Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. (_ 

 Six Months, .$2. ( 



NEW YORK, JANUARY 6, 1893. 



j VOL. XL.-lSro. 1. 



/ Xo. -318 Broadway, New York. 





CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Military Rifle. 



A Crank Accounted For. 



Our New Head. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Little Domestic Argiiment. 

 Our Turkey Shoot at wanip's. 

 Menace to Yellowstone Park. 

 Kellup's Beagle. 



Natural History. 



The Panther's '-Handspike" Tail- 

 ■ 'Podgers's" Menagerie. 

 A New Mexico Collection. 

 The Gray Timber Wolf. 

 Lynxes in Captivity. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Cape Cod Deer. 



Chicago and the West. 



Indiana Quail Shooting. 



Some New Brunswick Trap.— i. 



The Greensboro Sportsmen. 



Southern Quail Shooting. 



Pennsylvania Association. 



In Pennsylvania Covers. 



The Adirondack Park. 



A Budget from Bluenose Land. 



Thi-ee Days in the Bad Lands. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



A Clrristmas Gift Rhymes. 

 Out of his Reckoning. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Schoharie Creek Salmon. 

 A Fish Story. 

 Angling Notes. 

 Chicago and the "West. 



The Kennel.. 



Dog Breeding in Russia. 

 Pawtucket Dog Show. 

 New A. K. C. Regulations. 

 TonawandaDog Show. 

 Russian Wolfhounds. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Answers to Correspondents. 



Yachting. 



To Chicago by Water. 

 The Bouncer Type. 



Canoeing. 



News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



The Revolver and Military Arm. 



Trap Shooting. 



John Watson's Esquimaux Shoot 

 AVorkPs Fair Sportsmen's Asso- 

 ciation. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page v. 



ANIMAL PORTRAIT SUPPLEMENTS. 



We print to-day the first one of a series of Ave Ameri- 

 can animal portraits by Mr. Ernest E. Thompson. These 

 are to be given as -full page supplements, with the first 

 issues of the months as foUows: 



Jan. .5 (to-day).— The Gray Wolf. 



Feb. 2.— The White (tOat. 



March 2.— The Coyote. 



April fi. — Tlie Antelope. 



May 4.— The Fox. 



The dates of the former series (of which copies can be 

 supplied) are as folic m s: Hept. 8. 1893— The Panther. Oct. 

 6— The Ocelot. :No \ . o— The Canada Lynx. Dec. 1— 

 The Bay Lynx. 



THE MILITARY REVOLVER. 



The position of the revolver as a military arm is a very 

 anomalovLS one. It is in, yet jDractically out of use since 

 there is no general provision for any practice drill with 

 it. The rifle has secm-ed for itself a definite recognition. 

 In the regular army the scheme for developing skill with 

 this arm is elaborate and is working out good results. 

 There is a systematic cultivation of the best shots from the 

 company through the department team to the Division 

 and Army teams. Prizes are provided, with recognition 

 and honor for those who best master the art of marks- 

 manship. No distinction is made between officers and 

 men in this rivalry of skill, and the system of matches is 

 now so well established that the whole army is rapidly 

 becoming a company of marksmen over 25,000 strong. 



All this for the riiie, and yet not a match is on the pro- 

 gramme for the revolver. The arm is there. At West 

 Point the cadets are given firing drill with the revolver, 

 though much of it seems rather blank cartridge work to 

 accustom the horses used in the cavalry driH to the 

 sound of firearms. So with the cavalry men out on the 

 plaurs. The revolver rests in the holster pocket, and it is 

 fired off occasionally as drill for the horses; but scoring 

 with the arm is not encouraged in the prize list, and brxt a 

 meagre portion of the arm practice report is given up to a 

 statement of the skiU readied with the smaU singiehand 

 weapon. 



In the mihtia the influence of the regular arms is seen 

 in the neglect which has been meted out to the handy 

 little piece. The majority of the States, though having 

 a National Guard, do not add the revolver to the bill of 

 arms, or where it is done, there is no preparation, either 

 in the issue of ammunition or the issuance of a pro- 

 gramme of matches, by which that rivalry which is the 

 very heart and soul of marksmanship is d-eveloped to prac- 

 tical results. 



It is not even agreed among military experts just what 

 position the revolver should occupy as a military arm. 

 One man in gold lace will declare with emphasis that he 

 would not have a revolver in the hand of either oflicer or 

 enlisted man, no matter what arm of the service they may 

 foUow, and the oflicer of equal rank and experience will 

 assert that a revolver is worth its weight in gold and that 

 it should be brought into service wherever practicable. 

 To every one, save infantry private, already armed with 

 the rifle, ttieae enthusiasts would issue the revolver and 



follow up the work witli a liberal supply of practice 

 roimds. 



One of tlie strongest objections made by those who 

 decry tlie revolver bears on this question of ammunition. 

 There is a strong temptation to use the light charges to 

 make pretty target diagrams at short distances, until 

 when the time comes for effective work with the real 

 service ammunition, the shooter finds himself handi- 

 capped by tlie heavy charge, and the tendency of the 

 stiffer charge to overshoot. 



There is inuch that may be criticised in tlie present 

 fashion of riiie practice in the army proper as well as in 

 the militia force; but the arm having been issued, some 

 sort of practice follows, and so far there is logic in the 

 matter, but with the revolver that senseless laym;in notion 

 that the skill to use a pistol or revolver comes with the 

 purchase of it, and that such a thing as practice is entirely 

 unnecessar3^ seems to run through the uniformed ranks 

 as weU. The citizen who buys a blunderbuss, and lugs it 

 home, may sleep sounder o' nights in consequence, even 

 though it would put him in a tremor to suggest his puUing 

 trigger on a charge. To find men whose profession is 

 that of arms following out the same notion is more than 

 absurd, it is an imposition upon those who support that 

 army, and look to it for the highest state of eiiiciency and 

 securitv in case of need. 



A CRANK AOGOUNTED FOR. 



A RECENT order of the New Yoi'k Police Department de- 

 prived the men of the clubs with which they were for- 

 merly armed, including the formidable night sticks, and 

 substituted for them small batons which are recj^uired to 

 be worn in a pocket and drawn only in extremity. This 

 change of weapons, it is now rejiorted, has been followed 

 by a, change for the better in the relations of police and 

 public. The misavory record of brutal clubbings, so com- 

 mon under the old order of things, has been noticeably 

 diminished; there have been fewer affrays between police- 

 men and citizens, and the improvement has been gained 

 without saciificing in any degree the efficiency of the force 

 and without any encouragement of disorder or crime. 

 The pohceman as a man is showing himself more efificient 

 than the policeman as a clubbing machine. 



The experience is interesting and instructive because it 

 illustrates so well a common principle governing men 

 who have weapons put into their hands. Equip a police 

 force with clubs, and there will always be some who will 

 use their weapons wantonly, aggressively and brutally. 

 With such men the mere possession and handling of a 

 club provokes its use. So Avith drivers, to have a whip or 

 gad means to belabor with it, and the rule holds with 

 drivers of city drays, ox-teams in the woods, mule-teams 

 on the plains, and the great army of buU-Avhackers the 

 world over. The principle applies as well to the small 

 boy with the i^ea-shooter, popping away at tlie song birds. 

 And in certain hoys of a large growth, equipped with shot- 

 gun or rifle, there is shown a like provocation to wanton 

 killing. The billy, the whip, the pea-shooter, the shotgun, 

 the rifle, each of these appears to bring out and stimulate 

 in its possessor all the brutality there is in his nature. 



This, we take it, is the genesis, and this is the explana- 

 tion of the shooting crank who goes into the fields 

 and blazes away at everything that flies or runs or 

 crawls, who shoots game if there be game to shoot, 

 but with equal avidity pots song birds, chipmunks, chip- 

 ping sparrows and garter snakes. Armed only with a 

 walking cane, this same individual might wander all day 

 long through the fields with never a remote thought nor 

 inclination to kill the little birds about him. It is the gun 

 in his hand that put into his heart the killing. 



Here, too, is the explanation of that freak one encount- 

 ers everywhere in Florida — the f eUow who shoots from 

 the steamboat deck. 



Alligators, ducks, shore birds, plume birds, all alike are 

 prey for him, all ahke are killed in pure wantonness, and 

 all alike are abandoned where they fall, to rot. The old 

 books of French and Spanish adventure in Florida give 

 verj^ full accounts of the Indians who inhabited the pen- 

 insula, but nowhere is it recorded that they killed game 

 for the pure satisfaction of achieving its death. This is 

 a form of savagery that has required centuries of high 

 civilization for its development and is exhibited ui its 

 perfection only in these latter daj'^s, when we axe cele- 

 brating our advancement, four hundred yeais after 

 Columbus. 



If sueh an explanation of this Florida [phenomenon is 



the correct one, it follows that the only way to suppress 

 the nuisance is to take his gun away from him. Florida 

 game laws amoant absolutely to nothing. So long as 

 tourists are permitted to bear arms on boats, they will 

 keep up their fusilade. The one effective cure is to forbid 

 the possession of guns on boa,rd. Every steamboat captain 

 has the remedy in his own hands. Why may it not be 

 put into effect ? 



OUR NEW HEAD. 



The dejiartnients of this journal are in that healthy 

 condition where each several department editor is for- 

 ever wrangling with all the others about space. Each 

 one, every week, demands that fewer columns be given 

 to Ills esteemed associates and more to himself. There is 

 a never-ending, week's end to week's end, the year 

 roimd, clamor by the Kennel editor for some of the space 

 he declares to be "thrown away" on the Yacht man, and 

 the Yacht man never tires of devising schemes, fair or 

 foul, for appropriating some of the space over which the 

 Trap editor stands guard with a shotgim. Every news- 

 paper man will recognize that all this is just as it should 

 be. It shows that the departments are ahve. 



When it was rumored the other day that the Forest 

 AND Stream was to have a new vig-nette on the front 

 cover, Mr. Lacy, who lays claim to some artistic skill with 

 a pencil, ingenuously and blandly volunteered to draw 

 the head: and the task was assigned to him. When Mr. 

 Stephens heard of this, for some reason known to him- 

 self, he urged that he could probably provide a more 

 ai'tistic, comprehensive and appropriate head than Mr, 

 Lacy would be likely to achieve. Then Mr. Townsend 

 suggested that thotigh he was not an artist himself he had 

 some notion of what an improved Forest and Stream 

 head should be, and he and Mr. Burnham Avould cheer- 

 fully devote themselves to the work. 



In due time the several designs were submitted. The 

 predominating characteristic of each one was found to be 

 an extraordinary abnegation of self by the artist, and a 

 generous recognition of all the other departments. While 

 no one of them has been given the coveted place on the 

 front cover, reduced copies of all are printed to-day on 

 other pages. They are chiefly interesting because they 

 show so clearly the ideal Forest and Stream as pictured 

 by some of those who help to make up the jom-nal as it is 

 to-dav. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 If the newly drawn title on the front cover shall prove 

 in the printing all that is intended, news-stand purchasers 

 will welcome the imj)rovement. Without sacrificing any 

 of the characteristic and familiar features of the vignette, 

 the artist has secured increased legibility, and the name 

 stands out in bolder relief, 



This first issue of the new year is also the initial num- 

 ber of a new vohime — the fortieth — and a journal's 

 attainment of its fortieth volume is equivalent to a man's 

 attainment of his fortieth year-. We celebrate the occa- 

 sion by providing a new and handsome outfit of type. 

 In respect to beauty of typography, in illustrations and 

 in text, the Forest and Stream challenges a critical and 

 discriminating comparison with any of its weekly con- 

 temxjoraries. We begin the year with an ambition to 

 make these pages more than ever truly and adequately 

 rejiresentative of the American field sportsmanship of 

 the day — a journal of sioortsmen, by sportsmen, for 

 sportsmen. 



Capt. J. W. Collins having resigned from the office of 

 representative of the United States Fish Commission on 

 the Government Board of Management and Control of 

 the World's Colmnbian Exposition, President Harrison 

 last week appointed Dr. Tarleton'H. Bean to the place. 

 Dr. Bean is the Assistant in charge of the DiAdsion of Fish 

 Culture of the United States Fish Commission, and is the 

 editor of the Sea and RiA-er Fishing columns of Forest 

 AND Stream. 



Our first annual Amateur Photography Competition 

 has been much more of a success than was anticipated 

 for it, both in the number of competitors and the standard 

 of work submitted. We shall not delay our announce- 

 ment of the awards of prizes. 



Dr. James A. Henshall, who is in charge of tjie Wprld's 

 Fair angling exhibit, and reports that the display Avill be 

 a credit to the craft, is planning an Izaak Walton memorial. 



