Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
I NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IB, 1894. 1 No . 
Terms, $4 A Year. 10 Ore. a Copy, 
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VOL. XLUX— No. 11. 
318 Broadway, New York. 
CONTENTS. 
Editorial. 
The Sportsman's Exposition. 
The Miranda Excursionists. 
Snap Shots. 
The Sportsman Tourist. 
Web. 
Coasting Along the Caribbean. 
One Morning. 
Natural History. 
An Indian Mound. 
Devotion of a Chimney Swift 
Mother. 
Bird Calls of the Night. 
Came Bag: and Gun. 
In Manitoba. 
Chicago and the West, 
Ten Days with Prairie Chickens. 
Oregon Notes. 
Hunting After Slwashes. 
Texas and the Southwest. 
Sea and River Fishing. 
Chiaago and the West. 
Camp Woodbine. 
More About the Salmon. 
The First Blueflshing Experience 
Angling Notes. 
New Hampshire Fishing. 
Flshcultiire. 
New York Fish Laws 
Fishing for Frostflsh in N. York. 
The Kennel. 
Southern F. T. Derby Entries. 
The Kennel. 
Toronto Dog Show. 
Des Moines Fhow Awards. 
The Gordon Trials. 
Dog Chat. 
Kennel Notes. 
Yachting. 
Vigilant. 
Beverly Y. C. 
A Bacing Circuit on the Sound. 
N. Y. Y. R. A. Regatta. 
Current Comment. 
Model Yachting. 
Fall Regattas. 
Yachting News Notes. 
Canoeing. 
Wawbewawa War Canoe Asso- 
ciation. 
News Notes. 
Rifle Range and Gallery. 
Sea Girt. 
Club Scores. 
Rifle Notes. 
Trap Shooting. 
New England Tournament. 
Iowa Falls First Annual. 
Manitou Beach Club 
The Americans on British Trap 
Grounds 
Northville Gun Club. 
New London Tournament. 
Drivers and Twisters. 
Answers to Queries. 
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THE MIRANDA EXCURSIONISTS. 
For the last fifteen years, more or less, and sometimes 
more frequently than once in a season, enthusiastic and 
sanguine projectors have been coming into this office to 
broach their schemes of gathering companies of fifty to a 
hundred sportsmen, to charter vessels for excursions to 
the coast of Labrador and Greenland. And year after 
year, not to throw cold water on the project, we have 
given such aid and comfort as opportunity afforded, 
always insisting, however, upon the inherent impractica- 
bility of the scheme. For, in the first place, there are not 
many sportsmen who would care to go to the northern 
seas, even under the most favorable circumstances. There 
are few who can be gone for the length of time required 
by such a trip, and fewer still who would willingly tie 
themselves up under the conditions governing excursion 
parties of this sort. The average man who is bent on 
enjoying himself wishes to be free to come and go at his 
own sweet will; but if he join a party of sea excursionists, 
he must go when the ship goes, and stay until the ship 
turns about. He is not his own master; there is no fun 
in that. He cannot get out of the fix; and there is less 
fun in that. This is one reason and a qirite sufficient one 
to deter the average sportsman from joining such an ex- 
pedition. 
We had seen one Greenland excursion scheme after 
another, iridescent as a sun-kissed glacier, fade into 
unreality, when Dr. F. A. Cook, who had been surgeon to 
"the Peary expedition of 1891-92, came in one day last 
spring, and told of his proposed expedition to Greenland 
on the steamship Miranda, with the customary band of 
sportsmen, scientists and others. When we told Dr. Cook 
that he would never get his company enlisted, he 
smiled and exhibited a roll of names of excursionists 
already secured quite sufficient to make certain the sail- 
ing of the ship. It did indeed prove to be the first suc- 
cessfully projected expedition of the kind; and in due 
time the Miranda left this port bound for the west coast 
of Greenland. There were on board fifty odd excursion- 
its, including a number of college professors and students 
bent on exploration and scientific research in Labrador 
and Greenland; and several sportsmen equipped for 
hunting walrus and polar bear. The expedition was to 
visit Nova Scotia, New Foundland and Greenland; pro- 
ceeding under favorable conditions to Melville Bay and 
the winter quarters of Kane and Greeley. Each individ- 
ual of the party paid $500 as his share of the expenses of 
the trip. 
The Miranda sailed from New York on July 7, having 
been delayed some time beyond the date originally set for 
departure. Misfortune overtook her when she was ten 
days out; seven miles north of Belle Isle, in a fog bank, 
she collided bows on with an iceberg, and had to turn 
back to St. Johns for repairs. After a detention here, 
she sailed once more for Greenland; and reached the har- 
bor of Sukkertoppen on Aug. 7. Sailing thence on Aug. 
9, she had barely passed out of the harbor before she 
again encountered disaster. She struck a rock and stove 
in her bottom; but succeeded in getting back into Sukker- 
toppen harbor. A relief party, headed by Dr. Cook, set 
out with Esquimaux in an open boat for Holsteinburg, 
140 miles distant, where some American boats were 
reported to be fishing. After five days of a tem- 
pestuous journey they reached their destination, and, 
dispatching couriers in native kayaks up and down 
the coast, at length fell in with the American schooner 
Rigel, whose captain undertook to go to the relief 
of the company. In due time the Miranda excur- 
sionists were transferred to the Rigel, and the steamship 
in her disabled condition set out for the return voyage 
with the schooner in tow. Thirty miles out, at midnight, 
the ship began to sink; her crew were taken off by the 
schooner, and she was abandoned. The Rigel reached 
North Sydney, Cape Breton, on Wednesday of last week, 
Sept. 5, with all on board safe and sound, although 
trophies and baggage had been lost. The Miranda excur- 
sionists have brought back from their summer outing a 
fund of experience for exciting tales, to tell to their 
children and grandchildren, of shipwreck in the Arctic, 
more thrilling than the polar bear stories they must other- 
wise have been contented with. The disastrous end- 
ing of the Miranda's voyage is not likely to stimulate the 
excursion business in northern seas. Dr. Cook's enter- 
prise deserved more generous reward; and we would have 
rejoiced to chronicle the complete success of the Miranda 
excursion. 
THE SPORTSMEN'S EXPOSITION. 
Hebe are some dates to keep in mind — May 13 to 18, 
1895. The trouting season will then be around again; 
but in planning the campaign, provision should be made 
for a visit to the Sportsmen's Exposition, which will then 
be in progress in Madison Square Garden of this city. 
The committee having in hand preliminary arrangements 
reports a gratifying measure of progress. Many firms 
have given promise of cordial support; and the affair has 
already assumed proportions which assure a notable and 
worthy representation of the sportsmen's interests of this 
country. It is to be distinctively an expression of the 
field sportsmanship of the day, devoted specifically to the 
activities of the man of the rod and gun, dog, canoe, tent 
and saddle. The classification of exhibits as now adopted 
comprises: 
Class A.— Firearms. 
Class B. — Ammunition. 
Class C— Sporting sundries. 
Class D.— Fishing tackle. 
Class E. — Boats, canoes, etc. 
Class F.— Camping outfits. 
Class Gr.— Athletic goods. 
Class H.— Kennel supplies. 
Class I.— Zoology and taxidermy. 
Class K.— Cameras and photographic supplies. 
Class L.— Saddles and bridles. 
Class M. — Sportsmen's art and literature. 
Class N. — Trophies and loan collections. 
The trade displays will be full and representative; and 
we trust that adequate attention will be given as well to 
the loan collection of arms and trophies and to illustra- 
tions of the hunting and fishing methods of people the 
world over. These are the features of the affair which 
will bring in the general public; and the general public 
must be attracted if the exposition is to accomplish all 
that it should do in stimulating the interests it repre- 
sents, and in enlarging the ranks of sportsmen. Quite as 
valuable as the immediate returns to the trade which will 
come from the exposition as a bazaar will be the benefits 
reaped by them later from the awakened interest in shoot- 
ing, fishing and kindred pursuits. 
The meeting for permanent organization will be held in 
the rooms of the Hardware Club in this city at two 
o'clock next Tuesday, Sept. 18. Correspondence respect- 
ing the exposition is invited, and may be sent to Mr. J. A . 
H. Dressel, secretary, 313 Broadway. 
SNAP SHOTS. 
To Mr. N. M. Bostwick, of Denver, should be extended 
sincere commiseration by the brothers of the craft. He 
was fly-fishing for rainbow trout the other day, in the 
Gunnison, that Colorado stream noted for its big fish, and 
was doing his prettiest to take what "Kingfisher" would 
term "an old sooner," to excite the envy of his fishing 
friends. And he thought he had it, when, after a 
"royal struggle," he put on to the scales a rainbow meas- 
uring 27-fin. in length, 16in. in girth and weighing an 
even 8flbs. Full of exultation, he dispatched the prize 
express baste to Denver, to be shown as the largest trout 
ever taken with fly in Colorado, for it was a plump . half- 
pound better than the record fish, a trout taken five years 
ago in Twin Lakes. But alas for Mr. Bostwick and his 
dream of triumph! On the very train that bore his prize 
was another trout taken from the same stream by Mayor 
Shove, of Gunnison. It was longer, larger around and 
heavier; a bigger big fish, a monster yet more monstrous. 
Mayor Shove's fish weighed lOf lbs. , and when people be- 
held it they were so astonished that there was little won- 
der left for Mr. Bostwick's exhibit. 
In the ever delightful "Uncle Lisha's Shop," it is told 
how a New England school meeting was broken up by the 
cry of a foxhound on the trail, the assembled citizens 
tumbling out pell-mell to join in the chase; and we be- 
lieve that it is a fact of record in the South that court has 
been adjourned that the Bench might go fishing; When 
there came to the International Anglers' Association, 
assembled in convention at Niagara-on-the-Lake, word 
that the bass were running in schools off Fort Niagara, 
the most natural thing in the world happened; the 
meeting adjourned viva voce and sine die, and everybody 
went fishing. After the fish had stopped biting, and 
not till then, did the delegates reconvene to listen to 
Mr. J. Prihgle's report, recommending that Canada be 
divided into three districts, with as many separate close 
seasons for black bass; and that the license fee now 
exacted from American anglers in Canadian waters 
should be abolished. The convention adopted the report; 
and a memorial embodying it will be presented to the 
Canadian Government. 
Considerable anxiety has been felt lately over the fate 
of numerous hunting and fishing parties who encamped 
in the forests or by the lakes of the territory recently 
ravaged by forest fires in Minnesota. In most cases, how- 
ever, it appears that these parties escaped the fires with- 
out any loss more serious than that of their camp equip- 
age, though in several instances they were obliged to take 
refuge in lakes and swamps until after the fire passed 
over, and were subjected to great suffering and incon- 
venience in reaching home. It is hoped that no lives 
were lost in any of these parties. 
Gov. Hogg of Texas has given out a declaration : ' ' Since 
the war I have always been,- am now, and shall continue to 
be for the indissoluble Union, the Stars and Stripes, law 
and order, the preservation of local self-government and 
public and private integrity. " We trust that the governor 
believes in game protection, too. It should be noted that 
having killed a deer out of season in Nacogdoches county, 
he has settled for it like a man by paying over his fine. 
The death of William Mitchell, the veteran rod maker 
of this city, removes from the fishing tackle trade a figure 
long familiar. Mr. Mitchell was rarely entertaining with 
his reminiscences of Dr. Bethune and others of the old 
school, for whom in his prime he made rods, and with 
whom he talked fishing. He was highly respected by 
friends and business associates for his integrity and high 
character. 
When you encounter a leopard, aim to shoot him on 
the spot, 
