Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun, 



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NEW YORK, JUNE 11, 1891. 



J VOL. XXXYI.-No. 31. 



I No. 318 Beoadwat, New York. 



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CONTENTS. 



EDITOHIAIi. „ . 



Auffling at the ^\orld's Fair. 



A Shooting Era. 



Snap Shots. 

 Sportsman Tourist. 



Two Pilgrims in the West. 



Notes by the Way. 

 Naturai, History. 



How Was It Done? 



Ruffed Grouse in Confinement 

 Game Bag asd Gun. 



Weights and Bores. 



Six Years Under Maine Game 

 Laws.— VIII. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



On the North Shore.— vn. 



Trout and Pickerel. 



Chicago and the West. 



Minnesota Fishins. 



Fisberies at the World's Fair. 



The Joys of Deep-Sea Fishing. 



The Kankakee River Question. 



Angling Notes. 



The Vermont League. 



After Canada's Salmon and 

 Trout. 



Fish in Maine Waters. 

 The Kennel. 



Greyhounds at Chicago. 



National Beagle Club Meeting 



The Kennei,. 

 Two Matters. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Rifle and Trap Shootikg 



Range and GaUery. 



Revolver Shooting in England 



The Trap. 



Davenport, Iowa. 



Canajobarie Gun Club. 



Saratoga Inter-State. 

 Yachting. 



Yachts vs. Tugboats. 



A Chance for Commissioner 



Collapsible Channels. 

 Marj nrie. 



Medusa— Staples Collision. 

 Atlantic Y. C. Raceis. 

 Larchmont Spring Regatta. 

 A New Yaehting Station. 

 The Watson Centerboarder. 

 Canoeing. 

 TheZerega Sail Hoisting Com- 

 petition. 

 English Canoes of 1891. 

 To Windward Without a Rud- 

 der. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



An Adirondack Number. 



rpHE Forest and Stream of June 18 will be an Adi- 

 rondack Number. It will have a fom--page sup- 

 plement filled with papers relating to the different phases 

 of life in the North Woods, and there will be such variety 

 that all readers, whether visitors to the region or not, will 

 find something to their tastes. Among the contents will 

 be the following: 



The Primeval Adirondacks. 

 An account of camp life and hunting in the Smith's 

 Lake country. By Raymond Gr. Hopper. 



Two Weeks at Spruce Lake. 



The experiences of four young fellows under tutelage 

 of a guide. 



Paul Smith's in 1 890. 



A racy picture of life as it is lived at this famous North 

 Woods hostlery. By Fannie B. Merrill. 



The Blazed Trail. 

 A story of misadventure. By W. P. Anderson. 



Three Weeks on the Raquette. 

 A detailed account of deer hounding. By Paul Pastnor. 



A Reminiscence of '66. 

 Deer hunting incidents recalled by an old hunting 

 coat. By "Senior." 



The North Woods in the Fifties. 

 A visit to the Adirondaoks thirty-three years ago, 



ANGLING AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. 

 T T is safe to assume that no single department of the 

 World's Fair in 1893 will have a greater interest for 

 Forest and Stream readers than the angling exhibit, 

 which will be held in conjunction with the Government's 

 fishery display. In our angling columns will be found a 

 paper by Ca.pt. J. W. Collins, outlining the scheme of the 

 exhibit. Dr. James A. Henshall is in charge of the 

 angling department, with present headquarters at Wash- 

 ington ; and he will be glad to communicate with any 

 persons who may have in their possession articles appro- 

 priate for exhibition. The scope of the display will be 

 broad enough to include all objects of interest, from an 

 ancient work on angling or a prehistoric fish-hook to the 

 latest fad in tackle. 



There is no need of a World's Fair to demonstrate that 

 tremendous strides in the field of angling appurtenances 

 have been made during the fifteen years which wHl have 

 elapsed since the Centennial; and yet the American an- 

 gler has become so accustomed to the announcements of 

 new rods and lures and other devices, and fishing tackle 

 has been so multiplied and perfected, that without some 

 such display as that which is projected for the Chicago 

 fair few of us are likely half to realize the truth. Take a 

 single branch of angling, that for black bass — with which 

 Dr. Henshall by reason of his writings on the subject is 

 popularly associated. When the Forest and Stream 

 was established in 1873, there was no black bass tackle to 

 be had. The manufacturers did not make it; they 

 said there was no call for it. But look through 

 the catalogues to-day; each maker is striving to 

 outdo his competitors in the supply of rods, reels, lines 

 and flies specially adapted to this popular fish. And so 

 it is in all other branches. The demand has increased 

 year by year, and keeping pace the tackle industry has 

 grown surprisingly; just how far we have progressed 

 wiU not be fully appreciated until we see the collections 

 at Chicago. 



Our illustration shows the central portion of the fish- 

 eries building. Excluded from the view are two smaller 

 polyginal buildings, connected with the main building on 

 either end by arcades. The extreme length of the build- 

 ing over all is 1,100ft., and the width 200ft. It is built 

 on a banana-shaped island, and the building is subdivided 

 into three parts, to conform to the shape of the site. In 

 the central portion will be the general fisheries exhibit. 

 In one of the polyginal buildings will be the angling ex- 

 hibit, and in the other the aquaria. 



A SHOOTING ERA. 



NEVER since man first learned the use of villainous 

 saltpetre for hurling projectiles has there been such 

 an era of powder burning as the present. The discharge 

 of musketry and artillery by armies and squadrons in 

 time of war is not to be compared with the continuous 

 and universal firing of guns all over this fair land smil- 

 ing with peace. It is an era of gunpowder. 



The inventions of artificial targets for the trap and of 

 machines for loading shotgim shells have wrought a revo- 

 lution in shooting. It was not so long ago that some of 

 us cannot recollect it, when to go shooting meant an 

 undertaking to be planned for and prepared for, A time 

 had to be set, and odd hours were devoted to loading 

 shells, studying time tables, and making ready for travel 

 and absence from home. Even when one had reached 

 his destination, he was compelled to hunt up his game 

 before he could shoot it, or shoot at it; and it sometimes 

 happened that after all, for the time and effort expended, 

 there was nothing more tangible to show for it than tan 

 and fuUer breathing and an elastic step. 



But all this has been changed. We have reached an 

 age and a stage as nearly approaching the you-press-the- 

 button style of shotgun using as the busiest and most ex- 

 peditious of shooters could clamor for. The target fac- 

 tories and ammunition dealers have made it easy and 

 practicable for all to shoot, without expenditure of time 

 in travel or hunting for game. When a busy man takes 

 it into his head that he will have a little shoot, he sends 

 to the gun store for a hundred loaded shells, and the boy 

 returns with the order filled. The man takes them home, 

 calls in his next door neighbor, with his neighbor's boy 

 to handle the trap, draws a supply of targets from the 

 store in the barn, and they bang away to their heart's 

 content: and after it is all over one or the other of them 

 has something to show for it. No time has been lost, no 

 money paid out for railroad fares and hotel bills, no dis- 



appointment incurred by reason of barren covers or 

 elusive game. 



Trap-shooting has this in its favor, that it can be taken 

 up in odd hours, without spending time in travel, and 

 without the disappointments that wait on the novice 

 in game hunting. There are scores and hundreds of 

 towns where two or three or a half dozen business men 

 spend a few hours each week in shooting at the trap, 

 without any interference with business; but where no one 

 of the shooters would think of leaving home for even a 

 day to go shooting. And just in this is to be found the 

 certainty that trap-shooting as a form of rational amuse- 

 ment will continue to grow in popularity. 



The development of trap-shooting has had a perceptible 

 efl'ect on the making of guns. Trap-shooters as a rule 

 demand guns which will shoot close; they want an arm 

 that will carry its shot in a compact mass for a long 

 distance. Given such a gun, they will take care of the 

 rest, and by practice acquire the skill to hold on the 

 target. As trap-shooting gains in popularity a large pro- 

 portion of the guns sold are closely choked. On the 

 other hand, for work in the field, guns which will scatter 

 more are preferred. 



There used to be frequent discussions of the merits of 

 trap-shooting as a preparative for field shooting, but 

 the subject has little consideration nowadays, because 

 a vast proportion of gunners who have taken to 

 trap-shooting are not field shots, nor will they ever be. 

 There is not game enough for them all to shoot, and 

 they have not the opportunity to seek it. 



Unquestionably there are a hundred good shots to-day 

 where there were ten five years ago; that is to say, good 

 shots who can hold closer on the flying target and make 

 a score at artificial birds. The art of shooting — if by this 

 is understood the perfection of gun and ammunition and 

 skill in their handling to hit a mark — has been mastered 

 by thousands who under the old regime would never 

 have found time to try to bag game in the field. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE good work recently done by Dr, Willett Kidd, 

 one of the New York State Game Protectors, in 

 securing the prosecution of Charles Delmonico, of the 

 famous Delmonico's restaurant of this city, deserves 

 recognition. Last summer Dr. Kidd visited Delmonico's 

 and ordered woodcock at a time when they were out of 

 season. The birds were served; and this prosecution has 

 followed, the suit being for the recovery of a penalty of 

 $25 each for twenty-four birds. Dr. Kidd is doing ex- 

 cellent service in his district. 



What with taxes and license regulations and hydropho- 

 bia scares and Ubel suits, the dog owner of to-day has 

 surely enough to contend with, without being subjected 

 to new embarrassments; but here comes an added com- 

 plication. A Tarrytown, N. Y., poetess has just brought 

 suit for |o,000 damages against her next door neighbors, 

 whose dogs by their howling have prevented her from 

 making poetry. It would be necessary to examine the 

 poetry she has already written to determine whether or 

 not the dogs have performed a commendable service in 

 protecting the public from any more of the same sort* 

 but they may have reasoned in their brute way that in 

 thus baying the muse they were only doing their duty. 



At last an agreement has been reached by the United 

 States and England to limit the killing of seals this summer 

 to the 7,500 which are required as a food supply for the 

 natives of the islands. Presumably the prohibition of the 

 contemplated killing by the Commercial Company has 

 come too late to restrict the catch to the limit named* 

 but it is gratifying to know that even such an arrange- 

 ment as the present has been made. 



The first rule in writing for publication, or in writing 

 for any other purpose for that matter, is to sign a com- 

 munication with the writer's name, or to accompany it 

 with a note giving this information. Anonymous com- 

 munications are not regarded in newspaper offices. If a 

 writer requests that his name be withheld from publica- 

 tion, such a request is always respected. 



American wild pigeons have taken their place among 

 menagerie specimens of rare creatures. Several were 

 received at the Central Park aviaries the other day. 



We have received through Mr, W. Wade $10 for the 

 Helen Keller fund. Tbe giver is unknown to us, 



