Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



NEW YORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1893. 



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t VOL. XLL-No. 19. 



( No. 318 Bboadwat, 'Kbw York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Woodland Caribou. 

 "I'iseco" at Port Royal. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Danvis Folks.— xrv. 

 The Saginaw Crowd.— v. 

 The West of Long Ago. 

 The Old Days at Barnegat. 

 Craft for the Wilderness. 

 Alligators on the Anclote. 



Natural History. 



Parrico the Parroquet. 

 !Sea Gulls. 



That Adirondack Red Deer. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



The Lone Canvasback. 

 Mixed Shoot in Connecticut. 

 Wire Fencing for Preserves. 

 Stolen Time. 



A Dakota Hunting Wagon. 

 Chicago and the West. 



Sea and River Fishingr. 



The Ouananiche is Game. 

 Fish Caught in Deep Water. 

 Barney's Pool. 



By Stream and Lake in Michigan 



The Kennel. 



Irish Terriers. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 The Winners. 



Eastern Field Trials All-Age. 

 Irish Setter Trials. 



The Kennel. 



Irish Setter Field Trials. 

 The Pade Protest. 

 How- is This? 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Hunting and Coursing. 



National Beagle Club Trials. 

 Quality of Courage. 

 Field Trial Meeting of N. B. C. 

 Coursing at Corsicana, Tex. 

 Western Kansas Coursing Meet. 

 Cowley County Meet. 

 Himting and Coursing Notes. 



Yachting. 



Vigilant and Valkyrie. 

 The Fife Cutter Sigrun. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



The Shy Boat. 

 The Detroit Boat Club. 

 The A. C. A. Executive Com. 

 Canoe Notes. 

 Rifle Range and Gallery. 

 Zettler Kifle Club. 

 Ritie Club Doings. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



Pigeon Shooting— P»st and 



Present. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page viii. 



Illustrated Supplement. 



This issue contains an illustrated supplement, a por- 

 trait of the Woodland Caribou, by Ernest E. Thompson. 

 The first portrait of this series, the Moose, was pub- 

 lished Oct, 14. Others to follow will be of the Coon, 

 Dec. 2, and the White-tailed or Virginia Deer, Jan. 6. 



THE WOODLAND CARIBOU. 



The woodland caribou is one of the largest of the deer 

 tribe of North America, being exceeded in size only by the 

 moose and the elk. It is not a graceful creature, like the 

 smaller deer and the elk, nor, on the other hand, is it 

 ugly and grotesque, like the moose; in shape and general 

 carriage — when not alarmed — it is not unlike a young 

 Alderney cow. When in rapid motion, however, trotting 

 swiftly through the forest or across the barrens, with 

 head thrown well back and white flag conspicuous, it is a 

 pleasing object; but when feeding or at ease, its deliberate 

 movements and slouching attitudes remind one of a cow. 



Wide differences are found in the accounts given by 

 writers of the habits of this species. By some it is de- 

 clared to be the shyest and most wary of all the deer 

 ■vjtribe, while others speak of it as dull to stupidity, and 

 as standing and staring about while its companions are 

 sliot dead around it. In a case which came under our 

 own observation, something like this took place; the 

 hunter having shot three out of four caribou, and then 

 walking toward the remaining animal, which stood 

 looking at him until he had come close to it, when it 

 trotted off twenty or thirty yards, stopped and stood 

 for a few moments, and then disappeared over the 

 ridge. As the various shots were fired at the feeding 

 animals, tliose untouched raised their heads and looked 

 about as if curious to see whence the noise came, and 

 then resumed their grazing. In this case the animals 

 liad not been hunted for eight or nine months. Those 

 writei-8 who have found caribou shy have probably 

 sought for them in a region where they have been 

 much hunted, and have learned that the sound of a gun 

 or the scent of man or a moving object in the woods 

 portends danger. 



Measured from east to west the range of the woodland 

 caribou is wide, but it is narrow from nortli to south. It 

 is found in northern New Hampshire, in Maine and in 

 Canada nortli to Labrador, Across southern Canada it is 

 found as far west as the great plains. Its western limit 

 in the eastern forest belt is northern Minnesota, for it is 

 said to occur in the Roseau Swamp, Further west, in the 

 Rocky Mountains, it is found again, on the further slope 

 uf the range, in western Montana, Idaho, Oregon and 

 Washington, Capt. Chas, E. Bendire lias told us of skulls 

 tliat he has seen as far south as Boise City, Idaho, and 

 Judge Greene has written of "queer elk" seen in the 

 mountains not far from Portland, Ore., which were prob- 

 ably caribou. In many parts of the mountains of British 

 Columbia woodland caribou are stiU abundant, though 



much less so now than they were a few years ago, when 

 the country was newer. 



We do not know of any direct evidence that caribou 

 have ever found in the Adirondack region, Dekay, it is 

 true, mentions Ibis species in his "Mammals of the 

 State of New York," and as evidence of its former 

 presence there refers to a pair of caribou antlers that he 

 had seen, but Merriam has shown that these are elk, not 

 caribou, antlers. Mr. R. L. McGonigle, long a trader on the 

 upper Missouri River in the early days of the West, and 

 an entirely trustworthy person, once described to us a 

 curious elk-like animal which he shot from the deck of 

 a steamboat near old Fort Peck during a trip up the river, 

 and from the description the beast seems to have been a 

 caribou — a long way from home. 



North of the range of the woodland caribou, its place 

 is taken by the much smaller barren-ground caribou, the 

 range of which extends north to the Arctic Sea, It is 

 this species which is spoken of as migrating in such great 

 droves, and whose numbers have by some been compared 

 to those of the old time buffalo. The woodland caribou, 

 though they consort together in herds or bands, are never 

 found in such great companies as their more northern 

 cousins, though in Newfoundland their numbers during 

 the migrations are said to be very great. 



The caribou is singular among our deer in that the 

 female usually possesses small horns, which are carried 

 much longer than those of the male, though shed and 

 renewed annually. It was formerly supposed that the 

 cow caribou always had these horns, but Mr. Montague 

 Chamberlain, the well-known ornithologist, has'presented 

 evidence going to show that in a limited district in the 

 southeastern portion of its range, the cow caribou is some- 

 times hornless. This is a curious and interesting fact, 

 and further observation of caribou in Maine and New 

 Brunswick is needed to determine the percentage of 

 hornless females. 



The color of the caribou ranges from wood brown in 

 early summer to nearly white in winter, when the darker 

 tips of the hair have been worn off. The mane about the 

 neck is nearly white at all seasons, and the legs are always 

 much darker than the body color. The calf is mottled on 

 the sides for the first months of its life, and we have killed 

 full-grown animals which showed traces of this mottling, 

 which presumably points back to a spotted ancestor. 



Extended and interesting accounts of the woodland 

 caribou are to be found in most works on natural history, 

 and those given by Captain Hardy in his "Forest Life in 

 Acadie," and by Judge Caton in his "Antelope and Deer 

 of America," are especially worth reading. 



''PISECO'' AT PORT ROYAL. 



Few older readers will fail to recall the stories of adven- 

 venture in distant quarters of the globe, written by Capt, 

 L. A, Beardslee, of the Navy, over the familiar pen-name, 

 "Piseco." Of recent years Capt, Beardslee has been sta- 

 tioned in home waters. For a term, in near and 

 friendly neighborhood of the Forest and Stream, he 

 was in command of the receiving ship Vermont, that 

 giant house-boat moored at the docks of the Brooklyn 

 Navy Yard; and thence he went to Port Royal, S. C, 

 as commandant of the Naval Station at that point. From 

 Port Royal "Piseco" has contributed occasional letters 

 dwelling upon the charms of the old town of Beaufort, 

 with its rose gardens and hve oaks, its delicious climate, 

 its shooting, its fishing, and other attractions, which pic- 

 tured by his pen appeared to outsiders to lend an idylUc 

 character to existence there. 



But it is a truth old as story, and sung by the poets, 

 that while others may journey round the world in quest 

 of adventure and find it but tamely, there may come 

 to you in your own home opportunity of worthy under- 

 takings and noble deeds; and the seafarer in a home 

 port may hear the call for the exercise of qualities as 

 heroic as ever those which have carried him through 

 hurricane and typhoon. Such an emergency confronted 

 "Piseco" in that fateful August night when cyclone and 

 tidal wave swept the Sea Islands of the Atlantic Coast. 

 Paris Island, on which the Government buildings are 

 situated, was submerged tliroughout its whole extent to 

 a depth of from three to eight feet; more than one 

 hundred houses were swept away, the crops were de- 

 stroyed, the wells were polluted, and many of the dwell- 

 ers on the island were drowned, while hundreds of 

 the survivors were left without food or shelter. 

 Amid this wreck and desolation Captain Beardslee, by 

 virtue of his position in command of ^the Government 



Genbkal Order | 

 No. 419. 



station, was the natural leader to whom these afflicted 

 people turned for succor, relief and guidance. That he 

 was equal to the emergency we may well know, that he 

 met it with courage and resolution and readiness of 

 resource we may be assured. There lies before^us General 

 Order No, 419 of the Navy Department, relating to tJie 

 storm at Port^Royal, and we print it here in the full text, 

 not alone for its recognition of the services of Captain 

 Beardslee himself, but as well for the record it makes of 

 the men of the command of humble station, who by 

 their daring and their doing— and as for Dr. Hazel, by 

 his death— demonstrated once again another truth, 

 which is as old a story and is sung by the poets, that 

 when some supreme crisis calls for heroism the heroism 

 will be found. Here, then, is the order: 



Navy Departmen'T, { 

 AVashington, Sept. 23, 1893. ) 

 The cyclone which recently swept over the southern Atlantic sea- 

 board, carrying devastation and ruin in its path, visited the U. 8 

 naval station at Port Royal, South Carolina, on the 27th and 28th of 

 August last, with unusual severity, destroying life and doing great 

 damage to property, both within the precincts of the station and in 

 the surrounding country, and leaving without food or shelter numbers 

 of families of enlisted men of the Navy, and employees in the servide 

 of the Government and others. 



In view of the fury and duration of the storm, with the attendant 

 loss of Ufe and property, and the courage and fortitude displayed by 

 those who were unfortimately exposed to its violence, it is deemed 

 proper that a public acknowledgment be made of the important ser- 

 vice rendered by officers and enlisted men of the Navy, and employees 

 of the naval station at Port Royal, on that occasion. 



But for the prompt measures adopted by Captain L. A. Beardslee, 

 U. S. Navy, commandant of that station, to meet the dangers of the 

 emergency when the island, on which the naval station is situated, 

 was inundated by the sea in the midst of the storm, and the invalu- 

 able assistance, so che.;rfully rendered by the ladies of the families of 

 the two officers residing on the island, in providing shelter, food and 

 clothing, for the homeless and destitute, and in caring for and allevi- 

 ating the sufferings of the sick and injured of this demoralized com- 

 munity, the misery following in the track of the hurricane would have 

 been even more widespread than it was. 



It appears from a report concerning this storm, made to the De- 

 partment by Captain Beardslee, that a most deplorable consequence 

 of its fury was the death by drowning of Dr. W. Q. Hazel, apothecary 

 an old and faithful servant of the Government, whose death in a gal-^ 

 lant attempt to save others, exemplifies his character, as shown during 

 his long and useful career. 



Israel Elliot, commandant's steward, and John Broadanax, com 

 mandant's cook, during the height of the hurricane, waded up to 

 their necks, in the fierce sea which swept the island, to a falling house, 

 and with a lighter which they, with others, had secured, rescued from 

 drowning about twenty women and children, and landed them in a 

 place of safety. Middleton Grayson, coxswain; Jerry Green, lands- 

 man; Laurence Green, landsman, and Peter Brown, first-class fireman, 

 stayed by the steam launches in which they were stationed, endeavor- 

 ing to save them, until they narrowly escaped going down in them. 



The conduct of the Marine Guard, in charge of First Sergeant 

 Michael Gallager, was most praiseworthy. When the island was 

 inundated, the marines waded to and fro through the flood, which 

 was driven by the wind into seas so dangerous that many people were 

 overthrown and drowned by them, doing their utmost to preserve life 

 and property. 



The same report of the calamity shows that valuable assistance was 

 rendered on this occasion by Civil Engineer George Mackay, Surgeon 

 H. C. Babhi, Messrs. G. B. Stratton, Juan Jiminez, J. Hardin Jones 

 Emil Diebitch, J. H. Disher, machinist, and L. L. Bennett, landsman 

 and that they, with the force of enlisted men at the station and the 

 Government employees, without exception, behaved admirably, and 

 were untiring in their efforts to render assistance to those in danger 

 and to rescue property from destruction, in many cases at great per- 

 sonal risk. 



Where devotion to duty is so general, and the response to the 

 appeals of the unfortunate victims of disaster so prompt and eflficient, 

 it is difacult to select any individual for especial commendation, but 

 to all those whose names are mentionei in this general order the 

 thanks of the Department are hereby tendered 



H. A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy. 



We make this record, knowing that his Forest and 

 Stream friends will be grateful for intelligence of 

 "Piseco" and of his part in the rescues of the Sea Island 

 flood. But our principal object is to second an appeal 

 which Capt. Beardslee makes for aid in carrying on the 

 work which has fallen to him. "I am looking out," he 

 writes, "for the feeding and clothing of nearly 400 people. 

 Miss Barton, of the Red Crass Society, having asked me 

 to continue as her almoner, checks to my order will be 

 used with discretion. I know all the people of the island 

 and just what each family most needs. I got Gov. Till- 

 man to give me an order to have fifty fishing boats built 

 for distribution; and over one-half are afloat and earning 

 money. Clothing is needed; thick underwear, old shoot- 

 ing and fishing garments, old everyday clothes, etc., are 

 what ai-e wanted, I am doing what I can to reduce the 

 misery; and it has struck me that an appeal through your 

 columns to the friends of 'Piseco' might result in help to 

 us. Will not Forest and Stream readers lenk us a 

 hand?" 



Capt, Beardslee's address is Capt, L, A. Beardslee, Com- 

 mandant Naval Station, Port Royal, S. C. 



