Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. ^ 



NEW TORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1893. 



Tbems, 84 A Ybab. 10 Cts. a Copy. I 

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( VOL. XLI.— No. 25 



( No. 318 Bboadw^, N«W Yobx. 



CONTEJiTS. 



Editorial. 



Good Governor and the Eggs. 

 Pailroad Routes to Cooke. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Danvis Folks.— svni. 

 Hunting with a Camera. 



Natural History. 



A Time with a Leopard. 

 Cougars in the Northwest. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Powder Te'ts. 



Niagara County Duck Shooting. 

 Washington Notes. 

 Experience with Deer and Moose 

 Chicago and the West. 

 National Park Road Question. 

 Boston and Maine. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 

 Fishing on- Sunday. 

 Buzzards Bay Fisheries. 



Fishculture. 



Relations of the Community to 



the Fisheries. 

 The Experience of Pennsylvania. 



The Kennel. 



Chicago Dog Show. 



The Kennel. 



Saratoga Dog Show. 

 A Day at Hempstead. 

 English Kennel Club Show. 

 Dog Chat. 



Ajiswers to Correspondents. 



Hunting and Coursing. 



Finish of the Newark Meeting. 

 Htmting and Coursing Notes. 



Yachting. 



A Florida Cruise. 



Tacht Building. 



Origin of the Centerboard. 



The Measurement of Sail Area. 



News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



The Log of the Frankie. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



The Revolver Championship. 

 Rifle Club Doings. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



Something Anent Targets. 

 Great Birds at John Erb's. 

 Vernon Rod and Gun Club Tour- 

 nament. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries. 



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THE COAST FISHERY CONFERENCE. 

 The conference called by President Huntington and 

 others, to consider the subject of the fish supply of Atlan- 

 tic coast waters, brought together a large number of fish 

 commissioners, commercial fishermen, rod and line 

 anglers and others interested, at the Gerlach in this city 

 last week. While the meeting resulted in no definite 

 action looking toward a solution of the question it was 

 called to consider, the proceedings were extremely inter- 

 esting, and brought a mass of testimony from all sides 

 and a wealth of opinion and suggestion. A number of 

 papers were read, some of which had been put into type 

 for to-day. but which are withheld, pending the publica- 

 tion of the full official report by the secretary in our issue 

 of Jan. 6, 



RAILROAD ROUTES TO COOKE. 



The condition of things in the National Park along the 

 Yellowstone River, East Fork and Soda Butte Creek this 

 winter is a good commentary on the plan — so often ad- 

 vanced — to build a railroad along these streams from 

 Gardiner to Cooke City. We are informed that the con- 

 tractor who carries the mail between Cinnabar and Cooke 

 City has applied to the Post Office Department to have the 

 Cooke Cily route abandoned for the winter, because the 

 mail must be carried sixty miles on snowshoes, and the 

 work is too dangerous. For many months in the year 

 deep snows overlie this whole region, and no railroad 

 could be operated unless snowsheds were bmlt over prac- 

 tically the whole route. This would require sixty miles of 

 snowsheds — a railroad running inside of a house the whole 

 distance between the two points. 



On the other hand, a route from the east, such aa we 

 have often suggested, and as is mentioned in Mr. 



Gallaher's letter, printed in another coltimn to-day, 

 would have no snow to contend with, except for a very 

 short distance through the mountains, A railroad from 

 Cinnabar to Cooke City, if built, would be a summer line 

 only, and would, therefore, be of no value whatever to 

 the suffering Cooke City miners, about whom we hear so 

 much. 



We yield to no one in our interest in the Cooke City 

 mines, or in our sympathy for those who have so long 

 been holding claims there in the hope that they might 

 some time get an outlet to the world for their product, but 

 the relief which its true friends desire for Cooke City is a 

 real relief and not a pretended one, and a railway which 

 could only be operated for four or five months during the 

 year would be a good deal worse for Cooke than no rail- 

 road at all. 



Mr. Gallaher is a civil engineer, a practical surveyor, 

 whose word should carry weight. 



It would naturally be. imagined that Montana men and 

 Montana newspapers would be strenuous for the honor 

 of their own State, and would indignantly resent the im- 

 putation that any considerable class of its citizens is so 

 lost to all sense of rectitude and decency as to destroy 

 public property because legislation which suits them is 

 not enacted. This is not always the case, however, for 

 we have seen that Colonel Brackett calls Cooke City 

 miners, and others living in the mountains to the east of 

 the National Park, anarchists, and now the Livingston 

 Post, in its issue of Nov. 30, covertly incites law-breakers 

 to wreak their vengeance on the National Park. It says: 



Everybody concedes that the destruction of the Park by flre would 

 be a public, a national calamity, and about the only way to avert such 

 an impending danger is for Congress to grant the reasonable request 

 of the people of the West by passing the segregation bill. 



However natural it might seem to hear language like 

 this in the slums of Paris, London, Chicago or New York, 

 it is a new tone to come from the free and manly West. 

 The Post, like the three tailors of Tooley street, considers 

 itself, and a few Livingston town lot speculators, "the 

 West," and in its eagerness to start the hoped-for railroad 

 boom does not hesitate to bring disgrace on its own State. 

 Truly, 'tis an ill bird that fouls its own nest, and we fancy 

 the Montana press generally can not feel very proud of 

 the Post. 



THE GOOD GOVERNOR AND THE EGGS. 



There are those who will say that if Governor John P. 

 Altgeld of Illinois were not wanting in common sense he 

 would not now be occupying the extremely foolish posi- 

 tion he is in of having been blackballed by a sportsmen's 

 club. His official record with respect to game legislation, 

 they will say, is a bad one, so bad that he should have 

 known better than to subject himself to the peril of the 

 rebuff given him by the Swan Lake Shooting Club of 

 Chicago, when he tried to get into it the other day. But 

 this only demonstrates anew how harshly, intemperately 

 and wrongly we may judge our fellow men; they who so 

 reason do not know Mr. Altgeld for the man he is and we 

 have shown him to be. If Gov. Altgeld has — to use a cur- 

 rent idiom of the West — "run up against" thirty-one 

 blackballs, he has done so strictly within the line of his 

 duty as a truly Good Governor, and only in the way of 

 carrying out his campaign against the machinations of 

 the Wicked Doctor. 



The story was told in these columns last summer, how 

 Dr. W. O. Blaisdell, of Macomb, having imported into 

 Illinois certain game bhds, to wit, chuckor partridges, 

 from India, had sought to obtain a law for their protec- 

 tion, and how the Legislature falhng into his net he 

 would have succeeded but for Gov. Altgeld. The Good 

 Governor vetoed the bill, and at the same time pulled the 

 mask from the plot of the Wicked Doctor. The imported 

 birds, he declared, had been brought into the country to 

 menace the liberties of the people; they were to be used 

 for the purpose of inveigling the people of Illinois into 

 jail. 



The partridge plot being thus nipped in the bud, or per- 

 haps we should say addled in the hatching, it is a signifi- 

 cant fact that the Wicked Doctor has from that time 

 to this kept mum about whatever became of the 

 imported birds. And indeed he might, for well 

 he knew that the progeny of the chuckor fowl 

 were a horrid brood, more to be dreaded than harpy or 

 cockatrice. If the Wicked Doctor hugged to his breast 

 the delusion that no one but himself knew what sort of 

 eggs he had in his basket he was hugely mistaken. The 

 event goes to show that in Illinois evil may not be incu- 



bated by Wicked Doctoi's, not so long as a Good Governor 

 holds down the executive chair. How the Good Governor 

 came to find out about the pestilential chuckor eggs is not 

 known. Perhaps he was told by the Indian jugglers in 

 the Midway, who while they could not do Indian jugglery 

 a little bit, may have knowu something about Indian birds 

 and eggs. If the Good Governor got his information there 

 he got more for his admission money than most people did. 

 Be this as it may, whether he had it from the jugglers or 

 whether the same prescience which had smelled out the 

 bird jail plot told him the nature of the eggs of these 

 fowl, he knew that the eggs themselves were lurking in 

 unsuspected concealment, biding their time and full of 

 malign potency to bring humiliation upon innocent and 

 unsuspecting individuals. 



In his praiseworthy search for the baneful eggs of the 

 chuckor, Gov. Altgeld has discovered thirty-one of them 

 in the ballot box of the Swan Lake Shooting Club. There 

 must be many more for him to uncover. It is a wicked 

 world and the seeds of evil multiply with alarming rapid- 

 ity. All good citizens will congratulate him upon the 

 success already attained, and applaud him if he shall con- 

 tinue the prosecution of the search. He wiU probably 

 find more eggs by seeking membership in other sports- 

 men's clubs. The Good Governor must not give over 

 until Illinois shall have been whoUy redeemed from the 

 plotting of the Wicked Doctor, 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 The full text of the opinion of the New York Court of 

 Appeals in the Moses Sunday fishing case is printed in 

 our angling columns. It is a familiar principle that the 

 game and fish laws apply to all waters, whether public or 

 private; but the New York statute violated by Mr. Mosea 

 is not a part of these laws; it is a section of the penal 

 code. Its purpose is not to protect fish but to promote 

 the observance of the Sabbath. The court holds that the 

 statute applies to all fishing, private as well as public, 

 even though "it does not affect the sensibilities of any 

 one," and "does not interrupt the repose or religious lib- 

 erty of the community." 



The story told by the rescued Carlin party and printedL 

 in another column is a moving tale of hardship and suf- 

 fering made tragic by the death of the cook Colgate. It 

 was a terrible alternative which was presented to the 

 members of the little band, to abide with the helpless 

 man, when to stay was to be counted certain death; or to 

 abandon him to his fate, and if might be save themselves. 

 There has been some intemperate criticism of the party 

 because of the course they took in this extremity; but the 

 reading of Mr. Carlin's own story carries conviction that 

 they did the only thing left for them to do. 



A Denver dispatch in last Tuesday's papers reported 

 that a deputy game warden of Colorado has discovered 

 another small herd of buffalo, larger than the one found 

 in Lost Park last summer, in North Park, Routt county, a 

 region more isolated than any other part of Colorado. 

 There are said to be two dozen in the herd; and they are 

 very tame, being fed by some of the ranchmen of the 

 park. It was hadly prudent in the warden to make known 

 his discovery, although the Colorado law forbids the 

 destruction of the game. 



We print the request of a Maryland correspondent for 

 evidence as to the effects of protracted close seasons for 

 game birds. Maryland is talking of forbidding the kill- 

 ing of quail for a period of years, Massachusetts is think- 

 ing of a like measure. What have been the practical 

 results of close periods of one, two, or three years, when 

 tried as they have been at various times in other States? 

 We would be glad to receive something on this point. 



The annual meeting of the Maine Sportsmen's Fish and 

 Game Association will be held in Bangor Jan. 2. The 

 New York State Association for the Protection of Fish 

 and Game wiU have its annual convention in Syracuse 

 Jan. 11, The Massachusetts Association for the Protec- 

 tion of Fish and Game will celebrate its annual reunion 

 on Jan. 16. 



Walter Aiken, of Franklin, New Hampshire, who died 

 on Tuesday of last week, was a representative of the best 

 type of the sportsmen of New England. An active and 

 successful business man, he found his favorite recreation 

 with rod and gun, and was worthily counted among 

 those who dignify field sports by participation in them, 



