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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Sept. 2, 1898. 



Forest and Stream in the World's Fair. 



As Seen by Our Staff Correspondents, 



The Alaska Exhibit. 

 In the northwest comer of the United States, extending 

 through about 1,200 miles of latitude and 2,000 miles of lon- 

 gitude lies the province which Seward purchased, and on 

 account of which we have recently survived an attack of 

 arbitration. Similarly, in the northwest gallery of the 

 Interior Department space in the U. S. Government Build- 

 ing, is displayed the unique exhibit from Alaska, arranged 

 by and in large measure belonging to Lieut. G. S. Emmons, 

 li. S. Navy. 



Lieut. Emmons has lived in southeastern Alaska long 

 enough to have become thoroughly acquainted with the 

 Indian tribes, their mode' of life, methods of making 

 clothes and ornaments, implements of hunting and fish- 

 ing, artists' materials, medicines, and in general every- 

 thing pertaining to their domestic economy. Among the 

 results of his patient and intelligent research are the 2,700 

 objects shown in the Alaskan exhibit. 



these include articles made of wood, grasses, fibers, 

 animal substances, stone, minerals and various metals. 

 The museum idea has never been forgotten in forming the 

 collection, so that one sees, not a heterogeneous mass of 

 curiosities, but a scientific representation of the arts and 

 indtistries of the people, beginning with the raw materials 

 and carried through the various stages of preparation to 

 the finished products. Having been on a friendly foot- 

 ing with the natives, Mr. Emmons has enjoyed their con- 

 fidence and profited by their assistance with great advan- 

 tage to his undertakings. 



The dugout canoes, implements of stone and copper, 

 devices for games, wood carvings, household utensils, 

 articles of bone and horn, and the engraved silver orna- 

 ments are conspicuous for their number and quality. 



The Eskimo collections were obtained chiefly by Capt. 

 Healy, of the steamer Corwin, and his associates. A 

 fine series of water color paintings of Alaskan landscapes, 

 natives and their dwellings, and glaciers was lent for 

 exhibition by Artist Eichardson. The wild flowers of the 

 Sitkan district are illustrated by the color paintings of 

 Miss Jackson. 



One of the trading companies sent a case of furs of sea 

 otter, fur seal, foxes, mink, wolf, wolverine and bear. 

 The minerals and ores of the territory are well repre- 

 sented in the collection, and also some of the oils and 

 fertilizers derived from herring and other fish. 



Visitors are universally surprised by the display of 

 forest trees and their applications. The skill of the 

 Indians in canoe building and wood carving is well 

 brought out by the many fine products of their hands. 



Alaska is, perhaps, the best known through its fish and 

 game, and it was to be expected that Lieut. Emmons 

 would bring together a striking assortment of species, and 

 particularly of the fish, because he is an enthusiastic fish- 

 erman. On account of the difficulty and expense of 

 preservation in alcohol the collection includes chiefly 

 mounted skins. These were prepared by Mr. F. E. Frobese 

 of Sitka. 



They represent nearly forty kinds and most of them are 

 edible. There are the five species of salmon, Gairdner's 

 trout, red-throated trout, Dolly Varden trout, capelin, cod, 

 pollock, halibut, skate, dogfish, several kinds of "rock 

 trout" or "sea trout" {Hexagrammus), a large number of 

 so-called "rock trout" (Sebastiehthys), one of which is the 

 "black bass" at Sitka, three forms of sculpin {Cottus, Aspi- 

 cottus and JSeviilepidotus), the sand launce, two blennies 

 {Lumpenus and Delolepis), several flounders, a "miniature 

 sturgeon" {PodotJiecus acipenserimis), the cultus cod and 

 the beshowe or "black cod," known in Sitka as the "can- 

 dle-fish." 



The invertebrate series contains heart shells, scallops, 

 abalones, mussels, clams, barnacles, ship worms, rock 

 crab, kelp crab, spider crab, hermit crab, sea urchins, star- 

 fish, sea cucumbers and a sponge. 



A remarkable blenny {Delolepis virgatus) is called "eel" 

 at Sitka; it grows to the length of 3ft., and is pronounced 

 by Mr. Emmons delicious for the table. He says it is 

 found at Edgecombe and can be caught there at any 

 time. 



The trout fishing in southeastern Alaska ought to satisfy 

 the most exacting angler. During a morning's fishing in 

 a mainland stream seven miles from Wrangel, Mr. Em- 

 mons caught 78 black-spotted trout ranging from fib. to 

 l^lbs. in weight. This was in May. The bait was a strip 

 of salmon belly showing silver on the under part and red 

 flesh above. 



The common trout of Alaska are the red-throated or 

 black-spotted, the Dolly Varden and the Gairdner's trout, 

 sometimes styled "steelhead," The redthroat is the same 

 form so widely distributed in the Eocky Monntain region, 

 extending as far south as the Sierra Madre of Mexico. 



T. H. B. 



Fair Visitors. 



Aug. 17. — No one will every know just whose mind 

 conceived or whose hand executed this or that beautiful 

 view, or vista, or group, or decorative bit of the glori- 

 ously and perfectly beautiful White City. See it at any 

 hour, especially after dark, when you will only see a little 

 at a time, you feel a thrill of delight at the beauty of any 

 of a himdred views or ornamentations. You know it is 

 beautiful, but you never will know who made it so. Of 

 course you know that prominent in the great corps of 

 master artists of all kinds was F. D. Mllet, journalist, 

 war correspondent and artist, who was chief in the color 

 decorations and did much besides that. One day this 

 week Dr. C. S. Millet, of Eockland, Mass., came into the 

 Forest and Stream exhibit and told me he was a brother 

 of F. D. Mfllet and a reader of Forest and Stream. He 

 was accompanied by his wife and also by his mother, who 

 seemed very proud of her boys and also of the grandson, 

 Ealph, who added his name to the Forest and Streajvi 

 register. Mr. W. P. Whitman, of Campello, Mass. , who 

 perhaps g<uided them to the Forest and Stream corner 

 of the world, Avas also present with his wife. The ladies 

 insisted that if Forest and Stream were not made so 

 good they would have more time with their husbands. 

 The entire party above are stopping at the cottage on the 

 Wooded Island aud having an enormously good time at 



the Fair. They borrow firewood and garden sauce of 

 Billy Hofer at the Hunters' Cabin. 



This reminds me that I slept two nights this week at 

 the cabin myself. The first night Billy was away and it 

 really seemed hke old times in the mountains to find an 

 unoccupied cabin, belonging to I didn't know or care 

 whom, to go in and to throw down my blankets and make 

 myself at home until the owner came or until I gob ready 

 to leave. The owner didn't come that night and I slept 

 alone in the very heart of the White City. It was appar- 

 ently also the heart of the wilderness. The fire flickered 

 on the log rafters, and all night the wild geese honked, 

 and in the morning the birds sang, and there was the pat- 

 tering of srnaU. feet of some kind on the roof. At 7 o'clock 

 or earlier a countryman and his wife, getting an early 

 run for their money, opened the door, which I had left 

 unpegged for Billy. "Oh!" said he, spying my form on 

 Billy's rawhide sofa, "the gentleman in charge hasn't got 

 up yet." "Sir," I said, "I am not in the least certain that 

 I am a gentleman, and I know I am not in charge, but if 

 you will shut that door I will get up." He shut the door 

 then. The Fair can wait when it comes to the spoiling of 

 a morning reverie; and besides, there should be reaUsm 

 when it comes to showing the life and customs of a tired 

 hunter. 



Dr. E. E. Braxton, of Loogootee, Ind., leaves his foot- 

 print on the sands of the Forest and Stream register this 

 week. So does Mr. Irving D. Haskell, news editor of the 

 Daily Signal, of Ashland, Ky. Both of these gentlemen 

 I should have liked much to see. 



Mr. J. Hervey Stout, of Stoutsburg, N. J., I was fortu- 

 nate enough to meet, and we had a pleasant chat. You 

 know there is a great deal of discussion over the question 

 whether or not New Jersey is in the United States. I 

 asked Mr. Stout about this,' and he assured me that New 

 Jersey is not only in part but wholly within the United 

 States. This matter can therefore now be regarded as 

 settled. I am glad I met TMr. Stout, not only for this rea- 

 son, but also because he is a very pleasant gentleman. 



Mr. Jas. H. Whitfield, of the Kansas City /Star staff, and 

 one of the best known sporting editors of the daily_ press, 

 is in the city this week and next enjoying the Fair, and 

 looks as though it was agreeing with him. 



Come Now. 



Come now to the Fair. Do not wait. Do not wait for 

 special attractions. The attractions are far more now 

 than any one can convey. An attraction which seems big 

 away from the Fan- is very small at the Fair. The Fair is 

 now at its height. The nights will soon be so cool that 

 some of the pleasure of the pleasantest and most beautiful 

 part of the day will be lost. Come now to the Fair. 

 Norway's Exhibit. 



Aug. Commissioner Chr. Eavn, of Norway, is very 

 much pleased. Norway, it seems, withdrew her exhibit 

 from aU competition, not being satisfied with the system 

 of awards. Her display, however, is so complete and ad- 

 mirable that Dr. Henshall, of the jury, moved for Norway 

 a special complimentary award, which was given her on 

 full vote. The Norwegian display I have mentioned often. 

 It is perhaps the best in the main Fisheries. 



Military. 



A%ig. 19.— The entire corps of the U. S. Cadets arrived 

 from West Point yesterday, about 800 strong, with the 

 post band of 40 pieces and a field corps of 15 pieces. The 

 boys will remain ten days. In driU they are a relief after 

 the numberless militia bodies of this summer, and by the 

 time they are through West Point they will, I trust, have 

 a better style in the saddle than the lumbering Enghsh 

 cavalry seat which has been so much in evidence all sum- 

 mer at the so-called English military tournament. The 

 latter disbands to-day. 



A very neat body of soldierly looking fellows are the 

 Louisiana cadets, militia, who have been in cainp for 

 some days on the green near the head of the Midway. 

 They lark a little more than the French marines, or the 

 quiet United States troops, who are encamped at different 

 points on the ground, or the crews of the Spanish cara- 

 vels. The latter complain of ennui, and want to get 

 ashore and have some high jinks. 



Fishermen's Day. 



Aug. The authorities promulgate the following in 

 regard to Fishermen's Days. The dates have had earlier 

 mention in Forest and Stream : 



" September 19 and 20 have been set apart as "Fisher- 

 men's Days " with the object of affording to all the fish- 

 ing interasts of the world a special opportunity to assem- 

 ble in a congress at the World's Fair. A special pro- 

 gramme of entertainment will be provided, one feature 

 of which .will be a procession of fishing boats of all kinds, 

 from the skin cayak of the Eskimo and the dugout and 

 catamaran, to the whaleboat and New England dory. 

 An important feature of the occasion will be the reading 

 of papers concerning fish, fishing, and fishculture." 



E. Hou&H. 



In the Angler's Pavilion. 



The Anglers' Pavilion was gotten into complete finish 

 for public inspection when the installation of the Brazil 

 exhibit was completed, some weeks ago. It is now one 

 of the chief attractions. 



The exhibit of the St. Lawrence Eiver Skiff, Canoe and 

 Steam Launch Co., in the Anglers' Pavilion, is a most in- 

 teresting one. There are seven boats all told, the largest 

 of which is the Vol-au-Vent, sloop rig. It is fixed fin- 

 keel, non-capsizable, graceful in design. There is also a 

 racing canoe, a pleasiore boat, a saiUng canoe and oars of 

 fine workmanship. 



Close by is one exhibit of Thomas Kane & Co., consist- 

 ing of g. duck boat, a combination row and sail boat, 

 staunchly built and handsome; a racing canoe, a livery 

 row and sail boat, and a linenoid seamless canoe, 16ft. 

 long and 27in. beam, weight SOlbs. For the linenoid (a 

 material made of linen threads, canvas, etc.) the manu- 

 facturers claim that it cannot be broken, that it is light, 

 tough, waterproof, durable and takes a nice finish. This 

 compajiy also has three boats in the extern gallery of 



the Fisheries Building, one of which is a fishing boat, one 

 a Lake Michigan row boat and the remaining one a St. 

 Lawrence skiff. As mentioned in a previous issue, the 

 company has also a large exhibit in the Transportation 

 Building. 



In the latter building wfll be found many interest- 

 ing illustrations of transportation besides those enume- 

 rated in previous issues. Mr. Edward Bedloe, U. S. 

 Consul, Amoy, China, has a very complete lot of models 

 showing the peculiar makes of Chinese large and small 

 craft, for river and ocean transportation, and their man- 

 ner of use. 



Messrs. DeGrau, Aymar & Co. have on exhibition a 

 variety of oars of different kinds. 



The Essex Institute and Peabody Academy of Science 

 exhibit a variety of marine and other pictures Avhich com- 

 prehensively illusti-ate different kinds of transportation, 

 from the most primitive to the most modern. Those por- 

 traying transportation in the early days of the Far West 

 are specially interesting. 



The Maine Board of World's Fair Management has 

 utilized its space by exhibiting numerous models of ships, 

 which are placed on the wall. Two canoes are placed in 

 the foreground. An old cannon, wrinkled with age and 

 apparently as dangerous as a big frog sitting on end, had 

 a place of honor in the middle of the exhibit. A placard 

 informed the curious that the cannon was used on the 

 British man-of-war, the brig Boxer, in the war of 1812, 

 in an engagement in which both commanders and nearly 

 two-thirds of each crew were killed. That showed a fair 

 degree of fighting vivacity, but with better cannons they 

 could have done much more execution in less time. 



A most novel exhibit is that illustrating the different 

 kinds of craft used in India. The models are numerous, 

 comprising all the vessels from a crude, small dugout to 

 the largest freight boats. One model showed a number 

 of men on either shore of a river towing the bulky boat 

 while the rest of the crew was rowing. 



But the most primitive of all was that where a native 

 was shown Ijang on his stomach across an air-tight 

 vessel, his feet and head projecting over the sides. The 

 vessel was much the same shape as would be two large 

 saucers placed face to face. On such romantic craft the 

 native rested prone on his stomach and fished or paddled 

 accross rivers with his hands. 



The Truscott Boat Manufacturing Co. has a large ex- 

 hibit on the main floor consisting of a skimmer catboat, 

 an oil-burning launch and about a dozen rowboats of 

 dift"erent kinds. 



In the Canadian department, main floor, is a large ex- 

 hibit of canoes, about 17 in all. 



This covers in the main all the features in the Trans- 

 portation Building of transportation pertaining to water, 

 but there is an endless array of models, pictures, motor 

 power, machinery, steering apparatus, tackle blocks, 

 anchors, pyrotechnics for vessels' use, etc. Hours can 

 be profitably spent in studying such a great collection of 

 object lessons. 



Gillott's Pen Exhibit. 



"The pen is mightier than the sword" is an old and true 

 saying in its figurative sense, that is, the power of mind 

 over matter, but the World's Fair visitor can see, in the 

 exhibit of Joseph Gillott, in the Department of Groat 

 Britain in the Manufactures Building, a pen and holder 

 of majestic proportions, fit literally to do battle with 

 warrior bold. It is a finely finished piece of workman- 

 ship, and set perpendicularly forms the center piece in 

 the upper part of the large case, which is itself a heavy 

 piece, tall and wide, of quiet elegance; for either side of 

 the mammoth pen, clearly seen through the plate glass, 

 are numerous cunningly worked designs, on the cloth 

 backgroimd, in pens of different styles, sizes and colors. 

 The colors are more numerous than one would suppose — 

 gold, white, red, brown and nimierous metallic shades. 

 The effects were most artistic. In the lower case in infin- 

 ite profusion are pens in gold and steel, large and small, 

 wide and narrow, with every imaginable shape of point 

 and most delicate finish. There were pen holders in 

 elegant pearl, and in ebony and rare woods, beautiful in 

 design and workmanship. In another case were a bushel 

 or so of pens in boxes, showing them ready for market, 

 and also loose in bulk. It is said to be the largest pen 

 exhibit ever made. 



The chief motive power at the World's Fair, in the 

 launches which ply to and fro on the lagoon, is electricity, 

 but a few boats have steam power, I notice that Capt, 

 Symonds's official boat, the Aloha, is propelled by steam 

 and is furnished with a boiler made by the Eoberta Safety 

 Water Tube Boiler Co., of New York. I was informed 

 that that company had fitted with boilers the steam yachts 

 Oneida and Okoboji, which run between the naval pier 

 and Chicago. The different motive powers are quite a 

 study in themselves, comj^rising all the different mechan- 

 isms pertaining to naphtha, steam and electricity. 



Aug. 1*-^.— The committee of judges of awards of tlie 

 Fisheries Department of the Exposition were tendered a 

 banquet this week at the Victoria Hotel by Andrew 

 Weber, of the committee. An address on the fisheries 

 industry was made by Capt. J. W. Collins, Professor L. 

 Whittman, of Berlin, and Dr. J. A. Henshall talked about 

 angling. B. Waters. 



Some Who Found the "Forest and Stream" Corner. 



Toledo, 0.. Aug. 81.— I visited your exhibit at the "World's Fair the 

 other day, and must say that nothing in the White City interested Die 

 more. ^' ^- ^■ 



LOT7ISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 31.— I have just returned from Chicago. 1^ 

 was delighted with your exhibit and hope the photograph which was 

 taken while I was there will do it justice. It will be of incalculable 

 advantage to the paper. My only regret was at not meeting Mr, 

 Hough, to whose department I always turn wheai I open the paper, 



F. J. H. 



Boston, Mass., Aug. 11.— I called twice at the Forest and StkeAjc 

 office in the Fisheries Exhibit in Chicago, and duly admired and ex- 

 amined everything at your exhibit, though my tune for it was short 



C. H. A. 



Visitors to our Exhibit In the Angling Pavilion at 

 the World's Fair should not fail to examine the 

 stock of "Forest and Stream" books which will 

 be shown by the attendant. 



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

 day. Correspondence intended for publication should reach 

 %is at the latest by Monday, and as much earlier aspractioabl«. 



