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FOREST AND STREAM. 



[Jan. 27, 1894. 



News from Chicago. 



Chicago, Jan. 13. — Notwithstanding that this and all 

 the outlying game States have close seasons now in force 

 and nearly all have now export game laws, the game 

 supply is so abundant in South Water street, in Chicago, 

 that it is a drug in the market. The illegal traffic seems 

 to be without any check. Prices are quoted openly. In 

 to-day's (Jan. 13) Tribune, prices are quoted cheaper 

 than domestic fowls, as follows: '"Game — Mallard and 

 redhead ducks, $2.25 to $3 per doz.; small ducks, $1 to 

 $1.35; teal ducks, $1.75 to $2; plover, $1.25 to $1.50; 

 jacksnipe, $1.25 to $1.60; fine dark prairie chickens, $3 to 

 $3.50; quail, $1.25 to $1.90; antelope saddles, 9 to l<Hc. 

 per lb.; venison saddles, 11 to ll^c. per lb.; jack rabbits, 

 $1.50 to $3 per doz." 



Some officers of the National Game Bird and Fish Pro- 

 tective Association had a conference Saturday, Jan. 13, 

 with the State Fish and Game Warden and some promi- 

 nent sportsmen, in respect to taking measures to enforce 

 the game laws. It was stated that the Monday and 

 Wednesday previous, consignments of fish from Fox Lake 

 to a south Water Street firm had been made, and fishing 

 in that lake in violation of the law is reported. A com- 

 mittee of three was appointed to secure evidence and 

 prosecute, a large fund having been raised for that pur- 

 pose. Messrs. M. E. Bortree and T. S. Baird were the 

 representatives of the National Association at the con- 

 ference. There will, in the near future, be a similar 

 conference in Milwaukee, to enforce game protection in 

 Wisconsin. B. Waters. 



Mr. Hedges's First Deer. 



Mr. Clarence E. Hedges, of Rochester, has of late been 

 entertaining his guests with a deer story; and to substan- 

 tiate it he has for office adornment the fine Adirondack 

 buck, mounted in lifelike attitude, killed by him in 1893. 



New York Game and Fish Protectors. 



J. Warreh Pond, Chief Game and Fish Protector, headquarters 

 Capitol at Albany; home address, Malone. John Liberty, Clerk, office 

 Capitol at Albany. 



First District — Robert Brown, Jr., Port Richmond. 



Richmond, Kings, Queens and Suffolk counties. 

 Second District— Willett Kidd, Newburgh. 



Orange, Rockland, Westchester and New York counties. 

 Third District — Matthew Kennedy, Hudson. 



Rensselaer, Dutchess, Columbia and Putnam counties. 

 Fourth District — Isaac Kenwkll, Indian Lake. 



Hamilton and all of Essex lying south of a line drawn from the 



southeast corner of Franklin county, east to Port Henry on Lake 



Champlain. 



Fifth District— Byron A. Cameron, Ray Brook. 



Franklin, Clinton and all of Essex lying north of a line drawn 



from the southeast of Franklin counry, east to Port Henry on 



Lake Champlain. 

 Sixth District— John Hunktns, Hermon. 



St. Lawrence, except the town of Hammond. 

 Seventh District— Frank Joy, Boyd. 



Lewis and all of Herkimer lying north of the towns of Russia, 



Ohio, and all of Oswego north of a line drawn from Pulaski to the 



northwest corner of Oneida county. 

 Eighth District— John Fields, Middleville. 



Fulton, Montgomery, Schenectady, and all of Herkimer lying 



south of the north line of the towns of Russia and Ohio. 

 Ninth District— Sherman F. Snyder, Davenport. 



Delaware, Sullivan, Broome and Tioga counties. 

 Tenth District— Harbison Hawk, Cicero. 



Onondaga, Madison, Cortland and Oswego, from Pulaski to the 



northwest corner of Oneida county district. 

 Eleventh District— Joseph Northrup, Alexandria Bay. 



Jefferson and the town of Hammond in St Lawrence county. 

 Twelfth District— Henry C. Carr, Union Springs. 



Cayuga, Seneca, Wayne and Tompkins counties. 

 Thirteenth District , Penn Yan. 



Yates, Schuyler and Ontario counties. 

 Fourteenth District— George M. Schwartz, Rochester. 



Monroe, Orleans, Wyoming, Genesee and Livingston counties. 

 Fifteenth District— Charles Ripson, Youngstown. 



Niagara, Erie and Chautauqua counties. 

 Sixteenth District— James McMillin, Brodhead Bridge. 



Ulster, Greene, Albany and Schoharie counties. 

 Seventeenth District— Charles H. Barber, Greenwich. 



Warren, Washington and Saratoga counties. 

 Eighteenth District— Ephraim Burnside, Cooperstown. 



Otsego, Chenango and Oneida counties. 

 Ninetemth District— Cameron Cotton, Bath. 



Chemung, Steuben, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties. 



Game and Fish Bills at Albany. 



[From Our Special Correspondent.] 



Assemblyman Hennessey has introduced an amendment to the 

 game law so that section 47 shall read: ''Crusting, Yarding and Jack- 

 ing. Deer shall not be hunted, killed or captured by what is com- 

 monly known as crusting, nor while they are yarded; nor shall they 

 be hunted, shot at, killed or captured by w hat is commonly known as 

 jacking or floating, or hunting deer with lights, in order to lure tneni 

 or attract their attention." 



Assemblyman O'Grady introduced au amendment to the game law 

 so as, in section 36. to give protectors power to serve subpcenas issued 

 for the examination, investigation or trial of all offenses against the 

 law; also, section 33, providing that only the actual expense of seizure 

 of nets shall be a county charge; also, that special protectors shall 

 ha-ve $3 a day for the time actually spent, and not to exceed $100 in 

 any one year in any one county, exclusive of expense, all of which 

 shall be a county charge; also, section 49, including hares with rabbits 

 as to the close season; also, section 244, allowing courts of special 

 sessions in towns and villages, and the several city courts having 

 jurisdiction ovfr misdemeanors to have jurisdiction of all offenses 

 committed within the county where said courts are held, in the same 

 manner as though the defendant had been taken before a magistrate 

 of the town where the offense was committed. 



Concerning "Forest and Stream." 



It is hard to make ends meet hut I must have the paper,— P. (St. 

 Paul, Minn.) 



Inclosed find $1 of Uncle Sam's hard earned cash. Don't know 

 where I can get more comfort out of it than to send it to you for 

 he "F. and S." for 3 months. May your shadow never grow less. — A. 

 F. O. (Kankakee, 111.) 



I think if some of your writers who are so down on the game hog, 

 out of season shooters and pot-hunters, would make a present to the 

 said undesirable people of a year's subscription to your paper, we 

 would hear less of this objectionable class.— J. B. P. (Granby, Que.) 



I think the last number for the month of December the most excel- 

 lent of all the "good ones" for the past two years. Long may the 

 nimitable chronicler of Antwine's "true stories" and the perfect 

 evealer of New England's peculiar shrewd wit and wisdom in home- 

 iest phrase, continue to write. I believe Cable has revealed the Creole 

 type as Miss Murf ree has that of the mountains of Tennessee. But 

 Mr. Robinson touches things I know and have heard the like of 

 repeatedly, and is doing equally good work not only from the sports- 

 man's but also from the literary standpoint. No more welcome guest 

 comes to us in type than your paper, and I wish to express my 

 personal and growing appreciation of its increasing excellence. — D. A. 

 J. (West Winsted, Conn.) 



The powder test report by Mr. Tenner, the expert, is very Interesting 

 and is worth more than the yearly subscription price of your valuable 

 publication, the "F. and S.," to every sportsman. — A. G. (Bozeman, 

 Mont.) 



SUBTERRANEAN WATER RIGHTS. 



In the Circuit Court of Ohio for the Sixth District a de- 

 cision was handed down this morning which will be of 

 wide interest, not only to anglers and fishculturists in this 

 State but in the entire country. The case was reserved for 

 decision in Toledo from the Circuit Court sitting at San- 

 dusky, to which court it came on appeal from the Court of 

 Common Pleas of Erie county, and is entitled "The Castalia 

 Trout (Jlub Co. vs. the Castalia Sporting Club Co. et aV 

 The facts, briefly stated, are these: 



The plaintiff company, duly incorporated under the laws 

 of the State for the purpose of fishing and propagating 

 fish, etc., is the owner of the head springs and pools of 

 Cold Creek and the waters flowing therefrom through their 

 own grounds and the grounds of the defendant company 

 and thence into Sandusky Bay. As is well known, the 

 stream formed from the outflow of these springs is pecu- 

 liarly adapted to the propagation and growing of brook 

 trout, having a temperature at its head of 52° winter and 

 summer, and in the last few years it has afforded the finest 

 fishing for these and other varieties of the Salmo family. 

 The members of Castalia Club Company, known from its 

 location on the stream as the "upper club," are largely 

 residents of Toledo and Sandusky, while those belonging 

 to the Sporting Club Company are principally residents of 

 Cleveland, and this organization is locally recognized as 

 the "lower club." The latter company, it should be added, 

 is also incorporated under the Ohio laws for purposes simi- 

 lar to those of its neighbor. 



Nearly three years ago the plaintiff in this case (the 

 upper club) acquired the ownership of a piece of land ad- 

 joining the natural course of that part of the stream 

 owned by them, and proceeded to construct upon it a 

 winding stream or channel, which carried the water over 

 a circuitous course some three and a half miles in length 

 before delivering it within the grounds of the lower club. 

 In February, 1892, the latter sunk a large artesain well on 

 its grounds a short distance below the boundary line, and 

 the result was an enormous flow of water which lowered 

 the pool on the premises of the upper club (known as the 

 "Blue Hole") eleven inches, as was alleged. The upper 

 club thereupon filed a petition for a perpetual injunction, 

 alleging that the water issuing from the artesian well of 

 the lower club flowed directly through a natural under- 

 ground channel from the upper springs of the stream, and 

 claiming that the defendants had no right to divert such 

 stream from its regular channel. In their cross petition 

 the defense alleged that they had no intention of injuring 

 the property of the plaintiff, but that the act complained 

 of was done simply to promote their own interests; but 

 they further asked the court to perpetually enjoin the 

 upper club from diverting the water into what is known 

 as the "meadow stream," alleging that not only was the 

 volume of water delivered to them materially lessened by 

 such diversion, but that its temperature was so much 

 raised by the prolonged exposure consequent upon its cir- 

 cuitous course as to make it practically unfit for the pur- 

 pose of propagating or growing trout. 



The court, all the judges concurring, granted the prayer 

 of the plaintiff for a perpetual injunction restraining the 

 defendants from digging other wells, and announced 

 that it would also issue a mandatory injunction requiring 

 the defendant to close the well already bored by Feb. 24 

 next. It also declared that it found no grounds for inter- 

 fering with the "meadow stream," so-called, inasmuch 

 as it did not materially affect either the volume or tem- 

 perature of the water passing through it. It is probable 

 that the case will go to the Supreme Court on error. 



Messrs. Clarence Brown, of Toledo, and E. B. King, of 

 Sandusky, appeared for the plaintiff, and Messrs. E. D. 

 Potter, Jr., and Judge Ingersoll, of Cleveland, for the 

 defendants. Jay Beebb. 



Toledo O., Jan._20. 



ANGLING AND DOMESTIC FELICITY. 



Editor Forest and Stream: 



The straightforward good sense of Mrs. Tomlin's letter 

 in your issue of Jan. 13 is worthy of serious consideration. 

 Without saying much about it, men are aware that there 

 is room for improvement in the matter of domestic 

 felicity. The discussion whether "marriage is a failure" 

 or not is proof of this. Now some of the most successful 

 matrimonial alliances I have known have been the result 

 of sympathy of interest in outdoor sport and recreation. 

 I have in mind a charming couple who have for many 

 summers whipped the streams of Canada together, shared 

 the rough and smooth of camp life in the wilderness, and 

 seemed to grow nearer and dearer to each as other the 

 years passed by. 



The husband is one of the most genial and companion- 

 able of men; full of wit, humor and good nature, a man 

 among men and one of those men who "hate contentions 

 and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling." The wife 

 is a strong and helpful woman, delightful in conversa- 

 tion, kindly in heart and brilliant in social graces. What 

 more could one ask? These may have been natural gifts, 

 but one cannot help feeling that their coming close to 

 nature's heart had at any rate enhanced their lovable- 

 ness. 



Like most men who find consolation for the ills of life, 

 and inspiration for duty and work "by field and flood," 

 the writer has tried "his printice hand" on making 

 "fishin' wimmin' " with more or less success. He believes 

 that it is entirely within the range of possibility to make 

 "compleat anglers" out of the majority of American 

 women. You cannot get the love of outdoor sports into 

 some men any more than you can get a joke into a cer- 

 tain class without a surgical operation. It is a matter of 

 moment that the high-strung, nervous and somewhat 

 delicate American woman should find somewhere a 

 source of recuperation. She is overtaxed with work, 

 and household cares and the rearing of children, but 

 especially with the constant demands of social inter- 

 course. It is no great wonder if under this constant 

 strain she grows nervous and irx-itable. The wonder is 

 that she remains as helpful and charming as she is. 



Perhaps if the majority of men were asked why mar- 

 riage is not more successful they would lay the blame on 

 the nervousness of women. However unjust this may 

 be, there is something in it for women as well as men to 

 consider. 



Will not outdoor sports, which mean so much of recu- 



perative force to men, act as a palliative to this demon of 

 nervousness? 



All hail to the bicycle riding, rod and gun handling 

 sisterhood ! 



I write to advance the love of sportsmanship among 

 women not only as better than pills and sarsaparillas for 

 tired nerves, but because field and stream and camp open 

 up such rare delights which cannot be found otherwise. 



There are some things worth remembering. Patience 

 is the first virtue in angling, good nature the second. 

 Patience in a fishing sense means that calm determina- 

 tion to abide the fish's pleasure about biting, to endure a 

 little fatigue, sometimes mosquitoes and a hot sun, and 

 even an occasional and unintentional bath when the 

 treacherous rocks "cause our feet to slide." Good nature 

 means cheerfulness under all these petty annoyances and 

 the other ills that only give zest to enjoyment if one will 

 so look at them. 



The minor details, such as baiting the hook, handling 

 the rod and reel, playing the fish, landing and removing 

 the hook, are very easily learned if a modicum of this 

 patience and good nature are applied. 



It is to be hoped that we shall hear more from "fisher- 

 women" in the pleasant pages of Forest and Steeam. 



J. H. La Roche. 



LANDLOCKED SALMON IN SEBEC LAKE. 



With hardly an exception , those who have fished for 

 ouananiche in the Lake St. John region arise and say as 

 one man that there is no fish on earth like their fish, and 

 no sport like their sport. This may be so. There are so 

 many witnesses that it would seem as if it must be so, 

 and yet it is difficult to understand why the landlocked 

 salmon, which is at least morphologically identical with 

 the wininish, might not afford as good sport in Maine as 

 in Canada, the conditions being the same. 



The conditions seem to be that the fish shall be taken 

 from boat or shore, in swift cold water, with tackle light 

 or heavy, according to the angler's fancy. Such condi- 

 tions obtain very early in the season, when the ice has 

 just gone out, and to a certain extent during the month 

 of June and September, at the inlet to Sebec Lake, in 

 Piscataquis county, Maine. This lake is twelve miles long 

 and about four miles wide in its widest part. It is sur- 

 rounded by high hills and mountains all heavily wooded. 

 There are very few clearings on its shores. Its principal 

 feeders are the Wilson Stream and the Ship Pond Stream. 

 About half a mile above the mouth of the Wilson there 

 are falls and, alas, a spool mill, and something less than 

 a quarter of a mile above the mouth of the Ship Pond 

 Stream there are also falls. Below these falls on both 

 streams are rapids, and in these rapids the fish are taken 

 in early spring. Fish may also be taken at times by troll- 

 ing in the lakes about the mouths of the streams from 

 the time of the spring run until the first or middle of 

 June. After the June rise and in September the salmon 

 may be found in the Ship Pond Stream at certain places, 

 particularly at Cow Yard Falls and the Salmon Pool. It 

 was in the latter locality that an incident once occurred 

 where the punishment seemed to fit the crime. 



When the C. P. R. R. was being built some Italian 

 laborers came down the Ship Pond Stream to dynamite 

 the salmon pool. One charge of dynamite had been 

 exploded, and just as another was thrown in an Italian 

 waded in after the salmon which had been killed by the 

 first discharge. Dynamite worked the same on the Italian 

 as on the fish, so they took him out and buried him right 

 there, but neither his grave nor his ghost seems to pre- 

 vent an occasional repetition of his deed. Last fall the 

 pool was dynamited and scores of salmon were left to rot 

 on the banks of the stream. The salmon of Sebec Lake 

 seldom attain a weight of more than 61bs. , though occa- 

 sionally one of 7 or 8lbs. is taken. An average catch will 

 weigh something better than 31bs. apiece. 



When the salmon first come up out of the deep water 

 in the spring they are very dark and have a greenish cast, 

 but after having been in the quick water for a short time 

 they change to a silvery white color on the sides and 

 belly; the black markings come out in clear relief and 

 they become much harder fighters. The fishing season 

 opens just as soon as the ice goes out of the lake. At this 

 time the smelts run up to spawn, and the salmon seem to 

 follow them. At all events, they appear in the quick 

 water together and go away together. The run usually 

 lasts about ten days. 



At that season of the year it is customary to use bait, 

 although I have no doubt that a patient trial of the fly 

 would be rewarded by a certain amount of success. The 

 best bait is a shiner from two to three inches long. In my 

 opinion it is best to hook the bait through both lips, on a 

 No. 6 sproat hook at the end of a 9ft. single gut light 

 salmon leader, without any sinker, or with only a single 

 duck shot on the snell. 



I then let out from 75 to 150ft. of line and allow the 

 bait to go pretty much where the rapids and eddies carry 

 it. The best of tackle is indispensable to success, and 

 under the most favorable conditions one must expect to 

 lose some fish. 



In June and September there is some excellent fly-fish- 

 ing on the Ship Pond Stream, particularly at the localities 

 above mentioned. There is the usual difference of opinion 

 as to the "most killing flies," but I think it is generally 

 agreed that the dark Montreal, cowdung and professor are 

 among the best. Personally I have had the best success 

 with the dark Montreal, probably because I have used it 

 most. 



Sebec Lake may be reached either from Dover or Ab- 

 bott Village. From Dover one goes by private convey- 

 ance five miles to Blethen's Landing, and then takes one 

 of the little steamboats to go up the lake. From Abbott 

 Village there is a daily stage to the head of the lake, 

 leaving Abbott about 11 A. M. 



There is a hotel at the head of the lake, where plain, 

 homely fare may be obtained at a dollar a day. There are 

 also a set of sporting camps about two miles down the lake, 

 but I do not know what the charges are. Guides and 

 boats are scarce, although not expensive, about $2 a day 

 being thought a good price for a boat and boatman. 



As regains the size of catch one might expect, I can only 

 say that it all depends on circumstances. Three years ago 

 my catch was 451bs. dressed weight; time, two and one- 

 half days. Two years ago a friend of mine and I took 

 8olbs. of dressed fish in three days. A year ago I caught 

 271bs. in one day, and then unfavorable weather came on 

 and no more fish were taken for several days. These fig- 

 ures refer to the early spring fishing. On the stream in 



