Aug. 20, 1898.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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bership might exceed that number and become one of 
the most popular of clubs, where the angler could always 
find a congenial companion, either in human or book 
form, and where he would meet congenial companions, 
which, after all, is the essence not only of club life, but 
of life itself. 
A Water Pollution Nuisance. 
• 
The residents of New Jersey in the vicinity of the pol- 
luted Arthur Kill, on Staten Island Sound, have peti- 
tioned the New Jersey Fish Commission for relief: 
Gentlemen: We, the undersigned, have to bring to your atten- 
tion the fact that an intolerable nuisance exists at present on the 
shore of that part of Staten Island Sound known as the Arthur 
Kill. This nuisance is destructive, in the highest degree, of the 
fish and Crustacea which come into these waters; it has made 
crabs and fish caught there unfit for food and detrimental to health; 
and it is ruining what was for many years one of_ the famous 
waterways of the State. 
This nuisance is being created by the Liebig Manufacturing 
Company, a concern which operates works on the shore in Carteret, 
New Jersey. This concern uses phosphates and permits refuse 
to run into the waterways in clear violation of the law. The result 
of this illegal practice is that the water is often tainted to so 
great a degree that it is foul and nauseating to those who navi- 
gate it either for business or pleasure. 
We therefore petition you to cause such action by your officers 
intrusted with the duty as will cause this great, harmful and 
deadly nuisance to cease and determine. 
Commenting on this, Protector Shriner writes: "This 
is not the first time that attention has been called to this 
matter, but the fish and game laws do not provide any 
remedy. The petitioners are mistaken in their statement 
that the law is being violated. There are several laws on 
the statute books prohibiting the pollution of water. The 
most important is a statute making it a misdemeanor 
to pollute any stream used for a water supply for any 
municipality; this law does not apply in the present 
case, and if it did it would not be within the purview of 
the duties of fish and game wardens to enforce it. There 
are two laws among the fish and game enactments which 
prohibit pollution of waters. One applies only to cer- 
tain waters of Staten Island Sound; it prohibits the 
refuse from fish guano factories from being discharged 
into the sound. Investigation shows that the Liebig 
company uses no fish, but that it manufactures its ferti- 
lizers from rock. The general fish and game act pro- 
hibits the discharge into the waters of the State of any 
deleterious or poisonous matter in quantities sufficient 
to interfere with the habits of fish, but this same law de- 
fines that waters of the State shall be all waters where 
the tide does not ebb and flow. Consequently this law 
is not applicable in the present case. I am convinced 
from interviews had with officers of the Liebig Company 
that thej' have done everything possible to reduce to a 
minimum the objectionable features of their industries, 
and they have assured me that they are willing to listen 
to any reasonable suggestion and to carry it out. They 
have established a large industry and employ several hun- 
dred hands. Whether the damage they do to fish is not 
more than counterbalanced by the benefit accruing to 
the State by the establishment of a large industry is a 
matter which the Legislature may be called upon to de- 
termine, as I have been given to understand that the 
next Legislature will be petitioned to pass an act pro- 
hibiting all pollution of the waters of the sound. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Improving. 
Chicago, 111., Aug. 13. — From now on fishing should 
be improving, as the worst of the angling season usually 
ends with us about the middle or close of August. Word 
from the Kabekona Camp, Minnesota, says the 'lunge 
are again beginning operations to some extent. On 
Aug. 4 Mr. Scott Bentley caught a 2ilb. muscallunge in 
Baby Lake, and two days later, in the same lake, Mr. 
Nick Young, of Burlington, low., caught another, also 
weighing 2ilbs. On Aug. 5 Messrs. Wm. G. Newby, of 
Ft. Worth, Texas, and R. H. Foat, of Weatherford, 
Texas, caught eight bass weighing 261bs., and one bass 
that weighed 61bs. Mr. H. G. McCartney, of Chicago, 
owner of Kabekona Camp, with Mrs. McCartney, start 
^to-morrow evening for a stay of some weeks there. Mr. 
and Mrs. W. P. Mussey are at present making their sec- 
ond visit of the season at that point. Mr. Mussey's 
health is poor, and he may not return before September. 
Casting Records Again Broken. 
Last week, at the club contest of the Fly-Casting Qub 
of San Francisco, Mr. W. D. Mansfield cast 130ft. 6in., 
and Mr. H. C. Golcher 115ft. Mr. Golcher is credited 
with 130ft. on more than one earlier occasion. This is 
out-of-door casting, and it is apparently about the limit 
of single hand rod work. 
Can't Ship Trout out of Michigan. 
Mr. John Libby, of Greenwood, Mich., got together a 
nice lot of brook trout, which he shipped to the Palmer 
House, a hotel in Chicago. Mr. Libby had heard of the 
Paris Exposition in 1900, and he wanted to go, so he 
needed the money. The fish wardens seized his trout 
and shattered his plans for the exposition. Jury trial, at 
Cadillac; $10 and costs. 
E. Hough. 
1200 Boyce Building, Chicago, 111. 
Boston Fishermen, 
Boston, Aug. 12. — The fishing parties are not all 
over, though it is late in the season. Mr. W. Jones, wife 
and children, with Dr. Webber, wife and family, have 
gone to Camp Leatherstocking, Richardson Lake, Maine, 
for two or three weeks' fishing and camping. They are 
the guests of Mr. N. G. Manson, owner of Camp 
Leatherstocking, who is to join them on Monday. They 
do not expect great fishing, but Mr. Manson and his 
head man, Oscar W. Cutting, are seldom without a fine 
mess of trout when they are wanted. Nights and morn- 
ings, on the right locations, are almost always rewarded 
with a few good rises, even in midsummer, in that loca- 
tion. Mr. Manson will doubtless remain for the 
first of the hunting season at least. 
Bass and pickerel fishing parties are still in order, but 
the extremely wet weather has deferred several camping 
parties. A number of students had Lake Maranacook 
in mind for a camping party this week, but the rain every 
day has put it off for another week. Mr. Frank N. 
Ganong, of the Boston Herald business corps, with Mrs. 
Ganong, Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Fawcett, and Mr. and 
Mrs. George N. Richards, all of Boston, are' off to-mor- 
row for Win Pope's camp, Emerv's Grove, Lake Cob- 
bosseecontee, Me. They will stay for a couple of weeks, 
camping and fishing. They expect to be well settled in 
camp on Sunday, Aug. 14. Great bass Ashing is ex- 
pected. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Ellsworth have returned 
from a couple of weeks' outing on the ponds of Win- 
throp and Monmouth, Me. They report good bass fish- 
ing, though the fish generally run small. Norway Lake, 
Me,, is giving out some good catches of pickerel and 
bass. 
Special. 
Weakfish on Trout Hooks. 
Arvkrne, L. I., Aug. 13.— Weakfish have been biting 
freely in the bay, and some fine strings are reported. 
Jack Williams recently made an extraordinary catch be- 
fore breakfast. He was rowed by Capt. Jencks, and used 
a spoon with No. 5, 0, trout hooks. He had fifteen strikes 
and landed fourteen weakfish. The largest weighed 
83^1bs. and the smallest ^lbs., the total catch weigh- 
ing about loolbs. The fish were caught in the runway 
near the trestles of the New York and Rockaway Beach 
Railroad. 
Exegesis. 
Trout for New Jersey. 
Protector Chas. A. Shriner, of Paterson, requests 
that applications for consignments from the 50,000 trout 
fingerling distribution be sent in to him at once. The 
distribution will be made about the middle of October. 
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Fixtures. 
Sept. 7.— Manitoba Field Trials Club trials. William C Lee, 
Sec'y, Winnipeg, Man. 
Sept. 12.— Northwestern Field Trials Club's Champion Stake, 
near Winnipeg. Thos. Johnson, Sec'y. 
Nov. 1-5. — Fourth annual field trials of the Monongahela A'alley 
Game and Fish Protective Association, Greene county, Pa. S. B. 
Cummings, Sec'y, Pittsburg. 
Nov. 7. — Indiana Field Trials Club's trials, Bicknell, Ind. S. 
H. Socwell, Sec'y. 
Nov. 11.— Eastern Field Trials Club's trials, Newton, N. C. 
S. C. Bradley, Sec'y. 
Nov. 15.— International Field Trial Club's trials, Chatham, Ont. 
W. B. Wells, Sec'y. 
Nov. 15-17.— Central Beagle Club's annual trials. L. O. Seidel, 
Sec'y. 
Dec. 5-6.— Missouri Valley Field Trial Club's trials. C. H. 
Werner, Sec'y. 
Dec. 5. — Continental Field Trial Club's trials. Lexington, N. 
C. W. B. Meares, Sec'y. 
Manitoba Field Trial Matters. 
The subjoined clipping from the Free Press shows a 
most pleasing improvement in Northwest field trial mat- 
ters. It treats of the matter as follows: 
"The interest in field trials now displayed by the gen- 
eral public is most gratifying to the different clubs of 
the Province. Possibly never before have the entries for 
the different events in September been as large. A 
glance over the list published recently by the Free Press of 
the Manitoba club tells the tale of how local, fanciers are 
awakening to the fact that they can produce as good 
and as successful stock as their neighbors across the 
line, their entries this time far outnumbering those of 
the latter. True, the Americans have shown indomit- 
able pluck in coming so many hundred miles the past 
years to do battle with the pick of Manitoba dogs, but 
have often too proved the victors. However, Manitoba 
dogs have been steadily improving and without doubt 
this year a different tale will be told, last year the 
championship only being wrested from us after a hard 
fight. Sept, 5 (Labor Day) the Western Canada Kennel 
Club start their third annual amateur trials, and from 
present indications it promises to surpass its predeces- 
sors. Their trials are strictly amateur, competing dogs 
having to be owned and handled by amateurs solely. 
Wednesday, Sept. 7, begins the Manitoba club's twelfth 
annual international trials, extending the balance of the 
week. American handlers now have their charges in 
active training at different points in the Province, Mani- 
toba handlers being located nearer Winnipeg, where the 
birds are reported just as plentiful as in the outlying dis- 
tricts. As a fitting finale the Northwestern Club will 
hold the competition for the handsome championship 
cup, now on exhibition in Messrs. Robinson & Co.'s 
store window, in as close proximity to Winnipeg as the 
sufficiency of the necessary game will allow, thus giving 
the citizens an opportunity of witnessing how this grand 
sport is conducted. As only first and second prize dogs 
of the continent are allowed to compete, the merit of 
competitors should be of a very high order." 
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Cincinnati Rifle Association. 
The following scores were made Aug. 7 by members of the 
Cincinnati Rifle Association. Conditions, 200yds., any rifle, at 
the German ring target. Strickmeier was declared king with a 
score of 224. He also wins the Uckotter trophy with the same 
score- Hasenzahl was high on the honor target with a score of 
67. Weather warm, and a 3 to 5 o'clock gusty wind: 
King scores: 
Gindere 17 20 19 20 22 17 18 19 22 22—195 
Weinheimer 19 22 18 22 19 22 23 24 22 21—213 
Houck 15 23 15 4 12 8 18 21 15 20—151 
Nestler 13 20 19 20 21 16 17 18 25 21—190 
5 a y ne 23 19 16 22 20 22 25 24 18 20-208 
Roberts 23 24 11 21 24 25 22 20 18 14—202 
grube 15 13 13 20 20 20 24 21 14 14—174 
Jopf • 21 17 23 15 18 18 21 22 13 22—190 
Randall 21 19 18 17 15 17 18 19 22 25—191 
Trounstine 22 15 22 8 2 14 21 8 15 13—140 
Hasenzahl 15 16 21 21 22 15 20 23 21 24—198 
Strickmeier 23 24 23 23 24 25 23 21 19 19—224 
Topf 
Fhahler 
Hon 
or 
target. 
Special scores 
22 
24—65 
217 
200 
200 
19 
13-49 
190 
188 
186 
1 
21—47 
181 
176 
164 
17 
13—55 
214 
207 
202 
22 
24—64 
216 
208 
207 
14 
22—58 
188 
185 
185 
20 
12—52 
192 
176 
157 
14 
22-61 
188 
1S4 
172 
11 
15 — 48 
183 
172 
159 
22 
23—56 
198 
195 
178 
21 
12—50 
191 
184 
ITS 
21 
23—67 
211 
209 
207 
25 
18—62 
210 
205 
197 
176 
129 
179 
"Resting on his Laurels." 
t he above heading the Sussex Daily News, England, has 
the following to say of Mr. Walter Winans: 
' Bisley this year misses, for the second year in succession, the 
presence in active competition of the most remarkable competitor 
of the whole 2,000 now present. Last year the death of his father 
kept Mr. Walter Winans from appearing in the revolver matches 
and the running man and running deer sporting rifle contests, 
while at the present meeting he is resting on his laurels, though 
daily driving over from his summer home in Surrey, behind the 
fine black animal which, harnessed to an American buggy, is so 
much admired in and around Brighton. At Bisley Mr. W. 
Winans gains distinction in a manner which would be miraculous 
in the case of a Service rifle marksman ; that is to say, he main 
tains his supremacy year after year with the revolver. Although 
he has fired a few rounds with six-shooters, he is not competing, 
and while other revolver shots may not be displeased at his 
temporary retirement, the loss in entrance fees will be consider- 
able to the Association. Trotting and driving contests are chiefly 
occupying Mr. Winans' attention this summer, and he contem- 
plated appearing at the forthcoming agricultural show at Brighton 
had the rules allowed the use of the buggy vehicle " 
Leading dealers in sportsmen's supplies have advertised in our 
columns continuously for almost a quarter-century. 
If you want your shoot to be announced here send in 
notice like the following: 
Fixtures. 
Aug. 17-18.— Waterville, Me.— Tournament of the Interstate As- 
sociation, under the auspices of the Waterville Gun Club. E 
T. Wyman, Sec'y. 
J.^Campfidd^lc™' Ind-Lake City Gun Club ' s tournament 
Aug. 17-18.— Canton, 111.— Nineteenth annual tournament of the 
Canton Gun Club. J. C. Thompson, Jr., Sec'y. 
t A V,?* I? -- .Lyndhurst, N. J.— Live-bird handicap, 25 birds, $10. 
1. W. Morfey, Sec y. 
Aug. 23-26.— Detroit Mich.— Tournament of Michigan Trap- 
Shooters' League. W. H. Brady, Sec'y. 
'c Au f 2 ,4--r Warwick ' N - Special shoot, Hudson River Trap- 
bnooters League, on grounds of Warwick Gun Club. T. B 
Kogers, Manager. 
Au£ 24-25.— Minneapolis, Minn.— Tournament of the Minneapolis 
(-run Club. G. J. McGraw, Sec y. 
Aug. 25.— Bristol, Conn.— Fourth annual tournament of the Con- 
necticut State League. H. J. Mills, Pres. 
f A J£ g ' ^ 2 r 5 " 26 T^? • Ki l co i N - , Y;— Tenth annual target tournament 
of the Mount Kisco Rod and Gun Club. F. E. Wood Sec'y 
Aug. 27.— Hingham, Mass.— Hingham Gun Club's one-day tour- 
nament. 
Aug. 27.— Philadelphia.— Philadelphia Trap-Shooters' League on 
grounds of Silver Lake Gun Club, Point House Road. T O 
bchutz, Secy. J 
Aug. 29-31.— Union City, Oklahoma.— Union City Gun Club's 
tournament. F. M. Johnson, Sec'y. 
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS. 
Club secretaries are invited to send their scores for publication n 
hese columns, also any news notes' they may care to have printed. Tiee 
in all events are considered as divided unless otherwise reported. Mail 
all such matter to Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 346 Broad- 
way, New York. 
The Forest and Stream is put to press each week on Tuesday. 
Correspondence intended for publication should reach us at the 
latest by Monday, and as much earlier as practicable, 
Mr. John M. Lilly, secretary of the Limited Gun Club, of In- 
dianapolis, Ind., made a pleasant call in Forest and Stream 
office on Tuesday of this week. He was homeward bound on 
that day. He reports trap matters somewhat dull at present, as 
is to be expected at this season of the year, but the forth- 
coming winter tournament of the Limited Gun Club is ex- 
pected to be very successful. 
Mr. Piatt Adams used some of the Laflin & Rand new smoke- 
less powder at the Brooklyn Gun Club's shoot last Saturday, and 
expressed himself as being delighted with it, both for its absence 
of smoke and thoroughly good execution. He also has discovered 
a remedy which has counteracted his flinching, which he has 
promised to reveal to the readers of Forest and Stream in the 
near future. 
Mr. M. F. Lindsley, of the King Smokeless Powder Co., is 
one of the hardest-worked men in the powder business at present, 
though the other ballistic experts are by no means idle. Neither 
Mr. Lindsley nor Mrs. Lindsley (Wanda) have been shooting 
much this year, though we learn that Mrs. Lindsley intends to 
begin practice in earnest in the near future. 
A very closely contested match was that between Messrs. 
Heikes and Gilbert, at Watson's Park, Chicago, last Saturday. 
No conditions could more thoroughly try out the skill of the 
contestants than those at 50 unknown, 50 expert and 25 pairs. 
Heikes won by a margin of 3 targets, 140 to 137. The whole story 
is told in realistic detail by Mr. Hough in "Western Traps." 
Mr. J. O. Schutz, secretary of the Silver Lake Gun Club, 
Philadelphia, writes us that the programme of the next shoot of 
the Philadelphia Trap-Shooters' League, fixed to take place Aug. 
27, under the auspices of the Silver Lake Gun Club, are ready 
for distribution and can be obtained of him. The grounds of the 
club are on the Point House road, Pennsylvania R. R. Coaches - 
from Second and Mifflen streets. " *• 
