Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $4 a Yeab. 10 Cts. a Copy. I 

 Six Months, $2. j 



NEW YORK, JUNE 15, 1893. 



J VOL. XL.-No. £4. 



1 No. 318 Broadway, New York. 





More About Advertising. 

 A Thousand lYout. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



The Trout of the Mountain 



Stream (poetry). 

 In the Land of the Kalispells. 

 Danvis Folks.— VII. 



Natural History. 



Turtles on the Gulf Beach. 

 Wild Birds in the Fair Grounds. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Ducking on the Muddy Missis- 

 sippi. 



Forest and Stream in the World s 

 Fair. 



About the Preserve System. 

 Sea and River Fishing. 



Boston Eods in Maine Waters. 

 On the North Shore — viii. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Spring Fishing in Northern 



Canada. 

 Black Lake. 



Forest and Stream Fishing 

 Postals. 



CONTENTS. 



The Kennel. 



The A. K. C. Management. 

 Wissahickon Dog Show. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Yachting. 

 Events and Couj-ses of i 



British Season. 

 Atlantic Y. C. Regatta. 

 Atlantic Y. C. Dinner. 



Opening Regattas. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



Atlantic Division Meet. 

 Eastern Division Meet. 

 New York C. C. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Revolver Championship. 

 National Schuetzen Bund. 

 Rifle Club Doings. 



Trap Shooting. 



Anaconda Tournament. 

 D inois State Tournament. 

 Nebraska State. 

 Drivers and Twisterg. 



Answers to Queries. 



J^or Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page 533. 



MORE ABOUT ADVERTISING. 



"The old Tennessee seems to have subsided," ventured 

 the stranger, looking out over Chattanooga from the 

 point of Lookout Mountain. 



''Yes, she gone down, some," was the reply, "but just 

 wait for the back-water. There'll be a big rise yet." 



When the Fobest and Stream advertising flood reached 

 high-water mark the other day we accepted the foregone 

 conclusion that the "back-water" when it came would 

 overflow the record limits. Here it is to-day. Look 

 through the pages of announcements. They are a sub- 

 stantial indication of the substantial condition of all the 

 various interests represented. They demonstrate by the 

 very best and most practical method in the world that the 

 Forest and Stream is the recognized and accepted 

 medium chosen by sportsman supply dealers to rea'ch 

 the sportsman buyer. 



With the advertising ' 'back-water" has come a volume 

 of news, the proper presentation of which has comijelled 

 us to add four extra pages. The purchaser who asks for 

 the Forest and Stream at his news-stand may always 

 feel assured that he is getting the best sportsman's news- 

 paper, as well as the one carrying the largest amount of 

 interesting, readable and bona fide paid advertising. 



THE GAIIE PRESERVE SYSTEM. 



Two VIEWS of the growing game preserve system are 

 given in our shooting columns. The subject is one upon 

 which many people are thinking very seriously just now. 

 To encounter a trespass sign newly set u^i on the familiar 

 brook where for years one has fished with none to say 

 him nay, is exasperating; and the heart beats faster with 

 a sense of outrage at sight of the staring notice with its 

 threat of the law. ITnder stress of feeling then provoked 

 one is apt to talk about the time-honored privileges which 

 have coine to be regarded as rights; and to denounce the 

 preserve people as selfish and over-riding the liberty of 

 others. 



Those who are opposed to the preserves are not likely 

 to find in legislation any aid to withstand the growth of 

 the system. The preserve is based on the trespass law. 

 The owner or lessee of a quail-producing field has pre- 

 cisely the same legal right to keep people out of that field 

 as tliat which he has to keep tbem out of his a^jple 

 orchard. The stranger has no more privilege in law to 

 invade one field than he has to invade the other. 



■Moreover, the trespass rules as applied to fish and game 

 preserves are becoming more rigid year by year. In New 

 York the law has been so amended as to constitute tres- 

 j)ass on inclosed game preserves a misdemeanor, and in 

 addition the trespasser is subject to a fine of from $15 to 

 $20. On the other hand the requirements as to bound- 

 aries of inclosed lands have been lightened; "inclosed 

 l^nds" are defined to mean any lands whose boundaries 

 are marked "by water, by a wire, ditch, hedge or fence, 

 road or highway, or partially by one or more of said 



means, or any visible inclosure or distinctive boundary 

 which mdicates separation from the surrounding or con- 

 tiguous territory of whatever nature." An examination 

 of the records of recent enactments in the various States 

 will show that the whole trend of legislation is in the 

 direction of guarding more closely the privileges of those 

 who control shooting and fishing preserves. 



Nor is much to be accomplished by appealing to the 

 preservers on the ground of anything they as individu- 

 als owe to the public. The average man who can se- 

 cure for himself a sure supply of game and fish will do 

 this, whether Tom, Dick and Harry, to him unknown, 

 have their fishing or shooting or are obliged to go with- 

 out it. That is human nature. 



What, then, shall be the solution of the problem of 

 providing fishing and shooting opportunities for all when 

 the best of those opportunities are absorbed by the few? 



The problem has already been solved, in a measure, at 

 least, with respect to fishing, by the Onondaga Anglers' 

 Association, of Syracuse, in this State. To be sure the 

 association has not wrested any fish preserves from their 

 proprietors and restored them to the public; but it has 

 demonstrated the possibility of stocking public waters 

 and protecting them against net and unseasonable fishing, 

 and of so conserving the supply that there shall be fishing 

 for all. 



THE NATIONAL CONVENTION DELUSION. 

 The ambitious scheme of a grand national sportsmen's 

 convention for the protection of the game and fish of this 

 whole blessed country is one of those enticing delusions 

 which hold sway for brief periods at irregular intervals, 

 their recurrence being governed perhaps by the spots on 

 the sun. The project of a national convention to be held 

 in Chicago this summer in connection with the World's 

 Fair has been discussed for several months in a vague 

 way; but nobody has ever given us any light on what 

 practical purpose was to be served by the meeting, and of 

 late the plan appears to have been lost sight of. It was 

 revived in the annual meeting of the Illinois State Sports- 

 men's Association in Chicago last week, when a commit- 

 tee was appointed to devise means for calling "a national 

 convention of sportsmen for the purpose of securing 

 throughout the different States reasonable and consistent 

 laws for the protection of game." 



The most illuminating, suggestive and instructive com- 

 ment it were possible to offer on this project was embodied 

 in a statement which had been made just previously in 

 the same meeting by a member of the Illinois Association 

 Law Committee. Called upon to report to the members 

 on the legislative possibilities of the year at Springfield, 

 he said that the year had been one of loss and not of gain 

 for game protection. The query naturally presents itself 

 to the man of average intelligence, who can see a reason- 

 able distance beyond his nose, how do the sportsmen of 

 Illinois, who have proved themselves powerless to with- 

 stand a loss for game protection in their own one single 

 State, propose to set to work to take care of game jjrotec- 

 tion in the fifty odd other States and Territories? Or how 

 do they hope to receive aid from the others to control 

 legislative action at Springfield? 



If the Illinois Legislatitre will not listen to Illinois 

 sportsmen, there is little likelihood of its giving heed 

 to national convention delegates from New Hampshire 

 and Utah. The truth as declared by common sense and 

 demonstrated by experience is that efficient game and 

 fish protection in any one of these fifty odd States and 

 Territories must be achieved, if at all, by the citizens of 

 that State. Where home effort and influence fail, so- 

 called national action will avail not a whit. It never 

 has; in the nature of things it never can. If the sports- 

 men of Illinois or of Oregon or New York, Pennsylva- 

 nia or any other State cannot take care of their own 

 home interests by the machinery of their own State or- 

 ganizations, they need not aspire to regulate the whole 

 cormtry, nor need they hope to find any cure-all magic 

 in the Be it resolved of a national convention. Fifty 

 years of such gatherings will not save a single prairie 

 chicken in Illinois nor a single caribou in Maine nor a 

 single blue grouse hooting in a pine tree in Oregon. 



The last national sportsmen's convention, built on am- 

 bitious lines, was held in St, Louis some five or six years 

 ago. The only tangible result of it was a huge list of 

 names of sportsmen living in diflierent parts of the 



country. These had been collected by the promoters 

 of the scheme, and afterwards copies of them were 

 peddled about to folks who wanted to mail circulars. For 

 a long time subsequently the fortunate individuals whose 

 names were on the list were in receipt of circulars of new 

 gun wads and cartridge belts and patent mange cures; 

 possibly they are getting them yet. 



A THOUSAND TROUT. 

 ACC0RDINC4 to a statement in one of our "Fishing 

 Postals," four men who fished four days in the vicinity of 

 Bloomingburg, in Sullivan county, N. Y., took h thousand 

 trout. If these fish were all of the lawful size, and if 

 there were a thousand more left for the next four men 

 ambitious to make such a score in such a time, and a 

 third thousand for the next two count fishermen, and yet 

 other thousands for the succeeding anglers of 1898, and 

 of the years to come — this Bloomingburg record would 

 be something of which the men who delight to 

 measure their success by numbers, might be justly 

 proud. Their satisfaction indeed might be second only 

 to that of the heroes of the Kekoskee bullhead perform- 

 ance, who carted their fish away by the wagon load; and 

 the trout scorers might reasonably enough claim that they 

 were entitled to a handicap of some sort, for while the 

 Kekoskee bullheaders pitchforked their fish, the trouters 

 were obliged to catch theirs one by one. 



It is reasonable to recognize a diversity of tastes with 

 respect to trout fishing. Some fisliermen measure their 

 pleasure by the number scored. Others, as in the case 

 related in our Boston correspondence to-day, by the size 

 and strength of the fish caught and the skill and time 

 required to take it. With these many men of many 

 minds it would be foolish to quarrel, however much he 

 who enjoys one style of fishing may fail to appreciate the 

 claims of the other. 



But one thing is as clear as the sun at noontime. In 

 this day, when the number of anglers is multiplying out 

 of all proportion to the supply of fish, it behooves every 

 person interested in fishing to frown down and discourage 

 fishing for count in troiit brooks. Something is out of 

 gear, when two men can catch a thousand trout in four 

 days and make a boast of their achievement. The first 

 thought that flashes through one's mind is that such trout 

 fishermen are getting more than their share. One won- 

 ders what will be left for tho.=e who come along a little 

 later. There is precious little satisfaction for the late 

 comers in that old refrain, "You'd orter been here last 

 week; two sports catehed a thousand," 



The count-fishermen and the count-shooters have their 

 share to answer for in bringing dearth of fish and game. 

 Our entire system of sportsmanship in this respect ap- 

 pears to have been founded on a thoroughly bad senti- 

 ment in the beginning. Man's memory runs not to a 

 time when success with gun and rod w^as not measured 

 by pounds or linear feet. He who could catch the most 

 or slay more than his fellows was the hero. And he is 

 the hero to-day, or appears to believe that he is. The 

 sooner those who are laboring under such a delusion, shall 

 realize that there are better elements of enjoyment in the 

 field and with the rod, the sooner shall they come into the 

 inheritance of the true sportsman of to-day. 



SNAP SHOTS, 

 Our recent discussions of non-resident shooting and 

 fishing laws has found an echo in a resolution adopted by 

 the Illinois State Sportsmen's Association declaring the 

 conviction of the members that ' 'laws passed by State 

 legislation, which do not give to sportsmen of all States 

 the same privileges that are given to sportsmen in States 

 passing restrictive laws, are unwise, unfriendly and not 

 conducive to the best interests of game preservation." 



We are not very proud of the iUustration of the Forest 

 AJSfD Stream's rustic letter sign at the World's Fair, but 

 the sign itself is happy in conception, admirable in 

 execution, pleasing in efl'ect, and w^onderful, for like the 

 rod of Aaron it has budded. It is one of the neatt st 

 bits in the Angling Pavilion, 



When you visit the World's Fair do not miss the 

 Forest asd Stream's corner in the Angling Pavilion of 

 the Fisheries Building. It is just at the right of the aisle 

 at the entrance to the pavilion from the main_building. 



