Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1894. 



I VOL. XLH. — No. 24. 



| No. 318 Beoadwat, New Yohx. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



Our Yellowstone Expedition. 

 Relation of the Community to 



the Fisheries. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Forest and Stream Yellowstone 

 Park Game Exploration. 



Natural History. 



Stories of Ezra— II. 

 Buffalo in Texas. 

 Woodducks in Trees. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



A Memory of Camp Yocum. 



"Come to Montana." 



The Jury Dined on Venison. 



Camp-Fire Flickering^. 

 An Adventure with a Lynx. 

 A Remarkable Duck. 



3ea and River Fishing. 



On the North Shore of Lake Su- 

 perior. 



Salmon Notes from Camp 



Adams. 

 Trout Tickling. 



News from the Fishing Waters. 

 Fishing on the Shenandoah. 

 Honeoge Falls Anglers. 

 The Mastigouche Waters. 

 The Big Trout of Maine. 



Fishculture. 

 Relation of the Community to 

 the Fisheries. 



The Kennel. 



International Field Trials Derby 



Entries. 

 Judges and Type. 

 The Bell Case and the A. K. C. 

 That "Mossback Robber Rule."' 

 Mississippi Jottings. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Aaswers. 



Yachting. 



Atlantic Y. O. Annual Regatta. 

 Larchmont Y. C. Spring Regatta 

 New York Y. O. Regatta. 

 The Present Condition of the 



Measurement Question. 

 The Eastern Y. C. House. 

 Club Races. 

 News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



Mr. Howard's Canoe. 

 The W. C. A. Meet. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Pacific Coast Shots. 

 The Rifle in Texas. 

 Club Scores. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



Illinois State Shoot. 

 Trap at San Antonio. 

 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. 



Our Yellowstone Expedition. 



The most important achievement of the Forest and 

 Stream's Yellowstone Park Game Exploration was Mr. 

 Hough's prompt and authoritative report upon the work 

 of the buffalo butcher Howell. This report came just 

 at a time when its publication in our columns was cal- 

 culated to compel attention at Washington and to demon- 

 strate the necessity of immediate action. It opened the 

 eyes of the public and of Congress to the cold hard fact 

 that the National Park game must be protected by 

 adequate provision of law, and the law was enacted. 



This result at once lifted the Forest and Stream's 

 expedition out of the plane of ordinary journalistic enter- 

 prise and elevated it to the rank of a memorable public 

 service, the influence of which, we firmly believe, will be 

 far extending and long enduring. 



The report of the buffalo outrage was given when it 

 would do the most good; it could not have been delayed 

 for its place in the narrative of the trip. An intelligent 

 discussion of the Park railroad invasion and Park segre- 

 gation schemes has followed; and Mr. Hough has now 

 entered upon the story of the incidents of the expedition 

 in their order. The trip, as is well said, was one of a 

 lifetime. The story is novel and fascinating, and its 

 interest will hold to the end. We congratulate those 

 who by the magic of our Staff Correspondent's*- pen may 

 follow the Forest and Stream party in the adventures, 

 perils, hardships, pleasures and rewards of this winter 

 exploration amid the snows and geysers and peaks and 

 canons of the Wonderland. 



One fruit of the trip was a notable series of photographs 

 of winter scenery and wild game. The pictures secured 

 by the Forest and Stream party have been supplemented 

 by others very generously placed at our disposal by Mr. F. 

 J. Haynes, official photographer of the Northern Pacific 

 R.R. Some twenty-six of the views have been reproduced 

 and will illustrate the text. 



The part which Mr, El wood Hofer took in the expedi- 

 tion is told in the story itself; we have only to add that 

 without his promised co-operation the trip never would 

 have been undertaken. 

 Capt. Anderson, the commanding officer of the Park, 



has placed the Forest and Stream under renewed obli- 

 gations for his characteristic courtesy and hospitality. 

 The whole country owes him a lasting debt of gratitude 

 and appreciation for his devoted and large-minded service 

 as the public guardian of the National Park. 



RELATIONS OF THE COMMUNITY TO THE 

 FISHERIES." 



The article by Commissioner McDonald on the 1 'Rela- 

 tions of the Community to the Fisheries," which is in 

 course of publication in this journal, should be read and 

 carefully considered by every one who has an interest in 

 the future of our fish supply. Based as it is upon statistics 

 ■ollected by the most approved methods, and covering a 

 long period of time, it appeals with all the force of 

 authority to the judgment of those who seek to know the 

 history and results of fishing operations. There is in it no 

 trace of personal prejudice or selfish interest, but merely 

 a plain statement of facts and the conclusions logically to 

 be drawn from them. 



A fundamental principle of fishery regulation is the 

 imposition of such restrictions as are necessary to main- 

 tain the fishing industry and no other limitations. In this 

 object the fisherman and the consumer are equally inter- 

 ested. When the conditions of a continuing and success- 

 ful industry have been established, all should unite in 

 maintaining such conditions without dissension and 

 without unfriendly rivalry. 



It is startling to note the change in public sentiment in 

 England since the time of Huxley's recommendation to 

 leave the sea fishing unrestricted — a change paralleled in 

 Ireland and Scotland, and rapidly making progress in 

 continental Europe. Evidently the time has come for 

 earnest study of fishery problems, and it behooves us to 

 enter into them without preconceived notions and with 

 the determination to abide by the truth wherever it may 

 lead. 



It will be interesting in connection with this paper to 

 note the results of introducing shad on the Pacific coast 

 where no fish of that kind were found until within the 

 last sixteen years. The entire stock of embryo shad sent 

 to California was not equal to the number planted in the 

 Delaware River in a single season, amounting to only a few 

 millions; yet in 1892 the catch of shad in that State was 

 nearly four times as great as tni# yield of Massachusetts 

 and five times as many as were taken in Connecticut. 

 Even in Oregon more shad were caught than in Connec- 

 ticut, and Washington took four-fifths as many as the lat- 

 ter State, while the fish had already pushed northward to 

 Alaska. 



Only thirty years ago the Connecticut was one of the 

 famous shad rivers of the East. Eighteen years ago the 

 IT. S. Fish Commission was collecting shad eggs at South 

 Hadley Falls. To-day, thanks to the obstructions by dams 

 and pound nets, the shad fishing of Connecticut is valued 

 at only a few thousand dollars, while in more favored 

 streams further south the fishery ?s fully maintained and 

 probably increasing year by year. 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 A large amount of money is paid out of the Vermont 

 State treasury for killing bears, panthers, wildcats and 

 foxes. In one town in Essex county eleven bears were 

 killed, bringing to the slayers $15 a piece as a bounty 

 besides the revenue from the hides and meat. Bears are 

 quite plenty in several of the counties, but it is not 

 thought a wise policy to pay so much in bounties when 

 they would undoubtedly be killed just as quickly if no 

 bounty law existed. A great many people would only 

 like the opportunity to join in one of the frequent bear 

 hunts during the proper season. The same rule applies 

 to the killing of foxes, but as their extermination is a 

 protection to the grouse there is not so much grumbling 

 about it except by the fox hunters who hunt for the love 

 of hunting and not for the paltry bounty. It is the 

 farmer's boy who wants and gets the bounty in most 

 cases. 



whirr of grouse and Bob White, the whistle of woodcock, 

 the rush of canvasback and the baying of hounds are 

 familiar sounds to his ear; but he is perhaps best known as 

 an enthusiastic devotee of the rod, and particularly that 

 use of it which demands the highest order of skill in the 

 killing of the king of fishes, the "lordly salmon." Early 

 in the seventies Mr. Adams killed his first salmon ; and 

 contributed an account of the experience to the 

 Forest and Stream. It has been bis good fortune 

 to be able to continue this sport for eighteen con- 

 secutive years. Early in his fishing experiences, he 

 has told us, he became convinced that the riparian 

 land owners upon salmon rivers would ultimately be 

 declared by the courts to be proprietors, with the sole 

 right to the products of the waters and consequently the 

 control of the fisheries. Acting upon this conviction, he 

 secured land bordering upon several of the best salmon 

 rivers; the question of riparian ownership, then in the 

 courts, was finally decided favorably to the land owners, 

 and it found Mr. Adams in possession of some of the best 

 salmon preserves in Canada. At present he is co-owner 

 with Mr. Henry Sampson of New York city of the first 

 five miles of the Nepisiquit at Bathurst, N. B., in that 

 reach so well known as the "Rough Water." Thither he 

 has gone this season, and we hope to have from "Camp 

 Adams" a continuation of the delightful angling notes 

 printed to-day. The letter of Lord Dufferin to Mr. John 

 Fottler, Jr., a companion of Mr. Adams at Camp Dufferin, 

 has the true ring of the sportsman's spirit. 



Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, of this city, whose 

 activity in the work of municipal reform has brought him 

 into such prominence, is an enthusiastic mountain climber. 

 For many years he has gone in the summer to the Swiss 

 Alps, . each year selecting some new mountain to scale. 

 Says a writer in Harper's Weekly: 



It is the one crowning exhilaration of the year, to be looked forward 

 to and back upon with the keenest zest. But he goes about it in 

 earnest, and with the utmost system. He is not a hare-brained 

 climber, and takes no unnecessary risks. He knows his guides, whom 

 he selects with care, and between him and them there is the closest 

 tie of mutual respect and confidence. Having taken them, he obeys 

 them loyally, acknowledging their responsibility and recognizing their 

 authority. Each year also he goes into a preliminary training, that 

 he may execute his task, when he finally assumes it, with safety and 

 with proper equipment It- is interesting to trace in this occupation 

 of vacation days— which is not a pastime, but in the literal sense a 

 recreation— the qualities that have made Dr. Parkhurst so well known 

 Courage, of course, it demands. The Matterhorn is not scaled by a 

 person, or parson, of flabby nerve any more than by one of flabby 

 muscle. But with courage must go a cool head, a resolute will, and 

 that indefinable faculty for making the best of things, be they good or 

 ill, which is the prime condition of successful climbing of mountains 

 or other difficult heights. It is significant, too, that this quiet clergy- 

 man, whose daily life for years has necessarily been of the most 

 regular sort, Suggesting relaxation in the study rather than sustained 

 and trying exertion in the open air, has felt the steady desire for the 

 mountains, and has found in them the refreshment that inspired him 

 for the toil of the rest of the year. 



Probably there are very few more appreciative, enthu- 

 siastic and all-around sportsmen than the writer of the 

 "Salmon Notes from Camp Adams," printed in our 

 angling columns to-day. Mr. Adams, now of middle age, 

 is of direct descent from the old Adams stock of Massa- 

 chusetts. Having by his own energy and ability acquired 

 a competence, he has yet found time to indulge in the 

 health-giving sport furnished by the rod and gun. The 



Mayor W. B. Mershon, of Saginaw, Mich., was expected 

 in Quebec on Friday morning of this week. He was 

 joined by Mr. Robert C. Lowry, of New York, and these 

 gentlemen will proceed to their salmon fishing headquar- 

 ters on the Grand Cascapedia River, Quebec, from which 

 point it is probable we may receive communications from 

 either or both. They are well-known as contributors to 

 these columns. Mr. Lowry announces that since his 

 experience of last year with the ouananiche at the Grand 

 Discharge of Lake St. John has been so much criticised 

 he has come to the conclusion that he must have 

 encountered an entirely different fish, and perhaps it was 

 not the genuine "leaping" ouananiche at all. Therefore 

 he hopes to try again this season and will probably give 

 the readers of Forest and Stream a second edition of 

 his experience with the far-famed game fish. 



In a menagerie in New Jersey, one night last week, a 

 monkey broke loose- and dashed itself against the bars of 

 a cage containing two lions. One of the lions seized the 

 monkey, drew it into the cage and made a meal of it. 

 This shows us that even in the darkest hour, when one is 

 hedged about as by iron bars, fortune may send unex- 

 pected blessings. 



Before the guddlers and the ginnilers shall have set one 

 another by the ears in a discussion of the merits of trout 

 tickling, we appeal to Judge L. B. France or some other 

 authority to tell us whether under any circumstances it 

 would be permissible for a true rodster — that is to say, 

 one of ramrod uprightness — to give over his rodstering and 

 indulge in wig-wazzing for fish on a Sunday night, when 

 the law specifically forbids that practice. 



