Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $4 a Yeab, 10 Cts. a Copy. ) 



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NEW YORK, MAY 12, 1892. 



( VOL. XXXVIII.-No. 19. 

 | No. 318 Broadway, New York, 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



May Days. 



New Courses of the Fishing 



Industry. 

 New York Association. 

 Sunday Fishing in Jamaica 



Bay. 

 Snap Shots. 

 J. J. O'Connor. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Child of the Forest. 

 After Thirty-Six Years. 



Natural History. 



South African Reptiles at 



Home— ii. 

 Antlers of Extinct Irish Deer. 



Came Bag and Gun. 



How to Camp Out. 

 Rebounding Locks. 

 Some Camera Hints. 

 San Joaquin Market Hunters. 

 Hunting on the West Coast. 

 New York Protectors. 

 The Yellowstone Park. 

 New York Association. 

 "Our Paper." 



Sea and River Fishing. 



A California Trout Stream. 

 The Phantom Fish. 

 Sebago Lake. 

 Soodgingand Spodgers. 

 Potomac Notes. 

 After Black Bass. 

 My Reverie. 

 Maine Ice is Out. 

 Anglers' Association of Onon- 

 daga. 

 Vermont Trout. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Chicago and the West. 



Fishculture. 



New York Fish Commission. 



The Kennel. 



Los Angeles Dog Show. 

 Field Trials and Field Trial 

 Judges. 



Wolf and Coyote Hunting in 



Alberta. 

 Influence of a Previous Sire. 

 Black and Tans at Pittsburgh. 

 Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 

 Toronto Kennel Club Show. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 San Francisco Dog Show. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Canoeing. ra 

 The A. C. A. Flag. 

 Prize Flags. 

 News Notes. 



Yachting. 



Philadelphia Y. C. 



Atlantic City Corinthian Fleet 



Irene. 40-Rater. 



New York Y. C. 



News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



"Forest and Stream" Tourna- 

 ment. 



New Jersey Rifle Shooting. 



Trap Shooting. 



Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 464. 



MAY DAYS. 



r pHE lifeless dun of the close-cropped southward slopes 

 and the tawny tangles of the swales are kindling to 

 living green with the blaze of the sun and the moist tin- 

 der of the brook's overflow. 



The faithful swallows have returned, though the faith- 

 less season delays. The flicker flashes his golden shafts 

 in the Bunlight and gladdens the ear with his merry 

 cackle. The upland plover Avails his greeting to the tus- 

 socked pastures, where day and night rings the shrill 

 chorus of the hylas and the vibrant trill of the toads con- 

 tinually trembles in the soft air. 



The first comers of the birds are already mated and 

 nest-building, robin and song-sparrow, each in his chosen 

 place setting the foundations of his house with mud or 

 threads of dry grass. The crow clutters out his softest 

 love note. The flicker is mining a fortress in the heart 

 of an old apple tree. 



The squirrels wind a swift ruddy chain about a boll in 

 their love chase, and even now you may surprise the 

 vixen fox watching the first gambols of her tawny cubs 

 by the sunny border of the woods. 



The gray haze of undergrowth and lofty ramage is 

 turning to a misty green, and the shadows of opening 

 buds knot the meshes of shadows on the brown forest 

 floor that is splashed with white moose flowers and spent 

 arrows of blood root tossed aloof from the green quiver 

 and yellow adder tongues bending above their mottled 

 beds and rusty trails of arbutus leaves leading to the 

 secret of their hidden bloom that their fragrance half 

 betrays. 



Marsh marigolds -lengthen their golden chain, link by 

 link, along the ditches. The maples are yellow with 

 paler bloom and the graceful birches are bent with their 

 light burden of tassels. The dandelion answers the sun, 

 the violet the sky. Blossom and greenness are every- 

 where; even the brown path of the plow and harrow are 

 greening with springing grain. 



We listen to the cuckoo's monotonous flute among the 

 white drifts of orchard bloom and the incessant murmur 

 of bees, the oriole's half plaintive carol as of departed 

 joys in the elms and the jubilant song of the bobolink 

 in the meadows where he is not an outlaw but a welcome 

 guest, mingling his glad notes with the merry voices of 

 flower-gathering children as by and by he will with the 

 ringing cadence of the scythe and the vibrant chirr of 

 the mower. 



Down by the flooded marshes the scarlet of the water 

 maples and the flash of the starling's wing are repeated 

 in the broad mirror of the still water. The turtle basks 

 on the long incline of stranded logs. 



Tally'Sticks cast adrift are a symbol that the trapper's 

 warfare against the muskrats is ended and that the deci- 

 mated remnant of the tribe is left in peace to re-establish 

 itself. 



The spendthrift waste of untimely shooting is stayed. 



Wild duck, plover and snipe have entered upon the en- 

 joyment of a summer truce that will be unbroken, if the 

 collector is not abroad at whose hands science ruthlessly 

 demands mating birds and callow brood. 



Of all sportsmen only the angler, often attended by his 

 winged brother, the kingfisher, is astir, wandering by 

 pleasant waters where the bass lurks in the tangles of an 

 eddy's writhing currents, or the perch poises and then 

 glides through the intangible golden meshes that waves 

 and sunlight knit, or where the trout lies poised beneath 

 the silver domes of foam bolls. 



The loon laughs again on the lake where again the 

 freed waves toss the shadows of the shores, the white re- 

 flections of white sails and flash back the sunlight or the 

 glitter of stars and the beacon's rekindled gleam. 



Sun and sky, forest, field and water, bird and blossom, 

 declare the fullness of spring and the coming of summer. 



SUNDAY FISHING IN JAMAICA BAY. 



THE Penal Code of New York forbids fishing on Sun- 

 day. In the vicinity of cities and large towns at 

 least this law has long been a dead-letter. Thousands of 

 the working classes of New York city— tens of thousands 

 of them— go fishing on Sunday in the summer season. 

 The city docks, the banks of the Hudson and East rivers 

 are lined with them. The ferryboats to Staten Island 

 and the suburban railroad trains carry multitudes of 

 them Saturday nights and Sundays to near-by waters. 

 The bays in the vicinity are crowded with their boats. 

 The district protectors have never dreamed of interfering 

 with this Sunday fishing. Last year, at the prompting 

 of line and hook anglers in Jamaica Bay— most of them 

 men from city workshops— the Legislature forbade net- 

 fishing in the bay. Thereupon the net-fishermen for re- 

 taliation put into force the Sunday fishing law and 

 caused the arrest of certain of the anglers for fishing on 

 the Sabbath. The enforcement of the law in this case 

 was not due to an awakened public sentiment; it was 

 purely a deed of spite— a means resorted to by the net- 

 ters to "get even" with the anglers. 



To avoid further annoyance of this character the hook 

 fishermen appealed to the Legislature to repeal the law 

 which forbids Sunday fishing: and they armed Assembly- 

 man Sulzer with a petition to that effect signed by 60,000 

 workingmen. The Legislature refused to make Sunday 

 fishing lawful in all the waters of the State; but after 

 much discussion finally adopted an amendment, which 

 was designed to permit fishing on Sunday in Jamaica 

 Bay. The particular section relating to the locality reads : 

 Sec. 17a. Fish shall not be fished for, caught or killed 

 by any device except angling, which shall be lawful on 

 any day of the year between the first day of April and 

 the first day of December in the waters of Jamaica Bay 

 or the inlet thereof." The clause in italics was clearly 

 intended to legalize Sunday fishing. 



But Sec. 276 expressly provides, "Nothing in this chap- 

 ter shall be construed to amend or repeal any provision 

 of the Criminal or Penal Code'" The only law which de- 

 clares fishing unlawful is a part of the Penal Code. By 

 Sec. 265 of the Penal Code "all shooting, hunting, fish- 

 ing, playing," etc., are prohibited. If the new fish law 

 may not be construed to amend or repeal this provision 

 of the Penal Code, an interesting question arises as to 

 whether the Jamaica Bay fishing is lawful or unlawful. 



NEW COURSES OF THE FISHING INDUSTRY. 



RESULTS which Mr. Charles Hallock has repeatedly 

 predicted through the Forest and Stream as 

 likely to follow the method of deep net fishing recently 

 put into practice along the coast of North Carolina, from 

 Bogue Sound to Roanoke Island, are rapidly manifesting 

 themselves. Already the quantities of fish taken are so 

 enormous that the stated markets of Boston, New York, 

 Baltimore, etc., are not able to absorb them, and they are 

 seeking new outlets in the Northwest. Important move- 

 ments are now on foot in Newbern (which is the princi- 

 pal distributing depot) for the transportation of fish in 

 suitable refrigerator cars to Cincinnati, Louisville, St. 

 Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Paul and Minneapolis; 

 and sagacious men predict an immense business. Parcels 

 of fish in transitu will be dropped off at intermediate 

 points, like letter pouches from a mail car. The prices of 

 fish at present are so inordinately low that a wide margin 

 of profit is left for even close competition. It is stated 

 that assorted marketable fish of all kinds can be fur- 

 nished at an average price of two cents per pound. 



We understand that Mr. Hallock is in communication 

 with Canadian fishery officials, with a view to induce 

 them to experiment with deep set nets in the Bay 

 Chaleur, Gulf of St. Lawrence, and also for shore cod 

 off the Labrador coast. We shall watch developments in 

 all directions with great interest and with faith, for we 

 incline to the belief that Mr. Hallock did a great deal to 

 open up the deep-sea fishing on the Alaska coast by his 

 miscellaneous writings, as well as by special reports and 

 colored portraits of Pacific coast fishes sent to Profs. 

 Baird and Goode seven years ago. A full chapter of his 

 "New Alaska," intelligently treated, is devoted to this 

 important subject. 



J. J. O'CONNOR. 



THE [death of , Chief Clerk J. J. O'Connor, which oc- 

 curred on May 4, has deprived the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission of one of its most devoted and efficient members. 

 At the early age of thirty-three, almost at the outset of 

 his career of usefulnes, he was unexpectedly called away 

 by an incurable disease, leaving behind a sorrowing wife 

 and five small children. Mr. O'Connor's association with 

 the Fish Commission, and his promotion step by step 

 until he had won the responsible post which his death 

 has now made vacant, has continued for about ten years. 

 During all of this time he was noteworthy for his energy, 

 industry, earnestness of purpose, unblemished reputation 

 and genial disposition. During the 47th Congress Mr 

 O'Connor was clerk of the House Committee on Education 

 and Labor. He was for several years the secretary of 

 Mr. George Alfred Townsend, and served in the same 

 capacity to Mr. Pulitzer, of the New York World, when 

 a representative in Congress. It will be difficult to find 

 an officer possessing the same executive and administra- 

 tive ability combined with such rare amiability and in- 

 born strength of character. 



THE NEW YORK ASSOCIATION. 



THE approaching convention of the New York State 

 Association for the Protection of Fish and Game 

 gives promise of being a notable and important meeting. 

 The committee provided for at the recent Syracuse con- 

 vention will present to the association recommendations 

 looking to a more active and useful service in game and 

 fish protection. It is expected that President Horace 

 White will, in our next issue, call a meeting of delegates 

 to convene in Syracuse prior to the opening of the regu- 

 lar trap-shooting programme. Local clubs and associa- 

 tions in all parts of the State are earnestly requested to 

 send representatives to attend this special meeting. The 

 time is ripe for an enlargement of the field of activity; 

 there is in the association to-day a substantirl member- 

 ship of those who are anxious to see the organization ac- 

 tively engaged in protective work, and who are ready 

 and waiting to take hold of such. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



Dr. G. Brown Goode, Assistant Secretary of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, has returned to Washington greatly 

 improved in health after a winter's sojourn in Mediterra- 

 nean cities. While in Florence he had opportunity to 

 study many rare and curious forms of deep-sea fishes re- 

 lated to American types which are described in the forth- 

 coming monograph by himself and Dr. Bean. He found 

 the museum in Florence extremely rich in the fishes to 

 the study of which his best efforts have been devoted. 



It is with genuine satisfaction that we record the re- 

 appointment of Maj. J. Warren Pond as Chief Game and 

 Fish Protector of this State. Maj. Pond has done excel- 

 lent service; his retention is a fitting recognition of his 

 good record. The same may be said of the reappoint- 

 ment of Protectors Kidd, Hawn and others, who have 

 been active, aggressive and successful in their official 

 work. 



Secretary of State A. A. Lesueur, of Missouri, has re- 

 vised for the Forest and Stream the practical hints on 

 camping, published by him in the St. Louis Republic, 

 and we print them in our game columns to-day. Secre- 

 tary Lesueur is a veteran camper, and mingles sound 

 philosophy and common sense with his practical hints. 



The Forest and Stream Amateur Photography Com- 

 petition has been well received. The details are given 

 again in another column, 



