Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1894. 
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FEEDING THE MULTITUDE. 
Rev. Dr. J. McGluskey Blayney, of Frankfort, Ky., 
has recently accomplished a fishing performance whieh is 
worthy of chronicle. Ln the Trout Lake waters of Wiscon- 
sin he took 238 large-mouth black bass weighing 336 
pounds, in a single day. Reckoning the working day at 
ten hours, the take would mean twenty-three fish per 
hour, or one every two and a half minutes. Such a 
score gives evidence of the abounding fertility of the 
waters, and testifies to the good luck of the fisherman 
and not less to his assiduity, muscle and staying power. 
The Doctor made a big score, one not easily to be surpassed 
by the every-day fisherman. 
To rate the incident merely as a scoring of so many 
fish taken in so few hours would be, however, to make 
but low and vulgar account of a performance that is in 
itself not particularly creditable, but which might yet be 
dignified if done for a worthy purpose. To yank out a 
boat load of 238 bas3 in a day is of course a feat of which 
in itself neither Dr. Blayney nor any other right-thinking 
angler would be particularly proud. For one thing, and 
looking at it merely from the standpoint of getting 
amusement out of the fishing, such a snaking out of a 
mess of fish means a waste of raw material which prop- 
erly utilized might afford a lot of fun. If those 238 bass, 
which were hustled from water to boat in ten hours, had 
been taken as an angler who was fishing for the fun of 
the thing would have taken them, they would have fur- 
nished entertainment for rod and reel for many a day. 
Dr. Blayney we assume is an angler who would prefer to 
fish in such a manner as to derive the most satisfaction 
from the pursuit; and the very fact that he was content 
to deprive himself of so much of the genuine pleasure as 
he might have enjoyed in the time at his disposal, and 
instead of angling took to yanking, should be taken as 
indicating that he had in view something other than the 
mere fun of fishing. While no record is given of the dis- 
position of those 238 fish, it goes without saying that they 
were taken for some good purpose. 
The catch was made in an unnamed lake in the Wiscon- 
sin forests, some twenty miles from the Trout Lake Hotel; 
and as fish are reported plentiful in the immediate vicin- 
ity of the house, we are not to assume that the guest 
from Kentucky had been employed by the steward to fish 
for the hotel table. Indeed had this been the case, the 
Doctor would have felt slight satisfaction in the feat; it 
would have been classed among those things which, as 
the French say, may be fitting to be done but are not 
fitting to be boasted of. Rather are we to understand 
that to the Doctor's ready ear had come some tale of 
destitution — of forest fire victims, it may have been — who 
were sorely in straits for food; and he was prompted to 
go fishing that he might provide for the alleviation of 
their distress. If thus the Reverend Doctor was follow- 
ing the example of the Master whose minister he is, we 
may be assured that no one of those 238 bass taken in the 
depths of the forest was wasted. For on the memorable 
occasion of the miraculous provision of the loaves and 
the fishes, it was commanded, after all had eaten, to 
gather up the fragments that remained, that nothing 
might be lost. If a like careful using of the bounties of 
nature was enjoined by Dr. Blayney upon those who fed 
of the fishes he had provided, that fact must have height- 
ened the satisfaction he indulged for having made a catch 
of bass so extrordinary to meet an emergency so unusual. 
Every angler, even when he fishes for sweet charity, 
likes to feel that none of his fish are wasted; and no one, 
who fishes with interest loftier than mere stupid count, 
would care to catch 238 bass in ten hours with an appre- 
hension that they might be left to decay. 
It is not every day that an angler finds occasion to fish 
for the relief of the destitute. We congratulate Dr. 
Blayney that to him on his summer vacation such an op- 
portunity was given, and that he improved it so well. 
His deed stands out as pure gold, in noble and worthy 
contrast with the base metal of count fishing. For there 
are fishermen, we regret to say, who finding the oppor- 
tunity would catch 336 pounds of black bass in a day with 
never a thought of what was to become of the fish, and 
with not a shadow of concern as to whether or not the 
catch was made for any good purpose. Such wanton 
killers know neither the pleasures of angling nor the sat- 
isfaction of charitable deeds. 
OF FOUR THINGS BEWARE. 
Tragedy treads close upon the heel of mirth. We set 
out on pleasure, and it is like to end in sorrow. Of four 
things beware — a loaded gun, an unloaded gun, a catboat 
and a pretty face. 
The story, which a Chicago shooter tells in our game 
columns to-day of his bursted gun on a North Dakota 
ducking water, came perilously near being a story of 
fatality to have been told by some other than himself. 
In an interior village of this State, one day last week, a 
son returning from a shooting excursion, came into the 
house with game and gun. The father picked up the gun, 
thinking it to be unloaded, pointed it at the mother, said 
in fun, "Suppose I should shoot you;" pulled the trigger 
for a joke; and shot her dead. 
Last Sunday four young men of Staten Island set out 
in a catboat for a day's sail on the New York Bay. The 
craft foundered in a gale, and only one of the four was 
left to tell the story of joy turned into mourning. 
In this city the other day Secret Service detectives took 
into custody a fugitive from justice, for whom they had 
been looking for twelve years. A trusted employe of the 
Government, holding a responsible position in Washing- 
ton, this man once joined a party of congenial spirits for 
a shooting trip to the West; there they stopped at a farm 
house; he became infatuated with the daughter; took her 
to Washington; embezzled public funds to meet her 
extravagant demands; and became a fugitive, his life 
miserably wrecked from the time of that shooting trip 
West. 
And yet four of the most harmless things in all the 
world are a loaded gun, an unloaded gun, a catboat and 
a pretty face. 
THE ADIRONDACK FORESTS. 
New York will vote next month on the adoption of a 
proposed new constitution. One of the new provisions 
relates to the forest preserve and reads: 
The lands of the State now owned or hereafter acquired, consti- 
tuting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept 
as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or 
be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber 
thereon be sold, removed, or destroyed. 
This is not an ideal disposition of the public forestry 
question; but it is perhaps the wisest one under existing 
circumstances. The woodlands of the State, like the 
woodlands owned by individuals, are properly a source 
of revenue. Rightly exploited wild forest lands would, 
yield an income year after year in perpetuity, and with- 
out impairment of the capital. Such scientific systematic 
forestry obtains in most of the government preserves of 
Europe; and it might be established in this country, if it 
could ever be conducted as a public service and not as 
new form of private jobbery. As a matter of fact no 
subject of legislation at Albany in recent years has been 
more perplexing for an honest man to deal with than 
that of the disposition of the State forest lands. No 
projects ostensibly in the public interest have con- 
cealed so many niggers in the woodpile; there 
have been few other subjects of legislation in 
which the advocates of what they considered the 
public advantage were so liable to find themselves being 
used as tools to further the schemes of designing specu- 
lators and land grabbers. The ideal solution of the New 
York forestry problem would be found in a scientific and. 
honest administration of the wild lands. If we may not 
have this the disposition embodied in the new section of 
the constitution should be adopted. It will at least save 
what is left of the woods. At some other day short of 
the lion and lamb age, it may be possible for a great 
State like New York to reap the advantages of this natural 
reserve in a more reasonable manner, for the public good, 
free from the plunderings of Adirondack forestry schemers B 
THE ^WALTON MEMORIAL. 
The projected London memorial of Izaak Walton will 
consist of a stained glass window in the church of St. 
Dunstan's in the West; and the cost is estimated at $500 . 
St. Dunstan's was selected as an appropriate place for the 
memorial inasmuch as Walton was long a vestryman of 
the church, and filled several other offices in the parish. 
The church registers too record the death of seven of his 
children, his first wife and her mother. The circular which 
Mr. R. B. Marston sends us further points out the fact 
that by reason of his "Lives" of eminent Divines, Walton 
is closely identified with the church. It was too, as every 
reader of Walton will remember, in "S. Dunstans Church- 
yard Fleetstreet" that in 1653 hung the sign of Rich. Mar- 
riot, who then and there made a ' lasting name for him- 
self in the annals of literature by giving his imprint to 
the first edition of the "Angler." The shrine for the 
memorial has been happily chosen; we doubt not that the 
window itself will be quite as appropriate in character. 
American anglers are invited to contribute to the fund 
now raising for the purpose; and it is to be hoped that the 
United States may not be without such a representation, 
for our British cousins surely may not claim exclusively 
to hold the regard which nineteenth century anglers feel 
toward their prototype of the seventeenth. Indeed why 
should not we ourselves have some tangible memorial of 
Walton on this side of the water ? There must be Wal- 
tonians in America quite willing to provide something of 
the sort if it were projected to meet their approval. The 
parks in our cities give room to monuments to many a 
subject less deserving than the fishing vestryman of St. 
Dunstan's. 
One of these days, when times shall have mended, and 
returned prosperity shall have made the occasion auspi- 
cious, such an American memorial enterprise may suc- 
cessfully be undertaken. 
RUM AND REINDEER, 
It will be recalled that a most interesting experiment 
n stocking a country with wild game for a food supply is 
now in progress in Alaska, where a herd of imported 
reindeer has been put out and protected. Reports were 
received last week, saying that the deer have now firmly 
established themselves, and are multiplying at a rate 
which gives promise of the complete success of the far- 
sighted enterprise. Large numbers of the new-comers, 
unused to the natural phenomena of precipices, have 
manifested an unexpected degree of cervine stupidity by 
incontinently leaping over the cliffs to destruction, but 
the species is gradually becoming wonted to the novel 
surroundings, and the Alaskan reindeer herds individually 
and collectively may be reckoned as on a sure footing. 
Coincidently with this philanthropic provision of ven- 
ison for his empty stomach, the Eskimo is receiving from 
his white brothers an inordinate stock of fire-water to 
make him cr^zy and kill him. Alaskan whisky traders 
are driving a brisk industry in "rot-gut" whisky and 
doctored rum. The liquid agencies which have killed off 
such multitudes of Indians in this country are working 
out the fate of the Eskimo there. In the face of such a 
condition the Alaskan reindeer scheme is but a paltry 
measure of relief to offset certain destruction. It is a 
race between reindeer and rum; and the odds are all with 
the rum. Of the result there can be no doubt. Where 
the deer will save one Eskimo, the rum will kill a dozen. 
THE MINNESOTA TEST CASES. 
The full text of the important Minnesota test cases is 
given on another page. Th,ey are worthy of careful 
study, for in them are set forth the sound principles of 
game protection; and the decisions themselves give the 
clinching to strong and well shapen laws. The findings 
of the court are in fullest and heartiest keeping with the 
spirit as well as the letter of the Minnesota statute; they 
sustain and make effective a scheme of game and fish pro- 
tection admirable in plan, detail and practical working. 
Of the Minnesota system we shall have more to say; it is 
well worth study. 
