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FOREST AND STREAM; 
[March i, 
sirable, and it might be reasonable to expect a feeling of 
appreciation rather than an unkindly one. 
"Still another phase of this subject presents itself. 
There are 'many persons in the District who_ cannot 
afford to pay a license for the privilege of fishing, and 
the proposed law would consequently debar them from 
one of their most pleasant, healthful and innocent 
pastimes. Hundreds of residents of Washington spend 
their summer season in Montgomery county, drawn there 
because of the fishing attractions, spending money freely 
among the inhabitants for board, boats, bait, livery, etc., 
and such a law as is under discussion would cut off that 
source of revenue from the residents of that county. 
"Taking all the foregoing facts into consideration, we 
feel that the enactment of the law as proposed would work 
a great injustice upon many worthy persons, and we 
earnestly ask you to exercise your influence against a bill, 
the enactment of which would deprive so many people of 
a legitimate pleasure." 
Copies of the letter will be sent to members of the 
Maryland Legislature and others who are interested in 
the subject, and every effort possible will be made to 
defeat the proposed amendment. 
Fly-Casting at the New York Show 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
From present indications one of the most popular fea- 
tures at the coming New York Sportsmen's Show will 
be the fly and bait casting competitions to be held on the 
stream surrounding the big wooded island that will this 
year occupy the center of the amphitheater. As the stretch, 
including the back cast, will be nearly 240 feet in length, by 
from 14 to 16 feet in width, there will be ample facilities 
for the most expert among amateur casters to show their 
skill. The contests will be confined to amateurs only, and 
as events have been arranged for schoolboys, schoolgirls 
and women, as well as men, interest in the competitions 
will be much wider than at any similar series of events 
yet held about New York. 
The Fly-Casting Committee of the show has been hard 
at work for some time past, and has interested nearly 
every prominent amateur about New York as probable 
competitors in the events, while Toledo, Cleveland, Syra- 
cuse, Providence. Boston and Philadelphia will, with little 
doubt, send on their representative casters. Following is 
the committee, together with the essential points in the 
rules governing competition, and the programme as ar- 
ranged for th» several days of the show : 
Committee— Ezra H. Fitch, F. K. Tuthill, George H. 
Tohnson. W. K. Park. Charles H. Stonebridge. Clarence 
W. Ailing. C. C. Curtis, George B. Hayes, W. F. Kimber, 
H. L. Cadmus. D. T. Abercrombie, chairman; Harry 
Palmer, secretary. 
Rules. 
Contest for amateurs only; guides, dealers and other 
professionals not eligible, except in such events as may be 
especially opened to them. Entrance fee, $1. Two judges 
and a referee. Casting to begin at 2 P. M. daily. Com- 
petitors to cast according to entry, those not at hand when 
called to lose turn. 
Distance— Time to be taken at call of the word 
"Ready"; longest cast in five minutes to count. 
Accuracy — Trial to commence on call of the word 
"Count"; casting to be at buoy, six feet in diameter and 
level with water; to be marked by concentric circles; 
spaces marked. 10, 9, 8, etc., down to 5. Highest score in 
five casts wins. 
Rear Obstacle— To consist of net 30 feet high, placed 
t8 feet back of caster. Time to count from word "Ready" ; 
longest cast within five minutes to count. 
Forward Obstacle — Horizontal tape 7 feet above water; 
longest cast under tape to count. _ 
Accuracy and Delicacy — Semi-circular buoy to be placed 
against bank of stream, under overhanging bush, 3 feet 
above water. Count same as for accuracy. 
Bait Contest — Bait furnished by judges; no allowance 
for accident; rod in one hand not to exceed feet; 
single gut leader, not less than 6 nor more than 9 feet; 
hook not smaller than No. 12 nor larger than No. 8j._usual 
professor style, barb and point removed. 
Prizes to be gold, silver and bronze medals. Course 
open for practice from 10 A. M. to 1 130 P. M. 
Programme. 
Thursday, March 6 — Fly-cast for distance; only those 
who have never cast over 75 feet in contest eligible; 6- 
ounce rods or less. 
Friday, March 7 — Fly-cast for accuracy, distance 60 
feet. 
Saturday, March 8 — Fly-cast for distance; youths only 
(under 20 years). 
Monday, March 10— Fly-cast for distance ; guides only ; 
no entrance fee. 
Tuesday, March 11 — Bait-cast for distance. 
Wednesday, March 12 — Fly-cast for distance; girls 
only; no entrance fee. 
Thursday, March 13 — Fly-cast for distance, open to all ; 
rods 4^4 ounces. 
Friday, March 14 — Fly-cast; rear obstacle. 
Saturday, March 15 — Fly-cast for distance; open only 
to women; no entrance fee. 
Monday, March 17 — Fly-cast, forward obstacle. 
Tuesday, March 18 — Fly-cast for accuracy and deli- 
cacy ; distance, 30 feet. 
Wednesday, March 19 — Bass fly-cast for distance; open 
to those who have not cast over 75 feet; fly supplied by 
judges. 
Is Angling a Cruel Sport? 
This is a big question. Its answer, to carry weight, 
must come from an all-round angler with wider experience 
and more patient observation than have been given to 
me. I, do not myself impale wriggling worms, or use 
half-asphyxiated and struggling livebait, but in my ignor- 
ance as to the amount of suffering inflicted thereby I 
do not blame those that do. Every fact, however limited 
though it may be in its application, that tends to show 
how little pain, or even inconvenience, is caused by the 
penetration and presence of a hook in a cold-blooded 
animal, cannot fail to be useful in the inquiry hereby sug- 
gested, and that must be my excuse for recording a 
trifling incident, otherwise of no interest to anglers. 
The wind fitful, wayward and gusty, the scene a small 
back stream overhung by a tangled growth of wild brier 
and hawthorn, pictorially inviting, but piscatorially irri- 
tating. Not once, not twice, but many a time my min- 
now gleamed in the sunshine, as it swung to and fro, pen- 
dent from branches, now kissing the dimpled face of the 
water, now high as the most coveted gift on a Christmas 
tree. Worthy of study were the various knots and hitches 
improvised by the playful wind, and serious the scars in- 
flicted on my fine gut foot-link by the fierce embrace of 
thorn and brier. At last the minnow was coaxed into 
a dark hole where the stream eddied under the red fibrous 
roots of a stunted but patriarchal sallow. One flash of 
sunbeam reflected from its golden side as it glides from 
light t© shadow, and it is lost to sight — to human sight, 
that is — for the sudden shortening by a few inches of the 
slack reel line in the water shows it has been seen and 
seized. An axious pause of some few seconds, a firm, but 
respectful reply, and, confound the thorns! the line and 
foot-link fly back in my face, but where, oh! where is my 
dip-hook? 
A few minutes are consumed in reciting poetry and 
rigging up and baiting fresh tackle. A plump minnow, 
freighted with lead and steel, shapes the same course as 
the lost liner, and is captured at the same spot; but this 
time the gear stands the strain, and a fine perch is landed 
with two dip-hooks firmly imbedded in its gullet! And 
this within five minutes of his having pouched the first 
bait! I trust this story (for the truth whereof I vouch) 
may comfort all anglers of tender conscience as it did 
comfort me. And I tell it not to encourage gorge bait 
fishing, which ultimately kills most fish, and certainly all 
small fish that pouch the bait; but I merely record a fact 
that may be prayed in aid of the proposition that fish feel 
but little pain from the penetration and presence of a 
hook, even when loaded with nearly a quarter of an ounce 
of lead. Basil Field. 
San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 
Medal contests, series 1902, Sunday, contest No. 1, 
held at Stow Lake, Feb. 16. Wind, west; weather, 
cloudy : 
Event 
Event 
Event 
No. 1, 
No. 2. 
No. 4, 
Distance, Accuracy, 
Event No. S.- 
Lure 
Feet. 
Per cent. 
Acc. % 
Del. % 
Net* 
Casting 
T C Kierliff.. 80 
91.8 
H Battu 90 
92.4 
88.8 
75 
si. 10 
70.7 
H F Muller.. 105 
88.4 
91 
79.2 
85.1 
W E Brooks.. 107 
93.4 
88.8 
75.10 
85T.3 
K Charles.... 81 
76.8 
82.1 
73.4 
77.10 
F M Haight 
91 
87.8 
72.6 
80.1 
T Brotherton..ll7V 2 
94.4 
91. S 
81.8 
86.8 
92.6 
E A Mocker. 101 
85 
92 
75 
83.6 
46 
T Turner 91 
. 93.1 
83.4 
74.2 
78.9 
F Daverkosen.110 
89.1 
83.8 
76.8 
80.2 
C G Young 
96 
91 
74.2 
82.7 
A M Blade... 90 
87 
79.8 
72.6 
76.1 
C Kenniff.... 110 
86.8 
90.4 
75 
82.8 
97.9 
J Kenniff 114 
93 
87 
75 
81 
93.3 
W Mansfield.,,, 
91.4 
92. S 
86.8 
89.8 
92.3 
H C Golcher. 129 
91 
81.4 
75 
78.2 
Saturday, Feb. 15, contest postponed one week on ac- 
count of the weather. 
Judges, Mansfield and Daverkosen; referee, Turner; 
clerk, Wilson. - 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club. 
Chicago, 111., Feb. 15. — At the annual meeting of the 
Chicago Fly-Casting Club, Feb. 10, the following officers 
were elected for the ensuing year: President, H. C. Has- 
call ; 'v'ice-President, A. C. Smith ; Secretary-Treasurer. 
E. R. Letterman ; Captain, Geo. A. Murrell ; member of 
the Executive Committee for a three years' term, William 
T. Church. 
The matter of sending delegates to California to attend 
the tournament to be given during the coming summer 
was discussed, and referred to the Executive Committee 
for action, and a decision will be made at the next Execu- 
tive Committee meeting, to be held within the coming 
week. E. R, ' Letterman, Sec.-Treas. 
Jpu» fennel 
— $ — 
The New York Show. 
The twenty-sixth annual dog show of the Westminster 
Kennel Club, held in Madison Square Garden, New York, 
on Feb. 19, 20, 21 and 22, was greater even than its pre- 
decessors in the number of entries, and it is fair to assume 
that as a whole the show was superior in quality to its 
predecessors. 
The benching arrangements were planned with excellent 
skill. The galleries were utilized for the pet and some 
of the smaller dogs, ample space being left in front of the 
cages for the visitors. The front of the galleries, next 
the main floor, were draped in cloth of simple yet pleas- 
ing color effect. Here and there in different places on 
the main floor were cases containing the beautiful trophies 
of the different specialty clubs. Many of them were beau- 
tiful as works of art, and of great intrinsic value frOm 
the great weight and massive size. They were of great 
interest in themselves, both from their beauty and as 
an index of what they represent in the way of enthusiasm 
and earnest effort. 
The judges worked industriously, yet the greater part 
of the four days was occupied in determining the awards. 
The catalogue had 1,678 dogs enumerated, and as there 
were several hundred re-entries, it is self-evident that the 
judges had a mammoth task. Beside the regular prizes, 
there were an infinity of spcial prizes to award, and, so 
close is the competition for these, often times the judging 
of them requires more time and greater care than in that 
in the regular classes. The classes and their judges were 
as follows : St. Bernards, Mr. John Keevan, Brooklyn, ' 
N. Y. ; Great Danes, Mr. J. Blackburn Miller, New York ; 
foxhounds (Eng.), Mr. W. Rutherfurd, New York; 
pointers, Mr. Fred J. Lenoir, Greenwood, Mass. ; all set- 
ters, foxhounds (Artier.) and Chesapeake Bay dogs, Mr. 
Wm. Tallman, Greensboro, N. C. ; sporting spaniels and 
poodles, Mr. H. K. Bloodgood, New York; collies, Mr. 
John Black, Harrisburg, Pa.; Bulldogs and Boston ter- 
riers, Mr. W. C. Codman, Providence, R. I.; French 
bulldogs, Mr. Francis G. Lloyd, New York; beagles, Mr. 
George B. Post, Jr., New York; dachshunde, Mr. Jos. 
Graefle, New York; fox terriers, Mr. Jas. A. Caldwell, 
Jr., Penllyn, Pa.; Irish terriers, Mr. S. Van Schaick, 
New York; Scottish terriers, Mr. W. P. Fraser, Toronto, 
Can. ; Newfoundlands, greyhounds, whippets, bull terriers, 
Dalmatians, Skye terriers, black and tan, Bedlington, 
Yorkshine and toy terric-rs, and Pomeranians, Mr. T. S. 
Bellin, Minneapolis, Minn. ; Rusian wolfhounds, blood- 
hounds, mastiffs, deerhounds. Griffons, old English sheep- 
dogs. Basset hounds, Airedale terriers, Welsh terriers, toy 
spaniels, pugs and miscellaneous classes, Mr. R. F. May- 
hew, Clinton, N. Y. 
The inspection of the dogs on their arrival and the 
medical care of them during the show was done by the 
eminent veterinarian, Dr. H. Clay Glover, of New York, 
who was the official veterinarian of the W. K. C, and 
indeed has held that very responsible office for many 
years. 
The dogs were benched and fed most efficiently and 
satisfactorily by the well-known firm, Spratts Patent 
(American), Limited, Newark, N. J. 
The show was under the superintendence of Mr, James 
Mortimer, which in itself is a guarantee of the thor- 
oughly efficient manner in which all the details were 
managed. 
The field dogs were out in force, the pointers in par- 
ticular being in evidence in large numbers and good 
quality. They were superior to the setters, both in num- 
ber and quality. They numbered 184. There was one, 
however, whose name was mighty in the annals of the 
New York and other shows, now numbered with ' the 
absent. Mr. George Jarvis' Lad of Kent He died on 
Jan. 27, aged twelve years and ten months, an age which 
may be termed exceedingly old in respect to the bench 
show dog. Mr. Jarvis buried the old hero in his yard. 
In pointer puppies, dogs, George Jarvis' Chappie of Kent 
won first. In novice dogs, fifteen entries, Westlake 
Pointer Kennels' Blackstone. a trimly built large dog of 
excellent quality, took first. He has a cleanly cut, shapely 
head, neck lean and well set; a smoothly turned body; 
excellent legs and feet ; spirited carriage, and superior 
pointer quality. R. Compton's Dan Woodstock, a well- 
made, symmetrical dog, was second. In limit dogs under 
55 pounds, Fairbairn & Wilcox's Fair Acre Puzzle had 
a heavy, though well-shaped, head, and while being 
smooth turned, he might be better in front. Second went 
to Fair Acre Bonnie, rather coarse headed, yet fairly 
well built. Third went to Blackstone, already noticed. 
There were fourteen entries in this class. Limit dogs, 
55 pounds and over, there were ten entries, and of these 
Dan Woodstock won first, second going to Young Flint, 
third to Tioga Sam. In open dogs, under 55 pounds, 
there were eleven entries, and of these Lansdowne Malt, 
a bit throaty and heavy in shoulders, was first, second 
going to Prince's Boy, a good dog. somewhat out at 
elbows, while third was won by Shotaway. Open dogs, 
55 pounds and over, had twelve entries, of which one, Ace 
of Clubs, was absent. The winner, King William, is 
coarse in head. There was close competition between 
him and Dustaway, the latter shown in the pink of con- 
dition. Dan Woodstock was third. Lansdown Malt was 
first in winners' class, dogs. Bitch puppies had five en- 
tries. Fair Acre Anna, somewhat lathy, yet showing 
promise and quality, was first. In novice bitches there 
were twelve entries. Fair Acre Jady won first; she is a 
nicely formed bitch of superior quality. Second and 
third were respectively Miss Westlake and Ruth of Kent. 
There were eleven limit bitches under 50 pounds. Of 
these, Prince's Alice, a good bitch, was first. Westlake 
Surprise, second, has a light muzzle and thin in flesh ; 
good body, legs, feet and symmetry. Lass O' Yoka was 
third. Limit bitches, 50 pounds and over, had five en- 
tries. First was won by Westlake Ornament, a superior 
bitch, nicely formed; second was won by May Hobson, 
light in head, good in back, loin, quarters and trimly 
made. Linden Bess was third. Open bitches, under 50 
pounds, had five entries. Champion Westlake Startle was 
first ; Miss Westlake, second, and Bessie Bang II., was 
third. There were four in the open class for bitches, 50 
pounds and over. Belle Westlake, a good bitch, was first; 
May Hobson, second; Daisy Steen, third. Belle West- 
lake also won first in the winners' class for bitches. In 
the class for dogs and bitches that had been placed 
in any field trials in the United States or Canada, there 
were five entries, and the winners were: First, W. A. 
Austin's Tioga Sam; second, Westlake Pointer Kennels' 
Blackstone ; third, Prince Lad's Lassie. The kennel prize 
for best four was won by Westlake Kennels; reserve, 
Geo. S. Mott's kennels. There was a profuse allowance 
of V. H. C.'s, H. C.'s and C.'s. 
English setters were a mixed lot as to quality, some 
being excellent, while there was a variation from that 
down to very commonplace. There were fourteen con- 
testants in the dog puppy class. They were a fair lot 
only. The novice class for dogs had eleven entries. The 
winner of first, Fred's Boy, 'is heavy in skull; otherwise 
he is quite well made. Second went to Fleet Highland, a 
lightly built, symmetrical dog, very pretty and rather 
delicate in form; nice coat and feathering. There were 
eight entries in limit dogs, and of these Mallwyd Sirdar 
won first; Bracken O'Leck, second; Deceit, third. There 
were eight in the open dog class ; first was won by Barton 
Tory, a well-known winner; second went to Sirdar and 
third to Bracken O'Leck. Champion Barton Tory won 
also in the winners' class for dogs. There were- ten 
in the bitch puppy class. First went to Blue Bess, neatly 
made, alert in carriage and of good setter character. Her 
litter sister, Pauline B., a symmetrical bitch, won second. 
Fairy D. was third. Her litter brothers, Roderjgo D. 
and Mike D., were second and third respectively in dog 
puppies. There were fourteen novice bitches, of which 
first went to Fan O'Leck, well shaped in head; second 
w^nt to Beatrice of Salop; third to Nellie Allis, a timid 
bilch, so much so, indeed, that she did not show her full 
merit. In limit, bitches, seven entries, Mallwyd Queen 
was first ; she is long cast, yet symmetrical ; has good legs 
and feet, a shapely neck, clean cut head, and 
good general quality. Fan O'Leck was second 
