Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Tbrms, S4 a Year. 30 Cts. a Copt. ) 



Six Months, $2. f 



NEW YORK, MARCH 23, 1893. 



J VOL. XL.— No. 9. 



I No. 318 Broadway, Ne> York, 



CONTEJfTS. 



Editorial. 



A Deltnonico Woodcock Hunt. 

 The Coyote. 



The "Nessmuk" Memorial Fund. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 

 Riding Double. 

 A "Nessmuk'' Incident. 

 Lake Worth Country. 



Natural History. 



Gray Wolf in British Columbia. 

 Tip and Zip. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



That Pennsylvania Gun Tax 



Suggestion. 

 New Mexico Game Notes. 

 Pennsjdvania Laws. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 A Sportsman's Invitation. 

 A Kooky Mountain Hunt. 

 Game and Fish Laws in Albany. 

 Jack Rabbits by Bloonlight. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 



Range and Size of Trout. 



Chicago and the West. 



More About Lewiston Reservoir. 



Connecticut River Pike- Perch. 



The New Jersey Coast Pounds. 



A Sockdolager. 



Camp-Fu-e Flickerings. 



Fishculture. 



Pennsylvania Fishculture. 

 Fishway Construction. 

 Trout Cultm-e. 



The Kennel. 



New York Dog Show. 



A. K. C. Meeting. 



Club Meetings. 



Flaps from the Beaver's TaiL 



Points and Flushes. 



Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Yachting. 



The Cruise of the Cy-prea. 

 A New Watson Steam Yacht. 

 The Scotch Lugger Nox. 

 Beverly Y. C. 



The Lateen Rig on Ice Yachts. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Meet of 1893. 

 Dorion's Adjustable Rudder 

 Gear. 



Atlantic Division Meet. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



The Zettler Team Tom-nament. 

 Trap Shooting. 



Md- Winter Shoot at Utica. 

 Answers to Queries. 



Thirty=six Pages and Supplement. 



ANIMAL PORTRAIT SUPPLEMENTS. 



We print to-day the third of a series of five Ameri- 

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

 are given as full page supplements, with the first issues 

 of the months as foUows: 



Jan. 5.— The Wolf. 



Feb. 2.— The White Goat. 



March 2.— The Coyote. 



April 6. — The Antelope. 



May 4.— The Fox. 



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

 supplied) are as foUows: Sept. 8, 1892— The Panther. Qct. 

 6— The Ocelot. Nov. 3— The Canada Lynx, Dec. 1 — 

 The Bay Lynx. 



THE COYOTE. 



They call him the sneak of the plaius, but the name 

 does him an injustice. He is a sneak, it is true, but it is 

 from necessity, not from choice. Who would not cower 

 and hide and always try to keep out of sight if every 

 man's hand was against him. The coyote leads a hard 

 life; he is often hungry and still more often scared, and 

 he depends for safety altogether on his speed and on his 

 faculty for shunning observation. 



The coyote, or prairie wolf, has not so wide a range as 

 that of the gray wolf. To make up for this, however, he 

 is more numerous in the countiy he inhabits than is his 

 larger cousin. The prairie wolf is equally abundant on 

 the plains of the Saskatchewan and on the dry cactus- 

 covered wastes of northern Mexico. East and west he is 

 found from the Mississipi)i to the Pacific coast. 



In the buffalo days these small wolves preyed to a great 

 extent on aged and crippled buffalo, and were always 

 f oimd on the outskirts of the herd. To-day they do much 

 damage to the cattle and sheep of the stock grower of 

 the Western plaia, but their food consists chiefly of the 

 smaller animals of the prairie, such as rabbits, prairie 

 dogs and gophers. Of com-se they do not disdain birds, 

 and destroy great numbers of grouse and small birds, as 

 well as their eggs. 



The coyotes prefer the plains to the mountains and are 

 more often seen in open than in wooded country. They 

 ai'B gregarious in habit, and are often seen in companies 

 of eight, ten or even more. Smce the destruction of the 

 buffalo, however, the large bands which used to collect 

 are seldom seen. 



Few creatures display more acuteness than the coyote. 

 Its great speed gives it an advantage over almost any ani- 

 mal it may choose to pursue, but one would hardly think 

 tliat this would enable it to overtake so swift a creature as 

 an antelope. The coyotes do, however, destroy a good 

 many of these graceful animals; not, by straightaway 

 pursuit, but hj the iutehigent manner in which they 

 relieve each other. We have often seen them engaged in 

 such hunting. A number of coyotes scatter themselves 

 out over the plaia, while one sets himself to chase the 

 " chosen prey. The one that has started the race mns as 

 hard as he can for a short time, trying to push the ante- 

 lope to its best pace. The latter visually circles, and after 

 a time a fx-esh wolf relieves the tired one, and after hav- 



ing run as hard as he can until exhausted, is in'turn I'e- 

 lieved by another. So the cliase is kept up imtil the wear- 

 ied antelope can be easily overtaken and pulled down. 



Nothing about the coyote is better known than his 

 voice. This consists of such a combination of whines, 

 barks, yelps and growls that a single animal baying the 

 moon from the top of a hill near camp, will to the unfa- 

 miliar ear convey tlie impression that a hundred coyotes 

 are indulging in a free fight. 



Notwithstanding that so many of om- large wild animals 

 have been exterminated over much of the Western coun- 

 try, the coyote stiU. remains a famihar featm-e of the 

 landscape, wherever the land is not fenced off into farms. 

 To us he always seems a link connecting the present with 

 the past, and we should be sorry to have him disappear. 

 So, even though he kills some sheep and calves, we say, 

 long life to the little coyote. 



A DELMONIOO WOODCOCK HUNT. 

 Last week we sviggested that it might be profitable and 

 edifying and instructive to give the public some notion of 

 how game law cases are fiddled with and misconducted in 

 the District Attorney's office in this city. Tliere is perhaps 

 no more effective way of doing this than by a plain, nn- 

 varnished relation of the experience of the District Game 

 Protector on the occasion of one of his visits to that 

 oflice. 



On Oct. 25 of last year, Dr. Kidd came to New York in 

 response to a telegram from the Forest and Stream tell- 

 ing him of a quantity of qiiail unlawfully offered for sale 

 by a poulterer. After attending to the quail man, the 

 Protector and the present writer visited the office of Dis- 

 trict Attorney NicoU to find out something about the 

 notoriously delayed Delmonico woodcock case. What 

 follows is a transcript from a memorandum made at the 

 time, as taken down by the Forest and Stream's sten- 

 ographer: 



THE CLERK SAYS THE CASE IS DEAD. 



Oct. 25, 1892.— We went to the office of the Clerk of the City Com-t 

 and Dr.^Kidd asked for information about the Delmonico case. The 

 clerks talked with one another about it and evidently recognized it as 

 an old friend. We were told to look on the calendar. Failing to find 

 it on the new calendar we were referred to the old one, and having 

 obtaiDed the old nmnber C6,941) we were then advised by the clerk that 

 the case had not been placed on the new calendar because the District 

 Attorney had failed to file a new note of issue. We asked what had 

 become of it, if it was not on the calendar? The clerk advised us that 

 it was dead. The clerk said that District Attorney Nicoll had had 

 the notice requiring such a filing "under his nose every day and he 

 could not have forgotten it."' We then repaired to the office of the 

 District Attorney. 



THE ATTORNEY D." CHARSE THINKS THE CASE IS "KNOCKED OUT." 



WTiile we were waiting in the ante-room Col. Townsend, the Assist- 

 ant District Attorney, in whose charge the Delmonico case is, accosted 

 Dr. Kidd and this conversation ensued: 



"Why, Kidd, are you here again?" 



"Yes, I have come down to see about the Delmonico case. What is 

 the matter with it?" 



"Didn't you know that there was new legislation that has knocked 

 us aU out on that?" 



"What legislation?" 



"Why, the new game law, doesn't it?" 



"Oh, no," repUed Dr. Kidd, "there is a saving clause in that, so we 

 ai-e all right. Suits brought under the old law are not affected by this 

 new law." 



"Is that so?" said Col. Townsend. "Well, I will see you again." 



DISTBICT ATTOKNEY NICOLL SATS IT IS ON THE CALENDAR. 



When we went into the office of District Attorney De Lancy Nicoll, 

 Dr. Kidd explained that he had come to inquire about the woodcock 

 case. "That is on the calendar," said Mr. Nicoll, "and wUl be reached as 



soon as possible. These are not preferred cases, although some d d 



newspapers have been slandering me, and I have had half a dozen let- 

 ters from some editor asking about the case. It is not preferred, what- 

 ever they may say, and we have no power to advance it. It will be 

 tried as soon as it can be reached." 



"But," Dr. Kidd explained, "you say it is on the calendar. They 

 told me the opposite at the clerk's office. They say it is not now on 

 the calendar." 



Hereupon Blr. Nicoll rang for his chief clerk, Mr. linger, and Mi-. 

 LTnger also asserted that the case was on the calendar. "But," said 

 Dr. Kidd, "they told me at the clerk's office that no note of issue had 

 been filed and the case was dead." 



"Is it necessary to file notes of issue? " asked the District Attorney. 



"Yes, sir," said Mr. Unger, "I filed one and the case must be all 

 right." 



Dr. Kidd, however, Insisted that he had been told that it was dead: 

 and Mr. Nicoll dii-ected Mr. Unger to go to the clerk's office and ascer- 

 tain the facts. 



RESTORING THE CASE TO UPE. 



On the way out, Assistant District Attorney Townsend was seen 

 and invited to go along. He excused himself, however, and the prO' 

 tector told him he would be right back to see htm. On the way to 

 the clerk's office Mr. Unger asked some one else whether it was neces- 

 sary for the District Attorney to file notes of issue in such cases. He 

 was told that it was necessai-y. When we reached the clerk's office 

 Ml-. Unger asked the clerk if it was too late for the District Attorney 



to file a new note of issue in the Delmonico case. He was advised 

 that it was not too late; and Dr. Kidd volunteered to stay with him 

 until it was filed and the case was put on the day calendar. 



It then became necessary to go back to Col. Townsend's office to 

 secure the names of the defendants and the date "of their answer. 

 Col. Townsend, however, was not found. Mr. Unger promised that, if 

 the Doctor would go back to Newburgh, he would follow the matter 

 up and write to him the next day that it had been put on the calendar. 

 As Col. Townsend's overcoat was observed hanging in the room, the 

 Doctor was exhorted by his companion to wait. His patience was re- 

 warded. The Colonel appeared, and after some difficulty found the 

 papers in one of his pigeon holes. They were then taken down to Mr. 

 Unger, but by this time it was so late that that gentleman protested 

 that it would be impossible to complete the work of filing the note of 

 issue to-day. He again promised that he would give the matter his 

 personal attention; and would write to the protector on Wednesday, 

 assuring hun that the work had been done and a date had been set for 

 the trial of the case. 



It is to be said for the weU-meaning Mr. Unger, who 

 appears to have more than his share of worldly woes in 

 trying to keep track of these elusive birds, that his prom- 

 ise was faithfully kept. The note was filed, a new num- 

 ber given, and the Delmonico woodcock case was hung 

 to the tail of the calendar, where, if it has not dropped 

 off, it is suspended unto this day — 



There was an old woman lived under the hill, 



And if she's not gone she lives there still. 



THE "NESSMUK" MEMORIAL. 

 Interest in the memorial is widespread, and it speaks 

 volumes for "Nessmuk" that his memory is so warmly 

 cherished by so many men in so many walks of life. The 

 fund subscription is steadily growing, and to-day we can 

 report that the minimum sum named bids fair soon to be 

 reached. 



While it is a satisfaction to record this substantial assur- 

 ance of success, we have the added pleasure of making 

 a most important and most gratifying announcement in 

 relation to the memorial. With gracefully tendered co- 

 operation, IVIr. George T. Brewster, the sculptor, recently 

 volunteered to design the monument, and he has submit- 

 ted plans which have been accepted, for an effective com- 

 bination of granite and bronze. The design, in brief, is 

 of a granite monument set upon a natural boulder, and 

 bearing a bronze tablet, with a portrait in bas-relief. Mr. 

 Brewster has himself modeled the bronze work, with the 

 happiest success, and has given the design and the model- 

 ing as his personal contribution to the undertaking. 

 Thanks to his generous impulse, the friends of ' 'Nessmuk" 

 will thus be enabled to provide a memorial which in form 

 and artistic character will far exceed anything that the 

 subscription fund alone would have made possible. 



We shall present in an early issue a sketch of the mem- 

 orial design and of the bronze. 



The sum of $300, which we have named as the amount 

 to be raised, has been designated as the minimum sum 

 necessary. While Mr. Brewster has confined himself as 

 closely as possible to this limit, it is already seen that more 

 money may be used to advantage; and we trust that all 

 friends of Mr. Sears who have not already sent subscrip- 

 tions, will by their cooperation assure the completion of 

 the work. While not limiting the amount of any single 

 subscription, we adopt the suggestion of Judge France 

 and invite dollar subscriptions. As Jy.dge France so well 

 wrote, it is not so much the amount sent by each indi- 

 vidual, as it is the privilege of participating in the con- 

 tribution. 



The amount already pledged is |192. Subscriptions 

 have been received from the following since our last 

 acknowledgment, Feb. 16: 



Mr. Julien Williams, Waterford, Mich, 



Mr. F. M. Patchen, Covington, Pa. 



Mr. J. L. Davison, Lockport, N. Y. 



Mr. a. L. Lyon, Hornerstown, N. J. 



Mr. Arthur C. Van Horn, Groton, N. Y. 



Mr. Henry K. Wicksteed, Brantford, Can. 



Mr. E. H. Kniskern. 



Mr. Wm. B. Neal, Gardmer, Me. 



Mr. C. W. Hardt, Wellsboro, Pa. 



Mr. H, M. Orahood, Denver, Colo. 



Mr. T. S. Thompson, Thompsontown, Pa. 



Mr. John Grenville Mott, Michigan City, Ind, 



Mr. George Holmes, Bowman's Bluff, N. C, 



Readers of "Uncle Lisha's Shop" and "Sam Level's 

 Camps," those delightful serials Avhich entertained 

 Forest and Stream subscribers, will be glad to know 

 that we shall very shortly begin the publication of -a new 

 series, written by Mr. Eobtnson, as a sequel to the "Shop' 

 and the "Camps." 



