Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1894. 



i VOL. XIJI.— No. 19 



| No. 318 Broadway, Nkw York. • 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Protection for the Park. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



In the Wilds of the Borderland. 



Natural History. 



North Carolina 'Gators. 

 Quail Packs in Texa3. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



The High Art of Still-Huoting. 

 The Right and Wrong of It. 

 Chicago and the West. 



Sea and River Flshlnj?. 



On the North Shoxe of Lake 



Superior. 

 A Satiety of Bass. 

 Angling Notes. 

 A Ten-Pound Weakflsh. 

 Maine Waters. 



Fishing Commenced in Canada 

 The Kennel. 



The Specialty Show 

 Field Trials Grounds. 

 A. K. C. Meeting 

 Judges' 1 roubles. 



The Kennel. 



Red Cockers. 



American Foxhound Standard. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents, 



Canoeing. 



Away "Up North." 



The Future of Canoe Sailing. 



News Notes. 



Yachting. 



Model Yachting at Cape Ann. 

 Restricted Classes. 

 Length Measurement. 

 The Sailing of Valkyrie. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Revolver Shooting in England. 

 Club Doings. 



Trap Shooting. 



Central New York League. 

 Springftpld (O.) Tournament. 

 New York State Shoot. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 

 Answers to Queries. 



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PROTECTION FOR THE PARK. 



The bill for the protection of the Yellowstone Park, 

 which for some time had been before Congress, was favor- 

 ably reported last week from the Conference Committee, 

 passed both Houses, and received the signature of Presi- 

 dent Cleveland last Monday. 



The enactment of this law will be hailed with sincere sat- 

 isfaction by all good citizens and especially by the readers 

 of the Forest and Stream, to whom the past unfortunate 

 condition of things in the Park has long been known. 

 While the bill is not all that could be desired, it is fairly 

 satisfactory, and properly enforced will effectively 

 protect the forests, the game and the natural wonders of 

 the Park. 



It is not too much to say that the passage of this bill is 

 due directly to the agitation of the subject by the Forest 

 and STREAM, which for many years has regarded the 

 Yellowstone National Park as its special charge. The 

 long delayed action of Congress might have been still 

 further postponed had it not been for the boldness of the 

 poachers, whose recent wholesale raids upon the buffalo 

 startled Congress from its lethargy. The Forest and 

 Stream was the first newspaper to urge protection for 

 the National Park, the first to announce last winter's 

 bloody work, and to point out the inevitable consequences 

 unless Congress took immediate action; and it looks with 

 satisfaction on its record in this matter, for it has become 

 known far and wide as the champion of the Park. 



Nothing could have been done in Congress without the 

 active aid of interested members in both houses, and 

 fortunately the Park has a number of warm friends, both 

 in the Senate and in the House. First among those who 

 deserve special credit for long continued labors in the 

 cause of protection for the Park, is Senator George G. 

 Vest, of Missouri, whose active interest in the reservation 

 dates back a dozen years. In his public services in this 

 matter Mr. Vest has always been ably seconded by Senator 

 Manderson. It was Mr. Vest who drew the bill which 

 we believe six times passed the Senate and once the House, 

 and many of the provisions of his bill are found in the 

 measure which has just been enacted. Of Senator Carey's 



valuable services in connection with the present bill, and 

 of those of Mr. Lacey in the House of Representatives, 

 mention has already been made. Senator Lodge, of Mass- 

 achusetts, Hon. Bellamy Storer, of Ohio, Hon. John E. 

 Rayburn, of Pennsylvania and Mr. McRae, of Arkansas by 

 their active sympathy contributed much toward the speedy 

 passage of the bill. 



For many years Superintendents of the Park and Secre- 

 taries of the Interior have kept up the unequal fight 

 against lawlessness within its borders, and have striven 

 to amend the condition of things there. In the list of 

 these workers there are a number of honorable names, 

 but never since the Park was established have there been 

 officers of the Government more deeply interested in its 

 protection than Hon. Hoke Smith, the present Secretary 

 of the Interior, and Capt. George S. Anderson, the pres- 

 ent Superintendent. They have worked together assidu- 

 ously and unselfishly, and have done the best that was 

 possible considering the fact that their action was always 

 hampered by the absence of any law permitting the pun- 

 ishment of offenders. Capt. Anderson, who has resided 

 in the Park, has done the actual hard work and faced all 

 the annoyances inevitably connected with such duty; but 

 Mr. Smith has given him constant help, encouragement 

 and support in his difficult task. It is certainly an espe- 

 cially happy circumstance that the protective measure 

 has become a law under their administration. 



There is in Washington another person — a private citi- 

 zen — who for many years has labored heart and soul for 

 the best interests of the National Park. He has traveled 

 backward and forward over it, has reported on it to the 

 Secretary of the Interior, has watched legislation which 

 threatened to affect it, and has contributed his legal 

 knowledge to every movement for its preservation. It is 

 not too much to say that he has done more than any one 

 else has done, and perhaps more than any one else could 

 have done, toward bringing about the happy result that 

 we announce to-day. This person desires to remain un- 

 known; yet the few individuals who are acquainted with 

 the facts and who know how great is the debt of gratitude 

 owed him by the public, feel a sincere regret that they 

 are not at liberty to make some public acknowledgment 

 of his services to the Park and to his countrymen. 



SNAP SHOTS. 



In these days of going fishing and of planning for sum- 

 mer campaigns with the rod, substantial assistance may 

 be found in the weekly fund of information given in our 

 Sea and River Fishing pages. Not a week goes by that 

 there are not accounts of successful excursions to waters 

 abounding in bass or trout or other fish; and the Forest 

 and Stream is thus a veritable anglers' directory. To 

 make this feature more valuable is our constant de- 

 sire. Its accomplishment rests almost entirely with 

 the angling reader. While no one is called upon to aban- 

 don to the public his jealously guarded secret of good 

 fishing in waters likely to suffer from publicity, every 

 member of the fraternity owes it to the craft to tell of 

 lakes and streams and bays where the fishing may be of 

 scope and quality so generous as not to suffer even if 

 others do know of it. Send in your contribution to the 

 common fund. No one has a right to keep a good thing 

 to himself when it may be shared with others. If this is 

 not true doctrine for a true fisherman where is the 

 fallacy? 



Ring-necked pheasants have been introduced into Nova 

 Scotia with most gratifying success, by the enterprise of 

 the Game and Inland Fishery Protective Society; and the 

 result demonstrates that the species is well adapted to the 

 climate of the Northeast. In October, 1892, some young 

 pheasants were put out by a resident of Kentville, N. S. ; 

 and lived through the severe winter without being fed or 

 given shelter. Encouraged by this result, the society im- 

 ported from England in May, 1893, eighteen birds, of 

 which fifteen were hens; and they were put out in the 

 same month, and were left to shift for themselves. They 

 bred, hens being seen with sixteen, ten, seven and four 

 chicks respectively. The winter of 1893-4 was one of the 

 severest ever known in Nova Scotia; for three months the 

 snow lay three feet deep, and the season was one to test 

 most effectively the hardiness of the new game. The 

 pheasants came out in the spring in fine order, and the 

 society now looks for a large increase in this, the second 

 year. The experiment has demonstrated the ability of 



the pheasants to take care of themselves, with no artificia 

 feeding whatever; and as they are protected by law, there 

 appears to be ample reason for regarding them as an 

 established game species. The Game and Inland Fishery 

 Protective Society will undoubtedly strengthen itself 

 with the public by this public-spirited service to the 

 Province. It is much the same in Canada as in this 

 country, that the actual and efficient work of game 

 protection must be undertaken by individuals or vol- 

 untary associations of private citizens, and the Nova 

 Scotia society has made an excellent record by many 

 years of untiring service in the cause of protection. 

 One abuse the society's wardens have constantly to 

 combat is the snaring of moose. The snarers, or "rope 

 men," as they are called, are among the most persist- 

 ent of law-breakers, and it is exceedingly difficult to 

 detect them. 



We print "Coahoma's" reflections on the "Right and 

 Wrong of It," because we consider their author to be 

 entitled to a hearing, and not because we consider tha 

 the legitimacy of the pursuit of game, for sport, is prop- 

 erly a subject of debate in this journal. There are 

 people who, lacking a taste for field sports, hold with 

 perfect sincerity a prejudice against such pur- 

 suits, as being cruel, or as involving an unneces- 

 sary taking of life. But the Forest and Stream 

 is published in the interest of a class which believes in th 

 use of the gun, and for that class, and in such a journal, 

 the question of the propriety of field sports is not debat- 

 able. . Nevertheless, some good must come from the recent 

 discussion begun by "Coahoma" in his letter concerning 

 the killing of a snake, participated in by others, and 

 now closed by him. More rational, less wanton, more 

 manly and thoughtful and less cruel, must be the atti- 

 tude toward animate nature, for the reading of such a 

 discussion and the reflections prompted by it. 



Now that an effort is making to restock the Catskills 

 with deer, it seems a pity that the game should not 

 have every protection the law may afford. The deer 

 will naturally stray into Sullivan county, and they 

 should be exempt from pursuit there for five years at 

 least. The game bill which the New York Legislature 

 sent to the Governor this year contains a section which 

 provides that no one shall kill deer in Sullivan county 

 "save only from the first day of October to the first 

 day of November." This, however, does not expressly 

 repeal the law now in force which forbids killing deer 

 in Sullivan county prior to 1897; and it is to be hoped 

 that the game protectors will insist upon the observance 

 of the old law. 



In our last issue we alluded to the Byrnes case, a suit 

 brought by Protector Kidd to recover penalties for quail 

 unlawfully served in March of last year. The defendant 

 is playing the customary game of delay so familiar to 

 every one who has ever attempted to put through game 

 law prosecutions in this county; and he secured another 

 adjournment last Tuesday. Mr. Byrnes is simply putting 

 off the evil day. His counsel may adjourn as persistently 

 as did the Delmonico people, but there is only one certain 

 ending— he must pay up; and we are going to record his 

 doing so. 



The annual meeting of the American Fisheries Society 

 in Philadelphia next week promises to be an interesting 

 one. The society will be entertained by the Pennsylvania 

 Fish Protective Association, and the programme calls for 

 a planked shad dinner, and apropos of this will be a 

 paper prepared by Mr. Charles Hallock telling of a time 

 "When Shad were a Penny Apiece" in the Connecticut 

 Valley. Among other papers to be read will be a series 

 prepared by members of the United States Fish Commis- 



The report of a buffalo herd discovered in Texas is im- 

 portant, if confirmation may be had; and we shall en- 

 deavor to determine the truth of the story. A correspon- 

 dent, under whose notice had come the press dispatch, 

 suggests that wnile the report may be the signal for an 

 army bent on the capture of the game, it ought to arouse 

 every man in Texas to defend the herd. 



Never leave a gun loaded in the house. Never carry a 

 loaded gun into a house, 



