Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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 Six Months, $3. I 



NEW YORK, MAY 5, 1892. 



( VOL. XXXVIII.-No. 21. 

 I No. 318 Broadway, N w York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Senator Lindsay's Treachery. 

 Millitary Practice at Creed- 

 moor. 



Hunting With the Camera. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Bass Fishing in San Antonio. 

 Woods Life. 

 Camp Grants. 



Natural History. 



The Monterey Buffalo. 

 South African Reptiles at 

 Home. 



A String of Trout and a Fox. 

 Cinnamon Teal. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



How is This Thus? 



How I Lost and Found the 



Bighorn. 

 The Game of the Dismal 



Swamp. 

 The National Park for the 



People. 

 A Sleeping Bag. 

 "Podgers" Commentaries. 

 Our Photography Collection. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Bass Fishing. 



Pere Marquette Fishing Club. 



Pacific Salmon and Trout. 



The Moon-eye. 



Salmon at the Bangor Pool. 



Boston Angling Parties. 



Canadian Waters. 



New Hampshire's Cold Stream 



A Trip to Sabattis. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Chicago and the West. 

 Fishculture. 



The Ohio Report. 

 The Kennel. 



Influence of a Previous Sire. 



Training at Field Trials. 



L^s Angeles Dog Show. 



"Wolf Coursing. 



Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 



Beagle Staodard. 



Beagle Club Meeting. 



Points and Flushes. 



Cockers at Denver. 



Notes and Notions. 



Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Canoeing. 

 Whitecaps from the "Huh." 

 News Notes. 



Yachting. 



Gloriana and the Herreshoffs. 

 Size vs. Length and Sail Area. 

 New York Y. R. A. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



"Forest and Stream" Tourna- 

 ment. 



New Jersey Rifle Shooting. 

 Trap Shooting. 

 Marion Tournament. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 437. 



SENATOR LINDSAY'S TREACHERY . 



FOR some months a strong effort has been made by the 

 friends of fish protection and propagation in Kentucky 

 to secure from the Kentucky Legislature the passage of a 

 law to prevent dynamiting and seining, and to restock 

 the depleted State waters. Early in the present session 

 of the Kentucky Legislature a bill known as the Spalding 

 Fish Bill, was introduced into the Lower House. This 

 bill provided penalties against seining, brush drags and 

 dynamiting, provided for fishways, and otherwise aided 

 in suppressing the wholesale methods of fish destruction 

 so much in vogue in Kentucky. At the same time the U, 

 S. Fish Commission began to supply young fry, spawning 

 fish and eggs for hatching to the State, under the induce- 

 ments of the Kentucky Fish and Game Club. 



Fish and game clubs began rapidly to form throughout 

 the State. New interest was aroused, and everywhere 

 was awakened co-operative action between the farmer 

 and the genuine angler and sportsman. 



After discussion the Spalding Fish Bill passed the 

 Lower House of the Legislature by a vote of two to one. 

 When the bill reached the Senate strong opposition was 

 developed. Among those who were hostile to its passage 

 was Senator Wm. Lindsay — Commissioner from Ken- 

 tucky to the World's Fair at Chicago. He denounced the 

 bill as calculated to produce idlers and drunkards. This 

 idiotic aspersion upon anglers was keenly felt by the local 

 club and by those who indulge in the innocent pas- 

 time as a recreation from harassing business cares, but 

 few felt like risking the loss of the bill by taking up 

 Commissioner Lindsay's gauntlet. His aspersion was 

 ignored. As preferable, a petition was circulated by the 

 Frankfort Fish and Game Club, asking Commissioner 

 (Senator) Lindsay to vote for the Spalding Bill in the in- 

 terest of his constituents. This petition was numerously 

 signed by the leading citizens of the county, and a com- 

 mittee of prominent citizens presented it to him at the 

 State House. Recognizing the fact that his constituents 

 were earnestly for the bill he agreed then and there to 

 give it his support. 



Last Thursday the friends of the bill felt the situation 

 was ripe for its passage. It was reported from a friendly 

 committee. The session was extended, absent Senators 

 sent for, amendments designed to cripple the bill were 

 being voted down, when suddenly, to the surprise of 

 every one, Commissioner Lindsay lent his influence and 

 vote to the adoption of amendments recognized as fatal to 

 the measure, and that would take it back again to the 

 House, where new opposition had organized to assail its 

 passage. So disgusted were his brother Senators at the 

 flagrant breach of faith, and the unexpected turn of 

 affairs, that they left the chamber and broke the 

 quorum. Throughout the city that night, in the hotels, in 

 the stores, shops and on the streets, the action of World's 

 Fair Commissioner Lindsay was bitterly discussed an d 

 denounced. Then the farmers joined in the condemna- 

 tion., The daily papers followed with a reflection, of 



popular feeling. There seems but one side to public 

 sentiment. 



Friday the bill came up again in the Senate, and was 

 lost by a vote of 14 to 13. A motion to reconsider was 

 entered, but the effect of Commissioner Lindsay's action 

 has been such as to demoralize and dishearten the friends 

 of the bill, and its defeat is anticipated. 



Senator Lindsay's treachery is not inexplicable. His 

 motive is well understood. He was not governed by the 

 silly belief that to conserve the food fish supply would be 

 to produce idlers and drunkards. He was actuated by 

 purely personal and wholly ignoble motives. He was 

 against the bill because of some who were for it; in oppos- 

 ing it he saw a way to gratify personal spite; he broke his 

 promise of support and betrayed the interests of his con- 

 stituents and of his State for a private grudge. 



The result is deplorable, for dynamiters and fish hogs 

 will be encouraged to continue boldly their work of de- 

 struction. Aid from the Government in re-stocking the 

 depleted streams is likely to cease. 



It is seldom that the action of any one man has been so 

 disastrous to a promising and valuable cause as the action 

 of Senator Lindsay — Commissioner to the World's Fair 

 at Chicago. But for him Kentucky would have taken a 

 great step forward, in line with other States, in protect- 

 ing and preserving the denizens of the woods and waters 

 from the clandestine assaults of the poacher and the as- 

 sassin by night. 



We can imagine the fraternal greeting that will be ex- 

 changed between Commissioner Lindsay, of Kentucky, 

 and Commissioner Jas. A. Henshall when they shall 

 meet upon the floor of the Fisheries Exhibit at Chicago, 

 to admire the results of fish protection, fishculture and 

 propagation. Both from the same State — the one the 

 Brutus of the Kentucky Fish Bill, the other the exponent 

 of the higher civilization. 



The legislative session will be a long one, and the 

 friends of fish and game protection can only hope that the 

 people's representatives will realize, before they finally 

 adjourn, something of the popular sentiment, and some- 

 thing of the value of laws of protection and conservation 

 before every vestige of both fish and game have been 

 swept away. 



HUNTING WITH A CAMERA. 



THE charms of "hunting without a gun" have been 

 dilated on in Forest and Stream by one of the 

 most graceful of American writers. That there is a keen 

 delight in it admits of no question. The scenes among 

 which one wanders not only charm at the moment, but 

 deep graven on the memory, they remain long afterward 

 sources of pleasure. Besides this there is a great satis- 

 faction in the friendly attitude one takes toward all 

 nature. The birds, the beasts and the flowers no longer 

 appear to regard one as an enemy; one seems to become 

 a part of the life of the woodland or the plain as soon as 

 his hostile intentions cease. 



Yet, after all, for the average man, there is something 

 lacking in hunting without a gun. Most of us are formed 

 of very common clay, and we want to bring back from 

 our excursions something tangible, something that others 

 can see, and touch, and talk about. So it is that hunting 

 without a gun appeals chiefly to those whose minds are 

 cast in a mould of great.refinement, to whom the spoils of 

 the chase do not constitute the most important part of 

 their outing. It is not likely to become popular with the 

 average sportsman. Something is needed which shall 

 give more tangible results than hunting without a gun, 

 and yet which shall preserve all its delightful features. 

 If we substitute for the gun the camera these conditions 

 are fulfilled. 



Every sportsman, every outer, should csrry with him 

 a notebook in which to record the passing history of each 

 day spent afield. This should be as much a part of his 

 equipment as his hat or his shoes. Memory fades quickly, 

 but to read over again the notes of adventures of past 

 days calls to life again a host of buried recollections. 

 But besides the notebooks, the sportsman should carry 

 also a eamera, for no description, however well it may 

 be written, can ever convey one-half the story told by a 

 picture. The work of photography calls forth all the 

 best qualities of the hunter. Is it difficult to creep within 

 shot of the shy mountain sheep? It is still harder to ap- 

 proach within focussing distance. In working up to 

 large game with a gun the hunter must see that the wind 

 is right; when hunting with a camera the sun as well as 

 the wind must be regarded. 



But if successful in making the approach, how much 

 more satisfaction one receives for his labor. If with in- 

 finite care and patience he has crept up to a band of elk, 

 or a flock of birds, and has arranged his camera, he can 

 take one exposure after another, catching his objects in 

 different positions and different grouping s, seeming views 

 of them which perhaps have never before been had, and 

 getting them in all those curious attitudes which to the 

 inexperienced eye seem awkward and ungraceful, but 

 which the old hunter will at a glance recognize as being 

 the very truth of nature. 



The photographing of these wild creat ares offers espe- 

 cial attraction because of its difficulty, but the beauties 

 of scenery must not be overlooked, the rare and curiouB 

 sights which come only to the man who is much out of 

 doors. We have seen recently two interesting photo- 

 graphs which were taken in fun in a cavern in the 

 northern Rocky Mountains, a deep cave worn out under 

 a glacier. 



Hunting with a camera is hard work, and like hunting 

 with a gun, it has its disappointments. But the man or 

 woman who carries a camera into the wilds -will surely 

 receive an abundant reward in the satisfaction felt in 

 again and again going over the views brought home from 

 the trips made in past years. 



MILITARY PRACTICE AT CREEDMOOR. 



THERE is danger just now that ill advised counsel 

 may do injury to military practice afc Creedmoor. 

 There was a modest bill asking for $10,000 from the State 

 to place the range in proper condition after nearly twenty 

 years of use, but Gov. Flower saw fit to veto it. That is 

 past and the shooting will go on with some inconvenience 

 and a diminished factor of safety, for which Gov. Flower 

 alone is responsible. 



Bat apart from this mishap there is some talk now that 

 the new Inspector of Rifle Practice for the State, Inspec- 

 tor Whitlock, is thinking of refusing to recognize the 

 scores made in the N. R. A. matches for record in the 

 State shooting requirements. It has been the practice for 

 some years for the N. R. A. to supplement the regular 

 outings of the regiment for formal practice by matches 

 placed at convenient dates all through the season,- in 

 which all comers were free to enter, but at which scores 

 made by National Guardsmen were, under proper pre- 

 cautions, credited to them for the marksman's badge 

 decoration distributed by the State. In this way men 

 who failed to qualify at other times were enabled to 

 catch dates at their convenience, go down and help the 

 regimental record by scoring up at their extra shoots. 

 There was an entry fee which went to the Association, 

 and the men paid their own fares to and from the range. 

 All this they were willing to do either from love of rifle 

 shooting or to assist their regiment to a high place on the 

 roll of shooting honor. The 7th and the 23d regiments 

 particularly took advantage of these extra days to sucb 

 an extent that the members of those two commands are 

 marksmen from the colonel down. 



The protest not outspoken but urged indirectly, comes 

 from the members of the inferior commands, that inas- 

 much as they, the protestors, are either unable or unwill- 

 ing to go out and qualify that the privilege should be 

 taken from those who are willing. It is a clean cut exhi- 

 bition of the dog in the manger spirit, entirely unworthy 

 of a soldier, and the utterance of it is a disgrace to the 

 uniform they wear. Instead of taking the capital work 

 performed by the crack regiments as marks for their own 

 endeavors, these levelers downward wish to crush out 

 the shooting spirit whenever it leads to work above their 

 own dull inferiority. It is by the gain made in these 

 matches that a margin of funds is left in the hands of the 

 N. R. A. to make up in part the deficiency which seems 

 to come with every fall meeting. Then again, the pro- 

 testors forget that even on the formal practice days each 

 year when each command visits the range in uniform and 

 goes through a schedule of scoring that the men who 

 have been persistent armory shots will make the better 

 showing, and that those who have not will still occupy 

 the same position of inferiority on the comparative exhibit 

 in the Adjutant-General's report. 



It is not at all creditable that jealousy should go to the 

 extent of even an indirect protest, and it is surprising that 

 Gen. Whitlock should for a moment think of heeding a 

 suggestion of such a retrograde step as throwing away 

 the advantage which the N. R. A. matches bring to those 

 who shoot in them and to the State at large, 



