Ato. 13, 1891.] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Tadpole Bait fok Bass. — Charles Parkins has been 

 enjoying some line bass sport with a new fly. It is in- 

 tended as a large trout fly. He made it for Prof. Lee, of 

 St. Clair, and has named it after that gentleman. It has 

 red wings, hackle and tail; it has a combination body fin- 

 ished off in gold tinse], the colors being i-ed, orange and 

 yellow. Mr. Parkins v^^enfc np to the dam and threw the 

 fly one day several weeks ago. He caught forty nice 

 bass. A few weeks later he caught fifteen, In speaking 

 of his experience Mr. Parkins said: "You can't catch 

 very large bass with a fly at the dam on account of the 

 number of boats passing". For bsit fishing for bass this 

 year you will find tadpoles the best. It is funny, but last 

 year liver was found to be the b?st bait. The fisherman 

 must change his bait to suit the demand of the fish. In 

 rivets hol;2'ramite, email frogs and stone catfish ai'e the 

 best."— I'ottsviUe (Pa.) Chronide. 



Duty on Fly Mateeials.— In referring to ''Free 

 Trade's" note on the duties levied on sportsmen's and 

 tourists' belongings by the Canadian customs authoritips, 

 what consideration can we expect from other couniries 

 as long as our own tariff laws are so onerous and prohibi- 

 tive? 1 have been trying to teach myself to tie salmon 

 flies lately, and but few of the necessary materials are to 

 be had in this country. I have imported a few feathers, 

 tinsels, etc., by mail, and have had to pay as high as 45 

 per cent, duty, lost much time at custom house, and had 

 to sign eight documents and pay for blanks. — Theodore 

 Gordon. 



GLOueKSTER, Mass., July 28.— Fishing in Fern wood 

 Lake has not been good of late; after trolling for over two 

 hours recently I took only one white perch, and my com- 



fianion caught nothing during the whole afternoon. Very 

 ittle angling is done in the fresh waters here. We have 

 white peich, yellow perch, pickerel and bass. A pond 

 has been stocked with German carp, but I have not heard 

 that any have been seen. A short time ago I saw the 

 largest mackerel I have ever seen; it measured 24 in. in 

 length, 13in. in circu'nference, and weighed d^lbs. It 

 was taken at Cape God. — E. F. L. 



Bluefisuinq at Perth Amboy.— In your issue of July 

 30 is published a letter from me. In that letter I should 

 have written that our boatman was Frajik Di wson, in- 

 stead of John D.ivison, as was published. Mr. Frank 

 Dawson claims to know where the center of fisheiy is 

 located, and with the belief that honor belongs to whom 

 honor is due, I ask that this correction be made. — H. C. 

 W. 



Black Bass —Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, has 

 furnished excellent bass fishing during the past week. 

 The fish are of the large mouth species and of small aver- 

 age siz^. filihough occa,sional big ones are seen. Scores 

 of 43. 50 and 70 in a day ha.ve been rexDorted. the last 

 made by Mr. Fred Clark, of Storm's Island. Helgraraites, 

 crayfish and frogs are the successful baits, and still- fish- 

 ing brought better returns than casting. 



Sharks and Dogfish. — "With the improvement of the 

 summer fishing come the fisherman's pests, to drive off 

 edible fishes and c mse danger to apparatus and danger 

 to life. In the vicinity of Cape Ann, Mass., line fishing 

 for cod is seriously interrupted by dogfish, a small kind 

 of shark, and near Seaville large and ferocious man-eat- 

 ing sharks have made their appearance, and two men 

 have been grievously bitten by them. 



Thk Angel Shark, — A specimen of the rare shark, 

 Squatina angelus, was taken near Atlantic City, N. J., 

 last week, by Capt, Jos. L, Gaskill, of the Life Saving 

 Service. The sisecimen measured 4ft., and is on exhibi- 

 tion at the pier where it has been an object of great 

 curiosity. 



Moosehead Lake, Maine, has been stocked with land- 

 locked salmon, and, api)!?rently, with success. At Kineo, 

 a lady from New York took one recently that weighed 

 about 41bs. On July 37 Mrs. J. F. Hildretb. while troll- 

 ing in the lake, caught a salmon weighing G-Jlbs. 



A Shark 12ft. long was caught at Block I-4and re- 

 cently and exhibited on Block Island dock. Whenever 

 bluefish are plentiful on any part of the coast sharks 

 may be seen feeding upon them, but menhaden suffer 

 vastly more than bluefish from such depredations. 



"Forest anc5 Stream" Nursery Rhymes, 

 rv. 



Sing a sont o' troutiiig, 



"Three- pound lisli, I vum! 

 Bigeest flsli in tJiat ere brook 



That ever swallowed wum." 

 When rbc"whaJe" was hefted 



He didii'fc weigh a. pound. 

 Wasn't that a pretty lie 



To be a traveling round! 

 New Jehset. O. O. S. 



There was a young man lived in Yougliall 

 Was the biggest liar since Adam's iloughall. 



Foi" ttie fish that he bought . 



HeM .s\Year that he'd caught— - 

 This young man of UQlimited goughall. 

 Louisiana. H, P. U. 



A QUEER DECISION. 



''|">HT?jEE hap been a curious deci.'^ion in France upon the right of 

 X ownevbbip in private lisb; that is, flsb bred and brought up 

 and pi-otecteil in private waters, but which had escaped to waters 

 owned by other proprietors. 



A Mr. St, Vincent, living in the Department of Marne, in 

 France, was the ha ppy po3.«easor of an artificial pond built in the 

 center of a running sLream, but protected and ebut in by a dam 

 and a screen from ine waters above and below. There he raised 

 his fish. Tliti report, does not sav whether they were trout, Mack 

 hass, carp, or thn.t ''avorite of the French pporting gentleman's 

 hearf, the merry little yrudgeon. They were not only his property 

 but bis peis, and the 1b sl.oo.! with its asgia over his right and 

 title to do witri them as ha ^'or.!.], possibly even that he might 

 fish for tbem out of reason, bur certainly that no other ruthless 

 ha-nd could rieprivp him of their possession and enioyment. 

 , ijufortunat- ly LViere came a flood, and l he waters roared and 

 raged and heat upnn that d,<5ra, and tore at that screen, and shook 

 and shattered and undermined it, and finally swept it wholly 

 away and allowed the pets and the property to pass down into 

 Other regions as the prey of the spoiler. Such things have 

 happened in this country, and liuman nature is human natfire the 



world over, and French nature is not so unlike American nature 

 as thev think, in their pride of giving extravagant fashions and a 

 difHcult language to the rest of the world. The riparian owners of 

 the stream below the former dam of Mr. St. Vincent proceeded 

 promptly and merrily to fish f ^^ the.se quondam pets and property 

 of Ihe said St. Vincent, iust as the riparian proprietors and many 

 vagrrant anglers have been in the babit of taking advantage of 

 similar heartrending accidents upon the soil of Long Island- They 

 thought they were in their right and gloated over the misfortune 

 of the modern saint which had thus suddenly turned to their 

 pi'oflt. Tiio bank of that stream was lined with their rods and the 

 current filled with their dobbers (by the by, this is a good old 

 Dutch word, so don't despise It), while the whilom owner wrung 

 his ha.nds and said, "Sacre bleu, sapristeche, sapristie, nom de 

 Di'^u," and possibly even more improper words in his native 

 tongue. 



But having got throtigh railing at fate, his rage gave him an in- 

 spiration, and he commenced suit against the sportsmen who 

 were thus making sport and gain on his misadventures. He went 

 to French law, it must be distinctly understood, and French law 

 is a wonderful and incomprehensible article. No one need be 

 surprised at anything from French law, whether it is got otit of. 

 the Code Napoleon or the dusty recesses of the judicial mind. 

 There is only one result that can be confidRntly and invariably re- 

 lied upon: it is that in a case between a foreigner and a French- 

 man it will always decide for the Frenchman. Vide, the remark- 

 able case where it retjuired an American father-in-law, whose 

 daughter had married a Frenchman and died, to support the 

 barber or count son-in-law, whichever he might be, as it said, 

 "according to what would have been his station in life if the 

 daughter had Jived and become heir to her father." 



But this case of Mr. St. Vincent was "Greek meet OreeK," and, 

 strange as it may seem, out of the intricacies of French law, he 

 won his ca'c, not only on the first trial, but upon appeal to the 

 higher court, where the decision was confirmed. How t he court 

 managed to determine certain side issues, the report of this inter- 

 esting decision does not tell. For example, how were these riparian 

 proprietors, possessed as tbeywere of the right of fishing upon 

 their own domain, to arrange not to catch the private fisli of their 

 neighbor, Mr. St. Vincent? Thus raising a question as complicated 

 as our own beautiful statute, which provides than an."ingler shall 

 not catch any fish less than 6in. long, and compels him to find out 

 bpforeband how his a bite he is about to get. And when the court 

 fixed the amount of damages which these involuntary poachers 

 were to pay, how could it tell how many of their basketfuls were 

 of their own inherent gudgeons, supposing them to have been 

 gudgeons, and how many were interloping gudgeons? 



Moreover, were not these law-breakers entitled to compensation 

 for the food and nourishment of the strangers, which they had 

 thus unwillingly taken within their gates, for the period of r,>oir 

 sojourn before they were illegally yanked from their native ele- 

 ment? This would raise the further question of what would be the 

 cost of maintaining and entertaining fish jjer diem, anfl as tha.t 

 depends upon their relative size and weight, and as they have to 

 secure their own food, which often eonsists of deleterious insects, 

 whose destruction would ho a benefit instead of a detriment, the 

 calculaiion is an intricate one. 



However, I give you the precedent for what it is worth. Tlie 

 d-sm of the famous and wealthy South Side Club, wh'ch has done 

 such royal work in producing and cultival ing trout, may give way 

 soni" day and the vandals below may undertake to imitate the 

 neighbors of Mr. St. Vincent. Then this deeision will come into 

 play, although the four following horns of dilemma will have to be 

 considered: First, shall ths owners of the stream thus favored by 

 fate be restricted catching their own trout at the peril of ' dam- 

 nirtt/e.s-Mff crcf.';, as this case sayf? Second, shall they be forbidden 

 to fi;h at all thereafter for all time? Third, shall the owner of the 

 broken pond be allowed to enter upon their property in spite of 

 the ancient saws about giMreclatisum f regit, to recapture his own 

 fish and those only? Or, fourth (finally and in conclusion, as our 

 good old sermons used t" put it), in what imaginable way is tlie 

 foi-mer proprietor to get his property into his possession anyhow? 

 —RobeH B. Roosevelt in Neio For/c Timets. 



FISH HATCHERY FOR VERMONT. 



THE State flsb hatchery will be located at Roxbury. on 

 land donated for the purpose by E. N. Spaiildinfj, of that 

 town. The site was selected upon the recommendation of 

 Commissioner Elliott B. Hodge, of the New Hampshire Com- 

 mission. 



Commissioner McDonald is now in Vermont, to decide 

 upon a location for the new station for which the last Con- 



fress appropriated §5,000. Several essential conditions will 

 etermiiie the choice in this case as in all others; there must 

 be a bountiful supply of clear, spring water of even tem- 

 perature and capable of delivery into the hatchery by gravity. 

 The location must be central in the region which it is in- 

 tended to supply and with railroad communication to its 

 distributing points. It is often difficult to find all of the 

 necessary conditions present in localities which seem at first 

 glance to be eminently suitable. 



ST. LOUIS NOTES.— The United States "Fish Farm," at 

 JSTessbo, in this State, is progressing finely. The station is 

 one mile from Nessho and contains 13 acres of ground, in 

 which there are 18 pools and ponds, arotmd which are laid 

 out well-kept walks and drives. The water area of the 

 hatchery amounts to 145,000 sq. ft. of surface, and the water 

 itself is admirably adapted for its purpose, The product of 

 the hatchery last year was 32,000 rainbow trout, 12,000 brown 

 trout, .500 speckled trout, 1,380 red-eye perch, 1,780 carp, 

 9.907 tench, and 17,000 gold flsb. The estimated production 

 for this year is as follows: Twenty thousand black bass, 3,000 

 croppie,"l5,000 carp, 15,000 tench, 10,000 red-eye perch, 5,000 

 gold fish, 12,000 speckled trout, 18,000 brown trout, and 12,000 

 rainbow trout. The trout do well in the waters at Nessho, 

 and also at Mammoth Springs, the head of the Merrimac 

 River. Mr. James, one of the owners of Mammoth Springs, 

 informs us that there are seven miles of good trout water at 

 that place, and that there are now Calif oruia trout there 

 which will weigh 5lbs. These were planted bj'the U, S. Fish 

 Commission some years ago. There are other streams in the 

 Ozark Range where this trout would do well, and it may be 

 that trout fishing may yet be numbered among the sporting 

 offerings of this State^ 



VERMONT FISH HATCHERY.— The dirpctors of the 

 State fish hatchery, Messrs. C. C, Warren, of Waterburv: R. 

 B. Noyes, of St. Johnsbttry, and Dr. H. H. Swift, of Pitts- 

 ford, held a meeting at Burlington, and decided, upon the 

 recommendation of Col. Elliott B. Hodge, of Plymouth, N, 

 H,, to locate the new building at Roxbury. Mr. E. N. 

 Spaulding has donated the land necessary for the purpose. 

 There is a desire on the part of some persons to see the 

 United States hatchery, for which the last Congress appro- 

 priated 15,000, located at St. Johnsbury. Commissioner 

 McDonald will soon visit the proposed sites and make a 

 selection. 



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F I XTU RES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Sept. 1 to 4. — Second Annual Dog Show of the Kingston Kennel 

 Club, at Kingston, Ont. H. C. Oorbett, Secretary. 



Sept. 1 to 4,— Dog Show of the Youngstown Kennel Club, at 

 Youngstown. 0, 



Sept. 8 to 11.— First Annual Dog Show of the Hamilton Kennel 

 Club, at Hamilton. Ont, 



Sept. 14 to la.— Toronto Industrial Exhibition Association Third 

 International Dog Show, at Toronto. O. A. Stone, Sec'y and Supt. 



Sept. 22 to 25.— Inaugural International Dog Show of the Mon- 

 treal Exposition Company, at Montreal, Canada. Entries close 

 Sent. 8. J. S Roberfson, Secretary. 



Sept. 39 to Oct. 1.— Third Annual Dog Show, in connection with 

 the Central Canada Fair, at Ottawa, Ont. Alfred Geddes, Supt. 



lS9a, 



Jan. 13 to 14.— Second Annual Dog Show of the South Carolina 

 Kennel Association, at Columbia, S. C, F. F. Capers, Secretary, 

 Greenville, S. C. 



FIELD TRIALS, 



Nov. 3.— Inaugural Trials of the United States Field Trial Olub, 

 at Bicknell, Ind. P. T. Madison. Secretary. 



Nov. 16.— Eastern Field Trials Club's Thirteenth Annual Trials, 

 at High Point, N. 0. Members' Stake Nov. 12. W. A. Cosier, 

 Se'Tetary. 



Nov. 23.-Iri8h Setter Club's Field Trials, at High Point, N. O. 



G. G. Davis, 8ecret;rry, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Nov. 3S.-Gordon Setter Club's Field Trials, at High Point, N. 



C. L. A. Van Zindt, Secretary. Yonkers, N. Y. 

 N"v. 30.— Central Field Trial Club's Third Annual Trials, at 



L'^xington, N. C. 0. H. Odell, Sec'y, 44 and 40 Wall street. New 



York city- 

 Dec. 14 —Philadelphia Kennel Club's Field Trials. Charles K. 



Connell, Secretary. 



WHITE WINGS. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



I notice in your issue of July 30 a letter signed J. Mac- 

 kelcan, who states that he is an old journalist, and, there- 

 fore, not afraid to sign his name to all he writes to thepre.'-'s. 

 For all I know he may be an old journalist, bitt when he 

 gets into kennel matters his journalistic abilities do not 

 shine out very prominently. He ought to know that when 

 writing tipon doggy aifairs (as well as on other topics) it is 

 requisite to know what one is writing about, or he is pretty 

 sure to fall into error. 



Now, we will take his letter from the commencement ar d 

 be as brief as possible. He infers that Mr. George Bell did 

 not own White Wings, Now I can vouch for his being in 

 partnership with Mr. Ireson in the Seaton Kennels; however, 

 any one doubting this can easily have it verified by writing 

 Mr. Iresou as to^the truth of this assertion. Consequently 

 it is only natural that Mr, Bell would handle his dogs at the 

 shows at which he exhibited them, instead of "being em- 

 ployed by Mr. Ireson to attend to them," as your correspond- 

 ent puts it. He then goes on to inform your readers how 

 White Wings was brought into existence, "and this is where 

 be should have come to a full stop, for the rest of his letter 

 is onlv a conglomeration of errors. He states that Ranger 

 beat Gem of the Season last year at Cleveland. In the first 

 place, this show was held April 14 to 17 of this year, and 

 these two dogs did not compete in the same class. Gem of 

 the Season won in the challenge class and Ranger in the 

 open class. However, Mr. Mackelcan may have reference to 

 a race which was held during the show in which Ranger 

 proved the victor. He concludes his letter to you by stating 

 that White Wings, the only time shown, Avon in her class 

 over twenty competitors at the Members' show of the T. K. 

 C. Now, if Mr. M. woula only strike off a cypher, he would 

 come nearer the truth, as instead of twenty there happened 

 only to be two competitors in this class. 



Now in his extract taken from the Qlohc he is also astray. 

 He gives the time of the running at the Woodbine by White 

 Wings and Ranger for 440yds. as 25>^ and 25% seconds, 

 whereas the time recorded by Messrs, Ireson and Bell was 

 2Q%, White Wings beating Ranger by half a length. 



In conclusion, I trust that ottr "old journalist" when he 

 "effuses" again on kennel matters will endeavor to ascer- 

 tain facts so that people who do not know may not be led 

 astray. H. P. Thompson. 



Toronto, Can. 



Editor Forest mid Stream: 



With your permission I would like to say a few words re- 

 garding Mr. Mackelcan's letter in your issue of July 30, and 

 perhaps may be able to throw a little light on the subject. 



Some time ago Mr. Bell informed me that he had acquired 

 an interest in Mr. Ireson's kennel of greyhounds, and de- 

 .sired Jolly Ranger (since shortened to Ranger) to oe added 

 to bis list of stud dogs in the Canadian Kennel Gazette. 

 In an interview with Mr. Ireson shortly after, he (Mr. Ire- 

 son) corroborated Mr. Bell's statement. White Wings won 

 first at the Toronto Kennel Club's club show in May, the 

 only other entry being Mr. Fitzsimmons's Why Not. Where 

 were the remaining eighteen? 



In writing this I have no other object than to correct posi- 

 tive misstatements, which, I am sure, were not published 

 with Mr. Ireson's knowledge or sanction. 



H. B. Donovan. 



TORONXO, Can. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



In the July 80 isisue of Forest and Stream, under the 

 heading "How is This?" Mr. .J. Mackelcan says Gem of the 

 Season was beaten last year at Cleveland by Jolly Ranger. 

 Gem of the Season was 'at that time in England. If he 

 meant last spring, Gem of the Season was not then and 

 never has been beaten by Jolly Ranger. I think it would 

 be wiser if Mr. Mackelcan would confine himself to facts. 



A. W. PlTRBECK.. 



SAiiEM, Mass. 



A DOG'S DEVOTION. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



A friend of mine being a lover of dogs and the chase, keeps 

 an excellent pack of hounds and puts in his leisure days, 

 during the fall and winter months, in htmting foxes. 



At the close of a run last November one of his favorites 

 was missing, but as the chase had extended over several 

 miles of new country it was thought he had fallen in with 

 another pack and would soon be heard from, or get starved 

 out and come home for his rations. However, as the week 

 passed and nothing was heard of him be became convinced 

 that some reprobate had shot him out of pure cussedness, and 

 maledictions dire were heaped on the head of the slayer of 

 poor Dick. 



Among bis canine family was an intelligent sheepdog, 

 and one of his many accomplishments was that he knew the 

 name of every horse on the farm, and when sentto the pasture 

 for a particular animal would single it out and bring it up 

 to the barn lot. Sometimes the others would come with it, 

 but the animal wanted was certain to be on hand. After tbe 

 hound was missed the sheepdog was absent a good part of 

 the time, seldom coming home except for food, vvhenit would 

 eat the smaller pieces with haste and filling his mouth with 

 the larger portion start in the direction of the barn, as was 

 supposed to finish his meal in peace and without interference 

 from the hounds. 



One morning it occurred to some of the family to watch 

 him, when they saw him cross the fields toward an old straw 

 stack a half a mile from the farmhouse. They followed him, 

 and to their surprise foundthe favorite hound in an emaciated 

 condition with a broken leg and a bad wound in his side that 

 he received in some manner in this last race. The faithful 

 collie was wild with joy. When he saw his master coming, 

 he ran to him and putting his fore feet on his breast barked 

 with delight, then ran to the straw stack and back again 

 to his master, manifesting his pleasure in unmistakable dog 

 talk. The dog had carried his own food to the hound for 

 over a week and went without himself. The patient was 

 placed carefull J'' in a blanket, and on the way home the sheep- 

 dog headed the procession, the proudest dog in the county. 



The invalid was given comfortable quarters, and carefully 

 nursed, but even then Shep wottld not wholly give up Ms 

 charge but would lie with him for hours on his pallet of 

 straw, evidently sympathizing with and keeping him com- 



Ipany, and not until Dick was able to take his place in the 

 pack did he re.sign his guardianship. Cameron. 

 Elsah, hi. 



