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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Nov. 35, 1893. 



While, therefore, it would not be reasonable to expect that 

 the campaign of enlightenment, though carried to almost 

 perfect success, would result in universal obedience, it would 

 no doubt be followed by reforms that would greatly improve 

 the present lamentable condition of affairs and afford rea- 

 sonable ground for the hope that there would be wrought 

 through the powerful agency of public opinion such salutory 

 changes as would in a large degree make amends for past 

 improvidence. 



It only requires a little thoughtful consideration of the 

 subject to satisfy every one that the task of restoring fruit- 

 fulness to our food fish producing waters and thereafter 

 maintaining them in that condition is herculean in charac- 

 ter, if not, in view of the mischief that has already been 

 wrought, impossible of performance. It means the disabus- 

 ing of the general public mind of many misconceptions 

 vrhich now so largely pervade it. Among those misconcep- 

 tions a leading one is the belief that a fish in public waters 

 is the rightful property of the individual who can capture it, 

 at whatever time and by whatever means, restrictive legisla- 

 tion to the contrary notwithstanding. It means the inculca- 

 tion of the important truth that the repopulating of food 

 fish waters and the thereafter protection of them would be 

 rnillions of value to the country, and therefore a matter of 

 direct interest to every citizen. It means the legitimate in- 

 stead of the unlawful and wicked abuse of one of the Al- 

 mighty's richest bounties. 



It may be asked, and the question would be a pertinent 

 one, What has the Pennsylvania Fish Protective Associa- 

 tion to do with all this.^ Much, gentlemen, very much. I 

 am led to hope that these hastily penned thoughts will have 

 a stimulating effect ui)onall pre.sent. T&stimony has already 

 been borne to the faithfulness that has characterized the 

 work of this Association, and in doing so have spoken whereof 

 I knew. But more than that is needed. We have been labor- 

 ing with a view to the accomplishment of a great end. The 

 harvest we hope to gather is plentiful but the laborers are 

 few. Many more are needed, and with a view to the securing 

 of them it becomes vitally important that the work we have 

 been doing, and the object of it, shall be more generally un 

 derstood. It should not dishearten because our numbers are 

 few compared with the many whose hearty co-operation is 

 essential to success. We must encourige others by the 

 widest possible dissemination of the principles that control 

 our actions, and for that reason I would have the community 

 at large made more familiar with them, It is enjoined that 

 the left hand shall be kept in ignorance of what the right 

 hand doeth. The injunction applies to works of charity, 

 but ours is not a work of charity, though one of beneficence. 

 I would have the community at large more fully acquainted 

 with our transactions, not for the sake of securing flattering 

 commendation, but with the hope of awakening a more gen- 

 eral interest in fish propagation, distribution and protection. 



Who shall say what may be the result of our example? I 

 feel satisfied that if the unselfish work of this Association 

 and the beneficial results that have followed were generally 

 understood, there would be a notable increase in our member- 

 ship and a consequent enlargement of our sphere of useful- 

 ness. Necessarily we have been restricted in our operations, 

 but we have done what we could and can only hope that our 

 efforts will stimulate others, until the reforms which we 

 have endeavored to inaugurate will be emulated by many 

 and the contagion spread, until our food fish producing 

 lakes, rivers, sea, gulf and bay coasts will have the protec- 

 tion needed to restore their famed fruitfulness, uow so 

 nearly exhausted. If we can by united and judiciously 

 directed endeavors convince others that what to-day seems 

 almost impracticable may eventually be accomplished, a 

 great step in advance will have been taken. If it is shown 

 that we have zealously co-operated with the State Fishery 

 Commissioners in their successful attempts to rid the streams 

 of Pennsylvania of devices inimical to fish life, have more thau 

 quintupled the shad products of the Delaware, making it in 

 that respect the leading stream of the country — and are still 

 earnestly engaged in efforts to bring about like beneficial 

 results in all the principal waters of the Commonwealth, 

 our example will prove a stimulus to many and lead to the 

 organization of like associations in every section of the 

 State. Let the world know that our labors have had but a 

 single object — the promotion of the general welfare. Such 

 knowledge will enlighten the ignorant and dis.sipate un- 

 founded prejudices so widely prevalent against nearly all 

 associations of a kindred character. One of the most for- 

 midable obstacles in the way is the immense water area to 

 be cultivated and the almost absolute requirement that each 

 water shall have special guardianship. In a word, the inter- 

 ests to be protected are so many and so varied, so widely sep- 

 arated, and each requiring the same vigilant care that has 

 been bestowed upon those within our State, that complete 

 success might almo.st he despaired of . But "what man has 

 done, man can do." What was once decreed impo.s.sible in 

 Pennsylvania has already been achieved in part with the 

 almost positive assurance that eventually complete success 

 will be attained. Why may not like restilts be hoped for in 

 other States, in all the States? 



If the work of repopulating American waters was not so 

 general in its character— and if, instead of participation being 

 a duty devolving upon every citizen, thus practically making 

 it everybody's business, which is generally understood to be 

 nobody's business— the ownership was vested in individual 

 or corporation proprietorship, there would be much less in- 

 difference. Note, if you please, as an apt illustration of this, 

 the vigor and earnestness with which the menhaden fisher- 

 men assert and defend their claimed to be rights. When 

 legislation hostile to their piratical work is sought, they do 

 not fold their hands and submissively await results. Having 

 come off victors in their hitherto contests with States, they 

 turn their attention to Congress. Their agents, well supplied 

 with the sinews of war, visit Washington, and it needs not 

 the saying, those sinews, on more than one occasion, have 

 been used with telling effect. The menhadenites have mil- 

 lions invested, and they protect those investments with the 

 most sturdy pertinacity, which is not surprising, when the 

 amount of the capital is considered. Their unity of action 

 and untiring perseverance, if displayed in a righteous cause, 

 would be worthy of the highest commendation, and even 

 whea exerted in behalf of the interests of a vocation which, 

 to my mind, is in deadly opposition to the food fish interests 

 of the almost entire seacoast, it is worthy of imitation, not 

 in the direction in which they have been exercising it, but in 

 behalf of the more laudable work in which we are engaged. 



It has been the lack of such concentration of eftbrt that 

 has given menhaden fishing so long a lease of life. Have vou 

 ever met an individual not directly financially interested in 

 menhaden fisheries, or not in the employ of those corpora- 

 tions a,s lobbyists or special agents of some kind, who has not 

 unequivocally and unsparingly denounced them?And yet with 

 this almost universal public sentiment in open opposition, 

 how difficult a matter it is to secure signatures to petitions 

 and remonstrances intended to implant in the minds of 

 honestly-disposed but over-persuaded Congressmen the con- 

 viction that there exists a vital necessity for the correction 

 of this overshadowing abuse of public rights. 



Is it surprising, in view of this most indefensible apathy, 

 that each succeeding year these menhadenites become more 

 .-aggressive and arbitrary, demanding as an inherent right, as 

 A natural prerogative, the privilege of pursuing a vocation 

 ■which all experience has demonsti-ated to be inimical, in the 

 most extended sense, to the food fish interests of the almost 

 .entire seacost. Did time permit I could satisfy even the most 

 incredulous that this is not an empty assertion, but the decla- 

 iration of an incontrovertible truth. 



Instead of stalwart and steady opposition to this gigantic 

 wrong by the aggrieved public on the entire coast from Maine 



to Florida, the menhadenites doubtless note with great satis- 

 faction the feeble and scattered protests, which, so far as in- 

 fiuence upon Congress is concerned, might as well have been 

 presented to the waves that break upon the beaches. 



It affords me much pleasure to bear testimony to the efforts 

 of the Pennsylvania Fish Protective Association for the sup- 

 pression of this enormous evil, and at the same time am com- 

 pelled to state the fact that, instead of united and hearty 

 support from the seashore people, the cold shoulder was giveu 

 them, and, as a matter of course, the result was failure. But 

 a single failure should not dishearten. Another effort should 

 be made, and it would greatly redound to the credit of this 

 organization if it would agtiin take the initiative and once 

 more endeavor to work out a great and sorely needed re- 

 form. 



^ During the recent sittings of the World's Auxiliary Fishery 

 Congress a resolution was ofl'ered and, I believe, adopted, 

 authorizing the appointment of a committee of three, whose 

 duty it shall be to report on the subject of menhaden fisher- 

 ies; and it was a feattire of the resolution that— although not 

 exi^ressed in so many words — the committee was to be com- 

 posed of individuals known to be favorable to the claims of 

 the menhaden corporations. I have not learned the names of 

 the gentlemen composing the committee. 



As must be apparent to those who have followed me in 

 these hastily penned remarks, my object has been not to pay 

 compliments to the Pennsylvania Fish Protective Associa- 

 tion, but to state some simple truths and to awaken, if pos- 

 sible, a feeling of more general interest in our work. If our 

 doings have been meritorious, the community should know 

 it, if our labors do not merit such designation, the sooner we 

 disband the better. If we have influence let it be shown. If, 

 in.stead of being a mere fishing club, as many believe, we 

 have, to the full extent of our abilities been exerting our- 

 selves for the general good, not only in our own bailiwick 

 but in supplementing the praiseworthy endeavors of the 

 State Fishery Commissioners; it is our right that we shall 

 be placed before the community in our true character. It is 

 not risking much to assert that a concise, detailed report of 

 our proceedings would be read with interest by the advocates 

 of fishery reforms, and that such published reports would 

 have the good effect of stimulating other organizations to 

 like endeavors, and would, moreover, -prove valuable vehicles 

 of information to the many who need to be educated upon 

 the subject. 



It would co.st something to publish such reports, but the 

 expense would be more than met by the increase of member- 

 ship. On that point there can hardly be any difference of 

 opinion. I have too much faith in the public spirit of Phila- 

 delphia to doubt for a moment that when the real objects of 

 the Pennsylvania Fish Protective Association are fully 

 understood, our means for an increase of past and present 

 usefulness will be largely augmented. 



In conclusion, Mr. President, my remarks this evening 

 have been largely of an advisory chai-acter. Presuming 

 upon my long affiliation with the Association, I have offered 

 a word of counsel which may or may not be acceptable. 

 However that my be, I trust the sincerity of my motives 

 will not be questioned. I am firmly convinced that if 

 the largely depletedA™erican waters are to be repopulated, 

 now, if ever, is the time when that important work, already 

 begun, shall be pre,ssed with quadrupled energy by every 

 available agency. There has already been too miach halting 

 and hesitation. Prompt, determined and per.sistent action 

 is demanded. Further delay means the lengthening of the 

 cords and the strengthening of the stakes of the dcspoilex's 

 of our fishery resources. The greater the procrastination 

 the more formidable the task will become. Increased effort 

 here and elsewhere, and those efforts combined and concen- 

 trated, is the need of the hour. 



A Sea Fishery Conference. 



Pkesident L. D. Huktington, of the New York Fish 

 Commis.sion, has issued the following call for a conference 

 which gives promise of marking the "beginning of a move- 

 ment for the protection of the food fishes of the Atlantic 

 Coast: 



New York, Nov. 15.— Dear Sir: The growing scarcity of 

 edible fishes along our coast line, from Maine to Virginia, is 

 a matter of importance that should not be overlooked by the 

 States interested. The cause, or causes, of this diminution 

 should be ascertained and some remedy, if possible, should 

 be applied at once by the enactment of simple and uniform 

 legislation in all of the seaboard States before the now 

 reduced supply becomes further exhausted. With this object 

 in view, and with a desire for a full, impartial and thorough 

 examination of the whole subject, we, the undersigned 

 citizens of the State of New York, have determined that 

 some effort should be made to obtain a conference of 

 the Commissioners of Fisheries, as well as other citizens 

 of the seaboard States interested, who have made the 

 matter a study, in order that some plan of action be 

 adopted to secure the protection and preservation of food 

 fishes. We, therefore, invite you cordially and request that 

 you will personally invite such citizens of" your State as may 

 feel sufficient interest in this matter, to attend a conference 

 to be held at the office of the Commissioners of Fisheries of 

 the State of New York, at No. 5:3 Broadway, New York citj'', 

 Wednesday, Dec. 13, 1893, at 10 o'clock A. M. This invitation 

 or reqttest will be extended to all members of the Commis- 

 sions of Fisheries of the States of Maine, Massachusetts, 

 Rhode Island, Connecticut, New .lersey, Pennsylvania, Dela- 

 ware and Maryland, and the Commissioners in aclditiou will 

 be reque.sted to invite such citizens of their States as would 

 be likely to take sufficient interest in the matter to attend 

 such conference. 



We sincerely hope that yotu* State may be represented by 

 you, as well as by other citizens, at this conference, and that 

 the results may prove of benefit to all the seaboard States. 

 Please acknowledge the receipt of this communication as 

 promptly as possible, and give such expression of your senti- 

 ments on the subject as you may entertain, and advise us 

 whether you will be present at the conference. We remain 

 yours very respectfully, Austin Corbin, Henry W. Book- 

 staver, Henry P. McGown, Koberl B. Roosevelt, H. C. Faha- 

 stock, John L. Hill, W. C. Harris, Charles E. Whitehead, 

 Henry S. Wilson, W. B. Williams, Albert E, Cochran, Jas. 



E. Hulshizer, Edwin M. Felt, Thos. W. Cuthbert, I. B. Will- 

 iams, James W. Beers, Silas C. Force, I. F. Parker, George 

 H. Penuiman, Arthur M. Hunter, Jenkins Van Schaick, 

 Watts T. Miller, P. Howard North, William K. Vanderbilt. 

 Calvin E. Pratt, Phiueas C. Lounsbury, Wrn. P. Clyde, W! 

 Bayard Cutting, Richard V. Harnett, Charles B, Reynolds, 

 George G. DeWitt, Alex. Taylor, Jr., Wm. M. Fleiss, Samuel 



F. Prentiss, John S. W. Thompson, Timothy L. Woodruff, 

 Paul Worth, H. A. Craft, S. W. Doubleday, Fred Mather, 

 Ezra S. Connor. 



L D. HtFSTrSGTON, A 



W. H. Bowman, / Commissioners 



David G. HACKNEr, V of Fisheries 



Robert Hamilton, ( State of New York. 

 A. Sylve,9ter Joline, J 



Salmon in Delaware River. 



Concerning the interesting experiment of introducing 

 salmon into the Delaware, we have the following information 

 from Fish Commissioner H. C. Ford: 



"I have received word from various points on the upper 

 Delaware above Lackawaxen, in reference to the large plant 

 of 3,000,000 salmon fi-y made nearly two years ago. The 

 smolts, measuring from 6 to 8in., swarmed in the river and 

 its tributaries in which they had been placed, and so far the 



stocking has been eminently successful. * * * I inclose 

 you a letter from Dr. Bradley, of New York, in reference to 

 the salmon fry placed in Blooming Grove Creek, a tributary 

 of the Lackawaxen. ' ' 



From Dr. Bradley's letter we extract the following: "I 

 am happy to inform you that the salmon fry have 'panned 

 out' fine, and last August the smolts in Blooming Grove 

 Creek were very numerous and could hardly be kept off our 

 hooks while fishing for trout. They were from 6 to Bin. long 

 and in fine condition. Is there anything new about salmon? 

 Were any taken this season in the Delaware? We have 

 now about fifteen large pools in the Blooming Grove stream, 

 and our fish ways are in flue condition. Do you see any 

 reason why Blooming Grove Creek should not make a good 

 salmon stream? or any reason why the salmon should not 

 come back to the stream?" 



Mr. Ford of course has told Dr. Bradley about the captures 

 of salmon in the Delaware, as he informed a representative 

 of Forest asd Stream at the meeting of the American 

 Fisheries Society la.st June. Prospects certainly appear 

 bright now for the success of salmon planting in that river, 

 and it would be too bad to disappoint the hopes of the 

 anglers by lack of vigilance in the protection and increase of 

 that splendid fish. Mr. Ford is desirous of continuing the 

 planting and it is to be hoped he will be able to go on with 

 the good work. 



^he Rennet 



FIXTU RES. 



DOa SHOWS. 



Nov. 28 to Dec. 1.— New Jersey K. L., at Newark, N. J. Dr. W. F. 

 Seidler, Sec'y. 



Dec. is to 15.— R. I. Poultry and Pet Stock Ass'n, at Providence. 

 Dec. to 23.— Northern Ohio Pet Stock Association, at Akron. 0. 

 H. F. Peck, Sec'y. 



FIELD TRIALS. 

 Nov. 27.— Irish Setter Club's Field Trials, at Thomas ville, N. 0. G. 

 G. Davis, Sec'y. 



Dec. 13 to 16.— Chicago K. C, at Chicago. G. H. Goodrich, Sec'y. 

 1894. 



Jan. 1.— Southern California Field Trials, at Ontario, Cal. H. C 

 Hinman, Los Angeles, Cal., Sec'y. 



Jan. 29.— Southern Field Trial Club's Trials, New Albany MiSB T 

 M. Brumby, Sec'y, Marietta, Ga. 



Feb. 19.— United States Field Trials Club's Sprmg Trials, Grand 

 Junction, Tenn, P. T. Madison, Sec'y, Indianapolis, Ind. 



A PLAIN BUSINESS TALK. 



Those who have dogs for sale and others who own stud 

 dogs which they keep more or less for public service are be- 

 coming convinced that FOREST AND Stream is excelling all 

 other mediums for reaching the public. This fact is being 

 continually brought to our notice. Only last Tuesday a 

 prominent collie breeder in this country, in fact about the 

 most prominent one, an advertiser in all kennel journals, re- 

 marked to us: "I tell you what it is though, without fooling, 

 Forest and Stream is the only paper I get business from." 



And why is this thus? The answer is very easy. Forest 

 AND Stream is a clean paper; its kennel columns are free 

 from the acrid, calumnious controversies and sensationalism 

 that have done so much to hurt kennel interests recently in 

 the minds of the better element of sportsmen and dog owners, 

 consequently FoREST AND STREAM appeals— and it is the 

 only kennel journal that does appeal— to that better element. 

 Further, the high standard which its other departments 

 have attained, their literary merit and accuracy, combine to 

 make this a true sportsman's paper. This is the reason why 

 you find Forest and Stream on every club table, whether 

 literary, social, hunt, fishing, gtm, yacht or kennel club. This 

 necessarily opens up a field of readers which no other similar 

 publication can cover. The result is obvious. When you 

 get an answer to an advertisement in Forest and Stream 

 it generally means business. These answers come from men 

 well able to pay for their hobbies; men who do not merely 

 write for the sake of writing, and who when answered are 

 never heard from again. Dogmen want the best prices for 

 their .stock, and if they are wise they will place their adver- 

 tisements, as will any other merchant, in the paper that will 

 bring them closest to the wealthiest class of readers. Dog 

 breeders should know that a class paper devoted entirely to 

 dogs, or chickeuH, or horses, is not the journal that brings the 

 best re.su Its to its advertisers. How can it be so? Such 

 journals circulate merely among their own class, most of 

 whom are in the same business. The cheap rate they may 

 give may become a very dear one if persisted in when no re- 

 turns are received. It is cheaper to pay a fair price in a 

 journal that your own common sense tells you must neces- 

 sarily circulate among a more varied and larger class of 

 readers, and where you stand twenty chances to the other 

 one of a return for your money. This the wise advertisers in 

 the kennel department have long known, and they show it 

 by extending their "advts." from year to year. 



The Chicago K. C. Premium List. 



ErMtor Forcfit and Stream: 



One is accustomed to regard anything hailing from Chicago 

 in a progressive light; so that it is somewhat of a surprise 

 when the schedule of the Chicago Kennel Club for 189.3 is 

 received to find amon^ the many inconsistencies no clas.^cs 

 provided for wire-haired fox-terriers, Irish, Scottish, Dan- 

 dies or Skyes. Some of the largest kennels in the States 

 are owned by lovers of the above breeds, and how very flat- 

 tering this must be to the efforts of such fanciers as Me.ssrs. 

 H. W. Smith, Comstock, Edward and Henry Brooks, all of 

 whom have spent large sums of money imporiiug the best 

 which England could produce. ButtheChicago Kennel Club 

 has done ftself well in pi'oviding a class for that nondescript 

 animal called tbe ''rough and wire terrier," offering the 

 large prizes of rio to first (what a nice task for the judges to 

 decide?) and for second of this breed, against -5200 for 

 either mastiffs, great Danes or rough St. Bernards. Well, 

 well, for "rough and wire terriers," and the date is Chicago' 

 December, A. D. 1893. W. P. Fkasei^ 



Toronto, Can., Nov. 18. 



Mr. C. E. Buun, the noted mastiff breeder of Peoria, 111., 

 sends us a handsome catalogue describing his well known 

 dogs. It is quite daintily arranged, printed on heavy board 

 and tied with blue silk cord. Capital half-tones of Ormonde, 

 Leamington, Rii.ssingtou, Sinaloa, Caution's Own Daughter 

 and champion Lady Coleus adorn its pages. The picture of 

 Sinaloa's head is especially a very pleasing one, framed as it 

 is by a hor.seshoe, Avhich is supposed to bring the good luck 

 that we trust this young fancier will experience. 



