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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[AtTG. 87, 1891. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



CHICAGO, 111. Aug. 21.— Thus far the sportsmen have 

 ■won victory without a struggle in tlieir restaurant 

 cases. A pretty tight with the Richelieu Hotel was looked 

 for, but was not to be. Manager Beniis went to Mr. Low, 

 prosecuting attorney for these cases, and made some in- 

 quiries. 



"Mr. Low," said he, "what sort of a case have you got 

 against my hotel? What proof have you, anyhow? ' 



"Well," said Mr. Low, "two of our folks went to your 

 cafe, wrote out an order for two prairie chickens, got 

 them, paid for them, and brought away a portion which 

 will be produced in evidence against you. You have no 

 case." 



"Great Scott!" said Mr. Bemis, I shouldn't think I had. 

 I don't want to defend any such case as that. I'll pay my 

 fine, and go home and give my steward h— . I don't 

 want to sell illegal game." 



The poor stewards, how they are catching it these days. 

 Mr. Bemis paid Ms $25 and costs, and let us hope he gave 

 his steward the promised article as aforesaid, 



Billy Boyle still says he will light, and we hope he will. 

 His case comes off Monday next. 



Last week I spoke of finding illegal game at Rector's 

 restaurent after he had been prosecuted once. Mr. Rector 

 will learn wisdom later on. On Friday last, Aug. 14, 

 Messrs. F. A. Place, T. W. Pattison and C. W. Lapham 

 went to Rector's place and ordered three teal, and got 

 them. Mr. Place asked if they were not afraid to sell this 

 game, and the waiter said his orders were to sell game at 

 any and all seasons. Mr. Place asked him to note that 

 he would prosecute, and made a record of the date and 

 circumstances. 



One would think that Mr. Rector would have had better 

 sense than to go ahead after this, but it seems he did not. 

 A week n'^o I asked Billy Farmer to take a friend and go 

 to Rector's after duck. Yesterday at noon, Aug. 20, Mr. 

 Farmer and Mr. C. W. Ashton went there, and ordered 

 two teal, as per the bill of fare. 



"How long will it take?" asked Billy. 



"I'll see if we have any duck, first," said the waiter. 



He retmned and said they could get teal, and they did 

 get them. I saw the leg of one of them and no question 

 about it is possible. This would seem to locate about six 

 new oases against Mr. Rector, which at $33 each would 

 foot up $193, just what Mr, Kern ought to nave paid, and 

 just what Mr. Rector probably will have to pay. One or 

 two fines like that, and a restaurant man is going to learn 

 a whole lot of sense pretty quick, whereas $35 might not 

 serve that purpose. 



These cases have, however, done good unquestionably. 

 Last night, for instance, I found tha.t the Stock Exchange 

 restaurant had taken duck from its bill of fare, and I 

 could not get any. To-day I dropped in at the Lakeside 

 restaurant and asked for teal. 



"We haven't got any game," said the waiter. "There's 

 been half a dozen men fined $35 for selling it lately, and 

 we don't dare sell it." 



"Is that so?" said I, "who was it got fi^ned?" 



"Ob, Bemis, -and Kinsley and a whole lot of them," 

 said the waiter, with an inaccuracy which I could have 

 corrected, for Kinsley has not been fined. The head 

 waiter then came along, and I asked him if he had any 

 game. He said: 



"Game? Why of course we've got game. Here—" 



"No we ain't," interrupted my waiter, "Boss says he's 

 afraid to serve it." 



"Oh, that's only prairie chicken," said the head waitei*. 

 "We've got woodcock and duck and all that." 



"I don't cai-e, it's all game, and all game is out of season 

 now," said the waiter, stoutly, though inaccurately, so 

 finally I did not get any game here. The effect of the 

 late cases was evident. 



There is a member of a big hardware firm here, which 

 latter also sells some sporting goods, who has been down 

 in Indiana hunting, and who killed half a dozen prairie 

 chickens there. His partner says that such was his own 

 admission. I know the name but dare not give it, for I 

 have no direct proof that he killed the birds, more's the 

 pity. 



Here is a nice special-car-railway-official sort of an 

 item to be in the dispatches, isn't it? 



"Danville, 111., Aug. 16. — [Special.]— E, A, Peck, gen- 

 eral superintendent of the Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago 

 and St, Louis Railroad; A. G. Wells, superintendent of 

 the Peoria Division; J, W, Simmons, station agent at 

 Paris, 111., and Dr. George Blackman, of Indianapolis, 

 came over in a special car from Indian.aj)oli3 yesterday 

 to hunt quail and jDrairie chickens. Late in the evening 

 they were arrested by otficers Rittenhouse and Kinney 

 for "violating the game law. The Vermillion County Fish 

 and Game Association will take a hand in the prosecu- 

 tion," 



More power to the Yermillion County Association! The 

 sportsman's day dawns. 



"Aug. SIS. — ^IMessrs, Place and Lapham have gone to Minne- 

 sota after chickens, Mr. Place's hay fever always breaks 

 out on A.ug, 20, which somehow happens to be the chicken 

 date in Minnesota. 



Mr. C. S, Dennis and Mr. Clark of the Hibernian Bank 

 of this city have gone to Detroit Lake, Minnesota, for a 

 six weeks' stay. This will give them a fine trip in a mag- 

 nificent country. They will be joiiied in early October by 

 Mr. W. L, Wells, of the Shober & Cirqueville Litho. Co. 

 of Chicago, The latter gentleman is known by thous- 

 ands of sportsmen who do not know his name, through 

 the fine lithographs, "Mallards" and "Teal." These marsh 

 scenes could be drawn only by an artist and a sportsman. 



By the way, Mr, Wells wa"s up at Detraifc lakes two 

 years ago, and had magnificent wildfov\d shooting. He 

 spoke of this to that veteran market hunter. Bill Griggs, 

 well known along the Illinois River, and perhaps as well- 

 posted a shooter on fowl as any of the land, he and Abe 

 Kleinman having prospected together for new country 

 many a time, Griggs did not say much, but last fall, 

 when Mr. Wells again appeared at Deti'oit for his fall 

 shoot, he found Bill and his partner there ahead of him. 

 These men shot th^t fail in and around that country, and 

 Griggs later said uiat he had never seen mallards so plen- 

 tiful in all his experience, except in the earlier days on 

 New Ma.drid marsh. As water and feed ai-e generally 

 good in the Northwest this fall, it is likely that the fowl 

 shooting arouad Detroit will be good. The bass fishing 

 in the adjacent lakes is too well known to need mention 

 here. Chicken shooting I do not know much about in 

 that region, but Mr. Wells says they got some birds not 



ax west of Detroit. 



Messrs. F, S, Baird and M. R. Bortree. the latter our 

 new game warden here, are absent on their annual 

 chicken trip to South Dakota, and will not return till the i 

 middle of September, 



Week before last, Aug. 10, a gentleman killed eighteen 

 jack snipe at Fox Lake. Ed, Howard says there were 

 numbers of snipe in. This would seem pretty early for 

 that bird in this region. 



Woodcock shooting cuts a small figure in Chicago 

 sport, but once in a while one hears of a bag. Earlier in 

 the season Henry Ehlers killed 30 cock near Thayer, 

 back of the Diana Club grounds, on the Kankakee, and 

 week before last, in a day and half of not very hard 

 work, he got 16 woodcock and 83 bass, a verv good mixed 

 bag. 



The Kankakee looms as a fishing stream. Mr. Mussey 

 joins Mr. Card for a week of it at Mak-saw-ba now. Mr. 

 Card got 15 bass last Thursday. I do not hear of such 

 fishing anywhere around in this hot weather. Tbe gen- 

 tlemen who are founding the new club down at Koutts, 

 Ind,, on the Kankakee, tried the fishing near their pro- 

 posed gi-ounda and made some exceedingly heavy catches, 

 Mr. J. Sy, McAuley is prominent in the work in getting 

 up this new club. Some of the best snipe ground in the 

 West lies just back of Koutts, and the grounds are well 

 chosen for shooting purposes, as well as for fishing, which 

 last is only a side issue. 



By all means the most considerable shooting party of 

 the city on Sept. 1 will be that which will go to the Hor- 

 icon marsh, in Wisconsin. This event is awaited with 

 interest, and will be fully described, as earlier men- 

 tioned. 



Mr, M, J, Eich, the meteoric trap shot who has been 

 shedding effulgence around here for the past year or so, 

 will depart for the Illinois River, Hennepin way, as soon 

 as the season opens for ducks. Indeed there will be a 

 general exodus for the marshes at that date. The Chicago 

 boys are great duck shooters. 



Dr. H, C, Buechner is back from his pleasant EuroiJean 

 ti'ip. It would seem that he did not go afield there, but 

 abode mainly at Munich. The Doctor says that at 

 Munich, for 36 pfennige, or 6 cents, you can get a glass 

 of b!?er as long as your arm. 



Dr. J, M, Hutchinson won the Ft, Dearborn Club medal 

 yesterday with a straight score of 15, Cumberland Lodge 

 shelters a number of shooters, field and trap. 



Mr, Alex, T, Loyd and Mr, J, L. Wilcox have been 

 having a little trial or so of their ability at the trap, to 

 the disappointment of the latter gentleman, as see trap 

 scores. Their first race, over a week ago, resulted 42-37 

 out of 50, in favor of Mr. Loyd. Mr, Wilcox then offered 

 $50 that he could beat Mr, Loyd's first score, and another 

 $oO that he ciuld beat his next score, Mr, Loyd cheer- 

 fully agreed, and the next match, shot last Saturday, re- 

 sulted 43-41 out of 50 for Mr, Loyd, Mr. Y/ilcox thus 

 losing both wagers. Alex, Loyd is not safe to go against, 

 for you can't tell what he is going to do; but a gamer 

 loser or more gentlemanly winner does not live in Chicago, 

 at least. 



Mr. W. L, Shepard was going after trout and didn't go, 

 and may be going after d.eer later on. Apropos of this 

 they tell an interesting story of Mr. Shejiard's fast year's 

 trip after deer in the North Peninsula, It seems that he 

 hired a couple of guides to take out some hounds to start 

 a deer for him. The guides stationed him on a runway, 

 and went ofl". Mr. Shepard staid at his post half a day, 

 and then started bom e, not having heard a sound of hound 

 or deer. On his way in he blundered over an old logging 

 camp, and peering in saw both the guides fast asleep, 

 with the hounds chained up near by. This made Mr. 

 Shepard angry, and he came home. Maybe the guides 

 knew it was illegal to hound deer, and so let Mr, Shepard 

 down easy. Anyhow, this is the story. 



The many friends of John Gillespie are grieving over 

 his condition. He has been stricken with total paralysis 

 of the lower limbs, and no hopes are given for his recov- 

 ery of their use. No better known figm-e of Chicago 

 sportsmanship than John Gillespie. The boys go out and 

 visit him at his home and comfort him as they can, 



A sad affair occurred at Lake Marie, one of the Fox 

 Lake chain, last Saturday, in which a lad named Dun- 

 lap, of Oak Park, lost his life. He and another youth 

 were on the lake with a boat; Dunlap, who could swim 

 but little, holding on to the boat and paddling with one 

 hand, further supporting himself with one of the oars 

 under his body. All at once he lost his hold on the 

 boat, sunk with the oar, I'ose once and then disaj^peared 

 forever. Three days' faithful search failed to find the 

 body, which is doubtless tangled in the heavy weeds 

 which cover the mud bottom of these truly dangerous 

 lakes, I was there the day after tbe disaster, and they 

 were firing cannon and using dynamite in the effort to 

 raise the body. This may be effective so early after 

 drowning, though I don't see why. Then a diver was 

 brouarht on from Chicago, and rigged in his heavy armor 

 went down to the bottom of the lake. He came up a.t 

 once, saying that the attempt was useless, as he sunk to 

 hia waist in the weeds and mud. The body was not 

 found. When I looked at the distance out these boys had 

 gone over the deep and treacherous water, I was more 

 Bti'ongly than ever impressed with the foolhardiness and 

 carelessness sometimes shown by boys. Lake Marie is 

 dangerous enough for the strongest swimmer. The fish- 

 erman who goes out of his boat into the weeds of these 

 lakes, is lucky if he ever regains shore or boat. 



Major Maitland-Kirwan, of the English army, has 

 passed through, en route for his eighth annual hunting 

 trip to the Rocky Mountains, where he anticipates repe- 

 tition of earlier success. 



Mr, A. W, "Wiley," or Mr, Bmner, of Riverside, Cali- 

 fornia, goes back to the Golden State without the scalj) of 

 the redoubtable J. A, R Elliott, of Kansas City. The 

 two shot last Monday at Kansas City, Mr. Elliott scoring 

 47 out of 50 birds, and Mr, "Wiley" '44. 



Great interest is ctu-rent to-day in the match between 

 the Milwaukee and Chicago teams, now in progress, as 

 see trap columns, 



A little more trap shooting before the fall field season. 

 Elkhart, Ind., shoot begins Aug. 26, The thirteenth 

 annual of the Central Illinois Sportsmen's Association 

 opens on the 25th and lasts four days, at Jacksonville, 

 111., Charlie Sfcrawn and Jim Stioe's town. Both good 

 events. 



Mr, O^^car Blomgren again asks me if I know about the 

 pickerel's tail, and again I must ask if anybody else does. 



"In Sweden they showed me," said Mr. Blomgren, after 

 his return from a tour of that country, "that when 



pickerel are biting well you will find that the split in the 

 tail, between the two lobes or forks of the tail, runs 

 deep, and almost clear up to the flesh. When the fish 

 are not biting much this split is nearly gi'own up. The 

 boatmen would look at the tail of theinckerel we caught, 

 and say, 'Now they will bite well,' or •They will bite well 

 in a week, or two weeks,' I do not know whether or not 

 a pickerel's tail fluctuates with his appetite. Do you?" 



If it does I don't know it. But this reminds, one how 

 careless is the common observation of the fishes and birds 

 we are accustomed to handle, I confess I have always 

 looked rather more closely at the other end of a pickerel, 

 but must look for that split tail the next time. 



The best fishing since June will begin now in two or 

 three weeks, but will be lost sight of in the shooting. 

 Fall is the best time for pleasure in Upper Wisconsin. 

 No trout then, but no mosquitoes either, and plenty of 

 mascallonge and deer. 



Mr. C. M, Townsend, of Knox> Ind., secretary of the 

 Northwestern Indiana Shooting Association, in sending 

 in scores of the late pleasant Crown Point tournament, 

 unfortunately too late for use, remarks, "We had in use 

 one of Paul North's electric traps, which was a most pro- 

 nounced success, not causing a balk during the day." 

 Electricity in trap pulls, both for live bird traps and tar- 

 gets, is a foregone conclusion. 



Aug. ^c?.— I notice Forest and Stream is good enough, 

 to reply piartly to my query as to the weight of the pick- 

 erel by recounting the characteristics of the cheeks and 

 gill covers. These were already in mind, and it was 

 only the question of possible weight that bothered; there- 

 for I was glad to see in the correspondence columns of 

 the same date the reply to "F. A. S.,"that the largest 

 true pickerel does not attain a weight of over 81bs, In 

 Iowa we always used to call these larger fish by their 

 right name of "pike," though I fear we included also the 

 pickerel under that name. Here in lUiaois and Indiana 

 and Wisconsin everything in the pike or pickerel line is 

 called "pickerel," no matter how big. We have still a 

 few men left around here who insist that the mascallonge 

 is "only an overgrown pike or jnckerei,'' but these are 

 men who never saw a mascallonge. The latter fish, 

 placed alongside the pike, no more resembles it than it 

 does a catfish, or at least it is as easy to distingni^h. The 

 question of a 31b.o. "pickerel" or "pike" is harder to de- 

 termine. Mr. H. B. Frazier, who first started this ques- 

 tion of the weight of the real pickerel, caught an lllbs. 

 fish at Powei's Lake this spring, and a wager was laid by 

 his friends as to whether it was or was not a pickerel. 

 No description of the cheeks or gill covers could be had, 

 and it remained only a pure question of weight to decide. 

 Now it seems, as per Forest and Stream of Aug. 20, 

 that the fish could not have been a true pickerel, but was 

 a pike. The big Ka,nkakee and Fox River "pickerel," 

 mauger a look at their cheeks, may also be pronounced 

 off-hand to be pike and not pickerel. This will relax 

 many wrinkles of thought around Chicago. 



irr>M0NB0E Street. E. HotjGH. 



HINTS ON HANDLING GUNS. 



.Editor Forest and Stream: 



Having been asked bj friends frequently for advice for 

 their boys in handling guns, I .send you a digest of same. 

 Perhaps, as the shooting season wiil now be on soon, you 

 might think them worth publication : 



1, Empty or loaded, never point a gun toward yourself 

 or any other person. 



2, When afield carry your gun at the half-cock. If in 

 cover let your hand shield the hammers from whipping 

 twigs. 



3, When riding from one shooting ground to another, 

 or whenever you have your gun in any conveyance, re- 

 move the cartridges, if a breechloader,' it being so easy 

 to reiDlace them. If a muzzleloader, remove the caps, 

 brush off the nipples and place a wad on nipple, letting 

 down the hammers on wads — simply removing caps some- 

 times leaves a little fulminate on the nipjjle, and a blow 

 on the hammer when down discharges it. 



4, Never draw a gun toward you by the barrels, 



5, More care is necessary in tlie use of a gun in a boat 

 than elsewhere; the limiled space, confined action and 

 uncertain motion making it dangerous at the best. If 

 possible, no more than two persons should occupy a boat. 

 Hammerless guns are a constant danger to persons boating. 



6, Always clean your gun thoroughly as soon as you 

 return from a day's sport, no matter how tired you feel; 

 the consequence of its always being ready for service is 

 ample return for the few minutes' irksome labor. 



Boston. Eeignolds. 



WORCESTER NOTES. 



WORCESTER, Mass.— Everything has been so quiet 

 the past season that material for a letter does not 

 seem to be forthcoming, still, lest you think we have all 

 retired from the field, I will skim over the season's happen- 

 ings just to keep Worcester on your map. 



The trout fishing has been unsatisfactory on the whole. 

 A few nice baskets were taken, but lack of water closed 

 the season unusually early and the season's catch has been 

 far below that of 1890. 



The plover shooting was also poor on native birds, one 

 bag of 11, two guns, being high. The bulk of the flight 

 should be here now but I have heard of no good shooting, 

 though a few have tried the Princeton hills the past week. 



Trap shooting has held its own, a.nd a good crowd turn 

 out to the weekly shoots. A friendly match shot last 

 Monday between A. B. F, Kinney and W. R. Dean at 50 

 clays, $25 a side, the entire stakes to go to the club treasury, 

 created considerable interest and sport, A strong wind 

 caused the birds to behave bacUy and a good score was 

 impossible. Dean managed to break 36, but Kinney was 

 not in the race at all, only breaking 17. The coming tour- 

 nament of the club should bring out a large field of 

 shooters as good purses are guai-anteed for each day. A 

 few of the boys attended the New London tourney but 

 failed to increase the size of their "pile" to any consider- 

 able extent. 



At present all interest centers in the approaching bird 

 season, and Sept, 15 is probably looked forward to with 

 more eagerness than any other day of the year. 



Reports from the young birds indicate a fair supply. 

 Woodcock have probably bred better than usual, and we 

 should have some native bird sliooting the first of the sea- 

 son. 



Partridges have bred only f airly well. The young birds 

 are well-grovm and strong flyers now, but the brooda 



