Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal oe the Rod and Gun. 



Terms, $4 a Ykab. 10 Crs. a Copt. ) 



Six Months, $2. j 



NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1894. 



j VOL. XLH. — No. 31. 



I No. 318 Broadway, New Yoke. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Forest and Stream Contribu- 

 tors —ii. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Deer, Ducks and Crane in Mexico 

 Forest and Stream Game Ex- 

 ploration. No. 3. 



Natural History. 



Beaver in Strange Places. 

 Another Albino Deer. 



Camp-jFire FlickerinffS. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Park Poachers and their Ways. 

 Chicago and the West. 



[Sea and River Fishing. 

 ;;Some Carp Lake Notes. 

 £ Boston Men off for Maine. 



Canadian Angling Notes. 

 fiNotes from Moosehead Lake. 



Chicago and the West. 



On the North Shore of Lake 

 Superior. 



News from Fishing Waters. 



Memphremagog Lake Trout. 



Surf Fishing on the Jersey Coast 



Angling Notes. 



Fishculture. 

 American Fisheries Society. 

 Colorado State Association. 

 Necessity of Organized Effort. 

 New York Association. 

 When Shad were a Penny Apiece 



The Kennel. 



False Bloodhound Pedigrees 

 The Canine Commonweal. 

 English Setters and Shows. 

 New Jersey Kennel 



Meeting. 

 Points and Flushes. 

 Dog Chat. 



The Mitchell Meeting. 

 Canoeing. 



The British Canoeing Season. 

 Canoe Yawls. 

 Palisade C. C. 

 News Notes. 



Yachting. 



Interior Arrangement and Dec- 

 oration. 



The Webb Academy and Home. 

 Eights of a Racing Yacht. 

 Stockless vs. Stocked Anchors. 

 Yachting News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Dominion Off-Hand. 

 Williamsburgh Shooting Society. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



The Chicago Interstate. 

 Colorado State Shoot. 

 Highland Gun Club. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Club Scores. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



Answers to Queries. 



For Prospectus and Advertising Rates see Page vii 

 "FOREST AND STREAM" CONTRIBUTORS. 



II.— • 'KELPIE." 



When one is found doing business under an assumed 

 name, there is not of necessity anything suspicious about 

 it, for the man may have reasons which involve nothing 

 questionable. In Central Lake, Michigan, lives a mer- 

 chant known to his townspeople and business associates 

 as F. H. Thurston, wnose real name is "Kelpie." We 

 could prove this by a roll call of witnesses from those who 

 have been well acquainted with him for years. A few 

 hundred at the most could be produced to testify 

 that they knew him to be F. H. Thurston, while 

 we could bring thousands to prove that he was 

 known all over this wide land as "Kelpie." These 

 hosts of witnesses would be found among Forest 

 and Stream's readers, for as "Kelpie" he has long been 

 known as one of the favorite contributors to this journal. 

 Why he should choose to do business under another 

 name we need not inquire. Possibly it is because he 

 thinks that he can protect "Thurston," while it is well 

 known that a year or two ago some pretender in Missis- 

 sippi or Tennessee attempted to steal the name and fame 

 of "Kelpie." 



The writings from his pen appearing in these pages 

 have shown their author to be a sportsman naturalist, 

 possessed of culture, refinement, vigor of thought, and 

 those traits" of character which are esteemed both at 

 home and in camp, Whatever the contention as to his 

 true name — Thurston or Kelpie — among those who have 

 known him as one or the other, there would be none as 

 to these qualities of the man. 



We are happy in having an excellent portrait of 

 "Kelpie" to go with the pleasant words written of him 

 by a comrade in the "Camps of the Kingfishers." 

 There is no more searching test of one's disposition 

 than the intercourse of camp life. It proves him for 

 what he is. To record, as "Old Sam" does of "Kelpie," 

 that he comes out of such a test stronger in the affec- 

 tionate esteem of his fellows, and closer in companion- 

 ship with them, is to say about as much of one while 

 living as a modest man like "Kelpie" would care to 

 hear of himself; and not much more could be said of 

 one even in an obituary. 



As for our portrait, we assert and declare it to be a true 

 likeness of "Kelpie," however much it may differ from 

 the thousand and one mental portraits pictured of him 

 by his friends who have never seen him face to face. 

 When "Von W." happened in here the other day and saw 

 the photograph, he declared that it answered his notion of 

 ' "Kelpie" completely. Others seeing it have averred that 

 it altogether upset their mental photograph. But how- 

 ever this may be, the mere fact that a man does not look 

 as others who have never seen him imagine that he does, 

 is not his fault, and should not be made the occasion of 

 harboring a grudge against him. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 • Eight years have elapsed since we recorded in these 

 columns the successful results of the planting of salmon 

 in the Hudson River. It was in June of 1886 that the 

 first comers from the sea made their appearance, and 

 since then the fish have returned in due season, and have 

 sought passage to the upper waters for the purpose of 

 spawning. They have come back in such numbers as 

 abundantly to demonstrate the adaptability of the river 

 as a salmon stream. Provided the spawning fish could 

 reach the headwaters, the stock would presumably in 

 time maintain itself. But when the fish attempt to go up 

 the stream they encounter insurmountable dams, and are 

 balked of their purpose. The river can never be stocked 

 permanently until means shall have been provided for the 

 passage of the dams. 



There will not be salmon in the Hudson until there shall 

 be fishways in the dams. 



There will not be fishways in the dams until public sen- 

 timent shall demand them. 



Public sentiment will not demand fishways until public 

 education shall awaken that sentiment. 



Public education on this topic will not be accomplished 

 until a systematic, persistent and intelligent presentation 

 shall be made of the facts. 



It is precisely to such a campaign of education that 

 the Mohican Rod and Gun Club, of Glens Falls, has 

 addressed itself. The club has set out "to secure fish- 

 ways in the upper Hudson in order that salmon may 

 have an open passage to and from the sea." The first 

 move was to hold a public meeting at which were' pres- 

 ent the representative business men of Glens Falls, when 

 a paper was read by the president, Mr. A. N. Cheney, 

 giving a clear and forcible presentation of the subject. 

 The next step was to print this admirable address in the 

 local paper; and then to reprint it in circular form for 

 distribution broadcast. The facts and figures and sen- 

 timent and logic of the campaign document are certain 

 to do good work; and if the Mohicans shall follow up 

 the work as vigorously as it has begun, the Hudson 

 River fishways may be regarded as accomplished facts. 

 Copies of the address may be had on application to 

 Secretary C. H. Baxter, Glens Falls. The club invites 

 and should receive the active co-operation of intelligent 

 citizens everywhere. The stocking of the Hudson with 

 salmon is an enterprise which concerns the entire State; 

 and public-spirited men everywhere should work for it. 



The question of commercial fishing methods as affect- 

 ing the fish food supply came up for discussion again in 

 the meeting of the American Fisheries Society last week. 

 The subject is one of vast importance, and also of com- 

 plexity and magnitude. To discuss it to advantage 

 demands not only large information, but a certain un- 

 biassed and judicial spirit, which has not been character- 

 istic of its debate in the Society. Persuasion of either 

 side to accept the views of the other is less likely 

 than the stirring up of bad blood and heated tempers. 

 Under these circumstances it may appear to be the part of 

 wisdom for the Society to confine itself to other branches 

 of the fishery interests, which while of prime importance 

 are less likely to excite dissensions. There are some 

 things which a voluntary association may accomplish, 

 and others which would better be left to government 

 commissions. If^ever we have an adequate investigation 

 into the subject of commercial fishing methods and the 

 fish supply, it will be the work of a capable commission 

 assigned to the work by State or National authority. 



Last week we recorded the adoption of a new law in 

 Ohio prohibiting the killing of quail for exportation or 

 sale, a piece of legislation directly in line with Forest and 

 Stream's platform plank, that the sale of game should 

 be forbidden at all seasons. Chief Game and Fish Warden 

 A. D. Stewart, of Ontario, sends a new law of that Prov- 

 ince which is likewise in line with the platform plank. 

 It is an iron-clad prohibition of traffic in snipe, woodcock, 

 partridge, quail and wild turkey prior to the autumn of 

 1897. 



On account of Decoration Day the Forest and Stream 

 Will go to preBB on Monday of next week, instead of on 

 Tuesday as usual, 



The widespread storm which during the past week 

 has raged over the whole country east of the Mississippi 

 caused enormous damage to industries of every descrip- 

 tion, Floods and winds have devastated shipping and 

 farms; railroads have been washed out, mines flooded, 



towns submerged, and factories stopped. Seldom has 

 there been a storm extending over so large a territory 

 and causing such heavy loss. Amid the damage done 

 must be reckoned that to our game birds, some of which 

 have already begun the work of reproduction. The 

 nests of the ruffed and of the pinnated grouse are already 

 full of eggs, and many of these have been chilled by 

 the cold rains or washed away by the risen streams. 

 On the coast the east winds have pushed up unusually 

 high tides, the salt meadows have all been flooded, and 

 the rails and marsh hens have been driven from their 

 reedy retreats while their nests and eggs have been de- 

 stroyed, and the poor birds are seen disconsolately 

 wandering on the higher meadows or in the edges of 

 the woods waiting for the waters to subside. It is bet- 

 ter that this destruction should happen now than a few 

 weeks later. In most cases the birds will breed again, 

 and will successfully rear their second broods. 



The New York (City) Association for the Protection of 

 Fish and Game celebrated its semi-centennial hast Monday 

 evening with a banquet. The society was one of the 

 pioneer organizations in this country to take up the work 

 of game protection. The cause was one which depended 

 then, as it does now, and as it will fifty years from now, 

 upon the active individual and associated efforts of 

 the comparatively small proportion of the community 

 recognizing its importance. As a leader in the field the 

 New York Association accomplished results' the good 

 influence of which has lasted to this day; and although 

 its activity as a game protective force is now largely 

 reminiscent, the Association deserves high honor and 

 unstinted credit for its leadership and well-doing when it 

 contended for an unpopular cause. Among the members 

 in the past was Henry William Herbert, "Frank 

 Forester." 



Nothing definite has been learned of the case of the 

 two American steamers, the Brooks and the Visitor, 

 which were^eized for bass fishing in the Canadian waters 

 of Lake Erie. A report from Amherstburg, Ont. , where 

 the vessels were taken, indicates that one of them may 

 be held on the charge of fishing in the close season of 

 1893. There is some ground for suspecting that, what 

 ever may be the merits of the case, the seizure was the 

 outgrowth of bad feeling between the local residents and 

 the American anglers. 



The organization of the Colorado State Sportsmen's 

 Association has come at a time when its field of useful- 

 ness is extensive and well marked. The Salida sportsmen 

 who have begun the work are in earnest; and we hope to 

 record a generous support and cooperation on the part of 

 the entire State. Colorado has a game warden system ; 

 that is half the battle. This new Association can work no 

 more effectively than by holding the wardens to doing 

 their duty and supporting them in it. 



We print to-day the third paper in the report of the 

 Forest and Stream's Yellowstone Park Game Explora- 

 tion. It has to do with the proposition to put a railroad 

 through the Park, or to cut off a portion of the Park that 

 a railroad to Cooke City may have way. It gives expree „ 

 sion to the public sentiment in Montana opposed to the 

 scheme, as in last week's issue was given the sentiment in 

 favor of it. Both bides have now been represented. We 

 invite careful reading of them both, in conjunction with 

 one another. 



Dr. Charles W. Dulles of Philadelphia read before the 

 Pennsylvania State Medical Society last week a report on 

 "Hydrophobia," in which he declared that only thirteen 

 cases of the disease per annum occur in this country, or 

 one case to 4,500,000 people. The truth appears to be that 

 most cases thought to be of hydrophobia are of something 

 else. 



Never in Season — "His Mooseship," "His Bearship,'* 

 "His Grouseship," "His Snakeship," "His Sharkship," 

 "His Bassship," et id genus omne, which being translated 

 means the whole tribe of beasts and birds and fishes and 

 reptiles with maritime attachments or navicular ap« 



The Maine Sportsmen's Fish and Game Protective Aaso« 

 ciation recently ordered from Sweden twelve capercailzie 

 and twelve black game. Of these five of the capercailzie 

 and six of the black game were received alive, 



