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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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morning houfs on both brooks. During last week (that 
of June 7), some good catches were recorded on bcJth 
brooks, as the rains livened up the fish and they began 
to rise in the meadows again. The bad May fishing 
drove many of our anglers to Maine, and from both 
Rangeley and Moosehead come reports of fine fishing. 
Warner Sturtevant, James Brigham, Robert Wallace 
and others have been at RaHgeley, and Walter H, 
Wesson, of the Smith & Wesson Pistol Co., was at 
his camp at Moosehead, with a party of local men. 
The latter report some good fly-fishing for small trout, 
which rose well to Zulus, silver-doctors and Molitreals. 
In the Berkshire Hills the fishing season has been 
more even, and especially at Becket some good catches 
have been made. Alfred Birnie and Charles L. Good- 
hue control some good fishing in Becket, and they and 
their friends had excellent sport in May. The Bland- 
ford and Otis fishing has not been as good as usdal, 
arid the bass fishing in Ashley ponds has not begun yet. 
Some of the Northampton and Greenfield fishermen 
had good sport thAy in the season, and A. L. Powers. 
M. O. Carey and Edward SiscOj of the former city, 
caught some fine baskets in April. Westfield is always_ 
a busy little town for anglers, and the question of 
stocking Hampton ponds with pike, perch and per- 
haps rainbow trout has been discussed by the West- 
field anglers' club, a flourishing organization. The 
Amherst ang}ers had some fishing which they will re- 
member, during the early part of the season, but a 
Springfield bOy, Bradford Adams, caught one ot their 
largest trout, weighing well over a pound, and so took 
away one chance to boast from them. 
All of our anglers who enjoy the fall shooting have 
been pleased to hear so many quail whistling in the 
fields this spring. The snow Avas so heavy early last 
winter and came in such a rapid series of storms, that 
It was feared that most of the quail had been either 
starved or frozen to death. This was greatly mourned, 
as a few years ago the quail became nearly extinct un- 
der like circumstances, and much money was spent by 
some of our leading sportsmen in buying western quail 
to liberate and restock our covers. This was done suc- 
cessfully, and during the past two seasons the quail 
shooting was better than it had been for years. Many 
birds have been seen this spring, however, and while 
jt is yet too early to see the chicks scurrjang across 
the country roads, there is every promise that there 
will be large numbers of them. The partridge also 
weathered the winter well, and, although they are not 
near as plentiful as they were fiA^e years ago, one or 
two broods have been reported, and a number of old 
birds have been flushed by anglers fishing through the 
woods. Many English pheasants have been seen this 
spring, and in a few years they should furnish some 
good shooting, as they breed well near the city, and a 
large number are killed each year by the authorities 
in Forest Park, where the birds are raised by the city, 
and by Mr. Dickinson, who has a large pheasantry and 
who is stocking the w^oods near his home. The shoot- 
ing of these birds is prohibted now, but a number of 
them were put up in the stubbles last fall and sorely 
tempted some of our crack shots. 
The deer are rapidly increasing in western Massa- 
chusetts, and especially in the Berkshire and Wilbraham 
Hills. It is not an uncommon sight for farmers on the 
hillsides to see the animals in the pastures with their 
cows, and one sometimes sees a doe dashing through 
a wood road while driving. The Legislature passed a 
bill this spring giving further protection to the deer 
by extending the closed season for several years, al- 
though there was some opposition offered by the farm- 
ers, who claimed that the deer were so plentiful and 
so tame that they were causing much damage to crops. 
There is a strong feelmg in some sections of the State 
against an open season on deer, for people realize that 
the country side is so thickly settled that rifle shoot- 
ing would surely entail loss of human life, but it is 
improbable that the deer will ever be here again in 
such numbers as to do serious damage. Some few are 
killed by the lawless element each fall, and others are 
wounded by fox hunters in the winter and slink away 
to die unseen. Two dead does haA^e been found re- 
cently, one by Geo. R. Turner and Robert Cooley, of 
this city, while on a fishing trip to Russell, and 
another by Westfield anglers in their own town. Both 
deer had been dead so long that it was impossible to 
ascertain the cause of death. Click. 
The Bawacwda in Hawaii. 
California's famous fish, the barracuda, has appeared 
in this market for the first time. It ought, with the good 
ofiices of the Fish Commission, to also appear in these 
waters, where there seems to be a chance to acclimate it. 
Indeed, a first cousin to the barracuda, on® of the group 
which includes the fresh-water pickerel and muscalonge, 
is already found along shore and in ponds connected with 
the sea. Like the others, it is a carnivorous fish, lying 
in shad3'- or sedgy places, motionless and alert, to dart 
upon any smaller fish that swims umvittingly near. Ils 
flesh is delicate and full of flavor, and natives are so 
fond of it that they have been knowti to buy at thirty- 
cents a pound. 
The Hawaiian specimen is small, but the barracuda, 
which bears a relation to it like that of the muscalonge 
to the pickerel, ranges in Aveight from six to ten pomids. 
It Avould be an invaluable gain to the food resources of 
this group and a delight to sportsmen, for it takes the 
trolling hook behind a fast yacht Avith all the gameness 
that a fish needs to show to make itself popular with 
anglers. 
- Meanwhile, if the barracuda cannot be caught it can 
be bought, Avhich is the next be_st thing. The importance 
of fish as a substitute for meat in the tropics makes CA^ery 
addition to the edible fish supplj-- a thing of gastronomic 
and physiological importance. — Hawaiian Gazette. 
"I read someAvliere the other day," said Mr. Henpeck, 
"that one of the big mercantile corporations "pays a cer- 
tain man $1,000 for each idea he furnishes. George ! I'd 
like to have a chance of that kind." 
"Wretch!" exclaimed Mrs. Henpeck, "do you want 
yom innocent Avife and childrrn to starve ?''"—Chicag.'j 
Pecord-Herald. 
Maine Waters. 
BangoRj Mc., June 20. — Editor Fordst and Stream: At 
the Bangot salmon pool the fishing has been slightly^ im- 
proved over the preceding weeks, but even now it_ is 
nothing to boast of. Several fish have been landed during 
the weeki Wm. Munro, J. H. PeaAxy and HoAvatd Peayey 
being among the successful anglers, Mr. Peavey leading 
the list with a 20-pound beauty.^ It AvaS reported that un- 
scrupulous persons were securing salmon with a gaff 
from certain favorable locations not accessible to those 
not in the secret, and a Avarden has been appointed to 
keep an eye out for infractions of the la\V in this teSpeCt. 
As the fishing, what there has been, has all been sinCe the 
appointment of this AA-arden, his AvatChfulness may have 
had something to do Avith the larger catch. 
At Huston Pond Camps thefe have been several success- 
ful parties recently, none more pleased with results than 
OliA'er W. Shedd and Orin A. Barnard,, of Boston, who 
visited West Chairback Pond during theif visit and took, 
on the fly, twenty-one beauties Aveighing from ^ pound 
to x% pounds, dressed. Other successful visitors at this 
resort included J. L. Bailey and wife, \Valter Bailey, 
Charles Fisher and Avife and Roy Pisher, all of Hender- 
soUi who caught togue in Big Houston weighing as heaA^y 
as five pounds, and trout in West ChairbaCk weighing 
from a pound to i^/j pounds; E. F. Dearborn and F. H. 
Whitten, of Waterville^ who secured some nice strings 
from LiLtle Houston and We.st Chairback; A. D. Jones, 
of Bangor, who took a fitie string of eighteen from Little 
Houston, one a t-)4-pound trout; 
Dr. Chalmers, P. W. Linscott and Charles Wright, of 
Woburn, Mass., 2nd Charles Goodrich, of Lynn, Mass., 
had a delightful trip to Bay View, on the shore of Dobsis 
Lake, securing all the fish they cared for. Hon. TIenry 
W. Mayo, of Hampden, and friend Frost, of Bangor, 
A\^erc there for a few days and had a most enjoyable trip, 
besides landing -some fine salmon. Their guide paddled 
thcra to within a feAv rods of a large bull moose that was 
crossing the la-kc at the Narrows, but they didn't go very 
near. prefcrVrng to view his majesty from a safe distance. 
Moose are reported far more numerous in the easterly 
P'lrt of Washington county than they have been for many 
years, and as the reports are largely from sportsmen 
i-ather than those Avho might be financially interested m 
the appearance of big game in their vicinity, the impres- 
sion is that the game is actually increasing in those locali- 
ties mentioned. 
Carry Ponds in the Bingham, or perhaps it would be 
better to say the LTpper Kennebec region, haA'e proved 
fully as popular this year as in past seasons, and more so, 
if anything. Over 100 anglers have visited those ponds 
and stayed for a visit lasting from a day to a month 
since the season opened, and that they have had success 
goes Avithout saying to those familiar with the possibilities 
of those waters. The supply of trout of average size 
seems absolutely limitless in the ponds in that vicinity, 
and anglers are sure of good results there, even if they 
do not get any eight and ten-pound square-tails for record 
fish. W. H. H. Ward and wife, of Amherst, Mass., with 
R. H. Goodell, of Boston, are there for the summer, and 
have made some great catches already. In the last two 
weeks Mr. Ward, Avho, as a true sportsman, disdains the 
use of all but the fly, has landed 500 trout, the most of 
A^'hich have been at once returned to the Avater unhurt. 
W. FI. Miller and wife Avere in camp there for two 
Aveeks, during Avhich time Mr. Miller made tAVO trips to 
West Carry, taking a handsome string of togue and trout 
each time, the fish running as heavy as 3^4 pounds 
apiece. Among others who have been enjoying great 
sport Avith the fly are Dr. E. L. Styles, of Ncav York city ; 
J. P. Carpenter, of Boston, and John F. Hutchinson and 
wife, of Lexington, Mass., who haA^e been enjoying the 
best fly-fishing in their experience. 
The season at Grand Lake Stream is proving all that 
it promised, and the number of guests there has been large 
since the fly-fishing opened on the stream, although many 
are still enjoying t'-olling on the big lake. Among those 
AA'ho have registe^^d there this month are the followinij: 
Wilmot H. Smith, James D. Smith, Dr. G. E. Curtis, 
Geo. H. Betts, DeWitt Bailey, of New York city; J. V. 
Hemstreet, Flerkimer, N. Y. ; Geo. Beals, Geo. L. and 
Fred S. Flunter, Geo. A. Fernald, J. S. P. Alcott, of Bos- 
ton ; C. L. Beals, Winchendon, Mass. ; E. H. Mather, Port- 
land; Henry F. Adams, of PaAvtucket, and others. The 
fly-fishing has been splendid, and from present appear- 
ances Avill continue to be good until the middle of July. 
W; H. Smith, of New York, who has been there twenty 
days, has caught in all about 150 salmon, while J. D. 
Smith, having been on the lakes only six days, has an 
average of eight salmon per day. Flenry F. Adams, of 
PaAvtucket, has aAi-eraged ten fish per day, mostly salmon 
and a few trout, one of the latter Aveighing 2^ pounds. 
The Hunter party stayed but scA'-en days, but they landed 
120 salmon and 29 trout, Avhile of the string taken by 
Mr. Alcott during his eight days' visit, 60 were salmon. 
It seems to make no difference Avhether, at this writing, 
one is fishing with bait or flies on the lake, or Avith flics 
on the stream, results are equally satisfactory. One party 
of tAVO Avho tired of fishing in the lake and stream — as 
many do at this season Avhen restilts are so plenty — made 
a trip to Gardiner Brook and CA'idently tried to clean it 
out, for they took 230 trout — but there are still some trout 
left, for a later visitor captured 23 in an afternoon. 
Speaking of moose reminds the AA'^riter of an experience 
Av-hich the passengers on the ti-oUeys rtmning into this 
city from OldtOAvn had a fcAV days since. It was in the 
early morning, and the car had just reached a point above 
Mt. Hope cemeteryj some two miles from the postoffice. 
Avhen the motorman A\'as obliged to stop the car Avhile a 
big bull moose crossed the track and, after all had a fine 
opportunity to observe him, disappeared in the direction 
of the river. It may have been the smoke of the fires 
drove the big fellow from the woods, but as they Avere . 
mostly out at the time, it may have been one of those 
cases that have occurred in this city several times within 
a year or two, caused by the increasing numbers of moose 
and their apparent fearlessness during the close season. 
Capt. F. D. Bigney, of the steamer Comet, one of the 
steamers of the Coburn Steamboat Company plying be- 
tween Greenville and Kineo, has had his run changed 
from the head of the lake, so that noAV he covers but half 
the distance -in direct run that he formerly did. Capt, 
Bigney is an exceedingly modest man, but it is suspected 
by those who know how anxious sportsmen are to kill 
bears, _ that Landlord Colbath of the Seboomook House 
had him transferred to the Kineo run so that there might 
be some bears left to hunt up there when open season 
rolls around. It seems that the Captain, having time on 
his hands between trips, set a bear trap a few miles from 
the head of the lake, and in just a few weeks caught two 
bears, one bi^ bear and the other a small Cub, the latter 
of which he is having mounted Avhole. One day as he 
AvaS over looking after his traps (having caught the 
l.'.rger bear previously )^ he heard a slight noise, and look- 
ing up Saw on a log within almost reach of ,a quick jump 
two bear cubs that had not, for some reason, discovered 
him. A movement in another direction called his atten- 
tion that way, and there, stranding up and looking at him 
in astonishment, was a third beaf,^ and he heard still a 
fourth in the bushes. Fle is positive about the bear he 
didn't .see, as he discovered later enormous tracks, too 
liirge for any of his visitors, which had carefully investi- 
gated his dangerous plaything and decided not to interfere 
Avith it. Of Course, careful man that he is, the Captain 
visited and removed his traps whet] he was ordered from 
Seboomook to Kineo, that no animal might be caught 
and kept there in Sufl"ering. 
John TownCj of Portland, and B. B. Talbot, of New 
York city, paid Schoodic a brief visit the other day, tak- 
it3g three splendid lake trout in the lake and good strings 
of trout in nearby brooks. 
Moosehead continues to report good Catches, although 
the sport is confined almost exclusively to the fly. Dr. 
J. C. h'rench and wife, of Webster, South Dakota, has 
been at Northeast Catry staying a week, and their largest 
square-tail being a 4-pounder. One morning before ten 
o'clock the Doctor made a fine 'catch of six Square-tail 
trout, a laker and a Avhitefish. 
The gates in the dam at the Outlet have all been closed, 
and the fishing has been exceptionally good all the week. 
Monday 200 trout were taken at the dam, averaging a 
pound and a half. A. J. l^igelow, of Worcester, took 
four 3-pound trotit cm the fly Wednesday, and L. B. 
Jewell, of Hartford, Conn., took two before breakfast. A. 
H. Stevens, of Marlboro, Mass., who was there only four 
dv.ys, returned home the middle of the Aveek with his full 
limit. Miss Elizabeth Wilson is also among the happy 
an.giers, having landed a four-pound trout on the fly this 
Aveek, as well as a two-pound togue. Among others who 
are enjoying the .sport at the Outlet are F. W. Jones and 
wife, of NeAv York city; A. H. Davis and Avife of Port- 
land; C. H. Baker, of Boston, and W. H. Place, of Provi- 
dence, R. I. 
At Deer Island, Clement C. Moore, of New York, seems 
still able to lead all the fly-fishermen, and the man must 
be an expert, indeed, who can surpass this ATteran of th2 
red and reel, Avho has a four-pound trout for his best, and 
:: long list of two to three pounders. S. P. Chick and 
Avi 'e, of Brookline, Mass., had fine sport at the same 
place, taking thirty-nine lakers and nine trout during 
their stay. _D. H. Spear and wife, of Bath, have had 
great sport in that vicinity, and the latter counts herself 
among the successful anglers with her record of a 3y2- 
pound trout. 
Near the Crow's Nest in Sandy Bay the other day, Roy 
McAlpine. of Greenville, hooked and landed a handsome 
trout, which, when weighed, was just 4^2 pounds, and 
measured 22 inches in length. It Avas a beauty, and one 
of the best taken in Sandy Bay this season. 
FIerbeet W. Rowe. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Swi'mmtng PoAvers of a Horse. 
Chicago, 111., June 20. — My friend, Mr. W. A. PoAvef, 
propounds a conundrum as to the swimming powers of a 
horse, bringing up the question whether or not a horse 
can swim and carry a man on its back. He says : "When 
I was in Mississippi I had something sprung on me in 
regard to which Forest and Stream ought to be able 
to give me some help. A gentleman started it at the 
Bobo place, bringing up the argument Avhether or not 
a horse could swim with a man on its back. He said that 
no horse, or at least none that he . had ever seen, could 
SAvim with a rider on his back, and that he had seen it 
tried on a wager at Meridian, Mississippi, fourteen differ- 
ent horses from liA-ery stables being tried, and not one of 
them being able to keep his head above Avater, although 
Avhen the rider got ofl the horse swam all right. He als'o 
said that any man who had a horse that could swim and 
carry a rider could make a big pot of money by making a 
trip to Meridian. I Avas not well enough posted to go 
into the argument very far, but I have surely been on a 
horse when I thought he Avas SAvimming Avith me, 
although I am Avilling to admit there may be tAVO sides to 
the question." Later Mr. PoAvel wrote again regarding 
this interesting question: "I have been getting more in- 
formation in regard to the swimming power ' of a horse, 
and I am going to take a horse to Mississippi one of 
these days and break that tOA\m of Meridian, where they 
say a horse can't swim Avith a rider." 
I think Mr. Powel will be able to break the town all 
right, if they are willing to back their judgment as above 
enunciated. I presume a great many men have been in 
swimming depth of water on horseback and haA'e noticed 
thai if they^ sit Ioav and Avell back the horse can get alsong. 
Of course, it is much better to slip off of the horse, take 
the down stream^ side of him and hold on to the saddle 
horn or to his mane, Indians sometimes hold on to the 
tail of the SAvimming horse. Of course, the more of the 
man's body there is submerged, the easier it will be for 
the horse to SAvim. It is not a proper, but a possible, 
thing for a SAvimming horse to carry a man who may 
fairly be said to be upon its back. 
Tarpon, 
Mr. Oswald 'Von Lengerke recently returned from his 
tarpon trip at Aransas Pass, and reports a very good time. 
He beached three tarpon and played a great many fish 
which he purposely turned loose, and this was the ex- 
perience also of Mr. C. H. Lester, of this city, and Mr. 
Delos Thompson, of Rensselaer, Indiana, Avho made up 
the party. Mr. Von Lengerke showed a badly disligured 
thumb and said that any tenderfoot Avho begins tarpon 
