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[July 35, 1903. 
wise the old whale made her escape, leaving a track of 
gory water behind." _ . 
Instances are given where whales wliich had been killed 
by whalemen and were being towed to the ship have been 
forcibly carried away by bands of killers. They are also 
obnoxious as destroyers of the young fur seal, and often 
remain for a long time in the vicinity of the seal islands. 
Eschricht says that thirteen porpoises and fourteen seals 
were found in the stomach of an Atlantic killer, sixteen 
feet in length. They are particularly abundant in the 
bays and sounds of British Columbia and Alaska, in 
search of seals and porpoises feeding there upon small 
fish. They even attack the full-grown walrus and rob it 
of its young. > . . ^ 
A Good Catch. 
Theresa, N. Y., July 17. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
I saw a good string of fish last Monday, when oarsman 
Dave Tyler (who had been rowing Mr. Justus O'Hara, of 
Syracuse, on Indian River and Red Lake) dropped the 
catch on the sidewalk in front of the Getman House. 
There were eleven black bass and, I think, seven or eight 
pickerel (pike). I did not count the latter, as I do not 
consider them worth counting. Afterward I sav^ the 
whole string on the scales and noticed that they weighed 
65 pounds. I asked the oarsman to remove the bass from 
the chain and weigh them separate. He did so, and I saw 
that they weighed 34 pounds. There were ten large- 
mouth and one small-mouth, the latter not over two 
pounds. 
I arrived here a week ago last Tuesday evening. The 
next evening at 8 o'clock a party of six young people (of 
which I was one) started down the river for Red Lake. 
It was moonlight, cool and pleasant after the hot day 
spent in the village. There were three boats. I rowed 
one, and was the first to enter the lake, and when about 
the middle we waited twenty minutes for the others, as we 
did not have the key to the cottage, which is about seven 
miles from the village by water and about half that dis- 
tance by land, but ninety-nine times more rough even in a 
good strong wind. 
We spent three delightful days on the lake, and did not 
know there was any hot weather in New York until we 
read it in Saturday's paper. We left the cottage at 7 
o'clock Saturday evening. As we were about going into 
the outlet we passed Mr. O'Hara, the angler who caught 
the bass I saw on Monday, between that time and Monday 
noon. 
Since writing the above, our. next door neighbor showed 
me a catch of 35 brook trout taken this morning at New- 
ton Falls, which is three hours' ride from here by rail- 
road. . J- L- Davison. 
Wife for Tarpon Snells* 
KIansas City, July 6. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
For some time I have been promising your readers to 
find and notify them concerning an ideal wire for tar- 
pon snells, and now I think I have discovered one. It is 
phosphor-bronze No. 55 of the brown and short drill 
gauge. It is half-hard, and it takes eight feet to make 
one ounce. I have received a supply of this wire and 
have made one snell. It works nicely under the pliers, 
and is of just the right weight and diameter. It is said 
that salt water has no injurious effects upon it, so I 
think it is exactly what I have been looking for so long. 
Unfortunately, I shall be unable to do any tarpon fish- 
ing this summer, as my work will take me soon to British 
Columbia, where, by the way, I expect to repeat my last 
summer's experience with the rainbow trout and to catch 
still bigger ones and more of them, as I am now ac- 
quainted with the locality. On this account I have sent 
a' snell and some extra wires to my friend, the Rev. 
Father O'Dwyer, of Kansas City, who is now at Aransas 
Pass, and have asked him to give the wire a thorough 
trial and report the result to me. As soon as I hear from 
him I shall notify you. The only possibility of failure 
for this wire, in my opinion, is by breakage in the bends, 
but I do not anticipate this. J. A. L. Waddell. 
Nebraska Fishermen. 
Omaha, Neb.— United States Judge W. H. Munger 
and Clerk George H. Thummell are at the Red Squirrel's 
Nest, Lake Washington, and report fine bass casting. 
The Judge landed a beauty weighing 6^4 pounds, and 
Thummell one a half pound less. Will Webber has re- 
turned from Lake Winnibegoshish and environing region, 
where he has been muscallunge hunting for three weeks. 
He made a great catch, including a 32-pound great 
northern pike. Wilber Fawcett and bride are encamped 
for the summer in the woods on the shores of Webb Lake, 
Minn., the greatest black bass waters in the country. 
Mr. Fawcett has leased the deer hunters' log cabin belong- 
ing to Guide Edward Kapp, and fitted it up in charming 
style. He and Mrs. Fawcett will remain in the woods 
until October, and expect to canoe and tramp over a large 
portion of that wild country before the leaves begin to 
fall In September Judge Charles Ogden and S. G. V. 
Griswold will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fawcett for 
several days. W. D. Townsend, the gun store man, has 
received an order for 45,000 loaded shells for the Big 
Injun shoot at Lake Okoboji, Wednesday, Thursday and 
Friday, the last week in August. Sandv Griswold. 
Delaware River Bass Fishing. 
After a visit to NarroAvsburg, N. Y., in quest of 
bass, one can easily understand the necessity that 
caused the New York Legislature a few years ago to 
pass a law regulating the number of bass to be taken 
in one day by one boat. My recent experience at Nar- 
rowsburg'was to put in the time on the water and take 
care not to break the law. The taking of 24 small- 
mouthed black bass to the rod, or 36 to the boat, will 
not work anyone overtime. The bass are there, and 
they make a pretty fight in that fast, clear water. 
Riffles, eddies, pools and rapids all yield up these gamy 
treasures. Fly-rods, bait-rods, boat-rods and bean 
poles are used, as well as good balance and good sense 
in shooting the rapids. 
Mr. J. G. Guthiel, of the Arlmgton Hotel, will fur- 
nish the angler with bait, boat and guides. 
Narrowsburg is in Sullivan county, New York, and 
reached by the Erie, ^ . ' T- E. Batteh. 
The Texas Tarpon Record. 
■ Mr. W. B. YoungjjOf New York, sends us the following 
scores of tarpon fishing at Tarpon, Texas, for two days, 
June 20 and 21. As will be noted, the total for the two 
days taken by Mr. Wainwright makes an extraordinary 
catch. The scores are: 
Saturday, June 20 — J. R. Wainwright, Pittsburg, 11: 
W. B. Leach, Palestine, S; R. H. Foot, Weatherford, 2; 
B. M. Rich, Houston, i ; Otto Taub, Houston, i ; E. A. 
Black, Temple, 8; Mrs. E. A. Black. Temple, i; Mrs. E. 
D. Staggs, Palestine, i ; E. D. Staggs, Palestine, 2. Total, 
32. 
Saturday, June 21 — J. R. Wainwright. Pittsburg, 14; E. 
A. Black, Temple, 7 ; R. H. Foot, Weatherford, S ; E. D. 
Staggs, Palestine, 14; W. B. Leach, Palestine, 6; B. M. 
Rich, Houston, i ; Otto Taub, Houston, i ; H. M. Greene, 
Dallas, I ; J. E. Cotter, Tarpon, 18. Total, 67. 
It is an unwritten law, a gentlemen's agreement, here 
that all fish shall be beached and then returned alive. The 
scores here then do not represent fish killed ; many of 
the fish thus taken and released at Tarpon have been 
tagged with the metal tags supplied by Mr. Young, read- 
ing: "Report to Forest and Stream." 
Sullivan County Black Bass. 
At White Lake, Sullivan county, N. Y., on July 11, 
Mr. Chas. Moni-oe took a black bass of 7 pounds 2 ounces. 
The fish was caught at 10 :30 P. M. near the Kauneonga 
Inn at last end of lake. 
Flzttttes. 
Oct. 6-9.— Danbuiy, Conn., Agriculttiral 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, Scc'y. 
The Bloodhound. 
The following excerpts, taken from "Modern Dogs," 
by Mr. Rawdon B. Lee, the famous English authority 
on all breeds of dogs, is of special interest in itself, and 
when considered in connection with the discussion on 
bloodhounds, which has recently been held in our 
columns. Mr. Lee states that; 
The origin of the bloodhound cannot be traced with 
any degree of satisfaction, but we believe that no mod- 
ern breed of dog is so like that progenitor of his that 
may have, lived three. or four hundred years ago, as is 
this well-favored variety. Although repeatedly used as 
a cross to improve the olfactory organs, and the size 
and strength of other hounds, especially of the otter- 
hound, he has always had admirers, who kept him for 
his own sake — because of his handsome and noble ap- 
pearance, because he was a good watch and guard, and 
because he bore a vulgar character for ferocity not at- 
tained by any other dog. 
The name "bloodhound," or sleuth hound, had some- 
thing to do with this, and he always bore the reputa- 
tion of being able to find a man, be he thief or other- 
wise, by scent, and either run him to ground, as it 
were, or bring him to bay in such a manner as to make 
his capture speedy. He does this without biting or 
worrying his "human chase" in the manner writers, 
have often told us he was in the habit of doing. 
The natural instinct of this hound is rather to hunt 
man than beast. As a puppy he may put his nose to 
the ground and fumble out the line of any pedestrian 
who has just passed along the road. Other dogs will, 
as a rule, commence by hunting their master, the 
bloodhound finds his nose by hunting a stranger. There 
are old records of his being repeatedly used for the 
latter purpose, whether the quarry to be found were a 
murderer or poacher, or maybe only some poor gentle- 
man or nobleman whose politics or religion was not 
quite in conformity with that of those bigots who hap- 
pened to be placed over him. 
Early in the seventeenth century, when the Moss- 
troopers (but a polite name for Scottish robbers) in- 
vested the border counties of Cumberland, Northum- 
berland and Westmoreland, it was found that the ordi- 
nary means of arrest and punishment were insufficient 
to stop the raids of the thieves, so special provision 
was made that should, if possible, put an end to their 
depredations. The Scots were fleet of foot and active, 
and it was believed that the employment of blood- 
hounds would strike terror into the hearts of the 
marauders, The latter were to be pursued "with hot 
fragrant delect, with red hand (as the Scots termed 
it), with hound, and horn, and voice." Surely such a 
hunt as this would be exciting enough, and the hard- 
visaged borderers would have little compunction in 
allowing their hounds to give full vent to their sav- 
agery. 
Dame Juliana Berners, writing in her "Book of St. 
Albans," published in i486, does not appear to men- 
tion the bloodhound, or sleuth hound, but the Lemor 
or Lymer is no doubt the same dog, and so called be- 
cause it ran the line of scent, and not, as it has been 
asserted, because it was the custom to run it in a 
leash. Dr. Keyes (1570) mentions them as having lips 
of large size, and ears of no small length. The learned 
doctor tells us how these hounds ought to be chained 
up in the daytime in dark places, so that they become 
bolder and more courageous in following the felon in 
the "solitary hours of darkness." He likewise de- 
scribes them as being run in a leash which is held in 
the hand of the man in charge of the dogs. This was 
to enable the huntsman, shall I call him, to be up with 
the hounds when his services would be required. It 
seems from the same writer, that, in addition to hunt- 
ing the footsteps of the felon, these dogs were also 
trained to hunt the cattle that might have been stolen, 
a purpose for which he says they were much used on 
the borders. This may have been so or notj most 
likely the latter, for a drove of stolen cattle would be 
easy enough to track without the aid of a keen scent- 
ing "slough dog," though he tnight be abje to be of 
assistance, should the thief be ambitious to try the 
strength and powers of his would-be captor. 
From that period down to the present time, the 
bloodhound was mostly kept as a companion, and only 
occasionally has he been trained to "man-hunting," to 
the terror of the poacher and the evil-doer. For the 
latter purpose, he has repeatedly proved of great ser- 
vice, and many stories are told of the extraordinary 
power a skillful hound may possess, in its faculty for 
sticking to the old scent, however it may have been 
crossed and re-crossed by either man or beast. Colonel 
Huldman mentions the capture of some poachers 
through the instrumentality of bloodhounds, who hunted 
the men fully for five miles from the plantation in which 
they were committing their depredations. Another 
case is mentioned, where a sheep-stealer was discovered 
by similar means, though the hound was not laid on the 
man's track until his scent was at least six hours old. 
Another hound is said to have hunted for twenty 
miles a fellow who was suspected of having cut off the 
ears of one of his former master's horses, and the 
scoundrel was captured and treated according to his 
deserts. 
Captain Powell, writing in 1892 on the convicts of 
Florida (London: Gay and Bird), gives some interest- 
ing information as to the dogs used there in tracking 
such criminals as may attempt to escape. He says 
that, although bloodhounds were first used, they were 
found quite useless, and at the present time foxhounds 
were used for man-hunting in all the southern convict 
camps. These hounds are trained when young to fol- 
low the track of a man who is sent to run a few miles 
through the woods; and there is no difficulty whatever 
in so training them. Indeed, the author tells us that 
he has had hounds that were "natural man-hunters." 
He gives an instance where some puppies he was carry- 
ing at the time a convict tried to escape were put on 
his trail, and followed it until he was captured. Cap- 
tain Powell corroborates what I have already written, 
that it is a popular error to suppose that hounds at- 
tack a prisoner when they run up upon him. When 
once the man is brought to bay, they are a great deal 
too wary to venture close enough to their chase to 
run the risk of a blow; in fact, they merely act as 
guides to the men who follow closely on horseback. 
Some six years or so ago, at Warwick, in 1886, an 
attempt was made to hold trials of bloodhounds in 
connection with the dog show held there. These were, 
however, a failure, excepting so far as they afforded 
an inducement to owners of the variety to give a little 
time .and trouble to working their favorites, which 
hitherto had only been kept for fancy purposes. _A 
little later, similar meetings were held at Dublin, in 
the grounds of the Alexandra Palace, London, and 
elsewhere, but in no case could. they be called very 
successful. 
I had the good fortune to be present at two particu- 
larly interesting gatherings, that took place during the 
wintry weather of January, 1889, and, maybe, the fol- 
lowing particulars, written at the time, give a better 
idea of the modern capabilities of bloodhounds than 
could be written now. It must be noted that the 
hounds mentioned were of the so-called prize strains, 
were "show dogs" in the modern acceptation of the 
term, and, excepting perhaps in ferocity, they would 
no doubt compare favorably with any hounds of the 
kind that lived fifty, a hundred, or more years ago. 
Readers will no doubt be aware that, about 1889 and 
a little earlier, considerable commotion had been 
caused in the metropolis by the perpetration of some 
terrible crimes. The police arrangements were quite 
futile, and the murderers still remain at large. The at- 
tention of the authorities was drawn to the fact, that 
bloodhounds might be of use to them in such a case. 
Mr. Hood Wright offered the loan of his hound Hec- 
tor, but, owing to the fact that he required some in- 
demnity in case his dog was killed or injured. Hector 
remained at home. 
Mr. E. Brough was then communicated with, and he 
brought from Scarborough to London a couple of his 
hounds, when they had several "rehearsals" in St. 
James's Park, where they acquitted themselves to the 
satisfaction of the Chief Commissioner of Police; but 
it may be said, that, though repeatedly the line of 
scent was crossed by a strange foot, without throw- 
ing off the hound, when the same was done in the 
streets and on the pavement, hounds were quite at fault. 
Indeed, to be useful in tracking criminals in a town, 
very special training would be needed, and, personally, 
I believe that bloodhounds, even with that training, 
would be useless in our large centers for police pur- 
poses. 
Under fair conditions any bloodhound will, in a few 
lessons, run the trail of a man a mile or two, or more, 
whose start may vary from ten minutes or a quarter 
of an hour, or longer. Some of the more practiced 
hounds can hunt the scent even though it be an hour 
old, and we know that a couple of Mr. Brough's 
bloodhounds, early one summer's morning, hunted for 
a considerable distance the footsteps of a man who 
had gone along the road eight hours before. 
This is, of course, exceptional, but, with a proper 
course of training during three or four generations, 
there is no reason to doubt that bloodhounds would 
be able to reliably make out the trail of a man who 
had gone three or four hours previously — so long, of 
course, as his footesteps have not been crossed and 
recrossed by others, or foiled in any other way. 
That hounds will ever be got to track a criminal, or 
anyone else, on the cold, damp flags continually passed 
over by pedestrians, as in the streets of London and 
other large towns, no one who understands them will 
believe. Such work they never have done, and never 
will do; nor do the owners themselves aspire to such 
excellence for their favorites. In country districts they 
may be of aid, but in towns, so far as appearances are 
at present, the apprehension of criminals must be left 
to the mental sagacity of the official biped. 
Bloodhounds might be of use in smelling out any 
secreted article or a man in hiding; but an equally well- 
trained retriever, or even terrier or poodle, would do 
this description of work equally well. 
The bloodhound stands alone among all the canine 
race in his fondness for hunting the footsteps of a 
