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FOREST AND STREAM. 



LNov, 1892. 



BOSTON SPORTSMEN. 



Mr. F. R, Shattuck, well-known to the readers of the 

 FOKEST AND STREAM, Bays that he finds considerably 

 many quail in the Boston markets, since the open season 

 begun, and he notices that the birds are plump and fine. 

 The additional time given to the close season has given to 

 the birds more time to mature, and the good results are 

 very apparent. Such is another of the good works of 

 the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association. 



Mr. J. F. Dwinell, of Dwinell, Hey ward & Co., has got 

 back from his annual partridge hunt at Upton, Me. At 

 first he found the grouse ^'ery scarce, but later, as the 

 trees were cleared of leaves, the shooting was much better. 

 The birds were wilder than he has ever observed them 

 before in the same localities. They have also changed 

 localities a good deal: sections where they were plenty 

 last year and the year before affording no birds this year, 

 while in the woodroads and carries where there were very 

 few last year he found his best shooting this year. He 

 hunted the most of the time with two guides, and hia 

 total record was ninety -six partridges, beating his former 

 records. The birds were generally so wild that they had 

 to be shot on the wing, or from the trees, after they had 

 flown. ' 



Dr. Lewis T. Fobs, of Court street, Boston, has just re- 

 turned from a hunting trip to Nioatous I^ake, the famous 

 home of Jonathan Darling, now game warden. Mr. Foss 

 brings with him a line buck deer weighing .2331bs., which 

 he had the good fortune to shoot on the snores of that 

 famous lake. At Bangor the game warden and every- 

 body else who saw it pronounced it the finest deer that 

 has yet j)a8sed through that city this season. It was on 

 exhibition at the Revere House cafe, where it attracted 

 a good deal of attention. 



Occasionally a coon is found in the Bay State. One 

 was shot the other day in the woods at Wayland, The 

 animal weighed 2olbs., and was considered' very large 

 game for that part of the country. The lucky sports- 

 men were N. B. Hartford and Wm". Perkins, of Water- 

 town, who were up there on a gunning expedition. 

 They also shot a number of partridges, rabbits and wood- 

 cock. Since their adventure with the coon dozens of 

 sportsmen have hunted the same woods for more coon, 

 but have taken none. An old resident is reported to have 

 said that only one other coon had been seen in;that vicin- 

 ity for fifty years, and that one was shot about a week 

 before the 25-pounder taken by Messrs. Hartford and 

 Perkins. It is a curious fact that tlie raccoon in New 

 England has a way of appearing in sections where he 

 has not been seen previously for many years. One or 

 two are taken and then there are no more for another 

 long period of years. A gentleman was telling me the 

 other day of going back to the old partridge hunting 

 grounds of his boyhood in Maine a year or two ago with 

 a friend, also born and reared in the same town. They 

 killed a raccoon that weighed over 35 lbs. Neither had 

 ever seen a coon in that section before, nor had the old- 

 est inhabitants. None have since been taken there. 



Mr. Adams, of Adams & Chapman, Boston, and Fin 

 Killam, of Reading, have just returned from a partridge 

 hunt at Berwick, Me. They found the shooting pretty 

 good and got fifteen birds. More partridges are now 

 coming into the Boston market, and from Maine, too, 

 though it is unlawful to ship them out of the State. Since 

 the leaves have got off the trees the birds have been taken 

 in better numbers. Messrs. Adams and Killam had some 

 good dogs, as well as being expert hunters. 



Mr. E. M. Gillam, commercial editor of the Boston 

 Advertiser, has gone on his annual vacation. He started 

 Friday evening, by Fall River line, and will go to Vine- 

 land, N. J., the home of his mother. He takes both dog 

 and gun with him. At Vineland he will meet his 

 brother, A. M. Gillam, sporting editor of the Philadelphia 

 Record, also his brother, M. M. Gillam, the writer of the 

 celebrated advertisements of Postmaster-General .John 

 Wanamaker. Mr. M. M. Gillam has been connected 

 with Mr. Wanamaker's clothing house, in the capacity of 

 writing advertisements, for many years. All three of 

 the Gillam boys are lovers of dog and gun, as also was 

 another brother who died in Boston some years since 

 while in the service of the Boston Post. Mr. A. m! 

 Gillam will bring a setter and a couple of hounds with 

 him, and the boys will hunt a good deal of their vacation 

 time. The law is off on quail, partridge (called pheasant 

 there), deer and rabbit on the first day of November, and 

 the hounding of deer is permitted for one month. The 

 Gillam boys have hvmted in that section for years, and 

 are thoroughly acquainted with the country. They have 

 heard of a number of coveys of quail, and will early be 

 on the ground at the opening of the season. If there are 

 any deer to be had they are likely to get them. Still the 

 huntmg in such parts of the country is very badly over- 

 done. 



Mr. Henry S. Fisher, salesmen for the Arlington Mills 

 and with Harding, Whitman & Co., is about the happiest 

 hunter in Boston at this time, and well he may be. He 

 returned from Maine with a fine bull moose as a trophy 

 The animal, or rather the carcass, was on exhibition at 

 Tucker & Roak's market on Tremont street on Monday 

 It weighed over l^OOOlbs., and the antlers measured 48in' 

 across. Mr. Fisher killed him about 40 miles above Med- 

 way, on the East Branch of the Penobscot River. With 

 his guide he had gone some four miles into the thick 

 woods from the lumber road. They came upon the moose 

 with a cow. Mr. Fisher fii-ed at the bull when he stood 

 sideways to him, and being a good shot the back of the 

 animal was broken, but too far back to bring him down 

 at once. Mr. Fisher says that the beast then began the 

 greatest running he ever saw from any creature with his 

 back broken and his hindlegs doubled up under his belly 

 He had to follow him some 30 rods before he could get 

 another chance for a sure shot. The second shot, through 

 the shoulders, brought the forest giant down with a 

 great crash. But then the troubles of the successful 

 hunter began. He had already shot a fine deer that 

 mornmg. He saw the deer and fired at it. He saw it 

 get away, or thought he saw it, for a deer jumped and 

 ran from the spot. He told his guide that he had missed 

 the deer. Dod said, '«No, sir. You have dropped him 

 dead. Come, and I will show you." They went to the 

 spot, and sure enough, there was the deer, stone dead. It 

 was another one that had got away. 



But here they were in the woods with nearly l,2001bs 

 ot game and only two men to get it out. They had to go 

 back a long distance to find a team, and it was four or 

 live days before they got back to the moose again, with 



an improvised "jumper" and a horse. They had to cut 

 out a road from the main lumber road into the woods 

 where the moose lay. The beast was loaded on the 

 "jumper" and Mr. Fisher and his friend started on ahead. 

 Tney actually got a long distance ahead and "waited for 

 the train" or the "jumper" with the moose on it, to come 

 up. It did not come. The next morning they went back 

 and met the team, only a short distance out from the 

 place where the moose was killed. The "jumper" had 

 broken down and had to be mended, and this consumed 

 a good deal more time. In short it was several days 

 after the moose was kOled before it was out to the settle- 

 ment. Mr. Fisher says that it would have been an easy 

 matter to have killed the cow moose, but he does not be- 

 lieve in such hunting, even if the law permitted it. He 

 is a lucky hunter in Maine. He got two deer in that same 

 section last year. He deserves all of his good fortune. 

 The head of his moose he left with a taxidermist in Ban- 

 gor to be mounted. None of the meat will be suffered to 

 waste. This moose was evidently an old one and a 

 fighter. His hide showed many marks of former battles. 



Special. 



CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 



[By a Staff Correspondent.'] 



Chicago, 111., Oct. 81. — It would occasion no surprise 

 if any night now there should appear written on the 

 heavens above Chicago the flaming legend, "Shaving, 15 

 cents; bay rum extra, 5 cents." Indeed, this sign should 

 by right surmount a city which resembles nothing so 

 much as a gigantic barber pole in the colors of its outer 

 garb. Chicago is decorated. Chicago celebrates. Chi- 

 cago, center of Columbia, and for a year, at least, the 

 center of the world and the world's interest, keeps open 

 house for all good readers of their geographies and his- 

 tory books. Ah I Columbus, if you could but see— if you 

 could but know this inheritor, this darer, this successor 

 which succeeds, this city which never brought back 

 excuses for results, but laid down facta and accomplish- 

 ments at the end of every quest: this city, which hoped 

 and built its own fulfilment, this city; so large and vig- 

 orous that it cannot dream big enough for its own future 

 —this city which reversed belief, which sought in the 

 West and found a world! 



"In 1801 Chicago was a swamp," says one of the cur- 

 rent guide-books, "in 1811 a small military post, soon to 

 be abandoned, and to be the scene of a terrible Indian 

 massacre; in 1831, again an insignificant military station: 

 in 1831, a village of 12 houses, without mail routes, post 

 roads or post-ofiice; in 1841 an incorporated city, with 

 0,752 inhabitants; in 1851 rapidly assuming commercial 

 importance, on the eve of ijosseesing railway communi- 

 cation with New York: its population numbering 34,437: 

 in 1861 its population almost quadrupled, and its ship- 

 ments of breadstuff's increased tenfold within a single 

 decade; in 1871 rich, proud and magnificent, bidding fair 

 to outstrip the most famous commercial cities of either 

 the Old or New W^orld, but suddenly, on that memor- 

 able October night, almost swept out of existence, only 

 to rise triumphantly from its ashes in more than its 

 former splendor; in 1891 the greatest railroad . center, 

 live-stock market and primary grain port in the world; 

 the scene of the activities of over a million and a quarter 

 of toilers, and still advancing with rapid strides." 



It was only in 1818 that Illinois, now leading all the 

 other States in cereal productions and mileage of rail- 

 roads and even ranking fourth in manufactures, was ad- 

 mitted into the Union, with a population of about 30,000, 

 mainly settled in the southern part of the State. To-day 

 Chicago has a population nearly fifty times that which 

 the whole State had on its day of statehood. 



The area of Chicago is 169 square miles, or 108,160 

 acres, and its opaque "rivers'" are crossed by sixty-three 

 swing bridges and two tunnels. Not long ago, residents 

 tell us, the fishing was good in these streams for pike, 

 bass and mascallonge. Mascallonge and bass were 

 abundant at the lower part of Lake Michigan and near 

 the mouth of the Calumet R iver. To-day there are ducks, 

 snipe, prairie chickens and a World's Fair within the 

 limits of Chicago. This fall some of the 3,000 policemen 

 of Chicago arrested offenders for. shooting ducks within 

 the city limits, within four miles of the World's Fair. 



Chicago is the center of 30,000 miles of railway, owned 

 by thirty-eight companies, which lead direct to some of 

 the finest sporting grounds of the world. Chicago has 

 over sixty trap-shooting and fishing clubs, and thousands 

 of sportsmen, of as high aims and accomplishments as 

 any in this land. Chicago believes in fair play. Chicago 

 honors Columbus. Chicago looks like a barber-pole. 

 This is Chicago'tJ busy day. 



Quiet in Sports. 



It is probable that less hunting was done this week in 

 the West than in any similar period for years. Every 

 body came to Chicago. Day before yesterday 100,000 

 paraded the streets, and 500,000 looked on. Life was a 

 burden on the streets. Yesterday the yellow crests on 

 the helmets of the Sioux Indian cavalrymen were drowned 

 in the crowds who flocked to see the troops of the United 

 States army parade in the park. In a building which 

 would have roofed a quarter-section of wheat or corn 

 1,000 voices sang in unison to a crowd unnumbered.' 

 Orators of the land spoke to a corner of the crowd, and 

 two full bands squeaked weak and faint, lost in the dis- 

 tance like little whistles. It may well be thought that 

 the current interest was not afield. Not much of news is 

 to be chronicled. 



The flight of ducks is now well south. Sharp frost is 

 probable to-night, and that will send the teal down south 

 of here. The northern mallards are now dropping in 

 The snipe are now working south. Quail shooting has 

 not yet begun, but will be in swing as soon as the frost 

 cuts the weeds down. Chicken shooting is over. 



Mostly Horicon. 



There has been no good duck or snipe shooting on open 

 or free waters of late about here. Last week on Horicon 

 Marsh Mr. B, Dicks killed seventy-thi-ee jacksnipe in one 

 day, all on one little bog not 30yds. long. It was flight 

 shooting, the birds coming in too light on the black mud 

 and while it lasted must have been exciting sport. I save 

 this same bog the next day, and it was sown with shells. 

 The birds had become shy, and I only got sixteen, thou^'h 

 they could be seen working in hundreds further over In 

 the marsh. By paddling along the edge of the bogs, good 

 shooting could have been had. 



On this same marsh, which has offered about all the 



duck shooting this fall of which definite accounts havei 

 been received. Dr. Buechner last week one d?.,y bagged 

 16 mallards and 4 other ducks, Mr, Stone bagged 9 mal- ! 

 lards one day, and Mr. C. S. Wilcox got 19, nearly all 

 mallards, in one day, also getting 20 due as the next day 

 and 24 the day following that. Messrs. Lamos and, 

 Prickett were up, and had some shooting doubtless,' 

 though they had not reported at last accounts. The 

 weather was warm and very bad for duck shooting last 

 week, but on the day I was out I saw thousands and, 

 thou8a.nd8 of ducks, a great many mallards and pintails. 

 They would rise high when startled, and go off in a body 

 to some open water on the marsh, and settle down all. 

 together, not "working" well at all. When a good storm 

 comes somebody is going to have mighty heavy shooting 

 up there. 



On the "upper club" grounds, on this same Horicon 

 Marsh, the birds are also abundant. Indeed, there is no' 

 difference between the grounds as duck preserves, and- 

 together they make the finest duck marsh now left in thei 

 West. Dr. G. J. Clark and Mr. F. M. Lawrence, of the 

 upper club, go next Tuesday for a week's shooting at the" 

 club. They killed respectively 19 and 28 ducks one dav 

 last week. Mr. P. F. Stone, often mentioned as the effi- 

 cient manager of the Diana, or 'lower Horicon Club," 

 will meet the above gentlemen and go over the marsh 

 with them. Mr. Stone is about to take hold of the upper 

 club also, and will set it solidly on its feet and market its 

 unsold shares. This is a Forest and Steeam idea, and a 

 most fortunate one for all concerned. Ultimately, I do 

 not doubt these two clubs will be practically one, and 

 will own a magnificent property. In ten years a share in 

 such a property will be worth $2,500. The ducks of the 

 country are going. Horicon Marsh can be made a perpet- 

 ual preserve. We have nothing like it in the country. 

 Mr. Stone is a manager of a stalwart sort, and things look; 

 very favorable for a proper handling of a marsh whose 

 privileges have in the past been imperfectly estimated. 

 The issuing of permits will probably be stopped, a better 

 club house put up, etc., etc., and the steps made rapid 

 toward making this the best club property now available. 

 This will be hard on the shooters who have clung to the 

 idea that this was still open ground, but it is the only way 

 to save Horicon Marsh from the fate which has overtakeii 

 Fox Lake, Koshkonong, Poygan, Winneconne, Butte des 

 Morts and other duck grounds once famous and appar- 

 ently exhaustless. 



The last two shares in Diana Club were sold to Mr. Da 

 Golyer, late of the "D3 Golyer Club" on the Kankakee, 

 of which 1 have written, and to which Mr. Ward, Mr. 

 Cook and other gentlemen of Chicago, Mr. Widdicomb.l 

 of Grand Rapids, etc., belonged for some time. The old 

 Kankakee grounds were sold for farming land, and these 

 former club members, I understand, were looking for a 

 chance to purchase other good ducking grounds when; 

 Mr, De Golyer bought into the Horicon Marsh on the lasti 

 possible basis, as far as the lower club was concerned.i 

 Last week Mr. De Golyer went up to the new place, andi 

 was out two days, though he met with bad weather — 

 which is to say, good weather — and so got little shooting. 



Mr, R. R. Street, of New York, purchased the first 

 share of the upper club under the new regime, and goea 

 up next Tuesday to look over the grounds. 



Mr. F. C. Donald, of this city, after a year of hard 

 work, has resolved upon two weeks of air, and hesitateai 

 between Dakota and Horicon, though probably he will g« 

 to the latter place, where he will get better shooting tham 

 in Dakota. 



While I am on this fruitful Horicon theme, I cannot^ 

 refrain from sharing the amusement I have had in read-i 

 ing over the old constitution of this "upper club," which 

 was gotten up, as may be understood, some years ago. 

 Art. 3 of the constitution says, under head of "Purpose 

 of Organization": 



"The business and purposes of said corporation is the 

 cultivation and practice of music; the refinement of both 

 mental and bodily powers; the obtaining proficiency in 

 sharpshooting with rifle, pistol and shotgun; and in hand- 

 ling the sportsman's hook, spear and net, the protection, 

 of wild game out of season, and its legitimate and scien- 

 tific capture in season, and the culture among its mem- 

 bers of gallantry, sociality, temperance and morality." 



It is needless to state that when the new constitution 

 is arranged, the "sportsman's spear and net" will be left 

 out of it, though I trust the highly commendable clause 

 as to gallantry, sociality, etc., may be left untouched. 

 Unknown North Country. 



The Canadian despatches say: "J. R. Tirrell, of the 

 Canadian Geological Survey, has just returned from the- 

 exploration of the Athabasca country. Tirrell traveled 

 600 miles north of Regina, He was three months in the 

 country lying north, and found that it was composed 

 largely of granite, with volcanic rocks, which will doubt 

 less prove rich in minerals. Iron appeared to be plenti 

 ful. For 400 miles north of here the land is good. Beyond 

 that are rock and sand. This region is the wintering 

 grounds of herds of caribou, which come down in Octo- 

 ber from the treeles3 and barren country north, Mooet 

 and bear are also plentiful. This country has never been 

 explored before, and many inaccuracies were found or 

 maps, in all of which the district was marked "unex 

 plored." Such large natural features as Lake Athabasca 

 and Walleston Lake were^found to be laid down errone- 

 ously, being from thirty to forty miles out of true posi 

 tion. Lake Athabasca is clear fresh water, and is at 

 large as Lake Ontario, Lake Walleston being nearly the 

 same size. The Chippewas of this region are a peculiai 

 people. They have prominent crooked noses and allovi' 

 their long black hair to fall over their faces. They havt 

 no . intercourse with white men. Well up the Cariboc 

 River the party came to the most beautiful lake they had 

 ever seen, called Cree Lake. Tirrell describes this af» 

 being as clear as crystal, without a tinge of blue, and one 

 can see to the bottom at great depth. On the homeward 

 journey Whitefish Lake wag surveyed. Although thie 

 is the third largest lake met during the whole trip, it has 

 never appeared on maps. Tirrell has obtained enough 

 information about this region to enable him to get out a 

 new and accurate map.'" 



Carolina Quail. 

 Mr. Geo. L. Eddy, of Racine, Wis., writes me Oct. 19: 

 "Deae Sir- As an old friend and subscriber of Fores" 

 AND Stkeah I want a little information. WTiereaboutf 

 inland in North Carolina can I go this winter for a few- 

 weeks and find nice climate combined with fishing and a 

 little shooting and have a little outing? I read this past 



