Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, DECEMBER 29, 1892. 



! VOL. XXXTX.-NO. 26 



I No. 318 Bboadwat, New 1'orr . 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Pv.llation of St'-e°m8 by Culm. 

 Patriotism iu 1893. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Toe HuaMDg Prospector. 

 Maioo'iinsriu Fitch AUitUfles. 

 Tbe Charms --f L ke Worth. 

 An Indian River Ciuiser. 

 Our Outing. 



Natural History. 



H-ve Animals a Sense of 

 Direction? 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Cnppl'd hv a <ir zziy Bear. 

 A Lecrer from Teune.ssee. 

 Toe Pot-Uunters of Pike. 

 Changes in Nehra' k». 

 An Invfsiigatine: Committee. 

 Huatin? liie WM e Hare. 

 Neiv England Game Fields. 

 'J h° Press on the Park '^chpmp 

 R'fles for Deer and Split Bal- 

 ]e;s. 



The New York Game Law. 

 For Uniform L'< ws. 

 Chiodgo and the West. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



My First Fish, 

 Anglitg No.es. 



Fishculture. 



Brook Trout Dpformities. 

 In'eruational Fish Conference 

 Pennsylvania Fishculture. 



The Kennel. 



Irish Seit°r Club Field Trial?. 

 Wojfbound Type and Stan- 

 dard. 



Field Trial Winners of 1.S92. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Yachting. 



Soeietv of Naval Architects 



a' dMirine Knelnpers. 

 Change in Y. R. A. Rules. 

 Single- Uanded Cruiser Myra. 



Canoeing. 



W. C. A. Executive Commit- 

 tee. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Umpire Rifls CluD's Annual. 



Trap Shooting. 



Fuhord— Elliott. 

 Kansas Midwinter. 

 Ch cjgo traps. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries, 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page v. 



THE AMATEUB. PHOTOGRAPHS. 

 This is the last week for receiving work submitted in 

 the Forest and Steeam Amateur Photography Competi- 

 tion. All photographs must be mailed to us not later than 

 Dac. 31. Nothing bearing a later post mark will be re- 

 ceived. 



POLLUTION OF STREAMS BY CULM. 



A SUBJECT of much importance to Pennsylvania ang- 

 lers and to guardians of the public health is the washing 

 of coal mine refuse into the streams of the State. This 

 has resulted in the destruction of fish and the contami- 

 nation of the water supply, followed by various diseases 

 growing out of eucli pollution. 



Those who have suffered most from this cause have ex- 

 pressed their indignation through the press and to their 

 representatives in the Legislature, One of the aggrieved 

 parties brought suit against a coal company and secured 

 a verdict awarding damages for the injury to his prop- 

 erty. The case was that of David S. Elder against the 

 Lykens Valley Coal Company. Mr. Elder claimed that 

 his property was damaged by the washings from the 

 company's mines into Wiconisco Creek. The plaintiff's 

 lawyers were John E. Fox and Lyman D. Gilbert, while 

 tbe coal company was defended by Hon. L. "W. Hall. 

 The trial took place before Judge Simonton, and the jury, 

 after several hours' deliberation, returned a verdict for 

 the plaintiff of $1,507. Mr. Hall moved for a new trial, 

 which was denied, and the case was appealed to the 

 Supreme Court. 



The public will continue to agitate the matter and 

 insist upon its rights until relieved of the nuisance and 

 menace to health. 



PATRIOTISM IN 1893. 



We have sent out numbers of pamphlet reprints of our 

 recent statement of the case of Cooke City vs. the Na- 

 tional Park. The document has been widely called foi 

 by individuals. It has gone very generally to the press, 

 On another page are copied some of the comments. 



The Park issue is momentous, truly national in its 

 bearing, and concerns the future more than the present, 

 Being of such a character it should have the considera- 

 tion of every individual who counts himself a true Amer- 

 ican. E^ery claim of patriotism "and love of country 

 should prompt to psrsonal interest and exertion to with- 

 stand this menace to our magnificent National Park. If 

 Peace hath her victories 

 Not less renowned rhan war, 

 it is no less true that in peace, no less than in war, the 

 good citizen is called upon individually and personally 

 to do something toward achieving those victories, That 

 is an exceedingly narrow and inadequate conception of 

 patriotism that would limit the exercise of the virtue to 

 conflicts of war. He is the truest patriot who waits not for 

 a rally to arms, bat hears as well the demand of the hour 

 to secure good government, and to preserve intact for the 

 people of to-day and to-morrow the national possessions 

 which of right are theirs. 



With the beginning of 1893 no higher priyilege is open 



to one as a public spirited citizen than that of protesting to 

 his representatives at Washington against the progress of 

 this iniquitous scheme to rob from the people a portion of 

 their Yellowstone National Park. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 We have often pointed out the value of the aid trans- 

 portation companies may render to the protection of big 

 game by refusing to transport hides and carcases. Ea- 

 lightened railroad managers understand this, and certain 

 lines which find sportsmen- tourist patronage profitable 

 have not been slow thus to ally themselves on the side of 

 protection and the laws. CAlifornia, from whose limits 

 elk and antelope have disappeared, has for two years 

 had a close season on deer, with a view to preserving the 

 species from extermination. The close time will expire 

 next year. The measure has been decidedly efftctive; 

 deer have increased and again become plentiful. The 

 Fish and Game Commission report that the efficient 

 working of the law has been due in a large degree to the 

 co-operation of the express companies, the Southern 

 Pacific Co. and Wells, Fargo & Co. These have re- 

 ftised to transport carcases to market, and thus have 

 compelled the market-hunter to give over his occupation. 



Once in a while a transportation company learns a les- 

 gon, as did one in New York State not long ago, when a 

 game protector brought suit for an unlawfully carried 

 carcase of venison. "We received 20 cents for carrying 

 it," said the president of the line, "and it cost us $lOO fine 

 and counsel fees. That doesn't pay." And it didn't. 



The Michigan game law reads, as to possession: "No 

 person shall sell or expose for sale, or have in his pos- 

 session for the purpose of selling or exposing for sale, any 

 of the kinds or species of birds or animals protected by 

 thi? act after the expiration of eight days next succeed- 

 ing the times limited and prescribed for the killing of 

 any such birds or animals." In a recent suit brought 

 by Game Warden Hampton against F. J. Dettenthaler, 

 of Grand Rapids, for selling venison out of season, the 

 defendant admitted the charge, but contended that as 

 the venison had been purchased in open season it had 

 then become his property and the statute could not pre- 

 vent his selling it when be pleased. The judge, Gove, 

 thereupon took tbe case from the jury. It need not be 

 added that the defendant's plea would not stand for a 

 moment in any court familiar with the accepted princi- 

 ple of law relating to game protection. 



The Minnesota case cited by "Jay Beebe," we assume, 

 was decided on different grounds. Possibly the conten- 

 tion in this case was that the prohibition of selling veni- 

 son may be construed as relating only to venison killed 

 in the State. Judge Cory is himself a sportsman, and is 

 informed on game legislation; his decision is presumably 

 based on defensible ground. 



In the spring of 1893 the California Fish Commission 

 planted 817,000 fry of the Eastern brook trout in streams 

 of Los Angeles, Mendocino, Marin, Sonoma, San Mateo, 

 Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Calaveras and Placer counties. 

 Planting began on April 1 and closed on May 31. The 

 eggs were taken jointly by the Nevada and California 

 Commissions at Marlette Lake, Nevada, and they were 

 hatched in the Bear Valley hatchery, California. The 

 tributaries of the San Gabriel received 25,000 of the 

 trout. 



Staten Island, in New York Harbor, would hardly be 

 looked upon as a profitable game field, but the actual 

 revenue derived from small birds on the island the past 

 season has been |400. The average price of birds there 

 has been $5, paid by gunners to the local justice, and the 

 precise number of birds killed on the island and so paid 

 for may be found by dividing 400 by 5. 



News stand purchasers of FOSEST and Stream next 

 week will welcome the new and more legible head 

 which is then to be used for the first time. And every 

 one will be pleased with the new outfit of type with 

 which we shall mark the beginning of another volume, the 

 fortieth. 



With all the bear stories, which from time to time run 

 their course in the pages of this journal, few of them are 

 grisly tales of hand to hand conflict, where fate is one 

 moment for the bear and the next for the man. For the 

 most part, actors in sorimmages with the grii?zly, w^«> 



come out of the fray alive, are not given to writing; and 

 it is rarfly that they find adequate pen chroniclers. 

 The average daily newspaper account of a bear fight is 

 so overdone that one must discount it, and a discounted 

 bear story is as flat as cold-storage game. Those who 

 have known Mr. Ira Dodge, and have hunted with him 

 as a guide in the Rocky Mountains, will readily bear 

 witness that his story of the encounter with a grizzly is 

 to be taken for its full face value— the modest relation of 

 an old hunter, who has been through a fracas just as he 

 tells it; and by such readers his story will be followed 

 with liveliest interest and sympathy. 



■ ^ we expressed our distrust of the advantage 

 to be derived from a National Sportsmen's Association. 

 We do have faith, however, in the united efforts of 

 groups of contiguous States to secure uniformity of laws 

 and a certain union and. co-operation in game and fish 

 protection. Such a movement was given impetus in 

 Minneapolis the other day, when Fish and Game Com- 

 missioners and Wardens met in a convention repre- 

 senting the six States of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wis- 

 consin, North Dakota and South Dakota, a report of 

 which is given elsewhere. There is reason to believe 

 that the ends sought in such a way, and by such men, 

 may not be impossible of attainment. The specific pur- 

 poses of such a conference are clearly recognized, and 

 command respect and approval. 



Those who have admired Mr. E. E. Thompson's spirited 

 animal drawings in Forest and Stream and elsewhere, 

 or are familiar with his interesting writings on natural 

 history subjpcts, will learn with pleasure that he has been 

 appointed Government Naturalist for the Province of 

 Manitoba, and is commissioned to prepare and arrange 

 the native products exhibit of that province at Chicago 

 for the World's Fair, Just at present all Toronto is agog 

 over Mr. Thompson's wolf picture, which is to be exhib- 

 ited at Chicago. The picture by i':8 excellence appeals 

 strongly to art critics, but its realism and the horror of 

 the subject horrified people at first. At length, however, 

 as the public became a little accustomed to it the picture 

 received universal applause. 



Mr. J.U. Gregory, of Quebec, passed through the city last 

 week on his way to Florida, where he will spend a winter 

 vacation. As Agent of the Department of Marine and 

 Fisheries, Mr. Gregory is emphatically a man of affairs, 

 and the Canadian days are all too short for the responsi- 

 ble duties of bis office. But as it is from the busiest men 

 that most is demanded, Mr. Gregory has been called upon 

 in tbe course of his official life to render courtesies and 

 Fervices uncounted and unstinted to Americm sportsmen 

 visiting the Dominion. Now that our Canadian friend 

 has come over the line, it is a pleasure to bespeak for him . 

 like favors among the sportsmen of the South, that his 

 winter may be as full of sunshine as a Canadian summer. 



A reproduction of an amateur photograph (one of the 

 Forest and Stream series) by Mr. F. F. Frisbie, accom- 

 panies this issue as an extra page supplement. The sub- 

 ject is the "Hunting Prospector," and Mr. Frisbie has 

 supplemented this charming picture with not less pleas- 

 ing descriptive text. We count the prospector in his far 

 Northwestern wickyup happy in the finding of such an 

 artist with camera and pen to introduce him to the Forest 

 AND Stream public, and in behalf of that public we wish 

 him a Happy New Year and in 1893 a richer strike than 

 in any of the years that have gone before. 



The man of rod or gun is so much of a traveler that 

 his patronage is well worth the seeking by hotel man- 

 agers, and it is surely sound business enterprise on the 

 part of Southern hotel men at this season of the year to 

 put a card in Forest and Stream, where it will catch 

 the eye of the South bound sportsman tourist. The 

 hotel list in our advertising column is growing. Care is 

 exercised to give representation to good houses only. The 

 list should prove useful to tourists. 



Our contract with a subscriber calls for a thirty-two 

 page paper weekly. We have been giving in addition 

 frequent illustrated supplements. As announced last 

 week, a full page supplement illustration, from drawings 

 by Mr. E. E. Thompson, will be given with the first num- 

 ber of each month for the first five months of the year. 

 That of next week will be of tbe Wolf. 



This number is the last one of Volume XXXIX. 



