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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[March S, 1898. 
for the appointment of a single commissioner of fish and 
fisheries at a fair salary; one who has a scientific and 
practical knowledge of fish and fisheries, and is fully com- 
petent to deal with the subject in all its bearings. Such 
a person would be materially able to augment the rev- 
enue of the State by an increased development and .a 
more abundant yield of the various fisheries. If thought 
best he might also have supervision of game birds and 
mammals, and see that the laAvs for their protection are 
enforced. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Chicago Fly-Casting Clafa. 
The Chicago Fly-Casting Club held its annual banquet 
Monday evening of this week, Feb. 14. A very pleasant 
time was enjoyed. The club will send representatives 
to the angling tournaments at Grand Rapids and San 
Francisco. The following officers were elected for the 
ensuing ytav: F. N. Feet, President; C. G. Ludlow, 
Vice-President; G. A. Murrell, Secretary-Treasurer; 
I. A. Bellows, Captain; B. W. Goodsall, Director for 
three years, and F. L. Crosby for one year. 
Colorado Trout. 
State Warden Swan, of Colorado, this week made a 
tri'^ to Twin Lakes, near Leadville, to look into the 
recent monstrous slaughter of trout, occasioned by the 
damming of the outlet of the lakes by a reservoir com- 
pany. The water in the outlet was drained, and the 
trout were left in heaps along what had once been a 
well-stocked stream. The State warden is disposed to 
prosecute the offenders to the limit of the law. 
Iowa Fish, 
State Warden George E. Delavan. of Towa, in his an- 
nual report points out that the sentiment in favor of 
protecting fish i^ growing in Iowa. I can remember 
when Iowa only appropriated $1,000 to the pay of the 
whole expenses" of the Fish Commission for two years. 
Mr. Delavan's last appropriation was $6,000 for two 
years. A bill has been introduced in the present session 
asking for $21,000 for the next, two years. This is more 
like it^ 
Anglers in Iowa have long had occasion to objurgate 
the memorv of the dam at Bonaparte on the Des Moines 
River. This dam Avas built by the State in 1850 and was 
sold to the parties wbo still own it. The latter agreed 
to keep it in repair for fifty years. They have kept it 
in good repair, so good that a fish cannot get over it, 
and no fishway has ever been put in. Thus the natural 
run of fish was cut off from thirtj^-one counties of this 
rich prairie State. The Iowa State Sportsmen's Associ- 
ation, with a petition of 15,000 names, asks the State Leg- 
islature to appropriate $30,000 for the purpose of buying 
and blowing up the Bonaparte dam. 
I notice tlie following interesting scores of ' large miis ■ 
callonge, speared this week in Chautaitaua Lake, N. Y. : 
Two of 3olbs., one of 361bs., one of 3ilbs., one of 37lbs., 
three of i81bs, one of gibs, and one of iilbs. Muscal- 
longe steaks retail there at 24 cents a pound, and the 
average p-ross price is 15 cents a pound. 
I notice also the following matter-of-fact • comment 
on the above takes, as mentioned by the Jamestown. 
N. Y., Journal: 
"Nearlv all of the large muscalonge which have been 
taken during the two days have been filled with eggs." 
We hold up a good many people here in Chicago, and 
we gold-brick a man from New York every once in a 
while. But we don't spear spawn-bearing museallonge 
in the spring. 
Protection for the Rock River, 
Chicago, 111.. Feb. 24. — The Winnebago County Fish 
and Gun Club has now been permanently organized for 
the purpose of protecting the Rock River, of Illmois. 
which has been the scene of many violations of the fish 
and game laws. The annual dues will be $1. The offi- 
cers are as below at this date: 
President— A. E. Savage. 
Vice-President— P. A. McPherson. 
Secretary and Treasurer — Charles S. Baldwin. 
Concessioners, 
On Feb. 12 another conference was held in this city 
between the State Fish Commission and the larger fish 
dealers of Chicago. The practical result is immunity for 
the fish dealers except in flagrant cases of the violation 
of the law. The trouble seems to be that we have some 
deputy fish wardens in this city who are making things 
too beastly hot to please the big dealers. The latter- 
claim tliat they cannot aft'ord to lose a barrel of fish 
because some shipper has allowed a few short-sized fish 
to get into the lot. The Fish Commission has tried to 
meet the market fishermen half way, and the latter have 
promised to do as much. This is the American way of 
enforcing the law. When I used to live out in^ a cow 
camp, we never knew any law except the Sheriff, and 
he always told us to behave about the way he thought 
was right. I suppose this is the way with the Fish Com- 
mission. E. Hough. 
1206 BoYCE Building, Cliicago. 
Frozen Fish Thawed Out. 
Editor Forest and Stream : • _ _ 
For many years I was employed in a factory situated 
within a stone's throw of a pond of several hundred 
acres, well stocked with perch, pickerel, bullheads and 
smaller fish. This pond furnished the water power for 
three mills, and was drawn down about 6ft. or more 
every summer. The highway, at a point near our fac- 
torji cut oft' a part of the pond. The two parts, how- 
ever, were connected by a stone culvert, or "bridge 
hole." The bottom of the main pond was several feet 
lower than that of the Meadows, as we called the 
smaller part; the Meadows consequently were shal- 
lowefj filled faster, and flowed into the main pond when 
it was half full or less. 
Owing to a dry autumn the pond was very low, and 
the water from the bridge hole flowed over the stones 
;.i a wide, shallow stream about 20ft. before reaching 
the pond below. It was about the third day of a very 
cold snap when, passing along the highway, my atten- 
tion was attracted by the struggling of a fish on the 
stones below the bridge. On investigating I found a 
number of fish, some of them frozen on to the stones; 
in fact, some were completely encased in ice. I ran 
over to the factory for a water pail, and filled it with 
the fish. They were horn pouts and yellow perch. The 
temperature was close to the zero point, and they were 
soon all of a kind so far as freezing was concerned. In 
that state they were carried to my home, a mile dis- 
tant, where a large sink was nearly filled with water, 
and the fish were placed therein. At that time they 
had been in my possession from an hour and a half to 
two hours. 
Now I cannot say that all of the bullheads revived, 
but most of them certainly did, and were apparently as 
lively as ever. As to the yellow perch I am not sure, 
but my impression is that none of them recovered. It 
seems fairly evident that the question of recovery de- 
pends altogether upon the species of fish frozen. Horn 
pouts, eels and black bass, in a lesser degree, are tena- 
cious of life, and survive treatment that would prove 
fatal to trout or smelts. 
Some five or six years later fish appeared at the same 
place under precisely the same circumstances. This 
time the fish were about all yellow perch (not a pick- 
erel, as far as I know) ; the run was larger, and more 
of them; not so numerous as the Kekoskee bullheads, 
of course, but several hundred, perhaps. Now, what 
was the cause? I have ahvays supposed it to have been 
the lack of air under the ice, the meadow being shal- 
low and no air-holes whatever open. 
Has any one another theory? Hockley. 
A Pfoposition fof Gfeat Britain. 
I HAVE a letter from England which says: "Would 
Reuben Leonard come over?" Of course this means 
to cast the fly in public. "I think he could get enough 
to pay half his rail, sea and living expenses, out and 
home, if the other half can be subscribed on your side." 
My correspondent is a solid, reliable man; and if I 
was in a financial condition to say the word I would 
say: "Here, Reuben, is a check and an order for you 
to draw on me for any deficiency. You know that we 
sent Reuben Wood over there in 1883 and he astonished 
our relatives who live beyond that damp spot on the 
map which geographers have named the Atlantic. Now, 
Reuben, go and show them how a second Reuben and 
a Yankee arm can get out a Yankee line on a Yankee 
rod, whether the latter be a looz. affair or only a toy 
of 40Z." 
That is what I would do if I could; and if possible, 
there would be a great big bonus for Reuben if he did 
what I know he can do. 
My correspondent says: "Of course the recent com- 
petition in New York, in a building [italics are his], are- 
not the same as out in the open air, where the wind 
and the weather have a good look in." 
Let us to send Reuben Leonard to England; not as 
an athlete, to demonstrate physical superiority in an in- 
dividual, but to show that American rods are the best 
that the world produces. Let those who believe this 
send in their subscriptions, and make it more than mere 
"expenses" for our champion. I will start the ball with 
a small one. 
This challenge, if it is a challenge, is hurriedly gotten 
up. Witho'it consultation with any person, it seems to 
me that if r^ir English friends want to get Reub Leon- 
ard over there to cast, in order to prove that American 
rods are the best, they should offer direct inducements 
for him to cross the water and cast in their contests. 
It is nothing to me, nor to thousands of others, that 
Reub Leonard has beaten the world's record in f[y- 
casting. It is much to the firm that Reuben works for, 
and after considering the subject in that light I think 
that they, and not we, should send Reuben over the 
pond to a fly-casting contest. Fred Mather. 
tmmt 
Fixtures. 
BENCH SHOWS. 
Northwestern Kennel Club's dog show, St. Paul, 
March 
Minn. C. E. N. Howard, Sec'y. St. Paul, Minn. 
March 15. — Kansas City Kennel Club's second annual 
Kansas City, Mo. A. E. Ashbrook, Sec'y. 
show, 
The New York Show. 
The twenty-second annual show of the Westminster 
Kennel Club, held in Madison Square Garden on the 
four days beginning Feb. 21, was one of the greatest ever 
given by the club, and in some respects the greatest, as 
in the number of entries, which numbered 1,703 — a rec- 
ord breaker for America. The total number of dogs 
was 1,330. It was also great in the high quality of the 
dogs as a whole, and the special excellence of some of 
the classes. It was a model in the matter of superin- 
tendence, neat, attractive, and well managed. The 
benching and feeding were done by Spratts Patent in 
their usual satisfactory and thorough manner. The emi- 
nent veterinarian. Dr. H. Clay Glover, was alert in his 
duties as veterinary officer of the club. 
The judges were Miss A. H. Whitney, Lancaster, 
Mass., St. Bernards, Newfoundlands and pugs; J. 
Blackburn Miller, New York. Great Danes; Dr. A. H. 
Heffinger, Portsmouth, N. H., American foxhounds; 
Charles Heath, Newark, pointers; William Tallman, ' 
which Avere in attendance at some former shows. In 
respect to them, so dense was the Garden packed at cer- 
tain hours of the afternoon and evening that it was diffi- 
cult to pass through the throngs of visitors. The aisles 
were, so crowded that it was perforce necessary to move 
with the crowd as a part of it. While the last show was 
well attended by the public, there was a distinct falling 
oft* in numbers as compared to previous years. This 
might have had no effect on the actual receipts, as there 
were rumors in wise quarters that there were very few 
complimentary tickets out, whereas in former years there 
was an extremely large number of free admissions, quite 
enough to explain the difference of the attendance this 
year as compared with the larger ones of previous years. 
In fact, so close was the management in the matter of 
complimentary tickets that it evoked much discontent 
among the exhibitors. They do not look upon their 
support of a dog show as being wholly a business ven- 
ture. Each exhibitor considers that his exhibits are a 
component part of the show, and that there is a recip- 
rocal fellowship and common purpose between the ex- 
hibitors and the club members. The granting of a com- 
plimentary ticket or two to an exhibitor has befen SO 
sanctioned by general usage that it has almost come to 
be considered a right, so that the sudden transition 
from the generous giving of complimentary tickets to 
the giving of a very few was far from meeting the ap- 
proval of many of those who helped to make the show. 
Still, there is on the other hand the financial responsi- 
bilit}'^ of the club for the many thousands of dollars ex- 
pended in conducting the show, and the matter of reve- 
nue and expense may have had a direct bearing on thp 
readjustment in respect to the giving of complimentary 
tickets. 
There were quite a number of imported dogs which 
made their American debut at this show. Of these, 
Black Peter was quite notable for his excellence. Mas- 
tiffs as a rule are devoid of symmetty, but Peter has 
it to perfection. He is very sound physically, thetl 
there were the bulldog Rensal's Dandy Ven, and the 
bull terrier Woodcote Wonder; the Irish terrier Deed's 
Muddler; the collies Border Lad, Old Hall Admiral, 
Heather Mint and Heather Moll, impotted by the Ve- 
rona Kennels, of San Francisco. 
i Foxhounds were ten in number, a light entry. As to 
quality, they rated low. English foxhounds numbered 
two, one in the free-for-all class for dogs, one in 
that for bitches. The American division were a bad lot. 
Legal, first in free-for-all dogs, is a coarse hound; 
Duke, second, is leggy and but little better than an aver- 
age hound; Jim Corbett, third, and the reserve and 
vhc. dogs were very ordinary. There were two bitches 
in their free-for-all class. Veracity, first, shows some 
characteristics of the English hound. 
. Pointers were in good numbers, eighty-one entries, 
this number including re-entries. There were a few 
dogs of excellent quality, after which the commonplace 
prevailed. The Westminster Kennel Club had a kennel 
of four for exhibition only. In the puppy class for dogs 
and bitches Island Boy, a good puppy, took first. He 19 
smoothly turned, well ribbed, symmetrical, and stands 
on good legs and feet. He carries his ears high, which 
mars an otherwise good expression. Second went to 
Geisha Girl, plain in head, still a very good puppy. King 
Chimes, third, is a long cast, large puppy, fairly good 
in quality. Fairview Graph, first in novice dogs, is 
well built, symmetrical, a good all-round dog. Ridge- 
vieAV Lad, second, is narrow in muzzle and heavy in 
skull. Island Boy took third. A well-ribbed, good-bod- 
ied bitch, Ridgeview Blithesome, took first in novice 
bitches, second going to Highland View Revel, third 
going to Daisy Belle, plain in head, good otherwise. 
Light-weight junior dogs Avas AVon by FairvieAv Graph, 
second going to Furlough Bang, a loAV-set dog, a trifle 
out at elboAvs and flat in skull. Ridgeview Prince, nar- 
row in muzzle, the reserve in the noAace class, took third 
in this class. Pleavy Aveight junior dogs brought out 
quite a strong competition. Dustaway is a large pointer, 
of excellent muscular development and symmetry, sound- 
ly built, stands on good legs and feet, and is as active 
as a light-Aveight. He is upstanding and gamy in ap- 
pearance. Second Avent to Prince's Lad, an upstand- 
ing, well-built dog, lacking in smoothness of finish. 
; Ridgeview Lad was third. Free-for-all dogs was won 
• by Lad of Kent, second going to Sir Walter, third to 
' RidgevncAv Comet, all old competitors and well known. 
The strongest rivalrj'- Avas betAVeen first and second. Lad 
also captured the honors in the winners' class. Fay 
Templeton, a cobby bitch, Avas first in light-Aveight jun- 
ior bitches. Ridgeview Blithesome and Revel were sec- 
ond #nd third respectively. Jane Faulkner, reserve, was 
very poor in head. Fm-lough Bloopi, in good condition, 
Avas first in junior heavy-Aveight bitches. She is a well- 
known competitor. Ridgeview Blooms Avas second, 
Daisy Belle third; the tAvo latter Avere in the novice 
bitch class, Avherein Belle Avas third and Blooms re- 
serve, the judge thus reversing them. Fay Templeton 
won in free-for-all bitches, Kent's Kate, a good all-round 
bitch, scoring second, and Urada third. The latter two 
are Avell-knoAvn Avinners. Fay Templeton also Avon in 
the Avinners' class. George Gould's exhibit took the 
kennel prize. 
English setters rated low in quality, although there 
were a few good individual dogs to relieve the mediocre 
showing. In puppies the competition was weak, as it 
also Avas in the novice class. In junior dogs, Gilhooly 
first, Orangeman second, Baron M., light in muzzle and 
a little slack in build, took third. In free-for-all dogs, 
Cincinnatus Pride, a dog of rare symmetry, took first 
easily, over Gilhooly and Orangeman, first and second 
respectively. Junior bitches Avas won by Blanche G., a 
fairly good all-round bitch, second going to Laundress, 
light in muzzle; third going to Lady Victress Llewellin, 
plain in head, but good otherwise. Free-for-all bitches 
Greensboro, N. C, English setters; George Jarvis, New numbered four, first going to Ruby D. III., a lanky 
bitch, plain in head; second going to Minnie K., light 
I' in bone; third to Lady Victress Lewellin. Cincinnatus 
Pride took first in the field trial class, over Montell, andj 
' the Eldred Kennel took the kennel prize. 
>,'.; Irish setters Avere poor in quality. Miss RockAVOod 
had a Avalkover in puppies. The novice class first was 
won by Tuppeny, a snip3'--nosed dog, light in color, and 
While the show was well supported in respect to public - a dog of average quality only. Second went to a long- 
patronage, there wa§ a noticeable absence of the crowds cast dog, Rockwood Dash, third goin^ to Hunter, coarse 
York, Irish and Gordon setters; AndreAV Laidlaw, Gait, 
Ont., sporting spaniels; Robert McEwen, Byron, Ont., 
collies; Charles D. Bernheimer, New York, poodles: J. 
H. MattheAvs, New York, bulldogs; J. F. Hblt, Boston 
terriers; H. F. Schellhass, beagles; George Raper, 
Wincobank, Yorkshire, Eng., all other classes. Their 
work as a whole was well received. 
