Sept. 16, 1893.1 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



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Proposed Powder Test. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The proposed powder tests for establishing the relative 

 merits of the various nitro and black powders used and in 

 the market of this country, of which mention has been 

 made previously in your esteemed paper, will be carried 

 out at Watson's Park, Burnside Crossing, Chicago, 111., 

 between Sept. 15 and 35, 1893. 



The experiments are to be controlled by two or more 

 judges not interested in the trade in question, and all 

 sportsmen and manufacturers of, or dealers in, powder or 

 ammunition, will be permitted to witness the trial. 



As far as expedient and possible, all suggestions pre- 

 sented to me, and pertaining to the proposed test, from 

 numerous shooters of this country, will be taken into con- 

 sideration. 



The test is intended to have a public character and will 

 be conducted with a view to benefit and enhghten alike 

 the trade and the shooting fraternity of America.. 



Armin Tenner, 



Expensive. 



MiLroRD, Mass., Sept. 5. — J. S. Cortezze, who was 

 caught Sunday killing birds out of season, was brought 

 before the local court to-day, and on plea of guilty was 

 fined $30, which he paid. He had the birds — robins and 

 thrushes — in his possession when taken. The ofhcers are 

 determined to put a stop to illegal bird shooting, and have 

 several others under surveillance. 



Others may well take warning, and they are not all 

 Italians, either. Sunday shooting will command the at- 

 tention of the newly appointed game constables Edwards 

 and Shields, through whose efforts the above case was 

 brought, assisted by Chief of Police Delano. 



Birds in. Maine. 



Banqob, Me., Sept. 10. — The faU shooting season opened 

 ten days ago and the grounds hereabouts have been faith- 

 fully hunted with very unsatisfactory results. It is gen- 

 erally believed that there are but few birds in the Maine 

 woods this year. I have not been out shooting, but dm-ing 

 my wanderings in the summer I saw but few broods of 

 grouse>and those few were very small indeed. Woodcock 

 are scarce as yet, and but few have found their way to 

 the markets. On the whole, therefore, the gunners in this 

 neighborhood are disposed to take a gloomy view of the 

 prospects for the season. M. 



New Hampshire Prospects. 



Lake WiNNEPESAUKEE, N. H., Sept. Q.— Editor Forest 

 and Stream: ProsiDects for fall hunting in northern New 

 Hamsphire seem excellent; saw a good many partridge 

 and other small game. Glad the hunting season has come 

 at last. "Payson" is right on the subject of fishing versus 

 hunting. Matterhorn, 



Cost of Trip to World's Fair. 



Ik the short space of two months the World's Columbian Exposition 

 will have run its course. Its gates will be forever closed— the grand 

 buildings, first stripped of their marvelous exhibits, then demohshed, 

 never to be restored— and the greatest and grandest spectacle in all 

 the world will be but a memory of the past. 



We consider it a duty as well as a pleasure for everybody who can 

 raise the money to see the World's Fair, and because we beUeve that 

 many are staying away under a misapprehension, who can really 

 afford to go, we will endeavor to set forth with particularity the very 

 moderate cost of the trip. The following is based on a leading 

 editorial in the New York Evening Post, and all the items have been 

 verified, so that there can be no doubt of their correctness. 



First, as to the railway journey. The New York Central has made 

 a special excursion rate of $32, on stated trains, with $5 eacn way for 

 a berth in sleeping car. 



Good rooms near the Fair grounds, accommodating two persons, 

 can be found without difficulty, at$l apiece per day, and a small room 

 for one at SI. while even more favorable terms are possible. Practi- 

 cally everybody eats luncheon on the grounds, getting breakfast before 

 he enters, and dinner after he leaves. A great many people who rent 

 rooms also furnish breakfasts and dinners, and good meals can be ob- 

 tained at such places and at many restaurants for no more than 50 

 cents apiece. A person with simple tastes can also get along very 

 comfortably on 50 cents for the raid-day meal. 



Now add to these items tlie cost of admission to the grounds, the 

 necessary extras for getting around the Midway Plaisance, a smaO 

 allowance for the purchase of modest souvenirs and other incidentals, 

 including fees to porters and other petty expenses of travel, and we 

 have the following summary: 



Railroad fare (round trip $32.00 



Sleeping car berth f both waysj 10.00 



Meals en route Cbotb ways} 5.00 



Breakfast and dinner (six days) 6.00 



Room in Chicago (sis days) 6 00 



Limcheon (six days) 3.00 



Admission (six days ) , 8.00 



Expenses on grounds (six days) , , . 6.00 



Incidentals (stx days) , 3.00 



Incidentals en route (both ways) 2.00 



$76.00 



This estimate is given as the result of a practical test, and we reit- 

 erate that the sum of $76.00, judiciously expended, will covei- the cost 

 of a trip to and from Chicago, made in comfort, and for a week's stay 

 in that city under comfortable conditions, including six days at the 

 Fair, and seeing every feature of it of any interest whatevei*. 



Trains of the New York Central, on which tie special excursion 

 tickets quoted above are good for passage, leave Grand Central Station 

 at 9.15 P. M. 



The company also announce a series of Day Coach Excursions at 

 one-half the regular rate on Aug. 26, 30: Sept. 5 and 11. By taking 

 advantage of one of these excursions, the total given above can be 

 materially reduced. 



Accommodations may be secured by applying at the nearest ticket 

 office of the company or addressing George H. Daniels, General Pas- 

 senger Agent, Grand Central Station, New York.— ^dti. 



M. ISENSTEIN & Co., of 434 Broome street, New York, manufacture 

 a superior quality of sportsmen's leather goods, including leggins, gun 

 cases, cartridge bags and belts, etc., at popular prices. It would be 

 worth while to send for their catalogue.— ^dv. 



You are invited 



to visit the " Forest and Stream's" 

 exhibit in the Angling Pavilion at 

 the entrance from the main hall 

 of the Fisheries Building, in the 

 World's Fair. 



"Forest and Stream" at the Fair. 



Where to Eat at the Fair. 



There are hundreds of sportsmen who visit the Fair, and 

 unless they know the ropes, they either get robbed, go 

 hungry, or leave dissatisfied and displeased. The attend- 

 ants are often fagged out, the management of the cafe 

 does not care, and the whole business of. eating is a trial 

 and a care and not a pleasure. For aU of this I have a 

 remedy — not that I have a restaurant concession, or care 

 who does have one. In short, the other day I blundered 

 into the Casino restaurant (not one of those operated by 

 the main restaurant concessionaires). Here I found in 

 charge as manager no less than Wm. Werner— our old 

 friend "Possum Bill," who got up the possum suppers for 

 the old Possum Club. Billy Werner has been clief to the 

 best institutions of gastronomy in Chicago, and he can 

 cook a plenty, whether it be a question of possom or any- 

 thing else. After I found him I ate easy, calm and 

 hearty, and all the boys ought to know that here is the 



glace to go — the Casino, southeast corner of the Com-t of . 

 [onor, near the big gold girl. Because why, Billy Wer- 

 ner is an old Forest and Steeam man, one of the oldest 

 field shooters of Chicago, and sportsman clear through. 

 He doesn't believe in spring shooting, and moreover, he 

 has refused to sell illegal game, not only here but else- 

 where. I wiU just take this much trouble right here to 

 say that this is the place for the visiting sportsman to get 

 something good to eat at the Fair, and I imagine easy that 

 if any FoBEST and Stream reader who pauses at the 

 Casino will tear off a page-head of Forest and Stream 

 and send it in to Mr. Werner, he will get what he asks for, 

 get it good, and get it via a waiter who wiU appear to 

 have an interest in earthly things. 



The Winans Bronzes. 



For reasons which will appear below, I am tempted to 

 oft'er for publication the following letter from Mr. Walter 

 Winans, the donor of the now famous Winans Trophy, 

 which Forest and Stream put in competition for the re- 

 volver shooters of America. On a very interesting sub- 

 ject Mr. Winans writes: 



As one of the oldest readers and contributors from this side (not 

 in age, but in length of time I have known the paper), I write you on a 

 matter of possible interest. 



Y'ou may know of me as the revolver champion of this country, 

 but you may not know I am an artist as weU. I sent over to the Fair, 

 a fortnight ago, two bronze statuettes of mine, done in the same style 

 as the Forest and Stream Winans Revolver Championship Trophy. 

 I sent in charge of Susse Fr^res, in the French Art Section of the Fair, 

 but if you do not find them on their stand kindly ask the attendant at 

 their exhibit where they are, most likely in the American Art Section. 



The statuettes represent respectively a trotter in action to sulky, 

 and a "Bronco Buster" getting on to a bucking pony. I am rather 

 proud of the details in the latter, but an Indian I hoped to send, which 

 is better than either of these, was not ready in time. I am at present 

 at work on a much larger trotter in the new pneumatic sulky. 



If any one wants to buy either of my exhibits as a prize for shoot- 

 ing, I am ready to let them have them at the price they cost me to 

 have them cast, without charging for my work. 



Wai/tee Winans. 



Mr. Winans will pardon the use of a personal letter 

 when he knows how heartily in his debt I am for an hour 

 of pleasure, of which I wish all the readers of Forest and 

 Stream could share with me. The representives of Forest 

 and Stream are spending a hard and faithful summer here, 

 trying to find out for the readers of the paper that which 

 they would naturally want to see out of the wilderness of 

 opportunity offered. No readers of Forest and Stream, 

 even if he live here in Chicago, can see all the Fair. 

 Without the above advice I might never have got beyond 

 the great drooping caryatides which support the entabla- 

 tures of the gallery in the French section of the Manu- 

 factures and Liberal Arts Building. With the advice, 

 perliaps others also may go, if they do they will not 

 regret it. 



One must brush up his French tf he goes hunting for a 

 given spot among the dreamy sights and languorous odors 

 which fill the house of beauty back of the patient caryat- 

 ides, but finally he comes to Susse Freres, French Depart- 

 ment, Class XXIII. where he finds the two statuettes, 

 which came too late for installation in the American art 

 section. 



As for the size of the statuettes, let us call them about 

 a foot and a half by two feet, though they seem much 

 larger. The action in them makes them seem big. The 

 horse and sulkj^ statuette seems to me to suggest Nancy 

 Hanks, the driver resembling Budd Doble. It is a keen 

 and spirited thing, so we must dismiss it, saying only that 

 if the Washington Park Club of Chicago does not secure 

 it at the ridiculously low figure asked by the exhibitors 

 showing it, then-they they miss an opportunity, that's all. 



Comparisons are notoriously odious, but when I came 

 to look at the cowboy and the bucking pony, I coidd not 

 help thinking that it was anyhow fully as good as Mr. 

 Wiuans's earher elfort, the 1'obest and Stream cowboy. 

 In this later work there is tenser muscidar strain, a more 

 intense action, a higher key all through, although the 

 figure materials employed are much the same. There is 

 nothing of sharper action, nothing of keener interest, 

 nothing of higher pressure, so to speak, than one of the 

 wild struggles between a genuine "buster"' and a genuine 

 "bucker." Mr. Winans catches this struggle in media-'^ 

 res for the bronco is clear ofi: the ground with all four 

 feet, and there is daylight under him and all around the 

 slender figure of the cowboy, who grips the horn of the 

 cow saddle with his left hand, thus really supporting the 

 main bulk of the metal, though one cannot imagine that 

 he IS supporting the horse, so fijie is the muscular treat- 

 ment and the force handling thi-oughout. I suppose Mr. 

 Winans might be amenable to the old rules of criticism 

 about the necessity of "suspended action" and all th£it in 

 statuary, but mu3t believe that most observers will join 

 with the African brother and "bress God for the varia- 

 tion," for here you have the plains horse himself, fairly at 

 the climax of rebellion, head down, feet bunched, mane 

 .pitched forward, wild with rage all through, and with 

 every muscle, so to speak, quivering with excitement. 



The mastery of the controlUng figure is complete, and 

 one heaves a sigh of relief to see that as a cowboy the 

 figure is ail right, and not imaginative altogether. And 

 the cow saddle is all right, too, and the gun, apdthe rope, 

 and every other detail. When we see this we have in- 

 stan 1 confidence in Mr. Winans's Indian, and beheve that 

 he wiU make the right sort of Indian. After a while 

 FOBEST AND Stream will pubhsh a pictTu-e of the colossal 

 group, showing a mounted cowboy, which stands on the 

 lagoon side near the Transportation Building at the Fair. 



There is some ' 'go" to this, too, but it is the equal of Mr. 

 Winans's forceful work in no one particular. The artist 

 has the idea in his head that the cowboy's horse should be 

 the thick-necked charger of the ancient wars. Let him 

 go to Mr. Remington, to Mr. Winans, or to the plains. 

 The material of this fine object of art is silver bronze or 

 bronze silver plated, in half oxide finish, the material 

 giving a snappiness in keeping with the theme. Conclud- 

 ing mention of it, and reverting to the last sentence of 

 Sir. Winans's letter, I could almost regret his generosity. 

 So fine a work should never by possibility become a cheap 

 gun club prize, but should be made an emblem of national 

 significance, as is the Forest and Stream Winans trophy. 



Sports and War in Art. 



Go where you will in statuary or color, in any part of 

 the art displays of the Exposition, as even here in the 

 collections of French bronzes, and you 'svill find still a 

 few virile masters who know that a bit of vigor is as 

 good in art as a scene of sensuous beauty, who abandon 

 the bathing girls, the Naiads, the so-called loves and 

 graces, and knowing that the male figure is as beautiful 

 as that of the female, tm-n their hands to manly types. 

 When you come to examine into it is astonishing how 

 large a part of the field of art is held by the claims of 

 sport and war. I could have found a dozen beautiful 

 instances of this as I passed out through the French sec- 

 tion after my visit to the Winans statuettes. Here was a 

 great bronze greyhound, life size, and again a group 

 showing a keeper with foxhoimds, and yet again a grand 

 solemn foxhound standing alone, his forehead wrinkled 

 in grave thought. Yonder was an Arab examining the 

 lock of his gim; here were two fencers, there an oars- 

 man and beyond a noble group of runners (labeled, by the 

 way, "Sold to Mr. A. G. Spalding"). A soldier, a savage, 

 a sheik, a hawker, a himter — all these are there, bronze, 

 immovable, yet instinct with life, and teaching a harm- 

 less lesson which points up and never down. 



E. Hough. 



visitors to our Exhibit in the Angling Pavilion at 

 the World's Fair should not fall to examine the 

 stock of "Forest and Stream" books which will 

 be shown by the attendant. 



LIVE FISH FOR THE AQUARIUM. 



The U. S. Fish Commission needed some whitefish and 

 lake trout for its aquarium at the World's Fair, and ar- 

 rangements were made tb send one of its cars to Michigan 

 for a supply. One of the most important features of the 

 journey was provided through the courtesy of the general 

 passenger agents of the Michigan Central and Chicago & 

 West Michigan railroads, namely, free transportation of 

 the car and its crew from Chicago to Muskegon and 

 return. 



It is probable that many visitors at the Exposition do 

 not realize the extent of their indebtedness to the rail- 

 roads for the success of the Aqtiaritim exhibit, and it is 

 certain that few persons appreciate the amount of co- 

 operation furnished by railways to Fish Commissioners in 

 tlieu- work of stocking public waters. 



We left Chicago at 11:35 P. M. and ran around the 

 southern and eastern shore of Lake Michigan through the 

 night, reaching Muskegon at 7 in the morning. Here we 

 met Capt. Bronson of the steamer City of Racine, who 

 put us in communication with the fishermen from whom 

 the specimens were to be obtained . 



We traveled by trolley car five miles to the foot of Mus- 

 kegon Lake, and then five miles by steam along the shore 

 of Lake Michigan to Lake Harbor, where we arrived in 

 the evening and remained over night. Lake Harbor is a 

 beautiful little summer resort, having for one of its prin- 

 cipal attractions a gem of a lake in which black bass, yel- 

 low perch, crappie and mascalonge are to be found. The 

 nhort stream through which it empties into Lake Michi- 

 gan also furnishes good fishing. Visitors were about 

 leaving notwithstanding the dehghtful air and the un- 

 usual abundance of bass. 



Very early in the morning Capt, Ole Anderson aroused 

 the occupants of our car, and announced his intention of 

 bringing the whitefish and trout from his pound nets. The 

 water circulation was started and all arrangements com- 

 pleted for the care of the fish. The fishermen filled one 

 of their boats with water for the safe transportation of 

 the specimens. The boat was brought to within 50ft. of 

 our car and the fish were carried without injmy in large 

 tin pails to the tanks prepared for them. 



It would be difficult to lind another place at which Uve 

 fish can be more advantageously handled than at Lake 

 Harbor, and it would be equally difficult to find railroad 

 oiScials who are more courteous and obliging than those 

 with whom we were associated on that occasion. 



A fine lot of whitefish, lake herring, lake trout and 

 burbot were setim-ed, and they were carried to Chicago 

 and placed in the aquarium the same day without the loss 

 of a fish. The men had also some suckers, yellow perch 

 and fresh-water drum. The fishing season was about 

 closing, but arrangements were made for another ship- 

 ment about the end of August. 



Muskegon Lake and vicinity is an attractive region for 

 the angler, and its accessibihty from Chicago is greatly in 

 its favor. The lake is full of white bass and pike-perch, 

 and its tributary, Little Bear Lake, is well stocked with 

 black bass. There is a hotel at Little Bear Lake, and ac- 

 commodations at Lake Harbor, which has excellent black 

 bass waters, are ample. Pike are abimdant, but they are 

 called pickerel, the name pike being applied to our east- 

 ern pike-perch. 



Capt. Bronson takes up parties of anglers from Chicago 

 to Little Bear Lake frequently during the fall. There is 

 always a cool breeze along the shores of Muskegon Lake, 

 even when Lake Michigan may be perfectly calm. Port 

 Sherman, at the mouth of the outlet of Muskegon Lake, 

 is a good place for black bass. At Lake Harbor the 

 anglers were still-fishing and trolling with Uve minnows 

 and grasshoppers. 



Ice is sold for $3 per ton at Muskegon, teams can be 

 had at $1.50 for an aiternoon, and boats are let at about 

 35 cents per hoiur for a party of two or three. T. H, B. 



