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CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 

 Edward Burgess. 

 Silver Trout of Monadnock 

 Lake. 



Shooting Tournaments and 

 Gamfi Protection. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Spoutsman Tourist. 



On tne North Shore.— XT. 

 Natxirai. History. 



The Porcupine. 



Whale, Walrus and Seal. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Another Old Story. 



Saint Mary's Lakes Fisliing. 



Six Years tinder Maine Game 

 Laws.— X. 



Iq Mexico. 



Chicago and the West. 

 Hunting and Fishing in the 

 West. 



Sea and River FiftniNQ. 



Where the Trout Rise. 



The Deadly Spear and Set- 

 Line. 



Angling Notes. 



Canadian Angling Notes. 



Rocky Mountain Grayling. 

 The Kennel. 



Use and Fancy. 



Greyhound Men for Grey- 

 hounds. 



National Beagle Club Mpeling 

 Uniied States Field Trials 

 Derby Entries. 



The Kennel. 

 Oriolii Kennels. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Rifle and Trap Shooting 

 Range and Gallery. 

 Revolver Shooting in England. 

 The Bisley Running Deer 



Range. 

 The Trap. 



Some Dayton Shooting. 



El Paso International. 



The Boston Tournament. 



The Fourth at Topeka. 



A Massachusetts Match. 



The Nichols— Gray Match. 

 Yachting. 



New York Y. C. Cruise. 



Riverside Y. C. 



Light Dnes From Yachts. 



Edward Burgess. 



Mr. Burgess's Work. 



Death of Mr. McMuUen. 



"Small Yachts." 

 Canoeing. 



Cance- Yawls and Canoe - 

 Yachts. 



Transportation to the Meet. 



American and British Canoe 

 Rules. 



The Club Regatta. 



Toronto C. C. 



Atlantic Division Meet. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



EDWARD BURGESS. 



SPECULATION is never idle on the subject of inter- 

 national i-acing and challenges for the America's 

 Cup; every year fresh possibilities are discussed of chal- 

 lenges from this man or that, of new yachts intended as 

 challengers, and of a thousand and one circumstances 

 which may affect the racing. While for four years there 

 has not been an occurrence connected with international 

 yachting which has amounted to more than a matter for 

 a few days' gossip, the present week has brought a change 

 which has startled the whole yachting world, and which 

 must have a most important bearing on the subject in 

 the immediate future. 



Of all possible contingencies, favorable or otherwise, 

 that might affect the A merica's Cup, no one has ever sug- 

 gested the removal of Mr. Burgess from the ranks of its 

 defenders, nor has such an event seemed at airprobable. 

 Strong and vigorous, in the prime of life and at the 

 height of his fame, prosperous in his business and most 

 happy in his social and domestic relations, his death 

 was almost the only contingency which had not been sug- 

 gested by the busy tongues that are constantly on the 

 alert for a new sensation in yachting. 



The challenge of Genesta in 1884 has brought into well- 

 deserved prominence a number of men who were up to 

 that time comparatively unknown outside of their imme- 

 diate localities, but who have since achieved interna- 

 tional fame as yachtsmen. Of them all, the foremost was 

 the designer whose fertile brain provided the yachts, 

 which with splendid handling and marvelous perform- 

 ances have astonished the world. 



The whole history of yachting offers no parallel to the 

 brilliant and brief career which has closed eo abruptly 



this week. A student and a man of leisure, taking up 

 the designing of yachts merely as an interesting study, 

 suddenly called on to meet the masterpieces of the best 

 professionals in a contest for the great yachting trophy of 

 the world, he triumphed not only once but thrice. Fol- 

 lowing up this success, from the same drawing board has 

 come a fleet of over 300 vessels within the brief period of 

 six years, craft of all models and sizes, racing and cruising 

 yachts, steam yachts, pilot boats, fishing and trading ves- 

 sels. Many of these have been successful iu the highest 

 degree, Puritan, Mayflower, Volunteer, Sachem, Titania, 

 Pappoose, Gossoon, Wona, Fredonia, Carrie E. Phillips, 

 and dozens of others whose reputations are more local. 

 Within this time Mr. Burgess was in active competition 

 with the leading designers of the world, as well as with 

 the famous local builders of yachts, fishermen and pilot 

 boats; many of them specialists in one particular line. 

 The genius of the man was shown by the fact that he 

 made a place for his name at the top or very near it, not 

 in one branch alone, but in every one; while in his chosen 

 specialty of yacht designing he made a name and record 

 which are likely to stand out as brilliantly beyond those 

 of his succesors as they now outshine all who have pre- 

 ceded him. 



SHOOTING TOURNAMENTS AND GAME PRO- 

 TECTION. 



nPHERE is no reason in the world why the membership 

 of an effective game protective organization should 

 not be largely made up of trap-shooters; but experience 

 has demonstrated again and again that the two interests 

 must be kept apart at a convention where it is proposed 

 to accomplish anything as to protection. A trap-shooting 

 tournament or a game protective meeting may be an 

 entire success if held alone; but if the two are in con- 

 junction the trap-shooting enthusiasm will absorb atten- 

 tion, and the other will be slighted. At every combined 

 convention in recent years shooting has been the "circus" 

 and protection the "side-show," and not a very great 

 success even as a "side-show." 



In the plan proposed by Gen. Bruce for the restoration 

 of the New York State Association for the Protection of 

 Fish and Game, and in the later communication from 

 Mr. Horace White, president of the Association, it has 

 been suggested that in addition to the present member- 

 ship a new contingent be received of men who are more 

 certainly and more deeply interested in a movement to 

 preserve our forests and fish and game. This is highly 

 desirable. It is the first thing to do. But we are firmly 

 convinced that no permanent change can ever be made 

 in this respect, until the managers of the State Associa- 

 tion shall provide for meetings from which the trap- 

 shooting interest shall be wholly divorced. 



The Association may be converted from its present posi- 

 tion to one of power and dignity and influence in pro- 

 tective work, only by such a system of separate conven- 

 tions. The trap-shooters are certain to have a successful 

 meeting at Syracuse next year. They will be out in 

 force. The entertaining club will have all it can do well 

 to "run the shoot." The officers will be overwhelmed 

 with business relating directly to the shooting tourna- 

 ment. The delegates will be intent on shooting. Interest 

 will center in the shooting. There will be no time nor 

 inclination for anything aside from the shooting. 



To organize a convention of representative men in the 

 interest of concerted game protective effort is a task 

 which in itself will require all the labor and all the time 

 that those who are most interested can afford to give; 

 and such a meeting may well be arranged for in the com- 

 ing autumn. As was said last week, Syracuse is the point 

 to which we must look for the first move in the work, and 

 we sincerely trust that a call may issue from the clubs 

 there. 



The expressive colloquialism about "paying for a dead 

 horse" justs fits the case when a man settles up by pay- 

 ing $157, fines and^costs, for catching trout out of season. 

 One might expend two or three times that amount with- 

 out very many leg j^fmate trout to show for it, and not 

 begrudge it nearly so much. 



The annual meet of the National Eifle Association of 

 Great Britain is on this week and next at the Bisley 

 range. Cable reports say that the attendance is not so 

 large as usual. The Canadian contingent started in with 

 some fine work. 



SILVER TROUT OF MONADNOCK LAKE. 

 "'T^WO sportsmen from Keene," N. H., recently pub- 

 lished an account of their wholesale capture of 

 Monadnock Lake trout as if it were meritorious to kill 

 175 of these beautiful fishes even with a fly-rod. This 

 silver trout, or Dublin trout — the present Monadnock Lake 

 was Dublin Pond a few years ago — has been found in 

 only a few little lakes of New Hampshire. Our salmon 

 and trout supplement, of April 4, 1889, will enable you to 

 tell its distribution and recognize its form, since the fish 

 is well figured in that number. When Mr. Thos. E. Hatch 

 was a Commissioner of New Hampshire Fisheries (in 

 1872) he forwarded a few specimens to Prof. Baird from 

 Monadnock Lake, then known as Center Pond. Twelve 

 years later, Mr. Walter J. Greenwood, of Dublin, sent 

 another lot of the "Dublin trout" to Prof, Baird, and 

 about the same time the fish was mentioned in Forest 

 AND Stream under the title "A Peculiar Fish" (Forest 

 AND Stream, March 37, 1884). Prof. Agassiz obtained 

 specimens of this Dublin trout upward of 30 years ago 

 and pronounced it a distinct species, but it remained for 

 Mr. Garman to describe the fish, which he did seven or 

 eight years ago, giving it the name Salmo agassizi. We 

 call it now Salvelinus agassizi and recognize it easily by 

 its entire lack of reticulated markings on the sides, as well 

 as by characters less perceptible to anglers. It is, perhaps, 

 needless to say that trout of this kind are not found in "a 

 lake near the Pacific coast," as announced in a recent 

 newspaper article. 



The average length of these trout is not far from lOin. 

 and the weight, 4 or ooz. The flesh is salmon-color and 

 excellent for the table. The fishing season is in May and 

 June and the trout rise only too eagerly to the fly for their 

 own good. Judging from the descriptions, the colors must 

 be very beautiful, although the red spots are not so num- 

 erous as in the brook trout and reticulations are not present 

 on the sides. Spawning takes place in the shallows in 

 October. 



The silver trout is a lover of very clear, cold lakes, fed 

 by springs, and should be a favorite one for introduction 

 into suitable w aters. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE Clark's Lake Anglers' Club is an association of 

 fishermen resident in New York, Newark, and 

 other cities, who recently secured or claimed to have 

 secured the exclusive right of fishing in Wickham Pond, 

 in Warwick, N. Y., in the lovely region made famous by 

 Frank Forester. The pond is a mile in length and half a 

 mile wide. It has always been open to the public for 

 fishing and boating. The club secured from owners of 

 the larger part of the lands abutting on the water a lease 

 of fishing privileges; and the public was warned not to 

 trespass. Residents of Warwick have not been pleased 

 at this turn of affairs; and some of them have persisted 

 in fishing. Last week two young men were arrested for 

 trespassing on Wickham Pond; and a fund has been 

 raised by the villagers for their defense. Then to make 

 it pleasant for the club members, a warrant was sworn 

 out for President R. H. Moses, of this city, who was taken 

 before a justice and fined for fishing on Sunday. Mr. 

 Moses paid up, but has appealed his case. It was said 

 that the land owners who gave the leases to the club 

 claim title to the body of the lake under an original 

 patent granted in 1703; and like many riparian-rights 

 cases, the Wickham Lake litigation may prove long and 

 expensive. 



Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to 

 dwell together in unity, A man who resented his neigh- 

 bor's overlooking his own house built up a huge board 

 fence — of the style known as spite-fence — and completely 

 cut off not only his neighbor's view but his own too, and 

 made the whole town laugh, until a fire one night de- 

 stroyed the fence and the houses, and there was nothing 

 left to quarrel about. Yery similar is the case of two 

 brothers of the angle dwelling near a body of water back 

 of Swartswood, N. J., which bears the poetic name of 

 Sucker Pond. A dispute about fishing rights converted 

 these friends into enemies, and one of them fenced up a 

 lane across his land through which the other had been 

 accustomed to pass to the pond. Then somebody ex- 

 ploded a charge of dynamite in the water, and killed all 

 the fish. The cause of difference being removed, we see 

 no reason why the fishermen of Sucker Pond should not 

 resume those relations of unity which are declared to be 

 so good and so pleasant. 



