Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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

 Six Months, 82. j 



NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1893. 



I VOL. XLI.-N0. 4. 



■j No. 318 Broadway, New Yokk. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Nothing for a Sprained Thumb. 

 Too Much Iron. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Through the Heart of Peru.— ii. 

 Danvis Folks.— ix. 

 "Podgers's" Commentaries. 



Natural History. 



Some of the Ways of Bears. 

 The Baby Caribou. 

 Bu-d Notes from Florida. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Adirondack Deer Law. 



Moose Hunting in "98. 



New York Close Seasons. 



Winter-Killed Quail. 



Forest and Stream at the Fair. 



"The Wilderness Hunter." 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Chicago and the West. 

 Salmon Angling in the Hudson. 

 Oregon Notes 



Salmon Fishing with Fish Bait. 

 Fishing Light in Canada. 

 Pork Bait for Salmon. 

 Chicago Fly-Casting Club Rules. 

 Boston Fishermen. 

 Fishing Postals. 



Fishculture. 



Pennsylvania Fish Commission. 



The Kennel, 



Toronto Dog Show. 

 Coursing at the Golden Gate. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Yachting. 

 The New Yankee Doodle. 

 More Scarecrows. 

 Capsizes. 

 Club Cruises. 

 Colonia. 

 A Long Cruise, 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



A. C. A Transportation. 

 The W. C. A. Meet. 

 Atlantic Division Meet. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



San Francisco Ranges. 

 The New Army Rifle. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



Connecticut League. 

 Tournament at Lake Geneva. 

 Western Traps. 

 Hoffman Defeats Canon. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries. 



Michigan. To disprove this and show that it was killed 

 elsewhere the owner must produce the testimony of the 

 person who actually killed it elsewhere. 



Nor is this the end of the evil, for further the statute 

 reads that when the possessor has proved that his venison 

 was killed in another State, this again shall constitute 

 pririia-facie evidence that it was killed contrary to the 

 laws of that other State; the possession of such unlaw- 

 fully killed game is forbidden in Michigan; and the fresh 

 presumption may be overcome only by direct and positive 

 evidence to the contrary. 



Just how this new iron-clad law is to be enforced, and 

 just what it is designed to accomplish, we confess we do 

 not clearly see, but we understand that it was suggested 

 by Game Warden Hampton, and as he is the practical 

 agent of game protection in Michigan, he no doubt had a 

 good reason for asking the Legislature to give him the 

 novel statute. All friends of Michigan game protection 

 will indulge the hope that he has over-weighted his ship. 



TOO MUCH IRON. 



When the Haytians were fighting the Haytians, last 

 time, they sent to New York for a war ship. The con- 

 tractor purchased a tramp steamer, grown old in com- 

 merce; ran her into dry-dock; fortified her with iron 

 armor to ward off the gun shots; and put to sea, bound for 

 ^ Hayti. A violent storm was encountered; the steamship, 

 overladen with her armor, was wrenched and wracked by 

 the waves, and went to pieces; and of all the souls who 

 fsailed in her not one was ever seen again. The disaster 

 was due to too much iron. 



When more effective game protection is demanded, not 

 infrequently those interested think to effect it by securing 

 a stronger statute, raising the prescribed fine of $50 to one 

 of $500 — spiling on the armor, and with iron a-plenty con- 

 verting superannuated merchantmen into men-of-war. 

 Thus it has come about that in some parts we have game 

 laws which are commonly spoken of as iron-clad. Some 

 are of iron from the keelson up; but more have timber 

 frames with ^in iron sheathing to make them look formi- 

 dable. When these encounter stress of weather they go to 

 pieces. 



Missouri's iron-clad law to regulate the sale of dyna- 

 mite and to prevent the destruction of fish by explosives 

 has been commented upon before. Put to test, the statute 

 has just been declared to be unconstitutional because of 

 a defective title. It is designated as an act for "the pro- 

 tection and preservation of fish," whereas, the court holds, 

 it is an act for the regulation of the sale of explosives. 

 The failm-e of the law, then, is not due to the iron-clad 

 nature of its provisions; the question yet remains to 

 be determined whether a statute of similar import 

 properly entitled would be a practicable and seiwiceable 

 law. If otherwise, no doubt the ingenuity and acumen 

 of Missouri legislators wiU be equal to the task of finding 

 I Bome other effective mode of putting an end to the fish 

 ' dynamiter. The remedy must be devised in some way, 

 for the evil is one not to be tolerated. 



WhQe Missouri has been studying how to get the better 

 of its fish murderers, Michigan has been engaged in an 

 endeavor to solve the problem of game marketing and 

 exportation. The latest move in this direction is the 

 adoption of an iron-clad statute, which, if ever enforced, 

 would cause no end of trouble for a game dealer who 

 might fall under suspicion and be brought up with a turn 

 by the energetic Mr. Hampton. 



Following the example of some other States, and a 

 very sensible example it is, too, the law first provides 

 that no person shall at any time dr in any manner ac- 

 quire any property in any game, or subject it to his 

 I dominion or control, but that under all circumstances 

 and conditions it shall be and remain the sole property 

 of the State. Game taken in the times and the modes 

 authorized by law, and for the purposes authorized by 

 law, may be used at such times and for those specified 

 purposes, but not otherwise. 



One of the forbidden purposes is shipment out of the 

 State. If an exporter were to attempt to send out ven- 

 ison under a plea that it was not the meat of Michigan 

 deer, he would find himself estopped by the new statute, 

 for one of its further provisions is that possession of any 

 game shall be prima-facie evidence that it was killed in 



NOTHING FOR A SPRAINED THUMB. 



Telling of a fishing trip among the lakes of northern 

 Wisconsin, the other day, Dr. Tarleton H. Bean related 

 that the party put up at a hotel specially maintained for 

 fishermen, and designed to fill their every want. One 

 day, when Dr. Bean and his companions were fishing on 

 the lake there came up a tremendous thunder storm. 

 They went ashore, hauled out the boat, tm-ned it bottom 

 up, crawled under it to keep dry, and as usually is the 

 case, were all thoroughly drenched. In righting the 

 craft one of the party seriously sprained a thumb, and 

 on his return to the hotel asked for some whisky or 

 brandy to bind on the painful member. There was not a 

 drop of whisky to be had, nor of brandy, nor of rum, nor 

 a drop of anything of the kind, not even an empty bottle 

 in which there had been a drop. The host explained that 

 he kept a hotel for anglers, but that liquor was not in his 

 outfit. The man with the thumb turned wrong-side-before 

 partially forgot his pain in reflecting upon the character- 

 istics of angling in the year 1893, when an anglers' resort 

 was whiskyless. 



After all there was nothing curious about the fact, nor 

 anything surprising in the principle illustrated. This 

 Wisconsin fishermen's inn is not unique among angling 

 resorts because devoid of bar appendages. Some people 

 drink whisky and other malt and distilled beverages, at 

 home and abroad, in or after business hours; and when 

 they go fishing they drink beforehand, in anticipation of 

 their luck; during, in its celebration; and after, in joyful 

 memory thereof. Other men do not drink whisky at 

 home but feel that they must carry a flask or a demijohn 

 with them when they go fishing. They constitute a less 

 numerous class than formerly. Then there is another 

 contingent of fishermen, and this we believe makes up 

 the great and growing army, which, unaccustomed to 

 the use of liquors at home, does not carry a bottle into 

 camp nor patronize the bars of fishing hotels. In short, 

 the average measure of the consumption of liquors by 

 fishermen on their fishing excursions corresponds with 

 the average measure of the consumption of liquor by 

 men going about their every day business. The day has 

 gone by when a fishing trip of necessity means a carouse. 



The day has gone by, too, and for this the editors of at 

 least one angling journal thank heaven, when the chroni- 

 clers of fishing trips thought it essential to make an in- 

 ventory of every drink swallowed, and to record with 

 loving particularity how good it tasted. When we come 

 to think of it, even if a man does take his nip in camp 

 there is no special reason why he should expect an edi- 

 tor to perpetuate the momentous event in cold type. 

 The average world is not dying to learn that after land- 

 ing his big fish Tom Jones took a drink. As a matter of 

 fact, it is comparatively a rare libation that is recorded 

 in the Forest and Stream. Perusing its columns as 

 every good State Executive should, the Governor of North 

 Carolina might well remark to the Governor of South 

 Carolina upon the long time between drinks therein re- 

 corded. The future student of Nineteenth Century 

 social customs and development, who shall refer to these 

 files for data, wiU never conclude from what he finds 

 here, that the fisherman of this age was a guzzler beyond 

 others of his day and generation. 



This is not to say that sportsmen as a class are temper- 

 ance cruaaders and preachers and prophets of prohibition, 



Some may be. Others are not. There is a certain sports- 

 men's club house not far from this city, where provision 

 is made for members and their wives. Upon the approach 

 of a public holiday, the experienced member who hap- 

 pens to be sojourning at the club house with his wife, 

 knows enough to come with her to town to avoid th» 

 bacchanalian uproar impending. This is not to say that 

 sportsmen as a class are given to revels and racket. Som« 

 may be. Others are not. 



Abundant opportunity for misconception lies wrapped 

 up in that term "class." With respect to their drinking 

 proclivities "sportsmen" are not a "class," anymore than 

 they are a "class" as to the color of their hair or a fond- 

 ness for baked beans or their religious faiths or political 

 opinions. It is a popular error to regard the men who 

 fish or the men who shoot as for that reason being set 

 apart from other men in a special class, marked by com- 

 mon likes and dislikes, virtues and shortcomings in other 

 things than shooting and fishing. Forty years ago, when 

 Frank Forester was picturing the doings of his heroes in 

 the field, the common error quite naturally instilled by 

 his writings was that sportsmen as a class were exces- 

 sively given to drink; and that Nimrod must be not only 

 a mighty hunter before the Lord but a mighty drinker as 

 well. Forester was not alone in ascribing to the sports- 

 man of that day valiant prowess with the bottle. The 

 Spirit of the Times was the accepted organ of the craft, 

 and many of the writers who contributed stories of shoot- 

 ing and fishing successfully emulated Herbert in their 

 chronicles of drinking achievements. An examination of 

 the files of the old Spirit would show that there was 

 abundant ground for this complaint of a correspondent 

 whose letter was published in one of the September num- 

 bers of 1855: 



Another of your correspondents goes on a hunting expedition with 

 two or three gentlemen. His description of the sport is very excit- 

 ing and makes us wish that we were of the party, but from a perusal 

 of the introductory paragraphs you might suppose that he was about 

 establishing a wholesale liquor shop in the backwoods, where free 

 lunches were to be dispensed to all who might travel that way. After 

 the day's hunt is over he tells you how the party conducted them- 

 selves, and you certainly could not be censured for saying that our 

 friend is either given to exaggeration or else the party of gentlemen 

 have altogether forgotten what belongs to their character. The Rev. 

 Mr. Beecher can give us a "A Day's Fishing" without catching a 

 trout, and some of your correspondents have given "A Day's Hunt" 

 in most bewitching colors without killing a deer, or getting drunk. 

 Let your correspondents always remember that the hunt— the sport 

 —is the thing we want, not the quantity of liquor drank, the number 

 of cigars smoked or the amount of provender which one of the party 

 contrived to stuff into himself, (hi one case an individual is described 

 as eating for breakfast as much as would certainly serve half a dozen 

 laboring men for a whole day.) 



In spite of an occcasional protest like this, the good 

 things to drink continued to be dwelt upon with 

 affectionate minuteness and prolixity by the Spirit 

 writers, and as the public drew from that journal its 

 notions of sport and sportsmen, it quite naturally put the 

 man of the gun and his companion of the rod in a 

 class specially addicted to the consumption of cocktails. 

 Long years ago the Spirit of the Times gave up its shooting 

 and fishing correspondence, and the Forest and Stream 

 stepped into favor as a substitute. Long years ago, too, 

 the Forest and Stream deliberately gave up shooting and 

 fishing correspondence in which the bottle played a con- 

 spicuous part; and by this time it should be commonly 

 understood by all intelligent people that the old order of 

 things has passed away. Nevertheless so tenacious has 

 been the popular association of the bottle with fishing 

 and shooting, that even in these days a fisherman is aston- 

 ished to find an anglers' hotel in the wilderness with 

 never an emergency drop of whisky for a sprained 

 thumb. 



We publish a particularly interesting article on sal- 

 mon fishing in Monterey Bay, California, contributed by 

 our sometimes correspondent, Mr. J, Parker Whitney of 

 Boston, known among many of our fishing fraternity as 

 one of the most persistent and experienced anglers in 

 the country. In fact Mr. Whitney's experience with sal- 

 mon and trout in hundreds of waters, extending over a 

 period of the greater part of half a century, make him 

 eminently qualified to present and review the novel sub^ 

 ject he has presented. Mr. Whitney's village of buildings 

 at the Richardson lakes, of the Rangeley waters, which 

 he has frequented for the last thirty-five years, are well 

 known to the visitors of that locality; and there he has 

 passed months yearly, and his record of trout and salinon 

 have been hardly equalled. 



