pOREST AND STREAM. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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

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NEW YORK, JUNE 1, 1893. 



1 VOL. XL — No. 23. 



I No. 318 Broadway, New York. 



Editorial. 



Mr. MarzlufC's Trout. 

 Sick Bed and Trout Brook. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Danvis Folks.— ti. 

 Buliwhacking in Buffalo Days. 

 The Snakes of Linkville. 

 The Gunpowder River. 

 "Dldymus" and his Nightmare. 



Natural History. 



A Habit of the Robin. 

 Jaguar, Owl and Skunk. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



The Southprn Quail's Hard Lot. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Carrying Guns in Close Season. 

 ■ Forest and Stream in the World s 

 Fair. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



On the North Shore — vi. 

 Anglers on Canadian Waters. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Trout Fishing in Nebraska. 

 The Kingijshers in Canada. 

 Angling Notes. 

 The Blarzluff Case. 

 Trout in Connecticut. 

 Boston and Maine. 



CONTENTS. 



Fishculture. 



American F'sheries Society. 

 The Kennel. 



San Francisco Dog Show. 



Yonkers Dog Show. 

 American Pet D^g Club's Show. 

 Flaps from the Beaver's Tail. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 'Vachting. 

 The Alterations to Navahoe. 

 3Iarietta. 



The Racing Season Abroad. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Year Book. 

 Red Dragon C. C. 

 Mahn-a-Wauks. 

 News Notes. 

 Rifle Range and Gallery. 

 Rifle Club Doings. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



Missouri State Shoot. 

 KnoxvUle Tournament. 

 New Jersey State League. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries. 



Fffr Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 487. 



THE COMING YACHTING SEASON. 

 The visit of Novahoe to British waters to contest the 

 ownership of three cups, together with another trial for 

 the America's Cup on the part of a new challenger, 

 Valkyrie II., brings the yachtsmen of America and Great 

 Britain into closer relationship than they have ever known 

 in the past, and tends to make the coming racing season 

 one of unusual interest. On the other side the racing 

 has already begun, and three of the four new 80-foot- 

 ers, Valkyrie, Britannia and Calluna, have met. On 

 this side the racing will not begin for a couple of 

 weeks, and even then it will at first amount to little, as 

 none of the new Cup defenders will be ready in season 

 for the June regattas, and yachtsmen must wait 

 with what degree of patience they can command until 

 the August cruise for a view of the complete quartette. 

 In the smaller classes comparatively little sport is prom- 

 ised, as but three racing yachts have been built this year, 

 the MaxweU schooner Emerald, the 46-footer Carmita and 

 the 25-footer Folly. 



Thus far the promise of sport in the local regattas is 

 below the average, but on the other hand the racing of the 

 four new Cup defenders will make noble sport for aU who 

 are fortunate enough to witness it. Outside of racing, 

 the season promises to be an exceedingly Uvely and active 

 one, a very large number of yachts is fitting out, and on 

 the whole a very prosperous yachting season may be 

 looked for. 



MR. MAEZLTJFF'S TROUT. 

 TheMarzluff trout case, as reported by Mr. A. N. Cheney 

 in our fishing columns, is one which appears to deserve 

 the further attention of the Fish Commissioners of this 

 State. 



Mr. Marzluff is a Glens Falls merchant, who has shown 

 much ingenuity by contriving to violate the trout law in 

 four different ways at once. He took a lot of trout under 

 size, on Sunday, with nets, it is alleged, and used them 

 for stockmg private waters. He was found out, and the 

 district protector entered suit against him to recover the 

 penalties accruing from tlie forbidden transfer of fish 

 from public to private waters. The case of the people 

 was well sustained by evidence, and there was nothing 

 left for Ml-. Marzlufl: but to pay his fine, or such portion 

 of it as the authorities might insist upon; but just at this 

 jmicture the Commissioners of Fisheries came to his relief 

 with a resolution recommending that the case be settled 

 without cost to the defendant; and by du-ection of fish 

 commissioner Robert Hamilton the suit was discontinued- 

 Mr. Cheney ascribes to the Commissioners as a motive 

 for their coming to the relief of Mr. Marzluff an tmdue 

 consideration for that gentleman because he is a man of 

 means; and we understand that this is one of the two ex- 

 planations of their action, which are commonly accepted 

 in Glens Falls, where the facts of the MarzluJi case are 

 well known and have given rise to much unfavorable 

 criticism. It is extremely improbable that the Commis- 

 sioners were influenced in this case, or would be influ- 

 enced in any other case, by a regard for the financial 

 standing of a person charged with violating the game 

 laws. The second theory adopted in the neighborhood is 

 that Mr. Marzluff owed his immunity from punisliment 



to the friendly ofiices of Commissioner Hamilton, who 

 showed himself unduly interested in the Glens Falls mer- 

 chant both before and after the action of the board. This 

 theory may or may not be more tenable than the other. 

 Both may be alike without reasonable foundation in 

 fact. Nevertheless both are held in Warren county to- 

 day, and just because they are current there and are 

 working decided harm to the cause of fish and game pro- 

 tection, they should be corrected and conteracted by some 

 explanation of the reasonable ground, if such existed, 

 upon which the board's action was taken. Or if it should 

 develop, as we believe might be shown, that the Commis- 

 sioners were misled regarding the facts of the Marzluff 

 suit, the case would appear to be one to which they 

 might well give further attention. 



If the cu-cumstances are substantially as detailed by 

 our correspondent, and if it is not already too late to 

 revive the action, the Marzluff suit should be continued, 

 and the defendant compelled to prove his innocence or to 

 suffer the penalty. The law must be vindicated; on the 

 showing made in the bill of complaint there cannot be 

 vindication "without cost to the defendant." The pay- 

 ment of his fine by Mr. Marzluff is an exceedingly small 

 matter to him compared with the effects on protection of 

 the current opinion his immunity has created in Warren 

 county, that the fish laws are not intended to apply to a 

 rich man nor to a man with a "pull." The Commissioners 

 of Fisheries can do no more important service for fish 

 protection in the seventeenth district than they may do 

 by removing all ground for criticism of their resolution 

 of April 17. 



SICK BED AND TROUT BROOK. 

 When in "Nessmuk's" youth the physicians assured him 

 that he had not long to live, he "took to the woods" for 

 very life, and with the healing and the strength and the 

 endurance there gained outlived the doctors. All that 

 ' 'Nessmuk" ever learned of the secrets of the forest, all 

 that he ever become as a master of woodcraft, he owed 

 to this flight into the wilderness for very hfe. What is 

 true of Mm is true of countless others. It is a curious fact 

 that so many men who are now enthusiastic fishermen 

 never knew anything of the pleasures of angUng tmtil 

 they had fallen sick and a woods vacation was prescribed 

 as medicine for their healuig. Not only this, but just 

 reflect that there are thousands of other people, veritable 

 slaves to business and daily routine, who will go aU their 

 lives without ever knowing the first blessed thing about 

 that delightful combination of rod and line and a fish in 

 the water unless they shall be so fortimate as to fall sick 

 and have a fishing trip prescribed to them by the family 

 physician. 



Once the charm of an outing has been experienced, 

 however, straightway your drudge develops into a devotee 

 of fishing, and when the time comes around he waits not 

 for the doctor's order— in fact from the day he became an 

 angler he has done away with the doctor. The transfor- 

 mation is more than of physical condition; with the 

 knowledge of the dehghts of fishing has come an accession 

 of common sense in business methods. He has found out 

 the meaning of the adage all work and no play makes 

 Jack a dull boy; he knows now that he can do more work 

 and better work in eleven months than he used to do in 

 twelve; he understands that the dynamic force expended 

 in a year relieved by a woods vacation exceeds that of an 

 all-the-year-around drive and grind. While once, in Ms 

 state of foolishness he imagined that he could not afford 

 to "let up" for a single day to go fishing, now you may 

 find him planning for a week, or a fortnight, or a month, 

 in the woods. Perhaps he has a permanent camp there 

 possibly a cottage, where the whole family may join in 

 the fun. 



To go through life with our eyes blinded to the beauties 

 of the fields, our ears unused to the rush of trout brooks, 

 our nostrils closed to the scents and perfumes of the woods, 

 this is to ignore the bounties of the creator and to ptmish 

 ourselves by the ignoring." The earth was given for the en- 

 joyment of man. Why is it not man's duty to enjoy it? 

 There is opportunity for a lay sermon here, or perhaps for 

 a real sermon from the pulpit; one that might be preached 

 with sympathy and understanding and conviction and 

 power by many a "fishing parson." 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 In his note the other day respecting the Maine fish and 

 game preserves, Commissioner Stanley alluded to the 

 Grindstone Pond decision as establishing that waters of 

 an area exceeding ten acres are free to the public for 

 fishing and may not be controlled by individuals or clubs. 

 This is quite true; nevertheless the preserve people find no 

 difficulty in keeping the public out. This is effected in a 

 variety of ways; by pre-empting desirable camping sites; 

 by recourse to the fire law, which forbids building camp- 

 fires without permission; and by maintaining a force of 

 wardens who warn off strangers and make them uncom- 

 fortable by feeling themselves to be intruders and tres- 

 passers even if they are not such in reality. In this way, 

 the clubs have succeeded in keeping other folks out of 

 their waters; and it is likely that the system will grow in 

 Maine as it is growing everywhere else with giant strides. 



The panther's scream and the snake's hiss and the 

 woodcock's whistle having been considered, now comes 

 the coyote's howl. A San Diego poetess recently sang: 

 "The shadowy, gray coyote, born afraid. 

 Steals to some brackish spring, and laps and prowls 

 Away, and howls and howls, and howls and howls. 

 Until the solitude is shaken with an added loneliness." 

 Thereupon there arose and has continued an agitated 

 and prolix controversy between the Howlers, who con- 

 tend that one of the coyote's cries is a howl, and the 

 Barkers, who aver that the creature always barks and 

 never howls. The latter faction is clearly in error. The 

 coyote barks and howls, and wails and whines, and 

 shrieks and moans, and gurgles and stutters, and grunts 

 and groans, and utters a thousand fantastic and horrible 

 sounds by night for what the language affords no char- 

 acterization. 



August 9 next will be the tercentenary of the birth of 

 Isaak Walton. From the London Fishing Gazette it is 

 learned that the anglers of Great Britain are considering 

 the project of celebrating the occasion in some suitable 

 manner. One proposal is that some hundreds of repre- 

 sentatives of the fishing clubs throughout the kingdom 

 shall gather at Stafford, Walton's birthplace, for a fes- 

 tival, and it is said that the Mayor and Council of Stafford 

 are preparing for something of the kind. The recogni- 

 tion should not be confined to Great Britain; the anglers 

 of America should celebrate the event in some fitting 

 way. If the Isaak Walton and Charles Cotton fishing 

 house shall be completed at the AVoiid's Fair that would 

 be the place for it. 



The Maine non-resident taxing proposition was based 

 on the reasonable contention that those who visit the State 

 for sport should contribute something directly toward the 

 expenses of maintaining the game and fish supply. The 

 accomplishment of this purpose has been set about in a 

 much more sensible manner by the newly organized 

 Maine Association, whose plans and purposeshave already 

 been noted. TMs is a voluntary organization, which 

 seeks to increase the supply of fish by estabhshing and 

 operating hatcheries, and to increase the game supply by- 

 assisting in its protection. The association invites the 

 active co-operation of visitors and their practical help in 

 the way of funds. Secretary E. G. Farrington tells us that 

 this appeal for help from outsiders has been well received. 



That is an old but suggestive story of the servant who 

 knew nothing about starting the moi-ning fire with kero- 

 sene, until she was warned by her mistress never to do it; 

 and the next morning blew up the house. There is to be . 

 a sportsman's exhibition in the Crystal Palace, London, 

 this month; and a class has been made for poaching 

 methods and devices. This of course would prove highly 

 instructive and suggestive to the poacher; and we do not 

 wonder that the proposed display of unlawful implements 

 and school of instruction in ways that are dark and tricks 

 that are mean have aroused merited opposition. 



Secretary E. P. Doyle has laid out a pleasing programme 

 for the Eastern members of the American Fisheries 

 Society for their visit to CMcago on the occasion of the 

 meeting of the Society, a fortnight hence. The details of 

 thp excursion are given in our fishing columns. 



The good old fashion of kegging brook trout has fallen 

 into disfavor. It used to be considered quite the thing 

 for the fisherman, who found trout abundant, to salt 

 down kegs of them for sending out to his friends, that 

 the folks at home might share his luck. The custom has 

 been given over by most fishermen who go into the woods 

 for an outing, but Maine residents still practice it exten- 

 sively, though in dimiiushing extent. 



