Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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4 A Year. 10 Gts. a Copy. I 

 Six Months, $3. ) 



NEW YORK, AUGUST Jl, 1892. 



( VOL. XXXIX.-NO. 6 



1 No. 318 Broadway, New yoBK. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Pau-Anglicnn Sport. 

 A Bi^ley Whine. 

 Fishing: "TTp Salt River." 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Camps of the Kineflshers.— IX. 

 "Podgers" in the Mountains. 



Natural History. 



Bird L f e in a City Yard. 

 Spitting of Snakes. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



A Hunt in the White Piae 

 Country. 



A Hunt in the R'-'ckiea. 



A Missouri Deer Track. 



As to Mule Deer. 



Deer Destruction in the North- 

 west. 



Chicago and the West. 

 Upland Plover Shooting. 

 Don't Plame Us. 

 Voices of the Night. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Canadian Angling Notes. 



The Rainbow Trout. 



Jack and I and the Mascal- 



Susquehanna Fishing. 

 Washington Fishing. 

 Chicago and the West. 



Fishculture. 



Lake Ontario Fisheries. 

 The Kennel. 



Pearl of Pekln Protest. 

 Cnnine Tenacity of Life. 

 American Field Trial Club. 

 New England Field Trial Club 



Derby Entries. 

 K ochester K. C. Show. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Canoeing. 

 Red Dragon C, C. 

 News Notes. 



Yachting. 



New York Y. C. Cruise. 

 Racing »t Marblehead. 

 August Regattas. 

 News Notesi 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Bis Shoot on the Jersey Range 

 New Jersey Rifle Shooting. 



Trap Shooting. 



Riegott is New Jersey's Cham- 

 pion. 



Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Answero to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 130. 



Fishing "Up Salt River." 



Assured of good, fishing up Salt River, a defeated 

 political candidate, who is so blest as to have a taste for 

 angling, may find in such piscatorial possibilities some 

 mitigation of the sorrows of exile to that saline stream. 



Both Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland are 

 fishermen; before each looms up the alternative of 

 going to the White House or departing hence "up Salt 

 River;" and each of them may ba presumed to be inter- 

 ested in the fishing outlook there. 



With its customary enterprise the Forest akd Stream 

 has undertaken to secure reliable information on this 

 point. A special and well qualified correspondent has 

 been detailed to investigate and report on Salt River's 

 fishing resources. The result of his investigations will 

 be printed next week, and we need not assure Mr. Har- 

 rison and Mr. Cleveland that they will find in their 

 Forest and Stream of Aug. 18 even more of interest 

 than in the ordinary issues; and to all political candi- 

 dates of lesser note, who may not be among our regular 

 readers, we submit the wisdom of placing an order with 

 their dealers for that number. 



PAN-ANGLICAN SPORT. 



The proposition has been made and favorably received 

 for a periodical meeting for contests in athletic sports in 

 a grand pan-Britannic and all- English-speaking gather- 

 ing. The idea of the scheme is to bring together in a 

 national festival, probably every four years, all the sport- 

 loving Eaglish-speaking people. Suggestions are now in 

 order for a programme of sports ; and tentatively running, 

 rowing and cricket have been placed on the list. The 

 Canadians urge lacrosse and the Americans will probably 

 be heard from with a hint that baseball is worthy of a 

 place on the roll of sports. When each and every Eng- 

 lish colony and offshoot have been heard from, and their 

 special sport ofi:ering accepted, there will be a reasonable 

 prospect that each will go off a victor in at least one 

 number on the programme. This plan would simply 

 string together a number of foregone conclusions. The 

 mother country ought to put the champion cricket eleven 

 in the field. Canada ought to carry ofl: the honors, at 

 lacrosse and the United States may be depended upon to 

 capture the baseball record. Rowing is in large measure 

 a restricted sport, and there are large sections of the 

 country, particularly in the United States, where facili- 

 ties for rowing are wanting, It is even in some respects 

 more restricted by locale than even yachting. 



Field athletics fill the bill admirably for the young, but 

 there is the older sportsQian, what of him? Anglo-Saxon 

 blood, whether in British or American veins, never ceases 

 to carry to every finger tip a love of sport. Strapped to 

 the saddle, the one-legged Englishman will follow the 

 hounds, and with only one arm, or suppoKted by a 

 crutch, be may be seen taking a. pop at the live birds as 



they leave the trap. The gun is distinctly the mark of 

 the English-speaking sportsmen. In rifle shooting and in 

 shotgun work the blue Si xon eye is far and beyond all 

 others the eye of the true marksman, and wherever an 

 English-speaker is located he has his firearm by his 

 side ; he is ever ready to listen to its pleasant bang and 

 note the perfect target score or game dropped in its 

 track. 



To have a pan Anglican sport gathering and omit 

 powder burning from the list of contests, would be a 

 grave error. With it on the bill in any or all of its forms, 

 the veterans would come forward to rank with or out- 

 rank the youngsters. Instead of the young men only 

 displaying their ability and prowess, a place would be 

 found for the more luature sport-lovers, and this means 

 the active interest and co-operation in the scheme of a 

 very influential majority of the sport-pursuing people of 

 both hemispheres. 



A BISLEY WHINE. 



With the close of the Bisley meeting comes a curious 

 sort of whine anent the revolver work. As readers of 

 our revolver reports are aware, Mr. Walter Winans 

 by his remarkable skill with the revolver has had 

 things pretty much his own way in all the revol- 

 ver competitions. There is no question about the fairness 

 with which he holds his place, but his skill and jiromi- 

 nence made him the mark for the following sling in a 

 paragraph of the Evening News Mid Post, of London, on 

 .July 25: 



It can scarcely be maintained that the olject of keeping up 

 revolver competitions at the annual meeting ot the National Rifle 

 Association is to provide a little pocket money for an American 

 millionaire who enjoys exceptional facilities for acquiring skill 

 with the pistol, and retaining it by constant practice. There are 

 seven revolver competitions at Bisley reported in Saturday's re- 

 Fults; Mr. W. Winans won two, tied with the winner in a third, 

 and was second in the remaining four; he drew a total of £26 10s. 

 in prizes. Mr. C. E. Haig won two of tlie events, tied with Mr. 

 Winans in a third, and was second in a fourth, drawing £17 in 

 prizes. These two gentlemen, in fact, collared all the prize money 

 given for the seven revolver events, except £12. which was divided 

 among three other competitors. If the object of the competition 

 is to encourage oi-dinary Volunteers to improve their skill with the 

 pistol, it is obvious that the money is being wasted. 



Is this British pluck and fair play? If the Volunteers 

 do not like the fact that an American revolver in the 

 hands of an American leads the field, they have the very 

 simple resort of so improving their own skill as to force 

 Mr. Winans back on the prize list. There surely is not 

 going to be a repetition of the small-bore record, where 

 Americans jumped, made the weapons, cultivated the 

 teams and set the record in long-range work at a point 

 where all the years of practice by British teams have 

 not been able to land them. If Mr. Winans is to be 

 barred off the English revolver butts because he shoots 

 too well, let that fact be plainly stated, and let the Eng- 

 lish shots, civilian and military, equarely confess their 

 incompetency as revolver shots. Don't whines; "either 

 shoot or shut up." 



THE TILEFI8H REDISCOVERED. 

 In 1879, about 75 miles south of Newport, R. I., this large 

 and beautiful new fish was taken for the first time in 

 American waters, and was described by members of the 

 U. S. Fish Commission. Until 1883 it continued plentiful, 

 and had become famous for its readiness to take the hook 

 and its excellent food qualities. . Then it disappeared and 

 was thought by many to have been swept out of existence 

 by a sudden and fatal change of water temperature in its 

 habitat, but now, after a lapse of ten years, Commissioner 

 McDonald has succeeded in finding it on the old grounds 

 during an investigation with the tilefish as its special 

 object in the schooner Grampus, It is hoped now that 

 definite information of the habits and migrations of this 

 handsome species will result in great benefit to the public. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



The offer by the World's Fair Commission of a prize 

 for the best collection of native birds has considerably 

 stirred up some of the newspapers. The fear is expressed 

 that this offer will greatly stimulate the destruction of 

 our birds by inducing boys everywhere to bill them in 

 the hope of securing the prize. This alarm is probably 

 groundless. No one but a very young child would 

 imagine that in the few months between now and May 1, 

 1893, a collection of North American birds could be made 

 which woul4 successfully compete for the prize. It will 



be awarded without doubt to some museum collection or 

 to some professional collector, and the collection which 

 wins it will be the fruit of years of work and thousands 

 of dollars of expense, 



The pubhc holiday proclaimed by President Harrison 

 for Oct. 21 next will commemorate the completion of 400 

 years since Columbus diecovered America; also of a 

 years, 3 months and 16 days since Game Protector Kidd 

 discovered the serving of illicit ,Iuly woodcock by the 

 Delmonico establishment of New York city; also of 

 periods of various durations from the several occasions 

 on which District Attorney Nicoll discovered new excuses 

 for not bringing the Fifth avenue law-breaker to trial. 



It is a common defect in amateur photographs that if a 

 human being is included the face is turned toward th e 

 camera, at which the eyes stare. Thus in a photograph 

 of three persons fishing, with rods extended over the 

 water, all three are staring hard at the camera as if 

 if sitting for a full-face picture. The artistic qualities 

 of scores of pictures have been spoiled in this way. A 

 lake view with a man or woman, back to camera, look- 

 ing out over the water, is decidedly better than the 

 same scene with the man or woman full face to the 

 camera. 



A correspondent writes: "I am more and more im- 

 pressed with the excellence of the amateur photographs 

 you are reproducing in the Forest and Stream series." 

 Much interest is taken in the (collection ; and we appreci- 

 ate the co-operation of those who have alrf n dy contribu- 

 ted to make the competition a success. Several corres- 

 pondents have requested copies of the printed slip giving 

 details and conditions, . to hand to their photography 

 friends who are not readers of this journal, We shall be 

 happy to supply these slips to any one who will make 

 such use of them. The contest is open to all. 



As a dealer in game. Col. Bond, of Chicago, must be 

 conversant with the vagaries of nomenclature applied to 

 game birds, and he might here find abundant ammuni- 

 tion for putting to rout Game Warden Bortree in the 

 great question, is a snipe a water fowl? Let the Colonel 

 remind the Warden that snipe means woodcock; that the 

 woodcock may be a timber-doodle or a hookum-pate, but 

 it is also a mountain partridge; a partridge is a pheasant; 

 and a pheasant may be a quail or a ruffed grouse, but as 

 neither of these can it by any possibility be classed with 

 water fowl — so there you are. 



If this shall not convince Mr. Bortree, let the Warden 

 utterly confound the Colonel by accepting the proposi- 

 tion that snipe means woodcock, but showing that wood- 

 cock means woodpecker; and the sportsman who sets out 

 in pursuit of the native's woodcock, which thus proves to 

 be a woodpecker tapping grubs out of a treetop, surely 

 goes on a "wild goose chase"; and, gentlemen of the jury, 

 if a wild goose is not a water fowl, what is it? 



Send us a postal card of fishing news or experience or 

 incident. Our angling columns are always open, and 

 their interest depends upon the number and diversity of 

 communications which appear there. No other journal 

 in this country begins to give the amount and variety of 

 fishing literature here printed from week to week. It is 

 the ambition of those in conduct of the Forest and 

 Stream to increase its value and interest for the Amer- 

 ican angler. 



Individuals who have bear cubs, or farms suitable for 

 preserves, or setter dogs, or sets of antlers, or houses to 

 rent, or guns to sell or exchange, are advised that neither 

 the editors nor publishers of this journal do a general 

 commission business; nor do they "happen to know of 

 some friend who might want to invest;" nor can they 

 undertake to find customers. Our advertising columns 

 are always open, and advertising in theiji always pays. 



Secretary Ball, of the Syracuse Rifle Club, tells us that 

 no one has come forward on the part of the breechloaders 

 to enter the proposed contest of muzzleloaders against 

 breechloaders. Probably a contest will not take x^lace, 

 since the result either way would be without practical 

 advantage to the winner, 



