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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Aug, 13, 18i)3. 



Anglers* Association of the St. Lawrence. 



The ninth annual convention of the Anglers' Associa- 

 tion of the St. Lawrence River was held at Alexandria 

 Bay last Thursday. Thirty-five members were present. 



In the absence of President H. H. Warner, whose re- 

 grets were presented by Secretary Thompson, the first 

 vice-president, W. C. Browning, took the chair. Super- 

 visor Holmes of Redwood was chosen secretary pro tern. 

 The minutes of the last session were read and approved, 

 followed by a list of applications for membership, all of 

 whom were approved and duly elected members of the 

 association. The treasurer's report was then audited and 

 approved, and as it ever has been, found strictly correct. 

 Treasurer Grant is a model. 



Letters were read from various parties regretting that 

 they could not attend the meeting, notably one from Gen. 

 Bruce of Syracuse, and a telegram from the editor of the 

 Forest and Stream, both complimentary and encour- 

 aging. 



Secretary W. H. Thompson broached the question of 

 frost fish, a species of ciscoe which infests Mill Site Lake 

 to the detriment of the salmon trout. 



The discussion was to devise some means by which 

 authority could be had to net the cisc.oes and preserve the 

 trout. A beautiful specimen of salmon trout was shown , 

 and it is claimed that if the ciscoes can be kept out, 

 salmon trout to the weight even of 301bs. will be the 

 result. The secretary was instructed to correspond with 

 the Fish Commissioners to the end that some plan may be 

 devised. 



A brief report was made by Game Protector Northrup, 

 showing conckisively that while thousands of dollars in 

 value of illegal fisliing apjpliances have been destroyed in 

 the last two years, that the amoimt has this year materi- 

 ally decreased, and that public sentiment has undergone 

 a great change. His report was very interesting and 

 brought a hearty vote of thanks, together with a resolu- 

 tion that the substances of his report be sent to the 

 members of the association and to aU interested as convin- 

 cing proof that the efforts of the Anglers' Association 

 toward the protection of game fish had not been without 

 their legitimate fruits for good. 



Major Durham, of Cape Viacent, introduced the 

 question of the exempt-waters of Lake Ontario, as 

 embraced in the towns of Lyme and BowenviUe, and a 

 brief speech outlined the situation, exposing the fact that 

 the netters had tried through the efforts of a Watertown 

 lawyer to get even the waters of Cape Vincent exempted 

 from the action of the law. On motion of Mr. Grant, it 

 was left to the executive committee to appoint a sub- 

 committee who should look after this matter at the 

 proper time, and also to the size and weight of fish, 

 which should be the hmit. 



A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Manager 

 Esseltyn, of the Walton House, for his courtesy- to the 

 members of the Association. The election of officers re- 

 sulted as follows: President, H. H. Warner; First Vice- 

 President, W. C. Browning; Second Vice-President, H. 

 R. Heath; Secretary, W. H. Thomson; Treasm-er, R. P. 

 Grant; Executive Committee: Chairman, A. C. Cornwall; 

 J. H. Quimby, G. H. Strough, James T. Story, O. T. 

 Mackay. 



The attendance was larger than that of last year, and 

 the meeting was not only an interesting but instructive 

 one. After the adjournment the members were invited 

 to board Mr. Browning's beautiful yacht Indienne for a 

 ride to Alex Bay, and on the way a hearty and enthusias- 

 tic vote of thanks was accorded the generous owner. — On 

 the St. Lawrence. 



A Dark Colored Fluke. 



Narragansett Pier, R. I., July 31.— I have just sent 

 you (per Adams Express) a flounder which I caught while 

 bass fishing this morning. It is peculiar on account of 

 being black on both sides with a white head. AU the men 

 to whom I have shown it say that they never saw one 

 like it before, and Mr. R. G. Dun, who was fishing on the 

 adjoining stand said that it was the first one he had ever 

 seen and advised me to send it to you. As far as I know 

 it may by very common, but if it is worth preserving, I 

 should be glad to give it to "om* jsaper." I have had very 

 good fishing of all kinds, both in fresh and salt water, 

 and hope soon to open up with the gun. 



Theakston de Coppet, 



[This fish (which is the common fluke, a variety of the 

 floxmder or Pleiironectida family) exhibits a freak of 

 having both sides colored, instead of one side being dark 

 brown and the other white. Mr. E. G. Blackford tells us 

 that such idiosyncrasies of coloring are often found.] 



A Blind Hybrid Salmon. 



Some years ago, at Clackamas, Oregon, Mr. Waldo F. 

 Hubbard fertilized some eggs of the blueback salmon (C. 

 nerka) with milt of the quinnat (0. eliouieha). The eggs 

 hatched in about the same time as those of the quinnat 

 salmon and the fry lived until the sac was absorbed, but 

 none of them had a trace of an eye. 



Mr. Hubbard has crossed siiversides (0. hiSutch) with 

 the quinnat both ways. The eggs hatched and the fry 

 appeared to be as healthy as young quinnat. 



The blueback salmon, according to lili-. Hubbard, does 

 not run into the Clackamas River; the female which lie 

 found there and crossed with the quinnat was the only 

 one he has seen in the stream. It was a small fish and 

 very red. Dog salmon and humpbaciis are absent also 

 from the river. 



The Bass Run Small. 



Athenian Club, Oakland, Cal., July 24. --A shooting 

 and fishing club of which I am a member has a lake of 

 ten or twelve acres preserved. It was made by damming 

 a canon and is very deep at the lower end, gradually shoal- 

 ing to its inlet at the upper end. A small stream supphes 

 it and the water is used to supply this city. Some ten 

 years since it was stocked with black bass, and on favor- 

 able afternoons a catch of 50 or 60 may easily be taken 

 with the fly; but they are aU small, running about 6in. 

 long. One Sin. long is a rarity. Can you inform us how 

 to improve their condition, or what the reason is they do 

 not grow larger? Two years since one weighing 2flbB. 

 was taken vpith a spoon— but only one. If you can assist 

 us in this matter, you will confer a great favor on a num- 

 ber of sportsmen here, and especially C. B. G. 



The Forest and Streajx is put to press each iveek on Tues- 

 day. Correspondence intended for piiblication should reach 

 us at the latest by Monday, and as much earlier as practicable. 



Forest and Stream in the World's Fair. 



Seen by Our Staff Correspondents. 



A Few Visitors. 



Tliere are now some thousands of names on the Forest 

 AND Stream register at the Fair, and among these thou- 

 sands are very many wdiom one would be glad to meet 

 face to face. Many write their names and pass on, some 

 leave cards, and some appear in proper person. That one 

 can not sec-every one of these friends is a matter for 

 sincere regret. Out of an enveloj)e full of cards I take a 

 handful. 



All Sorts. 



They are all sorts, and I imagine that if you rounded 

 them all up together and shot into the flock you would 

 get some pretty decent people. 



Mr. Roger D. Williams, of Lexington, Ky., leaves two 

 cards. He would have been twice and thrice welcome, 

 no one more so, and I am sorry he got back to his blue 

 grass home without his path crossing ours in the mazy 

 ways of business and pleasure. No one ought to come to 

 the Fair for less than a two weeks' stay, and three or four 

 days makes a preposterous limit. 



Mr. Townsend Whelen is another who came in the 

 darkness and we saw him not. Encore, please. 



Sakaye SawatF.ri, Commissioner of Japanese Fisheries 

 Society to the World's Columbian Exposition, called and 

 left his card. He had heard of Forest and Stream in 

 Japan, and wanted some copies to post himself up a little 

 in regard to the habits of American fishes. He is a 

 very courteous and pleasant gentleman. 



Mr. Robert J. Mix, of New York city, is a gentleman of 

 great ability, critical judgment and rare good taste, not 

 to mention acute perception and plenty of sense. Mr. 

 Mix ought not to be kejit back, and I hope to see lutu 

 President of the United States. On the back of his card 

 he says: "One of the chief objects I had in mind in visit- 

 ing Chicago was to meet Mr. Hough, whose writings I 



FOREST AKD stream's LOCATION IN AKGLlNG PAVILION. 



have so much admired," I wish there were more men in 

 the world like Mr. i>iix. 



Mr. Claude King, editor of Sftorffi Afield, Denver, was 

 looking for some one, but not with a gun or razor. Mr. 

 King is a clean editor and has a clean publication. All 

 such are in easy touch with Forest and Stream. 



Mr. J. Vom Hofe, of New York, who has made so many 

 reels that he might well be expected to have wheels in his 

 head, but who has not, has tarried here a moment, so says 

 his card. 



Mr. H. W. DeLong, of Dansville, N. Y., who once upon 

 a time took second prize in the "Camp-Fire Fhckerings" 

 in Forest and Stream, flickered in and blew out, and we 

 saw him not. 



Mr. E. L. Carney, of Leavenworth, Kan., came in on 

 the other road, and him I later caught, causing him to 

 stand and deliver many reminiscences of the country of 

 large 'hoppers. 



IVIi-. A. Allison, representing Missouri at the Fair, strayed 

 over and swung on the Forest and Stream gate a while, 

 I know it by his card. 



Mr. L. W. Feighner, of the Neivs, Nashville, Mich., has 

 lately been hollering down the Forest and Stream rain, 

 barrel. I know it by his card. 



Mr. Eugene Lahee, an enthusiastic rifleman of Alton, 

 111., tarried here all too briefly, and left before the Western 

 end of Forest and Stream could arrange a team to beat 

 him shooting. 



The Army Also. 



Lieutenant H. L. Scott, Seventh Cavalry, now at Ft, 

 SUl, registers and vanishes all too soon. I always like the 

 army men. So does everybody else. 



Lieutenant W. C. Brown, First Cavalry, temporarily in 

 Chicago, also leaves brief word, but not the wanted 

 address. 



James Huber, in charge of the Maxim-Nordenfeldt gun, 

 British section, leaves an invitation to call around and 

 see the thing work. It is tried on a dog at 3 P. M., 

 Thursdays, 



Authors, Too. 



I have just said some nice things about Mr. Robert J. 

 Mix, because I thought he deserved it, but maybe I ought 

 to divide some of this with Mr. Kirk Munroe, a popular 

 writer and one known even more widely than the circle 

 reached by Forest and Stream, in which he writes as 

 "O K. CJiobee." Mr, Munroe is on his way to Alaska 



after material for some stories. He writes on liis card 

 here, "The Fair loses all its anticipated charm in the 

 absence of the hero of Kekoskee. I have made a. dafly 

 call on you during the past week and been as often dis- 

 appointed." In view of the great scarcity of gentlemen of 

 intellectual scope and profound insight into human nature 

 like this, I am a good deal disappornteder than Mr. Mim- 

 roe is that I did not see him. I have been cautioned by 

 the authorities about endangering the Fair by a careless 

 absence out of town, and will henceforth try to do better. 

 As it is. I am always away at just the wrong time, Tliere 

 may be another Fair. There can not be another O. K. 

 Chobee. 



And now comes "Amphibian," the same being Mr. Wm. 

 Manatt, Jr., of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and avers that he 

 tried to see the Western end of Forest and Stream, and 

 could not. Dear sir, the Western end of Forest and 

 Stream sticks far, far out over the Pacific Ocean, and you 

 would catch it quicker if you went round the other way. 

 Rival journalists have tried to see it and couldn't, and Jis 

 for raising it — nay, nay. 



Mr. Jas. Crow, of Crystal Lake, lU., leaves the word 

 that he was one of the very first of the Forest and 

 Stream subscribers. I wish I could have seen him, and I 

 wish that, since tliis could not be, Mr. Crow would teU 

 the paper what he remembers of those early days, and 

 what he thinks of the paper as it is to-day, World's Fair 

 and all. The change in the twenty years must have im- 

 pressed a reader who has had the paper before him all 

 that time 



And so I could go on, for these are but a few cards out 

 of very many, and taken almost at random. But I save 

 the best till the last. I found two boys in the Forest and 

 Stream space the other day, and they were such bright, 

 manly little fellows, so interested in what there was to be 

 seen, that I fell to talking with them. "I will not register 

 my own name," said tlie elder, as I came while he was 

 writing, "I'm not a man yet, but I'fl sign my uncle's 

 name. He reads Forest and Stream, and I've read it for 

 a good while myself.'' So he signed first the name of H, 

 S. Lang, Hoi-nellsville, N. Y. I asked him for his own 

 name, and he said it was Harold B. Rose, stated that he 

 was 12 years old, and remarked that he was going to the 

 Adirondacks with his uncle in the fall. He liked to read 

 books about camping out, he said, and he thought the 

 ' 'little boat" (the Sairey Gamp) was pretty small. ' 'What 

 do you want to know all about tliis for?" he asked, curi- 

 ously, as he saw me writing. Bless the boy! it was be- 

 cause I liked this more than anything I have seen about 

 the Forest and Stream place, I wish liim and his young 

 friend a pleasant trip and many after it. They are going 

 the right way to stay young a long while, and to know 

 some of the keenest and pirrest pleasm-es fife will hold for 

 them. It's clean out of doors. If these boys grow to be 

 old in years I want them to remember their visit to Forest 

 AND Stream, for someway, out of all the thousands I 

 have seen go by or stop there, I believe these fresh young 

 faces, with only eagerness and joy refiected in them, re- 

 main more distinct than any others. E, HouGH. 

 Milwaukee Tack and Nail Co.'s Exhibit. 



The exhibit of this company is in Section O, Block 3, 

 No. 34. One, however, might look for it long and fruit- 

 lessly, for over it is not the firm title as given above, but 

 the sign BLizzacott's Standard Army Field Ovens. Those 

 in search of the exhibit under consideration should bear 

 this information in mind. The exhibit comprises a lot of 

 camp cookers for outdoor cooking only. They are made 

 in sizes to meet the wants of from two to fifty men. 

 They are very compact, and it is claimed for them that 

 they can be heated or cooled in a few moments' time, a 

 most important consideration when time is precious. 

 They contain every utensil needed in cooking. This com- 

 pany also has an exhibit in the Government Building, 

 E. & H. T. Anthony &, Co.'s Exhibit. 



This is in the North Gallery of the Manufactures 

 Building, E, Q, 103. The exhibit is most neatly and artis- 

 tically arranged for effective and pleasing display in a 

 space 26ft. front by 201t. in depth. In the center of the 

 rear is a pyramid of cameras of various sizes, from a 4x5 

 to a 25x30, all fine in workmanship. In the front are 

 cases containing different sizes and kinds of lenses, and 

 shutters in great variety. In short, there is a complete 

 line of photographic material, chemical and mechanical. 

 The inner walls are covered with beautiful American 

 "Ai-isto" photographs, the "Aristo" being a new collodion 

 paper. The photographs are wonderfiffly good. Much 

 merit is claimed for the Aristo paper. In the rear is a 

 dark room devoted to the use of amatem-s free of cost. 

 The front has a couple of bronze statuettes, and a bit of 

 coarse grasses and foliage in the upper corners of the 

 walls give a most pleasing effect. There is a delightfully 

 pleasant, bright air pervading that photographic bower. 

 It is in charge of l^Ir. Fenton M. Armstrong, a most pohte 

 and attentive gentleman. No one can converse with him 

 on photogi-aphy without being a gainer in knowledge, 

 knowledge most graciously imparted. 



August 1. — The popular corner of the Exposition which 

 holds the American gun exhibits has been brightened by 

 the addition to its ranks of the stable figure and pleasant 

 countenanceof Colonel A. G. Courtney, in charge of the 

 Lefever Arm s Co. Colonel Courtney has an arm chair 

 and a fan in active service these days, and fans with 

 one hand whfie he sells ejector Lefevers with the other. 

 "The only American ejector shown at the Fair," says 

 he, and he hangs on a gun another card with " Sold" 

 written on it in large letters. Spain, India, Russia and 

 other foreign lands are going to have Lefevers after the 

 Fair is over. The Lefever exhibit, however, wfil not be 

 broken, nor any guns dehvered from it. The many vis- 

 iting shooters who have looked with interest at the fine 

 cases of the Lefever goods will get a double run for their 

 money now that Colonel Courtney has came. It is quite 

 a lively group of gun men, this now assembled over in 

 the "American corner" of the Manufactures Building 

 and they dwell together in peace, harmony and jolfity. 



B. Waters. 



