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[April i6, 1898. 
2; Big Stone Creek, 6; Blodgett Creek, 5. Speckled trout. Loca- 
tion of Michigan Fisli Commission hatchery for trout. 
Reed City — Horsey River and branches, 3. Speckled, rainbow 
and German trout. 
Baldwin, Chase, Hersey, Evart— These stations are on the F. 
& P. AI. R. R., reached via Reed City, and have good trovit 
streams in vicinity. 
Luther— Little Manistee River, Pine River, 6; Silver Creek, 6; 
Baldwin Creek, 6; Beaver Creek, 5. Speckled and rainbow trovit. 
Ashton— East and west branches of the Hersey River. Speckled 
trout. 
Le Roy— Beaver Creek, 3; Pine River, 4. Speckled trout and 
grajding. 
Tustin— Pine River and branches, 3 to 5. Speckled trout and 
gravling. 
Candillac— Pine River, 6; Clam River, 8; Poplar Creek, 10; Big 
Clam Lake, 4; Long Lake, 6;^ Round Lake, 8; Sec. 10 Lake, 10. 
Speckled trout and grayling, pike, pickerel and bass. 
Lake City— Hopkins Creek, 4; Muskegon River, 7. Speckled 
trout, pike and bass. 
Manton — Hopkins' Creek, 9; Cedar Creek, 1; Morrissey Creek, 
6; Buttermilk Creek, 5; Chase Creek, 5; Silver Creek, 6. Speckled 
trout and grayling. 
Walton Junction — Fife Lake Creek, 2; Walton Creek. Hopkins' 
Creek, 5; Flower Creek, 3%; Cole's Creek, 3; Cedar Creek, 2^/2; 
Potter's Creek, 2; Buttermilk Creek .5; Silver Creek, 6; DufEyCreek, 
6; Twenty- Two Creek, 10; Manistee River, 2. Speckled trout. 
Alba — Jordan River, 4; Cascade River, 3; Green River, 4; Cedar 
River, 7'; Stevens' Creek, 7. Speckled trout. 
Elmira — Sturgeon River, 7; Jordan River, 5; Warner Creek, 4. 
Speckled trout. 
Boyne Falls — Boyne River, Deer Creek, 3; Finley Creek, 3; 
Spring Brook, 3%. Speckled trout. 
Clarion — Bear Lake, 2; Bear River, 2; Sprin.e; Brook, 2; Hay 
Marsh Creek, 5. Large and small-mouth bass, pickerel and perch, 
speckled trout. 
Petoskey — Tannery Creek, 2%; Minnehaha Creek, 4; Horton 
Creek. S; Bear River, 1. Speckled trout. 
Conway, Oden — Crooked Lake, Round Lake, V^. Grass pike, 
black bass, blue gills, silver eels and muskallonge. 
Alanson — Crooked Lake, Pickerel Lake, Grass Lake, Cedar 
Creek, 4%; Minnehaha Creek, 4. Muskallonge, pickerel and bass, 
trout. 
Brutus — Burt Lake, 4I2; Maple River, 1%. Bass and pickerel, 
speckled and rainbow trout. 
Pellston — Douglas Lake, SM;". Maple River, Cold Creek, 5. Mtis- 
kallonge, bass, pickerel, speckled trout and rainbow trout, 
Carp Lake— Carp Lake. Muskallonge, bass, pickerel and perch. 
Not Destroyed. 
The big dam at Bonaparte, la., which for years has 
cut off all the run of fish up the Des Moines River, is 
not to be destroyed after all. it seems, but a fishway is 
to be put in. The Winterset News takes the right ground 
on this point when it says that this fishway must be a 
fishway and not a fish trap. The News fought for the 
destruction of the dam, its editor being a man who likes 
to wet a line now and then, and who also likes to see 
this good stream occasionally wet a fish. E. Hough. 
1206 BoYCE Building, Chicago, 111. 
cident about to be mentioned this stream was well 
stocked with speckled trout. 
Very, very early one Monday morning two jolly fel- 
lows of the fishermen tribe left Gait for a point on the 
creek, about nine miles away, thinking they would have 
the stream all to themselves. What was their surprise to 
find a buggy ahead of them in the yard of the place they 
pitt up at, and later to meet on the stream its inmates, 
the Rev. James K, Smith and his two sons. In the con- 
versation that ensued one of the jolly fellow^s, after cogi- 
tating a while, and putting his head on one side addressed 
the reverend as follows: 
'"Meenister, ha' ye no been a-croodin' 0' the Sawbath?" 
he Mennet 
Death of Alabama GirL 
Greenbrier, Ala., April 7. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
It is with deep regret that I am forced to chronicle the 
death of Mr. H. H. Mayberry's famous pointer bitch 
Alabama Girl, at mj'- kennels, Sunday, the 3d inst., of 
hydrophobia. Her loss is irreparable to her owner and 
to the pointer interest of America. 
As a field dog Alabama Girl had but few equals of 
either sex; and her affectionate disposition made her a 
most lovable companion. Her winnings in the field and 
upon the bench were as follows: Divided third in Derby 
(pointers and setters), Manitoba Trials, Morris, May, 
1896; first in Derby (pointers and setters), Alabama 
Trials, Madison, Ala., February, 1897; first in all-age 
stake (pointers and setters), Alabama Trials, Februarj^ 
1898. 
In March, 1897, she was taken from the field, and with- 
out being conditioned was exhibited in the St. Louis 
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Zeb* 
The portrait of Zeb (Kemp B. — ). winner of 
first in the Derby of the Eastern Field Trials Club last 
November, is excellent, and faithfully portrays him as he- 
appeared on point in that contest. He is a black pointer,, 
with no special claim to beauty of form, but that is 
not a quality which counts for much in the finding of 
birds and the making of points. Zeb is owned by Mr. 
Victor Humphreys, of Lexington, N. C., who handled 
him in the contest which led to victory. It was Mr. 
Humphreys' first attempt, and the success Avas corre- 
spondingly pleasing. The portrait can be recognized 
at once as coming from the hand of that master of the 
brush, Mr. Edm. H. Osthaus. 
Memories of Boating Days* 
(Concluded from j>age 29.5.) 
That which we had been anxiously and impatiently 
waiting for being settled, we had nothing to_ do but 
make sail and proceed on our cruise. The wind con- 
tinued from the same quarter as yesterday, and under 
a full spread of cotton we plowed along down the 
Jersey shore past Point Comfort, Bayside Beacon and 
Monmouth to Sandy Hook Bay. Running up by the 
Horseshoe, we entered the Navesink River, passed 
through the drawbridge just below the Highland lights, 
and keeping on, turned to the north and entered the 
North Shrewsbury. We worked up as far as Oceanic, 
then standing over to the north side of the riA^er toward 
Chapel Hill Beacon, we anchored. 
It was a verj'- hot da}', especially after the breeze had 
abated, and the Doctor complained frequently of a se- 
Hocfchocfcsen and Pine Brook. 
AsBURY Park, N. J., April 9. — Local newspapers are 
aflame over an alleged outrage to trout fishermen of the 
Hockhocksen and Pine Brook. If the report is verified, 
as seems entirely probable, there is trouble brewing for 
some State ofhcials. 
These streams are the only ones in this county which 
can justty lay claim to being trout streams, a liberal sup- 
ply of young trout having been placed in both of late, 
and the customary notices posted in relation to prohi- 
bition of fishing for three years by the State wardens. 
At this none were inclined to grumble, as it is a well- 
known fact that both streams have been overfished for 
years. It is claimed that on April i several deputy war- 
dens, the ones in fact which posted the notices, together 
with a coterie of city friends, fished both streams from 
beginning to end, taking a large number of fish of a 
very questionable size. The angling fraternity are up in 
arms and are prepared to make matters warm for the 
trespassers. This is vandalism pure and simple, and 
makes a farce of the law, which is of the wisest con- 
ception, and baffles the work of our Commissioners, 
which is of the most honest kind. If the assertion is 
proven, their names should be published and copied by 
every sportsman's journal in the land, as a stench in the 
nostrils of decency. ^Leonard Hulit. 
ZED. 
Flofida Needs a Fish Commission. 
From the Tampa Herald. 
In another column is printed a very interesting edi- 
torial article frOm Forest and Stream, the leading 
sportsman's journal of the country, in which is drawn a 
strong contrast between Maine and Florida in the respect 
of preserving game and fish. It should be reproduced 
in every paper in the State and taken as a text by every 
crowd of men who meet together. In a little while we 
will have neither game nor fish in Florida at the present 
rate of destruction. 
More than anything else do we need a fish commis- 
sion, and next to that a fish-propagating station or hatch- 
ery. Both these could be secured without inuch trouble 
if public interest were once aroused. We commend the 
article to the careful perusal of every citizen of the State, 
and its reproduction to our brethren of the press. 
A Lecture on Fish. 
Mr. Fred Mather will give his lecture on fish and 
fishing in the public school series, at No. 523 West For- 
ty-fourth street, this city, Thursday evening, April 21. 
For Sale.— Hunting and lashing preserve in Adirondacks. 12,000 
acres forest land; several fine lakes, 15 miles trout streams. Deer 
in plenty. 14 miles from railroad. A. A. Leonard, Knickerbocker 
Athletic' Club, New York. 
"That reminds me." 
In the early part of this century the town of Gait, Ont., 
and its neighborhood were settled mainly by farmers 
from Dumfrieshire, Scotland. The tnost of these set- 
tlers were Presbyterians, and entertained very strong 
views as to the observance of the Sabbath. Some years 
ago an able and conscientious divine, the Rev. James K. 
Smith, was the pastor of the largest Presbyterian church 
in Gait, and among his many other good points he was 
an enthusiastic and successful fisherman. 
A cold spring creek runs through the town of Gait, 
taking its rise some miles away. At the time of the in- 
Bench Show, where she won second in field class and 
third in open class. 
Alabama Girl was by Von Arron out of Lady Mull, 
and was born May i, 1895. At the time of her death ar- 
rangements had been made to mate her with Young 
Rip Rap, and could it have been, a litter of magnificent 
performers would doitbtless have been the result. 
Wu. M. Hundley. 
New Field Trial Cltib. 
The Western Field Trial Association has been formed 
at St. Paul with the following preliminary officers: Stu- 
art B. Shotwell, Jr., St. Paul. President; William B. 
McLean, Minneapolis, Vice-President; E. D. Brown, 
Minneapolis, Secretary; and Elton P. Roberts, St. Paul. 
Treasurer. The great trouble with the trials in the West- 
ern States of recent years has been the scarcity of birds. 
Granted abundance of birds, this club might A^ery well 
succeed in its attempt to inauguratfe a Western circuit. 
Its trial schedule is given as follows: 
First — ^A Derby (amateur) open to dogs whelped sub- 
sequent to Jan. I, 1897, owned in Minnesota, Wisconsin, 
Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota, and to be han- 
dled lay non-professionals. Purse $100. 
Second — An amateur all-age, in other respects like the 
Derby. Purse $100. 
Third — ^A free-for-all, open to dogs that have never 
won first in any recognized field trial. Purse $300, 
Iowa Field Trial Association, 
Sportsmen of Burlington, la., have set about organ- 
izing the Iowa Field Trial Association, with the in- 
tention of securing at least fifty members. If everything 
goes well trials Avill be held the first week in September, 
with two stakes, a Derby and an all-age. The follow- 
ing gentlemen, all of Burlington, la., are the inaugu- 
rators of the movement: Messrs. John A. Gregg, C. E. 
Perkins, J. W. Blythe, Carl Leopold, W. L. Cochran, 
and W. W. Parsons. 
vere headache. We spent the remainder of that day in 
listlessly lying around, and sometimes going in bath- 
ing. The captain and Mr. R. went off in the tender, 
and were gone for a couple of hours, returning with 
about thirty crabs which they had captured along the 
bank of the river. The doctor and I caught several 
which came swimming along on the surface of the 
water close to the yacht. It began to rain shortly after 
dark, and we turned in early. When we arose the 
sun was shining brightly. We were to meet a friend 
of Mr. R.'s to-day at Highland Beach; and he was to 
accompany us for the remainder of the trip. 
We started down the river with the ebb tide, and when 
nearly to the point of the Highlands ran aground on a 
sandbar in the middle of the stream. After a vain strug- 
gle to release her we had to give up the job, as she 
was hard and fast, and the water leaving her all the 
time. There was no help for it now, and we got into 
the tender and began to look for crabs to pass the time. 
The water being only knee deep, some of us waded 
around. While doing this we discovered hard clams in 
the mud, and we proceeded to secure them. In an 
hour's time we had a peach basket full of assorted 
sizes. We found that they were in excellent condition, 
and for the remainder of the trip we did not want for the 
bivalves. 
About 10:30 Mr. R. and I took the tender and rowed 
down the river to the steamboat landing, where we were 
to meet his friend when he arrived on the rx o'clock 
boat. The steamer arrived before we got there, but 
we found the party we were looking for. All we had 
to do now was to wait uiitil my brother and the doctor 
came down in the yacht. The tide had began to run 
in, and she would probably float within an hour; so 
we made ourselves comfortable on a handy hotel piazza. 
The view from here was fine, as one could look out 
over the ocean without anything to interfere between. 
Steamers and sailing vessels of all kinds were passing 
up and down outside the beach, and with their white 
sails all spread to the light breeze they forrned a charm- 
ing picture. To the southward was Seabright, with its 
gay assortment of cottages stretching away down the 
