Forest and Stream. 



A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 



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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1894. 



( VOL. XT.TT.— No. 26. 



| No. 818 Broadway, New York. 



CONTENTS. 



Editorial. 



The Foolishness of the Flask. 

 Scouts for Park Poachers. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Stories of Ezra- iv. 



Forest and Stream Yellowstone 



Park Oame Exploration. 

 A June Pastoral 



Natural History. 



An Adventure with a Squirrel. 

 Sancho, the Culprit. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



Chicago and the West. 



The Velocity of Shot. 



Deer in the Green Mountains. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



Shu-Shuear Lake. 



On the North Shore of Lake Su- 

 perior. 



Angling Notes. 



Chicago and thi West. 



Fort Myers Tarpon Season. 



Reminiscences of Old Times. 



On the Salmon Rivers. 



Boston Anglers. 



Niagara Anglers 1 Banquet. 



The Problem of "Good Rid' 

 dance." 



The Kennel. 



The English Setter. 



The Kennel. 



The "Mossback Robber" Rule. 

 Dog Chat. 

 Kennel Notes. 

 Kennel Answers. 



Yachting. 



Seawanhaka Regatta. 

 Model Yachting. 

 Lake Minnetonka Racing. 

 Vigilant. 



Races and Regattas. 

 Yachting News Notes. 



Canoeing. 



Chicago C. C. 



International Canoe Racing. 

 The A. C. A. Meet. 

 Shoot by Brewer and Class. 

 Canoeing Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



New York Schuetzen Corps Fes- 

 tival. 

 Rifle Notes. 



Trap Shooting. 



Montana State Shoot. 

 Chamberlin Tournament. 

 Kansas State Sportsmen's Asso- 

 ciation. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 



Answers to Queries. 



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SC0U1S FOR PARK POACHERS. 



For many years the most important thing to be con- 

 sidered in connection with the Yellowstone Park was the 

 securing of a law which should provide punishment for 

 offenses and should give to government officials in charge 

 of the reservation the necessary authority to hold offen 

 ders who have violated the rules provided for its protection 

 by the Secretary of the Interior. Such a law has at 

 last been passed and promises to give to the National 

 Park a protection which shall actually protect. It will 

 be something more than a mere name— a shadow without 

 substance. Swift punishment will overtake the offender, 

 and the regulations will no longer be a laughing stock. 



As the Park has an area not much less than that of the 

 State of Connecticut, it must be evident that to patrol it 

 effectively requires a considerable force of men, and as 

 by far the greater portion of this area consists of rough 

 mountain peaks, deep river valleys and tangled forests, 

 which often bristle with down- timber, it is essential that 

 a part of the patrolling force should consist of men who 

 are accustomed to the mountains, and who through their 

 long experience among them are able to pick their way 

 over the roughest country and to measure wits, experi- 

 ence and mountain skill with other mountain men who 

 constitute by far the most dangerous class of poachers. 



For many years the superintendents of the Park have 

 begged the Secretary of the Interior to give them a larger 

 force of scouts. The soldiers do excellent work as guards 



in many parts of the Park, but from the very nature of 

 the case^-froni the conditions of their lives and from their 

 training— they cannot do the work required of the scouts. 

 The Secretary of the Interior has invariably declined to 

 grant requests for a larger force of scouts, giving as a 

 reason for this refusal that there was no money available 

 which could be applied to the payment of any additional 

 men. Yet we know that the Park brings in annually 

 some small revenue, which by law is to be applied to the 

 preservation and protection of the reservation, and the 

 paltry sum of $1,500 would give two scouts, which would 

 just double the present force. It is evident that two men 

 can cover twice as much ground as one, but even two 

 men would be a very small force for a territory so wide as 

 that under Capt. Anderson's rule. 



No one is more intimately acquainted with the needs of 

 the reservation than the present superintendent, and he 

 has done everything that any man could do with the 

 means at his command to protect the Park. If the matter 

 lay with him, there would be no question about an ade- 

 quate force of scouts. Such a force is especially needed 

 at the present time, when it is of the utmost importance 

 to capture and punish two or three violators of the law. 

 When this has been done and the fact has been noised 

 abroad through the surrounding country, the business of 

 poaching in'the National Park will come to an end so sud- 

 denly that it will surprise us all. 



THE VICTIM OF HIS CHEF. 



The proprietor of an eating house on Sixth avenue, 

 New York, has just been made the victim of his chef in 

 a way calculated to excite sympathy. The circumstances 

 came to light in the case of the People of the State of New 

 York against Samuel F. Burns, for selling game out of 

 season. The case was tried on Monday of this week, and 

 its story should be read for instruction and warning by 

 every restaurant keeper, who, though he may lay a 

 course to steer clear of the Scylla of the State game pro- 

 tectors, is liable to be wrecked on the Charybdis of his 

 cook. 



The game law as in force in 1893 forbade the sale of 

 quail and woodcock after Jan. 31. On Feb. 17 of that 

 year State Game Protector Kidd was advised that game 

 was being sold illicitly at Burcs's restaurant, and he came 

 into possession of a bill of fare taken from the restaurant 

 on Feb. 11, on which the item of woodcock appeared in 

 the list of game dishes then served. On Feb. 18 Protector 

 Kidd visited the Burns place with a companion and 

 ordered, received and ate four woodcock. On the follow- 

 ing Monday, Feb. 20, he went back with two friends and 

 the party was served with six quail. The protector then 

 entered suit for the recovery of the penalty of $25 for 

 each bird, and after repeated delays the case was finally 

 brought to trial last Monday in the City Court. 



The fact that the game had been served was abundantly 

 proved by the testimony of the protector and of those 

 who had been with him on the occasions referred to. No 

 attempt whatever was made by the defense to deny this. 

 Mr. Burns, however, testified that it was his custom at the 

 beginning of the close season to give directions to his 

 chef and other employes that no more game should be 

 sold. That he personally managed the restaurant and 

 had supervision of the business. That he himself, or his 

 cashier under his direction, ordered all the supplies 

 for the establishment. That neither he nor his cashier 

 would or could have ordered quail or woodcock out 

 of season. That he personally inspected twice every 

 day the ice chests where supplies were kept and where 

 the woodcock and quail would have been stored on the 

 18th and 20th of February, 1893, if there had been any 

 in the establishment; and that on those occasions he saw 

 none there; that he did not know that they were there ; 

 that he did not know who wrote the entry of woodcock 

 on the bill of fare of Feb. 11, which had been put in evi- 

 dence; that if Protector Kidd and his friends had been 

 given quail and woodcock in his establishment on the 

 dates alleged, the birds must have been bought for the 

 restaurant, put on the bill of fare, and served to custom- 

 ers by the chef without his (Burns's) knowledge or con- 

 sent, and in contravention of his direct and explicit orders 

 at the beginning of the close season. 



In short Mr. Burns posed on the witness stand as the 

 innocent and much-injured victim of his wicked cook, an 

 evil-minded chef who had maliciously persisted in pur- 

 veying game to guests under his very nose, and much to 



his surprise and consternation when he discovered it at 

 length only through the agency of the complaint served 

 upon him by the game protector. Mr. Burns played this 

 role of injured innocence and guileless intent with such 

 grace and effectiveness that he. won, if not the tears of 

 the jury, at least their substantial sympathy, for while 

 they might have brought in a verdict for the entire 

 amount of the penalty, $250, they took compassion upon 

 him and fined him only the sum of $100. This we are 

 inclined to believe was as much cash as Mr. Burns could 

 in fairness have be<m asked to surrender by any reason- 

 able person accepting his statement of the case, and 

 believing that he was innocent and had been made the 

 victim of his cunning chef. 



The protector was represented by Mr. Russell Head ley, of 

 Newburg; the defendant by Mr. Chas. A. Hess, of Hess, 

 Townsend & McClellan > of this city. Mr. Hess is a sports- 

 man himself, and at the conclusion of the case, after 

 having done his duty by his client in the court room, he 

 expressed to Dr. Kidd his cordial sympathy in the work 

 of game protection, and volunteered to conduct any 

 further cases the protector might bring in this city, with- 

 out fee or reward othe^r than the satisfaction of helping 

 the cause. Dr. Kidd has expressed an intention of taking 

 Mr. Hess at his word and enlisting his services in a black 

 bass suit now on the calendar. Mr. Headley, it should be 

 added, has given his services gratuitously, and at the 

 expense of much valuable time taken from his home 

 practice. 



THE FOOLISHNESS OF THE FLASK. 

 Some folks, who at home are so little given to the use of 

 strong beverages that they cannot without difficulty dis- 

 tinguish between whisky and brandy and gin, foolishly 

 imagine that when they go into the woods for fishing or 



ahuutiug tUcjf muot prorido tLioujorrl vca wltll a, UaSK Of 



liquor as an essential, conventional and approved part of 

 their outfit. 



It is not necessary to consider this from the standpoint 

 of temperance or abstinence as such, but purely from that 

 of personal comfort and common sense, to recognize the 

 absurdity of such a notion. People who habitually and 

 with satisfaction to themselves do without liquors at home 

 can habitually and with just as much satisfaction do with- 

 out them in the woods and on the water. They can, in 

 fact, do without them much better than they can do with 

 them. 



For one instance where a flask is brought into useful 

 service to withstand the effects of exposure or fatigue in 

 an outing, there are twenty where it demoralizes the 

 stomach and the head. For one life it has ever saved in 

 case of ' 'snake bite" it has cost a score of fatal accidents 

 which without it would never have happened. 



Many go shooting and fishing — or declare that they do 

 — for the benefit of their health; and they talk with con- 

 viction and enthusiasm of the upbuilding influence of 

 forest and stream. It is a puny influence indeed that 

 must needs be pieced out with a flask; and punier still if 

 with a jug. 



That one who uses liquor at home should use it in camp 

 is quite natural; and with such a use we are not con- 

 cerned. But that one who is unaccustomed to liquor at 

 home should consider himself bound to provide himself 

 with it for' the woods is certainly an illustration of the 

 foolishness of the flask. 



DEATH OF HERR VON DEM BORNE. 



Herr Max von dem Borne, the distinguished German 

 fishculturist, died at his home in Berneuchen on June 14. 

 Herr von dem Borne was well known in this country 

 because of his achievements in fishculture, and more par- 

 ticularly as the pioneer in the introduction of American 

 game fishes into European waters. He was the first to 

 transplant the American black basses, and by reason of 

 his success with them was called the father of the black 

 bass in Germany. He also imported successfully into his 

 home waters from America the rock bass, calico bass, 

 rainbow trout, common sunfish, long-eared sun fish, dog- 

 fish, common bullhead or bullpout, channel catfish, com- 

 mon minnow and crayfish. He was the author of 

 numerous works relating to fishculture, their value being 

 recognized in Europe and America. By his death the 

 fishcultural interests of two continents have suffered a 

 severe loss. 



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