Forest and Stre 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW TORK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2B, 1893. 



t VOL. ZLI.-N0. 21 



1 No. 318 Broadwa<f, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Some Canine Complications. 

 The Anarchist Argument. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist, 



Danvis Folks.— xv. 

 Notes of a Trip to Manitoba. 

 Railroads and the Park. 

 The Quebec Winter Carnival. 



Natural History. 



Horns of Female Caribou. 



Shark and Remora. 



Coming of the Arctic Summer. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



The Buffalo Remnant. 

 The First "Close Season." 

 Three Days in Pennsylvania. 

 Mud and Misery. 

 Chicago and the West. 

 Boston and Maine. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



The Trigger Fish. 

 Angling Notes. 



Fishculture. 



A Sea Fishery Conference. 

 Work of the Pennsylvania Com- 

 mission. 



The Kennel. 



Chicago Kennel Club Show. 



The Kennel. 



A Plain Business Talk. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 The United States F. T. C. Trials. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 



Huntinsr and Coursing. 



California Coursing Notes. 

 Western Massachusetts Fox 

 Club. 



Condition of Greyhounds. 

 Hunting and Coursing Notes. 



Yachting. 



Current Comments on the Races. 

 Society of Naval Architects and 

 Marine Engineers. 



Canoeing. 



A. C. A. Membership. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Greenville Rifle Club. 

 Zettler Rifle Club. 

 Rifle Club Doings. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



Class Defeats Elliott at Paterson. 

 Saturday's Match at Morristown 

 An Old-Time Picture. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries. 



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SOMEk. CANLNE COMPLICATIONS. 

 The courts have been considering a batch of canine 

 cases lately; and some knotty points of dog law have been 

 unraveled, which it would be just as well for us all to 

 know about. 



Thus, if one happens to be a fragile young woman, she 

 should understand that a big powerful dog has the right 

 of way on city sidewalks; and the owner cannot be held 

 liable for injuries sustained by those against whom the 

 beast runs amuck. This has just been determined in a 

 New York case where an action was brought by a young 

 woman, who, while walking on Sixth avenue had been 

 thrown down, and had one of her legs broken, in collision 

 with a dog big and powerful as aforesaid. She sued the 

 owner for damages. The Court held that inasmuch as the 

 animal was not trespassing, but was going along the pub- 

 lic street, where it had a perfect right to be, the owner 

 could not be held responsible for the results of the col- 

 lision. 



A more complicated dog and woman collision is now 

 before the Vermont courts. The point to be determined 

 in this instance is whether one man may be held in dam- 

 ages for injuries inflicted by another man's dog in the 

 owner's own house and upon the owner's own wife. To 

 the unsophisticated lay mind it w^ould appear that at all 

 events in this case, too, the dog was not trespassing. The 

 cause is that of Isham vs. Dow. Dow had some sheej). 

 Isham had a dog. Isham's dog attempted to eat up 

 Dow's sheep. Dow had a gun. With it he set out to kiU 

 Isham's dog. Isham had a wife. Isham's dog, wounded 

 by Dow's gun, ran into Isham's house and jumped against 

 Isham's wife, knocking her down, and injuring her so 

 severely that she was critically ill afterward. Isham vs. 

 Dow for $10,000 is the result. What became of the dog 

 is not told. 



What is a person to do when a stray and friendless dog 

 persists in casting itself upon his good graces and adopt- 

 ing him for a master? The Brooklyn police courts have 

 gone so far at least as to say that he may not hurl the 

 animal through a window. The other evening a citizen 

 set out to make a caU. On the street he encountered a 

 wretched stray dog, which made up to him, Ucked his 



liands, and then and there, in canine dumb show, took 

 him for better or for worse. The man responded with a 

 kick, and boardea a street car. The dog followed him in 

 and nestled down at his feet. Brooklyn street cars do not 

 carry dogs, and when the conductor spied the animal, he 

 asked the man if it belonged to him. The man looked 

 down at the dog, and the dog, misinterpreting the glance, 

 responsively wagged its tail in content and good w^ill. 

 Then the man swore some, grabbed the dog, swung it in 

 the air and dashed it through a window. The glass 

 crashed; the astonished dog went yelping up the street; 

 the man swore some more ; the women in the car made 

 a commotion; the conductor called a policeman; the po- 

 liceman carried the canine catapult off to the station 

 house; the judge fined him $25 in court the next morning 

 for cruelty to animals; and he made himself square with 

 the car company by paying for the smashed glass. All 

 of which teaches us that a dog, as well as a human be- 

 ing, may sometimes be mistaken in his man. This 

 Brooklyn citizen was not at all the kind of person the 

 dog took him to be. 



Dogs have certain recognized legal privileges, one of 

 which is that of proceeding in an orderly manner along 

 the public highway unmolested by other dogs ; and the 

 courts will sustain a man who endeavors to uphold this 

 right for a dog, even when the dog belongs to somebody 

 else. The Massachusetts case of Matteson vs. Strong, 

 damages for dog bite, is the one in point. Daniel B. 

 Matteson, of Palmer, was out walking, attended by 

 Albert King's dog. The quadruped was set upon with 

 ferociously felonious intent by the dog of Homer C. 

 Strong, Esq. Matteson attempted to restrain King's dog 

 when Strong's dog attacked it. He was bitten by the 

 aggressor, brought suit in the Superior Court and recovered 

 $375 damages. But Strong contended that the plaintiif 

 had attempted to separate the dogs after they had begun 

 fighting and that by so doing had unnecessarily put him- 

 self in danger— had cast himself into the breach when he 

 should have stayed out of it. He carried the case up to 

 the Supreme Court. There the finding of the lower court 

 was sustained in a decision which it will be well for one 

 to note carefully for future guidance. It reads: 



We cannot say, as a matter of law, that the plaintiff was not in the 

 exercise of due care in putting his hand on the collar or neck of the 

 dog which was in his custody, in order to bring him along and prevent 

 a fight. Under the circumstances it may have been a very proper 

 thing for him to do, and at the time It may not have seemed to ex- 

 pose him to much, if any, danger. In cases of this kind a great deal 

 depends on the size, the apparent disposition, the conduct and the 

 situation of the two dogs, and upon other circumstances which are 

 usually proper for the consideration of a jury. There was other 

 testimony which would have warranted the jury in finding that the 

 plaintifiE was negligent, but neither the undisputed evidence in the 

 case nor the hypothetical statement embodied in the defendant's 

 second request for a ruling was enough to justify the court in order- 

 ing a verdict for the defendant. 



THE ANARCHIST ARGUMENT. 



The letter elsewhere printed to-day came to hand last 

 week after Forest and Stream had gone to press, but be- 

 fore it had been published. It is written by an Eastern 

 banker, whose connections with railroads and mines in 

 Montana is close and has extended over a number of 

 years. In the course of his business journey ings this gen- 

 tleman has become familiar with the Park and Cooke 

 City miners, as well as with ranchmen and miners in 

 many localities in central and southern Montana. We 

 are not surprised to see our correspondent take up cudgels 

 in behalf of the good men of Montana. They are abund- 

 antly able to take care of themselves and need no defense, 

 but it is irritating to see one's friends called bad names in 

 print, and the impulse is strong to say a word. 



Most of this ground, except where wanton attacks are 

 made on the character of Montana people, has been thor- 

 oughly gone over in past years, and the communication 

 of Mr. Brackett only brings to the surface old straw to 

 be threshed over again. It would be a simple matter to 

 take his letter, paragraph by paragraph, and pull it to 

 pieces, showing by conclusive testimony that he has 

 failed to inform himself on many points in connection 

 with the National Park. It is absurd, for example, to 

 any one who is familiar with the Park in winter, to 

 read his statement that the game has long since been 

 driven from the vicinity of the Cooke City wagon road 

 and never returns to it, for it is perfectly well known that 

 the greatest winter range for elk within the borders of 

 the reservation is along the Cooke City %vagon road, 

 I thousands of them being seen there daily throughout 



the winter. No one expects to find game camped along 

 the roadside in summer, for then it has withdrawn to the 

 higher lands and to the timber. 



But it is not worth while to go over this ground, which 

 must be tliorougbly familiar to all readers of Forest and 

 Stream. Those who have forgotten the details of the 

 case are referred to an article in this journal about a year 

 ago entitled "Cooke City vs. the National Park." 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 Here is a foreign minister of whom any country might 

 be proud, and it is the privilege of these United States to 

 take pride in him. Minister W. W. Thomas, Jr., repre- 

 senting our Government in Sweden, took part in the great 

 elk hunt given by King Oscar, the other day, in the for- 

 est of Hunneberg, in honor of the Emperor of Germany. 

 When the hunt was over the diplomatic representatives 

 of France, Germany and Italy were all present and ac- 

 counted for, but Minister Thomas had disappeared, and 

 much solicitude was felt lest he had been wounded by 

 the game or some other calamity had befallen him. It 

 was not until 10 o'clock at night, and when the party 

 was about to break up, that he came in, worn out with 

 fatigue, all tattered and bespattered with mud; and ex- 

 plained to King Oscar that having wounded an elk he 

 had thought it the sportsmanlike thing to follow it up 

 and give it the coup de grace. The chase had been long 

 and arduous, but the American had to show for his re- 

 ward the finest specimen of all the forty elk killed in the 

 hunt; and for his pluck he received the congratulations 

 of both the sovereigns. 



Nine of the Montana elk which were exhibited near the 

 Cliff Dwellers in the World's Fair have been secured by 

 Mr. Edward H. Litchfield, of Brooklyn, for his game pre- 

 serve in the Adirondacks. The elk were last week taken 

 to a farm in Rome, N. Y., where they will winter. With 

 them are three black-tailed deer, also destined for Mr. 

 Litchfield's preserve. This experiment of restocking the 

 Adirondacks with elk, for such in effect it is, will be 

 watched with decided interest. The elk was indigenous 

 to the North Woods; and was exterminated only by fool- 

 ishly persistent pursuit. There is much ground for 

 believing that once again restored to its native home the 

 species would thrive; and that with the protection 

 accorded it by wise laws and by an enlightened pub- 

 lic sentiment, it would become a permanent factor ia the 

 game supply of the region. 



Major J. Fry Lawrence, of Louisville, Ky., who died 

 suddenly whUe on a hunting trip, on Nov. 11, was presi- 

 dent of the Kentucky Fish and Game League, an organi- 

 zation numbering 1,500 members, and one of the most 

 powerful institutions of the State. He was a member of 

 the. World's Fisheries Congress, and attended some of its 

 meetings in Chicago last month. The discussions bearing 

 upon the protection of fish awakened his liveliest interest. 

 The extensive distribution of fish by the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission in Kentucky waters was due largely to the per- 

 sonal influence of Major Lawrence, and no one appreci- 

 ated more fully than he the lasting benefits to be derived 

 from inteUigent stocking of streams. 



There is a clause of the New York game law which 

 forbids one person to kill more than three deer in a sea- 

 son. From what we can learn this law is on the whole 

 beneficial, but it does not restrain the raids of some 

 of the meat hunters who live on the borders of the 

 Wilderness and make annual autumnal forays on the ven- 

 ison supply. Some of these hunters take out wagon 

 loads of game just as they did before the law was en acted. 



As we go to press the meeting of the Amei'ican Orni- 

 thologists' Union is being held at Cambridge, Massachu- 

 setts. The attendance is large, and many interesting 

 papers will be presented to the Congress. The hospitali- 

 ties of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, which might 

 almost be called the father of the A. O. U., will be 

 ofliered during the meeting. 



The subject of the alarming decrease of food fishes in the 

 waters of the Atlantic coast is one of importance which 

 it would be difficult to over-estimate. The consideration 

 of it, set on foot by the New York Commission, should 

 receive attention from every one who can contribute sug- 

 I gestion or information. . ^ 



