A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $i a Yeah. 10 Cts. a Copy, j 

 Six Montbs, S3- i 



NEW YORK, APRIL 28, 1892, 



I YOL. XXXVIII.— No. 20. 

 i No. 318 Broadway, Kiw York. 



Editorial, 



Game Refnges. 

 Rod and Gun and Camera. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



"T^e Silver KiDg." 

 A Hunt by Te'egraph. 

 Katahdin in Winter. 

 John Lsle King. 



Natural History, 



The Water Ousel. 



Game Bag and Gun. 

 New York Game and Fish 



Seasons. 

 Soring Shooting. 

 Wild Boars tor the Adiron- 



Guides and Guided. 

 Syndicating the Adirondack?. 

 Saginaw Game Protection 



S ciety. 

 A Trip to the Nation. 

 The Kentucky Cnnvention. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Game Notes. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Wor.d'j Fair Fishes. 

 North Shote Fishing Stations. 

 Spearing on L^ke St. Croix. 

 Green River Trout. 

 Angling Association of Onon- 

 dags. 



CONTENTS. 



Sea and River Fishing. 

 Chicago and the West. 



Boston Angler*. 

 Canadian Salmon Petition. 



Fishculture. 



American Fisheries Society. 



The Kennel. 



Retrieving a^ Field Trials. 

 L^s Angeles D Jg Show. 

 Gordons on tne Pacific Coast. 

 Psovoi. Not Borzoi. 

 Training at Field Trials. 

 Correct Type of Psovois. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Canoeing.- 



News Notes. 

 Yachting. 



Education of Naval Architects 



Rochester Y. C. 



Gli riaoa and the Herreshoffs, 



News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



"Forest aud Stream" Tourna- 

 ment. 



Trap Shooting. 



Chicago and Western Traps. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Answers to Queries, 



For Prospectus and Advertising- Eates see Page 413. 



Photographs must be marked only with initials or a 

 pseudonym for identification. With each photograph 

 should be given name of sender, title of view, locality, 

 d-ate, and name of camera. 



The photographs shall be the property of the Forest 

 and Stream. This applies, however, only to the par- 

 ticular prints sent us. 



From time to time we shall reproduce by the half-tone 

 process samples of the work submitted, and should the 

 interest in Forest and Stream's Amateur Photography 

 Collection prove to be what is anticipated, we may 

 ask for an expression of opinion by a vote of all our 

 readers after the manner of the successful and famous 

 "Camp Fire Flickering Vote." Such popular vote, how. 

 ever, will be quite distinct from the award by the com 

 mittee. 



Rod and Gun and Camera, 



r pHE Sportsman Tourist of to-day is an amateur pho- 

 . tographer. The camera has a recognized place in 

 the sportsman's outfit. The results of successful snap- 

 shots often constitute the most cherished mementoes of 

 an outing. 



From time to time we have been favored with highly 

 interesting evidences of the skill and success of those 

 who are no less adept with the camera than with rod 

 and gun; and some of the views sent us have been 

 reproduced by the marvelously faithful photo-engraving 

 half-tone process for the benefit of our readers. Notable 

 among these were the group of mule deer, in our "Boy- 

 hood Number," and on April 7 the happily successful 

 picturing of the mountain goat. There must be a rich 

 store of such photographs in the possession of those to 

 whose notice this shall come. If they could be brought 

 together for comparison the collection would supply 

 abundant interest and study. 



As a recognition of the important place of amateur 

 photography in its relation to sports of the field and 

 prairie and mountain and forest and stream, the Forest 

 and Stream offers a series of prizes for meritorious work 

 with the camera. The conditions under which these 

 prizes will be given are in brief as here set forth: 



There will be ten prizes, as follows: First $25. Second 

 $20. Third $15. Fourth $10. Sis of $5 each. 



The competition will be open to amateurs only. 



The subjects must relate to Forest and Stream's field 

 —game and fish (alive or dead), shooting and fishing, the 

 camp, campers and camp life, sportsman travel by land 

 or water. 



There is no restriction as to the time when the pictures 

 may have been or may be made — whether in 1892 or in 

 previous years. 



Pictures will be received up to Dec, 31, of this year. 



All work must be original; that is to say, it must not 

 have been submitted in any other competition, nor have 

 been published. 



There are no restrictions as to the make or style of 

 camera, nor as to size of plate. 



A competitor need not be a subscriber of Forest and 

 Stream. 



All photographs will be submitted to a committee, 

 shortly to be announced. In making their awards the 

 judges will be instructed to take into consideration the 

 technical merits of the work as a photograph, its artistic 

 qualities; and other things being equal, the mnique and 

 difficult nature of the subject. 



GAME REFUGES. 

 T^HE five-acre field defended by trespass signs and 

 strictly protected from intrusion of gunners becomes 

 a refuge for game, whence the supply is likely to over- 

 run into the surrounding covers; and more than one 

 sagacious gunner, barred from entering upon such prem< 

 ises, has amply consoled himself with the overflow, 

 Larger preserves, as the extensive territory of the Tuxedo 

 Club in New York, have been the means of stocking the 

 surrounding country with birds, and the Yellowstone 

 Park is an instance of a game preserve on a gigantic 

 scale, 



The establishment and maintenance of such refuges in 

 every State would prove a sensible, economical and effec- 

 tive scheme of game conservation. New York has a 

 game park in the Catskills; and last week, at Albany, in 

 the closing hours of the session, Senator Bloodgood in- 

 troduced a bill providing for another park in the 

 Adirondack Wilderness. By the terms of the measure 

 the Forest Commission was directed to set apart such a 

 tract of land in the Forest Preserve as they might deem 

 proper, to be known as "a refuge for deer and other 

 game;" to inclose the territory, provide a keeper, and 

 establish rules for the protection of the game. Hunting 

 on the territory was forbidden. Mr. Bloodgood's bill was 

 introduced too late for consideration; but the plan is so 

 commendable that we trust it may be brought up again, 

 and the refuge provided. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 r pHE Anglers' Association of the St. Lawrence River 

 A have by their vigorous prosecution of offenders 

 earned the reputation of being one of the most active 

 asscciations in the protection of fish and game. They 

 have just made a raid on netters eclipsing any of their 

 previous records. Recently the fish and game protector 

 chartered a steam yacht, with eight men, and captured 

 in two days 72 nets. They were taken at the mouths of 

 streams entering the St. Lawrence River and Lake 

 Ontario, all the way from Black River Bay down to 

 Cape Vincent. 



The famous Nepigon still holds its place and fame as 

 one of the best fly-fishing streams in the world, and it is 

 visited annually by anglers from Canada, the United 

 States and abroad. We find in the annnal report of the 

 Port Arthur Board of Trade, an excellent suggestion that 

 the Provincial Government, which has jurisdiction over 

 the river, should set aside a tract of land which is com- 

 paratively useless for other purposes, for, say five miles 

 on each side of the stream, between Lake Superior and 

 Lake Nepigon, and convert the whole into a national 

 park. A small charge might then be made to all sports- 

 men alike (not discriminating against foreigners as is now 

 done), which would pay the salary of an overseer. 



A correspondent claims that he has been defrauded by 

 an East Providence sharper to whom he sent $3 for pre- 

 paying the expressage on a shotgun, to be forwarded for 

 examination. The Rhode Island man pocketed the $3, 

 and there appears to be evidence to show that he has 

 gulled several other victims in the same way. If ordi- 

 nary business caution were exercised such fraudulent 

 games would not work. In this particular case, where 

 the party is not a regular dealer, caution would suggest 

 that guns and other goods for examination should be sent 

 C. O. D. 



Yachtsmen all over the world will appreciate the com- 

 plete and exhaustive history of Gioriana and her build- 

 ers in this and the following number of the Forest and 

 Stream, The reputation of the Herreshoffs for original- 

 ity, already world-wide through the performances of the 

 catamarans, their many fast catboats and their high 

 speed steam yachts, has been doubled within the past 

 year by the new racer with which, after a long retire- 

 ment from the field of sailing yachts, they have re- 

 entered against such designers as Burgess, Fife, Gardner 

 and Watson. In these days of combination locks and 

 soaped windows every yacht of note is enveloped in more 

 or less mystery, and Gioriana has had her full share, but 

 we hope in the course of the present article to give our 

 readers a far clearer idea of the boat than has thus far 

 been possible to those who have not seen he^. 



In response to our inquiry Mr. Orrin Harris, of Para- 

 dox, N. Y., the owner of Pyramid Lake, in the Adiron- 

 dacks, tells us that the lake was successfully stocked with 

 black bass some eighteen years ago, and four years later 

 speckled trout were put into it. Both fish have in- 

 creased and are now thriving. Large specimens of each 

 reward the angler. The shores of Pyramid Lake are 

 rocky, the water has in some places a depth of 70ft a and 

 is clear, We would be glad to receive reports from 

 other waters stocked with both fishes. 



The last Legislature of New Jersey substituted for the 

 former fish commission a fish and game commission of 

 three members, who have authority to appoint a fish and 

 game protector, and the protector in turn shall appoint 

 two fish and game wardens for each county. The law 

 also makes provision for the appointment of special dep- 

 uty protectors upon the request of ten freeholders. If 

 such a man as Mr. Charles A. Shriner, of Paterson, shall 

 be made chief protector, the New Jersey fish and game 

 laws will mean something. 



Kentucky has abundant natural resources of fish and 

 game, but public sentiment has not been educated to ap- 

 preciation of the advantages of protection. The conven- 

 tion of fish and game clubs at Frankfort last week was 

 an event full of rich promise. The gathering was repre- 

 sentative in the broadest sense: steps were taken for a 

 permanent organization: and the comments of the Ken- 

 tucky press indicate that the new movement will be given 

 public support. 



The trout streams of Connecticut have been pretty well 

 fished, and the first week proved fairly good for the sport. 

 But during the second and third weeks the weather has 

 been unusually bad and unfavorable. In protected waters 

 matters are better and some fairly good catches have 

 been made. Very good reports of the fishing in north- 

 western Pennsylvania reach us. Tributaries of the Schuyl- 

 kill have as a rule yielded well. These waters, it is 

 claimed, have been wonderfully improved by liberal 

 plantings of trout made by the State Fish Commission. 



A summary of the close seasons fixed by the game law 

 just enacted by the New York Legislature is given in 

 another column. From this it will be learned that the 

 objectionable exemption of certain counties from the 

 general woodcock law was in the last hours stricken out, 

 and in that respect the measure is decidedly a better law 

 than was feared. At this writing (Wednesday noon) 

 Governor Flower has not yet signed the bill. 



Forest and Stream i3 intended to be of practical, 

 present and constant value to its angling readers by the 

 interchange of information, experience and opinion. 

 Readers who may have knowledge of fishing waters, with 

 fish enough in them for others, are requested to make 

 them known in our angling columns. 



The paper from the pen of Dr. S. A. Binion, the emi- 

 nent Egyptologist and Orientalist, gives an admirable 

 picture of the all-pervading enthusiasm with which the 

 tarpon inspires its devotees. Dr. Binion's fish has been 

 mounted, and will shortly be on exhibition in this office. 



The Asian records that Loch Leven trout have been in- 

 troduced by private enterprise to stock the hill streams 

 of Ceylon. This fish, already known in America, promises 

 to make its way around the globe, to reward the lures 

 of anglers beneath every sky. 



The Delmonico woodcock is 

 next Christmas. 



'on the ealendar." So is 



