Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $4 a Year. 10 Cts. a Copt. 1 

 Six Months, $2. ) 



NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY IB, 1893. 



I VOL. XLI.— No. 2. 



( No. 318 Broadway, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Good Governor and the 

 Wicked Doctor. 



Snap Shots. 

 The Sportsman Tourist. 



Camps on the Manitowish. — ii. 

 Natural History. 



Gray Foxes in Connecticut. 



Spitting Snakes. 



Animals in Cages. 



Some Texas D .vellers. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Bruin in the Buttery. 



Chicago and the West. 



Forest and Stream at the 



World's Fair. 

 Mule Deer Heads. 

 Tfie Southern Camp Hunt.— i. 

 Adventures in the Fog. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Among the Laurentides. 

 A New Canadian Trout. 

 Boston and Maine. 

 Fishculture. 

 Plant Yearlings Where Needed. 

 Game in the National Park. 



The Kennel. 



Where is the Spaniel as a Sport- 

 ing Dog f ■ 



The Kennel. 



Hamilton Kennel Club. 

 Rhode Island Show. 

 Toronto Dog Show. 

 The Type of Great Danes.- iii. 

 - Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Yachting. 

 House-Boating Again. 

 A Novel House Boat. 

 July Regattas. 

 British Racing Yachts. 

 Embla. 



Disaster on Lake St. Louis. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 

 W. C. A. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Rifle Notes. 

 Club Doings. 



Trap Shooting. 



Eastern N. Y. League Tourna- 

 ment. 

 Maplewood"s Fourth. 

 Fourth of July Meetings. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Answers to Queries. 



J^or Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page v. 



The Forest and Stream is put to press 

 on Tuesdays. Correspondence intended for 

 publication should reach us by IVIondays and 

 as much earlier as may be practicable. 



GOOD GOVERNOR AND WICKED DOCTOR. 



When you come upon an Illinois man, living out on 

 the prairie, whose recollections of boyhood days run 

 back to the woods and lakes and mountains of Maine, 

 you may be sure that in him you have found a sports- 

 man. But if such a person, being a sportsman, professes 

 public spirit, and undertakes to increase and protect the 

 game supply, look out for him; he is a wicked schemer 

 and will bear close watching. Eternal vigilance against 

 his game protection wiles is the price of freedom for all 

 who dwell in his neighborhood. 



When you come upon the Governor of a State, of Illi- 

 nois or any other, who babbles of abolishing the Fish 

 Commission and makes a jail delivery of bomb-throwers, 

 he, too, will bear watching, not apprehensively, but with 

 the confiding trust that he will unveil and nip the schemes 

 of game protection conspirators, and preserve their liber- 

 ties to the people. 



Dr. W. O. BlaisdeU, of Illinois, was a Maine boy; and 

 his neighbors in Macomb will tell you that he is an 

 accomplished sportsman. He has been credited with his 

 full share of public spirit and is known to have been 

 interested in the introduction of foreign species of game 

 birds and their protection. Even the Forest and Stream 

 has been led to speak with approval of Dr. BlaisdeU and 

 his game importing enterprises. But now, and none too 

 soon, his neighbors have foimd out that the Doctor's jjub- 

 lic spirit has been a deceit, a sham and a fraud; now they 

 understand that while posing as a philanthropist bent on 

 doing good he has reaUy been conspiring against the hb- 

 erties of his fellow citizens; that under the pretense of 

 conferring benefits upon them he has been scheming to 

 put them in jail. And thanks to the dunder-headed 

 stupidness of the Illinois Legislature, that is precisely 

 where he would have landed them, had it not been for the 

 shrewdness of Gov, Altgeld and the promptitude of his 

 official action. The Good Governor was up to the tricks 

 of the Wicked Doctor. He interposed his veto of the 

 BlaisdeU biU, and insured to the dwellers of Macomb 

 county that enjoyment of freedom and security which in 

 Illinois under the Altgeld administration is not denied the 

 humblest Anarchist in the land. 



For a conception of the cool, covert, calculating and 

 cold-blooded character of this cunningly contrived and 

 carefully concealed scheme to compass the incarceration 

 of his fellow creatures, it must be told that the Wicked 

 Doctor had been engineering it for months. He pre- 

 tended that he wished to improve the shooting in lUinois. 

 He sent in one direction to Oregon, and in the other 

 direction thousands of miles to India, for foreign species 

 of game birds, to stock the cornfields and brush thickets 

 of Macomb county. The determined nature of the man 

 is shown by the fact that aU this cost money, and he 

 footed the bills with funds out of his own pocket. The 

 birds came, and gave promise of st(X5king the Macomb 



covers. Then the Wicked Doctor took the next step. He 

 sought out a friend in the Senate at Springfield, and the 

 friend conspired with others to hoodwink the Legisla- 

 ture for the furtherance of the scheme. They plausibly 

 represented that the new game birds would prove a highly 

 desirable acquisition to the State; that their introduction 

 was solely for the public good; that if everybody turned 

 out after them with shotguns the first season or two none 

 of them would survive; that a close term of several 

 years should be provided for them; finally — and this we 

 shall see was the true object of the whole plot— that if 

 any one did shoot them in the close term he should be 

 fined or in default of payment be sent to jail. The 

 lUinois Legislature appears to have been easily gulled. 

 Apparently it did not discover what a Wicked Doctor 

 it was dealing with ; the bill passed both branches 

 unanimously, and was sent to the Governor. 



Dr. BlaisdeU is a sportsman, and all sportsmen at some 

 time in their lives get out of bed at an unconscionably early 

 hour in the morning; but no Wicked Doctor ever rose 

 early enough to get ahead of a truly Good Governor — at 

 least not ahead of Gov. Altgeld, of Illinois. When the 

 bill reached Mr. Altgeld, he saw into it and through it at 

 a glance. He pulled away the mask, stripped off the 

 disguise, unveiled the horns, and the tail, and the cloven 

 hoof. It was as clear to him as the sunlight at noonday 

 to an Anarchist just out of jail, that the biU had in it not 

 a shred of pviblic spirit; that its purpose was not to in- 

 crease the game supply; that it was purely a plot to put 

 innocent persons into jail. And it is a serious mistake, 

 declares the Good Governor, in his short-shrift veto of the 

 Wicked Doctor's measure — 



It is a serious mist alee for a great and enlightened State to be carrj^- 

 ing a jail around in every neighborhood, and trying to put somebody 

 in it, not for committing a crime or doing anything of a criminal 

 nature, but for doing some trivial thing which is innocent in itself, but 

 is sought to be made a crime by unwise legislation. 



There you have it. There is acumen for you, not to 

 say the gift of second-sight. There is a Good Governor 

 who can smell a rat. There at length is the unmasking 

 of the whole scheme of game protection — one vast con- 

 spiracy to tote jails around to people who would never 

 dream of going to the jails. In the wake of the Chinese 

 pheasant, jails spring up as laundries follow Chinamen; 

 when for the first time the Macomb county man hears the 

 cackle of one of Dr. Blaisdell's chuckor partridges, he 

 knows that a new jail is on the way, and the next thing 

 he's in it. Game protection, that means caging jail-birds. 

 So says Altgeld; and he knows. 



Why was the Wicked Doctor up to such a business? 

 Heaven knows. Perhaps when he had more Macomb 

 county people in jail than on the outside, he was plan- 

 ning to run for the office of prison purveyor of pills. 

 Nothing is too bad to believe of a man who wants to jail 

 the community. On this point Gov. Altgeld leaves us in 

 the dark ; his second-sight appears unfortunately to have 

 failed him here. But he tells us that the game of Illinois 

 is almost exterminated already, and what is left is bound 

 to go soon; the farmers' sons with their double-barreled 

 breechloaders will dispose of it in short order; foolish to 

 try to save it by j>utting the boys in jaU. Perish the 

 thought, we say, and the gaine along with it! Confusion 

 upon the Wicked Doctors, who would cart around jaUs 

 and try to put people into them. Preserve the liberties of 

 the people! Long live the Good Governors to defend them! 



A VISITOR to the Adirondacks sent us not long ago an 

 impassioned plea for the protection of deer against the 

 rapacity of si^ortsmen. Subsequently the friend of the 

 deer was put under lock and key to await trial for the 

 murder of a woman. The author of a poem extolling the 

 self-sacrifice of a cur dog, which died to save its master, 

 was not long thereafter electrocuted for having poisoned 

 his wife. These are two instances of the contrarities and 

 complexities of human nature. It would be an error to 

 assume that their teaching was to be shy of those who 

 have a soft j)lace in their hearts for gentle deer and heroic 

 dogs. The true lesson is that even in the soul of the 

 wretch who poisons his wife there may be a redeeming 

 spark of goodness. 



The committee of the Illinois Sportsmen's Association, 

 appointed at the late convention to provide for a national 

 sportsmen's convention in Chicago, have determined to 

 arrange a meeting for Sept, 21, to which sportsmen of 

 the United States and Canada wUl be invited, for dis- 

 cussion of game protection. 



GAME IN THE NATIONAL PARK. 

 Although travel in the Yellowstone Park began more 

 than a month ago, the snow is still very deep in many 

 places, A party of soldiers, recently sent down Snake 

 River to carry rations to the station there, were unable 

 to make their way through and were obliged to leave 

 the supjilies twelve miles from the station to be carried 

 down later on snowshoes. 



■ Game in considerable numbers is seen by travelers 

 through the Park, mainly deer, elk and smaller animals 

 such as porcupines. The bears which were so numer- 

 ous about the Fountain Gej^ser last year have not made 

 their appearance yet this season. Recently about sixty 

 buffalo, among which were thirteen calves, crossed the 

 road near the Gem Geyser going from west to east. 

 They were seen by three of the soldiers, who went 

 among them and found them very tame, not disturbed 

 at all by the presence of man. It is thought that they 

 tried to cross on to the plateau southwest of the Upper 

 Geyser Basin, but were prevented by the depth of the 

 snow and turned back. 



The roads and bridges of the Park are under charge of 

 Major Jones, of the Engineer Corps, whose oflELce is in 

 St. Paul. Usually there has been an engineer officer 

 stationed in the Park through the spring and summer to 

 look after the care of the roads, but this year there is no 

 Engineer officer there, and the roads are suffering from 

 lack of attention. 



It is understood that before long Secretary Hoke Smith 

 will visit the Park. This is a cause for satisfaction, for in 

 this way Mr Smith will gain a personal knowledge of the 

 reservation, which cannot fail to be of great use to him in 

 his subsequent management of the region. Capt. Ander- 

 son, whose knowledge of the Park is so ample, and whose 

 ideas of its needs are so just, will hardly fail to call Mr. 

 Smith's attention to the various matters which require it. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 Mr.Wm, L, Force, who died at his home in Plainfield, 

 N. J, , last Monday, was a busy man of affairs, who found 

 time for pleasure and recreation in the sports of the 

 field. He was active in the organization of the New 

 Jersey Game and Fish Protective Association, and filled 

 a large place in its work. 



The mention in our Boston correspondence of a fish- 

 erman, who, though deprived of sight, still enjoys the 

 successful use of the rod, recalls the case of the distin- 

 guished Professor Fawcett of England who when totally 

 blind was a skillful salmon fisherman. Doubtless the 

 list is not a short one of those, who, suffering a like mis- 

 fortune, have found simUar pleasure in angling. A 

 blessed recreation indeed is that which has in it such 

 possibilities even for the blind. 



Allusion was made recently to the frequent hoaxes per- 

 petrated by "fake" newspaper correspondents, who tell 

 of blind men shooting birds, tracking big game and per- 

 forming other impossible feats. Such stories are not 

 only foolish, but brutal and cruel as well; and the most 

 extraordinary thing about them is that they are occasion- 

 ally published by goody-goody editors who hold up their 

 hands in deprecation of the cruelty of field sports. 



We have known men whose consuming ambition was 

 to have a new fish named after them. Mr. R, B. Marston, 

 the editor of the London Fishing Gazette, may not have 

 been ambitious in this direction, but he would be more 

 than human were he not gratified at the giving of his 

 name to the new trout described by Prof, Garman in our 

 angling columns, the name having been suggested by 

 Mr. A. N, Cheney. 



British manufacturers and dealers have taken a cue 

 from those of this country, and are organizing an In- 

 animate Bird Shooting Association, to promote the sport 

 Of trap-shooting artificial targets. They have followed 

 the lines of our own associations, and there would ap- 

 pear to be no reason why the sport should not become 

 as popular in Great Britain as it is in the United States. 



"Game keepers are already in charge," That is grow- 

 ing to be a famUiar statement in the papers. The latest 

 publication of the announcement refers to the 20,000 

 acres taken up by Mr, George W, Vanderbilt in Hender- 

 son and Transylvania counties, N, C. Mr, Vanderbilt, 

 we are told, intends to make it one of the finest game pre- 

 serves in the world; and "the game keepers are already in 

 charge." 



