Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, MARCH 81, 1892. 



j VOL. XXXVIII.-No. 13. 

 I No. 318 Broadway, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



National Park Legislation. 

 George Sberard Page 

 A Reasonable Request. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



ApHl Trout. 



Camping in the Belt Moun- 

 tains. 



Stories of the Ozark e.—i. 

 Natural History. 



The Brown Pdlran. 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Indian Game for Ampfina. 

 Preparing to Receive Cavalry. 

 T«-eed by a Mad D"g. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Wbeit? 



A Climb for a Mountain Cat. 

 Notes from the Game. Fields. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Pike, County Trout Seison. 

 Chicago and tbe Wtst. 

 Thmngh to Twitcbell.— n. 

 A Warning as to Salmon 



Streams. 

 Boston Anglers. 



Fishculture. 



Artificial Lsnd-Locfeing of 



Sco'ch Salmon. 

 New Hampshire Fishculture. 

 Fish Commissions. 



The Kennel. 



To* Irish Setter Trials. 

 Retrieving at Field Trials. 

 A Prize for the Best MoviDg 



Mastiff. 

 Philadelphia Field Trials. 

 Points and Flashes. 

 >Jotes and Notions. 

 Advisory Committee Meeting. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



Canoeing. 



A Touerh Trip. 

 War Canoes- 

 News Notes. 



Yachting. 



Tbe Dutch Boeier Elizabeth. 

 Small Boat Construction. 

 New 21- Footers. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



New Jersey Rifle Shooting. 

 "Forest and Stream" Tourna- 

 ment. 



Trap Shooting- 

 Chicago Traps. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings, 



Answers to Queries. 



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A REASONABLE BEQUEST. 



THERE is nothing of sentiment in the movement to 

 secure more adequate protection for Canadian 

 salmon rivers; on the contrary, it is a step fully justified 

 by the rules which govern in ordinary business rela- 

 tions. 



The Dominion Government leases to Canadian and 

 American clubs and individuals a number of rivers for 

 salmon fishing. It asks and receives for these fishing 

 privileges a substantial rental. Those who pay the rents 

 are quite reasonable when they demand that they shall 

 receive that for which they pay. This means not only 

 rivers to fish in, but fish in the rivers to fish for. Nor is 

 it unreasonable to ask the abatement of any unduly 

 destructive agencies which interfere with the mainte- 

 nance of the fish supply. 



As a matter of fact, the salmon have been decreasing 

 and the fishing has been growing poorer and poorer, until 

 the lessees of many streams have naturally come to feel 

 that the Dominion Government is — unwittingly it may 

 be, but none the less effectually — perpetrating an imposi- 

 tion on them when it takes their money and gives them 

 no fair return of fishing opportunities. The netting as now 

 carried on, practically without intermission, is recognized 

 as the destructive agency. In their petition, which we 

 reprint in our angling columns, the lessees request that 

 the netters be required to raise their nets dur- 

 ing three successive days and nights of each week, 

 instead of for the interval from Saturday night 

 until Monday morning, which is now the regulation, 

 whether or not the practice. As pointed out by the peti- 

 tioners, if such added immunity from netting shall re- 

 sult in an increase of fish, this measure will benefit all 

 alike — anglers and netters, while it is none the less certain 

 that a continuance of the destructive system now in force 

 will work growing harm to the interests of each alike and 

 ultimately destroy them. 



The petition is not based on sentiment, but on common 

 sense. It is reasonable. It should be granted. 



The list of signatures is a notable register of the salmon 

 anglers of Canada and the United States. Such a list 

 should carry weight. 



We sincerely trust that the Minister of Marine and 

 Fisheries will appreciate the urgtnt necessit y of action 

 in this matter, and will not hesitaleto apply the remedy. 



Too much credit cannot be given to Mr. D. H. Blanch- 

 ard 6f Boston, by whose personal endeavor this subject has 

 been brought to the attention of the public, and to whose 

 large-hearted activity is due the preparation and com- 

 pletion of the signed petition. In undertaking this 

 labor of love — by no means a light one, we may be sure 

 — Mr. Blanchard has been prompted by higher and 

 worthier motives than of self interest alone; he has la- 

 bored for the benefit of others more than of himself; and 

 it is because of just such acts and services freely under- 



taken by individuals, and such manifestations of brother- 

 hood, that anglers the world over are spoken of as consti- 

 tuting a fraternity. 



NATIONAL PARK LEGISLATION. 

 'T^HE bill introduced by Senator Warren, of Wyoming, 

 fixing the boundaries of the National Park, has 

 been favorably reported from the Cjmmittee on Terri- 

 tories, to which it had been referred. This bill cuts off 

 the northeast corner of the Park, thus providing a way 

 for the railroads to roach Cinnabar from Cooke City 

 without passing through the Park. While every one 

 must regret to see any portion of the National Park 

 thrown open, it is undoubtedly better that this should be 

 done than that a right of way should be given to a rail- 

 road to pass through the Park. 



Senator Warren's bill also provides for cutting down 

 one-half the forest preserve established by Executive 

 proclamation about a year ago. This is a provision which 

 must be wholly disapproved by every one who is inter- 

 ested in the Park, in forest preservation in general, and 

 in the great question of the water supply of the West — a 

 question which is each year becoming more pressing. 



There is no reason for reducing this forest preserve 

 except to benefit some railroad or to throw the country 

 open to miners, for the region is not fit for settlement by 

 agriculturists or stockmen. There can be no question 

 that the national interests involved in this matter of 

 water supply are infinitely more important than any 

 private interests can possibly be, and it is a serious mat- 

 ter to expose these National interests to danger. If we 

 are to begin a system of cutting down the rights of the 

 public every time some railroad wants a right of way, or 

 some contractor wishes to cut ties for a new railway line, 

 or some prospector desires to sink a hole in the side of a 

 hill, we might as well throw open at once all our pxiblic 

 reservations and parks. 



We believe it was a Kansas Senator who proposed to 

 lease the geysers out to Chinamen to be used in connec- 

 tion with their laundry business, and this spirit of 

 practicality seems now to have found lodgement in the 

 brain of Senator Warren. It is a pity. The trees which 

 cling to the rough mountain sides of this forest preserve 

 — now only a year established — are worth more to the 

 country and to Wyoming than the land can ever be with- 

 out them, and if the preserve is now to be cut down one- 

 half, all its timber is endangered. Wyoming is arid 

 enough as it is. For years its interests have suffered 

 through drouth. Cattle have died, stockmen have gone 

 out of business and rancher's crops have failed to start 

 because there was no snow in winter and no rain in 

 spring. To endanger the forests of this preserve, by 

 throwing it open to the public, is to endanger the water 

 supply for a large part of that State. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



r pARPON fishing is booming this year, and the record 

 of fish taken is far ahead of the score of 1891. To 

 March 17 of last season there were caught thirty-four 

 fish. This year, to the same date, seventy. The propor- 

 tion of fish hooked to those taken in as shown by the 

 record of one day is as 31 to 11. 



Next week we shall give a description of the singular 

 whitefish known as the tullibee. This we believe to be 

 the first account of this fish since that of R'chardson. 



In his interesting account of Florida pelicans in our 

 Natural History columns to-day, Dr. Morris Gibbs re- 

 lates that it is a favorite "pastime" with the winter tour- 

 ists in that State to ehoot pelicans on the beach. This is 

 a practice which requires the exercise of no skill, can be 

 excused on the ground neither of utility nor of sport, and 

 is altogether unjustifiable and censurable. The senseless 

 cruelty of the average Florida tourist who carries a gun 

 is indecent and disgusting. It is a tremendous pity that 

 some means cannot be devised to put a stop to the 

 slaughter. 



With tbe first of April, the trout season will open in 

 California, Colorado, Connecticut. Iowa, Massachusetts, 

 Minnesota, New Jersey, New York- (in the Forest 

 Preserve May 1) and Virginia ; and some thousands of 

 lines will be hung up to dry to-morrow night. The plain 

 everyday trout fisherman will be out en masse — to employ 

 a poetical expression of the late Walt Whitman; that 

 personage so frequently alluded to in angling literature 

 and so infrequently encountered in real life, the -'true 



disciple of old Izaak," will be there too; and ahead of 

 him — a week ahead, for the matter of that — will have 

 been the small boy with the pole and the letter in the 

 post-office and the fabulous string of big ones. Each and 

 every one of them, to whom those lines shall come, the 

 Forest and Stream congratulates on the privilege of 

 getting away; and wishes for all of them a full day of 

 satisfaction. Better is a small string of trout and con- 

 tentment therewith than a pack -load of fish and the trout- 

 hog's greed. 



GEORGE SHEPARD PAGE. 

 TTERE and there an individual stands out as an ad- 

 mirable type of American sportsmanship. Such a 

 one was George Shepard Page, who died at his home in 

 Stanley, N. J., last Saturday. A successful business 

 man of wide and varied activities, Mr. Page was an en- 

 thusiastic fisherman, shooter and hunter of large game. 

 But with all his devotion to field sports he found most 

 satisfaction in fostering and replenishing and enlarging 

 nature's resources of wild life, in stocking the waters 

 with new species of fishes, the restoration of game to de- 

 pleted areas, the introduction of song birds into fields 

 and woods now first answering to their melody. For 

 such public-epirited, provident and substantially success- 

 ful endeavor Mr. Page will be remembered with honor. 



From the Forest and Stream of April 13, 1882, we re- 

 produce the following personal sketch: 



Mr. Page was born in Read field, Kennebec county, Maine, on 

 July 29, 1838. and in 1845 his family moved to Chelsea, a suburb of 

 Boston, where be was educated in the primary, grammar and 

 high schools. 



At an early age he manifested that interest in matters pisca- 

 torial which has since made him so well known among American 

 anglers and flsbculturists. In 1*57-8 he visited St. Anthony, Minn,, 

 and was one of tbe esrly visitors to Lake Minnetonka, in which 

 famous lake he captured many large pike. In I860 he made his 

 first visit to the Raneeley Lakes of Main" , by invitation of his 

 cousin. Hon. Henry O. Stanley, Fish Commissioner of the State, 

 and here took his first trout, which weighed two and a half 

 pounds, from the apron of the upper dam. During this trip be 

 caught a seven-pound trout, and observed the fpawniDg babits of 

 the fish. A pair of large trout had a nest which he watched for 

 several days, and even approached and stroked them gpntly with- 

 out alarming them, so intent upon their business were they. The 

 Rangeleys were then in an almost unknown country, and Mr 

 Page wrote them up in the daily press and recommended them to 

 his friends and the public, and kept up his visits from year to 

 year. In 1882 he moved to New York city. 



Ia 1863 Mr. Page brought down brook trout of five pounds and 

 more and presented them to William Cullen Bryant, Henry J. 

 Raymond, George Wilkes and Genio C. Scott. These fish created 

 a sensation among anglprs, many of whom denied the genuineness 

 of the species, until Agassiz pronounced them to be true brook 

 trout. In 1867 Mr. Page organized the Oquossoc Angling Associ- 

 ation, of which he was president for ten years, and which built 

 what was then the finest angling club house in America. In the 

 same year he took 33 000 eggs of the Rangeley trout, packed them 

 in moss and transported tnem to New Jersey, where he hatched 

 them— the first instance we knowof where eggs of wild trout were 

 taken and transported 500 miles. In 1867 he took the grpat ten 

 pound trout— which for upward of ten years was the largest. 

 Salmo foiittnalis on record, and which was mounted and exhibited 

 at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, and subsequently 

 at Mr. Blackford's annual trout openings. This male trout, which 

 weighed probably twelve pounds when captured (it weighed ten 

 three weeks after), and a female of eight and a quarter were 

 transported alive from Maine to his ponds in New Jersey. 



Black bass were first introducpd into Maine by Mr. Page, who 

 took thirty-one live ones from Newburgh. N. Y„ to Winthrop, 

 Me., in 1869. In the same year he carried brook trout eggs to 

 England and France. Those taken to England were hatched at 

 South Kensington by Frank Buckland, and those to France at the 

 Jardin des Plantes, Paris, under the Socie'e d'Acclimatation. 

 Thpse are believed to be the first eggs of Ameiican trout which 

 crossed the ocean. 



In 1870 Mr. Page was made an honorary member of the Societe 

 d'Acclimatation, Paris,and corresponding member of the Deutsche 

 Fischerei Verein. In this year he discovered an account of the 

 ' Dry Impregnation of Fish Eggs" in a Russian paper, which he 

 caused to be translated and published in the New York Citizen 

 this being the first announcement in this country of that process. 



In 1872 he attended the second meeting of the American Fish- 

 cultural Association at Albany; and introduced a resolution ask- 

 ing Congress to appropriate money to erect a salmon hatchery on 

 the Pacific coast aud to undertake shad batching on the Atlantic 

 rivers. He was made chairman of the committee to present the 

 same to Congress, and upon doing so asked for an appropriation 

 of $10,000. 



In 1874 Mr. Page was elected Vice-President of the American 

 Fishoultural Association, and built a hatchery on Bema Stream, 

 Oxford county, Me. For the three years previous he bad caught 

 and liberated many adult trout in the Rargeley Lakes with their 

 weight and the date attached to them on platinum tags, and in 

 1873 one was taken by the artist Thomas Moran, which had gained 

 one and three-quarter pounds in two years. 



In 1874 he transported black bss" from the Delaware River to 

 the Passaic, in New Jersey, In 1877 he directed the construction 

 of a trout hatching works at the outlet of Rmgpley for restock- 

 ing those waters. In 1881 he suggested to Prof, Tbos. H- Huxley 



