Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, ; 



4 A Year. 10 Ots. a Copy. I 

 Six Months, $3. ) 



NEW YORK, OCTOBER 20, 1892. 



J YOL. XXXIX.-N0. m 

 (No, 318 Broadway, Nh-w yoRK. 



Editorial. 



Our I'acht.lng fleoor<]; 

 Tbe Lost Park BUftalo. 

 Humble Acquaintance?. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Trouting in the Coast Rangp. 

 Jack and I on a Trip to Isle 

 Royal. 



Natural History. 



A Snake's Striking. 

 A Habit of the Rooin. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Chief. go and the West. 

 An Experiment. 

 Pattern. 



New England Game Season. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 

 A Favored Florida Resort. 

 Kekosivep. 



Oliieago and tbe West. 

 "Drumming" in North Caro- 

 lina. 



Rangeley Protective Associa- 

 tion. 

 The Lost Chord. 



Fishculture. 



The Prolific German Carp. 

 The Kennel, 

 Compound and Simple Loco- 

 moticn. • I 



The KenneL 



New England Kennel Club. 

 Dog Notes from Russia, 

 ipecial Report of the Ottawa 

 Show, 



Nat^onsjl Beagle Club F. T. 



Entries. 

 Varieties of Food. 

 Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Yachting. 

 Lord Dunraven's Challenge. 

 A Gunning Cruise on Lake 8t, 

 Clair. 



Anchors for Small Yachts. 

 Two Southern Yachts. 



Canoeing. 



A Very Large Canoe. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Amateur Revolver Cbarapion- 

 ship. 



Trap Shooting. 



A Great Shoot at Wilmington. 

 Ottumwa Tournament. 

 New Jersey Trap - Shooters' 



League. 

 Chicago and the World's Fair 



Shoot. 



Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page v. 



COLUMBUS NUMBER. 

 As stated last week, the Forest and Stream's Colum- 

 bus Number, originally announced for to-day, has been 

 postponed, but not abandoned. The date will be an- 

 nounc€d. 



OUR RECORD IN YACHTING. 



It is perhaps not surprising that the Boston Herald was 

 not pleased with our comments of last week, but it speaks 

 poorly for the other side of the argument when the 

 Herald finds no better reply than the old charge of "pre- 

 judiced Anglo-American leanings." 



It is a good many years now since the cry of "Anglo- 

 maniac" was first raised by American journals against 

 the Forest and Stream, because it dared to suggest that 

 the centerboard sloop of the 1870 76 era did not represent 

 the highest possible achievements of naval architecture. 

 When again we pointed out that lead made better bal- 

 last than stone or iron or baled hay, the same cry was 

 heard again. Our advocacy of systematic designing as 

 opposed to building from the block model brought from 

 American builders the same charge, that we were work- 

 ing in the interests of English designers, and our attacks 

 on the spiiie and soft wood construction of the old boats 

 brought on us general abuse from builders and their 

 friends. When too, we opposed the old rule of mean 

 length, we were met with the epithets "un-American," 

 "unpatriotic." 



The Forest and Stream has not only survived but 

 prospered under such opposition ; it has worked steadily 

 for advanced methods and correct principles in designing 

 and construction, for better and more liberal systems of 

 measurement, for fair racing rules ; and against every- 

 thing tending to discredit American yachting. The jus- 

 tice of our contention on all of the points mentioned is 

 borne out by the work of American designers to day. In 

 the face of such evidence as is ofiiered by the whole fleet 

 of American yachts, it is the plainest confession of weak- 

 ness on the part of an opponent to oifer no better defense 

 than the old war cry of 1880— "Anglomaniac." 



So far as our objections to the new deed are concernecj, 

 they are so plain and specific that every yachtsman can 

 decide them for himself, apart from all questions of 

 national prejudice. 



Conceding the necessity for some supplementary con- 

 ditions to the original deed, a necessity which the Forest 

 AKD Stream pointed out at the time of the Volunteer- 

 Thistle races, before anything had been done toward 

 making a new deed; our objections to the present deed are 

 in brief as follows: 



It is illegal, the New York Y, C. having no right to 

 return the Cup to Mr. Schuyler, and he having no right 

 to receive it and redonate it. 



It is directly opposed, both in letter and spirit, to the 

 wishes of the five original donors, as stated .by them in 

 the true deed. 



It was adopted secretly and hastily by a small party in 

 the club and no opportunity was given to the members 

 at lai'ge to discuss or vote on it. 



It is distinctly unfair and contrary to the usagjes of 



yacht racing in the requirements of the dimension clause 

 and the elimination of time allowance, demanding much 

 from the challenger and giving nothing in return. 



Of the harm it has done to American yachting in stop- 

 ping all international racing, there is no need to speak, 

 the results being only too plain. 



From first to last the Forest and Stream has defended 

 the memory of the great American yachtsman who built 

 and raced the old America, and gave the cup she won for 

 "a perpetual challenge cup for friendly competition be- 

 tween foreigen countries," and not for a toy and play- 

 thing for the New York Yacht Club, 



OUR AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHS. 

 There is no dimimition of interest in the Forest and 

 Stream's Amateur Photography Competition. We pub- 

 lish to day capital reproductions of three photographs of 

 a series of four, picturing the incidents of a day with the 

 quail. Other reproductions will follow from week to 

 week. 



The pictures already received show that users of the 

 rod and the gun are not less adept with the camera ; and 

 the collection promises to be a highly creditable one. The 

 most gratifying feature of the amateur photography 

 scheme is the frequent expression by readers of their 

 pleasure at sharing with the photographers these pictures 

 of outdoor life. 



The conditions of the competition are repeated to-day 

 in our advertising columns, and we shall be glad to send 

 the slip containing them on request. 



There is no limit as to the number of pictures one per- 

 son may send; but, although it has not been stated be- 

 fore, no one competitor will be awarded more than one 

 prize. 



In response to several inquiries, we also add that while 

 pictures should be mounted, it is not necessary that the 

 developing, printing and mounting shall have been done 

 by the amateur competitor. 



H UMBLE ACQ UAINTANCES. 



A little turning of nature from her own courses, 

 banishes the beaver from his primal haunts, but his less 

 renowned and lesser cousin, the muskrat, philosophically 

 accommodates himself to the changed conditions of their 

 common foster mother and still clings fondly to her 

 altered breast, 



The ancient forests may be swept away and their suc- 

 cessors disappear, till there is scarcely left him a water- 

 soaked log to use as an intermediate port in his coastwise 

 voyages; continual shadow may give place to diurnal 

 sunshine, woodland to meadow and pasture, the plow 

 tear the roof of his underground home and cattle grs ze 

 where once only the cloven hoof of the deer and 

 moose trod the virgin mold, yet he holds his old 

 place. 



In the springtides of present years as in those of centuries 

 past his whining call echoes along the changed shores, 

 his wake seams with silver the dark garment of the 

 water, and his comically grim visage confronts you now 

 as it did the Waubaaakee bowmen in the old days when 

 the otter and the beaver where his familiars. 



Unlike the beaver's slowly maturing crops, his food 

 supply is constantly provided in the annual growth of 

 the marshes. Here in banks contiguous to endless store 

 of succulent sedge and lily roots and shell- cased tid-bits 

 of mussels, he tunnels his stable water-portaled home, 

 and out there, by the channel's edge, builds his sedge- 

 thatched hut before the earliest frosts falls upon the 

 warshes. 



In its height some find prophesy of high or low water, 

 and in the thickness of its walls the forecast of a mild 

 or severe winter, but the prophet himself is sometimes 

 flooded out of his house, sometimes starved and frozen 

 in it. 



In the still, sunny days between the nights of its unseen 

 building, the blue spikes of the pickerel weed and the 

 white trinities of the arrow-head , yet bloom beside it. 

 Then in the golden and scarlet brightness of autumn the 

 departing wood drake rests on the roof to preen his plum- 

 age, and later the dusky duck swims on its watery lawn. 

 Above it, the wild geese harrow the low, cold arch of 

 the sky, the last fleet of sear leaves drift past it in the 

 bleak wind and then ice and snow draw the veil of the 

 long winter twilight over the muskrats' homes and 

 haunts. 



These (?i?.y gloomy days he spends groping in the 



dark chambers of his hut and burrow, or gathering food 

 in the dimly lighted icy water, with never a sight of the 

 upper world nor ever a sunbeam to warm him. 



But there are more wof ul days when the sun and the 

 sky are again opened to him, and he breathes the warm 

 air of spring, hears tise blackbirds sing and the bittern 

 boom. For amid all tlhe gladness of nature's reawakened 

 life, danger lurks in all Ms paths, the cruel, hungry trap 

 gapes for him on every jutting log, on every feeding bed, 

 even in the doorway of his burrow and by the side of his 

 house. 



The trapper's skiff invades ali bis pleasant waters, on 

 every hand he hears the splash ot its paddles, the clank 

 of its setting pole, and he can ecaioely show his head 

 above water but a deadly shower of Ifeid bursts upon it. 

 He hears the simulated call of his belovbi, and voyaging 

 hot-hearted to the cheating tryst, meets only death. 



But at last comes the summer truce and haivpy days of 

 peace in the tangled jungle of the marsh with tVc wild 

 duck and bittern nesting beside his watery path, the 

 marsh wren weaving her rushy bower above it. 



So the days of his life go on, and the days of his race 

 continue in the land of his unnumbered generatione. 

 Long may they endure to enliven the drear tameness of . 

 civilization with a memory of the world's old wildness. 



THE LOST PARK BUFFALO. 



Later reports from Colorado points near Lost Park' 

 advise us that additional parties have gone out to look for 

 the buffalo slayers, but it may be some time before any- 

 thing is beard from them. The country is said to be very 

 rough and extremely difiicult to travel through, and the 

 pursuit and capture of the law breakers will be hard 

 matters to accomplish. 



It is also stated that the country is well stocked with 

 mountain sheep, and as these are protected by the Colo- 

 rado law, Game Warden Land has given instructions to 

 arrest any one found with heads or hides of this species 

 in possession. 



In a dispatch from Florissant, Col., a ranchman, Sidney 

 Derby, who lives on Tarryall Creek, is quoted as saying 

 that he frequently sees the Lost Park buffalo, and that 

 there are fully 100 in the herd. The same dispatch men- 

 tions that two Florissant taxidermists have been arrested 

 at Steamboat Springs charged with killing buffalo. 



Just as we go to press we receive word from a Denver 

 correspondent that Deputy Sheriff Bell and his men have 

 returned from the Lost Park country, having found no 

 trace of the buffalo killers. They are inclined to discredit 

 the story of the killing. Whether or not the reported 

 slaughter was done, the incident has demonstrated in a 

 most gratifying way the public interest in theie remnant 

 buff'alo; and the effect of that demonstration must be 

 salutary. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 The Forest and Stream did honor to Columbus last 

 week by displaying as appropriate decorations mounted 

 heads of buffalo, mountain sheep and antelope, with 

 eagles, and in the post of honor a white goat. Then the 

 ofiice camera was called into use to catch a snap shot of 

 the procession, and to fix the picture for reproduction to- 

 day. The view given on another page is from one of the 

 windows looking up Broadway; it shows the mountain 

 sheep head, and the black mass beyond is the buffalo 

 head. The troops shown are of the New York Seventh 

 Regiment. 



The evil results of keeping in his place such a worth- 

 less official as State Game Protector Sheridan of the 

 Thirteenth District are by no means confined to the im- 

 mediate injury done the fishing interest he is sworn to 

 protect. For just as the honest and vigilant service of a 

 faithful official constantly makes for good by promoting 

 a sentiment of popular respect for the laws, so just as 

 fully and in like measure the dereliction of the Sheridan a 

 and their abetting of crime breeds public contempt of the 

 statutes. The demoralizing influences of Sheridan's 

 official shiftlessness are cumulative. Remembering this 

 it is inconceivable that his superior's should keep him in 

 office and prolong the disgrace because of his political p ull . 



The old subject of the panther's scream is up again, its 

 discussion having been stimulated by "Stanstead's" note 

 the other day averring that the screams attributed to the 

 panther are made by other animals. The natural history 

 columns next week will have some interesting notes. 



