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[jAN.rSO, 1897. 
canoe wlien within iSyds. of the rapids, at 8 o'clock in the 
evening. "We could have killed another, but the midges 
were plentiful and we concluded to quit. On our way to 
the barge the Princess aaid to me: 'It you had been with me 
all the time we would have made a much larger score (about 
thirty fish), and if I come again you must promise to go with 
me.' I then told her that the pool had no name, and a'ked 
her nermission to name it the Princess Louise Pool, and so 
it was named. I must say that few anglers could handle a 
fish with Her Highness. She used a heavy English 18ft. 
rod, and her strong right arm (after the fish had made his 
second run) would lift his head clear of the water." 
New men may come on the Canadian salmon rivers, but 
no one will ever entirely fill the place of the genial, kindly, 
loyal, unselfish, simple Scotchman, John Mowat, a pioneer 
salmon fisherman, who made friends to retain them always 
and who now mourn his loss. 
Landlocked Salmon of Europe. 
In a personal letter from Mr. Siegfried Jaffe, a noted Ger- 
man fish breeder, he tells me something of the European 
landlocked salmon, a fish that I have heard credited with 
many good qualities not possessed by our own landlocked 
salmon, until 1 once regarded it as something to be desu-ed, 
like the Philosopher's Stone, and perhaps with as many myth- 
ical qualities. Anyway, Mr. Jaffe wishes very much to try 
the ouananiche in German waters, and describes one of his 
lakes and says : "The lake seems to be so appropriate for 
stocking with your landlocked salmon that 1 will defer stock- 
ing it with other salrnonidm for another year, hoping in the 
meantime to obtain some eggs from America. I have tried 
our own landlocked salmon {Salmo huelio) hei'e twice. They 
are from the Danube and never go to sea, but somehow deep, 
quiet water does not seem to do for them, though it does well 
in the long, deep reaches of the Bavarian rivers If at any 
tirne you care to try the Salvi-o Jiudio. and will tell me, I will 
be glad to send you a cons'ignment. They are not adapted for 
feeding the fry artificially. The hudio salmon is a nearly 
white meated fish, very good eating, but not a sporting 
fish." 
I had to read that over two or three times, and then put 
my reading glass on the letter to make sure I read aright. 
Not a sporting fish! Well, our landlocked salmon is a sport- 
ing fish from the day it is born until its death. To continue 
from the letter : ' 'The reason why I should like to try ouanan- 
iche audi jpurpuralus [the redthroat trout] over here is that I 
have been so well pleased with the results the other kinds of 
American salmonidos, have given me, that I think they will do 
well too The rainbow and fontmalis do very well here, and 
it may interest you to have the remarks concerning them 
which I have put on the inclosed sheet. 
"The quinnat (Pacific salmon) is still in its first season with 
me here, but continues to do well. The fish in the yearling 
breeding ponds are now 6 to Tin. long. I have had reports, 
inclosed, showing that some I gave away for Bavarian small 
highland lakes have grown to 8in. fish. 
"The prejudice against the quinnat is still great over here, 
caused no doubt from the results of the first consignment 
made by your Fish Commission to Europe in the 70s. 
They turned out unsatisfactorily, that is to say, the fish when 
they arrived at breeding age were subject to very bad fungus 
and peeled skin and scales easily, but I have no doubt this 
was owing to wrong treatment. The quinnat, which with us 
in the firtt season took on silvery scales that came off easily, 
is a very early ripening fish, and we must be prepared to 
give it large range early in the second j'^ear. 
"We tried last year some experiments with Swiss char 
(from lake of Zug). The fish does not exceed l^lbs. in its 
native waters. The fry did not do as wtll SLsfontijialis, but 
there was a good proportion of yearlings, although they did 
not feed as greedily as fontinalis, and 1 would consider the 
fish, a doubtful acquibition; ova very small, smaller than 
from two-year-old fontinalis. I have also, after infinite 
trouble, obtained this year a small consignment of Russian 
char, a very big lake trout running up to 381ba. in its native 
waters. The eggs are taken the end of August and they are 
fully hatched by now (the letter is dated Jan. 1). The ova 
is unusually large, larger than salmon ova {Salar) and nearly 
as big as from the quinnats, and the fry are beautifully 
strong. I will report on this fish, of which I have great 
hopes, as the season goes on." At another time [ will give 
the notes on our rainbow and brook trout in Germany. 
A Cinch. 
There are some things done better in JSTew Hampshire than 
in other States For example, when Fish and Game Com- 
missioner Wenlworth was elected 1o the New Hampshire 
Senate he was made chairman of the Senate committee on 
fish and game; and when at the same election Commissioner 
Hughes, his colleas^ue on the Commission, was elected to the 
Assembly, he was made chairman of tlie Assembly commit- 
tee on fish and game. If they do not have some good tish 
and game legislation in New Hampshire this winter it will 
be no fault of the chairmen of the two committees. 
A. N. Cheney, 
"Angling Talks." 
We have a very few copies of George Dawson's "Angling Talks," a 
series of chapters of entertaiDing chat about men, fishermen, flsh, 
fishing and fishing places. Cloth, 50 cents. Forest and Stream Pub- 
lishing Co. 
F I XT U R E S . 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Feb. 1.— Indianapolis.— Hoosier Kennel Club. 
Feb. 1-5.— Boston - New Englaud Kennel Club. 
Feb. y^- 5. - New York. Westminster Kennel Club. 
March 3-6. St. Louis. —Sc. Louis Kenuf 1 Club 
March 10-13.- Chicago Mascoutah Kennel Oiub. 
March 17-^0.- Louisville —Kentucky Kennel Club. 
March •-i-I'l.- Pittsburg.— Duquesne Kennel Club. 
March 30-April i:.— Baltimore.— Baltimore Kennel Asscciation. 
April 7-15. Stockton.— Siockion Kennel Club. 
April l'-]7.-Loa Angeles.- Southern California Kennel Club. 
Champion Stakes at West Point. 
West Point, Miss., Jan. 'i^.— Special to Forest and 
Stream: Five have qualified to start in the Champion Stakes: 
Delhi, Marie's Sport, Minnie T., Harold Skimpole ami Tony 
Boy. The weather is extremely cold and stormy. The 
stake was declared off to-day, the money to be divided pro 
rata among the starters after deducting the expenses. 
B, Waters. 
United States Field Trials. 
The results arrived at in the Pointer Derby, the Setter 
Derby and the All-Age pointer stakes are given below : 
Pointer Derby. 
Starters: T. W. O'Byrnes's dog Redskin, (J. S. Shoop's 
bitch Aloysia, H. H. Mayberry's bitch Alabama Girl, Del 
Monte Kennels' dog Tony Works, George H. Smith's bitch 
Diana, T W O'Byrnes's dog Moerlein, J. S. Crane's bitch 
Pireflv, H. S. Smith's bitch Ripple, Bar Harbor Kennels' 
dog Young Rip Rap, T. T. Ashford's bitch E'gine, Del 
Monte Kennels' dog Tick's Kid 
Winners: First, Young Rip Rap; spcord, Elgine; third. 
Ripple. 
Setter Derby. 
Starters: P. M. Essig's bitch Saragossa Belle, W. R. Hol- 
liday's dog Billy T., J. P. Greene's dog Sarsfield, Charlottes- 
ville Field Trial Kennels' bitch Pin Money; F. R. Hitchcock's 
dog Tory Rustic, Fox & BJythe's bitch Caroline, H. Ames's 
bitch Christina, "rheo. Godmin's Dog Dave Earl, Avent& 
Thayer's dog Peconic, C. P. Jones's dog Hurstbourne Zip. 
Winners: First, Pin Money; second, Christina; third, 
Dave Earl and Tory Rustic (divided). 
All-Age Pointer Stakes. 
Starters: Ashford & Adams's dog Von Gull, K. T. de 
Pauw's bitch Sister Sue, H. K. Devereux's bitch Virginia, 
Del Monte Kennels' dog Tick Boy, Bar Harbor Kennels' dog 
Young Rip Rap, F. W. Dunham's dog Elgin's Dash, Char- 
lottesville F. T. Kennels' dog Delhi, H. S. Smith's dog Rip- 
saw, Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' dog Tippoo, J. H. John- 
son's dog Crackerjack, Charlottesville F. T. Kennels' dog 
Nabob. 
Winners: First, Tippoo; second, Young Rip Rap; third, 
Elgin's Dash. 
The judges were: Dr. George Ubanks, of Birmingham, 
Ala , ai d Mr. J D. King, of Jackson, Tenn. The trials 
commenced on Jan 18. 
Challenge Class Prizes. 
New YoitK, Jan 23. — Editor Forest and Stream: A mer- 
chant does not expect to increase his business by lessening 
the inducement to visit his store. This, however, is just 
what many of the dog shows this year are doing. Owing, I 
presume, to the slim entries in th.e challenge classes last year, 
they have offered only one prize therein for each sex. (I am 
only alluding to setters, having no interest in any other 
breeds.) 
How many entries would they get if there were one first 
prize instead of first, second, third and fourth offered for. 
open class dogs? And what do they get in the open classes 
even with the inducement of four prizes? Certainly not 
many entries, and those of a quality not comparable to the 
challenge dogs. For there are very few fine dogs ' 'coming 
on," sad as it makes me to acknowledge it. 'Themostof 
them have already won their way into the challenge ranks, 
which now actually outnumber, in good dogs, the open 
classes. 
Now I take it that the mission and object of dog shows is, 
or ought to be, to draw out quality as well as numbers. And 
especially is this true of the large shows, such as New York's, 
Boston's, etc. They can afford to and should set the pace 
for the smaller exhibitions. Both numbers and quality are 
to be found in the challenge setter ranks. Offer four grades 
of challenge prizes and the good dogs there will come out. 
Let them adhere to one first prize, and the exhibitions in the 
challenge classes are likely to be the one dog that is usually 
the winner— such as champion Kildare in Irish setters. 
Many an owner of challenge setters, while conceding the su- 
periority of some particularly fine specimen, would exhibit 
his really fine animals because he expects to beat every other 
entry except this one. But I don't think you'll find many 
men pay $5 entry fee, and more for expenses, for the doubt- 
ful honor of having theu- dogs unnoticed. As they can't win 
the first prize (and don't expect to) and there is only one prize, 
they'll keep their dogs at home. Offer four prizes and give 
them a chance to win something in a class where it is an 
honor to win anything, and they will send them. I have a 
letter before me now, from another State, where an owner 
of two tine Irish setters in the challenge classes says he did 
not enter them in Boston and will not in New York because 
there is only one challenge prize and Kildare and Queen Vic 
will take it. And he acknowledges their superiority, too. 
If economy be necessary, drop the puppy classes. No pups 
not having had distemper ought to be allowed in shows^ for 
they merely spread disease and do no good to the breeds. 
Economize these, but increase the inducements to draw out 
the best dogs, which happen to be mostly in the challenge 
classes, and the quality as weU as numbers will be kept up. 
Reduce challenge prizes to one, and only mediocrity (after 
the acknowledged champions grow old) will be the result. 
The practical importance of the matter to all lovers of a good 
setter makes me earnest. Setter. 
Mascoutah Club Show. 
The premium list of the Mascoutah Kennel Club show, 
Chicago, March 10-13, has been issued. The judges 
will be: 
St. Bernards, mastiffs, bloodhounds, Newfoundlands, 
greyhounds, deerhounds, Russian wolfhounds, poodles, 
beagles, dachshunde, Dalmatians, whippets, Italian grey- 
hounds and miscellaneous, Mr. H. W. Lacy. 
Pointers, English, Irish and Gordon setters, foxhounds 
and Chesapeake Bay dogs. Major J. M. Taylor. 
Collies and Old English sheep dogs, Mr. Henry Jarrett. 
Great Danes, Dr. Nicolai. 
Fox, Boston, bull. Black and Tan, Irish, Scottish, Skye, 
Bedlington, Dandie Dinmont, Yorkshire and toy terriers, Mr, 
T. S. Bellin. 
Bull dogs, Mr. E. A Woodward. 
Pugs, Mr. A. E. Pitts. 
Cocker, Clumber, field, Irish water, Blenheim, King 
Charles, Prince Charles and Ruby, and Japanese spaniels, 
Mr. E. M. Oldham. 
Entries will close Feb. 20. There are, in addition to the 
regular premiums of $15, |10 and $5 in the larger classes, 
$10, $5 and $3 in others, and $5 and $3 in others; there 
are kennel prizes ranging from $25 to $10, and numerous 
specials. The list will be sent on request by Secretary J. L. 
Lincoln, Mascoutah Kennel Club, Chicago. 
The Gould Cup. 
West Poiht, Miss., Jan. 34— The absolute All-Age 
competition for Gould cup w!is awarded to Tippoo without 
competition, Tony Boy being sick. B Waters. 
National Beagle Club. 
A quarterly meeting of the National Beagle Club o; 
America was held in New York on Jan. 19. Members pres- 
ent were: H. F. Schellhass, J. W. Appleton, G. B. Post, 
Jr., A. W Post, G orge Laick, G. JVlilflin Wharton and 
George W. Regan. Voted that minutes be read at the ad 
journed meeting, subject to call of the chair. The executive 
committee than went into session with the above members 
present. 
It was voted that the field trial committee should be eX' 
cused. The secretary was instructed to secure ribbons foi 
the prize winners of 1896 field trials. Voted that a bronze 
medal be presented at the Mascoutah Kennel Club show iot 
the best beagle in the show. Open to members of the Na' 
tional Beagle Club of America only. It was requested thai 
the judges be selected from the club's official list of judges oi 
from members of the club. Three names were dropped foi 
non-payment of dues. Voted that th.e Futurity committee 
send out blanks for the 1898 Futurity., 
Pittsburg Show. 
Pittsburg, Jan. 24. — The DuqueFne Kennel Club is 
booming matters for the big Pittsburg Bench Show, which 
will take plaee March 24, 25, 26 and 27, in the Marshall 
building, Penn avenue. At the annual meeting last week- 
the following oflicers were elected: John M. Chaplin, Presi- 
dent; Dr. J. S. Phillips, Vice-President; W. E. Littell, 69 
Federal street, Allegheny, Secretary; W. R. Sewell, H. Al, 
Breckenridge, Bernard S. Home, .J O'H. Denny, Frank H. 
Denny, John M. Chaplin and Dr. J. S. Phillips, Board of 
Governors These make up the bench show committee. 
E, M, Oldham will superintend. The judges will bQ 
Major J. M. Taylor, C. H Mason and .James Mortimer. 
The entry list will close March 13. Secretary Littell will 
mail the premium list about Feb. 1. It will contain 163 
classes against 130 last year. The cash prizes ao^regate 
$500 more than last year. The specialty clubs offer an un- 
usually large number of special prizes. The show building 
this year will have superior ventilation, heating and lighting. 
The Pittsburg show follows Louisville and precedes Balti- 
more. Croiibie Allen. 
Ceding. 
Communications for thit department are requested. Anything on 
the bicycle in its relation to the sportsman is particularly desirable,- 
THE BEGINNER AWHEEL. 
Scene — A Ninth avenue expreps train on the Elevated road,. 
New York. Enter Mr. White, an old-time wheelman (num- 
ber 'leventy-'leven in the L. A. W.)) who takes a seat beside 
Mr. Brown, just graduated from the cycling academy. 
Grasps his hand warmly, and received but a feeble response. 
"Glad to see you, old man, but what makes you look so 
badly? You aren't Ul?" 
"No, it's all due to that confounded bike; I took a ridei 
yesterday." 
"So did I. Hope I don't look as if 1 had lost my best 
friend in the world." 
"You don't; you look as if you took life easily, and en. 
joyed it. That's where we differ. Life is a burden to me 
just now, and it's all due to that blamed wheel." 
"Got a suit for damages on your hands? Did you kill any- 
body yesterday?" 
"No, confound it. Wish I had I was mad enough to 
kill some of those blathering scorchers if they had given me 
the chance." 
"Never mind, you'll be scorching some of these days your- 
self. But tell me about it. It'll relieve your mind." 
"Well, you see, yesterday was a nice day, and I thought 
I'd take a ride out on the Boulevard and around Grant's 
Tomb. Knew it was Sunday, but never thought there'd be 
much of a crowd out at this time of year." 
"You thought it would be a good chance to get a little 
whack at the real thing, eh? Unlearn a few of your riding 
school lessons?" 
"Yes, but I was hardly prepared for what happened. Be- 
fore I'd gone a block I fancied something was wrong with, 
the adjustment — wheel seemed to kind of drag, you know — 
and when I got off a gi-eat big rufiian with a loud, glaring 
sweater ran square into me from behind." 
"Stopped in the middle of the street, did you?" 
"Yes, I guess I had as much right to the street as anybody 
—that tough was from the Bowery. His talk was an inar-' 
ticulate jumble of slang and chopped-off words. He said, 
'What fell' and 't'row' for throw, and 'eart' ' for earth, and 
wanted to fight me." 
"What did you do?" 
"Oh, I tried for a while to argue with him. Told him 
that he'd been guilty of criminal negligence in scorching 
with his nose down to his front wheel in a position that ren- 
dered it impossible for him to see what was ahead of him, 
Of course, as I had no eyes in the back of my head I didn't 
as a matter of fact see what his position was; but then, you 
know, I argued that he wouldn't have run into me if he had 
been looking." 
"You stopped rather suddenly, didn't you?" 
"Yes, but he had the whole width of the street to turii 
out in; yet the fellow had the impudence to say that I wad 
responsible for his bloody nose, and that I had deliberately 
thrown myself in his way — just as if I would do such a 
thing for the sake of being run into, and lamed so that \ 
haven't been able to sit comfortably in my saddle since." 
"What was the upshot of the affair?'' 
"A big crowd collected, and some of the people suggested 
that we fight it out and indulged in various witticisms atJ 
my expense. One man said that I had made a good begin- 
ning and had drawn first blood. Another said I should 
claim a foul, as I had been hit below the belt. Then a police- 
man came sauntering along, and the beastly rufiian that had] 
made all the trouble got on his wheel and scorched down the 
Boulevard, and as I'd only been awaiting an opportunity tc 
get rid of his nasty personalities, I left too, going up th.« 
Boulevard. 
"I'd lost all pleasure in my ride, and would have gone home 
if it hadn't been that the fellow who ran into me went thai 
way, and I had no desire to encounter him again." 
"Hard lines, old man. I hope that was the end of youl 
difficulties." 
"Not by any means. What between thinking of crushini 
things I might have said to that Bowery thug if I'd on); 
thought of them at the time, and wishing I hadn't come ou 
— and 1 tell you Sunday is no day for a gentleman to rid'i 
there's sure to be a crowd— I didn't watch very well wher 
