Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, f 4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copt. [ 

 Six Months, $2. ) 



NEW YORK, APRIL 27, 1893. 



j VOL. XL.— No. 17. 



I No. 318 Broadway, New Tork. 



Editorial. 



Last Year's Canada Fishing. 

 A Suggestion. 

 The Coming Weel£. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Dan vis Folks.— III. 

 Indians and the Big Game. — 11. 

 "Podgers's" Commentaries. 



Natural History. 



Audubon Monument Ceremonies 

 Maine's Vanisliing Game. 

 The Devil of the Woods. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Quail in Pennsylvania. 



With a Youngster in the Woods. 



Turkey Hvmting in Middle 

 Georgia. 



Pattern and Penetration Again, 



Business With a Bear. 



Accidents With Firearms. 



The One Bu-d Always Remem- 

 bered. 



A Massachusetts Law. 



Notable Shots. -IX. 



Chicago and the West. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Large-Mouth and Small-Mouth. 



Oh ttie North Shore —I. 



Chicago and the West. 



St. Louis Notes. 



The "B. A. Scott" Fly. 



CONTENTS. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Fishing Season in Canada. 

 Fi-og-Casting for Bass. 



The Kennel. 



Where is the Coclcer as a Work- 

 ing Dog. 

 Beagle Type. 

 Our Bulldog Pictures. 

 Judging Great Danes. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Flaps from the Beaver ''s Tail. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Yachting. 

 The Barr Brothers as Citizens. 

 Measurement About Boston. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



A Canoeing Episode. 

 Mahn-a-AVauk C. C. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Ireland vs. Scotland. 

 Bevolver Shooting in England. 

 Convention of Riflemen. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



New Jersey State League. 

 Whitehouse GJun Club. 

 Shooting at Wai^sononock Par)<. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Answers to Queries. 



On and after May 1 the Western office of Forest 

 and Stream Pub. Co. will be permanently located 

 at 909 Security Building, cor. Fifth avenue and 

 Madison street, Chicago. 



THE COMING WEEK. 



As WE write there sounds in our ears the booming of 

 lieavy artillery down the Bay. The caravels, modeled 

 after the frail barks in which Columbus crossed the ocean, 

 and the war ships which, to-day, Avill take part in the 

 naval parade near this city, are arriving, and the great 

 guns of the forts at the Narrows are belching forth their 

 salutations to the navies of many nations. 



Before another week shall have passed and another issue 

 of ; Forest and Stream have met the reader's eye, the 

 great Fair, which for more than a year has occupied so 

 large a share of the world's attention, will have been 

 opened by President Cleveland and will be in fuU operation. 



The occasion is a momentous one, and to all the nations 

 of the earth it has a profound significance. Here on this 

 soil, first made known fom- hundred years ago, the ijoor 

 and th©fsuff<?ring of all races have been made Welcome 

 and have found a home. The broad fields and forests 

 which stretch from ocean to ocean and from the Great 

 Lakes to the (lulf, feed, clothe and shelter by their 

 products not only the sixty millions of om- own people, 

 but also a considerable portion of the civilized world. 



The' United States now extends to visitors from all the 

 nations of the world a welcome to her shores — a welcome 

 never equalled for its magnificence audits cordial earnest- 

 ness. The youngest of the nations, proud of the achieve- 

 ments of its short life, has something of the enthusiasm of 

 youth as it stretches out its hand to the older peoples of 

 the globe. 



The fair at Cliicago will attract to that great city a vast 

 multitude of visitors from all quarters of the globe, but 

 of these by far the greater portion wfil be our own people, 

 and among them will be many thousands of the readers 

 of Forest and Stream. Such visitors will natiu-ally turn 

 with especial interest to the exhibits which have to do 

 with the form of sport of which they are especially fond, 

 and in these departments they will find much that will 

 interest them. The manufacturers of guns, ammunition, 

 fisliing tackle, boats and canoes will all be glad to show 

 their most improved implements and inventions; the 

 Forest and Stream's exhibit in the Anglers' PaviUon will 

 display a remarkably interesting selection of sportsmen's 

 literature, and in the Boone and Crockett Club Htinters' 

 Cabin will be found a typical Rocky Mountain hunter's 

 home presided over by an old-time mountain man. 



> A SUGGESTION. 

 With the advancing spring comes the opening of the 

 boating and the fishing season, and those who have not 

 done so, are looking to their tackle and to the equipments 

 of their boats and getting them in shape for use during 

 the warm weather. 



In thus renewing their outfit they must apply to the 

 manufacturers and dealers of such goods, whose advertise- 

 ments are to be found in om- columns. In these days a 

 newspaper would look very oddly which did not have any 

 advertisements in it, and in these departments of out- 

 door sports, as well as in othera. Forest and Stream has 

 a goodly list of advertisers. 



To the best of our knowledge these dealers are all re- 

 liable as regards the articles they have for sale and honest 

 in their business methods. Our advertising columns are 

 never open to any we have reason to distrust. We be- 

 lieve this list to be the best and most complete to be found 

 anywhere, and we are told that it is often consulted by 

 others than our regular subscribers as giving the fullest 

 information to be had anywhere in regard to the special- 

 ties named. We feel sure that all who are in need of the 

 articles advertised can thus have their wants supplied in 

 the most satisfactory manner and at as sUght a cost as is 

 commensurate with the quahty of the goods. 



We know that the majority of otu- readers are in tovich 

 with our advertisers, and this friendly relation should be 

 extended as much as possible, for this is for the manifest 

 vantage of both buyer and seller. A considerable 

 portion of our readers, however, five at a distance from 

 the centers where the finer grades of sportsmen's goods 

 can be obtained and must of necessity send long distances 

 to secure them, while many articles of the highest merit 

 can be bought from only one or two supply points. 



In writing to advertisers this caution is to be suggested. 

 As a rule dealers are willing and glad to answer questions 

 put to them by persons wishing a closer knowledge of 

 their wares than can be obtained from an advertisement, 

 but these dealers are always busy men, whose time is val- 

 uable, and they should not be troubled by unnecessary or 

 foolish questions. 



He who consults an advertiser, therefore, should make 

 his letters brief and to the point, asking his questions so 

 that they wiU. be undei-stood and if possible so that they 

 can be concisely answered. In reply he will be likely to 

 receive just the information he desires. 



AXL ornithologists, and aU bird lovers, whether they be 

 ornithologists or not, Avill feel gratified that the Audubon 

 monument has been completed. The family portraits 

 which accompany our accoimt of the dedication cere- 

 monies will interest many of our readers, but of even 

 greater value are the reproductions of the early drawings 

 of the naturalist. These, with the plate engraved from 

 his gi-eat work, mark thi-ee stages of the artist's develop- 

 ment and show the steps which led from attempts more 

 ur less rude up to the erfectioh of art seen in the "Birds 

 of America," . 



eye is better known to Forest and Stream readers as the 

 toothed herring. Manitoba fish have been destroyed in 

 large numbers in the drains connecting swamp lands with 

 Lake Manitoba. The fish ascend the channels when the 

 waters are high, and when the flood subsides they are 

 left to decay on the meadows. Screens are to be con- 

 stmcted at the mouths of the drains to prevent the ascent 

 of fish. 



In many lakes of the Northwest Territories, according 

 to Inspector Gilchrist, fish were slaughtered in immense 

 numbers. The fishery overseers were few, the means of 

 travel limited to horses, and the distances to be traversed 

 are great. Assistance will be given in future by the 

 mounted police as special guardians. During September 

 and October trout are killed in incredible numbers, and now 

 that the streams between Calgary and Kootenay Eiver 

 are accessible by rail, it is highly probable that these 

 streams will soon be as barren of trout as Bow River is 

 now. Hmidreds of fine trout were left to rot on the banks 

 of Old Man's and Kootenay rivers diuing the season by 

 so-called sportsmen who fished for count. Even the 

 fingerlings of the small mountain streams fell into the 

 hands of the human sharks. 



It seems as if Satan and all his emissaries had con- 

 spired to exterminate the salmon wherever it is known. 

 Inspector John McNab visited Section Lake, in British 

 Columbia, to investigate the alleged killing of baby salmon 

 by the Indians of the locality. He found that during the 

 migration of the young fish from the lake to the river, 

 on their way to the sea, they are caught in traps and 

 wicker baskets in immense quantities. We have verified 

 this statement, as some of the captured fish were sent to 

 a representative of Forest and Stream for identification. 

 They were chiefly the red salmon or blueback, the most 

 important kind in Fraser River, 



In that region the offal from the canneries and the rt* 

 fuse from saw mills are vexing the souls of the guardians 

 of salmon. Truly these noble fish have a bitter struggle 

 for existence, and unless the power of the law is enforced 

 in their behalf, the waters that now teem with them will 

 soon fall ifiio the category of Ashless rivers. 



LAST YEARS CANADA FISHING. 



The Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Department of 

 Marine and Fisheries of Canada, presents some interesting 

 facts concerning the fishing during 1893. 



On Cape Breton Island the rivers yielded very little sport 

 in the first part of the season owing to the drought in July. 

 Salmon were plentiful in the sea adjacent to the river 

 mouths, but the streams were low and the fish entered 

 them in very small numbers. For tlie same reason the 

 trout fishing was poor and the anglers were sadly disap- 

 pointed. 



A change was made in the system of employing fish 

 wardens. Special guardians are engaged temporarily at 

 times when their services are needed, and the pei-manent 

 force has been dispensed with. The wardens devote a 

 portion of their time to patrolling their disti-ic s and make 

 weekly reports. The cost of protection has been reduced 

 by this means and the plan so far has proved satisfactory. 



In the Nova Scotia district, comprising the counties of 

 Cumberland, Colchester, Pictou, Antigonish, Guys- 

 borough, Halifax and Hants, salmon were reported more 

 numerous than for several years past, both in the fishing 

 season and the spawning time. 



The New Brunswick trout brooks and lakes were visited 

 by many sportsmen and no dechne in the number of fish 

 was observed. Salmon were found to have mcreased 

 moderately in Charlotte county. The run in the St. Croix 

 River was larger than usual, and many salmon passed 

 through the Magaguadavic fishways into the streams 

 above. 



In Quebec the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 between Moisie and Godbout, attracted the greatest num- 

 ber of salmon, this region appearing to be favorite groimd. 



In 1892, for the fii-st time, a close season was estab- 

 lished in Manitoba for tullibee, goldeyes, pike, mullets 

 and muscalonge. TuUibee (a kind of whiteflsh) are pro 

 tected from Oct. 5 to Dec. 15, and the rest from April 15 

 to May 15. These close seasons are supposed to corres- 

 pond with the spawning seasons of [the fish. The gold- 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 In another column we print a most extraordinary state- 

 ment of a surreptitious change made in a game bUl before 

 the Colorado Legislature. A single letter in the biU is 

 said to have been altered, and so the whole purpose of the 

 act was defeated. This seems hardly credible, but if it is 

 true, the Colorado Legislature stands in great need of 

 looking after by the many good and true sportsmen and 

 game XJi'Otectors resident in that great and growing State. 

 There is no doubt that public sentiment in Colorado is 

 earnestly in favor of wise game laws properly enforced, 

 but this sentiment must manifest itself beyond the possibil- 

 ity of a mistake, before the butchers and game and fish hogs 

 -will cease theii* efforts at tampering with the laws, Col- 

 orado enjoys the rai-e distinction of having still a few 

 buffalo running wfld within her borders and her rough 

 mountains and tangled forests stfil shelter moimtain sheep, 

 elk and deer in numbers. Her citizens cannot afford to 

 see this game destroyed in season and. out of season 

 through tlie miserable selfishness of butchers and skin 

 hunters. 



The Wisconsin Commissioners of Fisheries have fallen 

 into line with a protest against permission being granted 

 jDersons who receive fish from the State to create preserves 

 and refuse to permit the iDubhc access to the waters in 

 which the fish have been planted at public expense. 

 They recommend ' ' the repeal of the law which enables 

 persons to have a monopoly of streams stocked by the 

 State." 



The Chattanooga Times is deserving of generous credit 

 for its services in securing much needed protection for the 

 deer of Tennessee mountains. Early in the session of the 

 Legislatm-e it began an agitation for a better law than the 

 old one, and under the leadership of the Times a biU. to 

 that effect has been made law, notwithstanding the 

 vigorous opposition of the moonshiner elements. 



No game or fish bills of any very general interest be- 

 came laws in this State during the last session of the 

 Legislature, but a number of amendments to the forestry, 

 game and fish laws were introduced, and some of these 

 passed and received the Governor's signature. We shall 

 give an abstract of these in a short time. 



