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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[June 6, 1903. 
hood who had been unfortunate, and Clarence Young 
had carried it to her together with a big basket of 
Mrs. Benjamin's good things, and being too modest 
to take any credit to himself, told her Josslyn was 
the donor, ever since which time the good woman has 
been trying for a chance to kiss Josslyn to show her 
appreciation of his benevolent character. 
Goodwin finished up by saying he would give a 
dollar toward another purse provided Josslyn would 
consent to being kissed, and he could be present when 
it was bestowed. Mr. Gillett immediately went Goodwin 
one better, and so on, until Dr. Milburn insured that purse 
to Mrs. Flynn by telling Josslyn it was assuredly his 
Christian duty to be kissed. Kissed he was the next 
day. 
Between fishing and spinning yarns the time passed 
quickly, and we once more started home, taking back 
for our share 74 beautiful trout. H. R. 
Are Fish Hatcheries a Success? 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
It seems to me that your editorial on "State Fish 
Hatcheries and Their Work," in the issue of May 16, 
wherein it is shown that a great many private waters, 
trout ponds and streams throughout the United States are 
rehabilitated and kept stocked from artificial hatcheries, 
is a refutation of the Old Anglers postulate that arti- 
ficial fishculture is a failure in toto. The Caledonia Creek 
in Ohio, and the Blooming Grove Park waters in Penn- 
sylvania are shown to be most prolific by annual tabulated 
statements of the fish caught by members of the clubs 
owning and preserving them. There are quite a number 
of private breeders, half a score, perhaps, whose success 
is attested by their annual output of fry, fingerlings, and 
ova, in adidtion to the two-year-old trout which are sold 
for breeding purposes to hundreds of gentlemen \yho 
own ponds and streams lying within their reach. I think 
it may be claimed that the landlocked salmon fishing of 
Maine, which is already widely distributed over the State, 
and the bass fishing of sundry localities in several States, 
is due to artificial culture. Though success in these 
specialties is not sufficiently pronounced to bank much 
upon, still it cannot be denied that anglers are having a 
good deal of sport in these lines, and including fly-fishing 
for sea salmon as weH in certain rivers of Maine. 
The Old Angler's data, published in your columns, 
regarding the results of fishculture in Nova Scotia and 
New Brunswick, gathered from his protracted official ex- 
perience as Inspector of Fisheries in those Provinces, 
cannot be gainsaid. He has no object, I mean, in mis- 
representing. What he affirms simply witnesses that the 
fishculturists of Canada have not made the best use of 
their natural gifts, which are even better than our own 
as a whole. 
In this connection it may be proper for me to say that 
I think he has written a very strong paper in demonstra- 
tion of the uselessness and utter absurdity and waste of 
money in maintaining salmon hatcheries on the super- 
abounding and jammed up rivers of the Pacific Coast. 
His arguments are backed by corroborative and convinc- 
ing testimony, to which I myself have been an eye wit- 
■ ness in years past. Why these hatcheries are maintained 
and encouraged out there — the raison d'etre which he 
gives for their existence — ^need not be restated in these 
lines. The deposition stands without indorsement. 
In the early history of the McCloud and Sacramento 
hatcheries, the efforts of Livingston Stone, the most emi- 
nent fishculturist of our time, were purely experimental, 
and were justified, as events proved. They were praise- 
worthy, not only for their logic, but their outcome. But 
in Columbia River and Alaskan waters all the conditions 
are as different as can be. Artificial hatcheries are cer- 
tainly superfluous there. Charles Hali.ock. 
San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. 
Medal Contests.— Saturday— Re-entry; held at Stow 
Lake, May 23. Wind, S. W.; weather, fair. 
Event Event Event 
No. 1. No. 2, No. 4, 
Distance, Accuracy, , Event No. 8. . Lure 
Feet. Per cent. Acc. % Del. % Net % Casting ( 
W. E. Brooks... 1C5 84 87. 4 94.2 90.9 .. 
T. W. Brotherton 129 91 84.4 94.2 89.3 94.9 
G. C. Edwards.. 97 87 4 90 84.2 87.1 85.9 
G W Lane .. 88.4 88. 4 88.4 
E. A. Mocker... 103 88 89.8 91.8 90.8 
r H. Reed 90.8 89.8 84.2 86.11 
G. G. Young .. ■■ ■• 95-9 
G. H. Foulks... 95 84.4 91.8 76.8 84.2 .. 
P. 1 Tormey.... 80 89 78.8 84.2 81.5 97.1 
P T Tormey.... 75 90.4 83.4 78.4 80.10 90.6 
p; T. Tormey.... 75 87.4 88 76.8 82.4 S3.7 
W. E. Brobks... 115 93.4 89 93.4 91.2 
G. H. Foulks.... 93 90.4 88.4 84.2 86.3 
H. B. Sperry 86.8 .. •• . •• 
A. B. Carr.... 91 87.4 92.6 89.11 .. 
C. G. Young .. .- •• 95 
Judges, Kierulff and C. R. Kenniff; referee, Young; 
clerk, Bruning. 
Medal Contests.— Sunday— re-entry; held at Stow 
Lake, May 24. Wind, west; weather, fair. 
T. W. Brotherton 137 .. .. -. 96.3 
P. M. Haight.... 100 89.4 84.4 81.8 83 
H. C. Golcher... 133 88 90.8 87.6 89.1 
T. B. Kenniff.... 125 .. .. .. •■ ■ • ^ 
T. C Kierulff... 101 90.4 89.8 80.10 85.3 82.1 
F. M. Haight... 105 85.8 88.4 80.10 84.7 
P. J. Tormey.... 81 86.4 .. .. .. 96.1 
P. J. Tormey.... 80 88.8 .. .. .. 97 
P. T. Tormey.... 83 89.4 .. .. .. , 92.9 
H. C. Golcher... 130 90 88.4 88.4 88.4 .. 
C. G. Young .. •• •• 98.2 
Clerk, Bruning. 
New Jersey Coast Fishing:. 
AsBURY Park, June i. — The first striped bass of the 
season was taken at this point on the 27th inst. by Joseph 
Cawthorn, weight 13 pounds. This came in the way of 
just recompense, as he has given them most faithful 
trial the past three weeks. Kingfish are beginning to 
take the hook at all points along the coast, and they run 
of very fine size. As is customary, Manasquan River 
gave first results to bass fishermen, three or four having 
been taken there, the weight of which I have been unable 
to learn- Plaipe, too, are in evidence, as they are being 
taken quite freely in all our rivers. What I wrote in re- 
lation to fine perch fishing two weeks since still holds 
good, and they arc being taken at points where their 
presence was heretofore unsuspected. On Friday last, 
in Asbury Park, men took ten from Sunset Lake which 
weighed full 10 pounds; this average is phenomenal. 
What is a matter of interest here is the great run of tom- 
cods with us the past two months. The waters fairly 
teem with them. Leonard Hulit. 
"h^ Menml 
Fixtures. 
Oct. 6-9. — Danbury, Conn., Agricultural Society's show. 
_ Nov. 3-6.— New York. — Annual show of Ladies' Kennel Associa- 
tion of America. 
Nov. 9. — Fourteenth annual beagle trials of the National Beagle 
Club of America. Charles R. Stevenson, Sec'y. 
Bloodhounds and Man Hunting. 
Paris, France.— Editor Forest and Stream: May I ask 
of the readers of Forest and Streaivc who are posted on 
the subject, to give some information concerning the use 
of bloodhounds for the detection of criminals or run- 
aways? If so, will they be kind enough to let us know: 
_ I. Whether the use of bloodhounds is, so to say, offi- 
cially recognized: are there jails or prisons where blood- 
hounds are kept for the purpose of following runaway 
prisoners? Are there lunatic asylums or other establish- 
ments where bloodhounds are kept for the purpose of re- 
covering runaway lunatics, etc. ; are there private detec- 
tives who keep such dogs and use them in their work, 
and is the use of bloodhounds rare or frequent, and where 
are they more generally used ? Are bloodhounds kept for 
purposes other than the above mentioned? And can re- 
liable accounts of their feats be provided? 
2. Are there associations or prisons specially interested 
in bloodhounds, and having practical experience? Name 
and address, please. 
3. A good deal has probably been written on the matter: 
could some reader tell me which are the most reliable 
publications, books, pamphlets, or papers of any sort? 
(.Name of publisher also.) 
I must explain that I ask for such information not out 
of mere curiosity, but because I wish to be able to give an 
account to French readers of the practical uses to which 
bloodhounds are put on the western side of the Atlantic. 
I mu.st add, also, that I shall be much interested in all 
that concerns the training of bloodhounds, their education, 
trials, etc. Henry de Varigny. 
[We trust that some of our readers will give the infor- 
mation which M. Varigny desires.] 
Points and Flushes. 
Mr. Chas. F. Brockel, 225 Main street, Danbury, Conn., 
writes as follows : 
"Some mean thief stole my English setter Rod about 
a week ago. He is registered in A. F. D. S. B. ; black 
head and eans, chestnut colored cheeks ; white stripe be- 
tween eyes; muzzle white-ticked black; black spot on 
left ribs; black spot on same side hip; rest white. Suit- 
able reward leading to recovery of dog and no names 
mentioned. 
All motorists and cyclists have at various times had en- 
counters with dogs, and the following story describes a 
little experience of this kind. A driver of a motor-car 
had the misfortune to run over a fine fox-terrier, and, at 
once pulling up, he went back to the apparent owner, ex- 
pressed his regret at the occurrence, and gave him a 
sovereign. Then he drove off, while the man obserA'ed : 
"That's what I call a real gentleman. Now, I wonder 
whose dog that was !" — Shooting Times. 
Yachting Fixtures for 1903. 
Members of race committee will confer a favor by sending notice 
of errors or omissions in the following list, and also changes which 
may be made in the future. 
JUNE. 
6. Seaw.mhaka Corinthian, club, Oyster Bay. i 
6. Columbia, eleventh annual Michigan City race. f 
6. Chicago, handicap race, Lake Michigan. 'f 
6. Roval Canadian, club, Toronto. ! 
6 Marine and Field, Y. R. A. of G. B. ' 
6 Knickerbocker, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. 
8. Pavonia, open, Bayonne. 
8-12. New York special races, 90 footers, Sandy Hook. 
9. Atlantic, annual, Sea Gate. • 
10. Atlantic, 90-footers, Sandy Hook. 
10. South Boston, club, City Point. 
10,12-13-15-16. Manchester, trial races for selection of challenger for 
Seawjinhaka cup, Manchester Harbor. 
11. New York, fifty-seventh annual, all classes, off Sandy Hook. 
13. Chicago, special, Lake Michigan. 
13. Boston, club, South Boston. 
13. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 
13. Seawanhaka Corinthian, club, Oy.ster Bay. 
13. Larchmont, spring regatta, Larchmont. ■ 
13. Beverly, club. Monument Beach. 
14. Jamaica Bay, club, Jamaica Bay. 
15. New York, Glen Cove cups. Glen Cove. 
17. Beverly, open sweepstake, Monument Beach. ' • 
17. Larchmont, races for 90-footers, Larchmont. 
17. Boston, Y. R. A., off Point Allerton, open. 1 f 
17. Dorchester, open, Dorchester Bav. 
18-19. New Rochelle, club. New Rochelle. , I' 
19. Eastern, special, open, Marblehead. 
19. Indian Harbor, 90-footers, Greenwich. 
20. Southern, Baldwin and Walker cups, New Orleans. ' 
20. Beverly, club, Monument Beach. 
20. Keystone, club, VVoodmere, L. I. 
20. Brooklyn, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 
20 Corinthian, first championship, Marblehead. 
20. Seawanhaka Corinthian, 90-footers, Oyster Bay. 
20. Atlantic, club. Sea Gate. 
20 Columbia, motor boat race. Am. P. B. A,, Hudson River. 
20. New Rochelle, Y. R. A. of L. I. Sound, annual. 
20. Chicago, handicap. Lake Michigan. 
20. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 
21. Old Mill, club, Jamaica Bay. 
21. Gloucester, N. J., annual. Delaware River. 
25-26-27. Seawanhaka Corinthian, Y. R. A, of L. I. Sound, etniuigj 
and specials. 
27. ^uth ppston, club, City Point, 
27 New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport. 
27- Boston, club, Marblehead. 
27. Beverly, club, Monument Beach. 
27. St. Paul, cruise, rendezvous St. Paul, Minn. 
27 Chicago, special. Lake Michigan. 
27. Royal Canadian, club, Toronto. 
27. New York C. C, Y. R. A. of Gravesend Bay. 
30. New York, special race for 90-footers, Newport, 
30. Royal Canadian, L. S. S. A. regatta, Oakville. 
29-July 2. Manhasset Bay cup races, L. I. Sound. 
Sir Thomas Lipton's yachts, Shamrock III. and 
Shamrock I., left Gourock, Scotland, on May 28, for 
the United States. The boats were accompanied by the 
steam yacht Erin and the ocea-going tug Cruiser. 
Large crowds were on hand, and excursion steamers 
followed the boats for some distance. Shamrock III. 
will come out in a cutter rig, while the old boat is 
rigged as a ketch. 
New York Y. C. 
glen cove, long island sound, 
Tuesday, May 26. 
The third of the series races for the 90-footers held off 
Glen Cove by the New York Y. C. was the first real test 
the boats have had and the race was interesting and ex- 
citing from start to finish. The race was sailed in a nice 
southerly breeze of about ten knots strength that held 
quite true throughout. Although Reliance finished first 
by two minutes, twenty-one seconds, the result of the 
race is still a matter for conjecture, as none of the boats 
have been measured, and it is believed the Reliance will 
have to allow Constitution quite a little time. 
The boats sailed twice over a fifteen mile triangle. The 
start was made off Martinicock Point, thence E. J4 N. six 
miles to and around a mark off Lloyd's Point, thence 
N. W. four and one-half miles to and around a mark off 
Little Captain's Island, thence S. W. by S. four and one- 
half miles to the starting line. This made the first leg 
a close reach on the starboard tack, the second leg a 
broad reach with the wind over the port quarter, and 
then a close fetch back home. At the start all three boats 
were carrying the same canvas — big club topsails over the 
mainsails and No. 2 jib topsails over the staysails and 
jibs. 
The Regatta Committee was again on board Mr. R. A. 
C. Smith's steam yacht Privateer. The preparatory sig- 
nal was fired promptly at noon and the boats started fif- 
teen minutes later. Reliance crossed the line right on the 
gun. Constitution was just on her weather quarter and 
Columbia was to leeward of Reliance. Reliance heeling 
down rather more than the other two boats began to draw 
away from Constitution at once. Reliance was pinched 
and luffed until she worked out to windward of Con- 
stitution, and while these two boats were indulging in a 
luffing match. Columbia, which had been left well behind, 
drew up a little, but as soon as Reliance and Constitution 
were put on their course again she was again left far be- 
hind. After the two boats had passed Center Island they 
caught some stout puffs that drew out of Cold Spring 
Harbor. This prompted those on Reliance and Constitu- 
tion to take in their big jib topsails, a smaller one being 
set on Reliance, but Constitution was allowed to jog 
along with only her jib and staysail. She seemed to do 
better with a little less sail, and caught up all she had 
lost just after the start. 
The times taken as the boats gybed around the first 
mark follow : 
Reliance 12 43 18 Columbia 12 45 17 
Constitution 12 43 41 
On this six mile reach Constitution had beaten Re- 
liance 7s. and Columbia 2m. 6s. 
After rounding, Constitution had her balloon jib draw- 
ing some time before Reliance's was broken out. A spin- 
naker was set on Columbia, but it is a question if it 
helped her any. Reliance and Constitution again got 
into a luffing match, and as the latter boat was to wind- 
ward she had rather the best of it, and worked up on 
Reliance quite a bit. When the boats squared away for 
the mark, spinnakers were set and Reliance again pulled 
ahead a little. 
The times taken at the second mark were: 
Reliance .1 14 09 Columbia 1 23 50 
Constitution 1 15 10 
On this leg Reliance had gained 38s. on Constitution 
and 7m. 42s. on Columbia. 
After rounding, sheets were flattened down and a 
baby jib topsail was set smartly on Reliance. There was 
some delay in getting this sail set on Constitution. Re- 
liance and Constitution held the port tack while Co- 
lumbia 'took the starboard tack soon after rounding. Re- 
liance and Constitution tacked once to starboard and were 
then put back on the port tack for the mark. The 
new boat had gotten away from Constitution a little on 
this leg. The last barge of a long tow fouled the mark, 
and Constitution, having to go out of her way, lost some 
little time. The boats were timed at the end of the first 
round as follows: 
Keliance 1 44 32 Columbia . 1 59 40 
Constitution 1 47 18 
On Ihis leg Reliance had beaten Constitution im. 45s. 
and Columbia 5m. 27s. 
Baby jib topsails were set on all the boats after round- 
ing. There was a twist in Reliance's and it was lowered 
aiid reset. On this leg Columbia did much better, and 
gained nearly two minutes on the leading boats. Jib top- 
sails were taken in and balloon jibs were set in stops be- 
fore the mark was reached. The times taken as the boats 
gybed around the Lloyd's Point mark follow: 
Reliance ,. •' 2 12 20 Columbia 2 25 04 
Constitution 2 15 09 
Balloon jibs were broken out and as the wind had 
worked around to the west of south, preparations were 
made on Constitution to set the spinnaker, but it was not 
broken out. Constitution moved along very smartly on 
this leg, and made a decided gain on Reliance. Columbia 
set her spinnaker, but it did her more harm than good. 
Balloon jibs were taken in as the boats hauled on the 
wind. The times at this mark were : 
Reliance 2 40 29 Columbia 2 55 30 
Constitution 2 41 41 
On this leg Constitution had beaten Reliance im. 28s. 
gnd Columbia 3m, 14s. " .".1.- .. . 
