Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, 84 a Ykar. 10 Cts. a Copt 

 Six Months, $2. 



NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1894. 



( VOL. XLH.-No. 20 



j No. 318 Broadway, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



"General" Coxey and President 



Hyd«. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Forest and Stream Yellowstone 

 Park Game Exploration— II. 



llMatural History. 



A Week with the Birds. 

 Buffalo in Texas. 

 ! Zoological Society of Philadel- 

 phia... 



Game Bag and Gun. 



In Camp on Wilson's Pond. 

 I The Gray Squirrel. 



A Virginia Buck. 

 | In Support of the "Plank.' 



Wyoming Big Game. 



Rifles for Small Game. 



sea and River Fishing. 



I On the North Shore of Lake 

 Superior. 

 Collection of Fish at the TJ. S. 

 National Museum. 

 I A Day of Solid Comfort. 

 Maine Fishing Waters. 

 Angling Notes. 

 Our Summer Outing, 



kFishculture. 



The Defeat of the Gilbert Bill. 



Fishculture. 



Protection for the Mississippi 

 River. 



Minnesota Fishing Interests. 

 The Kennel. 

 Louisville Dog Show. 

 Type and Field Trial Dogs. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 



Canoeing. 



The Canadian Canoe. 

 News Notes. 



Yachting. 



The Language of the Sea. 

 Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. 

 N. Y. Yacht Racing Association. 

 Vigilant. 



Yachting News Notes. 

 Rifle Range and Gallery. 



The Sport of Rifle Shooting. 

 Texas State Rifle Association. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



Shooting on the Climax Grounds 

 Morristown and Paterson. 

 California Tournament. 

 Hollywood Programme. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Answers to Queries. 



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. 



GENERAL" COXEY AND PRESIDENT HYDE. 

 If there were any one thing in this merry month of May 

 that could afford us more genuine satisfaction than the 

 actual fishing of a well stocked trout stream, it would 

 be to pause at the noonday interval, with half-filled creel, 

 and to lie in the shade and play eavesdropper, while 

 Mr. Henry B. Hyde, President of the Equitable Life 

 Assurance Society, discussed political economy with a 

 disciple of "General" Coxey. 



At first blush— if, indeed, we can conceive of the em- 

 inent New York financier as reasoning with the tramp 

 — at first blush, it would appear that Mr. Hyde would 

 find it a simple task to demonstrate to his misguided 

 friend the fallacies of Coxeyism. 



But what if the Coxey Army man were posted? What 

 if he had heard a thing or two? 



Suppose, for instance 1 , that he knew these facts: That 

 after the fashion of New Yorkers of abundant means, 

 Mr. Hyde maintains a town house and a country house. 

 That among the attractions of Mr. Hyde's summer home 

 on Long Island, there are some well filled trout ponds. 

 That to stock these ponds Mr. Hyde does not buy trout from 

 private breeders, but applies to the State hatcheries for 

 them, and receives them free of charge. That while 

 they cost Mr. Hyde nothing, the people of the State of 

 New York provide them out of funds raised by taxa- 

 tion. Suppose that being posted up to date, the Coxey 

 Army man knew that Mr. Hyde had asked for trout 

 this year, and that the State had given him 10,000. 

 Suppose that being particularly well informed the tramp 

 should know whether to believe the whispered reports, 

 which say that when Mr. Hyde has been given all the 

 trout assigned to his private ponds on his own applica- 

 tion, he gets still more fish on applications signed by 

 other people. Suppose, in short, that the peripatetic phi- 

 losopher had at command all the ins and outs of this estab- 

 lished system of ladling public fry into private waters, 

 this bestowing of public funds for private benefit; and 

 that knowing all this he should resort to the argumentum 

 ad hominem— the personal application— what would the 

 life assurance society president have to say for himself ? 

 Would it not require all the wisdom of even so profound 

 a master of political economy and all the wit of so 

 keen a dialectician as Mr. Henry B. Hyde, to convince 

 the tramp that what was sound doctrine for the Islip 

 clamorer for free fish was not sound doctrine for the 

 Coxeyite clamorer for free money ? If the eavesdropper 

 were to linger until the tramp should be convinced, 

 would he not lie there till dewy eve, and until after dark, 

 and contract perhaps a stitch in the side or a crick in 

 the back? For tramps are such perverse, cantankerous 

 and obstinate creatures, scorning logic and making light 

 of reason, 



fine distinction between the principle of free bonds and 

 that of free fish, between Coxeyism and the Hyde system. 

 For while the Coxeys fail to receive their bonds, the Hydes 

 do get their trout. Will not some one who is versed in 

 political economy explain the distinction in simple terms, 

 so that we may all understand it ? 



It would be unreasonable to blame the President of 

 the Equitable Life Assurance Society for so successfully 

 putting into practice for his individual profit the 

 doctrines of Coxeyism. As a thrifty citizen Mr. Hyde 

 is to be commended for seizing the main chance, get- 

 ting all he can and asking for more. He would be 

 justified as well could he ask and receive from estab- 

 lishments maintained by the State treasury funds Jersey 

 heifers and high-steppers. But the serious question which 

 the public is beginning to ask itself is this: Why should 

 the President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, or 

 any president of any society, or any other man anywhere, 

 be supplied by the State with cans of trout, while the 

 "General" of the Coxey Army is hustled from the steps 

 of the Capitol? 



The last Legislature of this State passed a bill pro- 

 viding that private ponds or streams stocked wholly or in 

 part from State waters or from State hatcheries should be 

 exempt from the provisions of the trespass law. -Gov. 

 Flower vetoed the bill on the ground that it would be an 

 unwarranted interference with private property; and he 

 was quite right in doing so. The introduction of the 

 measure, however, was significant of the fact that the 

 taxpayers of this State are beginning to tire of providing 

 funds for the maintenance of a Fish Commission and 

 trout hatcheries and hatchery superintendents, to supply 

 fish for the private ponds of citizens who are as abun- 

 dantly able to buy their trout as they are to buy their 

 groceries and their collars. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 On Tuesday of last week, May 8, a Canadian revenue 

 cutter seized two American vessels, off Pelee Island, in 

 Canadian waters of Lake Erie. On board the vessels were 

 forty bass fishermen from Cincinnati, Dayton, Spring- 

 field and Decatur. The vessels, the Visitor and the Leroy 

 Brooks, were towed into a Canadian port; and the fisher- 

 men were afterward released. The press dispatches state 

 that the arrests were made because the Americans were 

 fishing in Provincial waters without a permit. But the 

 existing law of Ontario does not require non-residents 

 to take out a license for bass fishing with rod and 

 line; nor was this fishing in the close season; the On- 

 tario close season for black bass now runs from May 10 

 to June 30; and the seizure was made on May S. For- 

 merly the close season began on April 15 and ran to 

 June 15. The collector of customs on Pelee Island, Dr. 

 F. B. McCormick, has for a number of years kept a 

 fisherman's home at the south end of Pelee, where 

 the Dayton Club have been quartered each spring, 

 while the house of the famous Pelee Club is 

 located at the extreme north end of the island. Dr. 

 McCormick has always been largely instrumental in 

 obtaining from the Canadian Minister of Fisheries the 

 annual special permit which has heretofore permitted the 

 opening of the rod fishing for Pelee bass on May 15, 

 instead of June 15, as provided by the general law, and 

 the Dayton and Pelee clubs have always been careful to 

 observe the Canadian regulations, never making any 

 attempt at fishing till the morning of the 15th. 



The new system of licensing dogs and taking up stray 

 animals is attended with admirable results in this city 

 under the control of the Society for the Prevention of 

 Cruelty to Animals. The ruffianly dog-catchers have 

 been abolished and the pound is a thing of the past. 

 The Society has established a shelter for lost, strayed 

 and homeless animals, to which place stray animals are 

 taken and held forty eight-hours to allow owners to 

 redeem them. Lost dogs bearing the license tag of the 

 Society, found by its men, are taken to the shelter, 

 the owners are immediately notified, and upon proving 

 ownership may resume possession of their dogs without 

 charge for redemption. The Society offers a reward of 

 twenty-five dollars for the arrest and conviction of any 

 person found stealing dogs bearing license tags, which 



licensed dogs, and cats without collars, have a distinc- 

 tive uniform of brown Bedford-cord and a badge bear- 

 ing the familiar initials of the Society, "S. P. C. A.," 

 the number of the wearer and the words "Shelter for 

 Animals." This is a vast improvement over the old 

 tern; and to President Haines are due unstinted credit 

 and warm appreciation for his public service in having 

 secured legislative action to establish the new system, 

 and for the efficiency and satisfaction with which he is 

 administering the work. 



It is probable that before very long some steps will be 

 taken to inclose a large pasture in the Yellowstone Park 

 where some specimens of the wild animals "of the Park 

 may be kept to be seen by the hurrying . tourist. This 

 action was recommended by the superintendent of the 

 Park in his last annual report, and the wisdom of the 

 recommendation is obvious enough. However tame elk, 

 deer and buffalo may become under the protection which 

 the new law will give them, they will never change their 

 habits so far as to leave the cool shades which they 

 affect in summer, and come down and camp by the 

 side of a hot and dusty road merely in order to 

 expose themselves to the inspection of the tourist. 

 It is well known that most of the large herbivorous ani- 

 mals of the mountains are easily kept under fence and. 

 the only expense attending such a project would be the 

 erection of the inclosure and the providing them with 

 food in winter. The average tourist who passes through 

 the Park on a limited ticket has little opportunity to see 

 anything of the interesting and varied fauna which in- 

 habits this beautiful region, and there are few things 

 which interest people more than wild animals. It is ex- 

 tremely desirable that all practicable means should be 

 employed to make the Park attractive to visitors, for the 

 reservation needs all the friends that can be made for it. 



Now that the yarn about Mr. O. C. Guessaz and his 

 companions having killed 800 and odd ducks in two days 

 on a Texas lake has been shown to have come from the 

 lively imagination of Mr. Max J. Luther, of Corpus Christi, 

 it is sad to reflect upon the flood of virtuous indignation 

 which has been lavished upon the case. The one who 

 has come out of the affair with the most credit is Mr. 

 Guessaz himself, and every fair-minded person would feel 

 genuine regret if the vindication of our San Antonio cor- 

 respondent were not as widely published as was the 

 original charge. As for Mr. Luther, we advise him to 

 ba^k while he may in the sunshine of his fame as a 

 teller of tales that are tall. His hour is short, for the 

 Forest and Stream Publishing Co. happens to have in 

 press for early publication a volume recording the experi- 

 ences of "A Man from Corpus Christi," whose shooting 

 stories are so much more ingenious, expansive and spell- 

 binding than Mr. Luther's best efforts that they will 

 positively make that gentleman jealous and weary. 



Mr. J. B. Battelle sends us a copy of a bill which was 

 adopted by the Ohio Legislature last week, forbidding the 

 killing of quail at any time for exportation from the 

 State or for sale within the State. "Plain, practical legis- 

 lation in the line of Forest and Stream's platform," 

 writes Mr. Battelle. The fact is that many people think 

 our platform plank regarding the sale of game to be 

 more advanced than it is. For as a matter of fact the 

 sale of game is prohibited in a number of States; and 

 legislation is tending in that direction. Public sentiment 

 is shown by the letters we have published from week to 

 week, in support of the plank. Such indorsements are 

 given to-day from Nebraska, Ohio, Maryland, Indian Ter- 

 ritory, New York, California, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, 

 Tennessee and Nova Scotia. The two papers that gave 

 rise to this discussion ha^e been reprinted as a tract, and 

 will be sent to any address. 



reward is also a protection to the owners. The men 

 And yet Mr. Hyde might be right; there may be some ' employed by the Society to remove from the streets un- 



Change the subject. Leave off the chit-chat. Break 

 the chain. Get out from the humdrum. Go fishing. 

 There are waters persuasively purling for you. There are 

 violets blowing for you in the meadows, and anemones 

 and star-flowers glowing for you in the shade of the hem- 

 locks. There are fish gleaming for you in the streams. 

 Go fishing. 



The American Fisheries Society met in Philadelphia 

 on Wednesday of this week, A report of the meeting 

 will be given in our next issue, 



