Forest and Stream 



^ A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Tbrms, $4 A Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. I 

 Six Months, $3. f 



NEW YORK, MARCH 9, 1893. 



( VOL. XL.— No. 10. 



■j No. 318 Broadway, New York. 





CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Domestic Reindeer in Alaska. 

 Secretary Noble's Monument. 

 The "Nessmuk" Memorial. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Kellup's Dream. 



My Chance Acquaintance. 



Natural History. 



Sierra Bird Notes. 



Something About Wild Animals. 



National Zoological Park. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Chicago and the West. 

 Podgers's Commentaries. 

 Massachusetts and Maine. 

 Ontario Game and Fish Commis- 

 sion. 

 Notable Shots. 

 The Spring Slaughter. 



ea and River Fishing. 



The Angler's Dream. 

 Trout Spawning In June. 

 Finland Fishing. 

 Brook Trout of Wautoma. 

 Boston and Maine. 

 Legalized Destruction of Fish. 

 Black Bass of the Thornapple. 



Fishculture. 



Rearing Black Bass. 

 The Kennel. 

 Philadelphia Dog Show. 

 Baltimore Dog Show. 

 Chicago Kennel Club and the 



A. if. C. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Yachting. 



The Cruise of the Cy-pres. 

 New 8.5-Footers. 

 Changes of Racing Rules. 

 Kwasind. 



Corinthian Y. C. Sweepstakes. 



The Trial Races. 



Yacht Building at Lawley's. 



News Notes. 

 Canoeing. 



Fritz Schlaukopf's Canoe. 



News Notes. 

 Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Hudson vs. Our Own. 

 Trap Shooting. 



New Jersey Trap - Shooters' 

 League. 



Chicago Traps. 

 Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page V. 



THE AlkATEUB PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION. 



We announced last week the decision of the judges in 

 the Forest and Stream Amateur Photography Competi- 

 tion, and sent the checks for all the prizes except to the 

 winner of one of the fifth prizes, whose address has been 

 mislaid. We shall publish each week one of the success- 

 ful pictures, and to-day Mr. Bennett's wonderful deer pic- 

 ture is shown. No reproduction can fully bring out the 

 delicacy and beauty of this photograph, which shows the 

 wet hair of the deer which have just crossed the river, 

 and the rime upon their coats Avhere the water is just be- 

 ginning to freeze. 



All the pictures submitted in this competition have been 

 loaned to the New York Camera Club, and will be exhib- 

 ited at the rooms of the club at 314 Fifth avenue, in con- 

 junction with their- annual exhibition of photographs 

 made by members of the club. The exhibition will open 

 March 13 and close March 18. 



Any contributor to the FOREST AND Stream Competition 

 who may desire to visit this exhibition will receive a card 

 on application to Mr. Harry B. Reed, New York Camera 

 Club, 314 Fifth avenue, New York. 



Readers of Forest and Stream who are interested in 

 photography wiU not fail to visit the rooms of the Camera 

 Club next week, and those who enjoy outdoor life and 

 nature 'will find there much to interest them. 



SECRETARY NOBLWS MONUMENT. 

 We have more than once called attention to the broad 

 and far-seeing poUcy inaugurated by Secretary Noble in 

 the matter of forest preservation in the less-inhabited por- 

 tions of the country, and it is satisfactory to see that the 

 daily press is now giving him credit for the great work 

 lie has done. 



It win be remembered that beginning with the Yellow- 

 stone National Park, which was brought to the notice of 

 Mr. Noble early iu lus administration, he has given much 

 attention to the question of our parks and timber reserva- 

 tion. To say nothing of the Grant, Sequoia and Tule 

 River parks, the preservation of which we owe almost 

 entirely to Mr. Noble, there were set aside soon after the 

 act of Congress of March 3, 1891, six timber reservations, 

 embracing an estimated area of three and a quarter mil- 

 lion of acres. Of these three lie in Colorado, one in New 

 Mexico, one in Oregon and one in Wyoming, adjoining 

 the Yellowstone National Park. Besides these forest 

 preserves Mr. Noble has considered as well the question 

 of preserving our marine mammalian fauna of the North- 

 west coast, which is so rapidly disappearing under the 

 constant persecution of white men and Indians, and has 

 set aside an Alaskan island as a reservation. 



In December last there was established in southern 

 OaUfornia a timber reservation near Los Angeles, includ- 

 ing neaidy one million acres. This will be known as 

 the San Gabriel timber land reserA'ation, and includes all 

 the mountains from Salidad Canon, where the Southern 

 Pacific R. R. passes through the mountains, eastward to 

 the Cajon Pass. A little later another reservation of 

 about eight hundred thousand acres was announced, to 

 be called the San Bernadino Mountain Forest Reservation. 

 This adjoins the San Gabriel reserve and runs eastward 

 from the Cajon Pass to San Gorgonio. Finally, on the 



14th of February the Sierra Reservation was set aside. 

 This compi'ises over four million acres and takes in 

 the high Sierra extending southward from the line of 

 the Yosemite National Park to the seventh standard 

 parallel south. It includes the existing Grant, Sequoia, 

 Tule River and Mount Whitney reservations, and also the 

 wonderful Kings River Caiion, which has been described 

 by Mr. John Muir in the Century Magazine. 



This country is one of surpassingly beautiful scenery 

 and contains some of the highest peaks to be found within 

 the limits of the United States. It is of especial interest 

 for its giant forests, many of which are yet untouched, 

 and which contain the gi-eat sequoias, together with 

 many other species of Pacific forest trees of remarkable 

 interest and beauty. Besides this, the region is interest- 

 ing as containing a considerable amount of game, and, 

 on the high mountains, species of birds and mammals 

 which are not found elsewhere in California. 



Far more important, however, to the country, from an 

 economic point of view, is the preservation of the water 

 supply, which will be insured by the setting aside of these 

 reservations. Throughout most of the Western comitry 

 the question of water for irrigating purposes is the most 

 vital one met by the settler, but it is only Avithin a very 

 few years that the slightest regard has been had to the 

 farmer's needs. 



It is proposed before long, Ave understand, to set aside 

 a tract of aboiit 1,000,000 acres in the State of Washing- 

 ton, Avhich Avill be known as the Pacific Reservation, and 

 will include Mount Rainier, and in southern Utah, about 

 the Grand Canon of the Colorado, President Harrison has 

 made another forest reserve of 1,900,000 acres. 



Much credit is due to Mr. R. U. Johnson, of the 

 Century, who has been untiring in his efforts to secure 

 proper legislation for the protection of the Yosemite 

 National Park, and to Messrs. Hague, Phillips and Roose- 

 velt, who haA'e taken special intei'est in the YelloAA'^stone 

 Park. All this, however, would have availed little had it 

 not been for the wisdom and far-sightedness of Seci-etary 

 Noble. His broad mind was able to appreciate the needs 

 of this country and he had the courage to lead public 

 opinion Avliere others would haA^e been content to wait 

 for the popular cry and then obey it. He has set on foot 

 a work that Avill live long after he has passed away, and 

 if in his administration he had accomplished nothing be- 

 sides this work of forest preservation he Avould have de- 

 served AveU of his country. 



Much more remains to be done, and it is to be hoped 

 that the mcoming Secretary of the Interior may follow 

 the example set him and carry on this good work. 



THE "NESSMUK" MEMORIAL. 



It is satisfactory to see that the interest in the memorial 

 to be erected to "Nessmuk" is constantly groAvang, and 

 the contributions receiA^ed this week come from shores 

 washed by the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Great Lakes. 

 The work of modeling the portrait has been completed, 

 the mould has been made, and we hope next Aveek to 

 giA^e reproductions of the designs for the monument and 

 for the bronze work. 



It is evident now that the cost of the monument will 

 exceed $200, the amount originally set as the minimum 

 sum needed, and but for the generous enthusiasm of Mr. 

 George T. Brewster nothing nearly so effective as the 

 present designs Avould have been possible for such a 

 sum. 



It may be regarded as certain that all friends and 

 admirers of "Nessmuk" will wish to conti'ibute to this 

 fund and to assist in the completion of the work. No 

 man, AA^e belieA^e, ever read the writings of "Nessmuk" 

 AA'ithout being better for that reading, and each such 

 man owes a debt to the dead author and Avill be glad to 

 add his mite toward the memorial, Avhich shoAvs om* 

 aj)preciation of the work done by the old woodsman. 



The subscriptions received since last Aveek, March 2, 

 are from the following contributors to the fund: 



Wm C. Held, Saginaw, Mich. 



L. H, Trotter, Philadelphia, Pa. 



L. I. Floaver, McDonald's Corners, N. B, 



j\Irs. Ross, Geyserville, Cal. 



Cash, New York. 



John Beattie, Ncav York City. 



WORLD'S FAIR AQUARIUM. 



The transportation of sea water for the live fish exhibit 

 of the U. S. Fish Commission at Chicago has been 

 arranged without expense to the Government through 

 the liberality of the Union Tank Company and the Ches- 

 apeake & Ohio and Big Four railroads. Mr. Howard 

 Page, vice-president and manager of the Union Tank 

 Company, has lent Commissioner McDonald cars to hold 

 30,000 gallons of Avater, and Mr. M. E. Ingalls, president 

 of the roads mentioned, Avill send the cars to Cliicago 

 free. The public spirit of these oflicers will materially 

 aid the plan of making a unique and unsurpassed display 

 of hving water animals and plants at the World's Fair. 



The new baggage car Avhich is now being fitted up for 

 carrying marine fish, etc., from Morehead City, N. C, 

 and other sea coast collecting centers, will have two tanks 

 8ft. in diameter and four tanks 4ft. in diameter. The 

 central portion wiU be fitted up with living rooms for the 

 men, storage spaces for small ax'ticles, boiler, pumps, etc. 



The first trip from Morehead City Avith Kve fish, corals, 

 algse, etc., was accomplished without loss. Some of the 

 fish Aveigh fully 61bs. Among them are spotted weakfish, 

 red drum and mullets. These were brought up to Wash- 

 ington in the ordinary tanks used for carrying fish from 

 the hatching stations. 



Everything is promising for the great work of filling 

 the aquarium with representative species from the ocean 

 as well as inland waters, and Morehead City is exceed- 

 ingly rich in marine forms of life. 



Why "festiveV" What is the significa^vio■^l of the adjec- 

 tive festive, as so frequently apphed to a, l^ass or a bear or 

 a catfish or an armadilloV 



DOMESTIC REINDEER IN ALASKA. 



At the last meeting of the Biological Society of Wash- 

 ington, Dr. Sheldon Jackson, General Agent of Education 

 in Alaska, reAneAved the progress of the plan to rescue 

 from starvation the natives of northern Alaska and to 

 provide means for their increase in numbers. The ap- 

 proaching need of introducing the Siberian tame reindeer 

 into Arctic Alaska Avas foreshadoAved by Mr. Charles H. 

 ToAvnsend in the report of the cruise of the steamer 

 CorAvin in 1885, and the cruise of the Bear in the summer 

 of 1890 gave ample opportunity for studying the condition 

 of the natives of the frozen North. 



Capt. M. A. Healy was sent in command of the Bear to 

 distribute presents to the Koraks around Cape Navarin in 

 reward for sheltering and feeding shipwrecked American 

 whalers. He Avas commissioned also to take a census of 

 the native population along the Arctic coast of Alaska 

 and the islands of Bering Sea. Dr. Jackson Avas per- 

 mitted to accompany Capt. Healy, and enjoyed unusual 

 facilities for comparing the condition of the Siberian 

 reindeer men with that of the Eskimo of Alaska. 



The Koraks were found to be hardy, active and well 

 fed, oAvning tens of thousands of tame reindeer. The 

 Alaskans were equally hardy and active, but many of 

 them Avere on the verge of starvation. This condition 

 was due to the destruction and driving aAvay of Avalrus 

 and whales by the Avhalers, and the rapid decline in the 

 number of caribou since the introduction of modern fire- 

 arms. 



Whales have become very scarce in their usual haunts 

 and are now sought for off the mouth of Mackenzie 

 River. Walrus and seal do not come every season. In 

 the Avinter of 1890-91 food Avas ample at Point Hope; but 

 during the next winter the same people had to leave their 

 village and, in some instances, ti-avel hundreds of miles 

 to other villages, to keep from starving,. Some of the 

 natives of the Yukon Valley actually starved to death. 

 The teachers supported by the Government saved the 

 Lives of a great many people during that period of famine. 

 Not many years ago three large villages on St. Lawrence 

 Island were almost exterminated by want of food, and 

 but for the timely visit of the Bear to King Island in the 

 fall of 1891, doubtless the entire population would have 

 perished. 



After the return of Dr. Jackson to Washington in the 

 fall of 1890, he made a report to the Commissioner of 

 Education, emphasizing the destitute condition of the 

 Alaskan Eskimos. This report was transmitted to the Sec- 

 retary of the Interior, and by him to the Senate. Con- 

 o-ress was asked, not to treat the natives as paupers, but 

 to introduce among them the domestic reindeer and make 

 them self-supporting. 



The Fifty-first Congress, however, failed to appropriate 

 the necessary funds, and Dr. Jackson appealed to the 

 generosity of the people through leading newspapers, 

 and received contributions amounting to |2,146 to in- 



