. W. Wade) 1.00 



$8.00 



Amount sent to Helen Keller 118.25 



Total to date $126.25 



The Winans Revolver Trophy is now on exhibition 

 in the window of Messrs. Hartley & Graham, No. 315 

 Broadway, where it is exciting much admiration. The 

 handsome base, received by us subsequently to Mr. 

 Lacy's drawing published last week, adds decidedly to 

 the effect of the piece. The trophy is an artistic bit of 

 realism, whose truthfulness is at once recognized. 



John Morton, who died in this city last week, was in 

 his old age fond of telKng how he used to stand in the 

 doorway of his house on Canal street and shoot quail on 

 the opposite side of the canal. The spot is within a Bob 

 White's whistle of the Forest and Stream office. 



Heard IN Boston: "Hello! Been fishing?" "No. Had 

 the grippe; in the house two weeks; lost twenty pounds, 

 and my spring fishing." "Well, my young friend, you'll 

 get back your twenty pounds all right, but not your 

 spring fishing." 



Flash-light photography enables the angler, returning 

 home late at night, to photograph his fish before they 

 have shrunk. We have seen some excellent examples of 

 such work. It leaves no allowance for shrinkage over 

 night. 



The New York Times announces in display headlines 

 Fish puzzle the anglers. They are full of unaccount- 

 able freaks this year." Did the fish man of the Times 

 ever know a year when fish were not full of freaks? 



Salmon are reported in good supply in the Penobscot at 

 Bangor. Hudson salmon are occasionally taken in nets. 

 Two were captured at Hudson last week, and released. 

 The largest was estimated at 181bs. 



A St. Augustine correspondent writes that Florida 

 promises to have an efficient game law if the bill now 

 under consideration shall pass in its present shape. 



An Idaho law prohibits the killing of moose for six 

 ^ears, 



