Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, APRIL 13, 1893. 



j VOL. XL.— No. 15. 



( No. 318 Broadway, New Yobk. 





CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Let the Good Work Go On. 

 The Dear People. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Danvis Folks.— II. 



A Sporting Symposium. 



"Podgers's" Commentai-ies. 



Natural History. 



Chukor Partridges in Illinois. 

 The Mounting of Heads. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Among the Coots. 



Gossip from New Brunswiclf. 



The Wild Pigeon. 



A War-Time Shot. 



Experience with a Bay Lynx. 



Notable Shots.— Vn. 



Venison for a Change. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



My Chance Aquaintance.— in. 

 Angling Notes— The Pike. 

 Pennsylvania Association. 

 Bass in the Clackamas. 

 A Curious Trout Pond. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Wisconsin Trout Streams. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Boston and Maine. 



The Kennel. 



Boston Dog Show. 



Points and Flushes. 



Brunswick I<\ir Club. 



N. E. F. T. aub. '■ 



Maps from the Beaver's Tail. 



Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Yachting. 



House-Boats and House-Boat 

 Life. 



A Vacation Cruise. — IV. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



News Notes. 

 Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Rifle Notes. 

 Trap Shooting. . 



The Grand American Handicap. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Answers to Queries. 



J^or Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page VII. 



A TROUT LAW INTERPRETATION. 



The Attornej^-General of New York has just given an 

 opinion, which we beUeve to be an incorrect interpreta- 

 tion of the law in the case. It relates to the possession of 

 trout in close season. 



The statute of 1893 prescribes: Trout "shall not be 

 fished for, caught, killed or possessed between the 1st day 

 of September and the I5th day of April following, except 

 as provided by Section 166." 



Section 166 applies to Long Island and reads: '-Trout 

 shall not be fished for, caught, killed, sold or possessed 

 between the 1st day of Sei)tember and the 1st day of 

 April following." 



The law thus provides that trout may be taken and 

 possessed in the State only between Ajiril 15 and Sept. 1, 

 and on Long Island between April 1 and Sept. 1. But the 

 Attorney-General rules that trout caught on Long Island 

 in the open season for those counties ' 'may be lawfully 

 transported to any point within the State." 



This ruling appears to us to be in direct conflict with the 

 ruling interpretation of similar laws. By that interpreta- 

 tion the prohibition of trout in the general State close 

 season must apply to aU trout whether caught in the State 

 outside of Long Island or on Long Island or in other 

 States; and there appears to be no more ground for except- 

 ing Long Island trout than there would be for excejiting 

 New Jersey trout. 



LET THE GOOD WORK GO ON. 



Numerous congratulations have come to the Forest 

 AND Stream upon the final success of the prosecution of 

 Delmonico's restaurant concern in this city for the serving 

 of woodcock out of season. These welcome words are by 

 no means limited to New York State. Our ventilation of 

 this notorious case had made it one of widespread interest; 

 its progi-ess was watched by readers everywhere, and the 

 result has been received with widespread satisfaction. It 

 is to be hoped that the salutary lesson of the Delmonico 

 fine may be equally far-reaching. 



The demoralizing influences of the District Attorney's 

 delaying of this case have not been fully comprehended. 

 The Forest and Stream's activity in the affair has not 

 been in any sense a campaign against Delmonico person- 

 ally. Our determination to see him forced to pay the 

 penalty was based upon an aj)preciation of what immunity 

 for him would mean in both city and country. Other New 

 York restaurants, emboldened by the scandalous ignoring 

 of this suit by the pubhc prosecutor, were seUing game 

 out of season continually. They reasoned that if Del- 

 monico could go unpunished, they would go unpunished. 

 Again in the country, particularly in Protector Eadd's 

 district, it was coming to be said quite commonly, 

 and with a good show of reason, too, that while 

 some "poor devil" of a gi-ouse snarer or trout net- 

 ter would be punished fast enough, the protector 

 did not appear to do much with a rich and influen- 

 tial offender on Fifth avenue, New York. To silence 

 this vicious talk and to take away from offender's of aU 

 classes the defense they had in Delmonico's immunity 

 was the end sought. That payment of .$450 last week was 

 and is and will be an object lesson. It means that the 

 laws which are righteously enforced against the humblest 

 -ndividual are designed for all and will be righteously en- 



forced against all. It means that no one can have cause 

 to plead unjust discriminations. 



Now that the docket has been cleared of the Delmonico 

 case we trust that Protector Kidd will bring to early trial 

 the suits he has in preparation against other restaurant 

 proprietors in this city. Let the good work go on. 



*At the regular^monthly meeting of the New York (City) 

 Association for the Protection of Game, last Monday even- 

 ing, it was voted "That the thanks of this Association be 

 tendered to Dr. Willett Kidd and Col. Robt. Townsend for 

 the successful termination of the suit against C. Del- 

 monico." It will strike most persons who are familiar 

 with the pecuhar history of the Delmonico case that this 

 is an extraordinary expression to come from a game pro- 

 tective society. The thanks extended to Dr. Eadd are 

 weU deserved, and to tender him thanks is a becoming 

 recognition of his pluck and pertinacity and persistence 

 and perseverance. But Col. Townsend, the Assistant Dis- 

 trict Attorney , never did the first thing in connection with 

 the case to entitle him to thanks from a game protective 

 society nor from anybody else except the defendant Del- 

 monico. He persistently ignored his duty in the matter, 

 betrayed a scandalous ignorance of it, dilly-daUied and 

 shiUy-shaUied with it for months; finally took action only 

 when pushed and prodded into doing so, and at last 

 reached "the successful termination" much as a man tied 

 on the cowcatcher of the Empire State Express might 

 reach Buffalo. Now that a victory has been won for game 

 protection, no thanks are due the District Attorney's office, 

 and we fail to see what good end may be gained by gloss- 

 ing over the record made by that ofiice in the Delmonico 

 prosecution. 



THE DEAR PEOPLE. 

 Senator Arnold, of the Massachusetts Legislature, must 

 have curious notions about "sportsmen." In course of an 

 argument for the Gilbert trout bni the other day, ilr. 

 Arnold said: "We are here to legislate in the interest of 

 the people, and not in the interest of the sportsmen, who 

 can afford to expend its weight in gold for every trout 

 caught." The golden truth is that not one sportsman of 

 ten thousand who go fishing could afford to expend its 

 weight in gold for every trout he catches; and this talk 

 of Senatoi-s and lesser lights is the veriest bosh. No pub- 

 hc man who cares to be considered tolerably well informed 

 on matters of everyday observation should permit him- 

 self to prate of a diversity of ' 'interests" of ' 'sportsmen" 

 and "the people." . There is no such divei-sity. The 

 sportsmen are the people. Take the shooters and the fish- 

 ermen in any citj^ or village of the land and they will 

 prove to be ju-st as representative of the several classes oC 

 the community as are the first ten men you meet on the 

 streets going about their business. When you hear a man 

 haranguing about his sohcitude for the interests of the 

 people- as against the interests of sportsmen, you may put 

 it down either that he is ignorant of the facts or else tliat 

 under the guise of anxiety for the dear people he is en- 

 deavoring to promote the selfish interests of one or two 

 or at the most three individuals at the expense of the 

 community. And if ever such a man has a little bill in 

 the Legislatirre bearing on game or fish, the people will 

 do weU to watch it closely. 



If it is tnie that there are thousands of wealthy sports- 

 men who could afford any luxury obtainable with money 

 and who are never caUed upon to consider the item of ex- 

 pense in gratifying their tastes, it is equally true that 

 there are other thousands who are compelled to count the 

 cost of an outing very carefully, and must arrange and 

 plan to find time and money to go shooting and fishing. 

 We may not rightly put forward a representative of either 

 one of these two classes as the typical American sports- 

 man. As to the fuUness of the pocket-book there is no 

 typical American sportsman. 



But the important point to keep ever in mind, when as 

 representatives of the people we stand up in om- legisla- 

 tures to discuss game and fish bills is this— that the Amer- 

 ican sportsman of to-day who is least able to look out for 

 his interests as a sportsman, is the one of restricted finan- 

 cial resom-ces, and it is his interests, then, that must be 

 protected by legislation. He cannot, as does his wealthy 

 brother, put money into railroad fares and devote As^eeks 

 of time to expeditions to the end of the eai-th in quest of 

 sport. If he has any fishing at all it must be in home 

 watei-s. He cannot go five hundred miles, but he can go 



five miles. He cannot spend a week, but he can enjoy 

 fishing for a day or for a Saturday afternoon. No man 

 under the blue heaven enjoys it more than he. No one 

 is better entitled to enjoy it. No one has more at stake 

 in the protection of fish than he has — the protection of 

 fish in home waters. No one ought more promptly and 

 vigorously to oppose legislative measures granting special 

 privileges, the practical operation of which means the 

 destruction of fish in these home waters. No one ought 

 more emphatically to resent misrepresentation of himself 

 and his interests by leather-headed demagogues who 

 champion special privileges, in the name of the people, j 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 There is manifested a growing disposition to hmit the 

 public stocking of trout streams to public waters. We 

 spoke the other day of a Massachusetts law requiring as a 

 condition precedent to giving out trout fry a pledge that 

 the streams in which they are planted shall be open to the 

 public for fishing in the open season. A bill embodying a 

 similar requirement has been introduced at Albany. The 

 enforcement of such a rule would not necessarily mean 

 the throwing open of private waters; it would mean that 

 if individuals want their trout streams stocked for indi- 

 vidual benefit this must be done at individual expense. 



It is seldom that a single article in the Forest and 

 Stream appeals to so large a. number as of those who are 

 likely to follow with interest the descriptions of "House- 

 Boats and House-Boat Life" in this and the following 

 number. The aquatic "cranks," the yachtsman and the 

 canoeist will find hints and suggestions for future pleas- 

 ure afloat, and the camper and outer, the hunter, the 

 fisherman and the tourist are no less concerned in these 

 cheap, pleasant and convenient floating homes. The 

 house-boat, in one or another of its many forms, is 

 adapted to nearly all locahties in the United States, and 

 now that Americans are coming to a recognition of their 

 many advantages, these craft promise to become both 

 plentiful and popular. 



The Izaak Walton Fishing House has been accorded a 

 site near the Fisheries Building and is now in process of 

 construction. Capt. CoUins tells us that he hopes to have 

 it in readiaess for May 1 ; and he makes the neat sugges- 

 tion that it may look small alongside of the great structures 

 in Jackson Park, "but, estimated from the influence it will 

 exert in promoting good fellowship among men, and 

 serving as a shrine for anglers to gather in and around, in 

 all that it teaches us of the lasting reverence of humanity 

 for love and gentleness, and as a reminder of days spent 

 in delightful and healthful recreation, it will be to many 

 of us about the 'biggest thing' at the 'biggest show on 

 earth.' " 



A waiter in a New York restaurant, kept by one Bm-ns, 

 was arrested last week on a charge of having defrauded 

 his employer out of a considerable sum of money by 

 forged checks of customers. Now, this man Burns has 

 been carrying on a large business in iUicit game birds out 

 of season, serving them in open and brazen defiance of the 

 law. The inquiry is as pertinent here as in another case 

 cited by us not long ago. — Is it not asking too much of an 

 employe, who is made particeps criminis in an unlawful 

 business, that he shall be honest with his employer? 



The case brought a year ago against the cold storage 

 warehouse in this city for possession of game has been 

 compromised by the payment of a fine of $1,000. It will 

 be recalled that the cold storage people promised to test 

 the law by carrying the case up to the highest courts. 

 We said at the time that the law would stand the test. 

 Presumably the cold storage warehousemen have come 

 to the same conclusion. 



Contributions for the "Nessmuk" memorial fund have 

 been received from the following: 

 Mr. J. B. Davis, Ann Arbor, Mich. 

 Mr. Geo. Anderson, The Dalles, Ore. 

 Mr. R. S. Iredell, Akron, O. 

 Hermit, Gloucester, Mass. 

 Me. T. G. Dabney, Clarksdale, IMiss. 



The Audubon monument in Trinity Cemetery^ this city, 

 will be unveiled Wednesday afternoon, April 26. Prof. 

 Thomas Egleston will deliver an address at the unvefling; 

 and in the evening Mr. D. G. Elliott, ex-president of tluj 

 American Ornithologists' Union, will deliver an eulogy of 

 Audubon before the American Academy of Sciences. 



