June 15, ism.\ 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



Blooming Grove Park Trout. 



Chestnut Hill, Phila., June 8.— Editor Forest and 

 Stream: I think it would interest many of your readers 

 who are members of the Blooming Grove Park Associa- 

 tion, in Pike county. Pa,, to know the result of the trout 

 fishing in the streams owned by the club and in Lake 

 Giles, as shown by tlie records of the club. 



The season open April 1, and from this date to May 31, 

 inclusive, there were trout taken as f oUows : 



In Lake Giles 913; weight, <14Slbs; average w't, 7-Moz. 



In Blooming Qrora. 967; weight, 3a6',6lbs.; average w't, SSqOz. 

 In Shohola 787; weight, 240%lbs.; average w't, moz. 



Totals 2,066 IjOOa^'jelbs. av. about 6oz. 



In Lake Giles the fish were taken by 214 rods=2 iVbs. 

 per rod. In the Blooming Grove 69 rods=4|lbs. per rod. 

 And in the Shohola 46 rods=5Hbs. per rod. 



This is a remarkable showing for Pennsylvania stream 

 fishing for two montlis of the season. During June 

 larger fish will doubtless be taken by Aj'-'fishermen in the 

 open waters of the Shohola and Blooming Grove. 



Many baskets have been taken with bait from the 

 Upper Shohola weighing from 8 to lOWbs., for tlie limit 

 per rod 25 fish. 



It is true that the large fish were put in the streams 

 from the hatchery last March, but the fish are in fine con- 

 dition and afford good sport. Piscatoe.. 



A Large Chinook Salmon. 



A ROYAL Chinook salmon, weighing 821bs., was received 

 by President Myers of the World's Fair Commission 

 yesterday from Hapgood & Co., well-known Columbia 

 River cannerymen. This big fish, which Mr. Myers says 

 is the largest and finest specimen of its kind he has ever 

 seen, was taken from the Columbia River near Oak Point 

 by Henry Frischkorn early yesterday morning. It is ilit. 

 in length and measures 40in. in circumference. The 

 monster was at once shipped to Smith & Lovett, of Oregon 

 City, who have offered to freeze all fish for the World's 

 Fair free of charge. To encase this salmon it will take a 

 solid block of ice 6ft. in length, 30in. in width and 24in. 

 in thickness. By a slow freezing process the ice wUl be 

 kept clear as crystal and when the fish is ready for ship- 

 ment it wiU appear as fresh and beautiful in form and 

 color as when taken from the cold waters of the Colum- 

 bia. While on its way to Chicago, the big block of ice 

 will be encased in an air tight box, and carefully packed 

 in a freezing mixture. The express charges will be in 

 excess of $60 unless the railroads are willing to give re- 

 duced rates. It is safe to say that a more unique exhibit, 

 in the fisheries department at least, will not be found in 

 the whole of the "White City." — Portland Oregonian, 

 June 1. 



A Serviceable Fishing Boat. 



Ceotral Lake, Mich., June 1. — Editor Forest and 

 Stream: In ihe last instalment of "Kjngfisher's" notes on 

 our "Big Bass wood" trip, he makes mention of a small 

 boat which belonged to the family of our cook, and which 

 we used and found very satisfactory in a seaway. Mr. 

 Geo. F. Dyer recently wrote me that he wished to buUd 

 some boats on the same model, and as he had noticed that 

 the colonel and I were one day taking measurements of 

 this craft, he asked if I could send him the description. 

 This I did, and as it was a simyjly constructed and cheaply 

 made affair, though thoroughly serviceable, I have thought 

 that some of your readers might also like to have these 

 notes. They are as follows: Bow and stern posts 13in, ; 

 sides 13in., besides bottom board lin.: keel 4in. ; dead rise 

 6in. ; length over all 10ft. lOin. ; inside measure amidships: 

 Top 3ft. 4in. , bottom 2ft. Bin. Both ends sharp. 



KELPIE. 



Quebec Trout. 



Quebec, May 31. — I have had some days with trout 

 and recently killed some 241hs. of speckled charmers at 

 the camp of Mr. L. S. Odell, on Lake Edward. I expect 

 soon to visit our Tourilli Club, where there is fly-fishing 

 of the very finest quahty for big fish. I think I may 

 safely say we have the finest club quarters and fishing of 

 any in Quebec, and we are by far the nearest. Mr. Odell 

 returned yesterday from Lake Edward with a splendid 

 catch of 90 beantiful speckled trout, some of which 

 weighed as much as 511bs, each. J. U. Gregory. 



Uttml 



Comiiiiinications for pulMcatton relating to business 

 should hekuldresscd, to the Forest and, Stream Pub. Co. If 

 addressed to an individual they vMl be subject to delay in 

 that indAvldjuaVs absence. 



FIXTURES. 



DOG SHOWS. 



Aug. iO to Sept. a.— Blue Grass Kennel Club, at Lexington, Ky. Mr. 

 Roger Williams, Sec'y. 



Sept. 19 to ;i-3.— World's Fair, Cihicago. W. I. Buchanan, Chief Dept 

 of Agriculture. 



Sept. 11 to 15.— Toronto, Canada. C. A. Stone. Sec'y. 



. FIELD TRIALS. 



Sept. 4 —Northwestern Field Trial Club's second annual trials, Man- 

 itoba. Thos. Johnson, Sec'y, Winnipeg. 



Sept, 12.— Manitoba Field Trials Club's Trials, Souris, Manitoba. E. 

 D. Adams, Sec'y, Winnipeg. 



Nov. 6.— United States Field Trials Club's Fall Trials, Bicknell, Ind. 

 P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indian.apolis. ^ .„ . , „^ 



I^ov, 7.— International Field Trial Club's Fourth Trials, Ohatham, 

 Out. W. B- Wells, Sec'y, Chatham. 



Nov. 1.5.— Ohio Field Ti-ial CluVs Second Trials, Cantbn, 0. C. V. 

 Lellinger, Sec'v. 



Nov. 15.— American Field Trial Club Trials, at Carlisle, Ind. W. J. 

 Beck, Sec'y, Columbus. Ind. 



Nov. 20.— Eastern Field Trial Club's Trials, at Newton, N. C. Mem- 

 bers' Stake Nov. 16. W. A. Coster, Sec'y. 



1894. 



.Jan. 29.— Southern Field Trial Club's Trials, New Albany, Miss. T. 

 M. Brumby, Sec'y. Marietta, 6a. 



Feb. 19.— United States Field Trials Club's Sprmg Trials, Grand 

 Junction, Tenn. P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 



Game liiuws in Brief. 



The Game Laics in Brief is now ready, revised to June 

 10, the latest change being in the Connecticut black bass 

 laws. The present edition records changes for 1893 in 

 more than twenty States. Every angler and gunner 

 should have a copy. It is the only reliable up-to-date 

 digest printed. It is sold by all dealers or will be sent 

 postpaid by the Forest and Stream Publishing Co. ; price 

 25 cents. It has 24 half-tone engraving from Forest and 

 Stream. 



The Fishing' Parson. 



New York, June 7.— In your last issue, 1st inst., under 

 head of "Sick-Bed and Trout Brook," I find the quotation 

 "Fishing parson." I have been looking for years for a 

 J)oem entitled "The Fishing Parson." Can you teU me 

 where I will find it? If so you will greatly oblige. 



Subscriber. 



[We do not know the poem; possibly some reader may 

 tell us of it. We know many fishing parsons.] 



Connecticut Black Bass Season. 



The Governor has signed t!ie bill changing tiie black 

 bass season in Connecticut. The t4use time prescribed by 

 the new law includes May and June. The fishing season 

 this year does not open until July 1. Under the nld law 

 it would have opened last Saturday. The new law, how- 

 ever, does not apply t j persons who fish m waters owned 

 or leased by them ; in such waters thej^ may fish for bass 

 at any season, provided they do not sell the fish caught. 



Moosehead Lake Square-Tails. 



BOSTON, June 6.— Mr. F. S. Harrison, of Newark, N. J. , 

 while stopping at Capen's, at Deer Island, Moosehead 

 Lake, caught in one spot in two hours 16 square-tail trout, 

 aggregating in weight 881bs. ; one of them puUed down 

 4lbs. 5oz., another 41bs. 6oz.. and three of them 31bs. 8oz, 

 None under IJlb. L. Dana Chapman. 



THE A. K. C. MANAGEMENT. 



At a meeting of the Great Dane Club of America, held 

 •June 7, 1893, at the Astor House, New York city, among 

 other important business, the following resolution was 

 unanimously adopted: "-Resolved, That the position taken 

 by the delegate of this club to the A. K. C. be unqualifiedly 

 indor.'^ed and approved, and that this report, along with this 

 resolution, be forwarded to the different leading sporting 

 papers " W. H. Shepard, M.D., Secretary. 



Secretary of tlie Great Dane Club of America: 



I beg to make the following statement in support of the 

 position I have taken in favor of the maintenance of the 

 present constitution and system of the American Kennel 

 Club; and also subjoin my arguments against those ofEered 

 by the originators and supporters of the amendments as sub- 

 mitted at the meeting of the A. K. C. held May 18. My ob- 

 ject is to convince you that, although some egotistical, ex- 

 aggerated and often false statements have appeared against 

 that club in its present form, there is nothing wrong with it. 

 I beg to review some of these hostile paper reports and more 

 especially the exaggerated speeches made in .support of the 

 movement for a change of affairs, and I think you will con- 

 clude, as I do, that the dignity and strength of the A. K. C, 

 and not its alleged weakness, allows it to remain silent. 

 Every delegate of the A. K. C, however, as I perceive the 

 situation, must, in a measure, consider himself responsible 

 for the action and the policy of that body. As a delegate 

 for another club for the past eighteen months, I have made 

 it my business to study and watch the policy and proceed- 

 ings'of the A. K. C. very closely, and I wish to come before 

 my club now and declare that the A.K.C. is all right. Inas- 

 much as your club has been formed but recently, I consider it 

 advisable to answer, for the A.K.C, those inspired newspaper 

 allegations, aud also more especially that part of Dr. Perry's 

 speech which has not yet been answered. Many of these 

 newspaper attacks against the A. K C. are false on their 

 face and vicious in character, and an editor au fait with the 

 affairs of the times and uninfluenced by personal prejudice 

 could not admit them to his columns. For instance, the 

 Forest and Stream h.ad an item the other day from its 

 Western correspondent to the effect that the A. K. C. taxed 

 the doggy world too highly and piled up a great deal of 

 money which really belonged to the dog men, and woitnd up 

 with the remark that there was some -$6,000 in bank. Now, 

 I say that such a statement should not be admitted, and if 

 it appears in connection with arguments in favor of the 

 formation of a rival club, then I say to the embryonic rival 

 of the A. K. 0., "Beware of your friends'." 



The fact is, that at that time and at present, the A K. C.'s 

 balance in bank, after satisfying bills for stud book and other 

 expenses, is §2,800. 



1 have investigated as to the advisability of a reduction 

 of the stud book fee. The editor of the Forest and Stijeam 

 suggests that it be cut in half. Dnless he has a desire to 

 cripple the A, K. C. this cannot be his intention. I am 

 willing to serve the Forest and Stream, and to canvass 

 among the delegates in order to get them to agree to vote 

 for a cut in the stud book fee, if the Forest and Stream 

 will guarantee to settle quarterly for the actual loss stistained 

 by the A. K. C. in acting as suggested by this "friendly" 

 newspaper. 



A discussion was carried on in the Americdn Field that 

 occupied from three to six columns of that journal for six 

 consecutive weeks, and consisted more or less of an attack 

 on the "clique" of the A. K. 0. Now, this whole controversy 

 could have b^en stopped if the secretary of the A K, C. had 

 written to tliat newspaper: "The A. K' C. declares officially 

 that it has never received nor answered any communication 

 from the World's Fair Agricultural Department regarding 

 the appointment or availability of anybody as a judire at the 

 World's Fair." These few lines would have done away with 

 all that squabble. But the A. K. C. considers it beneath its 

 dignity to answer anything that is outside of an interpella- 

 tion by a delegate at the proper time of quarterly meetings. 

 The history of the A. K. C. is the best evidence 'in favor of 

 continuing this policy. Compared with the past struggles 

 of our grand A. K. C. and its institutmn. the present situa- 

 tion is insignificant. Take my assurance that that club, or 

 its officers, as such, have never at any dog show, though fre- 

 quently requested to do. so, suggested, recommended or in 

 any way supplied a Ust of judges. This also applies, of 

 course, as stated before, to the World's Fair show. 1 do not 

 believe, gentlemen, that any fair-minded American could 

 conclude, however, that, because a man is an officer of the 

 A. K. C, he should be deprived of the privilege of expressing 

 his private opinion on any subject whatsoever, even as to 

 World's Fair judges. 



Of course, when a gentleman of the authority and stand- 

 ing of Dr. Perry of Boston, in an open meeting, considers 

 himself justified in making a speech of the nature of his 

 speech at the meeting held on the 18th inst., you, gentlemen 

 of the Great Dane Club, not being familiar with the history 

 of the A. K C, may hesitate to ignore the points raised by 

 him in the same manner that I then and there most posi- 

 tively condemned the spirit and the alleged facts as untrue 

 and unbecoming a man who was then, and apparently pro- 

 poses to remain, a delegate and a member of the advisory 

 committee, after a rejection of his ideas by a vote of twenty 

 to three. 



I cannot understand how the delegates of the A. K. G. can 

 remain silent in regard to the statements of Dr. Perry, when 

 they remember the fact that their majority is directly re- 

 .sponsible for any mismanagement or selfish policy or 

 cliquism perpetrated by the club. It has beeu claimed that 

 the delegates of the ditt'ereut clubs do not represent the sen- 



timents of their respective clubs, because they are chosen by 

 compulsion among New York men, and, of course, cannot 

 represent the sentiments of a club in another locality exist- 

 ing imder different conditions. In what wa,y would this be 

 changed if , under the new rule, five clubs shotrld be repre- 

 sented by on e person. If these five clubs attended strictly to 

 their business and took interest enough, this one person 

 would possibly have to represent five different official 

 opinions and his own besides. If the different clubs 

 do not direct the actions of their representatives 

 it is their own fault and neglect. If thirty-three 

 clubs to-day instruct their delegates to vote for Mr. Jas. 

 Watson's amendments, the latter would become law, and it 

 seems to me that as long as sub-clubs pa.y their dues, ap- 

 point delegates and let the delegates go on without instruc- 

 tions there can be nothing radically wrong with the A. K. 

 C; otherwise these delegates would be instructed. Any sub- 

 ject, by-law or rule of iherit, and clearly to the benefit of the 

 doggy world, I woidd ask you, gentlemen of the Great Dane 

 Club, to make a te.st case of and to submit it to the A. K. C. 

 through your own or some other delegate, and I am con- 

 vinced that the majority of the A. K, C. will be with you 

 for its adoption. This majority is not within an advisory 

 committee, is not within a i-ing of thirteen; this majority is 

 the majority of direct representatives of clubs located in the 

 different sections of this great country. 



I now refer you, gentlemen, to the attempt to monopolisse- 

 the power, at present resting in the hands of a majority of 

 representatives of dog clubs, by lodging it for three years 

 with thirteen gentlemen to be chosen out of fifty delegates. 

 The canvass for the adoption of these amendments seemed 

 to me to be very peculiar. I noticed that delegates were 

 buttonholed by a promoter, and in the case of one delegate, 

 I can positively prove that an inducement was offered 

 for his vote. This gentleman was told that if he would 

 vote in favor of establishing the power of the "unlucky 

 thirteen," he would afterward become one of the "lucky 

 thirteen." I confess that this action naturally prejudiced 

 me very much, because our old .system does not admit of 

 such lobbyism. The last time our president was unani- 

 mously elected during his absence. A year before that he 

 was elected in spite of his protest and of his declaration 

 that he could only devote just so much time to the A. K. C.'s 

 affairs, owing to the pressure of business. What a charac- 

 teristic difference between two men. On one side a gentle- 

 man who favors the tearing down of present institutions, 

 who has been ambitious to become a delegate and sought 

 the advisory committee office, and then declares that there 

 is something "practically burlesque" about the A. K. C; on 

 the other side, our present president, solicitous at all times 

 to give way to a man who can devote more time to the affairs 

 of the club, and yet he is unanimou.sly preferred before par- 

 ties who seek offices. Suppose that amendment had been 

 adopted and the thirteen members elected, seven of them 

 being elected with the same "inducement" as the delegate 

 mentioned above (1 cannot resist the temptation to spin out 

 the thought), who would have been the president of that 

 committee? The man elected would have been the same 

 one w^ho tried to elect seven of the thirteen in the manner 

 intimated above. This state of affairs I submit, compelled 

 me to look upon the amendments as drawn up, though I 

 am sure in good faith, by Mr. .James Watson as an attempt 

 to break down all there is good about the A. K. C. If I am 

 sent to the A. K. C. only to be instrumental in concentrating 

 the w^hole power into the hands of a few promoters of a 

 scheme, 1 wish to lay down my office and you may elect 

 some one else less scrupulous in this direction. Under the 

 present system I can, even if in the minority, record my 

 opinion and thus protect myself against being identified 

 with the perpetrators of a bad measure or rule. 



Dr. Perry wanted to go on record "for this proposed reso 

 lution," and made two .«peeches which, I claim, are contra- 

 dictory of each other. He says. "There is much about the 

 A. K. C. which is practically burlesque." If this has been 

 so in the past it will be so in the future. Yet Dr. Perry re- 

 tains the offices "which he sought, the offices did not seek 

 him." The remedies proposed for the "burlesque" proceed- 

 ings of the A. K. C. were rejected by a vote of 20 to 3. But 

 Dr. Perry is with us, though it costs him .$20 every time he 

 comes from Boston. He says, "These clubs from a distance 

 cannot be really repres°nted. Their credentials are given to . 

 men who act on their own individuality." Would not the 

 "unlucky thirteen" have gone from bad to worse in this 

 respect, because now a delegate represents only one club, as 

 aforesaid, while the new idea would do away with all possi- 

 bility of instructions, since no club has any official right to 

 instruct anybody belonging to the government of the A. K. 

 C. ? Would not these thirteen men be expected to act on their 

 own individuality, with the danger of becoming overbearing 

 while in power for three years.' 



Dr. Perry says, "It is either railroaded throtigh or you 

 leave it to the advisory committee." "Between meetings 

 the authority practically rests. " This is not a fact. The 

 authority does not rest. The advisory committee, consisting 

 of five, can be called at any moment, and the present presi- 

 dent and secretary only act in such cases as the same ollicers 

 of the "unlucky thirteen" would act in correspondingly. 

 Again, he says, "You elect 1.3 men; it is a small body. You 

 can meet in New York, you can meet in Chicago." Practical 

 experience shows that 13 men who live in different parts of 

 the United States would never get together. , This seems to 

 have been anticipated, because the quorum is limited to five, 

 if you please, the same number as at meetings of the present 

 advisory committee. Remember that the decisions of the 

 advisory committee can be overthrown and undone in quar- 

 terly meetings of the representatives of the different clubs. 

 Again, "You select 3 men of the 13 for the first three 

 months," etc. "All matters of detail can be referred to 

 them by the secretary." This new system would appoint 

 three comparatively inexperienced men, in place of the pres- 

 ent advisory committee of five or iu place of the president 

 and secretary of our present system. Which would you 

 rather have, gentlemen i-" 



The Doctor says "Is the A. K. C. popular with dogmen? 

 I spent four days in the show building in Boston. I went 

 quietly from one to another dogman, exhibitor and breeder. 

 1 am willing to say that I went to them somewhat diplomat- 

 ically, and, telling the actual truth, there was one man that 

 spoke for the A. K. C, and that man was so identified with 

 the management of the A. K. C. that he has a pei'sonal pe- 

 cuniary interest." If the Doctor spoke the actual truth in 

 the above then there was not a soul speaking in favor of the 

 A. K. C, because I defy Dr. Perry to point to me such aman 

 in this wide world who is pecuniarily interested and Identi- 

 fied with the management of the A. K C. A man alleging 

 such a thing 1 claim knows nothing about the A. K. C. I 

 say that such an allegation is "practically burlesque." Pray, 

 why did Dr. Perry act so "diplomatically?" Why did he 

 not" put his questions in a straightforward manner as man 

 to man? A doctor who wants to perform the operation of 

 cutting out an abce.ss must actually feel and look and form 

 au opinion of his own from symptoms which he personally 

 perceives, and not take hear.say statements for a basis of his 

 diagnosis and afterward wield his knife blindly in cutting 

 into some vital organ of the system. There is no evidence in 

 regard to what these same anti-A.K.C dogmen would have 

 said had the Doctor told them that he wanted superficial 

 evidence for a move toward forming a clique intended to 

 gov-ern the A. K. C. Again, I venture to say that had the 

 Doctor been less "diplomatic" and had he instead told his 

 hearers that he wanted to gather evidence in favor of tear- 

 ing down the solid building of the A. K. C, in order to sub- 

 stitute in its place an uninsurable frame structure, he would 

 not have received the same replies. I am at any time ready 

 to take issue with Dr. Perry and enter into a controversy 



