Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal of the Rod and Gun. 
Copyright, 1904, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1904 
J VOL. LXIII.-No. 7. 
I No. 346 Broadway, Nbw York. 
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TROLLEY RIDING. . 
The advent of the trolley system as a means of passen- 
ger transportation was a public blessing undisguised. Its 
success has far surpassed the most sanguine expectations 
of its early advocates. Designed originally to supersede 
the wretched horse-cars of slow speed and short routes as 
a means of city transportation, it has eminently demon- 
strated its fitness for a much broader field of usefulness. 
The trolley quickly ousted the horse from city street 
car traffic, then spread from town to town, till, in the 
older communities, it is possible from State to State to 
take pleasant journeys of hundreds of miles by trolley. 
This extensive, pervading ramification of trolley lines 
has multiplied many times the facilities for the transac- 
tion of business affairs, besides affording cheap and con- 
venient means of travel to new fields which immeasurably 
add to the pleasures of the people at large. 
' As a rule, a ride on the steam cars, so far as it relates 
to beautiful scenes, is devoid of pleasure. They invariably 
skirt along the back yards of a city, and aim to take as 
straight as may be the nearest way to the next town. In 
pleasing contrast, the trolley journeys through the mo.£ 
beautiful sections of city and country, unfolding an endless 
panorama of delightful views, alike gratifying to the eye 
and wholesome to the mind. 
In particular is the trolley a blessing to the wage 
earners of the great cities, the majority of the people. It 
affords a means of cheap and speedy transportation to 
country and ocean. One can ride through country roads 
for hours, with views of green fields, winding brooks, and 
grand forests, for the outlay of a few pennies. 
Every day, but every Saturday and Sunday in particu- 
lar, during the summer months, the trolley cars transport 
an innumerable host to the suburban resorts around New 
York. 
To Coney Island alone, the trolley cars, on Sundays and 
holidays, convey hundreds of thousands of people. There 
they bathe, sniff the ocean breeze, shoot the chutes, join 
in the many amusements, and eat, drink, and are merry. 
After a day of hearty enjoyment they return to the city 
feeling happier and more content to begin their wage- 
earning anew than would be possible if they were deprived 
of such wholesome recreation. , . 
As a means of seeking recreation, the trolley car is the 
car of the people. Its patrons are the old and young, the 
rich and poor, the fat and the lean, the washed and the 
unwashed. Useful in its capacity on ordinary days, it has 
an elastic capacity on Saturdays and Sundays about New 
York. A seat built for five will hold six people if they 
sit properly awry, and then there is room sufficient for 
seven or eight children in the interstices. The family tb'ts 
enjoys the outing en famille. 
The young man who, in the parlor of the man concern- 
ing whom he cherishes a hope that he will some day 
designate him as father-in-law, sits stiffly in amiable im- 
becility in the presence of the adored one, on the trolley 
car is transformed into quite a different being. He feels 
the importance which comes from knightly responsibility. 
He can take generous initiative in the way of extending 
tender invitations to partake of the high colored lemonade 
and toothsome peanut; and the ceaseless solicitude for 
the loved one's comfort, the thoughtful consideration of 
her liking in respect to whether she would prefer clam- 
chowder or fried sausage for dinner, and in return the 
heartfelt confession that she had the time of her life, do 
more to establish a modus vivendi in one trolley ride than 
could be accomplished in a thousand stilty, insipid visits, 
with a thousand remarks on the possibilities of rain. 
The elders enjoy the opportunity to confer pleasure 
on\the children, besides enjoying the trolley ride for its 
own sake. The children, being in that happy stage of 
life when every thing which is novel is interesting, enjoy 
a]] the incidents of the ride whatever they may be. 
What is true of New York in respect to suburban places 
of recreation and amusement, is true relatively of every 
other city of any importance in America. Each has its 
trolley lines to convey the city dwellers out into the coun- 
try, where the birds sing, the sun shines freely, and the 
flowers bloom. The prices of the trolley ride, . a few pen- 
nies, are within the means of all. The benefits to be derived 
from it, in the way of recreation, good fellowship, and 
healthful diversion, are beyond computation. They are 
worthy the consideration of' those who have never given 
them much thought. 
IN TIBET. 
Now that the British invasion of Tibet has been ac- 
complished by the arrival of Gen. McDonald's force at 
Lahassa, and the British exploitation of the country is to 
follow, the sportsmen of the world are interested in the 
game of the new hunting grounds thus opened to them. 
Tibet, Mongolia, and Centra} Asia generally, have been 
visited by but few sportsmen. They are too' far off, and, 
too much time and money are required to reach them. 
Nevertheless they abound in- big game of many sorts, 
some forms of which — in the estimation of many sports- 
men—are the most desirable that exist. 
Of this game the wild yak is the largest and the most 
easily obtained. The yak is a black ox-like animal with 
short, slender horns, short legs, long wavy hair hanging 
down smoothly ; the tail is bushy and reaches to the hocks' 
and the hair is of such uniform length that it locfks 
almost as if it were trimmed. Among local hunters the 
yak has the reputation of being dangerous,' and it appears 
that it is a tough beast, which will carry away much lead, 
unless it is properly placed. 
Several species of wild horses and wild asses are found 
in this region, where they are killed for food. Among 
these is the Prjevalsky horse, by many believed to be the 
ancestor of at least one form of the domestic horse. A 
pair of these are now to be seen in the gardens of the 
New York Zoological Society. These animals, while often 
useful for food, will not greatly attract the average 
sportsman. 
Tibet and Central Asia generally are great countries for 
sheep — the region, it is believed, of the development of 
this group. Here are found several species of wild sheep 
—commonly called argali — an improper name applied by 
the Mongols only to the female animal, the male being 
called kuldza. Of these, Ows poli is by far the largest, 
its horns measuring six feet in length, while Ovis amnion 
's smaller, but still superb game. These animals inhabit 
. )fty and more or less level plateaus, like all other sheep 
taking refuge when alarmed in the higher peaks. They 
love a rough country. In certain ranges also is found 
the ibex, still abundant, though shy and hard to reach. 
The burhel, another form of wild sheep much better 
known to Indian sportsmen, occurs in Tibet. Here" is 
found also Hodgson's antelope, a beautiful animal with 
graceful, lyre-shaped horns, which are frequently two feet 
in length. 
A form of red deer not very unlike our wapiti or elk is 
also abundant in certain sections of eastern Tibet, and 
enormous quantities of their horns are exported thence 
to China, for use in preparation of a toilet powder. 
The musk deer and various smaller animals are found, 
but comparatively little is known of the lesser animal life 
of the region. 
On the high barren plateaus in northern Tibet there is 
a brown bear sometimes growing to very great size — quite 
as large, and perhaps even larger, than the grizzly of the 
United States. These bears are greatly feared by .the 
natives, who regard them as very dangerous, and as eaters 
of human flesh. As a matter of fact, they live chiefly on 
the marmots which they dig out of the holes they inhabit. 
Except, perhaps, the beautiful and graceful snow 
leopard, there are few cats in Tibet. The country is too 
high for them, but here occurs the extraordinary bear- 
like animals known as Ailuropus melanoleucus, first 
described by the missionary Father Armand David, who 
called it white bear. Very little is yet known about it. 
The tall slopes of the Himalayas which border Tibet on 
the south, have already been much hunted over by British 
sportsmen from India; and now that the trail into Tibet- 
has become an open one, we may believe that the Eng- 
lish will push in there and will have great sport. It is 
a difficult country to pass through on account of its very 
great altitude, which gives it an almost Arctic climate. 
The distances are s'till great, and we imagine it will be 
years before hunters will penetrate very far beyond the 
Indian border line. 
WELD POND AS AN EXAMPLE. 
The very substantial value of good fishing as an asset 
is well illustrated in the case of Weld Pond, one of 
Maine's many attractive waters about which gathers every 
year a colony of summer cottagers. The lake contains 
pickerel, trout, and landlocked salmon, all in goodly sup- 
ply. The landlocked salmon were put in about twenty 
years ago by Commissioner Henry O. Stanley, and have 
prospered. 
The combination of trout and pickerel is unusual ; arid 
the presence of the two species in Weld Pond may per- 
haps be explained by the favorable conditions for trout 
breeding and growth. The lake is surrounded by high 
hills and mountains, in which rise trout streams which, 
after miles of ideal courses, empty into the lake. The 
trout ascend these streams for spawning, and the small 
fry do not come down into the lake until they are large 
enough to take care of themselves against the pickerel. 
The mountain brooks, too, are closed to fishing under the 
Maine system which empowers the fish commissioners to 
forbid fishing in certain waters; and thus there is a con- 
stant source of supply for the restocking of the lake, and 
fishing is always good. 
These angling resources have been the direct means of 
building up a considerable summer population at Weld. 
There are about the lake some thirty summer cottages, 
owned either by people in distant cities who occupy them, 
or. by residents of Weld, who lease them to visitors for 
the season. There are in addition camps and hotels, all 
growing out of and dependent upon the fishing. Such an 
influx of outsiders means an enlarged market f;.r the 
farmer and increased business in various lines of trade. 
Milk, butter, eggs, and vegetables sell at city prices. The 
whole community has share in the prosperity growing out 
of the fishing. Weld Pond is an object lesson, a definite 
example of the wisdom, from a business point of view, ,of 
keeping up the game fish supply. , 
It is perhaps not unfair to say that the average local 
paper will chronicle without censure and as a creditable 
achievement, the taking of excessive bags of game and 
strings of fish by local sportsmen. Nor is it anything less 
than fair to credit the local press with a ready willingness 
to take a stand for moderation in fish and game killing, 
if only the attention of the editor is called to the subject, 
and his sympathy is enlisted on the side of reasonable 
sport. The home paper may be made a most valuable 
and efficient ally in the cause of game protection. The 
first concern of a sportsmen's club whose purpose is to 
enforce the laws and raise the standard of practice -in the 
field, might well be to secure the co-operation of the local 
press. Most right-thinking men are in a peculiar degree 
sensitive to the praise or blame of the home paper, 
whereas they- might not care very much what was said in 
print of their exploits when the criticism did not come 
so< closely home to them. The suggestion made by a cor- 
respondent in another column that the local press should 
be made an ally in the cause of moderate and reasonable, 
rather than excessive and boastful fishing and shooting, 
is deserving of general adoption. 
This is an age of skepticism and unbelief. The squirrel 
barkers, to be sure, rallied nobly to renew a waning fiith 
in that particular feat of arms ; but the insidious question- 
ing of old authorities by Mr. Kelly has had its effect in 
weakening the confidence with which some other shooting 
stories are accepted. Now it is the snuffing of a candle. 
Manhattan marksmen have been trying it, and their Ver- 
dict is that it cannot be done. We have reason to believe 
that the inquirer whose note is printed in an- 
other column, is sincere in his quest of truth as it pertains 
to the candle and the candle snuffer. 
*? 
That relation of a meeting with Daniel Boone by 
Audubon is interesting as a chapter out of the past. It 
relates to a period when the men who went to the fore 
made their way there by the exercise of qualities which 
we admire; and it is refreshing to- read this sympathetic 
and. frankly admiring estimate of one fine man by another, 
