Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 26, 1891. 



( VOL. XXXVII.-No. 19. 



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CONTENTS. 



EDITOBIAIi. 



>5ovember Voices. 



Points About highways. 



A Phase of Imagination. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Todrist. 



A Transcontinental Run. 



In Maine Woods— i. 

 Natural History. 



Nest of Ruby-Crowned King- 

 let. 



The Mcjave Desert in Winter. 



"Fate or the Fur Seal." 

 Game Bag and Gun. 



Bears In South Carolina 

 Swamps. 



The Big Coon of Split Rock. 



Possums Up a Tree. 



Ontario Moose. 



A Quail Shoot in Happy Valley 



Chicago and the West. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Trouting in Colorado. 



Black Bass in Sandusky River 



The Florida West Coabt. 



A Week on Dead Lake, Minn. 



Angling Notes. 



Bass Fishing in the Guadalupe 

 Shark Notes. 

 Chicago and the West. 



FiSHCULTURE. 



Castalia Trout Again. 

 The Kennel. 

 Eastern Field Trials. 

 The Merced Meet. 

 Brunswick Fur Trials. 

 Notes and Notions. 

 National Beagle Club Trials. 

 Ir'sh Setter Club Trials. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Hoboken Rifle Shooters. 



Revolver Championship. 

 Trap Shooting. 



Watson's Park. 



The Kansas City — Chicago 

 Match. 

 Yachting. 



Yacht Racing in 1891.— v. 



Lake Yacht Racing Associa- 

 tion. 



The Herreshoff 46-Footer. 



Sea-Sickness. 

 Canoeing. 



Rigs lor Small Cruisers. 



Canoeing on the Pacific. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



"The Labrador Coast." 



NO VE MB EE. VOICES. 



WITH flowers and leaves, the bird songs have faded 

 out, and the hum and chirp of insect life, the 

 low and bleat of herds and flocks afield and the busy 

 sounds of husbandry have grown infrequent. 



There are lapses of such silence that the ear aches for 

 some audible signal of life; and then to appease it there 

 comes with the rising breeze the solemn murmur of the 

 pines like the song of the sea on distant shores; the sibil- 

 lant whisper of the dead herbage, the clatter of dry pods 

 and the fitful stir of fallen leaves, like a scurry of ghostly 

 feet fleeing in afl'right at the sound of their own pass- 

 age. 



The breeze puff's itself into a fury of wind and the 

 writhing branches shriek and moan and clash as if the 

 lances of phantom armies were crossed in wild melee. 



The woods are full of unlipped voices speaking one 

 with another in pleading, in anger, in soft tones of en- 

 dearment; and one hears his name called so distinctly, 

 that he answers and calls again, but no answer is vouch- 

 safed him, only moans and shrieks and mocking laugh- 

 ter, till one has enough of wild Toices and longs for a 

 relapse of silence. 



More softly it is broken when through the still air 

 comes the cheery note of the chickadee and the little 

 trumpet of his comrade the nuthatch, and far away the 

 muffled beat of the grouse's drum, or from a distance the 

 meUow baying of a hound and its answering echoes, 

 swelling and dying on hilltop or glen, or mingling in 

 melodious confusion. 



From skyward comes the clangor of clarions, wild and 

 musical, proclaiming the march of gray cohorts of geese 

 advancing southward through, the hills and dales of 

 cloudland. 



There ooms too, the quick whistling beat of wild 



ducks' pinions, the cry of a belated plover and the creak- 

 ing voice of a snipe. 



Then the bawling of a plowman in a far-off field, and 

 further away the rumble and shriek of a railroad train 

 brings the listening ear to earth again and its plodding, 

 busy life. 



POINTS ABOUT FISHWATS 



1. There are numberless streams capable of furnishing 

 valuable supplies of food fish, but now barren. 



2. It is foolishness to stock such streams with anadrom- 

 ous fishes, if by reason of insurmountable obstructions 

 the fish cannot return from the sea to their spawning 

 beds. 



3. Individuals and corporations have no right to main- 

 tain dams which thus ruin the food fish supply or prevent 

 its restoration. 



4. Fish ways, properly constructed, will remedy the 

 evil by providing a passage for the fish over the dams. 



5. Fishways will not injure the dams, nor detract from 

 the efliciency of the water supply. 



0. Though certain costly fishways, like that atHolyoke, 

 Mass., are failures, it does not follow that all are worth- 

 less. 



7. On the contrary, there are fishways which have 

 proved effective, and are now admirably serving the pur- 

 pose for which they were designed. 



8. It is not unreasonable to compel the owners of ob- 

 structive dams to provide fishways for the benefit of the 

 public, whose rights have been infringed in this respect 

 chiefly because of ignorance. 



9. Efficient fishways are not of necessity expensive. 

 Compared with the capital employed by the manufactur- 

 ers who maintain the dams, and with the volume of 

 business done by them, the cost and maintenance of a 

 suitable fishway are insignificant. 



10. When these principles shall be more clearly under- 

 stood, there will be such an opening of dams and restock- 

 ing of now barren streams that the prices of fresh-water 

 fish will be lower than they are to-day. 



11 . This is not all there is to say about fishways. It is 

 a live subject; and we mean to keep it before the people. 



A PHASE OF IMAOINATION. 

 TMAGINATION is a great thing. The big bullfrog in 

 the swamp does not bellow jug o' rum, jug o' rum, 

 though a ready imagination may help the hearer so to 

 understand him. A shooting trip or fishing excursion 

 does not involve a bout with a jug o' rum, though the 

 fermented imagination of newspaper reporters often so 

 construes it. This might be amusing if it were not dis- 

 gusting. Indeed it is an affront to the ever-growing 

 fraternity of sportsmen and a gross injustice because it 

 misrepresents them before the public. These bottle-guzzl- 

 ing yarns of shooting and fishing parties are confined to the 

 columns of the lower-grade papers of the lay ipress: they 

 are not to be found in a journal like the Forest and 

 Stream, which aims intelligently, truthfully and sym- 

 pathetically to represent and speak for sportsmen. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



THE Tolleston Club, of Chicago, is just now engaged 

 in a curious suit to protect the shooting on its marsh 

 this fall. It appears that the Indiana Natural Gas and 

 Oil Company obtained permission to lay a pipe line across 

 the club's marsh, under an agreement that from Septem- 

 ber to Dec. 15, during the ducking season, the company 

 would only make repairs upon pipes already laid. Under 

 this agreement, having completed the laying of the line, 

 the company has now insisted upon its right to change all 

 the connections at the pipe-joints, a work which would 

 necessitate taking up the entire line and relaying it again. 

 As this would effectually keep the ducks away, the club 

 asked the court to interfere, claiming that the substitu- 

 tion of joint caps was not "repairs" within the meaning 

 of the contract. The court, however, has decided against 

 the club. 



When one is recording personal experience or observa- 

 tion or opinion, it is always better to use the pronoun I 

 than the term "the writer," or "ye scribe," or "yours 

 truly." or "your humble servant." Just plain every- 

 day I is best. 



The November number of their Register, sent to us by 

 the Messrs. Lumleys, a London firm of land agents, con- 



tains descriptions of about 270 Scottish deer forests, 

 grouse moors, lowland shootings and fishings, which are 

 for rent: and we have been prompted by curiosity to 

 reckon up the rental value of these properties as here 

 listed. The rents, for the season, run from $250 to $35,000, 

 and the total is something over $670,000. While there 

 are mansions and castles with romantic scenery and 

 other attractions, the shooting and fishing resources of 

 the several estates are put forward as the factors which 

 give the greatest value; and it is evidently upon the 

 strength of these that the agents lease their properties. 

 This gives some indication of the substantial place the 

 sports of gun and rod hold in Great Britain. 



The fact that Mr. N. G. Herreshoff has received an 

 order for a racer for one of the most active classes in 

 British waters will be hailed with pleasure by yachtsmen. 

 The new boat will be a 2i-rater, about 25ft. l.w.l., for 

 the Clyde, where she will meet some of the cracks of the 

 class, including a number of Fife and Watson boats. She 

 will be of the loaded fin type, like Dilemma. The compe- 

 tition of an American yacht in British waters will be 

 quite a novelty after the many visits of British vessels to 

 this side, and suggests the propriety of a similar experi- 

 ment on a larger scale. It would be no more than a re- 

 turn of courtesies if one of our New York or Boston 

 yachtsmen were to build a Herreshoff cutter for the 20 or 

 40-rating class and pay a visit to England next summer. 



Presidential proclamation may set apart a day for 

 Thanksgiving, but is powerless to make him thankful in 

 whose soul thankfulness has no place. We bid our 

 friends be merry at the Christmas time, and happy in the 

 New Year; why should we not bespeak for them grati- 

 tude at Thanksgiving? Here, at least, is the wish that 

 every reader, "to whom these presents may come" before 

 his going afield on Thanksgiving Thursday, may return 

 at nightfall with game pockets well laden and memory 

 stored with the pleasures of his outing, for abundant 

 thanksgiving through the year until the feast day shall 

 come around again. 



An Englishman dwelling on the mosquito-plagued 

 Riviera has discovered a, new use for carp. The water 

 supply of the famous Mediterranean resort is scanty, and 

 it is the custom there to store water in tanks and reser- 

 voirs for use as needed. These reservoirs of fresh water 

 furnish homes for the mosquito larva. The carp are fond 

 of the larva, and by introducing a brigade of the fish the 

 Englishman has effectually stamped out the mosquito 

 pest from his dominions. (Florida papers please copy.) 



The firsl record match for the WinansTrophj^ Amateur 

 Revolver Championship was held in this city last Satur- 

 day, and as recorded in our shooting columns was a most 

 successful affair. To the Trophy have been added by 

 Messrs. Smith & Wesson a selected model of their revoL 

 ver to the winner, if his arm shall have been of their 

 make, and by the Forest and Stream three cash prizes 

 of $50, $30 and $20 to the second, third and foiu-th record 

 makers. 



Some weeks ago among these "Snap Shots" we noted 

 briefly that a future special number would be devoted to 

 boyhood reminiscences. In response to that suggestion we 

 have received from several contributors a store of charm- 

 ing relations of those youthful experiences that in later 

 life men find it pleasant to look back upon. These we 

 have put aside and hold in store for Christmas week. 



Prof. R. L. Garner, whose success in learning the lan- 

 guage of monkeys was noted by us some months ago, 

 has been extending his studies further in that line, and 

 now reports in the New Review that he plans to visit the 

 interior of Africa, equipped with phonographs and other 

 appliances, to interview and study the troglodytes in 

 their native wilds. 



The year wiU be well remembered by many gunners as 

 one of disappointment because the long-continued and 

 widespread drought has ruined the game grounds, and 

 resorts which usually furnish a supply of birds have this 

 season been barren. 



We require copies of the index of Vol. II., also of III., 

 v., VI. and VII. Ten cents each will be paid for them, 

 if sent to us in good condition. 



