Forest and Stream 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Teems, $4 a Thar. 10 Os. A Copt. 1 

 Six Months, $2. J 



NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1894. 



( VOL. XLH. — No. 13. 



"j No. 318 Broadway, New York. 





For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page vii. 



The Forest and Stream is put to press 

 on Tuesdays. Correspondence intended for 

 publication should reach us by Mondays and 

 as much earlier as may be practicable. 



Editorial. 



Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



On the North Shore of Lake 



Superior. 

 Mali's First Deer. 

 Dan vis Folks.— xxvi. 

 Natural History. 

 European Song Birds in America 

 Sea Serpent, So-Called. 

 A Pet Bat. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Dixie Land — rv. 



A Trip for Meat. 



An Old-Timer on the Park. 



The Capture of Howell. 



Where Are "We At? 



Chicago and the West. 



Stop the Sale of Game. 



Camp-Fire Flickerings. 



The Last of the Stretch Snakes. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Angling Notes. 

 Boston Fishing Lines. 

 Massachusetts Trout Law. 

 The Fly-Casting Tournament. 



Fishculture. 



Causes of Malformation in Arti- 

 ficially Hatched Fish. 



CONTENTS. 



The Kennel. 



Denver Dog Show. 

 Louisville Dog Show. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Hunting and Coursing Notes. 



Canoeing. 



The A. C. A. and Its Critics. 

 News Notes. 



Yachting. 



Cruising in the Cy-Pres, 1893. 

 Action of Y. R. A. Rules on 



Length and Sail Area. 

 New York Y. C. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Greenville vs. Excelsior. 

 Jerseymen at the Targets. 

 Club Doings. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



Drivers and Twisters. 

 Winners of Lakeview Prizes. 

 The Maplewoods Make a Record. 

 Princeton Gun Club. 

 Trap at Dexter Park. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Answers to Queries. 



"A PLATFORM PLANK." 



We have reprinted, as a folder for an envelope, "A 

 Platform Plank," from our issue of Feb. 3, and "Absolute 

 Prohibition of Game Traffic," from issue of Feb. 10; and 

 should be glad to supply them in any desired numbers, 

 without cost. 



DANGERS OF SEGREGATION. 

 It was in March, 1872, that Congress set aside the Yel- 

 lowstone National Park as a public park or pleasuring 

 ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people, and 

 during all this time it has been preserved and used by the 

 people for the purposes for which it was established. Its 

 integrity has many times been threatened. The specula- 

 tors and money getters, who are constantly watching their 

 opportunity to get from the United States Government 

 something for nothing, have made efforts to seize the 

 whole Park, to cut away portions of it and to secure strips 

 of its territory for private purposes, but none of these 

 things have ever been done. None of the Park's area has 

 been taken from it. 



Now it is threatened again, and in several directions. Of 

 these dangers the most imminent is the project for the 

 segregation of the northeast corner. This project is the 

 successor of a plan set on foot years ago by a small num- 

 ber of speculators to obtain a right of way for a railroad 

 running down Soda Butte Creek, the East Fork and the 

 Yellowstone River from Cooke City to Cinnabar. This 

 right of way project having been several times defeated 

 on the ground that no railway should be allowed in the 

 Park, the same speculators are now trying to have the 

 northeast corner of the Park and a large portion of the 

 forest reserve cut off, and to have the Yellowstone River 

 made the northern boundary of the reservation. 



If this change should be made it would in practice open 

 the whole northeast corner of the Park to the skin-hunters, 

 and would vastly increase the difficulties of protecting it. 



As the boundaries stand at present, there are really but 

 two entrances to the Park on the northeast. One of these 

 is by way of Cinnabar, up the Yellowstone, the other is 

 by way of Clark's Fork and down Soda Butte Creek, 

 t Everywhere else the reservation is walled in by mountains 

 so high and so rugged as to be quite impassable. But if 

 \ the boundaries were altered as proposed, the north bank 

 ^of the Yellowstone River would at once become a legalized 

 presort for the horde of lawless characters, who constantly 

 -. hover on the borders of the Park, and it would be easy 

 af or them to slip across the river and to commit their dep- 

 redations. All the game in the country proposed to be 

 Bthrown open — a few buffalo, two fine herds of mountain 

 [Sheep, and the only antelope to be found in the Park — 

 would at once be destroyed and the existence of the game 

 actually ranging south of the river would be gravely im- 

 perilled. Fires would be started along the river, and the 

 forests, now green and flourishing, would soon be burned 

 off so that the water supply of the Yellowstone, which is 



of such vast importance to thousands of farmers on the 

 plains below, would be made irregular and seriously 

 lessened. 



The facts lot the case are thoroughly understood in 

 Montana. The segregation project had its origin in the 

 mountain towns of that State, and it is earnestly opposed 

 by the towns on the plains, whose chief industry is agri- 

 culture and stock raising. These dwellers on the plains 

 comprehend very well that the segregation bill threatens 

 their very existence, for it endangers their water supply, 

 and without water they cannot grow their crops nor sus- 

 tain their herds. The whole cry for segregation is con- 

 fined to a few speculators in Livingston, Cooke City and 

 Helena, the last named town furnishing the money for 

 the movement, since the means of Livingston were long 

 ago exhausted, and Cooke City never had any. These 

 speculators, however, have succeeded in persuading cer- 

 tain Montana papers to take up their cry, and have endeav- 

 ored to make up for the smallness of their numbers by 

 the great tumult they create. The facts are, however, that 

 the newspapers of all the plains towns, such as Stillwater, 

 Red Lodge, Billings and others, reflect the strong senti- 

 ment which exists in their sections and are opposed to 

 segregation, and this for the most excellent and practical 

 reason that it will mean ruin of their farmers and the 

 practical depopulation of their territory. 



In Forest and Stream of last week we announced ex- 

 clusively the capture, red-handed, of a poacher with the 

 spoils of eleven buffalo, slain in the National Park. This 

 man had entered the reservation from Cooke, quietly 

 slipped by the soldiers at Soda Butte and had erected his 

 lodge and was hunting in the Pelican Creek Valley, 

 where he was taken in the act of skinning one of five 

 buffalo that he had just killed. Since the publication of 

 this dispatch a general press telegram has been sent out, 

 which states that extensive depredations of this nature 

 are going on in and about the Park. Such destruction 

 of the public property will continue so long as no law 

 exists by which those who violate the regulations can be 

 punished. 



If the segregation bill should be passed, the natural 

 barrier which now protects the Park on the north and 

 east will be thrown down, and nothing will take its place to 

 keep out intruders save a narrow river which can easily be 

 crossed. When this shall have become the Park boundary, 

 neither laws nor patrols will keep out the poachers, and 

 the game will disappear before the horde of poachers 

 like snow beneath the warm spring rain. 



It were better that a thousand elk should be killed than 

 a single buffalo, but it is just the buffalo that most attract 

 the skin-hunter, and so are most in danger from his gun. 

 It is these few survivors of all the myriads that once 

 thronged this continent that most need protection. This 

 protection they should have, not because they are game, 

 but because they are the last relics of America's greatest 

 land animal. 



NO WORDS WASTED. 

 Mr. Alex. Starbttck sends us the full text of the deci- 

 sion of the Supreme Court of Ohio in the case of Edward 

 N. Roth vs. The State of Ohio, referred to in these 

 columns last week. Here is the decision, all of it: 

 3736. 



Edward N. Roth 1 



vs. > Error to Circuit Court of Hamilton County. 



The State of Ohio, j 

 By the Court: 



It is an offense under Sec. 6964, of the Revised Statutes, to sell 

 quail in this State, except Between the 10th day of November and the 

 15th day of December, though such quail were killed outside of this 

 State, and where it was lawful to kill the same. The section is con- 

 stitutional. 



Terse and to the point. But if the Court had written 

 its decision as Mr. Starbuck writes of his fishing trips to 

 the North Shore, for "quail" we should have had "the 

 speckled beauty of the dewy stubble," or some other 

 interjection of the poetry of the field into the court 

 records. 



We neglected to say last week that to the Cuvier 

 Club of Cincinnati belongs the credit of establishing this 

 point of Ohio law. The club engaged the detective to 

 secure the evidence, retained Judge J. P. Murphy as 

 counsel — and a very able and masterly counsel he proved 

 to be; supplied the sinews of war; and fought the case 

 through from magistrate to Supreme Court. The result 

 is a decision which will materially assist in the protec- 

 tion of game in Ohio: and for this the people of the 

 State have to thank the public-spirited members of the 

 Cuvier Club. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 The Massachusetts Association, in making determined 

 opposition to the Gilbert trout bill, have prepared an 

 effective document reviewing the legislation of the Com- 

 monwealth for the protection of its wild trout. We print 

 this review elsewhere. The strongest factor of the soci- 

 ety's opposition to the proposed measure is found in the 

 actual experience of the past. When the statute per- 

 mitted the sale in close time of trout "killed outside of the 

 Commonwealth," it was impossible to distinguish between 

 native fish and foreign fish; and there was absolutely no 

 way to shut off the market supply of trout from Massa- 

 chusetts brooks. The first trout protective law quoted by 

 the committee was the work of Daniel Webster, who once 

 said of it: 



It has so happened that all the public services that I have rendered 

 in the world in my day and generation have been connected with the 

 general government. I think I ought to make an exception. I was 

 ten days a member of the Massachusetts Legislature and I turned my 

 thoughts to the search of some good object in which I could be use- 

 ful in that position, and after much reflection I introduced a bill 

 which, with the consent of both houses of the Legislature, passed into 

 a law and is now a law of the State, which enacts that no man in the 

 State shall catch trout in any manner than in the old way, with an 

 ordinary hook and line. 



If Webster were living to-day how he would sweep 

 away the fallacious pleas and pretensions of the advocates 

 of marketing brook trout in close season. 



In our game columns will be found some extracts 

 from the third annual report of the Minnesota Game 

 and Fish Commission. This is one of the most level- 

 headed, intelligent and efficient commissions in the 

 country; and in their executive officer, Mr. W. P. Andrus, 

 they have a level-headed, intelligent and efficient agent. 

 We have put these extracts under the head "Stop the 

 Sale of Game" for the reason that the report dwells 

 with such emphasis upon the cold storage establish- 

 ments and the markets as factors in the problem of 

 preserving to Minnesota its game stock. If any one is 

 in doubt about where our game is going to, let him re- 

 flect on the figures given in this report — 4,000 carcasses 

 of venison shipped to outside markets, and 480,000 birds; 

 and these the work of a single season. One of these 

 days the people will wake up. Then the Forest and 

 Stream plank will mean something. 



Massachusetts will try the year's close season plan on 

 quail again, a law just having been adopted making it 

 illegal to kill quail in 1894. But there is another bill in 

 the Legislature which should be not only scotched, but 

 killed, for it is thoroughly bad, permitting the possession 

 and sale of quail by dealers and cold storage establish- 

 ments from Oct. 15 to May 1; and of other game- at all 

 seasons. Massachusetts can never accomplish protection 

 with concurrent close killing season and open market- 

 ing season. 



The New York Assembly last week rejected a bill mak- 

 ing lawful the Sunday fishing, which is done in the waters 

 about New York city. The prohibition of Sunday fishing 

 is a part of the penal code. We believe that there is now 

 another bill in the legislature to amend the penal code in 

 this respect. 



It appears that we erred when we said last week that 

 the fish which Fish Commissioner Follett had netted out 

 of public waters were brown trout; they were brook trout. 

 This point is immaterial. It was just as much a breach 

 of the law to take one species as to take the other. 



Mr. W. H. Rogers, inventor of the Rogers fishway, 

 died at his home in Amherst, Nova Scotia, last week, 

 aged seventy-one years. Mr. Rogers was widely known 

 in connection with his fishway, a contrivance in which 

 he had abiding faith. 



The New York Legislature is considering a bill which 

 requires Canadians to pay a license fee of $25 for shooting 

 and fishing. It is a game of tit for tat. 



When you come to think of it, a legislative deadlock is 

 not without its compensation, for so long as it lasts the 

 fish and game laws cannot be tinkered. 



Something like 565,000 acres of Adirondack lands are 

 in the possession of individuals and clubs for private pre- 

 serves, from which the public is excluded. 



