Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun, 



Terms, $4 a Year. 10 <9ts. a Copy. I 

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NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 25, 1892. 



I VOL. XXXVUI.-No. s. 



i No. 318 Broadway, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Yellowstone Park Legislation. 

 Delmonico Woodcock Case. 

 Revolver Shooting. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Hospitality Among Woods- 

 men. 



In the Muscallouge Country. 

 Natural History. 



The Bald E*gle. 



Catching Wild Animals— i. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Where Are the Quail? 



Chics go and the West. 



An Arkansas Deer Scrape. 



Wildfowl in Texas.— I 



A Shawangunk Wild Bmr. 



The Game Fields. 



The Country Club. 



A Word About Hoodlums. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Trouting in the Cascades.— xi. 

 "Dipping" for Black Bass. 

 Sudd'm Increase of Black Ba;-:s 

 Shad Fly-Fishing Soutb. 

 Angling Notes. 



The Waters of Two-Ocean 

 Pass. 



The New York Game B'U. 

 Pickerel Fishing Through the 

 Ice. 



The Lemon Sole. 



Fishculture. 



"Fiscl zucht." 



The Kennel. 



New York Dog Show. 

 Washington Dog Show. 

 Jackson Dog Show. 

 St. Bwnard Club Meeting. 

 Irish Setter Club Meeting. 

 National Greyhound Club. 

 The Bulldog Club Meeting. 

 Dogs Should Work to the Gun. 

 Associate Members of the 



A. K. C. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Canoeing. 

 Fin Keels in Canoes. 

 Red Dragon C. C. 

 A Few Randoms from the East 

 Amaieursand Professionals. 

 News Notes. 



Yachting. 



Model Competition. 

 Nyssa. 



Le Lezard — French Racing 



Yacht. 

 The Seawanhaka Rule. 

 News Notes. 



Rifie Range and Gallery. 



"Forest and Stream" Tourna- 

 ment. 



Trap Shooting. 



Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 189. 



YELLOWSTONE PARK LEGISLATION. 

 VJH ITH the opening of the Fifty-second Congress there 

 * * is the usual gathering in Washington of persons 

 who desire to secure legislation by which money or 

 property belonging to the public shall be turned over to 

 them. Like hungry dogs watching people who eat, they 

 stand in the halls of the Federal Legislature, each ready 

 to snatch for himself the bone which may be thrown to 

 him. 



For ten years the Yellowstone National Park has been 

 watched with envious eyes by those eager to obtain con- 

 trol of it, and the attempts to wrest it from the public 

 and to divert it to private uses have been many and oft 

 repeated. Among the bills already introduced in Congress 

 with this purpose, we recognize some old faces, and 

 among them one, in a new dress, which received its 

 quietus ten years ago. 



In the year 1882 a syndicate known as the Yellowstone 

 Park Improvement Co. made a secret and audacious at- 

 tempt to secure from a subordinate of the Interior Depart- 

 ment a ten years' lease which should practically turn over 

 the Yellowstone Park to this company as a private farm. 

 The privileges intended to be granted by that lease were 

 enormous, included the concession of everything of value 

 in the Park, and were exclusive. It was to be a great 

 monopoly. The FOREST and Stream having learned of 

 this intended fraud upon the public, called the attention 

 of the country to it, and the scheme was defeated, chiefly 

 through the public spirit and energy of Senator Vest, of 

 Missouri. 



A project curiously like that of the Yellowstone Park 

 Improvement Co. is now before Congress in Senate Bill 

 1,968, which was introduced by Mr. Washburne, of Minne- 

 sota. Ostensibly this bill incorporates the Yellowstone 

 Park Company and defines its powers; really it turns 

 over to this corporation the whole Yellowstone Park for a 

 period of forty years. 



To this corporation the bill grants for twenty years, 

 with the privilege of twenty years renewal, ten parcels 

 of land, of ten acres each, to be by it selected in the most 

 desirable portions of the Park, to be used as hotel sites 

 and for other purposes in connection with its business. 

 For each of these parcels it is to pay an annual rental of 

 fifty dollars, which shall be in lieu of all taxes. The 

 corporation is given the right to operate telegraph and 

 telephone lines, may place steamboats on all waters, run 

 railways propelled by horse, cable or electric power: may 

 manufacture brick, use public stone and timber, graze 

 the cattle, horses and sheep needed in its business, and 

 may in fact do about anything that it wishes to. 



The bill gives evidence of great care in the draughting. 

 The enormous privileges granted to the company are dis- 

 tinctly specified, but besides these the bill contains vari- 

 ous statements as to the rights of the public and the 

 manner in which these rights shall be guarded, but such 

 references have every appearance of being purposely so 

 loosely drawn as to be incapable of any definite interpret 

 at|y»; by einesa rnan— e&fr&Uy m lawyer— yr wl$ ]*& 



willing to trust his interests to the provisions "of an 

 agreement so vaguely worded as is this document, 

 While the carcass reader might imagine that the public's 

 rights had been cared for, the very reverse of this is 

 true, and the passage of this bill would practically take 

 the National Park out of the hands of the Secretary of 

 the Interior and transfer it to a corporation. The meas- 

 ure is in effect the old Yellowstone Park Improvement 

 Company scheme, disguised, it is true, and modified to 

 suit the times, but still asking for the Yellowstone Park, 

 and encroaching so seriously on the rights of the people 

 that even its introduction must be viewed with real 

 alarm. 



It is of course to be expected that the true meaning of 

 this bill will be explained to the Senate, and that it will 

 be defeated if it should come before that body. It ought 

 to be adversely reported by the Committee on Public 

 Lands, to whose hands it went. 



The bill has been submitted by the committee to Mr. 

 Noble, who in replying leaves no room for doubt as to 

 what his views are. He condemns the bill unsparingly, 

 and points out that the purpose of the measure is to in 

 terfere with government control of the Park, and to estab- 

 lish a monoply there for forty years. Since Secretary 

 Noble has been directing the Interior Department, he has 

 given us many examples of his wisdom and foresight in 

 matters of this character, and it is no surprise to us that 

 he sees through the purpose of this bill and condemns it. 

 A deep public interest is felt, and has been manifested in 

 the National pleasure ground, and it is not likely that 

 Congress will take so long a step backward as the passage 

 of this bill would be. 



As usual our old friend — or enemy — the Montana Min- 

 eral Railway bill makes its appearance at this session. 

 It was introduced by Mr. Stockdale of Mississippi, who 

 asked tha,t it might be referred to the Committee on Rail- 

 ways and Canals. Heretofore this bill has always gone to 

 the Committee on Public Lands, and the Speaker so stated 

 to the introducer, who nevertheless persisted in his re- 

 quest, being apparently unwilling to have this bad meas- 

 ure go before the members of the Public Lands Com- 

 mittee, who perhaps know too much about it. Mr, 

 Buchanan of New Jersey seemed to understand what 

 was in Mr. Stockdale's mind, and objected to the proposed 

 reference, so that the bill went to its proper committee. 

 This measure grants to the corporation named, a right of 

 way 60ft. wide through the Yellowstone Park, from the 

 town of Cinnabar to the Clark's Fork mining district. 

 No railway should be allowed within the Park, for rea- 

 sons familiar to most of our readers, and this bill should 

 suffer its usual defeat. 



The Vest bill for the protection of the Park has been 

 introduced in the Senate, and the same bill with amend- 

 ment in the House. They should come to a vote in each 

 body. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 /"VUR correspondent "J. V. B.'s" relation of how he set 

 ^ forth on a boating excursion in quest of an appetite 

 and found it, is a story which might be matched from the 

 experience of many of his readers. It recalls the 3tory 

 in Spence's "Anecdotes," told by Alexander Pope, of a 

 certain Lord Russell, who did not love sport, but used to 

 go out with his hounds every day to hunt for an appetite. 

 "If he felt anything of that he would cry out, 'Oh, I have 

 found it!' turn short round and ride home again, though 

 they were in the midst of a fine chase." 



Many of our readers will remember the account of 

 "Winter in Wonderland," published some years ago in 

 Forest and Stream, and copied in such papers as the 

 New York Herald, the t Philadelphia Press, and in fact all 

 over the country. It was a most graphic account of 

 snowshoe travel in the dead of winter through the Yel- 

 lowstone National Park. Such a trip had never been 

 made before, and the difficulties and dangers to be en- 

 countered were unknown. Mr. Elwood Hofer, the 

 Forest and Stream's special Yellowstone Park corre- 

 spondent, made the trip, and wrote the delightful account 

 which described it. Of not less interest is the story from 

 the same pen, the first chapter of which we print this 

 week. Some time ago Mr. Hofer was appointed Smith- 

 sonian Hunter, to capture living animals in the Park for 

 the National Zoological Park in Washington. In the 

 present series of letters he tells how he secured some of 

 these animals* and gives delightful pea pictures of th§ 

 W» (4 antelope, <feer, time* bof^blaofe and &izz}?] 



and other animals. Our correspondent is a keen observer, 

 and he has happily told his story, which is one of deep 

 interest. The occurrence in connection with a grizzly 

 bear,*which is described in a later chapter, will strike 

 every reader as most extraordinary. 



For some time past there has been a demand on the 

 part of some readers for an advertising column in Forest 

 and Stream in which people should be able to communi- 

 cate with each other with less formality and at less ex- 

 pense than in the ordinary advertising column. A place 

 seems needed where a man can announce his want and 

 be sure that the want will be seen by some one who may 

 be able to supply it, or where one who has an article 

 which he would like to exchange for something else 

 can insert his brief card and feel sure that those who may 

 deeire to obtain what he is willing to part with will 

 learn of it. For the convenience of such persons we 

 have determined to open an advertising column of Wants 

 and Exchanges at a uniform rate of three cents a word. 

 This column will be confined to genuine wants, and will 

 not be allowed to interfere with other advertising. The 

 rate will be three cents a word, all words to be counted, 

 and the money must accompany the order, since it will 

 be impossible for us to keep track of numerous small 

 accounts. 



Ornithologists will read with pleasure the chapter on 

 the bald eagle in our Natural History columns , from ad- 

 vance sheets of Captain Bendire's forthcoming book. The 

 account is full and detailed, and touches on many points 

 of great interest in the habits of our national emblem. 

 It is to be noticed that the author does not share the view 

 that the bald eagle is generally a carrion feeder, but 

 credits him with dash and energy enough to capture his 

 game in fair chase. Any one who has ever witnessed an 

 eagle in pursuit knows well enough that when he is in 

 earnest he can fly with wonderful swiftness. 



THE DELMONICO WOODCOCK CASE. 



A SSTJMING that the promise made by the District 

 Attorney's office might be relied upon, the Forest 

 and Stream announced last week that the notorious case 

 of the People against Delmonico of this city for serving 

 woodcock out of season would be tried on Feb. 23. It 

 was not tried on that day. The case has been put into 

 the City Court as No. 69il. The case on hand to yester- 

 day noon was No. 5774. The Delmonico case is a pre- 

 ferred one. however; and District Attorney Nicoll may, if 

 so inclined, expedite it by calling it to trial at once. 

 We trust that he may see his way to do so. 



There is absolutely no good reason under heaA r en why 

 this Delmonico case should be put off month after month 

 and year after year. District Attorney Nicoll owes it 

 to himself to act promptly. He should know that the 

 publicity we have given this Delmonico close-season 

 woodcock suit has drawn to it the attention of citizens 

 of every section of the State. The Forest and Stream 

 speaks for the sportsmen of the country when it de- 

 mands that the Delmonico case shall be expedited. 



REVOLVER SHOOTING. 



r pHE final revolver shoot in this city for the Winans 

 trophy and the amateur championship of America 

 will be shot at the range of the New York Pistol Club, IS 

 St. Marks place, on Saturday evening, March o. This 

 will enable several members of the club who were not 

 able to be present at the former shoots to have their 

 records go in with those already made at the gallery on 

 last Saturday evening. "Prof." Loris was a visitor and 

 of course there was much talk of shooting ability, 

 and it finally culminated in an offer to President 

 Oehl, of the club, to have a round at time shooting 

 with the Professor. It was rather free-and-easy time 

 shooting, too, since the contestant raised his arm and 

 drew a bead before he answered the query, "Are you 

 ready?" with the response, "Yes;" whereas he ought to 

 have said yes with the weapon still pointed floorward. 

 At any rate, the President distanced the Professor, and 

 on a second trial the same result was reached. The Pro- 

 fessor had been offered his pick of the arms of the club- 

 men there; and sts he went away was wgrmjy- invited to 

 OOJJ39 again • 'Bring your ows arms, your own ammuni- 

 tion, bricg anything you only eforj'f bring excuses.' 



