Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW TORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1893. 



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

 8rs Months, g2. ) 



j VOL. XLI.— No. 5. 



1 No. 318 Bkoadway, New YObk. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Dollars and Cents. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Danvis Folks.— s. 

 A Storm. 



■■Podgers" Tells a Tale of Woe. 

 ilichigan, My Michigan. — ii. 



Natural History. 



The Archer Fish. 

 Fox and Deer Pets. 

 Mother Love. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Farmers and Town Sportsmen. 

 Duck Shooting in Nebraska. 

 Gold Days in North Dakota. 

 Rightly Dubbed "Cattle." 

 A Miss and a Hit. 

 Sheathing Paper for Camping. 



Sea and River Fisliing. 



Old Connecticut Salmon Swims. 

 Thoughts About Fishing. 

 Sea Fishing for Sea Bass. 

 Angling Talk. 

 Angling Notes. 

 The Wininnish. 



Salmon Anghng at Mechanic- 



ville. 

 Boston Anglers. 



Fishing on the Longlsland Coast 

 Walton Ter-Centenary. 



The Kennel. 



The Type of Great Danes. 



Tlie Kennel. 



Appointment of Substitute 

 Judges. 



The Bulldog Peflestrian Match. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Yachiting. 



American and British Yachts on 



the Pacific. 

 Capsizes. 



International Racing. 

 July Matches. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



The W. C. A. Meet. 



A. C. A. Transportation. 



Toronto C. C. 



Columbia Regatta on Lake 



Geneva. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



New Jersey State Rifle Associa- 

 tion. 



South New England Riflemen. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



Long Island Club Shooting. 

 Matches and Meetings. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries. 



DOLLAHS AND CENTS. 



The Yellowstone National Park is to-day the center of 

 large game abundance in the United States. If a circle 

 whose i-adius is 300 miles be drawn about a center 

 where the boundary lines between Idaho and Montana 

 meet the border of Wyoming, it will include more of 

 the great game of this country and in richer variety 

 than any other similar area within our borders. Nearly 

 a dozen species occur in more or less abundance here, 

 and if the integrity of the National Park is preserved 

 will continue to be abundant long after sportsmen of 

 the present generation have been gathered to their fathers. 



Without considering the Park, which is useful as a source 

 of supply, there are still many localities within the terri- 

 tory referred to where game is sufficiently abundant to 

 afford hunting which will satisfy the most ardent rifle- 

 man; but that game is decreasing with shocking rapid- 

 ity on account of the absolute disregard of the game 

 laws which is shown by hunters who kill for hides and 

 horns, either for the general market or to supply taxi- 

 dermists. This matter is one which on sentimental 

 grounds touches aU sportsmen, but for the citizens of 

 Montana, Wyoming and Idaho it has a nearer interest. 

 It touches or soon will touch their pockets. 



The hunter from the East who wishes to spend a month 

 or two hunting big game in the Rocky Mountains is well 

 aware that nowadays he cannot do this for nothing. He 

 knows that he must pay his guide, his packers, his cook; 

 that he must hire from five to ten saddle and pack horses; 

 that suppUes of food must be purchased from the stores of 

 the town from which he starts out. For all these things 

 coin of the realm or good greenbacks must be exchanged. 

 After the intending hunter has corresponded with the 

 man who proposes to furnish the outfit and has got his 

 prices, he tots up the figures and realizes that besides his 

 railroad fare, sleeping car and other expenses of reaching 

 his starting point, he will have to spend from $400 to 

 $1,000 for the trip. 



Now the average man desires to receive some value for 

 his money. Just as if he pays a fair price for a pair of 

 shoes, he wants to feel sure that they will last a reasonable 

 time, so if he hires a guide and outfit for a hunt, he wants 

 to feel a certain confidence that he will see some game. 

 If he is after elk he will not spend his good money to go 

 into a country from which owing to the depredations of 

 illegal hunters the elk have aU been killed ofi:. If he cor- 

 responds with an honest guide, who will set before him a 

 fair statement of the game conditions, he is likely this 

 summer to find the prospects for game very much less 

 than they were a few years ago, very different from the 

 notions which he has gained from books and from news- 

 paper articles, most of which refer to the more or less dis- 

 tant past. Thus the intending excursionist is likely to be 

 discouraged and to turn his thoughts in other directions, 

 while the conscientious guide by his honesty loses the 

 work which might have yielded him a fair profit. People 

 who are thus discom-aged are likely to go to Canada or 

 else to some point where other guides promise great things 

 in the way of game. 



It need hardly be said that it is a good thing for any 

 town to have a stranger come within its borders and 



spend $500 or $600, which, but for this visit, would not 

 have been put in circulation there. It is not only the 

 railroad which brings the stranger, and the guide who 

 takes him out, that are benefitted, but the hotel where he 

 stops, the store where his provisions are bought, the sad- 

 dler where he purchases his spurs, and every other store 

 is benefitted. The money which he spends passes from 

 hand to hand, and helps each man in the community to 

 pay his debts or in some way add to his comfort. It is 

 a lubricant which makes the wheels of trade nm so much 

 the more easily in this particular place. 



It might be thought that people like those dwelling in 

 the new States of the Rocky Mountains would realize all 

 this, and would see that it was for their interest to attract 

 within their borders as many people of this cla&s as pos- 

 sible; that it is more for the benefit of the State and of 

 the commimity to have a man spend several hundred 

 dollars for the sake of getting half a dozen elk, deer or 

 sheep, than it is to have one of their own citizens earn 

 and spend $15 or $20 in the same way, but in violation of 

 the law. 



We have no doubt that every head of Maid game killed 

 by an outsider brings into these States $100, while the 

 illegally killed game brings in little or nothing. 



The citizens of these States should look at this matter 

 pturely from a business point of view, from the standpoint 

 of dollars and cents. No people in the world are keener 

 business men than the citizens of these communities or 

 quicker to see a business point. Is it not worth their 

 while as business men carrying on affairs in the towns of 

 these new States to consider this question and to take an 

 active interest in having the game laws enforced, and in 

 frowning down all violations of it? The business men 

 can infiuence the newspapers, and in a short time public 

 opinion can be so altered that men who have been accus- 

 tomed to violate the law would no longer do so, finding 

 themselves in danger of prosecution on the one hand and 

 on the other Avithout a market for their skins. 



Such a change would put an end to the violations of the 

 law encouraged by certain taxidermists who put a pre- 

 mium on illegal killing by purchasing specimens which 

 they know have been secured in violation of the statutes. 



Although no statistics are at hand, it may be safely 

 said that the money spent by hunters in past years in 

 the three States named has mounted up into the hun- 

 dreds of thousands of dollars; but this wiU not continue 

 unless there is big game enough left to attract the hunter. 

 Nowadays we hear almost as much about men going to 

 Canada or Newfoundland for moose, deer and caribou, as 

 we used to about those who wanted elk, sheei? and ante- 

 lope in the Rockies. 



The residents of the new States should not allow the 

 goose which has been supplying them with golden eggs 

 to be kiUed by theu- law-breaking fellow citizens. 



SNAF SHOTS. 



The correspondent who writes of the relations of f arm- 

 mers and town sportsmen undoubtedly represents with 

 substantial accuracy the views of some people who are 

 not in sympathy with sportsmen nor with our fish and 

 game protection codes. Nevertheless, there is not room 

 for a wide difference of opuiion on most of the points 

 he makes. We will all agree that the sportsman's right 

 to trespass and to tear down fences is dubious, 

 and that a farmer has an unquestioned right to 

 save himself from ruin by destroying the game 

 that is eating him out of house and home. And we will 

 all agree that it is exceedingly unfortunate that game and 

 fish laws should be regarded with disfavor as being class 

 laws, intended for the sole benefit of the town sportsmen. 

 On the other hand, and there is abundant reason for 

 satisfaction here, this mistaken notion of "class" legisla- 

 tion is sorely on the decline. The farmer, the land owner, 

 the dweller in rural districts, the commimity at large 

 is coming to a clearer understanding of the truth that 

 game i^rotection is for the common good of all. The 

 country philosophers who hold the doctrines expressed by 

 om- correspondent are less numerous than formerly. 

 Their contentions have no basis in the principles of the pro- 

 tective system; but they do borrow some color from the 

 misdoings of arrogant sportsmen. The laws were never in- 

 tended to shield the ' 'hogs" who break down fences. They 

 were and are designed to save a game supply for the rea- 

 sonable benefit of decent people, who wish to shoot and 

 fish, whether those people live in town or in country, and 

 whetiier they are living now in 1893 or shall be living by 



and by in 1950. The one end and design and aim and 

 purpose and object of the game laws is to keep alive a 

 stock of game. If farmers suffer from the raids of fence- 

 breakers, let them enforce the trespass laws. The rowdy- 

 ism of a few or of many should not condemn all. 



A campaign against the all-swallowing pound nets of 

 the New Jersey coast has been entered upon by the rod 

 and line fishermen of Asbtiry Park and vicinity. At a 

 meeting on Wednesday of last week the New Jersey 

 Amateur Anglers' Association was formed, with the ex- 

 pressed purpose of suppressing pound fishing along the 

 coast resorts. Mr. C. S. Detre of Philadelphia was made 

 president, and Mr. W. E. Bedell of Asbury Park, secre- 

 tary. Just what measures will be adopted to secure the 

 abolition of pounds has not yet been determined. There 

 is nothing in the present law which in any way affects 

 pound fishing in ocean waters unless it be that the pro- 

 hibition against Sunday fishing might be applied. It is 

 not clear that the chapter containing a prohibition of 

 Sunday fishing would be held to apply to sea fishing, nor 

 that the maintaining of the pounds in position on Sunday 

 would be construed as fishing on that day within the 

 intent of the statute. If New Jersey coast resorts are to 

 be cleared of pounds, this must be accomplished by work 

 at Trenton, and before anything can ever be done there 

 the shore county members of the Legislature must have 

 been pledged to the support of a statute against pound 

 fishing. The new Asbury Park Association has taken 

 upon itself no child's play. The pound fishermen have 

 large capital invested; their interests are enormous; they 

 may be depended upon to defend these interests; and the 

 movement against them can be made successful only by 

 the expenditure of time and effort, and untiring, persist- 

 ent work. 



One principle involved in this pound fishing discussion 

 is that of State control of sea coast watei-s. This principle 

 is clear and well defined. The State has territorial juris- 

 diction over its sea waters for a marine league from the 

 shore. This has been recognized as the law of nations; 

 and that the State control over such waters may apply to 

 their fisheries has been decided by the courts. Massachu- 

 setts enacted a law prohibiting the use of any ' 'drag, set 

 or gill-net, or purse or sweep seine," in Buzzard's Bay. 

 It was held by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and. 

 the decision was affirmed by the Suprenle Court of the 

 United States, that the State has control of its watei-s 

 within a marine league of the shore; that Buzzard's 

 Bay was properly included in such limits; that the 

 State could control the fisheries therein; and that the 

 law against nets was vahd. The statute was directed 

 against the menhaden fishermen. The law has been en- 

 forced; it is operative at this very moment. The press 

 dispatches of July 31 reported that on the day before the 

 fish and guano works of the Church Brothers at Ports- 

 mouth, R. I., had ceased operations; and their eight 

 fishing schooners were idle. The shut-down, it was 

 reported, was due to a scarcity of fish in waters where 

 fishing is permitted, although there are great hosts of 

 them in Buzzard's Bay where the Massachusetts prohib- 

 itory law is in force. 



Ex-State Senator Donald McNaughton, of Rochester, 

 N. Y., who died in Chicago last Sunday, belonged to that 

 limited class of public men who take an intelligent, lively 

 and patriotic interest in fish and game protection. Mr. 

 McNaughton was an active member of the Cheaper Fish 

 Food Association of Rochester; he did much to promote 

 the international fish conferences of 1891 and 189.2; when 

 in the Senate at Albany his voice and his vote were always 

 on the side of protection; and by his death those who are 

 working in these fields have lost a respected and valued 

 aUy. 



A suggestion that there was any relation between the 

 silver question and the game supply might at first blush 

 be considered fantastic, but it appears that the deprecia- 

 tion of silver and the shutting down of the silver mines 

 are ah-eady affecting the game near the mining camps. A 

 correspondent who writes us from Rico, Cal., reports 

 that as the miners are absolutely idle they are going out 

 in every direction in the mountains and hvmting game to 

 save expenses in the meat line. "I saw over twenty 

 start out this morning," he says. "If the mines had not 

 been closed not a man would now be after game. If this 

 camp is representative of the others in the West then 

 good-bye to the deer, elk and other game, ' 



