yoti, a little, slim, skinny duffer who weighed about 1251bs. 
cleaned up 'Awful' Gardinfer. That is a story that is of 
historical and ethnological interest, and — " 
"t'rank, will you please keep still ?" I asked. "You are 
wrong in saying that I would prefer to hear about the fight. 
Let Murphy go on about the building of the rod and I will 
assume that the big prize-fighter was drunk and assaulted the 
little man, and came to grief; not an unusual case, but the 
first split-bamboo rod is a thing that is made but once." 
And so T heard the story. 
When the heat and glare of the June day had passed we 
invited Murphy to fish with us. We found the boat all right, 
and John dead drunk in it. We pulled the t>oat ashore, broad 
side, dumped John out, and proceeded to fish As we fished 
1 told the story of how Frank EndicOtl's boatman, on Green- 
Wood Lake, got drunk and tried to bail out the perforated 
bait can whibh hung outside the boat so that he could find a 
minnow; and Murphy declared that John was the man, for 
he was there with Endicott.and Harry Pritchnrd at ttie time. 
We took turns rowing that afternoon, and had fair fishing, 
but we all rebelled in unison against having John as a boat- 
man any longer. Then it turned out that John was a rela- 
tive of Bill's, or he owned the boat, and we must employ 
him or nobody. No outsider could be hired to row the boats 
at this hotel. Here was a labor trust which confronted the 
capitalists. We held a council of war and decided to row 
our own boat — we were paying for the boat, and would not 
have. John as a gift. The fact was that the boatman had 
little to do; we drifted and cast, or anchored and cast, and 
•when we had to row, the distance was short. This stroke 
made us independent, and we had beaten Bill at every extor- 
tionate point, so far, and we rejoiced thereat. That night, 
on the piazza, we three cussed and discussed Bill and his 
wife's brother John, the cook, chambermaid, and all the ap- 
purtenances of the "hotel" to our complete satisfaction. 
Bill was simply a brute who looked upon a guest as a hyena 
looks upon a bone; we all agreed to that, and more, we felt 
relief in having a common opinion. 
So far it was well, but it has been said that he who laughs 
last laughs best, and it was at our final settlement where Bill's 
laugh came in. His bill was: 
5 (iays' board ior two @. $2,50 each. $25.00 
5 days' services of boatman , 10.00 
5 days' use of boat 2 f 0 
200 helgramites ® 2 cents 4.00 
50 minnows @. 3 cents,. , 1.50 
40 frogs ® 5 cents 2.00 
Total $45.00 
T^'rank read the items and then said : "How about all this 
bait? We couldn't have used that amount, not by a long 
shot. That's out of the question." 
"But you took them." said Bill; "John counted 'em all in 
before you started, didn't you, John?" 
John nodded assent and Frank asked what I thought of 
the matter. My idea was to paj" for the amount of bait that 
we had used, as we had not ordered the extravagant amount 
put up. We then had John count out what was left and 
found that we had used fifteen helgramites, ten minnows and 
four frogs. These we paid for, and Frank said : 
"It is lucky that Bill did not see the contents of your fly- 
book or he would have charged us for them; let us laugh 
now." 
Franklin Satterthwaite was a genial sportsman, well posted 
on matters relating to the gun and the kennel. He died at 
his home in Newark, in 1888, at the age of forty -six. 
Fked Mathbr, 
IN THE ADIRONDACKS. 
Nbw York June 23. — Editoi' Forest cmU Stream: A party 
consisting of Messrs. Yale, Nelson, Brooks and Redner went 
fishing to the Adirondacks last week. We took the train at 
the Grand Central Depot, and went to Port Henry on Lake 
Ghamplain via the D & H. R. R. A drive of thirty five 
miles over a fairly good road brought us to the Boreas River, 
where we put up at the Sand Pond Hotel, which is run by 
one of the oldest pioneer loggers in the mountains- — a man 
who remembers when the woods were filled with wolves and 
"painters," 
Arriving at the hotel, Mr. Nelson made a bee-line for the 
kitchen to try and huriy the dinner, as he was near starved, 
while Yale got out his fine trout tackle and began arranging 
his Stony Point flies, which he swears by, while I dug worms 
for the crowd. 
Finishing a dinner which we all relished after a six-hour 
drive througb the invigorating mountain air, we went down 
to Sand Pond and fished with varied success until evening. 
Just as the shade of night had drawn her sable mantle lightly 
over the mountain tops and kissed her finger-tips to the fast- 
fading sun, Yale, who was in the boat with me, suggested to 
try trolling. It was the work of a moment to change his fly 
leader for a small troll, and the trolling began, We rowed 
about half way around the pond, when Yale suddenly ex- 
claimed: "Hold on, John! I'm foul of a stump!" I brought 
the boat, which was scarcely moving, to a sudden stop. But 
Yale's reel still hummed like a buzz saw. 'Stop her, John!" 
he shouted, "my line is near run out and will soon part!" 
Just then the line slackened a litlle, and when Yale, who 
handled the reel equal to Ike Walton, tightened up the line; 
there was a ripple on the surface of the water for an instant, 
and then, great gunsl the biegest trout I ever saw broke 
water, and rising about 3ft., fell back with a splash equal 
to a porpoise. 
There was great excitement in our boat the next few min- 
utes. The fish sounded, and came to the surface like a black 
bass, trying to dislodge the hook ; again he sounded and again 
he ran, and Yale was with him all the time, 
I told Yale that I would like to see him get the fish up near 
the boat, and then lose it. "That would be too bad," said 
he, "I would not lose it for anything; why, he weighs 6 or 
7lb8." He worked adroitly with the fish for about forty 
minutes, and finally reeled it up close to the boat. I reached 
with the landing-net to take in the prize, but somehow the 
net struck against the hook, the leader parted, and away 
went our trout Yale looked at me in a I'll-throw-you over- 
board manner, and I feared for an instant that he would 
carry the looks into execution. But he broke into a hearty 
laugb, and simply said it was too bad. We rowed around 
the pond six times afterward, and did not get a single strike. 
Next morning Brooks and Nelson went to Wolf Pond, a 
small feeder about a mile from the hotel. They fished there 
a couple of hours, and caught forty trout; they then started 
for the house. When they came near the clearing. Nelson 
says that Brooks, who was walking ahead and humming his 
favorite song, suddenly exclaimed "I see my finish!" and 
dropping Jiie rod, and ftsih, started oa a 8;40gait toward a 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
house at the other edge of the clearing, shedding his coat and 
hat as he ran. , . _ 
A few minutes after Brooks reached the house, Nelson saw 
him, accompanied by the occupant of the house and a Win- 
chester, hurrying towards him. "What's the matter. 
Brooks?" asked Nelson when they came up to him, "Are 
you crazy?" "I'm all right," said Brooks, "there's motive 
in mv madness. I saw a bear, and want this man to shoot 
him." 
Nelson turned, and the trio started to bang the bear. 
When they had gone about 100yds. in the forest. Brooks 
pointed out the bear. The trained eyes of the man of tbe 
woods saw at a glance that Brooks' bear was nothing but a 
big black stump partly covered by a cedar bough. 
Yale and myself fisned down Clear Pond and caught fifty 
nice trout. In all we caught 363 trout; aggregate weight 
57ilbs. 
Next day we went to Mim Ville, where there is pretty 
good fishing. Nelson and 1 went down to Bartlelt Pond 
Stream to try our luck. We had fished down stream prob- 
ably a quarter-mile, when Nelson, who was some distance 
below me, commenced to yell like an Indian on the war- 
path. I hurried down to him, thinking he was cornered by 
one of Brooke's bears. But it was no bear ; it was a trout, 
and a beauty that t'pped the scales at 2ilb3, the biggest fish 
caught. The rain came down so heavily then that we were 
obliged to give up the sport. 
We then went back to look for Brooks and Yale, who we 
found in the Hotel de Hayes with a dozen natives. Each 
one told the best place to catch trout, and one wanted to sell 
some to Brooks, who indignantly refused to buy, saying that 
he always caught bis fish Of course we all have our pri- 
vate opinion about what Brooks would do if he chanced to 
meet a lone fisherman with a nice string of fish. Novice. 
Smelt and Trout. 
Chicago, June 14. — Editor Forest and Stream: I have 
read with much pleasure an article in the June 5 number of 
the Forest and Stream, entitled, "Are Smelt a menace?" 
by Bain bridge Bishop, and I think that the sooner these ideas 
are carried out the trout and landlocked salmon fishing will 
be much better. I agree with Mr. Bishop, that the large 
smelt are scavengers, and that they are a menace to small 
trout. 
1 have just returned from a trip to Swan Lake, near Bel- 
fast, Me., which is a natural trout pond, and which has been 
slocked with landlocked salmon. This lake is only seven 
miles from the sea coast, and smelts have run up the river 
and become landlocked. The smelts grow to a very large 
size, some even weighing a pound or more. I have fished in 
this lake every year (with one exception) for the past seven 
years, and the fishing seems to get poorer every year. There 
have been large quantities of young trout and quite a lot of 
landlocked salmon put in during the past five or six years, 
and the fishing ought certainly to grow better. I can't ac- 
count for it in any other way except that the smelt eat up 
the young trout. 
Mr. Fred H. Francis, of Belfast, Me., who is a close ob- 
server, and one of the best known fishermen in that part of 
the State, fully believes in this theory. He is a firm believer 
in the pond, and thinks that it would make one of the best 
trout ponds in the State if all the large smelt were taken out 
every sea'fon when they run up the brooks to spawn. 
I think that the State Fish Commission are not tdive to 
this fact, and that the sooner they realize and remedy it the 
sooner their expectations of good fishing will be a fact. 
J. A. Gamma^'S. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I was on the point of writing you to defend the fresh- 
water smelt against the imaginary fears of Mr. Bainbridge 
Bishop, when I read Commissioner Stanley's letter, and it 
only needs to be said that I fully indorse it. The only ob- 
jection to the smelt is, that they furnish so much food for 
the trout and salmon that the angler does not find it so easy 
to lure them with live bait, but when the trout are in search 
of flies, I do not think the smelt are any obstacle. 
The heavy rains and long continued cold weather made early 
fishing in most of the New England waters poor, but I hear 
it is picking up very well lately, though June has been very 
cool so far. The weather records in Boston yesterday 
showed the thermometer 20° lower for the day than it was 
on June 21 last year. The result of so much rain is that all 
our brooks are much fuller than they have been for years, 
and the prospect is encouraging for a good supply of trout 
next J ear. 
One word more about the smelt. Besides the Maine waters 
mentioned by Mr. Stanley, they are also indigenous in Lake 
Winnepesauke, and from them they were obtained to stock 
our other New Hampshire lakes, and it is a noted fact that 
the winninish, fed on them, grow much larger than thty do 
in Grand Lake stream, where smelt did not exist, and from 
which we got our parent stock. The same difference is also 
noticeable in Sebago Lake, where the smelt were aboriginal. 
I was very glad to see Mr. Cheney's illustrations of the 
diilerence between pike, pickerel and muscalonge, and hope 
to see them called by the right name some day, as well as 
the pike perch, who now figures as a wall eyed pike and a 
jack salmon. Why not take the French name, and call him 
a Sandre. Von W. 
Chaklkston, N. H. 
American Fisheries Societj-. 
At the Detroit meeting of the American Fisheries Society 
a resolution was adopted authorising the chairman to appoint 
one representative member of the Society in each State bor- 
dering on the Great Lakes, to form a commission to bring 
about, if possible, the enactment of uniform fishing laws in 
all the lake States. 
Omaha was selected for the next meeting, which will be 
held in July, 1898. The following ofiicers were elected: 
President, W. L. May, Nebraska; Vice-President, George F. 
Peabody, Wisconsin; Recording Secretary. Herschel Whit- 
taker, Michigan; Corresponding Secretary, J. E. Gunckel, 
Ohio; Treasurer, L 1) Huntingdon, New York. Executive 
Committee: James A. Dile, Pennsylvania; E. E. Bryant. 
Wisconsin; A. N Cheney, New York; J. W, Titcomb, Ver- 
mont; J. L. Penton, Michigan; F. N, Clark, Michigan; Pro- 
fessor S. A Forbes, Illinois, 
A Fisbcultural Opportunity. 
We invite notice to the card signed "Fishcultufist" in our 
advertising columns. The advertiser is known to us to be a 
fishculturist of rare accomplishments, thoroughly competent 
to fill any position in connection with the work. 
[JtiLY 3, 1887. 
"That reminds me." 
Asbury Park's Champion. 
AsBURT Park, N. J. — Perhaps there are no more cosmo- 
politan people on earth than the angling fraternity. Occa- 
sionally a boor is found among them, but it is a most rare 
occurrence; and then it is not the real Simon Pure angler 
such as work hard at desk or profession all day, and haunt 
the rivers and bays at night, giving up their needed rest for 
the sport they love so well; but rather the man who has an 
abundance of leisure, and who uses fishing as a time killer. 
A visit to our piers at evening or early morning now is full 
of interest. The regulars are nearly all here, and making 
good use of their time. The relaxation from business cares 
puts all hands in great good humor, and woe betide the 
angler who catches a worthless specimen, misses a strike, or 
fouls his cast; he at once becomes the butt of an endless run 
of good-natured badinage until he redeems himself by some 
exploit, or passes the cigars. One evening recently an indi- 
vidual, lanky in form and laconic in speech, a stranger to all 
of us, was lounging lazily upon one of the benches, spinning 
yarns of wondrous catches in Southern waters, when some 
one ventured the remark that they must have been "whales." 
Quick came the rejoinder in most contemptuous tones, 
"Humph! we were baitin' with whales." In recognition of 
his talents the boys have posted the following placard on the 
pier: "Ananias Jonah, champion fish liar of the world, is 
now with us, and tbe old gang is not in it." 
Leonard Hdlit. 
he Mmiwl 
FIXTURES. 
FIELD TRIALS. 
Sept. 1-— Continental Field Trials Club'.s chicken trials, Morris, Man.- 
Sept. 6. Manitoba Field Trials Club, Jlorris, Man, 
Sept. —.—Northwestern Field Trial Club's Champion Stake, Morris, 
Man. 
Oct. 25.— Brunswick Fur Clnb's ninth annual trials. 
Nov. 1.— Dixie Red Fox Club's third annual meet. Waverly, Miss. 
Nov. 1.— New England Beagle Club's trials, Oxford, Mass. 
Nov. 2.— Monongahels Valley Game and Fish i"rotective Associ. 
ation's trials, Greene county. Pa. 
Nov. 8.— Union Field Trials Club's trial.s, Carlisle, Ind. 
Nov. 9,— Central Beagle Club's trials, Sharpsburg, Pa, 
Nov. 15,— E F, T. Club's trials, Newton, N. C. 
Nov. 16.— International Field Trials Club's eighth annual trials, 
Chatham, Out, 
Nov. 22.— U. S F. T. Club's autumn trials. 
1898. 
Jan. 10.— U. S. F. T Club's winter trials. West Point, Miss. 
Jan. 17.— Continental F. T. Club's trials. New Albany, Miss. 
AS TO THE JUDGES. 
On the part of a few pointer men there seems to be an un- 
dercurrent of dissatisfaction with most of the judges who 
have been engaged to officiate at tbe trials of this year, 
added to which is a feeling of resentment as expressed by 
unfriendly words and the withholding available support 
which would otherwise be given. The ground of complaint 
of the men aforesaid is that the judges are all pronounced 
setter men, and that they therefore are prejudiced, uncon- 
sciously prejudiced, against the pointers, and that they have 
prejudgments in favor of the setter. More specifically, last 
year some of the competing pointers suffered injustice, unin- 
tentional injustice, at the hands of the judges, as shown by 
the fact that some of the owners of some of the defeated 
pointers disapproved of the judges' decisions, and were sus- 
tained in their opinions thereon by the opinions of a handler 
or some handlers. Incidentally, it may be mentioned 
that there is no grievance relative to any competition 
in which the pointers were winners though the judges 
were the same so-called setter men. A win under 
those judges was valued and made much of, notwith- 
standing iheir unfortunate failing of having opinions 
ofRtheir own. The pointers made an excellent showing in 
the competition and records of the past year, and it is safe 
to pre.-ume that the judges in that relation tvere wise, im- 
partial, accomplished, learned and fit for the high trust re- 
posed in them; their unfitness begins with good dogs, be- 
loved of their owners and nevertheless losers. Still the defect 
of a dog and a grieved human heart are often coincident, for 
which the judge is often considered responsible. The ineffi- 
ciency of the dog and the prejudice of the owner are rarely 
considered. Where there are winners there must be losers, 
and there are good and bad of both. The worst bad loser is 
he whose grievance is founded on hearsay, the sympathy of 
of a friend or two, disappointed hopes and unalterable pre- 
disposition in favor of his own wares, whether the same be 
valuable or worthless. The hopelessly wrong kicker is bad 
enough at best, but it is deplorable when he gives expression 
to his disapproval by malicious words and acts 
Let us consider the absurdity of the position of the few 
pointer men who disapprove of the setter men, so called, and 
the setter judges, so called. They refuse to participate in the 
trials because they do not like the judges, alleging that they 
favor the setters. Furthermore, tor the same reason, they 
will exert themselves to keep others from entering. At the 
outset, it may safely be laid down as a fact that such men 
are much more valuable when absent in every way from the 
trials than when present. Their few dollars of entry fees 
are trifling in the way of good when compared with their 
surly nature and malicious acts when they do not receive 
what they consider adtquate return for the money in- 
vested 
But returning to setter men and setter judges, so-called. 
The records show that the pointers were not discriminated 
against All the best judges consider the work, not the dog. To 
tiie j udge it is immaterial what the breed of the dog is, whether 
he be pointer or setter. The pointer gets his deserts, not be- 
cause h3 is a pointer, but because he is a competitor; the 
same with setters. It is absurd to allege that men of the ex- 
perience, broadness of view and scrupulous honesty of the 
best judges should be swayed by the relatively puerile issue 
as to whether a pointer did the best work because he was a 
pointer, or a setter did the best work because he was a setter. 
There is a juvenility about the grievance in question which 
makes it unworthy to be cherished by grown men. 
And yet it is an old, old stoiy, this stealthy, insidious en- 
mity of the setter man to the pointer's interests. Under the 
circumstances, it would seem to be fitting that the pointer 
men would do something specially for themselves. The 
