Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, S4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy. ( 

 Srs Months, $2. f 



NEW YORK, MARCH 16, 1893. 



J . VOL. Xli.— No. 11. 



I No. 818 Broadway, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



A Possible Road to Coolre City. 

 Newspaper Unnatural History. 

 Forest and Stream Photographs 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



A Chapter of Hunting History. 

 Wild Life on the Pampas. 

 Eskimo Children's Amusements. 



Natural History. 



Down the Bay. 



Curious Fatality Among Crows. 



Aquarium Doctors. 



The National Zoological Park. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



\^^lolesale Slaughter of Caribou' 

 A Southern Game Country. 

 A Game Protector for Oregon. 

 California Canvasbacks . 

 Kellup's Dream. — ii. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Boston and Maine. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 

 Crooked Lake, Miss. 

 Sea Fishing at Cadiz. 

 Lake Ohamplain Bass. 

 Trolling and Bait-Casting. 

 Oneida Lake and Its Fish Supply. 



Fishculture. 



U. S. Fish Commission. 



The Kennel. 



Baltimore Dog Show, 

 Washington Dog Show. 

 Indianapohs Dog Show. 

 The Waterloo Cup. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Yachting. 



A Vacation Voyage.— I. 



The Y. R. A. Rules. 



London S. C. Model Competition. 



Lateen Rig on Ice. 



Conditions of the Cup Races. 



News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



Canoe-Yawls and Canoe- Yachts. 

 British "Sharpie Canoes." 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Jersey Rifle Notes. 



Societa Taritori Italiana. 

 Trap Shooting. 



Team Shoot at Rutherford. 



Slatches and Meetings. 



Drivers and Twisters. 

 Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page VII 



THE "NESSMUK" MEMORIAL. 



The illustration on another page gives a capital repre- 

 sentation of the bronze tablet designed and modeled by 

 Mr. George T. Brewster for the "Nessmuk" memorial. 

 The piece is 28in. in height by 14in. width. Those who 

 knew Mr. Sears will recognize the portrait as most happy 

 and faithful. The artist's work has been a labor of love, 

 and in labors of love we look for a man's best perform- 

 ance. This "Nessmuk" bronze is a credit to its author. 

 We hope that it may please all the friends whose co-opera- 

 ' tion have made the memorial a possibility. 



The bronze piece will be set into the face of a granite 

 shaft, which in turn will be set upon a natural boulder, to 

 be sought in the vicinity of Wellsboro, and if practicable 

 to be chosen from some spot known to "Nessmuk." 



The amotmt now subscribed is $214. This exceeds the 

 minimum sum proposed, but still more will be required, 

 and further subscriptions are invited from persons who 

 have not already joined in the undertaking. Dollar 

 subscriptions are in order; but contributions will not be 

 limited to that sum. Subscriptions not previously ac- 

 knowledged have been received from the following: 



Mr. O. O. Smith, Newtown, Pa. 



Mb. Wm. N. Byees, Denver, Col. 



Col. Sam'l Webber, Charlestown, N. H. 



Mr. J. Edward Strong, Chicago, 111. 



Mr. C: H. Mathewson, Greenville, R. I. 



Mr. Frank Robinson, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Mr. B. B. Demarest, EUenville, N. Y. 



Mr. Geo. S. Kimble, EUenville, N. Y. 



Mr. H. Bishop, White House, N. J. 



Mr. J. H. RusHTON, Canton, N. Y. 



Anonysious, Cleveland, O. 



NEWSPAPER UNNATURAL HISTORY. 

 For several days recently the New York newspapers 

 entertained their readers with accounts of a bear that 

 was reported to be wandering round in a peaceful Long 

 Island commimity seeking what it might devour and 

 spreading terror among the native population till, as one 

 highly veracious journal put it, they were on the point of 

 petitioning the "Governor to call out the militia" to their 

 assistance. 



Now this "news" was pure invention from beginning to 

 end, and was no doubt known to be a fake from the be- 

 ginning, yet the papers printed it and enlarged on it day 

 after day for nearly a week. Mr. Chas. A. Dana, the 

 accomplished editor of the Sun, has a handsome residence 

 in the very center of the region supposed to have been 

 ravaged by the alleged Glen Cove bear; and he certainly 

 should have known that the whole bear story was a fake 

 of the kind he is so fond of exposing in a "wicked" rival. 

 And yet he allowed the doings of a bear that had no ex- 

 istence outside the beer-soaked brains of some village 

 topers to be chronicled daily and at length in his paper. 



In one of the best New York dailies this week there ap- 

 peared a moving story of a mother and two little children 

 camped alone out West near a stream, on the borders of 

 which were f oimd the tracks of a great panther. Mother 

 and children were afraid that it would retiirn and attack 

 them. When night feU they built a large fire and sat by 

 it, waiting, watching and listening. After a time they 



heard far above them, on the mountain side, the heavy 

 tread of a great animal. They heard the rocks, loosened 

 by its feet, rolling down the mountain, and, as it drew 

 nearer, the stones rattling imder its feet. It was the 

 panther — the panther, which, in austere truth, is the 

 stealthiest, quietest animal that walks. 



One New York journal publishes every Sunday a 

 column of information for sportsmen that is full of glar- 

 ing inaccuracies in every possible connection. It advises 

 sportsmen to hunt or fish at times and places where it is 

 illegal or impossible to do so, and it makes misstatements 

 with a recklessness that is surprising. Its facts are on a 

 par with the Glen Cove story, and that such things should 

 be allowed to pass editorial supervision and go unchal- 

 lenged is really disgraceful to American joiirnalism. 



A POSSIBLE ROAD TO COOKE CITY. 



We learn from Helena, Montana, that a bill has passed 

 both houses of the Legislatm-e and been signed by the 

 Governor, which authorizes the construction of a toll road 

 with bridges from Rocky Fork to Cooke City. It is re- 

 ported that the Rocky Fork Town and Electric Co. will 

 begin the constmction of this road as soon as the weather 

 shall permit, and that it must be completed within a year. 

 It is stated that the road will follow the suiwey made last 

 summer by Engineer Blanding. 



This is by no means the first time that it has been 

 authoritatively stated that a road would be built from some 

 point on the Northern Pacific to Cooke City without pass- 

 ing through the Yellowstone Park, but such promises 

 have never been carried out. The construction of such a 

 road would benefit Cooke and the town of Red Lodge 

 through which it would probably pass. It would also 

 open a new route of travel to and from the Yellowstone 

 Park, and parties could go in by one route and come out 

 by the other. 



It is greatly to be hoped that such a road will be con- 

 structed. If it were in operation, it would go far toward 

 settling the question of segregation and a railway along 

 the Yellowstone River. 



"FOREST AND STREAM" PHOTOGRAPHS. 



The Forest and Stream Amateur Photographs are 

 now on exhibition in the club rooms of the New York 

 Camera Club, No. 314 Fifth avenue, where they will re- 

 main through this week. Admission is by ticket, without 

 charge: and we shall be glad to supply tickets to any 

 reader of the paper for himself and friends. The hom-s 

 are from 2 to 6 in the afternoon and 8 to 11 in the evening 



The Society of Amateur Photographers of New York is 

 showing a collection of pictures by club members in its 

 rooms, No. Ill West Thirty-eighth street, extending to 

 March 25. Admission is by ticket, which may be had 

 without charge on application by letter to the secretaiy, 

 Mr. T. J. Burton, at above address. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 The Connecticut Senate has passed a bill imposing a 

 fine of $10 and thirty days imprisonment for fishing on 

 Sunday. At a game law hearing the other day United 

 States Attorney George P. McLean expressed the opinion 

 that the gradual decrease of the ruffed grouse was due to 

 snaring for the market, the great bulk of the game sent 

 to market being snared in December. Mr. A. C. Collins, 

 president of the association of farmers and sportsmen, 

 believes in a substantial fund for enforcing the laws, and 

 advocates some form of license fee or gun tax. However 

 such a suggestion may be regarded, there is no disputing 

 that Mr. Collins speaks with exact truth when he says, 

 "There are many too anxious to get the last bird that 

 flieS; there are many too much afraid if they don't get the 

 last bird some one else will. There is too much human 

 nature and too little pubhc spirit in each one of us." 



Capt. J. W. Collins, Chief of the Department of Fish 

 and Fisheries, of the World's Fair, and Dr. James A. Hen- 

 shall in charge of the Angling Exhibit, report that the 

 early promises of a notable exhibit are to be fulfilled. 

 Both gentlemen are working with characteristic enthusi- 

 asm and elficiency. The angler who is wise will make 

 provision for a visit next summer to the beautiful Fisheries 

 Building in Jackson Park, even at the expense of a part 

 of the time set apart for the fishing grounds. No such 

 display for the fisherman has ever been made before in 

 this coimtry, nor will any of us live to see its equal. 



The bright, warm days, which in this latitude come as 

 fitful intervals in the blustering weeks of March, have a 

 powerfully unsettling influence upon the man who owns a 

 fly-rod and a fly-book. They breed a certain malady for 

 which the Pharmacopoeia affords no rehef . The symp- 

 toms are well defined moodiness, preoccupation, restless- 

 ness, inattention to business routiiie and a tendency to 

 glance out of the window up to the blue sky. The victim 

 fumbles over his fly -book, joints and unjoints his rod, and 

 practices the manual of arniis with his minnow bucket. 

 The remedy is hydrodathic; and some men who have the 

 malady in an aggravatd stage are never completely re- 

 stored until they have had a thorough sousing in an icy 

 trout stream. 



Virginia ducking waters, from the Broadwater to New 

 Inlet Bay, have been persistently farmed during the past 

 months by market hunters, in arrogant and unpunished 

 violation of law. Big-guns and night-hunting have so ef- 

 fectually done their work that legitimate shooting in a 

 lawful manner has been put out of the question. The 

 chief offenders are well known ; they might be easily and 

 promptly brought to justice and pimishment if some one 

 had the "sand" to undertake the abatement of the nuis- 

 ance. The ducks are sold to Old Point Comfort hotels or 

 shipped to city markets. 



There is righteous complaint that many a game law is 

 tinkered before it has been in operation a sufficient time 

 to test its actual working, before people have had a chance 

 to learn it, and before any special respect can have been 

 estabhshed for it. Contrast some of our deer statutes, en- 

 acted to-day and repealed to-morrow, with the deer law of 

 Ireland, which has been in force since 1698. There is 

 hoariness for you. The pubhc has had opportunity to 

 learn that law and to respect it, if for nothing else than 

 its old age. 



Whether town game constables are good for something 

 or worse than worthless, depends upon their personal 

 character. In a recent local campaign in a county not 

 more than one hundred miles from this city, the two can- 

 didates for the ofiice of game constable have been, both of 

 tliem, convicted by the district game protector of viola- 

 tions of the game law. In some instances the constables 

 are the most notorious offenders, and use their office only 

 for practical blackmail. 



For the new game and fish protector law just adopted 

 by Oregon, the sportsmen of that State are in large meas- 

 ure indebted to the intelligent activity of our prized con- 

 tributor Judge S. H. Greene, of Portland. The newly 

 appointed Protector, Mr. H. D. McGuire, is well spoken of 

 and we trust that it may be our satisfaction to chronicle 

 good work by him. 



Orra A. Taft, who died in Boston last week, was widely 

 known as the proprietor of Taft's Hotel at Point Shirley, 

 near that city. The hotel has been famous for nearly a 

 half-century for the fish and game dinners served there. 

 Many distinguished men of this country and from abroad 

 resorted to Taft's. 



The Chicago Fly-Casters' Club proposes to build an 

 exact reproduction of Izaak Walton's fishing house. Dr. 

 HenshaU has chosen a suitable site for it, near the Fish- 

 eries Building, and it will be headquarters for the &y- 

 casttng toiu-naments and other gatherings projected for 

 the summer. 



Mr. Charles HaUock recalls the very interesting fact, 

 and it is here placed on record, that the very first sub- 

 scriber to this paper was the Hon. Horatio Seymour, ex- 

 Governor of New York, who paid $15 in advance for a 

 three years' subscription. A big superstructure was built 

 on this beginning. 



The taxpayers of New York pay on an average $734 for 

 each new statute enacted by the Legislature. Many a 

 local fish and game law gained at this price is actually 

 worth less than seven dollars and thirty-four cents. 



Posterity will have the advantage of us, in that while 

 we do not know when, if ever. District- Attorney DeLancey 

 NicoU win try the Delmonico woodcock' case, posterity 

 will know when, if ever, it was tried. 



Canadians are anticipating an early spring, and are pre- 

 paring for fishing this year earher than usual. 



