Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copy; I 

 Six Months, §2. j 



NEW YORK, MARCH 30, 1893. 



j VOL. XL.— No. 13. 



j No. 318 Bboadway, New York. 



COlfTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Many Men of Many Minds. 

 The Adirondack Park. 

 More Delmonico Delay. 

 Chtaese and American. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Camping on the Tenderfoot. — II. 

 An Easter Crocus. 



Natural History. 



Elk in llarness. 



The Five-Toed Kangaroo Rats. 



Guadalupe Deer. 



Game Bagr and Gun. 

 Wisconsin Notes. 

 Oregon Ducks. 

 A Townsman's Notions. 

 New Brunswick Deer Braves. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Tags Are Un-American. 

 '•Duflfers." 

 Notable Shots.— V. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Spawning of Gardiner's Trout. 

 Tnat Paradise in the Northwest. 

 Bait- Casting for Bass. 

 The Adirondack League Club. 

 Boston and Maine. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Curious CuUings. 

 Saginaw Bay Ice Spearing. 



Fishculture. 



Bearing Black Bass. 



The Kennel. 



Blmira Dog Show. 



Detroit Dog Show. 



Indianapohs Dog Show. 



National Beagle Club Meeting. 



That Sheepdog Picture. 



A Dog Protective Association. 



Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Yachting. 



A Vacation Voyage.— III. 

 Secrecy of Desigmng. 

 New York Y. C. 

 New Yachts. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



Atlantic Division Meet. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Bundes Fest and International 



Shoot. 

 Cincinnati Riflemen. 



Trap Shooting. 



A Suggestion to Amateurs. 

 Wilkesbarre Tournament. 

 Algonquin vs. Union Hill. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page VII ^ 



Many Men of Many Minds. 



The Forest and Stream Is not the organ, nor the advo- 

 cate, nor the champion of any one narrow class of sports- 

 men. We aim to extend to all classes and conditions of men 

 the fullest and best opportunity for expression of their con- 

 victions, whims, notions, opinions, sentiments, beliefs, 

 apprehensions, misgivings, anticipations, yearnings, fore- 

 bodings, prognostications and vaticinations respecting the 

 topics which belong within the scope of this journal. 



Correspondents frequently express views with which 

 the editorial page is not in accord. That paper would be 

 dull enough, to be sure, the editors of which should as- 

 sume to possess a monopoly of all there was to be written 

 on subjects so suggestive, so intricate, complex and many- 

 sided, so far-reaching and so manifold as the topics which 

 from week to week and from month to month are dis- 

 cussed and settled and then brought up and discussed 

 again in our several departments. As for ourselves, we 

 do not pretend to "know it all" nor to "say the last word," 



Where else in all the journals of the day will be found 

 such a never-ceasing flow of good-humored and well-man- 

 nered discussions as here? 



It is not too much to say that through the agency of the 

 Forest and Stream, which is as a forum, free to all, the 

 field sportsmen of all the widely separated sections of this 

 continent understand one another better, have a more 

 manly respect for each other, and constitute more truly 

 than would otherwise be possible, a fraternity. Did you 

 ever think of it in that way? 



CHINESE AND AMERICAN. 



The Geary Chinese exclusion act, which will take effect 

 next Ma^^ provides that within one year from the date 

 of its adoption. May 5, 1892, every Chinese laborer resi- 

 dent in tliis country must have applied to the Collector of 

 Internal Revenue of his district for a certificate of resi- 

 dence; and when the speciSed term shall have elapsed, 

 every Chinese laborer not so provided with his certificate 

 shall be arrested and sent to jail for a year and then 

 packed off to China. 



The Geary act was not adopted without strenuous oppo- 

 sition, and it has met with the decided disapproval of 

 many individuals and societies and influential journals, 

 which have denounced it in strong terms as ungenerous, 

 unmanly, un-American, unchristian and unworthy our 

 time, our country and our character and position as a 

 nation. 



But with what reason can an outcry be made against 

 these restrictions laid upon Chinese laborers by the 

 United States, when individual States themselves make 

 similar exactions vipon certain citizens of other States, who 

 are not Mongohans nor aliens, but native-born American 

 citizens? The United States enacts that if a Chinese 

 laborer be not registered he shall go to jail; Maryland 

 enacts that if a visiting citizen from Connecticut or Ohio 

 or Missouri, who happens to be a sportsman, be not regis- 

 tered, he, too, shall be sent to jail. Maine and Michigan 

 are considering the enactment of laws of like purport. 



If the Gearj^ exclusion act is wa-ong as applied to 

 Chinese laborers, these non-resident laws are wrong as 

 applied to American sportsmen; and if the Geary act is 

 right as to Chinamen, the non-resident laws are none the 

 less wrong as to Americans. 



MORE DELMONICO DELAY. 



State Game Protector Kidd was on hand last Friday 

 for the trial of the Delmonico woodcock case. The Dis- 

 trict Attorney's office had told him that it would be on 

 that day's calendar. Assistant District Attornej^ Towns- 

 end, who is in charge of the suit, had not subpoenaed any 

 witnesses, but Dr. Eadd had taken the precaution to pro- 

 vide them. When he reached the office he was met with 

 the intelligence that on request of the defendant the trial 

 had again been postponed. 



The new date set is April 5, next Wednesday, and even 

 Dr. Kidd appears to believe that on that day the suit will 

 actually be disposed of. Dr. Kidd has greater faith in 

 Col. Townsend than we have; but as the Colonel has 

 finally permitted himself to give more than a five- minutes 

 audience to the Protector and has absorbed some infor- 

 mation about the evidence, it is possible that the District 

 Attorney's disgraceful Delmonico record may be closed 

 next week. 



It would be outrageous if through inattention and want 

 of preparation Col. Townsend should after all lose the suit. 

 If he does he may rest assured that the pubhc will under- 

 stand fully where to put the blame. 



THE ADIRONDACK PARK. 

 The new forestry law just enacted by the Legislature at 

 Albany provides for a board of five forestry commissioners 

 who shaU serve for terms of five years, and shall have 

 general charge and control of the State forest preserves. 

 The sections of the law relating to the Adirondacks set 

 apart forever all lands now owned or to be acquired by 

 the State: 



All lands now owned or hereafter acquired by the State within the 

 county of Hamilton, the towns of Newcombe, Minerva, Schroon 

 North Hudson, Keene, North Elba, St. Armand, and Wilmington, in the 

 county of Essex; the towns of Harrietstown, Santa Clara, Altamont, 

 Waverly and Brighton, in the county of Franklin ; the town of Wilmurt^ 

 in the county of Herkimer; the towns of Hopkinton, Colton, CUfton 

 and Fine, in the county of Saint Lawrence, and in the towns of Johns- 

 bnrgh, Stony Creek and Thm-man, and the islands in Lake George, in 

 the county of Waa-ren, except such lands as may be sold as provided in 

 this article, shall constitute the Adhondack Park. Such park shall be 

 forever reserved, maintained and cared for as ground open for the 

 free use of all the people for thair health and pleasure ank as forest 

 lands, necessary to the preservation of the headwaters of the chief 

 rivers of the State, and a future timber supply; and shall remam part 

 of the forest preserve. 



The Forest Commission shall have the cai-e, custody, control and 

 superintendence of the Adirondack Park; shall have power to pur- 

 chase land situated within the bounds of the park; and may sell and 

 convey any part of the forest preserve within the counties of Clinton, 

 Fulton, Lewis, Oneida, Saratoga. Washington, Saint Lawrence, Frank_ 

 lin (except the town of Hai-rietstown), Herkimer (except the town of 

 Wilmm-t), Essex (except the towns of Newcomb and North Elba), 

 Warren (except the islands in Lake George and land upon the shore 

 thereof), and the town of Hope, in the county of Hamilton, the owner- 

 ship of which is not in the opinion of the Commission needed to pro- 

 mote the purposes of the act. 



trout season and the issue of the Honey Pot fishing im- 

 broglio. Certain South Meriden fishermen have stocked 

 the waters with trout fry furnished by the State; other 

 parties have purchased the exclusive right to fish the 

 streams. The stockers declare that next Saturday they 

 will go fishing in Honey Pot, trespass signs or no trespass 

 signs, and the lessees promise with equal emphasis to 

 prosecute intruders. The gentle art of angling is mixed 

 up with a prodigious amount of lawing. in Connecticut. 

 Fishing rights cases run through years of litigation. Out 

 of it all must come a final determination of the angler's 

 rights. 



The members of the Gun Club of Wellsboro, "Ness- 

 muk's" home, have generously undertaken to provide the 

 natural boulder, Avhich will form a part of the memorial 

 of Mr. Sears. The total sum subscribed to date is $221. 

 Those whose subscriptions have not been recorded are: 



Mr. a. Nelson Cheney, Glens Falls, N. Y. 



Mr. H. D. Leek, East St. Louis, 111. 



Dr. Geo. A. McMillen, Alton, 111. 



Mr. J. Wallace Hoff, Trenton, N. J. 



Mr. Eobt. M. Mackay, Philadelphia, Pa,. 



Mr. J. W. Hutchinson, Brookline, Mass. 



Mr. Arthur Wood, Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Mr. S. G. Hartman, Indiana, Pa. 



Mr. J. U. Gregory, of Quebec, has just reached New 

 York with the first robins, on his way back to Canada, 

 after a winter in Florida. The one thing that appears 

 most to have impressed him down there was a congrega- 

 tion of forty-nine field dogs baying the moon one night 

 in concert in the hotel yard in Tallahassee. That meant, 

 said Mr. Gregory, that there were forty-nine quail shoot- 

 ers in town; they had come from all parts of the country, 

 and they bagged quail by the hundreds. Tallahassee has 

 become a famous center for sportsmen visiting Florida. 



The enactment of a Maine law permitting the killing of 

 cow moose is a distinct retrogression. It is an accepted 

 principle among all who are intelligently and actively in- 

 terested in game jorotection that the parent stock of such 

 species may be maintained only by insuring immunity for 

 the females. By and by sportsmen, at least, will be edu- 

 cated to such a degree that they will find nothing to 

 boast of in the slaying of a cuw moose. The better senti- 

 ment is against it to-day. 



For the man who shoots, nothing in the world is more 

 vapid than a shooting story which is on the face of it a 

 lie, an invention, a silly exaggeration, an affirmation of 

 the impossible. But it is equally true that the man who 

 shoots, and who knows what queer things do happen with 

 guns and bullets, is of all men the readiest to believe a 

 story which is of unusual and perhaps unaccoimtable but 

 not impossible occm-rences. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 The Saranac River, in the Keene Valley, constituting 

 one of the most attractive and beautiful features of the 

 North Woods, is menaced by a scheme of vandals and 

 barbarians, whose feU purpose is to destroy its scenic 

 beauty by making a log drive of it. A bill in the New 

 York Senate, No. 559, makes provision that "The Ausable 

 River, including both the east and west branches above 

 the forks, is hereby declared to be, and is constituted a 

 pubUc highway for the purpose of floating logs, timber 

 and lumber down the same." To constitute this lovely 

 stream a highway for logs means that it will be dammed 

 here, blasted there, and ruined throughout its entire 

 coui'se. A Legislatm-e which has just enacted the Adhon- 

 dack forestry bill cannot without stultifying itseK give 

 over the beautiful Saranac to destruction and desolation 

 for the benefit of a few individuals against the advantage 

 of the community, present and future. 



Connecticut people living near Honey Pot Brook, in 

 South Meriden, are awaiting with decided interest the 

 coming of April 1, which wiU mark the opening of the 



The Gilbert bill to permit tlie sale of artificially reared 

 trout in close season came up in the Massachusetts Senate 

 last Tuesday, and was lost by a tie vote of 17 to 17. It is 

 feared by the friends of trout protection that a reconsid- 

 eration may be asked for. The measure is thoroughly 

 bad and we are astonished that seventeen votes should 

 have been cast for such a bill in the Senate of Massachu- 

 setts. 



Among the mounted specimens of American wild ani- 

 mals at the Worlds Fair will be a mountain lion, which 

 was recently killed in Washington. It measured 7ft. llin. 

 Where was our sprightly and ever entertaining cougar- 

 concj[uering and panther-prostrating correspondent, "O. 

 O. S.," with his handspike? 



Dr. W. A. Blaisdell, of Macomb, 111., is repeating his 

 attempts to introduce the chickoor from India as a game 

 bird for lUinois. The experiments will be regarded with 

 much interest. 



"Nessmuk's" famous little Rushton canoe the Sairy 

 Gamp will be shown in the Forest and Stream exhibit 

 in the Angling Pavilion of the Fisheries Building at the 

 World's Fair. 



Intelligent sportsmen of Tennessee are seeking to pro- 

 vide better game and fish xsrotection for the mountains 

 and vaUeys. The people at large are taking great interest 

 in the matter. 



