Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1893. 



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

 Six Months, $2. ( 



( VOL. XLI.— No. 8. 



I No. 318 Broadway, New York. 



CONTEXTS. 



Editorial. 



The Bering Sea Decision. 

 W« Have Lost a Bear. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Midsummer on the Molalla. 

 In the Kockies. 



Natural History. 



Mounted Game Birds in TJ. S. 

 National Museum. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Shooting Ducks on the Water. 

 Pheasants for Michigan. 

 The Behring Sea Decision. 

 Moose Calling in Nova Scotia. 

 "Shooting Without, a Gun." 

 A Memory of the Frontier. 

 Forest and Stream in the 



World's Fair. 

 The Duty of Sportsmen, 

 A Tale of a Tailboard. 

 American Proof House. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



The Ways of the Salmon. 

 Salmon and Pork Bait. 

 Game Qualities of Ouananiche. 

 Ganadiau Angling Notes. 

 Boston and Maine. 

 Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 

 Fishing Postals. 



The Kennel. 



The Fox-Terrier. 



The Kennel. 



World's Fair Dog Show Aban- 

 doned. 



The Trainer's Masterpiece 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 



Answers to Correspon its. 

 Hunting and Coursing. 



The Beagle Trials at Nanuet. 

 New England Beagle Club Trials. 



Yachting. 



New York Y. C. Cruise. 

 MattapoisettY. C. 

 Tacoma Y. C. 

 Navahoe. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



The A. C. A. Meet. 

 The Original '-Kelpie." 

 Glenwood— Electra. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



San Francisco Pistol Club. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



The Charlotte Interstate. 

 Reading Summer Tournament. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries. 



F(?r Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page viii. 



WE HAVE LOST A BEAR. 



The Forest and Stream grizzly died last Saturday. She 

 was the survivor of the pair of cubs sent to us in 1885 

 from Montana, where, in the wilds of Cut- Bank, Piegan 

 Indian John had taken the scalp of the maternal grizzly 

 in fair and open set-to. The cubs were placed by us in the 

 Central Park of this city. The male died in 1888, having 

 succumbed to a pulmonary complaint contracted in the 

 great bUzzard of that year. The female in turn died of 

 consumption. Each met an imtimely death. Amid the 

 higher altitudes of the Rockies they might have lived to 

 a green and grizzly old. age. 



We should not do our grizzly justice, if we permitted 

 her to pass into oblivion without adverting to those lovely 

 and unbearish traits which were conspicuous in her char- 

 acter and endeared her to the populace. She was, as 

 bears go — or more truly, as bears do not go — a creature of 

 sweetness and light— sweetness not wasted on tlie desert air 

 nor light hidden amid the gloom of the thick timber. 

 She exhibited a side of bear nature not revealed to those 

 who study the race with traps and clogs and guns. All 

 that a savage and ferocious bear of the wilderness should 

 be, she was not. All that a civilized and polished bear of 

 the town should be, she was. Her life was a beautiful 

 demonstration of the great truth that the children of the 

 tribe of Ephraim are after all but the creatures of their 

 surroundings. 



Snatched in a tender stage of ursine infancy from the 

 rugged and roughening scenes of her native lair in the 

 wilderness, she was removed from the companionship, 

 the influence and the teachings of grizzly exemplars, and 

 was brought to dwell am.ong mea in the metropolis. 

 Here, amid the beauties of landscape gardening, the 

 monuments and statues of poets, painters, patriots, phil- 

 osophers and divines, within hearing of the hum of the 

 concom"se where the equipages of fashion roll their cease- 

 less course, surroimded by art galleries and libraries, 

 churches, synagogues, hospitals, colleges, vast apartment 

 houses and hotels towering in the air, here, in a word, in 

 a center of civilization and culture and refinement, she 

 curbed her savage instincts, took on the graces of an 

 amiable sociability, and as she grew in years and bulk 

 and length of claw, and her disposition mellowed, she 

 proved herself worthy of the exalted station to whit h 

 destiny had called her. She renounced the immemorial 

 traditions of her race with respect to human kind. She 

 was a stranger to fear of humanity, and felt no infuriate 

 animosity toward it. Man the death-dealer and exterm- 

 inator of grizzlies she knew not, and knowing not hated 

 not. Man the purveyor of peanuts and confectionery 

 she knew, and knowing loved. 



Her life was one continuous levee. It is with bears as 

 with men — 



Stone waUs do not a prison make, 

 Nor iron bars a cage. 



During the years, of her sojourn in the bear pit of Cen- 

 tral Park, she furnished a spectacle for the curious gaze 

 of millions of visitors. Some of them she amused with 

 her antics; others she entertained with her winsome ways; 



and the thoughtful among them she baffled with her eyes. 

 Those eyes were mild, luminous with intelligence, now 

 twinkling with humor, then quizzical, on occasion con- 

 temptuous and scornful, in the distress of her last days 

 appealing and pathetic, mysterious and uncanny with 

 something of the human in them — so wonderfully human 

 that looking into them one might well imderstand why 

 the I'ed Indian ascribed supernatural power to his brother 

 the bear, and might know how the doctrine of the trans- 

 migration of souls came into the world. 



THE BERING SEA DECISION. 



The arbitrators chosen to decide the points in dis- 

 pute between the United States and Great Britain, in con- 

 nection with fur sealing in Bering Sea, rendered their 

 decision on Tuesday, Aug. 15. 



Not very many years ago there arose in the North Pacific 

 Ocean the practice of killing the fur seals for commercial 

 purposes during their migrations to their breeding grounds. 

 Later, the seals were followed into Bering Sea, and 

 vessels hovered about the Pribylov Islands killing the 

 q,nimals on their journeys between the islands and their 

 feeding grounds 60 or 100 miles away. A large proportion 

 of the seals so killed were breeding females, and about 

 three-quarters of those killed were lost by sinking before 

 they could be secured. Thus the destruction was very 

 great and very wasteful. The industry of pelagic sealing 

 at length assumed such proportions that the United States, 

 claiming that the seals Avere its property, took active 

 measures to put an end to the slaughter, and captured 

 and confiscated certain vessels engaged in it, which 

 were flying the British flag. Much diplomatic correspon- 

 dence ensued, and a treaty was at length made between 

 the United States and Great Britain, which provided that 

 the whole subject of the jurisdiction of the United States 

 over the waters of Bering Sea, the preservation of the fur 

 seals which habitually resort to that sea to breed, and the 

 right of citizens and subjects of either country to take the 

 fur seals in the open sea, should be submitted to a tribunal 

 composed of seven arbitrators, two to be named by Great 

 Britain, two by the United States, one by France, one by 

 Italy and one by Sweden and Norway. 



The arbitrator chosen were, for the United States, 

 Justice John M. Harlan and Senator John T. Morgan; for 

 Great Britain, Lord Hannen and Sir John S. D. Thomp- 

 son; for France, Baron de Courcel, who was subsequently 

 chosen president of the tribunal; for Italy, Marquis 

 Emilio Visconti-Venosta, and for Sweden and Norway, 

 Judge Gram. 



The various questions in dispute were embodied in 

 Article VI. of the treaty of arbitration, which will be 

 found in another column. A brilliant array of counsel 

 appeared before the arbitrators, some of the best lawyers 

 of England and the United States being represented. 



For the United States it was contended (1) that the 

 Bering Sea was not included in the Pacific Ocean, as 

 that term was used in the treaty of 1825 between Great 

 Britain and Russia; (3) that being a body of water nearly 

 surroimded by land, Bering Sea belonged to Russia 

 when that surrounding land was Russian territory; (3) 

 that whatever rights Russia had to Bering Sea and in the 

 seal fisheries passed unimpaired to the United States 

 under the treaty of March 80, 1867, by which the territory 

 of Alaska was purchased; (4) that one of those rights so 

 passing to the United States was the right of protection of 

 and property in fur seals frequenting islands of the United 

 States in Bering Sea, wherever such seals might be found, 

 whether on shore or in the open sea outside the ordinary 

 three-mile limit. 



Great Britain held that the United States had no juris- 

 diction in the waters of Bering Sea outside the three-mile 

 limit, and that the seals in the open sea were ferce natures 

 and belonged to whomever might take them. 



On aU of these questions the decision of the arbitrators 

 is adverse to the United States. In other words, on all 

 points of law the arbitrators decided against this country. 

 The contention of the United States was for the estabhsh- 

 ment of new principles of international law, and it was 

 the duty of the arbitrators who listened to the arguments 

 made by the counsel of the two Governments to announce 

 what the law was. Their declaration agrees in ail respects 

 with well established principles of international law, and 

 thus is against the United States. 



On the other hand, the arbitrators have formulated a 

 series of regulations for seal fishing by citizens of the 

 I United States and Great Britain which gives to the seals 



a large measure of protection, almost as much, indeed, as 

 the United States contended for. By these reg-ulations: 



(1) It is forbidden to kill seals within a zone of sixty 

 miles around the Pribylov Islands. 



(2) A close season is established from May 1 to July 31 

 inclusive for fur seals on the high seas in the Pacific 

 Ocean north of the 35th parallel of north latitude and 

 east of the 180th degree of longitude from Greenwich. 



(3) Only sailing vessels shall be permitted to take part 

 in fur sealing operations. 



(4) Each sailing vessel must be licensed and carry a 

 distinguishing flag prescribed by its Government. 



(5) Masters of vessels shall keep a tally of the number 

 and sex of seals captured each day, and these records 

 shall be communicated to the two Governments at the 

 end of the season. 



(6) The use of nets, firearms or explosives is forbidden 

 in fur sealing at any time in the Bering Sea, but shot- 

 guns may be used in fishing outside of Bering Sea during 

 the open season. 



(7) The two Governments shall take measures to control 

 the fitness of men engaged in fur sealing. 



(8) Indians may be engaged in fur sealing, provided 

 they are not employed by other persons and provided they 

 do not hunt fur seals outside of territorial waters under 

 contract to deliver skins to anybody. 



(9) These regulations shall remain in force until they 

 have been fully or in part abolished by a common agree- 

 ment between the United States and Great Britain. 



The establishment of the close season, the sixty-mile zone 

 about the Pribylov Islands and the prohibition against 

 steam vessels, firearms and nets will if rigorously enforced 

 be likely to result in the serious crippling of pelagic sealing, 

 if not in its actual abolition. There is still a number 

 of details which will come up for settlement, and it will 

 be necessary for some agreement to be made between the 

 two Governments for enforcing the regulations an- 

 nounced. 



It is unfortunate that other nations, whose territory is 

 washed by waters frequented by the fur seal, were not 

 represented at the arbitration conference at Paris, and 

 are not bound by its decisions. The regulations should 

 govern citizens of Russia, Japan, China and other less 

 important nations, if the seals are effectively to be pre- 

 served. These regulations will be law for the citizens of 

 the United States and Great Britain, but not for vessels 

 flying the flags of other nations. Heretofore, almost all 

 pelagic sealers have been either Americans, Englishmen 

 or Canadians, but it will not be diflicult for an American 

 or a Canadian who wishes to engage in fur sealing, to 

 obtain a registry from another coimtry and to pursue his 

 trade. Since, however. Great Britain, Russia and the 

 United States seem to be of one mind on the question of 

 seal preservation, it should be possible to induce other 

 nations to conform to the regulations laid down last week 

 by the arbitrators at Paris. 



Although the United States did not by any means ob- 

 tain what was desired in this arbitration, it is yet a matter 

 for congratulation that through the efforts of this Govern- 

 ment the fur seals wiU now have a much greater chance 

 for life than at any time since pelagic sealing has been 

 practiced. And the civilized world may rejoice that a dis- 

 pute between two of the greatest nations of the earth, 

 which at one time threatened to become serious, has been 

 amicably settled in this way. It is another triumph for 

 arbitration; the world has advanced one step further 

 along toward the time when armies and wars shall be 

 abolished. 



The reappointment of Mr. James Gayler as First 

 Assistant Postmaster gives general and deserved satis- 

 faction to all who have dealings with the New York 

 post-office. Mr, Gayler has been in the service for thirty- 

 eight years, and has held his present position since 1880. 

 He is highly esteemed both by the department and by 

 the pilbhc as an eflicient and valuable official. He is an 

 enthusiastic fisherman, and it is quite clear to us that 

 the success of his career is due to the fact that he has 

 had the good sense to go fishing whenever he could 

 break his chains and get away, and when he could not has 

 made the best of the situation by reading Forest and 

 Stream. The weekly copy of this journal bearing the 

 First Assistant Postmaster's address label is one piece 

 of second class mafl matter deposited in the New York 

 post-office which the clerks take good care to see shall 

 reach its destination. 



