Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, JANUARY 26, 1893. 



( VOL. XL.— No. 4. 



( No. 318 Broad"wat, New York. 



COJfTEIfTS. 



Editorial. 



Familiar AcqviaiTitaiices. 

 An Arctic Number. 

 A "Nessmul;:" Memorial. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Hunting in Greenland. — I. 



Natural History. 



The AVays of Wolves. 

 An Arctic Rover. 

 Cold Weather Notes. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



New York State Association. 

 Barren Grounds of Northern 

 Canada. 



Pennsylvania Game Legislation. 



National Park News. 



Big Game in New Brunswick. 



Chicago and the West. 



Some New Brunswick Traps. -IV 



Boston and Maine. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



On the North Shore,— III. 

 Angling Notes. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Rearing Black Bass. 

 Inclosure of Brook Trout. 



Fishculture. 



Fishculture in Nevada. 



The Kennel. 



Bexar Field Trials. 

 Des Moines Dog Show. 

 Indianapolis Dog Show. 

 Detroit Dog Show. 

 Boston Terriers. 

 Pacific Coast Field Trials. 

 Brunswick Fur Club Meet. 

 Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Yachting. 



Speed Records of American 

 Yachts. 



Lord Dunraven and the N. Y. Y. 0. 

 International Racing. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Committee Reports. 

 Singlehanders and Small 



Cruisers. 

 With or Without. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Dorrler's Fine Gallery Work. 



Trap Shooting. 



E. D. Fulford to the Pubhc. 

 Hamilton Gun Club Tournament. 

 Drivers and Tmsters. 



Answers to Queries. 



J*'ffr Prospectus a?id Advertising Rates see Page V. 



FAMILIAR ACQUAINTANCES, 



THE SKUNK. 



Always and everywhere in evil i-ej)ute and bad odor, 

 hunted, trapped and killed, a, pest and a fur-bearer, it is 

 wonder not only that the skunk is not exterminated but 

 that he is not uncommon. 



With an eye to the main chance, the fur-trapper spares 

 him when fur is not prime, but when the letter "R" has 

 become weU established in the months the cruel trap 

 gapes for him at his outgoing and incoming, at the door 

 of every discovei-ed burrow, while all the year round the 

 farmer, sportsman and poultry-grower wage truceless 

 war against him. 



Noth^vithstanding this general outlawry, when you go 

 forth of a winter morning, after a night of thaw or tem- 

 pered chill, you see his authentic signature on the snow, 

 iiie mimistakable diagonal rows of fom- footprints each, 

 or short-spaced alternate tracks, where he has saUied out 

 for a change from the subterranean darkness of his bur- 

 row, or from his as rayless borrowed quarters beneath 

 ' the barn, to the starlight or pale gloom of midnight winter 

 landscape. 



More often are you made aware of his continued sxu-- 

 vival by another sense than sight, when his far reaching 

 odor comes down the vernal breeze or waft of summer 

 air, rankly overbearing all the fragrance of springing 

 verdure, or perfume of flowers and new-mown hay, and 

 you well know who lias somewhere and somehow been 

 forced to take most offensively the defensive. 



It may be said of liini that his actions .speak louder than 

 his words. Yet the voiceless creature sometimes makes 

 known his presence by sound, and frightens the belated 

 farm boy, whom he curiously follows with a mysterious, 

 liollow beating of his feet upon the ground. 



Patches of neatly inverted turf in a grub-infested pas- 

 tm-e tell those who know his way that the skunk has been 

 doing the farmer good service here, and making amends 

 for poultry stealing, and you are inclined to regard him 

 with more favor. But when you come upon the empty 

 sliells of a raided partridge nest, your sportsman's wrath 

 is enkindled against him for forestalling your gun. Yet 

 wdio shall say that you had a better right to the par- 

 tridges than he to the eggs? 



If you are so favored, you can but admire the pi-etty 

 sight of the mother with lier cubs basking in a sunnj^ 

 nook or leading them afield in single file, a black and 

 white procession. 



If by another name the rose would smell as sweet, our 

 old acquaintance is in far better odor for change of appel- 

 lation from that so suggestive of his rank offenses. What 

 beauty of fair faces would be sjjoiled with scorn by a 

 hint of the vulgar name whicli in tmadorned truth be- 

 longs to the handsome glossj^ black muii and boa that 

 keep warm those dainty lingers and swan-hke neck. Yet 

 through the furrier's art and cumiing they imdergo a 

 magic transformation into sometlihig to be worn with 

 pride, and the every-day wear of the despised outlaw be- 

 comes the prized apparel of the fair lady. 



If imto this htmible acquaintance is vxjuchsafed a life 

 beyond his brief earthly existence, imagine hun in that 



unhunted, trapless paradise of uncounted eggs and callow 

 nestlings,gi-inning a wide derisive smile as he beholds what 

 fools we mortals be, so fooled by ourselves and one an- 

 other. 



A "NESSMUK" MEMORIAL. 

 As was briefly told last week, the friends of the late 

 George W. Sears, "Nessmuk," propose to provide, by sub- 

 scription, a memorial to be placed over his grave in the 

 village cemetery of Wellsboro, Pa. The original sugges- 

 tion was made in these columns shortly after ' 'Nessmuk's" 

 death in 1890, but the project was abandoned for the time 

 being because of conditions which appeared to make such 

 a course the wiser one. "Nessmuk" had designated to be 

 his last resting place a chosen spot beneath the hemlocks 

 in the home yard, which his hands had planted and his 

 lo\'ing eyes had watched through their years of growth: 

 and in accordance with the wish so often expressed in 

 his lifetime, here he was laid to rest. The property, 

 however, belonged to others, and it was found that the 

 site could not be retained permanently for such a pur- 

 pose. As was stated last week, a removal has now been 

 made to the village cemetery, and there the memorial wiU 

 be placed. 



Among all the conti'ibutors to the Forest and Stream— 

 and what a host of sterling men and women they are — 

 none have ever won quite the place in the afllectionate 

 regard of readei-s that belonged to "Nessmuk." Into his 

 writings was put not alone the lore of the woods — Na- 

 ture's secrets, revealed to such a woods haunter as he had 

 been — but there was more than this— the philosophy and 

 sentiment and wit and wisdom of a shrewd, observant, 

 keen and penetrating student of human nature. A 

 wonderful knowledge of the woodlands and of the ways of 

 the woodland creatures was his, and a wonderfid knowl- 

 edge of his fellow men as well. Some one else might 

 have written "Woodcraft" and another pen liave written 

 "Forest Runes," but the "Nessmuk" who could write 

 them both may be found not once in a century. But it is 

 not our purpose now to attempt to analyze the secret of 

 "Nessmuk's" popularity, nor to detail the causes of the 

 strong friendships that sjjrang up between the writer and 

 his readers,. Enough to say that such a sentiment 

 existed; that there is kindly thought of "Nessmuk" to- 

 day, and that this thought has prompted the present 

 undertaking to provide a stone for the Wellsboro grave, 

 which is now unmarked. 



The project is not an ambitious one. A costly monu- 

 ment is not intended; it would not be appropriate. The 

 l>urpose is to set up a stone of fitting design, having in 

 form or chiselmg some suggestion of the woodlands, per- 

 haps: but of a simpUcit}'- in ornamentation that shah in 

 some degree typify the character of him whose name is to 

 be commemorated on its face. 



The sum of $300 has been fixed as the minimum amount 

 it is desired to pro^'ide. Of this something over one-half 

 (|131) has already been contributed by a few of those who 

 noted the previous announcement of the enterprise. 

 They are: 



Dr. Thos. C. Brainerd, Montreal. 



Dr. RoBT. T. Morris, New York. 



Dr. R. F. ROONEY. Auburn, Cal. 



Capt. L. A. Beardslee. U. S. Navy. 



Judge L. B. France, Denver. 



Mr. E. E. Millard, Ariosa, Wyoming. 



Gen. D. H. Bruce, Syracuse. 



Mr. F. H. Thurston, Central Lake, Mich. 



Mr. E. L. Stratton, Grand View, Tenn. 



J\Ir. Ro'VNT.AND E. RoBiNSOX, Ferrisburgh, Vt, 



Mr. G. H. Bunnell, Auburn Four Cornei-s, Pa. 



Forest and Stream. 



There must be a goodly number of others, who will be 

 grateful for the opportunitj^ to express their estimate of 

 Mr. Sears and their lo^dng remembrance of him, and they 

 are invited to join in the subscription. The Forest and 

 Stream will acknowledge by mail to each contributor the 

 receipt of his sul^scription, and in these columns, as 

 above; and it will assume the responsibility of putting the 

 stone in place, rendering to the subscribers an accoimting 

 upon the completion of the work. 



Our best comphments to the multitude of contemporaries 

 who have so pleasantly noted the Forest and Stream's 

 auspicious beginning of the XLth Yoliune. 



The Florida tourist shooting crank has as much idea of 

 sport as a kicking mule. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 John Wallace, the taxidermist, who died at his home 

 in Paterson, N. J. , had a wide acquaintance among the 

 sportsmen and naturalists of this country. For more than 

 thirty years his httle shop in North WUliam street, first 

 on one side of the Avay and then on the other, had been a 

 favorite stopping place for the bird men of this city, who 

 liked to keejD track of the many interesting specimens 

 which found their way there. Among the well-known 

 scientific men who in years gone by iised to drop in at 

 Wallace's shop were Prof. Spencer F. Baird, ]VIr. George 

 N. Lawrence. Prof. O. C. Marsh and Dr. Hart C. Mer- 

 riam. An Englishman by birth, Isb. Wallace came to 

 tills country many years ago and at first had a hard strag- 

 gle to get along. He was fond of relating the hardships 

 that he had undergone and the economies that he had 

 been forced to practice before he at last established a suc- 

 cessful trade. Wallace was master of his craft and when 

 he was interested in a special piece of work his skill was 

 very great. He prepared many specimens for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, as well as for the American Museum of 

 Natural History in this city. He did a great deal of work 

 for the showmen and was known to all of them. Mr. 

 Wallace was a man of mo.st kindly disposition and w^ould 

 go to almost any lengths to assist his friends. He was a 

 man of great enthusiasm and took up a variety of hobbies, 

 most of which he rode successfully. We recall very well 

 the remarkably fine collection of birds' eggs which he had 

 at one time gathered together, and later in life he took to 

 raising orchids and made several large sales of them. At 

 one time he started a museum in Paterson, but the local 

 patronage was not sufiicient to keep it going. Many of 

 the sportsmen of this city and vicinitj^ used to have their 

 work done at Wallace's shop and a tremendous amount of 

 material passed through his hands. 



The death of Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, Justice of the United 

 States Supreme Court, wiU be heard with regret by all 

 readers of Forest and Stream. IVIr. Lamar was the first 

 Secretary of the Interior who manifested any especial in- 

 terest in the Yellowstone National Park, and it was largely 

 due to his efforts that this reservation has of late years re- 

 ceived so much attention from the executive branch of 

 our government. A student, a soldier, a legislator and a 

 Cabinet Minister, Mr. Lamar's broad mind readily gi-asped 

 the importance to the public of the preservation of the 

 National Park. His recommendations as Secretary of the 

 Interior dealt intelligently with this subject: he appointed 

 a special agent of the highest character to visit and repgrt 

 uX)on it, and he frequently urged upon Congress the neces- 

 sity of preserving its integrity. He Avas appointed Secre- 

 tary of the Interior by Mr. Cleveland in 1885. 



Tliis issue is an Artie number. Those philosophic souls 

 who argue that the true Avay of enjoying Artie explora- 

 tion is to sit by a cosy fire and read of the boreal ad- 

 ventures of other ])eople, Avill find in our columns this 

 week an abundant store of material. Mr. W. E. Meehan. of 

 the editorial stafi' of the Philadelphia Xet^gre?' and a member 

 of the Peary Relief Expedition, contributes the first of 

 three chapters descx-iptive of hunting in Greenland. Mr. 

 Frederic S. Webster supphes an illustrated paper on an 

 "Ai-ctic Rover," the musk ox; and our well-known con- 

 tributor, Mr. H. G. Dulog, writes of the exploration and 

 hunting experience of Mr. Warburton Pike on the 

 'Barren Grounds of Northern Canada." 



iMaine s]:)ortsmen and a greater multitude of sportsmen 

 in other States are deeply interested in the "selection of a 

 commissioner to fill the place made vacant by Mr. Stil- 

 weU's death. iVniong the numerous candidates mentioned 

 are Messrs. Tom AUen, of Bangor salmon pool fame: Mr. 

 P. S. Vickery, of Augusta, weU known as a sportsman 

 speciaUy interested in game protection, and Mr. Lewis 

 McLellan, of Gorham. Warden .Jonathan Darling's 

 name has also been mentioned, as has that of Mr. Everett 

 Smith, of Portland, who, however, it is said, would not 

 seek the office. 



We have reported at considerable length the proceed- 

 ings of the New York State Association for the Protection 

 of Fish and Game, on the assumption that the discussion 

 was of more than local interest. The i)roblems confront- 

 ing those who have to do Avith game and fish protection 

 in New York are in large measure the problems existing 

 everywhere; there are everywhere similar obstacles to sue 

 cess, and the same solutions must everywhere be found. 



