Prepared Blanks sent free on application:
Belle of Surrey—Chatham, Prince.. J. G. Lipsett’s (Roxbury, Mass.)
bull-terrier bitch Belle of Surrey (Comet II.—Rose) to Chatham Ken-
nels’ Chatham Prince (Hinks—The Shrew), Oct. 17,
Rose—Chatham Prince. J. G. Lipsett’s (Roxbury, Mass.) bull-ter-
rier bitch Rose (Patch—Countess) to Chatham Kennels’ Chatham
Prince (Hinks—The Sbrew), Oct. 22. : .
Grouse I,—Blemton Stickler. C. §. Hanks’s fox-terrier bitch Grouse
if. to Blemton Kennels’ Blemton Stickler, Oct. 7. - x
Brokenhurst Queenie—Raby Pallisy, &, 8. Hanks’s fox-terrier bitch
Brokenhurst Queenie to his Raby Pallisy, Sept. 27. :
Raskeda—Leekhoi. C. S, Hanks’s Russian wolfhound bitch Raskeda
(Kreelat—Khratka) to his Leekhoi (Riezvee—Labedka), Sept. 25
Svodka—Leekhoi. ©. S. Hanks’s Russian wolfhound bitch Svodka
to his Leekhoi, Oct. 2 and 8, ;
Obrouga—Sorvanets. C.S, Hanks’s Russian wolfhound bitch Obrouga
to his Sorvanets, Oct, 5. .
Damson—Raby Pallisy, ©. S. Hanks’s fox-terrier bitch Damson to
his Raby Pallisy (Raby Patter—Maise), Sept. 25. beget
Seacroft Myrtle—Warren Duke. C,S,. Hanks's fox-terrier bitch Sea-
croft Myrtle (Raby Pallisy—Damson) to L. W. Rutherfurd’s Warren
Duke (First Flight—Warren Dawn, Sept, 20. ; }
Seacroft Agatha—Raby Pallisy. C,$. Hanks’s fox-terrier bitch Sea-
croft Agatha (D’Orsey—Damson) to his Raby Pallisy (Raby Patter—
Maise), Oct. 1. 2 / J
Seacroft Fuss—Starden’s King. ©, 8, Hanks’s fox-terrier bitch Sea-
ae ss Fuss (Venio—Grouse II.) to J. E, Thayer’s Starden’s King),
ct. 1, ?
Trixie H.—Woodale Driver. F. H. Hoyt's (Sharon, Pa.) fox-terrier
bitch Trixie H, to W, F. Porter’s Woodale Driver, June 19.
Belle of Sharon—Woodale Driver. W. F. Porter’s (Sharon, Pa.)
fox-terrier bitch Belle of Sharon to his Woodale Driver, Oct. 3.
WHELPS,
ES" Prepared Blanks sent free on application.
Chatham Queen. Chatham Kennels’s (Boston, Mass.) bull-terrier
bitch Chatham Queen (champion Jubilee—My Queen), Oct. 5, four
(two dogs), by Toon & Symond’s Prince Gully (True Blue—Polly).
Maud Noble. N, Wallace's (Harmington, Conn.) English setter bitch
Maud Noble (Rowdy Rod—Pearl Noble), Oct. 11, nine (four dogs), by
Blue Ridge Kennels’ champion Antonia (Roderigo—Bo Peep).
SALES.
( Prepared Blanks sent free on application.
Jasper. Fox-terrier dog, whelped Jan. 20, 1893, by Blemton Rasper
out of Grouse II., by ©, S. Hanks, Manchester, Mass., to Mr. Mason,
Newton Centre, Mass.
Seacroft Assert. Fox-terrier bitch, whelped August, 1891, by D’Or-
sey out of Damson, by C, S. Hanks, Manchester, Mass., to HE. A. Cook,
Germantown, Pa,
Seacrofi Bouster.
minie out of Brokeuhurst Queenie, by C, 8. Hanks,
to W. H. Fendrich, Columbia, Pa. _
Sorvaneits—Flodeyka whelp. Russian wolfhound dog.
19, 1893, by C. S. Hanks, Manchester, Mass., to R.
Pittsfield, Mass. Z
Leekhoi—Kinjal whelp. Russian wolfhound dog, whelped Dec. 31,
1892, by GC. S. Hanks, Manchester, Mass., to C. Hale, Elsworth, Me.
Groubian—Flodeyka whelp. Russian wolfhound dog: whelped Noy.
16, 1893, by C. S. Hanks, Manchester, Mass,, to T, D. Dolen, Philadel-
hia, Pa.
y Leekhoi—Vinga whelps. Two Russian wolfhound dogs, whelped
Aug. 3, 1893, by G. S. Hanks, Manchester, Mass., to T. H. Kellogg, Wil-
lard, Seneca Lake, N. Y. ;
khoi—Obrouga whelps. Russian wolfhounds, whelped Dec. 29,
1893, by C. S. Hanks, Manchester, Mass., one to H. Winderle, Edge Hill
Village, Pa., and two to W. Price, Chestnut Hill, Pa.
Leekhoi—Raskeda whelps. Russian wolfhounds, whelped Oct. 16,
1892, by GC. S. Hanks, Manchester, Mass., a white, lemon spots, dog to
N. M. Wanner, York, Pa.; a white, red spots, dog to Hugene Hall, Bur-
lington, Wiss.; a dog to Dr, Streeter, Chicago, IU., and a bitch each to
. D. Dolen, Philadelphia, Pa., and A, B, Pitts, Columbus, O.
Emblem. Pointer bitch, by Fred F, Harris, Woodfords, Me., to Ed.
BE. Kelley, same place.
Ellen Terry. St. Bernard bitch, whelped May 10, 1887, by Jacob Rup-
pert, Jr., New York city, to Wooding & Hoyt, The Heights, Ber-
wick, Pa,
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
There is no charge for answering questions under this head. All
uestions relating to ailments of dogs will be answered by Dr. T. G.
Brerwood, a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Communications referring to other matters connected with Kennel
Management and dogs will also receive careful attention.
Fox-terrier bitch, whelped Angust, 1891, by Do-
anchester,, Mass.,
whelped June
eW. Sampson,
R. F. M., Omaha, Neb.—The judge was Mr. C. H. Mason, and cocker,
we believe, Mr. Dole’s Othello,
B., Norwich, Ct.—Cherry Lad is by Cherry Boy (6,338), out of
Flossy T., by Col. Stubbs (4,676) out of Pix, by Grip out of Flirt.
J. EH. §.—Write to Mr, H. W. Huntington, 148 So, Eighth street,
Brooklyn, N. Y., for acopy of the National Greyhound Club Rules.
N. G.S., Newtown, Conn,—I have just lost two valuable pointer
puppies, five months old, and as Lhayenoticed my Hneglish setter bitch
by champion Paul Bo begun to show symptoms of the same
trouble, I hasten to describe it that you can tell me what to do for her.
It comes on by a twitching in the hind legs, and I should think was a
nervous trouble, It gradually gets worse, and their systemsrun down
and the twitching increases until they suffer terribly from it, and
Sometimes gointo spasms, Ans. Probably the result of distemper,
Write again describing all symptoms more fully. In the meantime
give the following mixture: 5
BECEL TOT) Te eS oro Sono PAUP COCA IOC CEE ECE Ma dates -3ii,
Qhiloral Hydros.icciheniee ion BUF tschce)Baktasebi piel ef seeaaicoinm ae ai.
Tr hellads eres earrit thrice coe ee ne ee Ziss.
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Mix. Give one teaspoonful two or three times a day.
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Hunting and Coursing.
FIXTURES.
“Nov. 7.—New England Beagle Club’s Trials. W. §. Clark, Linden,
Mass., Sec’y.
Field Trial Committee Meeting of N. B. C.
A MEETING of the field trial committee was called at 8:20
P. M. Nov. 2. Present, BH. L. Kreuder, Geo. Laick, F. W.
Chapman, B. 8. Turpin, H. W. Lacy.
The judges were asked to report on the classes they had
judged so far, and then the objection by Mr. H. VY. Jamieson
to Mr. Dorsey’s Pade was read, he protesting it on the
ground that it was not a beagle according to the entry form
of the N. B.C. Mr. Dorsey’s evidence was taken informally.
We would like to have given a picture of this dog, but Mr.
Do reay refused to have it taken, and would not state his rea-
sons therefor, though asked by the club’s president. On the
entry form Mr. Dorsey states Pade’s color to be yellow,
brown and white, age not given; sire Ned, dam Flora. Ned
is by Stonewall Jackson, by imported Chimer. Flora’s pedi-
gree is enveloped in shadow. In Mr. Dorsey’s examina-
tion before the field trial committee he stated that he pu -
chased Pade from a Mr. Jones, of ENicot City, Md.
Flora is understood to have been stolen and to giye her
pedigree might be prejudicial to Pade’s former owner,
Ned’s dam is unknown, but Stonewall Jackson is owned by
aman near Ellicot City. Mr. Jones bought Pade as a pup
and he was hunted by hisson. Mr. Dorsey paid $15 for him.
Acknowledged he would not enter Pade at a bench show
and stated that he did not think Pade a typical English
beagle for show purposes. Said Pade did not look likea
thoroughbred beagle. Would not breed to him for show
‘form, but would for field qualities. Had no idea where he
gets his peculiar form. The committee then decided to
py te premiums won by Mr. Dorsey with the exception
of Pade’s, which was beld over until the next meeting of the
field trial committee, which will probably be held during
Newark show orsooner. Meeting adjourned.
NATIONAL BEAGLE CLUB TRIALS.
ONCE more have the members of the National Beagle Club,
one of the most energetic and progressive specialty clubs in
the country, demonstrated that the merits of two beagles
can be determined by a field trial just as well as those of a
pointer or setter. It is hard work, but then the men who in-
dulge in this sort of sport do not consider that. They may
yawn and wonder what in the world they are there for when
the minutes become hours and bunny is 707 est, but with
the first whimper that proclaims a find all is eagerness and
excitement, and when the whimper becomes a cry and is
answered by the other dog, who quickly harks to his mate,
and sure of the line out pours the glorious duet and away
they go. Then does the beagle hunter think that life is
worth living, and scratches, wet feet, tired limbs, everything
is forgotten in the eager race to see the run, while the music
encourages tired limbs to put their best foot first,
There was the usual grumble about the lack of-rabbits,
oor scent and rough grounds, But then what can be done?
n the open ground and plain cover there seem to be few if
any hares, so that in the end we have to go to the brier
swamps to get through the trials before the week ends, For
Spectators it is one, of the best places, for they can stand on
the hillside, and in one Be where the sumacs grow, they
can view all the twists and turns of bunny and amuse them-
selves with the frantic efforts of the judges to pick briers ont
of their eyes and keep track of how the dogs are working at
the same time, Those who undertake to judge beagle trials
must be stout of limb, have capacious lungs and plenty of
patience and perseverance, These qualities the judges this
year most certainly possessed in generous degree; both are
well versed in field sports and were Seat Sha good condi-
tion. Mr. B.S. Turpin was fresh from the Brunswick Fur
Club trials of the previous week, where he acted as one of the
judges, and a week after the foxhounds on the hills round
North Acton, Mass., puts aman into prime condition. Joe
Lewis, the other judge, is about as tough as they are made,
and no run is too long or brier too thick but that he is some-
where about when the check comes and allows a minute’s
breathing time.
The quality of the work done in the Derby and large dog
class was scarcely up to last year, but the judges think that
the hunting by the winners in the 13in. class showed consid-
erable improvement, and in this we coincide. Pade and
Spot R. furnished the liveliest heat of the meeting, and kept
us on the jump all the time. Snow and Wanderer did good
work, too, but when they ran together it was in a poor place
for scent—too dry. The Derby work was poor on the whole,
though Mollie Dean gives promise of making a very useful
bitch. The judges, as stated above, did their work well and
conscientiously, and there was no kicking. The only un-
pleasant feature of the trials was the objection against Pade,
and Mr. Jamieson would seem to be quite justified in the
Cones he took. This affair, however, will be treated of else-
where.
sea a yt he the New York papers, at least the principal ones
published accounts of the running every day, there were
fewer spectators than last year, and the last two days’ hunt-
ing was left almost entirely to members of the club. We
have already, inlast week’s issue, given the names of those
present, The utmost good feeling prevailed and as usual
the quip and joke passed around freely when the day’s work
was Over.
Mr. H. Li. Kreuder was field marshal, and it seemed that
both he and his family and, in fact, everything that was his
were at the service of the intruders. There arefew men who
would turn their homes into a semi-hotel, and subject them-
selves to the inconveniences that the Kreuder family must
experience. A hunter's supetite is a simile commonly used
and nothing but solid viands willsatisfy it. These we had
in abundance, and whoever does the cool at the ‘‘Kreuder
Homestead” is a chef in her line. Whenall thehunting was
over it was only appropriate that wesat down toa rabbit
dinner, most excellently prepared. .
There was little delay in getting the dogs up for each heat,
and as far as trials go all was well arranged. The members
of the Field Trials Committee are: J. W. Appleton, Wim.
Tallman, Geo. Laick, E. Gerry Roberts, John Bateman, H.
L, Kreuder, H, W. Lacy, H. F. Schellhass, Pottinger Dorsey,
A. D. Lewis, 7. W. Chapman, B.S. Turpin. 6 have al-
ready given the first day’s work, and the continuation of the
heats in the 15in, class is given below.
TUESDAY, OCT. 31.
Class A—13 to 15in.—Contmovep.
When we pulled up our blinds this morning it was to find
the whole country covered with a white pall, and we knew
that the heaviest frost of the season had .been busy while we
slept. Ice had formed in the ponds and ditches, but Old Sol
was soon ready for business, and quickly melted the frost.
“crust” and then dried up the grass, so that scent lay badly
all day, and as the day grew older it became quite warm.
The grounds selected are about a mile from the village, and
most of it is very rough, swampy and covered with briers and
sumacs. Hares were plentiful, however, but naturally diffi-
cult to follow, and the scent was so poor at times, even a few
yards from where a rabbit had been started, that the hounds
were continually at fault. An early start was made and the
first brace,
TRIFLE IIl,—MoprEL—Cast off at 8:15. This was the unfin-
ished heat of the previous evening. The dogs were bothered
a good deal at the start; first a cat track led them astray,
and then some dogs getting loose did not improve matters.
At last the serious business of the day began when a hare
was jumped by the crowd. :The beagles drove poorly, being
frequently at fault and barking back on the trails. Taken
in all the work was indifferent, but Trifle had the best of it,
This dog is over two years old but had never been hunted
till three weeks since, Ordered up at 9:17.
VeENus II.—Vick R.—These were put down at 9:23, and
both handled by their owners, P. Dorsey and H.V. Jamieson.
Both started well, the ranging being in favor of Vick R. A
long hunt in cover ensued before bunny was found by the
ee lage Dogs were put on the hot trail and Venus hit
oif but Vick soon took the lead, set a good pace and showed
herself much superior in driving and hunting and was at all
times amenable to control. They ran for an hour and twenty
minutes, being taken up at 10:48. Vick was clearly the best.
ORACLE—J ACE BANNERMAN were cast off at 10:35. J. W.
Appleton handled Oracle and Mark Lewis the other dog.
By this time all signs of frost had disappeared and scent was
very elusive. During the heat five rabbits were started in
various places, and though the hounds were laid on hot
trails they could not carry them. Oracle was slow and did too
much pobiere This made Jack Bannerman’s vigorous
style of hunting more conspicuous, and he always had the
speed of the other.
form. Up at 11:25,
JoE—W ANDERER.—Cast off at 11:28. Joe had the seryices
of Mark Lewis and Wanderer was in charge of the veteran
Pottinger Dorsey. The dogs hunted till lunch time without
making a good strike, and in this work Joe seemed to have
the best of it in ranging, making wide casts, but always well
under control; but Wanderer’s turn came aiter we had been
regaled with most appetizing chowder and etceteras. That
Miss Kreuder looks well after our material comforts was the
general sentiment.
After lunch a grand race took place, the hare being a
corker and une every moye known to his kind to throw his
ursuers off the trail, andin following him Wanderer showed
is worth, for he excelled in the way he made his casts and
in picking up the trail at a ‘‘loss” and then generally leading
' when it came to a hard drive, Joe, in the earlier part, w
Neither, however, came up to winning
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Nov. 11, 1893.]
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pure hunting was needed, showed that his bump of hunting
sense was well developed. Wanderer is inclined to loaf a bit
in this part of the game. The judges were fairly pumped
out in this heat, as the going was terribly rough among the
briers and sumacs. Dogs called up at 2:40. ;
Snow—Buck.—Cast off at 2:55 on a hot trail where hare
had just jumped, and they carried it along ata great pace, fol-
lowing puss up close in all her feints and turns through the
briers. First one led, then the other, Snow having generally
the speed of the other in straightaway drives, but when it
came to puzzling work at the turns Buck showed himself
superior, In hunting for game Snow ranged wider, covered
more ground and worked in a sensible manner. Up at 3:35,
down 40m. 3
GREYBURN DAIsy—LUPRA.—At 3:50 they were cast off in
sumac bushes where so much of the work to-day has been
done. Daisy in the little driving done had the speed of the
other, and also in hunting made wider casts and hunted out
intelligently more ground than the other. Lufra was in-
clined to potter at times. No hare was started and dogs
were called up at 4:45, just as the sun was sinking, A
pleasant walk home and the first series of the large class
was finished. To-morrow the start will be made in the
second series—Joe with Buck, Snow with Wanderer, Fanny
Racer with Vick R.
WEDNESDAY.
Second Series.
JoE—BucK.—These were put down in pasture behind the
“Kreuder Homestead” at 8:10. Both were willing hunters
and worked out several likely places without result, until
Buck tongued, but failed to work out the trail. In thick
swamp he started game and carried the trail alone, turned
back and seemed to be driving for all he was worth, but no
ame was seen. Up at 9:55. Buck had the best of it, Joe
eing off nose to-day seemingly.
SNow—W ANDERER.—Mark Lewis handled Snow, and P,
Dorsey his own dog. Cast off at 10:05 at the edge of open
coyer and at once Judge Lewis started a rabbit, and dogs
were brought to the trail, but neither could lift it, though
they cast well and intelligently, the leaves were too dry.
Wanderer then drove for a hill to one side and lost casting
for the trail; hesoon hitit off and a keen run took place with
Wanderer in the van. Then he let down, and from thattime
out Snow took the “reins” and drove hard and fast; in fact,
she pressed her lost hare so close that as it sought shelter in
the ditch and low wall, she nearly nabbed it. There is little
between these two, but Snow has if anything a slight ad-
vantage. Up at 9:35. Wanderer is better in casting for and
hitting off the trails, but when it came to fast driving Snow
showed to greater advantage.
FANNY RACER—VICK R.—These two beagles are probably
as well known as any in the trials; they have frequently won
honors on the bench, They were put down where rabbit was
lost in the last heat at 10:45. Fanny Racer handled by M.
Lewis, Vick R. by owner. Vick soon tongued, but overran
the trail, and a Jong hunt ensued without finding. In
swampy ground Vick spoke’ again, then Hanny opened, but
both. pottered a good deal. They carried this sort of thing on
for a mile or more on an old fox trail. Then harking back,
Judge Lewis jumped a hare in the open and some merry
bursts ensued, short, but exciting while{they tongued. They
kept this up for twenty minutes, and then were called for
lunch at 1:15. Vick seemed to have the best of rather poor
work on the whole.
After a lunch, in which some hot baked beans, a tender
compliment to our friends from Massachusetts, had played a
conspicuous part, the running was resumed. In the
3 Third Series
SNow—W ANDERER were cast off to test their finding capa-
bilities, Called up at 2 P. M. without starting anything, it
was found that Snow beat out her ground better and was
under better control.
W ANDERER— VICK R.—These went down at 2:04in woods
for the same purpose. A long, weary tramp followed, in
which every likely spot was hunted out, but nothing found,
though Wanderer did a bit of driving by herself some dis-
tance from the other dog. At first he had to be coaxed to hunt,
but finally age down to business. After an hour’s walk we
came up to Mr, Reed, who had marked a hare; and hounds
being put on some good driving followed, in which both
dogs did well. They were called up at 3:40, and after a short
consultation the judges announced the results: Snow first,
Wanderer second, Vick R. third and Buck reserve.
Class B—13in. and Under.
LITTLE LEE—GYPSEY FOREST.—It was getting late when
these two were slipped, and the hunt was in the direction of
home. Little Lee seemed afraid of briers;he is very small—
llin.—and lightly made. Having hunted always in the
Maine swamps, he does not like this rough country. Gypsey
went the strongest and showed most intelligent hunting.
Nothing started by 4:45, when dogs were called up, and we
found ourselves near the ‘““Homestead”’ and dinner,
These two will be put down in the morning. Altogether
the day has been rather a blank and the decisions given were
generally on the work done on Tuesday.
THURSDAY.
Class B.
First Series—Continwed.
The morning opened cloudy and damp with a light south-
erly wind, which raised hopes that scent would be good to-
day and some fine hunting take place. We were not dis-
Aponte as about the best work of the trials was seen.
The start was with ht
LittLE LEE—GYPSEY FOREST in the sumacs and brier
swamp down on Moe’s Hillside. They were handled by
owners. A hare was soon found, but they failed to take wu
the trail, and when another was started for them they di
not do very brilliant work, though Gypsey Forest proved to
be a much better hound.
IyA—ADAM.—Ina was handled by owner and Adam by
Mark Lewis. They were both active workers, but in experi-
ence Adam babbled so much that it was difficult to tell when
he was driving and when he was just enjoying himself. In
a rather poor race Ina had the best of it, both in hunting
sense and the little trailing they did.
Lou—PApDp.—These two were put down at 9:55in thick,
swampy cover. Lou had the help of Mr. Kreuder, and Pade
was handled by Mr. Dorsey. The difference in type was very
noticeable, Pade looking more like a modified basset while
Lou—well, we all know that few can beat this pretty bitch
in type and quality, and how she keeps up! She seemed to
go stronger and looks far better in her hind legs this year
than last, and she is nearly ten years old. Working up to
higher ground a hare was started, but dogs had to be put on
before they picked is the trail which carried them to the
sumac grove where Pade drove fast, and left Lou whose
heart was good, but the pacetoo warm. Pade ranged wide
and fast and showed some of the best work of the trials.
Up at 10:40.
OLLIE DEAN—Spot R.—These were down at 10:45 in sum-
aes, and Spot R, soon showed that she could run all round
Mollie. ste is a well made little bitch, an intensely busy
hunter, and probably in her own country ou the swamp hares
in Vermont she would range wider, here the thick cover and
briers made her yery careful, but she never pottered, it was
all hunt, and when she struck atrail she meant business.
Mollie was outpaced, but she hunted well. Upi11:07. This
finished the first series.
Second Series.
PabE—Spot R.—Down at 11:20 in open ground on hill.
Edge of cover, rabbit started by reporter and hounds put on,
Pade struck first and they held to bunny’s back trail, lost,
and then Pade carried us out into the open where they were
at fault again; the sun by this time being quite warm. ; Spot
then caught the turn and took it up merrily to a loss.
Another rabbit was started but trail soon lost, Spot then
distinguished herself, and a short, though pretty run in open
followed. After 30m. hunt Pade opened on a new trail down
in cover again, lost, and then Spot led a merry burst and
eyery one found it difficult to follow this speedy couple.
Way off tothe left Pade struck a trail which he followed
tothe swamp and lost. Up 12:35. Pade has the speed and
is a wider ranger, but as beagles hunt thereis little differ-
ence between them, Where Pade gets hisspeed isan enigma,
he evidently has some of the old Southern hound in him, He
drives more like a foxhound than a beagle.
Lou—GyYpsEy Forrest—Cast off at 12:37 down toward the
swamp. This heat afforded us a rest after the previous
heat’s hard work, running up and down this hill soon pumps
MR. POTTINGER DORSEY’S PADE.
every bit of breath out of an ordinary man. On a hare that
was put up Gypsey led, but only carried it afew yards to a
check, and Spot was put down with them. No more driving
and dogs up at 1:05forlunch. Judgesconsulted awhile, and
decided that Pade wins first, but with the reservation that
Mr. Dorsey explain his dog’s breeding. Spot R. second,
Gypsey Forest third, Lou reserve. In case Pade is disquali-
fied Ina takes reserve and the others move up.
Derby.
First Series.
After lunch the first brace in this stake was called.
L&E III.—CLI0,—Dogs were handled by owners. Cast off
at 1:52in same cover where all the running has been done
to-day. Nothing was found, however, and dogs were taken
up to high ground over the railroad track. Cast off again at
2:40. Mr. Jamieson saw a rabbit squatting, and though dogs
were brought up and saw it go away, they couid not lift the
trail. lee III, did not show much interest, anyhow. Scent
PRESIDENT EREUDER WITH ZILLAH AND GHAMPION LOU.
was very poor on the leaves. Another rabbit was started
by a reporter. and dogs drove well to a road, where they were
at fault, and then worked the back trail to where game was
started. Up 3:05. Neither hound showed up very well, but
Clio had the best of it.
QUEEN OF THE FOREST—MOLLIE DEAN.—Down at 38:10.
M. Lewis handled the first-named and Mr. Chapman the
latter. Cast off where others were taken up. Shortly after
Mollie started and drove till a gun was fired, and Queen
blinked a little. Then Judge Turpin spied a hare, but neither
could lift the trail on the dead leaves. Then Mollie had a
short spin a few minutes after, and dogs were up at 3:32.
Mollie was far the best, the little one showing little inclina-
tion or experience.
Brtu NYE IT. —BLANCHE.—Down at 3:37 in same place. W.
H, Hyland handled Bill Nye and M. Lewis the other. We
had more fun in this heat than any other. Working into
open fields on high ae Mr. Hyland jumped a hare, and
both dogs being laid on the trail Bill picked it up and drove
a short distance, and then did some wide casting, but with
little judgment. Afterward he found and carried it to open
fields, but they were checked at a low wall; rabbit passed in
front of them along the wall, but they did not see it and
could not lift the trail. Going into the next field, where
spectators marked’ the hare squatting on the short grass
e a stone, the dogs were caught, and the sight of Hyland
and Lewis holding their dogs over the hare waiting for the
word go was most laughable, Hare started and both dogs
went well from the slips in full view, and racing across the
open field Billled to the wall, when bunny fooled them.
They made a pretty picture and conclusively proved that
they couldtfollow thejhare?at great ‘speed? when they sav it.
They evidently think seeing is believing. Up at 4:15,
LirtTLe LEE (a bye) with Mollie Dean. Lee handled by Mr.
Chapman. They hunted twenty-five minutes and then were
ordered up; nothing found, Little Lee, as usual, not doing
much hunting.
FRIDAY.
Second Series.
This was the last day, and opened cloudy and misty. Few
came out to see the work as it was about a foregone conclu-
sion that rain would fall, and it did, just as the stake was
finished. x
MOLLIp DEAN—BILL Ny& II.—The same old sumac grove
was tried. Cast off at 8:30, A hare was up at once and Bill
had achance to distinguish himself but failed, and Mollie
did no better afterward. Soon after a reporter jumped
another hare and Mollie hit off the line, but Bill babbled so
mel that it bothered Mollie at the checks. Up at 9 o’clock.
en
BLANCHE—BILL Nyx II. ran together at 9:03 and down
toward the swamp another hare was found by a reporter,
and though dogs were brought to the form, neither could fol-
low the trail, though Blanche followed the line for some
distance mute. Afterward they had a short drive, and as
there was little between them, the judges called them up
and decided that Mollie Dean should have first and Blanche
and Bill Nye II. divide second. Reserve withheld.
Champion Stake.
As Zillah had forfeited, Snow was the only aspirant for
the championship title, as Pade was under a cloud, and Mr.
Dorsey had gone home.
Snow was put down at 9:30 to run the time out with Spot
R. Rain fell heavily and nothing was done.
Thus ended the trials of 1893 without the cheers, and as
much good feeling as prevailed at the same time last year,
when Lee II. was hailed as absolute winner,
SUMMARY.
CLASS A.
For dogs and bitches, all ages, 15in. and over 13in., that have not
been placed first in any class at field trials held by N. B.C. first
prize $60, second $40, third $20.
First Series.
H. L Kreuder’s Fanny Racer (Racer. Jr.—Nellie) with Glenrose
Beagle Kennels’ Gypsey A. (Kenneally's Lee—Tone).
Pottinger Dorsey’s Rambler with E. J. & J. W. Becker’s Halryon.
George Laick’s Trifle II. (header—Jenny) with Middleton Kennels”
Model (Stormy—June M.) ‘
Pottinger Dorsey’s Venus II. (uece—Venus) with Forest Beagle Ken-
nels’ Vick R. (Witzhugh Lee—Nell). . .
Waldingfield Kennels’ Oracle (Orator—Lively) with H, L. Kreuder's
Jack Bannerman (Billy—Kate).
Guy D. Welton’s Joe (Billy—Kate) with Pottinger Dorsey's Wan-
derer (Lee—Fairy).
Middleton Kennels’ Snow (Stormy—Lee) with H, L, Kreuder’s Gray-
burn Daisy. ; :
Pottinger Dorsey’s Buck (Tecumseh—Mary) with Waldingfield Ken-
nels’ Lufra (Orator—Lonesome).
Second Series.
Joe with Buck.
Snow with Wanderer.
Fanny Racer with Vick R.
Third Series.-
Snow with Wanderer. ;
Wanderer with Vick R.
Middleton Kennels’ Snow first, Pottinger Dorsey’s Wanderer second,
Forest Beagle Kennels’ Vick R. third, Pottinger Dorsey’s Buck re-
serve.
Crass B.’
For dogs and bitches, all ages, 13in. and under, that have not been
placed first in any ciass at field trials held by N. B. C. First prize $30,
second $20, third $10.
First Series.
Glenrose Beagle Kennels’ Little Lee (Fitzhugh Lee—Dill) with For-
est Beagle Kennels’ Gypsey Forest )Frank Forest—Sue Forest).
at Mann’s Ina (Dan—Jolly) with Middleton Kennels’ Adam (Sport—
Trill).
H. L. Kreuder’s Ch. Lou (Keno—Fly) with Pottinger Dorsey’s Pade
(Ned—Flora). 4
Glenrose Beagle Kennels’ Mollie Dean (Sam—Baby Dean) with
George F. Reed’s Spot R. (Kennerly’s Lee—Skip).
Second Series.
Pade with Spot R.
Gypsy Forest with Lou.
Dorsey’s Pade, first; Geo. F. Reed’s Spot R., second; Forest Beagle
Kennels’ Gypsy Forest, third; H. L. Kreuder’s Ch. Lou, reserve.
The Derby.
For dogs and bitches, 15in. and under, whelped on or after January
1, 1892. First prize, $20; second prize, $10,
First Series.
H. L. Kreuder’s Lee Il. (Fitzhugh Lee—June Rose), April, with
Forest Beagle Kennels’ Clio (Bannerman—champion Twintwo), March
95
Oe
H. L. Kreuder’s Queen of the Forest (Fitzhugh Lee—Una), Septem-
ber, with Glenrose Beagle Kennels’ Mollie Dean (Sam—Baby Dean),
Jan, 15. :
W. H. Hyland’s Bill Nye I. (Rip Van Winkle—Queen Nellie). July
17, with H. L. Kreucer’s Blanche (Fitzhugh Lee— Una), September,
Glenrose Beagle Kennels’ Little Lee (Fitzhugh Lee—Dill), June 24,
a bye.
Second Series.
Mollie Dean with Bill Nye IL.
Blanche with Bill Nye IL
Glenrose Beagle Kennels’ Mollie Dean first, H. L. Krueder’s Blanche
and W. H. Hyland’s Bill Nye Il. divide second. Reserve withheld.
H. W. 1.
The Winners.
Syow is a bitch well known on the bench, where she has
won several prizes; she has markings on head but body is
nearly all white. Wanderer is a heavily-marked bitch of
fine build and not so large asSnow. Vick is a well-made,
good-sized bitch, bit big in head and body, nicely marked.
Buck is also a fairly well-made dog, heavily marked with
black. Among the little ones Lou and Shot R. are easily
first in regard to build and style, and both are about the
same size. Shot R. had the straighter forelegs; would be a
winner in almost any company. Gypsey Forest is a stoutly-
made, prettily-marked bitch, longer in body than the others.
Mollie Dean is a blue-mottled bitch of racy build, little long
in body and not deep enough. Blanche and Bill Nye II. are
prettily-marked, well-grown beagles, and will come near the
limit. in height. Pade shows a mixture of basset, dachshund
and beagle, is a low-set, heavy-chested, long-bodied dog,
with arch of loin and quarters yery much on the basset or
dachshund form, A rough sketch shows the type of dog he
is. His color is a sort of dirty fawn shot with dark hair, flat
ears and longish head, and forelegs have almost a crook.
: @eess ;
The Pade Protest.
THE National Beagle Club has been singularly free from
even a suspicion of unpleasantness during the three trials
they have brought off, and it is particularly regrettable that
anything should have occurred to mar the good feeling with
which we all took this year’s trials. The objection to Mr. P.
Dorsey’s Pade, who was adjudged the winner of the under
13in. class, seems to have been made on good grounds, but
unfortunately rather late in the day. If there was doubt
about the dog’s status as a beagle, action should haye been
taken by the field trial committee when the dogs were meas-
ured for the different stakes on the first day. This was not
done, but two wrongs do not make a right, and of course we
CaN pass 00 opinion here as to the merits of the case, as it is
still sub judice.
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FOREST AND STREAM.
(Nov. 11, 1898,
Western Kansas Coursing Meeting.
OuR report of this meeting held at Loti, Kansas, Oct. 24,
did not arrive in time for last week’s issue, and contains
little more than the summary which follows. The meeting
seems to have created considerable local interest, but the
Bastern dogs failed to run into the finals, Miss Dollar III.
and Royal Crest did fairly well and the owner of Drytime
should not be disappointed in the poor showing she made.
She should not have been slipped so soon after Goodland
meeting. A number of well known coursers were present,
including Dr, Van Hummell, whose partner, Mr. J. R.
Coehran, was slipping; D. C. Luse, A. C. Bradbury, Goodland
Kennels owners, the president, R. S, Howard and Mr. H. H.
Muleaster, who judged satisfactorily. 1
The attendance was quite good forasmall meeting and
everything passed off nicely. ‘The club’s secretary is Mr. W.
O. Allplin, and he, with Mr. Howard, had the management
of the whole affair, and did their work well. The summary
follows:
Leoti Stakes.
Sixteen greyhounds of all ages at $10 each, 50% to winner and 25% to
runner up, 1214% each to next two dogs.
First Round.
Royal Crest Maybrook Ken- American Coursing Kennels’
nels’ bb Miss Dollar Il,(Hden + beat bd w bitch Belle of Eltham
Castle—Miss Harknes) z CS ean ans ee
R. S. Howard's f b Elsie (Ar- Nd Eas ela TARTS ip
kansas 'Traveler—Fanny) nels’ f b Drytime (Britain
beat ;
Still—Haytime).
St. Patrick Kennels’ bk w ad A. Massey cus. D. Grey’s) fw
Border Ruffian (Dingwall— >} beat b What Care I (Trales—
Miss Kitten) \ Lightning). ee
S. W. Vidler’s bd b Buenarita | beat 3 A. Massey (@us.8, Airhart’s) bd
(Norwegian—Bueneritero) { {| Ketehum (Major—Clipper):
American Coursing Kennels’ A. Massey’s be wd O’Rorke
(ns. A. B. OCoyue’s) bk wd Pri Patrick—Rose Mac-
Willis H. Lights of London Lisa vena |
—Nell)
Goodland Kennels’ be b-Re- Royal Crest Maybrook Ken-
nella (Walnut — Humming > beat nels’ bE d Greenshine (Mul-
Bird) jingar—Greenfinch IIL.).
GoodlandKennels'’w bd b Rhea St. Patrick Kennels’ bk w b
beat
(Major Glendyne — Daisy } beat Bonnie Belle (Dingwall —
Dublin) Miss Kitten).
Royal Crest Maybrook Ken- Goodland Kennels’ w bk d
nels’ bk d Royal Crest} beat Rear Admiral (Major Glen-
(Greentick—Royal Rate) dyne—Lady Alice).
Second Round.
Miss Dollar II. beat Elsie. Willis H, beat Renella.
Buenarita beat Border Ruffian. Rhea beat Royal Crest.
Third Round.
Buenarita beat Miss Dollar III. Willis H. beat Rhea.
Deciding Course.
Mr. S, W. Vidler’s bd b Bueverita and American Coursing Kennels
qs. Mr, F. B. Cryne’s) bk w d Willis H. divided.
Home Stakes. -
For local greyhounds, all ages, at $5 each, 50% to winner, 25% to run-
ner up, 124% to each of the next two dogs: ‘
R. 8. Howard’s f wd Bolivar beat W. O. Allphin’s f b Queen.
W.. Allphin'’s f d Jerry beat I. G. Noble’s f d King.
i Deciding Course.
Mr. R. §. Howard’s Bolivar and Mr. W. O..Allphin’s Jerry divided.
Cowly County Meet.
THE second annual meeting of the Cowly Connty Coursing
Association was held at Winfield, Kansas, Oct. 31. A full
report will be given in our nextissue. The running resulted
as follows:
The Winfield Cup.
Open stake for 16 or more greyhounds, entrance fee $10, winner 50
per cent. of entrance and $75 cash donated by the citizens of Winfield,
the runner up 25 per cent., third dog to receive 15 per cent., and fourth
dog 10 per cent. of entrance money: bedi Ait
D,O,Luse’s (as 8. W. Vidler's) | peat J piteh Lady, Mand Clave
brindle bitch Buenarita Maudy Luse).
D. M. Sidle’s fawn dog Laughed | beat a C. Luse’s white and brown
At if bitch Lady Cleveland.
t peak { J.R. Ballard’s (us D. C. Luse)
‘ Nettlefield.
Willis H. beat Living Yet,
Ii,
Final Course.
8. W. Vidler’s balb OS eS Ls . B. Coyne’s bk and _w d Wil-
(Nor wegian—Buenaritero) Nal _cuiekis PAE a
F, D. Coyne’s black dog
D. G. Luse’s Living Yet, a bye.
Buenarita beat Laughed At,
County Stake.
For dogs awned by resident members only, entrance $250, Winner
to receive 50% of the entrance money, runner up 25%, third to receive
15% and fourth 10% of entrance money.
S..S. Raper’s black biteh Juli- | beat {Ricks & Smith’s black bitch
tt | Dinah’s Pickaninny.
ette
John Weakly’s black dog| z,,; )D. 5S. Hanna’s brindle dog
Lightfoot { |. Jack.
G, C, Stevens's brindle bitch | ,,,, )D. 5. Hanna’s black bitch
Skip i ) Dicky.
EB. B. Condit’s fawn bitch! ;,,,;)H. A. Fisher's bitch Lady
Zip. { ' ) Grace.
James Ramsey's fawn and| ,,,; | D.S Hanna’s black and white
white bitch Goldie. ‘| dog Jerry.
\
John Weakly's red dog Gold- | | A. H, Johnson's brindle dog
beat
dust \ | JoJo. .
Jas. Ramsey’s brindle biteh) ;.,4 3 ts a Condit’s fawn dog
Fanny { { edro.
Ricks, & Smith's black and] ,,,; {D_O. Miller's brindle bitch
white bitch Sailor Maud “) Minnie.
bitch Witch Hazel ( dog Bab.
Jas.. Ramsey's red bitch Me- 7) Q. C. Steyens’s white and black
teor i biteh Snowball.
{
Frank Sidler’s white and blaelk L bene Jas. Ramsey's white and black
t
( bea.
IL.
Lightfoot beat Juliette.
Skip beat Yip.
Golddust, a bye, Jerry drawn,
Sailor Maud beat Fanny.
Witch Hazel beat Meteor.
Ii.
Lightfoot beat Skip. Witch Hazel, a bye.
Golddust beat Sailor Maud. -
Final Course.
John Weakly’s red dog Goiddust (Jack—Minnie), beat Frank Sidle’s
white and black bitch Witch Hazel (Bob—Unknown), and won.
Quality of Courage.
Editor Forest and Sircam:
T have read the articles in a Chicago contemporary upon
the “Quality of Courage,” and was much edified at the man-
ner in which FOREST AND STREAM disposed of their sophis-
tries with regard to the quality of courage in bird dogs. Let
me add some data gathered from experience with foxhounds,
Tt is not exactly clear what the writer of those articles was
driving at, but I gather a hazy idea that courage is a very
undesirable qualification in a dog. With pedantic pessimism
he asserts “Courage is the genius of the sulks,”’ and he
Se ee to high courage the inability of race horses to
repeat.
“Courage is in the nature of a stimulus, and like artificial
stimulants it fails when the contestant begins to feel the
effect of exhaustion. Indeed, ifit asserts itself at all, when
it might be useful itis only in resisting the wishes of the
handler, and it matters not whether it be in dog, horse, or
man,”
The one qualification that distinguishes the Kentucky fox-
hound, that has given him the national reputation he now
enjoys, that has been bred in him for generations and is as
characteristic of him and as true a test of the thoroughbred
as gameness in a gamechicken, iscourage. No matter what
his extremity, no matter how long and arduous the ‘chase,
how great his weariness, he will still strive, however feeble
his endeavors be. His pace may be slow, it will be forgiven
him; but let him show the white feather, quit im the chase,
and his life will pay the forfeit. I know of no more serious
misfortune that could befall a Kentucky fox hunter ata
Kentucky meet than to have his dog fail in this crucial test
and brand himself a quitter. The question that instanter
arises is what is his breeding, where is the outcross, for a
cold cross there must be somewhere. No thoroughbred if
physically capable will ever Jack the moral quality of cour-
age, his is the distinguishing trait of the Kentucky fox-
hound. I know of no other that possesses it in such an emi-
nent degree.
We have had the Birdsong, the July and the best of the
Southern fiyers, and it is a conceded fact that they cannot
stand in competition with the Kentucky foxhound the test
of enduring courage. They are sprinters. They are light of
muscle and build, of the greyhound type, and are perhaps
the best for their country, but where hard going and long
running is the rule they are physically unable to stay the
pace the Kentucky dogs set day after day.
So far from courage failing a dog at the moment oi exhaus-
tion, it is then that the quality of courage demonstrates
itself. It does not take courage to keep a dog in the chase
when fresh and full of redundant energy. It is when the
muscles tire, when the feet are sore, when weariness and
exhaustion come, itis then that high courage spurs him on
to oblivion of his ills and animates him to those wonderful
exhibitions of endurance that no other animal on earth can
parallel. .
Only to-day a fox hunter of the old school who has passed
the biblical limit of life was recalling the exploits of the late
John Shanklin’s Tap. Day after day Shanklin called upon
his dogs to make not one chase, but to close the run on
three or four red foxes before he considered the day suffi-
ciently rounded out. And many a morning, my mentor tells
me, he has seen Shanklin take old Tap, who was physically
incapable of moving, upon his horse and carry him on the
saddle until some of the fresher and younger dogs opened,
when he would throw old Tap down, and at the sound, fired
by that high and indomitable courage which triumphs over
physical ills, the old dog would crawl away, limbering his
stiffened limbs, until when the fox was up he would get
away in the front flight, never to flag again that day. He
was the great grand.sire of a worthy descendant in the
Springknoll pack who bears his name. Last winter the
younger Tap was caught in a steel trap and his right fore-
foot terribly mutilated, the flesh being torn to the bones and
thetoessimply hanging. The next morning after finding him
his whole leg was inflamed and swollen, and no fear was
entertained of his following, but he was chained for conve-
nience in doctoring him. He slipped the collar, and overtak-
ing us went into the chase on three legs and stayed to the
finish, Next day, as may be imagined, the dog’s sufferings
were intense. He was fastened in the kennel, but deliber-
ately dug out through a hard clay floor. If he only dug
with oue foot he must have sustained his weight on the
mutilated member, There were several inches of snow on
the ground and that dog ranin half a dozen chases with that
foot, leaving a trail of blood behind him, It is the quality of
courage in such dogs that endearthem tous. It is the pro-
duct of many generations of careful breeding, and it is in-
digenons to the strain. If it be an undesirable quality then
we and our fathers before us have labored in yain. For it
is our creed that gameness is the sine qua non of the red
foxhound. FRANCIS J. HAGAN,
LoutsyiLue, Ky., Oct. 20.
so ee 8
Coursing at Corsicana, Tex.
A FEW items of interest that Mr. C. L. Witherspoon, secre-
tary of the Corsicana Coursing Club, sends us may be of use
to some of our readers. Corsicana is a town of about 11,000
people, situated in Navarro county, and about fifty miles
from Dallas, also about the same distance from Waco and
Fort Worth. Hesays: ‘‘Wehave a fine country around and
we have some good coursing grounds, although we are fenced
up considerably with barb wire. Our main coursing ground
is situated some three and a half milesfrom town. Itis
three miles square and level, with plenty of jacks. Our
people seem to take more interest than we expected, and I
think our prospect for success is fine. The stake is for all-
age greyhounds raised in the State, We did this in order to
get the Texas people to take interest in it before inviting
others. Weshallhave a meeting in February, to which we
invite all comers, and especially the Kansas coursers.”’
Northwestern Beagle Club Trials.
THE report by Mr. Waters of the trials at Whitewater,
Wis., has come to hand too late for publication this week,
Tt will be given in our next issue. The trials were highly
successful. The winners were in the Derby: First, Dilling-
ham & Rammele’s Mayfly; second, G. A. Buckstatt’s Ilwaco;
third, divided by Louis Siffin’s Tony W.and H, Bender’s
Little Cooney Duke. All-age stake: First, Ilwaco; second,
Dillingham & Rammele’s Bose; third, G A. Buckstaif’s
Royal Rover. Champion class; Mayfly.
HUNTING AND COURSING NOTES.
Tue following item from Mr. T, B. Bartels will be of in-
terest to coursing men. He writes as follows; ‘‘As you
probably know Boomerang hurt his fore lez while at
Goodland before meeting Princess May. I thought two or
three days’ rest would {fix it up, but such was not the case.
I have nursed it eyer since the meeting. This morning I was
obliged to have Dr. Bock fire it, He put about15 points in it
and then a strony blister on top of that. I shall do nothing
with him until the spring meetings, at which time! hope he
will be as good as ever.”’
Mr. H, L. Krender leased about a half milesquare of rough
land about a mile from Nanuet during the Beagle Club
trials last week.. He takes it for five years, and as this piece
includes the swamp below Mac’s Hillside and is the very best
rabbit country round there under protection, it is very likely
that he will have rare sport by next year, and if the club
elects to hold their trials on these grounds next year there
should be lots of fun, as rabbits will be thick by that time.
We should advise Mr. Kreuder to have runways cut through
it; they would make it easer to follow the dogs and afford
more OP RORDU NINES to get “pop” shots at the game as it
crossed,
County Nomenclature——‘Well, Mr. Duffy?” ‘Mornin’,
Mr. Stoutberry; have yez an impty bar’l o’ flour, sor, ter
make a hin-coop fer me dorg?’—Smith, Gray & Co.'s
Monthly.
“Do you own that dog?” asked Billy Bliven. “Ya-a-s,’’ re-
plied Gus de Jay. ‘Will he mind you?” “Oh, I neyah twy
to boss him. J just own him.”—)Wushington Star.
See advertisement on another page of ‘American Big Game
Hunting,”’ the Book of the Boone and Crockett Club, which
has just heen issued. Every big game hunter and rifleman
in this or any other country shonld have a copy. ;
rweather-covering board as liye ballast.
Hachting.
The Fife Cutter Sigrun.
THE conditions in Germany are hardly favorable to the development
of yachting, the sea coast on the Baltic and the North Sea, the only
available yachting water, is at a distance from the larger and wealthier
cities to which yachting must naturally look for its chief support, and
the rivers and inland waters afford a very limited sailing ground, even |
for centerboard sailing boats of the American type, In spite of
natural disadvantages,howeyer, yachting is firmly established through-
out the Empire, and of late in particular it is benefited by the patron-
age of the sss himself, a keen and enthusiastic yachtsman. The
formation of the new Imperial Yacht Club, at Kiel, with the purchase
by the Emperor of the Thistle, now Meteor, and the building of the
40-rater Irene for Prince Henry, his brother, has given a stimulus to
yachting and yacht racing that is likely to have a permanent effect.
The accompanying cuts, for which we are indebted to our enter-
prising German contemporary, Wassersport, show one of the later
additions to the fleet, a racing cutter owned by Captain Rittmeyer.
The design was originally published in the year book of the Imperial
Y. ©., but the cuts here shown were made for the Wassersport, which
has very kindly furnished us with duplicates.
Sigrun is a racing cutter of modern type, designed by Mr. Wiil Fife,
Jr., and in form is fully up to the most advanced ideas prevailing at
the time the design was made, the winter of 1891-2, the yacht having
been launched in the spring and raced with success during the seasons
of 1892-8. The design is specially interesting as a step from the older
type of cutter toward the fin-keel, and also from the remarkably
light construction, no less than 64 per cent of the displacement being
carried in ballast. The details of cost, construction and dimensions
are given fully in the Wasserspori as follows:
DIMENSIONS AND ELEMENTS,
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Lied Haft 5s 865i bods’ PORES vers nGats ss hophe oo se4tt, in,
Beam, CXtTeMIG. 1... scree ees eee Vici athcs-banteie hel a eva pS or sprancens 6ft. 5in.
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Displacement, lone tODS, .. 2... .cee sees e ence eceenesessearecess 3.94
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Spars.
¥t. In. Ft. In.
Mast, deck to hounds.,,.,.,.21 Boom, diam.,..ccseeecveress 496
Boeia Ae ce velvet see Rigi Coren hearers 394
diam. at deck, ......., jam,..... tole nv ilsa hE
: hounds,....., _ Bsa 22 6
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TAG a nao uyee 486
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Sails
Square feet:
Mainsalln i iserindsavictal bentediset abies vaevevedes 404
Staysail.,........ frrivdd ibis nieer tes (eatattyieandet
JID ante aka eer Hi Hadiss ietbthered LeG,
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Topsail, ..... narer arrtiwettiert bedi Fe ee LOL
Windward sails. i icccsciscueserseeeeee trae ss 909
Spinaker pisiseseasetencseiis Tianhe ed bbs wi . 600
Cost, Lona
DOSED sssccsessrnpyrereess 99000 Carving....., Worscaiet veseee, 09 50
Hull and spars.,,.... Yaaes, DLOJ0U) SalsP tet ho celeiens wie. 186700
Lead keel and bolts.,,,.. 240 00 Blocks and rigging....... 90 50
Tron work,.....-.<+,.,-. 105 00 Equipment, flags, etc,... 48 50
Painting, ,.... emprete dre: et dtst =
Coppering,..c.eseseeeere> 98850 Total cost...,..........$1,404 00
The cost is not very different from the 25ft. sailmg length cutters,
such as Nameless and Needle, built about New York.
‘The yacht is fitted up simply for racing, with a small cockpit aft
and a companionway in the flush deck, the interior not being finished
for cruising, The keel and keelson are of oak, the former 434in,
thick and shaped to the lines of the hull; the latter 334in. deep, 444in.
wide at the middle and tapering to 38¢in. at the ends. ‘The deadwoods
are of oak, 3)4in, thick. The frames are sawn and bent in alternation,
the former sided 144, moulded 2)4 at heels and 144 at heads, spaced
jdin.; the latter 11g by 114, between each pair of sawn frames. There
are five flaor knees of angle steel, 2x2X1i4in., with arms 20in, long.
The planking is lin. thick, the five lower planks of pitch pine, the top
sides of Huropean yeilow pine, similar to American white pine, and
the sheerstrake of mahogauy. The beam clamp is 6x114in. and the
beams are spaced from 14 to i8in., to fitin with the positions of the
deck openings. The partners are specially reinforeed. Thedeck is of
34in. thickness. Near the mast are holes through which the halliards
ead below, where they are made fast. The seale of the drawing is in
meters,
Vigilant and Valkyrie.
Tu erroneous impression that a centerboard adds to the stability
ot a vessel has many times been dealt with in our columns; but it is
not surprising to see it coming to the surface again amid the numbet
of absurd ideas which have been published about Knglish and Amer-
ican yachts during the contests for the America Oup. Of all these ab-
surdities, the most mischievous of the delusions about the center-
board is one relating to the effect of a centerboard oi. stability, espe-
cially when we find it presented in this circumstantial form;
“Then she (Vigilant) has a larger sail area, which she is enabled to
earry safely by means of the movable fin or centerboard, which gives
her a stiffness only obtained by the English yacht at the cost of an
immense weight of lead affixed to her keel. Finally, when she does
not need stiffness. the fin is taken up and the frictional area is re-
duced, while with the fixed keel the area of opposing surface must
rempin, even when a large portion of it could be safely dispensed
with.” What acenterboard will do is to make the process of heeling
slower; butif the wind force is sufficient to heel the boat to, say 40°,
she will go to that angle, board or no board. Also, for the same rea-
son that the heeling is slower when the board is down, so will be the
righting slower, and this fact used to be yery apparent sometimes in
the old-fashioned Unas or catboats, with their cumbersome boards. It
might also happen in any sized yacht in a strong breeze, and, instead
of making her appear stiff, would have the effect of making her seem
erank and dangerous.
“The reason why a board makes the heeling slower is simply because
it has to move a quantity of water, which, of course would not have
to be moved if the board were housed. It should also be remembered
that a board, if made of wood which will float, will exercise an active
upsetting tendency when the boat is heeling, as its exertion will be
to come to the surface. If, on the other hand, the ‘board’ is made of
metal it will have some effect in lowering the center of gravity when
it is down, and will thus add to stability according to the weight of
the plate and the distance it is lowered; but in the case of a plate like
the Vigilant’s, weighing about three tons, the effect would be very
trifling, and when the contra effect of the fittings and gear used in
pone nue plate is calculated, the addition to the stability would be
about nil.
“Of course, a plate could be made heavy enough to produce a sen-
sible addition to the stability when lowered, but the time when it
would be most wanted for that purpose—on a close reach—would also
be the time when it would be most desirable to have it up to reduce
the surface friction, and, when up, it would have the effect
of decreasing stability to the same extent that it would increase
it when lowered, It is simply idle to attribute any of the Vigilant’s
success to her centerplate. She is an enormously powerful vessel,
and these qualities are due to her great beam, great draft of water,
and the low position in which, by that reason, she is able to carry her
eighty tous of lead ballast.
“Tn considering the power of Vigilant, it is interesting to note that
her great beam was utilized for perching a numerous crew on the
; : OF course, this is an old-
fashioned device, and one that does not much commend itself to Eng-
lish yachtsmen; but, if the crew has to be on board, the undoubted
best place for them to be arranged is as far as possible to windward.
Still, if they are carried as mere ‘weight,’ the meieue had better be in
the form of lead ballast and stowed in the keel ballast box. Some pull
could, however, be obtained in thelength of waterline by using live
ballast. Vigilant is reported to haye bad seventy men on deck durin
her matches, and we suppose that not more than forty of these would
berequired to work the yacht. The other thirty would weigh about
two tons, which would immerse the Vigilant about three-quarters of
an inch and increase her loadline length perhaps three inches, This —
might be an advantage, but we should still prefer the weight (if had to
be carried) in the form of lead ballast. ;
“There is another point of view from which to regard this matter.
A deck load of men in 4 sea may greatly interfere with a yessel’s good
performance, and under such condition the equivalent weight in lead
ballast, instead of the men carried as live ballast, would be an enor-
mous adyantage. At any rate, the hig crew of the Vigilant does not
ya to haye ayailed her much in her trial to windward in a reef-
sail breeze,*’—Field. a : eT mat ;
Noy, 11, 1898,]
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RACING CUTTER SIGRUN——DESIGNED BY WILL FIFE, JR., 1892.
YACHT NEWS NOTES.
Our New Orleans correspondent, ‘‘Anodrac,” writes: I have
learned that the great and fast catboat, Edna H, of Biloxi, Miss , was
completely wrecked in the recent cyclone that visited the Gulf Coast.
Canoeing.
Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to ForEST AND
Stream their addresses, with name, membership, signal, etc., of their
clubs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and report of
the same. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are requested to
forward to ForEsT AND STREAM their addresses, with logs of cruises,
maps, and information concerning their local waters, drawings or
descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating to the sport.
THE A. C. A. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
Annual Meeting, Nov. 4, 1893.
THE present year marks the close of the first full series of meets in
the four divisions of the American Canoe Association. The scheme of
divisions of the one existing body was first begun in 1886, but it was
not until two years later that the fourth division, the Atlantic, was
formed, and though the meets of 1888 and 1889 were nominally held
under the new system in the Central and Northern Divisions respec-
lively, as a matter of fact the real inauguration of the scheme of a
meet in turu ineach division dates from 1890, when for the first time
the inland waters, the St Lawrence, Lake George and Lake Cham-
plain, wereabandoned for the seacoast and salt water. While the di
vision scheme has been followed ever since, a certain departure has
been made in holding one meet outside of the territory of the division,
and also of holding two successive meets in the same place, Wills-
borough Point, in the Central Division, though practically on the
boundary line between it and the Eastern.
While opinions differ as to the success of the whole scheme of meets
in the various divisions in rotation, it is safe to say that the expecta-
tions of the originators of the scheme haye by no means been realized,
and such serious objections have developed in the practical test, that
there is now a strong aud growing feeling in favor of the abandonment
of an important part of the division scheme, and the selection of a cen-
tral camp ground which shall be used for an indefinite time, until cir-
cumstances dictate a change of location,
The question has been discussed this year, but, as the rules stand,
there are some obstacles in the way, even if such a course were gener-
ally desired; and there is also a very strong feeling on the part ofa
number of the members in favor of a meet near New York city.
_ The chief business of the executive committee at the annual meet-
ing held last week was the selection of a site, but the circumstances
were such that a final decision by the committee was impossible at
that time and the location of the next camp is not yet Enown, though
there is every probability that it will be at Croton Point, on the Hud-
|
son River, just above Sing Sing, New York. Like the previous meet
ing in the Atlantic Division in 1889, the meeting of 1893 was called at
Clark’s restaurant, in New York, for Saturday, Nov. 4. The members
of the A. C. A. executive committee, including the general officers of
the Association and the division executive committees, are as follows,
those present being marked thus *:
* Commodore, Irving V. Dorland, Arlington. _
* Sec’y-Treas., Geo. A. Douglass, Newark.
* Librarian, W. P. Stephens, Bayonne.
Eastern Division: -* Vice-Com., H. H. Barney, Springfield; * Rear-
Com., C. F. Shuster. Jr., Holyoke; * Purser, E. C. Knappe, Springfield;
* Hx, Com., G. L. Parmele, Hartford; * Paul Butler, Lowell; * R. Ap-
polonio, Winchester.
Atlantic Division: * Vice-Com., C. V. Schuyler, New York; * Rear-
Com., Barron Fredricks, Newark; Purser, F. L. Dunnell, Brooklyn;
* Hx. Com., J. R. Lake, New York; F. W. Noyes, Philadelphia; * J. K.
Hand, New York.
Central Division: * Vice-Com., W. C. Witherbee, Port Henry; * Rear-
Com,, C. G. Belman, Amsterdam; Purser, C. EK. Cragg, Port Henry;
* Ex. Com., C. V. Winne, Albany; W. R. Huntington, Rome.
Northern Division: -Vice-Com., H. M. Molson, Montreal; * Rear-
Com., George Schofield, Peterboro; Purser, H. R. Tilly, Toronto; Ex.
Com., W. H. Macnee, Kingston; W. L. Scott, Ottawa: C. E. Archbald,
Montreal
Mr. Noyes was not present, but wasrepresented by Mr. R. H. Peebles.
Saturday was one of the most unpleasant days of the fall, a very
heavy rain falling steadily all through the day and evening. Those
who once reached the friendly shelter of Clarke’s were glad to stay
within it as much as possible, and one continuous session was held
from about 10 o’clock until 6 P. M.,a great deal of business heing
transacted in a very complete and satisfactory manner. Besides the
executive committee there were present Messrs. Whitlock, Wilkin and
other A. C. A. members, and, apart from the immediate business
which appears on the minutes, the affairs and prospects of the Asso-
ciation were very thoroughly discussed.
Before the meeting was called to order Com. Dorland appointed a
special committee, Messrs. Wilkin, Stephens, Douglas, Schofield and
Butler, to arrange and formulate the various proposals for amend-
ments to the racing rules, these proposals not being presented in such
shape that they could be voted on.
The first business of the meeting when it was finally called to order
was the report from the retiring Sec’y-treas., Mr. R. Easton Burns,
and also the report of the regatta committee.
Contrary to the usual procedure, by which the amendments to the
racing rules are taken up after all other business toward the end of
the meeting, Com. Dorland called for the reports of the retiring
nepaite committee and of the special committee at once, and both were
read.
The first amendment proposed was to the “‘one man, one canoe”
rule, a question having arisen this year over the right of a man to use
more than one canoe in the races, other than the paddling trophy. A
reference to the Year Book disclosed the fact that the second clause
of Rule Il., prohibiting the use of more than one canoe except when
specified in the regatta programme, was no longer in the book; though,
so far as we have been able to learn, there is no record or recollection
of the rule having been legally changed. After discussion, it was de-
’ cided that, in view of the changes in racing since the original rule was
‘framed in 1884, and of the fact that the conditions which called out the
rule no longer existed, there was no necessity of amending the present
reading, which does not prohibit the use of more than one canoe; and
that a member may in the future enter as many canoesas he may wish
to in the various events.
The next amendment related to Rule V., the record races, two of
the canoes entered this vear haying carried standing rigs, which were
unshipped and shipped at each turn of the combined race. Both
canoes were disqualified by the regatta committee at the time, the
common understanding and the established custom being that a hoist-
ing and lowering rig must be used in the combined race, and in order
to prevent dispute in the future the committee recommended a posi-
tive statement to that effect in therules. After discussion it was de-
cided to insert after the third clause of Rule V. a clause to the follow-
ing effect: The same canoe and rig shall be used in each of the three
record races, and the rig must be fitted to hoist and lower practically.
The existing conditions are not altered by this addition, as the prac-
tice in the past has-been in accordance withit. It refers, of course,
only to the three record races.
The next proposed amendment related to Rule IX., the change pro-
posed being to admit of an appeal to the executive committee
from a unanimous vote of the regatta committee, such
appeal being now permitted only in case the regatta committee
is not unanimous in its decision on an appeal. A lengthy discussion
followed, bearing less on the matter in hand than on the question of
any appeal at all from the decision of the regatta committee to the
executive committee, in the course of which the original proposition
was entirely lost sight of. Finally Mr. Winne moved to amend the
motion originally made, to adopt the amendment as proposed by the
special committee, by adding the following words, ‘which shall con-
sider and decide the same immediately.’ The result of this amend-
ment to the original motion would be that an appeal might be made
to the executive committee, whether the decision of the regatta com-
mittee were unanimous or otherwise, and that the executive commit-
tee must meet in camp and make an immediate decision. Mr, Appol-
lonio then moved to amend Mr. Winne’s motion, making it apply to
the rule as it now stands, and also demanding the deposit of a dollar
with the second appeal; and this motion was finally carried.
In this connection the committee recommended some minor changes
of the rule to correct some obvious errors, and they were adopted, the
rule as finally adopted reading as follows: Rule IX.—Should the
owner of any canoe duly entered for a race, consider that he has fair
ground of complaint against another, he must give notice of same to
the Regatta Committee; and must present the same in writing to the
Regatta Committee within one hour Thesum of one dollar shall be
deposited with each protest, to be forfeited to the Association should
the protest not be sustained. The Regatta Committee shall, after
hearing such evidence as they may deem neccessary, decide the appeal;
and the decision, if unanimous, shall be final; but, if not unanimous, an
appeal may be made to the Executive Committee. which shall con-
sider and decide the question immediately; and whose decision shall
be final. The sum of one dollar shall be deposited with the second
appeal also.’ The final clause of the rule stands as before.
The next amendment proposed was to Rule XII, permitting back
strokes of the paddle, but it was not adopted. Rule XIX. was amended
by dropping the words, ‘‘with the wind free,” correcting an obvious
inconsistency in the existing wording.
The question of a positive decision as to the awarding of a record
prize in the case of a tie, such as occurred this year, was brought up
and discussed, but was laid on the table.
The report of the purser of the Northern Division was read and ap-
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[Nov. 11, 1898,
proved, subject to a proper audit, being ordered returned for that
purpose, In considering this report the question of division repre-
sentation came up, it being evident that the Northern Division had
elected more members of the executive committee than it was entitled
to—one for each 100 members, after the first 100. The membership of
the division being but 178, it was entitled to but one member instead
of three. It was moved to refer the matter to the division committee
to decide which of the three should be retained.
The report of the purser of the Central Division was then read and
referred back as incorrect and not audited. A majority of the division
committee being present, they decided to retain Mr. Winne as the sole
representative to which the division is legally entitled.
The report of the Purser of the Atlantic Division was then read.
The question was raised that the Atlantic Division was not paying to
the A. ©. A. the legal proportion of its receipts; but on reference to
the Constitution it was found that such was not the case, and the
report was accepted. After a further discussion of the question of
representation, in the course of which several proposals were offered
but not adopted, it was decided to refer the matter to the division com-
mittee, and during the recess a little later a meeting of the committee
was held at which Mr. Hand withdrew, leaving the legal number of
representatives. The report of the purser of the Hastern Division was
then read and accepted, . : :
The following motion was adopted; It is the sense of this meeting
that the financial membership reports of the pursers, as submitted to
the executive committee at the November meeting, shall be the basis
for the election of the Division executive committees for the following
year. The amendment proposing a board of governors was taken up
but laid on the table. ’
The matter of electing associate members was then taken up, Vice-
‘Com. Schuyler offering the following motion: Itis the sense of this
meeting that no associate member shall be elected who has noi at-
tended one general and one Division meet. The motion was lost by a
vote of 9 to 5, after which the following ladies were elected associate
members: Miss Bf. Pauline Johnson, Miss Constance Braine, Mrs. A.
Arnois, Miss Lou Bond, Mrs. Howard Gray, Mrs. C. G. Belman.
The next question discussed was that of the date for the meet of
1894, and*Com. Dorland made the suggestion that July be selected in
place of August. The suggestion was very favorably received, and on
motion of Dr. Parmele it was decided to begin the meet on July 13.
The question of a two or three-weeks’ camp was then discussed, the
former time being decided on. :
The question of location was then taken up, and after some prelim-
inary discussion an informal vote was taken, the majority being in
favor of a meet in the Atlantic Division, and most of them naming
Croton Point. The only other site in the division which was seriously
discussed was Chimmons Island, and a letter wasread from the owner,
Mr. Warren E. Smith, making a very liberal offer; but in the opinion
of all who had visited the island it was not suitable for an A. C. A.
meet.
After a full discussion of the question, in whichit was stated that
Croton Point possessed many advantages and was practically the
only available site within the division. At the same time the officers
had not been able thus far to obtain permission to hold the meet there,
and pending such permission no final decision was possible. A motion
was made that the selection be left to camp site committee and the
executive committee of the Atlantic Division, but finally the matter
was left to the executive committee of the Atlantic Division.
A motion by Mr. Lake, that a committees be appointed by the com-
modore to consider the question of a permanent sitefor the A. CG. A.,
to report to the executive committee at the meeting in camp next
year, was carried after a long discussion in which the two sides of the
qpesvion of a permanent or semi-permanent camp vs. a camp in each
pubion in turn was warmly debated. The motion was finally
carried.
The amendment proposed by Mr. Wilkin, creating a board of gover-
nors, was then taken up and discussed at length, the opinions gener-
ally being in its favor. A number of questions were asked as to the
exact details of the plan and its probable working, and it was finally
carried unanimously as follows:
BOARD OF GOVERNORS.
Board of Governors.—Art. IV., Suc. 4. The exeeutive committee of
each division, as soon after the passage of this section as convenient,
shall elect one member of that division to serve on the board of
governors of the association, whose duty it shall be to have general
_ control of the association.
The board of governors at their first meeting shall by lot determine
their terms of office, one to retire on Nov. 1, 1894, one on Nov. 1, 1895,
one on Nov. 1, 1896 and one on Noy. 1, 1897, and thereafter all mem-
bers shall be elected in each division at its annual meeting in the same
manner as its other officers, and their terms of office shall be four
years or until their successors are elected. The commodore shall be a
member ex-officio.
Duties._Suc. 5. It shall be the duty of the board of governors to
appropriate and apportion suitable sums to the officers and commit-
tees for necessary expenses for the running of the association and the
meets, etc., from the finances in the hands of the secretary-treasurer.
They shall hear and determine all questions of dispute on appeal from
ate Ae elias of the regatta or executive committees when referred
to them.
Quorum.—Sxc, 6. At all meetings of the board of governors three
shall constitute a quorum, but in the event of the absence of any
member, the executive committee of the same division from which he
comes may select any member to represent him during his disability
only, and in the event of a vacancy occurring, the same shall he filled
for the unexpired term by the active members of the division in the
same manner as for a full term,
Meetings.—Sxuc. 7. The stated meetings of the board of governors
shall be held during the annual meeting of the association in August,
and at the annual meeting of the executive committee in November,
but special meetings may be held at any other time and place at the
call of the president or at request of three members of the board.
Officers.—Sxc, 8. The officers of the board shall be president and
recorder, whose duties shall be as in other organizations and they
shall be chosen annually at the stated meeting in camp.
Art, IX,, Szc.1. Amend by adding after the word ‘‘commodore” in
sixth line, “but no money shall be paid out in excess of the appro-
priation made by the board of governors,” and substitute in sixth and
seventh lines ‘the shall” for ‘‘and to.”
An amendment proposed by Mr. F, C. Webb, of Staunton, Va., to
ohana the boundaries of the Atlantic Division so as to coincide more
closely with the natural watershed, was carried without discussion.
A letter was read from Mr. J. ©. Massa, of the Orange ©. C., suggest-
ing that the yearly receipt for A. C. A. dues be in the form of a ticket,
similar to the L. A. W. receipt, but no action was taken. Mr. Winne
offered a motion that the prize fund established in 1892, and tempor-
arily devoted to other use bere-established, which was carried. A
vote of thanks to Com. Cotton and Sec’y-Treas. Burns, was then passed
unanimously, after which the meeting adjourned.
At 7 P. M., the members came together again and others arrived to
the number of fifty, mostly from New York and the Passaic River.
A long table was spread in the large dining room, and a very pleasant
evening followed. Nospeeches were made, and ‘the proceedings weré
very informal and thoroughly enjoyable. Compared with the meeting
of 1889 at the same place, the number of old members, especially from
the New York and Knickerbocker Clubs, was very small, and very
many familiar faces were absent. On Sunday, the visiting canoeists
were entertained by the various local clubs, :
The Shy Boat.
Way don’t the Atlantic Division grow? Many reasons are given,
Bicycles, fires, wrecks, etc., but really it is the ‘‘shy boat.7 Ask most
any old canoeist how he became one and he will tell you, ‘tA friend in-
vited me to go with him in his canoe, and I liked it so well that I got a
canoe,” or “Nessmuk, Vaux, Thetis or Jabber wrote about it and
I went cruising.” But most of the Atlantic Division canoeists haye
Tacing canoes,and it would be ridiculous to invite a friend to go |.
cruising with them, or to allow a novice to attempt to handle the
canoe. The waters of this Division are so well adapted to fine sailing
that we've all tried racing canoes and overdone it, and as not one man
in ten makes a good racer, many have become afraid of their ‘shy
boats” and large rigs, and either drop the sport altogether or go
about it in half-hearted manner, not caring to go out unless the water
is very smooth, sitting about the house or on the float, killing time, or
making excuses. Some of the older sailors, who love the water too
well to stay away from it, have gone into “Scarecrows” or canoe
yawls. The Division gets almost no new members. The Northern
Division grows, they had the meet this year, and that may have helped
them some, but the real reason is they use mostly open paddling
canoes, or roomy, lightly-decked cruisers with emall rigs, which can
be handled by a novice without a surety of a ducking.
Boys! Look back at the cruising and sailing you used to do when
you were afloat in all weathers, and sailed races with less than 50ft.
of sail, when you didn’t hesitate to ask any one to “come along.”
Oan you remember any part of your canoe life that you enjoyed as
much? Would you now invite a novice (unless you owed him a
grudge) to try your shy boat, and would you expect any one to become
a “‘canoe crank” after once trying it? If canoeing in this division is
to wake up and not die of dry rot the rank and file have got to get
back to cruisers, roomy, comfortable paddlers or sailers, and get new
mento comein or old ones to come back. Let’s haye some races
with old-fashioned “handkerchief rigs,” say not over 50ft., shy boats,
open boats and cruisers together, and see if we don’t have some fun.
We're in it for fun and if outsiders see we enjoy ourselyes they will
want to join us. Use a canoe that is beamy and has little deck, but
lots "of room, and your friend, or even your best girl, will want to go
with you, and your friend willbe apt to want a canoe of his own.
Let’s get back to cruisers with very small rigs and see if canoeing in
CANOE CRANE,
this division won"t wake up. It’s time,
New Yorx, Noy. 3.
A. C. A.—Pursers’ Report.
ATLANTIC DIVISION.
Receipts.
Balance from Purser F, L. Dunnell...,,..
Dues, 1892,......
Heras
seem aba rsa
seerae
Ce i)
Sale of Code books...... Acisive Sahuse
Transferred to Hastern Division...
Expenditures,
Sundry expenses Division meet,,........ sat eue eee
Regatta Committee....,,, ey eeentim myers atieaes oe
Transportation COMMILLEE, ,......ccersauarcvssecrerecs
Camp Site Committee ..,........ vee reowe
ee ee ee iy
serenasd
MIDNIGHT Peer eheeee eae eee Snancan ibieesssax ara
Membership.
Deni bens NO vncdlashecdnesipmieen oleic nice came 323
DNC WaeINLGETLDETA woiicveae yon auwecetcteeere rie Bele phaihe 27
Reinstated .:.,.....ceeeees ewieeeutitlanes fen eee O
RESISTEA Neuere une suite atlaleree 4 aIde eee Peal
Transferred to Kastern Division,.,,.., cettipd
Dropped from roll,..........sse5008 seaaeees40— 57
Total membership Oct. 1, 1893.........++sess00. 298
Assets.
Flag poles @ $2.50, stored at South Norwalk.,,.. in nravaracavavord die Ste #57 50
Members unpaid dues (good) ...........0.0.0e00: At Preece evens ay 45 00
Rebate from Regatta Committee, about....... veka eee ened on sat me ONC
$112 60
Liabilities nothing. F. LU. Dunxnew, Purser,
Audited ee county correct.
. C. Warp, P
Wm. McK, Miner, {| Auditor Re
NORTHERN DIVISION.
Fecetpis.
Balance from 1892.......... t
MPERCSUs hee ach bnil i triiitics
Fees from former years...
Fees of current year.,..........
$273 32
Expenditures.
Balance due A. C. A. for 1892.,.,. ont ercrns Macias s-slplota rere $8 00
Returned loan of 1892...,....,.0ceeserverees BARA ae see 19 00
Postage and CXPressS.....seseyeeeeeeee Sh Milo neta ietote ever 8 82
Printing and stationery,..,,...... aig wistslalatebet jes ctctefedvie G witha 10 90
Incidentals.......,.-.0.,seeees aps acess 5 tira: 1 71
A, O. A, treasury,,.,....,.. Ane de, A SAS ARR SAR ARA meee 58
Balance,..,, Pict ialeleets infer riety eiviolsfeimteitiets ata lnjes ots ito vals enn Store .. 4 32—$278 32
Membership Oct. 1,. 189%...) ...cepscceceescsecseees 126
New members,.......eeeeey pi chahesvtets¥o.s cle aWetbieie)olaFena 64
Members reinstated, .ii....serereceesccscercess 23
87
Members dropped for non-payment of dues. ..85— 52
Membership Oct. 1, 1893,,...-scsesseeeesseeseussens 178
W. G. MacKzyoprick, Purser.
EASTERN DIVISION,
Receipts.
Balance, Nov. 14, 1892
Pewee ee eee eee eee eee
Dues, 1891.0... cceere 1 00
Dues 1892s seid eth oer ately eeclelecstete cette tended pean ade ad 3 00
ADT (ech bg alte eh eee ee ee nee ie at TE He A epee 340 00
TMIGiAtION LESS shee) sn siee's overs plsetiaN oneal an red fatd sist ais te seeee 45 00
Camp dues, Eastern Division meet...., Ceperteasts basnbasceues baeee, 44 00
$464 93
EHupenditures.
Stationery, postage, typewriting, ete....... Heber iret $35 88
Print deen ie tone cb ene She kbs thie bees A ncpbrsher kr 28 00
Subscription FOREST AND STREAM.,.... Vers ient sreteleeats es .. 400
Postage on Year Books..............; Sinnott ee vere
Expenses, Hastern Division meet at Haddam Island,
DUNG GATS eis ep beassinitisiy pple ee enelsipiele estes Pace pat Se 1.229 BG
30% dues to to R. E. Burns, Sec’y-treas..........00.ee0...116 70
Balance, Oct. 1, 1893......... piaetvipesistierts ete eins Meee Peet 42 78—$464 93
Number of members, Nov. 14, 1892.,,.........0.008 362
New Me@Mbers........cccsscer ess eixtatstahatash piste hopes 45
Members reinstated.........ese0s00ee
Transferred .,.
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No. of members, Oct. 1, 1892... .ccceeceewne eee 840
Audited and found correct: John D. Parker, Willington R. Slocum,
Auditors. Froup B. Lewis, Purser.
CENTRAL DIVISION.
Receipts.
By cash from W. B. Wackerhagen, Secretary.....ssecssssereees 9200 00
By dues of members 1898 ........ Sat Ohaus one HU NReg ee cee eh see LAGE
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$a71 00
Haupenditures.
To office expenses ..........e.s00s barr istorirnn dee ets 29 ESB
To R. Easton Burns, Secretary, 30% of receipts..,,,,..,. 50 70
To R. Haston Burns, Seeretary, postage on year books. 4 88
To balance on hand Oct. 16,1893... .. cc cecescceesereeess GU1 29—$871 29
Membership.
Membership Jan. 1, 1893.......... else cicttee ee nieay 4
New members, 1893........ +e de
Reinstated ,..... AS hinaesraeane 1—257
Dropped for non-payment dues, aiteu,
Diedsi tee ee pico yee abies +e 8
Total membership Oct. 16, 1893.......... Sc ete 249
CG. HB. WARDWELL, Purser.
The Detroit Boat Club Fire.
THE Detroit Boat Club house on Belle Isle, caught fire about 3:39
o’clock Sunday morning. The wind was blowing a hurricane at the
time, and there being no protection against fire in the immediate
vicinity the club house was entirely consumed, together with its con-
tents, which included all thé club’s racing boats and shells, as well as
pleasure boats,
There had been a dancing party at the club house on Sunday
evening, but it broke up about 11:30 and before midnight every person
but tke janitor, George Kidd, had left the building. Kidd, according
to his usual custom then made an inspection of the premises, put out
the grate fires and retired to his room on the island side of the room,
He was later awakened by the appearance of flames in his room and,
jumping out of bed, he madearush for some of the club relics, con-
sisting of old documents, photographs, etc., but he found the hallway
filled with flames, which rendered progress impossible. Neither could
he retreat toward the island, but he succeeded in getting through one
of the reception rooms and jumped into the river. He thought
possibly he could saye some of the more valuable boats, but the
moment he raised the door the flames rushed out and in less than an
hour the entire building had been burned to the water's edge, It was
the first opportunity afforded the fire boat to show what if could do
and it was found wanting. When it arrived at the fire there were only
afew smouldering embers, notwithstanding the flames had been seen
by tower watchmen and an alarm turnedin. A fire engine was sent
across the bridge, but it, too, arrived too late to be of any service,
The building was erected in 1890 at a cost of $10,000, and was re-
garded as one of the best boat club houses in the entire country, It
was insured for $8,500, The furniture costs $4,000 and the boats,
shells, ete., about $4,000; but this, by n0 means covers the entire loss.
There were private boats in thé club house yalued at not less than
$3,000, but the club will find its grearest loss in its relics, which included
photographs of all its officers since the club was organized on
February 18, 1839, together with prize trophies of every description.
The total loss will not be less than $20,000.
raieaeiasd of the club directors is being held this afternoon, at
which it isthe intention to take immédiate steps toward rebuilding.
President Jupp says the new building will be much larger and com-
modious than the burned building.— xchange.
Hoboken C. C. Smoker.
Atv the last meeting of the Hoboken Canoe Club the members de-
cided to hold their first ‘‘smaker” on Dec. 2 at theirclub house, foot
of Tenth street, Hoboken. All canoeists welcome. J. Frost, Capt,
Bifle Range and Gallery.
Zettler Rifle Club.
THE season shoot of the Zettler Rifle Club for 1893 at the 200yds,
range was brought to a close in Wissel’s Cypress Hills Park on Oct. 22,
The programme called for fifteen shots on practice days, but on ac-
count of the Zettler Club occupying the range on Sept. 10 for the an-
nual fall shoot, the practice shoot was restricted to thirteen days. The
attendance was not what was expected, oniy thirteen members filling
out their scores on the programme, which called for fifteen prizes,
amounting to $150, divided as follows: For the best 50 10-shot scores,
first $25, second $18, third $15, fourth $14. Wor the best 35 10-shot
scores, 12, 610, $9, $8. For the best 25 10-shot scores, $7, 86, $5, $5 $5,
$4, $4, 53. The following appended scores were made by the members
participating during the season:
Fred C. Ross, 50 scores. Henry Holges, 50 scores.
234 §222 R25 2282p 215 R26 «2200 «(217s 215itéID:
220 226 229. 225 216 224 8220 219 Bid Bit
R19 «227 «6 219 «RD 218 204 Reh 216 213 214
223 228 220 221 214 222 218 215 218 211
228 222 222 218 213 220 219 215 218 209
226 221 220 217 218 Azl 218 215 212 209
2c4 69226 «6 219 «217 = 218 221 218 214 212 209
226 219 227 «217 «©6211 224 218 214 212 209
234 220 224 215 214 224 218 221 211 209
219 221 228 215 211 221 217 218 211 208
2243 (2282 2238 2190 2135—11,033 2227 2191 2159 2126 2098—10,801
Average for 10-shot scores, 220.6. Average for 10-shot scores, 216.
- Richard Harmon, 50 scores. Geo W Plaisted, 50 scores.
228 220 215 216 208 gee eed 220 211 208
232 221 210 216 209 220 216 218 211 209
210 219 216 211 +209 222 215 218 R18 207
2296 218 216 214 212 220 «215 220 210 207
295. 218 218 212 211 Rel BI Rib “Ri” BOF
225 219 214° 210 214 gee 217 RRB RI R07.
226 217 215 215 208 223 216 217 210 208
220 219 211 213 208 224 216 216 210 208
225 217 212 210 207 222 215 216 210 212
229 215 216 212 206 221 9219 211 209 207
2256 2188 21388 2129 2092—10,798 2217 2169 2174 2106 2080—10,746
Average for 10-shot scores, 215.9. Avyeragefor 10-shot scores, 214.9.
Chas, G. Zettler, 35 scores. Philip F. Schmidt,
219 Q21 207 tree 207 202 204 2s
217 214 204 Pree 210 204 219 Jae
- 219 214 208 PYS's: 209 224 216 eae
216 214 204 obs 212 206 220 EARS
216 212 205 sak 206 202 212 ae
215 210 204 217 2 207 202 207
216 209 204 212 204 208 210 212
~218 208 209 215 212 218 205 212
216 306 207 209 209 211 201 211
215 207 208 211 R21 211 21g 209
2167 2115 2060 1064—7406 2092 20938 2102 1051—7358
Average for 10-shot scores, 211.6.
B. pees 35 Scores.
al k 3
Average for 10-shotscores, 209.6.
M. B. Engel, 35 scores.
201 213
201 0 209 ws 215 ara
213 213 COS ms gaa 213 206 ROO ceria
217 202 205, 217 214 Oa" Ei:
205 211 209 205 205 207 tii
228 219 UBS maces. 210 204 LOT irtt
215 200 216 797 208 219 193 192
208 204 215 196 203 212° 200 187
217 204 206 197 201 201 126 189
216 200 201 195 219 206 190 188
206 205 197 197 209 204 188 199
2126 2068 2074 982—7250 2095 2073 2 955—7124
Average for 10-shot scores, 207.1. Average for 10-shot scores, 203.5.
J. A. Boyken, 25 scores: Geb Krauss, 25 scores:]
210 220 AE 201 209 An
218 209 was 219 200 vit
206 209 bE 211 201 hor
204 210 Oo 208 205 on
206 226 es 204 217 “py
215 211 204 207 212 199
2138 205 199 205 197 197
218 201 205 209 199 197
218 201 208 210 192 198
215 200 209 207 199 196
2118 2092 1025—5285 2081 2031 987—5099
Average for 10-shot scores, 209-4 Average for 10-shot scores, 203-9
G W Downs, 25 scores. Jos Giinthar,25 scores. F Fabarius, 25 scores.
1 152 ; 116 «12
194 190 .... 83 ote 1 Pe aor
198 187 ny 185 AS: ive 125 140 .,,.
200 187 4... 183 169 4... 120 156 =,
188: 215 4.22 183. 169 \1:. 134 148 =...
Tite Iblis 198. 166 .... Mike whe AAS
184 204 185 185 168 170 197 96S 128
180 180 176 179 «177 = 167 176 OF «= «14
191 186 179 173 171 = 164 150 110 143
194 199) «=—-179 192 173 166 152 112 115
198 198 175 184 174 166 157 125 = 160
1905 1931 894—4730 1845 1711 833—4389 1440 1245 6743359
Average for 10-shot Average for10-shot Average for 10-shot
scores, 189.2. Bcores, 175.5, scores, 134.3.
Revolver Shooting in England,
On Oct. 18 the ties for the second and minor prizes in the revolver
championship of the North London Rifle Club were shot off. Lowe
and Andrews came to the score with about 198 points each, and Varley
had 195 points.
Varley made a very good fight of it, making the best score,
7, 6, 6, 7,7,7—40. Andrews made an inferior 40as follows: 7,7, 6,7,7, 6
—40, and Lowe was only able to make 6, 7, 7, 6, 7,5—38. This gave
Andrews the second prize with the following scores: 40 added to 198—
201. Lowe and Varley tied for third prize with 198,
In order to decide who took third prize their next best scores were
taken, making Lowe 88 and Varley 37, so the former takes third prize.
The final result for the revolyer championship of the North London
Rifle Club thereforeis: First prize and gold jewel. Walter Winans
(Smith. & Wesson .45cal. * Winans Model” reyolver, U. M. C, ammuni-
tion, black powder):
First Score.,....s.2scs-
Second score vi
Third score,... 7
Fourth score.... 7
Fifth score....... 7
Second prize and silver jewel, H. Andrews (Colt .45cal, revolver,
Eley’s ammunition, V. R. and black powder):
WiTSESCOLEM a eadumps renee ey= ded nnieaecdt end das time feathmetematons (Al
Second score..... islslongdes cist ehea CSRS SENT EIST (ig Oa hee eee TA)
THING SGOT ngs pan antesnquddudadasrns erties "7 6 % 7 6-40
FOUrEH SCOR es nese tenets nt nadend A Meecece wot 8 7% 2 6 740
FALthiBCOlBs a cides iaend ings etagaienstsansae 7 6 5 7. 7 6—39—201
eae i
Third prize and bronze jewel, C. F. Lowe (Colt .45cal. revolver,
Hley’s ammunition, V. R. Walsrode and black powder), score 198.
Varley 198, Capt. Cowan 189, Major Munday 189, Skilton 183, Rand
182, Capt. Richardson 179, Carter 174, Capt. Thompson 160, Luitgi60,
Capt. Jones 160, Ridgway 156. :
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_in order to break his scores woul
Nov. 11, 1898,]
FOREST AND STREAM.
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Grap-Zhooting.
All ties divided unless otherwise reported.
FIXTURES.
If you want your shoot to be announced here
send in notice like the following:
Noy. 8-10.—Hizhland Gun Club tournament, Des Moines, lowa.
1894. :
April 4-6.—Interstate Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ Association’s
Grand American Handicap at Dexter Park, Long Island.
May 22-24,—Knoxville (Tenn.) Gun Club tournament, $1,000 added
money.
Sinks 19-21.—Ohamberlain Cartridge and Target Company’s first
annual tournament, at Cleveland, Ohio, $1,000 added money,
June (third week).—Atlantic City Rod and Gun Club, three days’
tournament. Address R. C. Griscom, Sec’y, Atlantic City, N. J.
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS.
Every sportsman in America knows personally or has heard of
Rene T. Clayton, the handsome blondine who presides oyer the desti-
nies of the ‘United States Hotel, at Tamaqua, Pa., thatis to say, his
name is ou the signboard and he “presides” when he does not happen
to te away ata trap shoot. He is a rattling good shot in the field or
at the trap and usually manages to ‘‘pull out whole” in either liye
bird or target contests. He has a host of friends in trapdom and
adds to the number wherever he goes by his unfailing good nature
and genial manners. Heranks as an amateur among target shooters,
although at times his paceis pretty hot. Some months ago he con-
ceived the idea that if an amateur could be provided with the means
of “holding on™ to quartering beet rs instead of shooting into space
be materially improved, so he put
his thinking cap on and finally evolved what he calls ‘‘Clayton’s
switch sight,” got it patented and put a big lot on the market to cateh
the boys. The success of the sight exceeded even the expectations
of the inventor and to-day the demand is in excess of the supply,
although he will soon cateh up with his orders. The invention is a
simple one, deyoid of all complication and does not require the ser-
vices of an expert mechanic in adjusting. The parts comprise a flat,
thin plate of steel on the front end of which is a bead sight, anda
small screw which passes through a hole in the rear end of the plate
and is Screwed into the hole intended for the usual fixed bead sight.
Along with each sight is atap to thread this hole. When shooting
at quartering targets the sight is moved either to the right or left,
the bead held ‘dead on” and ‘ta break is usually the result,” says the
inyentor. It is useful, of course, only when shooting at known
angles. Itis really one of the most valuable inventions of recent
date and deserving of the warm reception it has received from
amateur shooters, It is sold at the extremely low price of $1.50,
which places it within the reach of all shooters.
Josb Billings’ saying that, “It is better not to know so many things,
than to know so many things which ain’t so," could be applied with
force to Walter B. Peet, author of an article entitled ‘‘Handling the
Shot Gun,” which appeared ina recent issue of the Chicago Jmter-
Ocean. The article contains many points which will be of benefit to
the beginner, but on the other hand it contains some glaring inaccu-
racies, For instance, in instructions for aiming, Mr, Peet says, refer-
Ting to the front sight, “If you see too much of the sight you will
shoot over, if too little your charge will go under.” The effect of
seeing too much or too little of the front sight, as every shooter knows,
is the reverse of what Mr. Peet asserts. He also states that, ‘‘In the
Hurlingham rules for trap-shooting, which is the code most used ati
present, the contestant isrequired to hold his gun below the armpit
until the call of ‘pull,'* which statement proves conclusively that he
does not study the trap columns of Forest AnD Stream, Had he been
accustomed to doing so, he would have seen an autograph letter from
the secretary of the Hurlingham Club, stating that; the rules had been
altered and that, asin the American Shooting Association rules, the
gun could be held in any position. This Jetter was published in our
eolumns over a year ago, Again he says, “A general rule, worth
remembering, is that the stock should nob be * * * * so short as
to bend the right arm too much, and bring the right hand close to the
nose of the shooter,” This partis all right but in connection with the
article is shown a picture (by Travis), over the caption, “Correct
position for holding gun,’ which shows a shooter with gun at
shoulder, the gun stock being so short 4s to bring the thumb near the
ear, and the hammers alongside the eye.
It is amusing at times to hear the remarks passed in reference to
the relative skill of various shooters, At the first Eiliott-Class match
some of the spectators were heard to say that the two men could de-
feat any two men on earth in a live bird contest—because they killed
239 out of 250 birds on that particular day. No allowance was made
for the weather conditions nor for the atmospheric effect upon the
birds, the opinion being based solely upon the cold figures. The day
has gons by when any man, pair, trio or quartette of men could sally
forth and “sweep the deck.” So far as individnal skill is concerned
we consider ourselves safe in asserting that there are in this country
at feast 100 men, the skill of any one of whom does not vary one per
cent, from that of any other of the number, If all men werein proper
form, all things being equal, a 100-bird contest between these 100 men
would be so close that the slightest element of luck might determine
the result in favor of any one. In New Jersey there are a dozen or
perhaps fifteen men who shoot so closely together in regard to scores
that it is not a ‘‘sure thing” to wager on any one. It is safe to say
that were these men, along with J. Frank Class, to engage in a 100-
bird contest, when conditions were equal and all were in form, it
would be impossible to pick the winner. And yet not a Jerseyman
except J. L. Brewer aud John Riggott ever showed pluck enough to
_ meet Class at the trap in an up-and-up contest.
New Jersey gunclubs should lose no time in affiliating with the
State League in order that a new series of team contests may be in-
augurated. The contests of this league have thus far been success-
fuland pleasing affairs, and the only regret of the projectors is that
such a small number of clubs took part in the sport, There are at
least 35 target shooting clubs in the Stabe, and it would seem as though
one half of these should be able to muster teams for these contests.
Clubs should consider the adyantages of being able to make new and
renew old acquaintances at the monthly contests of the league and
promptly join. Mr. Wm. R. Hohart, 59 Halsey street, Newark, N. J,
is secretary of the league andis ready to receive propositions for
membership as well as to answer all queries.
In another column will be found an article under the caption of
“pifeon Shooting—Past and Present,’ which we commend to the
careful attention of all interested in trapsports. The author is the
well-known “Gaucho” (Arthur W. Du Bray), whose facile pen has
made his writings popular wherever sport is known. Mr, Du Bray is
personally and favorably known throughout the country asa genial,
whole-souled sportsman, and one who is sure of a welcome wherever
he goes. His sentiments anent the brutal methods formerly used in
find, trap and handle matches will commend themselves to all who
haye the interests of pigeon shooting at heart.
On Thanksgiving Day, Noy. 30, the Forest.Gun Club will give an all-
day shooting touraament. on their grounds, Twenty-seventh street
and Lehigh ayentie, Philadelphia, The club intends making this one
of the best tournaments eyer given in Philadelphia, It is the best
equipped ground and easiesh of access of any in Philadelphia at the
present time. Bluerock targets and expert bluerock traps will be
used. Ww. Morison, Sec’y, 6232 Ridge avenue, Philadelphia.
In answer to a popular demand frou sportsmen for lower prices on
the higher grades, that they may continue their use as against so-
called smokeless powders, the Hazard Powder Co, has made a reduc-
tion in its ‘Eleetric’’ and ‘‘Duck Shooting’ brands of from sixteen
to twenty-five per cent.
The new model 12-bore single barrel shotgun made by the Reming-
ton Arms Qo,, of Ilion, N. Y., is rapidly coming into favor, and is used
by a number of trap shots. Itis'a light-weight, and for this reason
will soon attract the attention of the boy shooters.
Another find, trap and handle match will take place at Martin‘s
Hotel, Pine Brook, N. J., on Nov, 16, between Hufene Pierre of Boon-
ton, and Samuel Gastle of Newark. The conditions are 25 live birds
per man, Yoyds. rise for a stake of $250 a side.
A private letter from Readyille, N. C,, reports quail in abundance
all over that section. The Richmond & Danville Railroad runs direct
to Readville, High Pomt, Greenboro, Charlotte and other prime game
centers, aud their service cannot be excelled.
Elmer B, Shaver, of Pittsburg, the popular and efficient manager of
the Interstate Manufacturers’ and Déalers’ Association, has devised a
new indicator which does away with all the elements of luck when
targets are thrown under the Novelty rule.
Wm, aud John Dukes, of Rast Orange, and Lewis Dentz, of Harrison
NN. J., spent three days last week in Hunterdon county, and bagged 34
Tabbits, 13 quail and 6 grolise, ‘his week’ they were to start for the
West on a hunt for biz game. : : f
Programmes of the 18% tournament of the Chamberlin Target and
Cartridge Company will be out about January 1. Bound with the
programme will be the company’s catalogue and price list, and adver-
tisements of all the leading sporting goods houses of the country. It
will be embellished with a large number of half-tone hunting and
fishing pictures and prominent trap shots. Wifteen thousand copies
ae bean iehed of the first edition. Paul North has the work in
and,
T. W. Morfey, of Paterson, and Theodore Morford, of Newton, are
to-day engaged in shooting a match on Martin's Pine Brook peonnas
the conditions being 100 live birds each, for $100 a side, Hurlingham
Tules to govern,
The entire lot of extra finished guns comprised in the Greener ex-
hibit at the World’s Fair have been purchased by Henry C. Squires,
178 Broadway, and are offered by him at regular list prices.
The heavy rain of last Saturday caused a postponement of the sec-
ond match between Class and Elliott. The match was to have come off
on Wednesday, too late for this issue.
Some lively work will be seen at Springfield, Mass., on Nov, 25, when
the Yale and Harvard gun clubs will meet at the traps for their annual
contest at artificial targets.
Win. Lyman, he of “Lyman Sight” fame has been “doing” the trade
in New York and yicinity, and met with good success. His sights are
always in demand,
The shoot off of the tie between Bogardus and Hall will be shot at
Springfield, Iil., on Thanksgiving Day, Noy. 30.
Nutley, N. J.,.has a gun club, newly organized, which will equip fine
grounds 10 @ convenient location.
Next Thursday will be Essex Gun Club day on Al Heritage’s ground
at Marion,
C, H, Townsenb. 9
Pigeon Shooting—Past and Present.
Editor Forest and Siream:
Pigeon shooting as compared with many other outdoor sports is
of comparatively modern origin, Prior to 1850, the shooting of birds
released from traps had never been gone into to any great extent, so
that as compared with football, cricket and indeed most of the leading
games indulged in by men and boys alike, pigeon shooting is only a
recent pastime.
Unfortunately, for the lovers of this sport the impression has arisen
with many, principally ladies, that ib is decidedly cruel to shoot at a
bird sprung from a trap, while some men aver it to be unsportsman-
like 6yen to go intoa pigeon match, declaring in support of their
objection that a bird should be at freedom and allowed to take care of
itself, by eluding its pursuer by stealth or else flying off before he is
near enough Lo harm it, in other words that nothing but field shooting,
pure and simple, should he recognized. .
It is not to be denied that field shooting is on a much higher plane
than pigeon shooting could ever reach. There is absolutely nothing
sentimental in the mere killing of pigeons over trap; itis purely a test
of skill, and was never intended to represent anything else. On the
other hand, the man who stickles on the point of allowing game to
bafile the sportsman by hiding or inany way making itself scarce,
ought not, logically, to shoot over a dog, for the raison d@’étre of the
Jatter is simply to find the game, so that when it is flushed his master
may shoot atit. Now, field shooting without a dog is worse than
Hamlet minus the ghost, for after all the very best dog is the one that
finds the most game, or in other words the dog that allows the least
number of birds to escape without being shot at. So if it is unsports-
maulike to shoot a bird confined in a trap, it is necessarily so to shoot
one that has already been located by a dog, for nine times out of ten,
the gunner unaided would never haye had the offer,
The greatest back set trap shooting has ever had, was when ‘‘find,
trap and handle” matches came into vogue, The brutality of many
of these contests was simply horrible; the most barbarous methods
were used to accomplish certain damnable results, and no wonder that
when fiends calling themselves men, sportsmen forsooth, disgraced
humanity by torturing harmless birds in order to win a few paltry
dollars or acquire a degree of fame(?), no wonder, I say, that the rest
of mankind tabooed pigeon shooting as a whole, making all suffer
alike as a penalty for the trickery of cruel black-legs bent on winning
a stake or reputation rid Sa of the commonest laws of decency.
These ‘find, trap and handle” matches were in a great measure
merely gambling schemes, wherein the handler performed a vastly
greater part than those who actually did the shooting. In such affairs
it was of uppermost importance to have at one’s back a person well
upin the most devilish arts,in order that he might at least keep
abreast of the man trapping against one for his opponent. Two men
engaged in a ‘‘find, trap and handle’ match being of equal! skill, it was
always dollars to cents on the man’s winning who had on his side the
more skillful handler of pigeons—indeéed the betting was: governed
very often solely on the handler, when it was ouce known who should
handle against him—clearly proving that the shooting was quasi of
secondary consideration, so much stress being laid upon the effect
produced on the defenceless pigeon, after it once left the merciless
hands of its brutal captor. No one could from a demi-civilized stand-
point, uphold such sayage practices under the guise of sport, so
naturally enough many becoining disgusted withdrew altogether, de-
claring 1t a brutal degrading pastime and censuring in no measured
terms its advocates.
Nowadays, fortunately, all such butchery of birdsis removed. We
now sboot at the best-Hying pigeons we can procure; we shoot them
from five ground traps, Syds. apart, give them a good long start, and
if they are wounded with the first barrel the second genérally gives
the coup de grace, or else the trapper instantly kills the wounded bird,
ending his suffering. So that as a matter of fact pigeons are much
more humauely and carefully treated than poultry huddled up in
coops, carried head down by the legs, bruised and banged about in a
thousand ways, and eventually decapitated with a dull ax or gaw-like
knife at the hands of whoever has stomach enough to perform this
delicate operation. Pigeons are now shipped in roomy coops, are well
watched and fed, and on all first class shooting grounds are given the
best care, for non-tlyers are a dead loss to the purveyor, ergo, as
purely a matter of economy everything is done to insure their being
in good health and well able to take care of themselyes when once re-
leased from the traps.
A great deal of discussion and condemnation has arisen from the
shooter being allowed the use of both barrels when shooting at the
trap. There can be nothing said Es Soom it from any rational stand-
point, every one has the same privilege; in the event of a bird being
merely wounded the humaue shot at once kills it, if possible, with his
second barrel. Many birds that would fly off and out of bounds,
though badly wounded, are at once killed outright by the dextrous
use of the ever ready second, In field shooting one always uses the
second edition when the first has not accomplished its purpose, and as
it is well known that gunshot wounds are not painful until after a
certain time after being received, it is quite clear that a wounded bird
that is at once killed by the trapper on being gathered cannot have
suifered any more than had it beén beheaded or killed in any other so-
called legitimate method. Birds killed at the trap are invariably used
as food, hence it is that they are well cared for, first to insure their
being good rapid flyers, and secondly, so that when dead they can
readily be sold for the table, The cruelty therefore of pigeon shoot-
ing is purely imaginary, and not fora momentto be compared with
that inflicted by men who habitually fire into flocks of game birds,
killing a few and wounding many others that wander off to diea
lingering death or become a prey of carniyorous birds or beasts. It
was, or has been a cruel sport, but when properly carried on there is
absolutely ne of that character about it. On some grounds, I
admit, birds are allowed to suffer, wing-broken birds or birds shot so
they cannot fly off are pernitted to limp around the traps or lie
stretched on the ground, bleeding and crippled, writhing in their
agony, but that is entirely due to the want of management and cannot
in fairness be charged against the sport itself. Such birds being ac-
tually detrimental to it, as they serve as decoys and materially inter-
fere with the flight of all birds subsequently released.
Let any one who considers pigeon shooting cruel go to John Watson's
Park at Chicago, and then he will, he must change his views, The
Same must be said of all the crack clubs of America, where thousands
and thousands of pigeons are shot eyery year, and never a one is
allowed to suffer, unless indeed those that Hy off wounded—against
which wounded birds afield act as an offset.
Another thing, men who habitually shoot pigeons are for the most
part provided with the best guns and use the best and most expensive
ammunition made. In these days of nitro pamders the gathering of
wounded birds, of yore an art by itself, has from disuse become
almost obsolete. Now one uses a well choked duck gun loaded with
a powder that instead of producing a volume of smoke so dense as to
beimpenetrable, emits 4 thin vapor, transparent and tieeting, obscur-
ing nothing from view, leaying the bird clearly visible, admitting
thereby the Instantaneous delivery of the second barrel. Aside from
this, either because certain smokeless powders deliver the load more
compactly and with greater force, fewer birds are sent off wounded
than formerly; it is now generally a clean, sudden kill, resembling the
impact of an electric shock, or else a clean miss altogether, though of
course some birds must be wounded and will so continue to be so long
as shooting at them exists in any form,
Tt. is to be regretted that men still continue to import pigeons long
distances, generally by rail, when they come packed too solidly in
erates, and where their feathers must perforce become soiled and
stuck POR pI tosuch an extent they cannot fly. Such shooting is
entirely deyoid of sport. Itis at such pigeons that long rung of kills
are made, and it is in witnessing such insipid slaughter that men form
erroneous ideas as to the possibilities of the sport. To charge the
tameness of such shooting against the sport in general is parallel to
comparing a game of baseball as played by some small village club,
on a ground ankle deep in mud, swimming in ice water iu winter, or
Shasiny. an antelope mounted on a worn-out city hack, And yet many
men who have not the faintest idea of the pace aud vim latent in a
Goethe Pipeou; who haye neyer seen one dart out from an end trap as
though each wing was trying to overlap the bill in its anxiety to anni-
hilate space, will complacently tell you that killing pigeons is easy,
that you hold the gun where you please, that you are allowed two
barrels, that it is always done in an open field, and to sum it up that
the bird hasno chance. AllI can say to such is—let them try it—at '
Watson’s in winter, with the wind at Lake Michigan, at Larchmont in
a shifty breeze, or at any crack New York club—to say nothing of
hundreds of places where good strong birds are trapped, and where
the wind has a fair sweep ab them, Que single effort will dispel the-
illnsion, for while it is easy enough to kill 70 or 80 per cent. of one’s
pigeons, yet every 1 per cent, after 85 is very hard to squeeze out, so -
hard indeed that but few men have the power of reaching beyond as
a steady average.
Pigeon shooting should always be done over two or more traps, ex-
tending at least 20yds. apart at the extremes. The strings that oper-
ate the traps should always be concealed. The traps should invariably
be placed on a totally bare spot, clear and smooth, the King trap being
the best, though a scoop trap makes very fair birds of only mediocre
ones and scorchers of really good pigeons. The rise should never be
less than 30yds., while the boundary is about correct at 50.
In the matter of guns, assuming the 12-gauge to be standard, a 16-
bore ought to go-in at least 4yds. instead of 2; for no 16-gauge with an
ounce of shot can equal a correspondingly good 12, even with the
4-yard handicap in effect, with its second barrel. A thoroughly good
16-bore is absolutely certain, when properly loaded and held, up to say
28yds. rise with the first barrel; but on thunderbolts that vanish
through the air, leaving naught for the wistful eye to gaze on but a
dim, fleeting meteor frantically endeayoring to overtake its own
shadow, a 1t-gauge can*t be compared toai12. Itis not intheagun nor
in the load, though skillful, steady handling will accomplish great
things. On this subject I may be pardoned for speaking feelingly, as
experience is avowedly the best teacher. :
Over-loading should he ayoided, especially in long matches. Great
scores have. been made with only 3drs. to, say, 46grs. of BH. C. and
11goz, of shot. Per contra, J. L. Brewer, perhaps the greatest pigeon
shot to-day, uses tremendous charges of powder, going up to d0grs.
or more. Physically a yery powerful man, constitutionally rugged,
of a neryous organization that little feels, such a man can lead a paca
on loads that few could, with impunity, follow. No amount of load-
ing can counteract bad shooting, whereas the very best shot and
holder may soon become totally disabled by over-charging his gun.
It is erroneous to suppose that anything beyond the rational limit is
advantageous. The speed of a charge of shot. may be increased up to
a certain point by adding to the powder; after that its pace is gained
at the expense of the regularity of its delivery, but above all the jar-
ring and bouncing of an overloaded gun will make flinching a cer-
tainty, will generally scatter the charge and may strain the very best
gun. The writer bas seen men using but 234drs. of H, C. kill bird after
bird stone dead. He himself has made good scores with a16-gauge
using only 2!4drs. of same kind of powder. The crack pigeon-zun
maker vi London, a man whose name is known the world over as
having always advocated large charges of black powder, advises his
customers to keep under the 47grs. limit. That, coming from such
high authority, ought to conyince any one of the futility of attempt-
ing to obliterate time and space by using such tremendous charges
that no gun can long withstand them, All nitro powders are greatly
influenced by the kind and quantity of wadding used; 42¢rs. well
wadded will actually shoot much harder than 48 with insufficient
wads. So, also, does the crimp play a very important part.
Velocity or penetration (Synonymous terms) to the whole charge is
more certainly obtained, with regularity of shooting, by a rational
load well wadded and crimped than by more powder not so well con-
fined and held down.
Close observation of this very interesting sport teaches these things
—isolated cases to the coutrary proving nothing. A small percentage
of men can withstand continued severe punishment without its inter-
fering with their entire neryous system—the worst that happens to
them is a bruised face or shoulder—but the great majority bruise
themselves less because they hug their guns less and less as the shoot-
ing progresses, dodge away from it in fact, and score less in conse-
quence. A gun with a very crooked stock, when overloaded will kick
back and hurt the shoulder; one with a straighter stock in addition to
this reaches up for the jaw or cheek bones and gives these such a
sudden joit at every discharge that self-préservation soon‘ asserts
itself, and instead of facing the stock, the only way to properly align
the gun, the head is bobbing away from it and the muzzle is not point-
ing where the shooter is looking; result, pigeon moyes off gracefully
and serenely and a goose egg adorns the score. The mania for over-
loading is very natural, especially among those who have for many
years used coarse, slow-burning black powder. Of this kind four
drams could be used in an 8lbs. 12-bore, and then but little recoil was
felt, Indeed only a portion of the load was consumed, whereas now
with nitro powder a four dram chargeis tremendous, out of all reason,
if properly wadded and shell crimped as it should be. Fortunately,
we are becoming educated to the new powders, and in proportion to
our knowledge generally, so do we decrease our charges.
It needs no yivid imagination to discover that in days when spring
traps were in yogue and fated pigeons were tossed in theair tu be in-
stantly snapped out of existence by men using scattering guns—shot--
ted to the last notch—there was not much sport in it, for then be the
bird never so good, the impetus given him by the trap spring pre-
eluded all possibility of his taking flight until he had overcome the
impetus of the powerful flip. In the meantime, while dazed and com-
pletely bewildered, a whirlwind of small shot came pelting at him, so
large in, scope and dense in yolume that there was no evading it. So
his aspirations were cut short, and riddled, he falls to the ground
without even haying spread his wings.
Nor could the 2lyds. rise plunge trap be considered much better
form, for here also, although to a lesser degree, the birds were pitched
out ot the trap and given an unnatural flight, being generally killed
the moment the trap was sprung. Both styles were bad alike. They
balked nature in the endeavor to accelerate motion, and neither style
had a vestige of semblance to field shooting. The traps were always
known ones, which is all wrong. The rise was short, though quite
far enough for the guns then used; but above all, there was always a
suspicion in the minds of some that they were getting a plentiful
supply ot harder birds than their opponents. And although this very
frequently was a matter of luck, still it will always obtain where
known traps govern.
Now, with good lively birds, traps further away and many yards
apart, no one can be favored when shooting under standard rules;
birds ifin condition cannot be “extinguished” until after they have
risen, it is wing shooting sure enough, and yery different from pop-
ping at the Jack-in-the-box style contemporaneous with muzzléloader
guns, whose shooting qualities, albeit perfect inside of 25 or 30yds.,
have only the halo of loving reminiscence of our boyhood days to re-
commend them. GAvCcHO.
Hell Gate Gun Club.
THe monthly shoot of the Hell Gate Gun Club at Dexter Park on
Tuesday, Oct. 24, brought together only ten niembers. Usually this
club turns out twenty to twenty-five men at its monthly shoot, but
the fact that Tuesday was bluerock day probably kept many of the
members from coming out, To the ordinary pigeon shooter bluerocks
are 40 abomination, for which he has no use. ‘To face five targetsina
twenty-target club event and break two, four or six, as the case may
be, is likely to break the courage of theordinary live bird shooter and
cause him to pack up his kit and make a break for home. The Hell
Gate Club has, however, a number of members who are equally at
home with bluerocks or pigeons, and when the conditions are right
they can put up good scores shooting at either. On Tuesday all the
Inembers were off in their shooting, Dannefelser was in extreme hard
luck, breaking only five out of his twenty. H. Shortemeyer, one of
the prominent Emerald Gun Club members, putin an appearance dur-
ing the afternoon and helped to make matters interesting for the
other contestants, A series of sweeps at bluerocks and live birds were
shot off following the clib event, the results of which will be found
appended;
Club shoot, 20 bluerocks:
J AH Voss, .10111111001111101110—15
OC Weber, ,.11011111000000011010—10.
Doenick, , .01001000010001111010— 8
A Mueller .01010000000000110000— 4
L Heinz, . .1111110110101110111116
D*nnefels’r01000100010100111110— 9
HW Voss,,00111011111101010111—14 Knodel,,, .10000101001011001000— 6
No.1, 10 bluerocks: J. H. Voss 8, Brodie 0, C. Weber 7, Reiger 4.
No. 2, 10 bluerocks: J.H. Voss’, Brodie 3, Weber 6, Reiger 4, H,
W. Voss 5, Greenville 5.
No. 8, 15 bluerocks:
Shortmeyer , , ..011101011111011—11
E Doenick, ,.,.,011110111111011—12
HW Voss,.,...100107101110110— 9
Greenville, ,.,..101011010010011—. 8
Brodie,.....,...011011110100101— 9
Knodel..,,..,,,,100001010010110— 6
Rieger..,.,.....011110100001001— 7
Maeller,,.......110101100000000— 5
Dannefelser, ,,.01000100010100i— 5 Weber,, ». »211007111011110—11
Six live birds, 28yds.:
Brodie, yo. iiss scseecees CULLae—b BHOMtmM6yers.. seen. sce . -212221—3
Weber sre. cists es +,+--Ul121I—5 ~JB Kay.. casas snes es l21220—6
Knodel.... 2.6... cevver ss OOOU2ZI—2 DOODICK sis crecnneeeeee = 100224
RiOZET ss csesctereseereveeelOel02—4 Rebenstein,,....14++0+2+++020201—¢4
FOREST AND STREAM,
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Kensington vs. Herman Rose.
THE Kensington Gun Club, of Kensington, had a clay-pigeon match
on Wednesday, Oct. 25,on the Weisbrod & Hess farm, Holmesberg.
The party left the headquarters of the Up-town Club, Second and
York streets, in six gaily decorated wagons and numerous private
carriages, The result was:
Kensington Gun Club.
DOL Aree eet ees ars eer heh 1111111111111111101111110—23
Kolbuea. fret yoer., ceaeatela travitaletess baie 0100010011011101000001001—10
Kramer,,.......- Dapithestaratarese iets aston aisle tae 1110110011111001001011100—15
Scheuffelen.............. Cert OI 1010000110000111011001100—11
Weisbrodt, 2a 5 RS Stance aanosent 1100110110011101101001111—16
Breitting......... sebeveevcevceceneees - 0010000100001010101110111—11
Haeurer.........-.000 pe aDERE IDS «ee e+e 0101110001010000111000100—10
Leyrer..... bee so08 DUA tae Bro iueercrd 0111001101000000001101011—11
Schauflelen®, 3 ic. cic ces cece rsescsseees 1111111010111001000010101—15
CUS, aavistelis behead ee bb eines tees aaa beitiels ,0001110011110101001101010—13 —135
Herman Rose Gun Club, Southwark.
Rose. . . .-1010111101000011010011010—13
Singer, . -1010111111101111110111111—21
Burger... 0110111100111111011000001i—15
Negele...... 0101101100101100100100000—10
H Weinmann, 0001000000001100001101001— 7
BIN ee pee eee . -1010010110111100111111101—16
W Weinmann, - -0101100111100100010111011—14
Demme...... eS . -0110011101100100011010001—12
Holweg. ; , 0111000001111001100000011—11
Metzger , ne seceereae ee» 0000101100011010000010111— 9—122
New Utrecht Rod and Gun Club.
Tur New Utrecht Rod and Gun Club held its monthly shoot at
Woodlawn Park on Oct. 28, ten members reporting. The shooting
was at live birds. The scores:
Sweep No. J, live birds, all ties divided:
C Ferguson, Jr......... see. 211—3 J Foster......, MAD athe ares e0i—1
J B Vorhies ..... ..112—3 J V Shields............ ., ORe—1
© Ferguson, Sr al01=— 2s Warlshisiall, weet) ee ee mnnene 102—2
CF Nostrand.. .111—3 DDeacon,....... witeldlebte sd Fe .212—3
P Adams .........-.. algae ae 101—2
Team race—5 live birds per man, winning team to shoot off for gold
medal and 50% of entrance money:
Team No.1. Team No. 2. |
C Ferguson, Jr., Capt, 10211—4 D Deacon, Capt...... .12102—4
CHE Nostrand,......... 12102—4 J B Vorhies...........: 12212—5
P Adams.............. 11020—3 W_F' Sykes, .......5.04: 02112—4
JV Shields,...... vee. AR1I2—5 HRasch eet 01111—4
C Ferguson, No. 2..... 21122521 J Koster............... 12211—5—22
Team No. 2 shot off for the medal and money, miss-and-out. -
DDeacone Soe .-011110 EH Rasch....... a eee 221221
J B Vorhies...,........ Aetairian 120 J Koster esc. esc asesces se 121221
WARS VO: sheets Once ane sae 111212
A great many birds having been shot at before the regular event,
there were not sufficient on hand to finish. The tie between Sykes
Koster and Rasch was
postponed until the next regular liye bird shoot
of the club which will
be held on November 11.
Tournament at Mt. Kisco.
Mr. Kisco, N. Y., Oct. 28.—Inclosed find scores made at our club
grounds to-day.
No. 1, 10 bluerocks. entrance $1, expert rules: Platt 7, Halpin 7, C.
Sutton 7, Diehl 7, G. Sutton 6, Pelton 1.
No. 2, same: Platt8, C. Sutton 7, G, Sutton 9, Betti 4, Baily 7, Halpin
8, Gray 6, Dunn 4.
No. 3, 10 bluerocks, 50 cents: Platt 8, Halpin 8, Wood 8, Bette 6, C.
Sutton 7, Gray 6.
- Ne. 4, $1: Halpin 8, Platt 8, G. Sutton 7, Diehl 7, Bette 5, C. Sut-
on 5.
: ae 5, same: G. Sutton 9, Platt 6, Halpin 5, Diehl 5, Baily 3, C. Sut-
on 2.
_No. 6, rapid firing: G, Sutton 10, C. Sutton 9, Platt 8, Betti 6, Flewel-
lin 4, Halpin 3.
No. 7, 3 live birds, entrance $2, each man to pay for his birds:
IELSUb Sy ames sie rtesices sesenessQQ0—2 WOO0Gd,.....c00-.05, vers eevee 2Q0—2
LTalpinivereen seonee ee toe esis202—2 G Sutton........... tereseseedne—3
CSutton........ andes ries 210—2
No. 8, 15 bluerocks, entrance $1:
C Sutton........ 011010111101101—10 Flewellin, ......111010110101100— 9
pilatueeen hence 011110100101101— 9 Diehl...,........ 100011011110110— 9
Dunn,,....... , .000000000110010— 8 G Sutton,,...... 111111111111110—14
Bettisy sss... . .-010010101101001— 7 Halpin.......... 111110110111100—11
No. 9, team shoot, White Plains vs. Mt. Kisco, 25 birds per man:
White Plains. :
CSULLONE ows steer rees eeeeeecsecen os ->0010111011111111100111111—10
D Gray.......... a3 +++ -0000010011011111101100011—13
-~-1001011110011101111011110—17
»» «»-1J11111001111011101111111—21—70
Mt. Kisco.
,-.1011110001101000110100101—13
-0011110110011101111111111—19
«-1101110111111100000110100—15
-1001111111111001111011110—20—67
9, G. Sutton 9, Bette 5, Dunn 4,
No. 11, expert rules: Platt 8, G. Sutton 7, Halpin 5, ©. Sutton 5,
Bette 5, Dieh! 3, Gray 3, Dunn 2. F. M. Dunn, Sec’y.
Cup Shoot at Maplewood.
Orance, N. J., Oct. 30.—Inclosed find scores of the regular monthly
cup contest of the Maplewood Gun Club, held last Saturday on the
club grounds at Maplewood. Conditions of shoot, 50 single bluerocks
per man, Keystone system.
Breintnall......... 00111001101111111111111010110111101111110111011011—38
O L Yeomans,.... 11110111111111111111011111111111111101111101111111—46
Warren Smith..... 11111911111111110101111111111101011111100111111111—44
W Yan Idestine...10010101101111010101110101911110010010111101011001—30
Dr Fisher......... 01111111110110101111111111210111100110001000111010—35
MosEGan,
Goodman Leads the Climax.
On Oct. 30, in a cold air and with a stiff wind, ten members of the
Climax Gun Club met at Brewer’s Grove, in Fanwood, N. J., to indulga
in their usual monthly practice at bluerock targets. The shooting
was from five traps, one man up, unknown angles, the number of tar-
gets shot at by each man varying according to realative skill. Good-
man, with an allowance of ten targets, carried off the honors. The
scores:
Smith (25)... ccrensccceesessenen eet110001001110001111111111 —17
Keller (25)... shes asse ee peeee eee eee 1011101511011111110011111 —20
Brantingham (25)........+..++++1111111111010011110111011 —20
D Terry (25)... ..ceecccee eee eee eo L111101911010111110011101 —19
Manning (29).........¢.e00000s++ 1000111111111 7110011000010010 —17
odman (85)........... Myfanlcte ~ »-10100101101110111010111111111001111—25
Mondayelou cane trees cred tele 11011111100000100101101101010011011—20
Scott G2)..... etree taco eam , « -01001101101111011111011111111101 —24
» ye + ++10101111001101110100010100110001001—18
seperee
D Darby. (0). ........,..+0000++- -010110000110110111011111101011 —18
Sweepstake No. 1, 10 singles, unknown angles, 50 cents entry, three
moneys:
SHILA ees eas oe. >» ALOIN11110—8 Scott..............+.+1001111111—8
Keller .....,...++++++-1100111001—6 Manning,,.... wean eee AL01011111—7
D Terry ..... eseeves se L10I111101—8 Pierson.,....+.,.....-1110111111—9
Brantingham,...,,...1110111111—9 D Darby..............1111111011—9
Goodman..,,........ .1110111110—8
Miss and out:
No.1. No, 2.] No.1. No.2,
Smith...... *Pierson,.,, gece ate ee
D Terry....... 0 *Keller ,, 111 ect
Pierson, 10 Smith. Se ag
*Terry 110 FINELY A oe ey act AB 1110
Keller 1111110 *Re-entries.
Answers ta Qarrespandents.
A. G. H., Brooklyn, N. Y.—Is the .45-75 Sharps as good a gun at
500yds. as the .45-90 Winchester? Ans. In point of accuracy, yes.
not a rather rare specimen,
albino than I had supposed? Aus. It is certainly very unusual, though
such cases have been noted in many species of birds and mammals.
W. B., Cleveland, O.—1, Where can I buy some white powder which
is in all percussion caps and in the bottom of rim-fire cartridges?
I wantto reload some .22cal, shells. i
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. ANN > ey
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Berkshire Trout Hatchery
have for sale healthy BROOK TROUT ranging
size from young fry to four pounds weight, suitable
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ANGLING.
The American Angler’s Book.
Combining the natural history of sporting fish, the art of
taking them, with instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making and
rod-making, and directions for fish breeding. Description of
salmon runs, inland trout fishing, etc. By Tab. Norris.
80 illustrations, Cloth. Price, $5.50.
American Fishes.
A popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North
America, with especial reference to habits and methods of
eapture. By G. Brown Goopr. With numerous illustrations.
Cloth, 496 pages. Price, $3.50. This is, by far, the most pop-
ular work which has ever been published on the fishes of
America, and is the book that no angler who takes pleasure
in knowing the fishes which afford him sport, can afford to
miss.
Book of the Black Bass.
Comprising its complete scientific and life history, together
with a practical treatise on angling and fly-fishing, and a, full
description of tools, tackle and implements. By JamEs A.
HEnsHALL, M.D. Illustrated. Cloth, 470 pages. Price, $3.00.
Dr. Henshall’s monograph is the standard work.
Tore About the Black Bass.
Being a supplement to the “Book of the Black Bass. By
James A. HensHany, M.D. Fully illustrated. Cloth, 204 pages.
Price, $1.50. This is a supplement or sequel of Dr. Henshall’s
first volume, in which the author’s aim is to bring the sub-
ject matter down to date.
Fly-Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout, etc.
By J Harrineron KEENE. With plates of the actual material
for making flies of every variety. Illustrated. Cloth, 160
pages. Price, $1.50. The matter of the book embraces every-
thing which the fiy-fisherman wants to know about the senses
of fish, practical fly-fishing, casting and fly-making; with list
of standard flies and their dressings; the feathers, silk and
other material used in fily-making, there are samples of all,
attached to blank sheets like pictures by way of illustration.
Fishing Tackle.
Its Materials and Manufacture. A practical guide to the best
modes and methods of making every kind of appliance neces-
sary for taking fresh-water fish and for the equipment of the
angler and fly-fisher. With 454 illustrations and explanatory
diagrams. By J. Harrineron Keene. Price, $1.50.
With Fly-Rod and Camera.
By EpwAxp A. Samugexs, President of the Massachusetts Fish
and Game Protective Association, author of “The Ornithology
and Odlogy of New England and Adjacent States and Proy-
inces,”’ ‘Among the Birds,” Associate Editor of “The Living
World,” ete., etc. Cloth, 480 pages (7<9léin.), 147 illustra-
tions. Price, $5.00. The author is known as one of the most
devoted and expert salmon fishermen of America. The vol-
ume is likewise noteworthy as an example of the rare possi-
bilities of amateur photography.
Fly-Rods and Fly-Tackle.
Suggestions as to their Manufacture and Use. By Hrnry P.
Wetts, Illustrated, Cloth, 364 pages. Price, $2.50. The
most exhaustive work on the subject in print.
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MANUALS.
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Game Laws in Brief.
Laws of the United States and Canada Relating to Game and
Fish Seasons. For the guidance of sportsmen and anglers.
Compiled by CHarues B, Reynoups, Editor of Forest and
Stream. Paper. Price, 25 cents. Gives all sections relative
to game and fish seasons, limit of size or number, non-resi-
dents, transportation, ete. All in brief, but full enough for
the practical guidance of sportsmen and anglers. Carefully
econipiled, and shorn of yerbiage. Handsomely illustrated
with numerous half-tone engravings from Forest and Stream.
Woodcraft.
By Nressmux. Cloth, 160 pages. Dlustrated. Price $1.00, A
book written for the instruction and guidance of those who
go for pleasure to the woods, Its author, having had a great
deal of experience in camp life, has succeeded admirably in
putting the wisdom so acquired into plain English,
Tricks of Trapping.
Camp Life in the Woods, and the Tricks of Trapping and
Trap Making. Containing hints on camp shelter, all the tricks
and bait receipts of the trapper, the use of the traps with in-
structions for the capture of all fur-bearing animals. By W.
Hamiuron Greson. Iustrated. Cloth, 300 pages. Price, $1,00.
Log Cabins.
How to Build and Furnish Them. By Wiii1am S. Wicks, New
and enlarged edition. Price, $1.50. Mr. Wicks might have
ealled his book “Every Man His Own Log Cabin Builder,”
for he has set out to deseribe fully and particularly each de-
tail in the process of construction. Plans are given for
cabins, large and small, with details of exterior and interior,
Hints and Points for Sportsmen.
Compiled by “Seneca.” Cloth. Ilustrated, 224 pages. Price,
$1.50. This compilation comprises six hundred and odd hints,
helps, kinks, wrinkles, points and suggestions for the shooter,
the fisherman, the dog owner, the yachtsman, the canoeist,
the camper, the outer, in short for the field sportsman in all
the varied phases of his activity.
SHOOTING.
Names and Portraits of Birds
Which Interest Gunners, with Descriptions in Language Un-
derstanded of the People. By Gurpon TRUMBULL. Cloth, 222
pages. Price, $2.50. The average gunner with this work at
hand would have little difficulty in identifying the contents
of his bag from the text alone. Identification is further facil-
itated by portraits of the birds.
Antelope and Deer of America.
A comprehensive scientific treatise upon the natural history,
including the characteristics, habits, affinities and capacity
for domestication, of the Antilocapra and Cervidze of North
America. Second edition. By Joun Duan Caton, LL.D.
Cloth, 426 pages, 50 illustrations; steel portrait. Price, $2.50.
The Gun and Its. Development.
With Notes on Shooting. By W. W. GREENER. Breechload-
ing Rifles, Sporting Rifles, Shotguns, Gunmaking, Choice of
Guns, Chokeboring, Gun Trials, Theories and Experiments.
Fully illustrated. Cloth,770 pages. Newedition. Price, $2.50-
The Art of Shooting.
An Illustrated Treatise on the Art of Shooting. With Ex-
tracts from the Best Authorities. By CHARLES LANCASTER.
Illustrated with numerous drawings from instantaneous
photographs. Price, $3.00. New edition.
Field, Cover and Trap-Shooting.
By Caprary Anam H. Boearpus, Champion Wing Shot of the
World. Embracing Hints for Skilled Marksmen; Instruc-
tions for Young Sportsmen; Haunts and Habits of Game
Birds; Flight and Resorts of Waterfowl; Breeding and Break-
ing of Dogs. With an appendix. Cloth, 493 pages. Price,
$2.00. There is no other man in this country—or in any
other, for that matter—better fitted to teach a novice the art,
The Still-Hunter.
A Practical Treatise on Deer-Stalking. By T.S. Van Dykz.
The information contained in “The Still-Hunter” is as ex-
haustive as it is possible to make it. 390 pages. Price, $2.
The Breech=Loader and How to Use It.
288 pages. Price, $1.00. A book for that numerous class of
sportsmen who delight in a day’s shooting, but haye neither
the time nor the means to make the sport a life’s study.
CAMP AND HOME.
Uncle Lisha’s Shop.
Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. By RownAnp E. Roprnson.
Cloth, 187 pages. Price, $1.00. ‘‘Uncle Lisha’s Shop” is
brimful of quaint humor and sentiment, and there is an ~
unmistakable touch of human nature in Uncle Lisha himself
and his good old wife, Aunt Jerushy; in Sam Loyel, the
hunter, and in fact in all the other characters introduced.
Sam Lovel’s Camps.
A sequel to ‘Uncle Lisha’s Shop,” by Rowianp E. Roprnson.
Cloth. Price, $1. When Uncle Lisha went West, Sam Loyel
took Antoine as his partner, and the fortunes and misfor-
tunes of the two as trappers are described with all the charm
of our author’s quaint style, while their friends and enemies,
and all with whom they are brought into contact, in the
course of the story, step on to the stage real living creatures.
Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk=Tales,
With Notes on the Origin, Customs and Character of the
Pawnee People. By GrorGE Brrp GrinneLty. Cloth, 7
pages. Illustrated. Price, $1.75. New edition, revised. Like
most Indian tribes, the Pawnees are story tellers. They have
a vast fund of folk-tales and traditions, which have been
handed down from father to son, and transmitted ‘from gen-
eration to generation. Years ago, when the tribe lived in
Nebraska, the author of the present yolume camped and
hunted with them, and joined in their village life. The nights
were given up to story telling, and many of the tales told
in the lodge and by the flickering camp-fire were carefully
translated and written down. When published they excited
greatinterest. They are talesof daring and adventure, weird
accounts of magic, mystery and the supernatural; relations
of the ways of life in the old, wild days; stories of war and
the craft of war parties, the history of the tribe as treasured
by the very old men. There is mother-wit in these stories,
they are full of humor, sentiment, pathos and human nature.
Blackfoot Lodge Tales,
The Story of a Prairie People. By Grorcre Birp GRINNELL.
Cr. 8vo., $1.75. In this volume the story of the Blackfoot
tribe is told by a friend, one who has hunted with them on the
prairies, slept in their lodges, lived in their camps, and shared
their daily life. The stories which constitute this history
haye been taken down by the author from the lips of the
narrators, and are given without change as told to him.
There is a singular and charming freshness about the stories,
which give the history of renowned warriors of ancient and
modern times, show how ancient customs arose, and explain
natural phenomena. The account of the daily life, customs,
and history of the Blackfeet presents a series of graphic
pictures of savage life in peace and in war.
Our New Alaska ;
Or, The Seward Purchase Vindicated. By Cuartes HALLOcE.
Cloth, 209 pages, illustrated. Price, $1.50. Mr, Hallock's
writings are always vivid and full of life.
THE KENNEL.
Dogs: Their Management and Treatment
IN DISEASE. A Study of the Theory and Practice of Canine
Medicine. By AsHmont. Cloth, 208 pages. Price, $2.00. The
Forest and Stream says that this is one of the most valuable
treatises on canine management and therapeutics that has
appeared on this side of the water.
Kennel Record and Account Book.
Boards, $3. An indexed volume of 180 pages, consisting of a
series of carefully prepared blank entry. forms suited to the
registration of all kennel events and transactions.
Dog Points and Standards.
First Lessons in Dog Training, with the Points and Standards
of all Breeds of Dogs. Paper, new edition, 106 pages, revised
to date. Price, 50 cents.
Training vs. Breaking.
Practical Dog Training; or Training vs. Breaking. By S. T.
HaAmmonp, Kennel Editor of Forest and Stream. Revised and
re-written. ‘To which is added a chapter on training pet dogs,
by an amateur. Cloth, 165 pages. Price, $1. A book for dog
owners, who, by the instructions here plainly given, can suc-
cessfully train their hunting dogs.
Modern Training;
Handling and Kennel Management. By B. Waters. Tllus-
trated. Cloth, 373 pages. Price, $2. This treatise is after the
modern professional system of training. It combines the
excellence of both the suasive and force systems of education,
and contains an exhaustive description of the uses and abuses
of the spike collar.
House and Pet Dogs;
Their Selection, Care and Training. Paper, price 50 cents.
Lee’s Modern Dogs.
History and Description of the Modern Dogs (Sporting Divis-
ion) of Great Britain and Ireland. By Rawpon B. Len, kennel
editor London Field, Ilustrated, 584 pages. Price, $7. This
is a standard work by an acknowledged authority, and is up
todate. It treats all sporting breeds exhaustively. The illus-
trations are idealized portraits of typical specimens.
Kennel Secrets.
How to breed, exhibit and manage dogs. By Asumont. The
dog from the time he is conceived to the time he curls himself
up for his last long sleepis treated from every standpoint that
could possibly occur to a man of wide experience with dogs.
Every important subject that has engaged attention has been
fully discussed, generalities being held practically valueless
and misleading. Dlustrated, 344 pages. Price, $3.00.
The Spaniel and Its Training.
By F. H. F. Mercer. To which are added the American and
English Spaniel Standards. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, $1.
Scientific Education of Dogs for the Gun.
By H.H. Cloth. Price, $2.50. The instructions are the re-
sult of the author’s amateur practical experience of 37 years.
Forest and Stream says: ‘‘This workis a very well written
treatise upon the subject, containing some new ideas and
much that is interesting and instructive to the new beginner
as well as not a little that will be beneficial to even old
hands to study.”
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ANGLING, Price.
American Angiler’s Book. Memorial edi ion. NORRIS.....,..........-. $5.50
American Fish and How to Catch Them............................ 1.00
American Fishes. Large 4to. Goopn. Illustrated.....,..........--.---. 3.00
American Game Fishes. SHIELDS..............0.e cee cece ee cece ee aeees 2.50
American Salmon Fishing. WELLS............... 00sec cece serene ees 1.00
Angling and Trolling for Pike .....................s. eee c sect ee ence e es 50
Anetine on Salt Water. 2. 7s seal oe Us hk eet epee 50
Artificial Flies and How to Make Them. SHIPLEY.................. 1.00
Book of the Black Bass. (Fishing, tools, tackle.) HENSHALL........... 3.00
BoGle On AnMPUIMET WRANCIS eee ones scuey fey eet eres Raters oes tt ee RP abe eines 5.25
Domesticated Trout. LivINGSTON STONE......... 22.0.0... cee eee ee eee 2.50
Favorite Flies and How to Tie Them...............................5 5.00
Fish Hatching and Fish Catching. RoosrveLT and GREEN........... 1.50
Fishing Tackle, Its Material, Ete. Knrnn. Illustrated............... 1.50
Fishing with.the Fly. Oryis-CHENry Collection. Illustrated............ 2.50
Fishing on American Waters. GENIO C. SCOTT.................000500- 2.50
Fly-Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout. With plates........,......-. 1.50
Fly-Fishing in Maine Lakes. Stevens. IIlustrated...................- 2.00
Fly-Rods and Fly-Tackle. Wetts. Illustrated...,..............-....+5 2.50
Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing................:........seeee eae 2.50
More About the Black Bass. HENSHALL.............cseeeeee cece eres 1.50
Rod and Line in Colorado Waters ........-.......... cece eres nes foc SOO
Saltinom (isha WEVA OCR ees 5 wat ess aay fos aot jetets apes Healy oars Bs 1.00
Superior Fishing, or the Striped Bass, Trout, Ete. RoosrveLt... 2.00
DMreiPractical Aneler, CEARKS yk. lea nase pe ners epee eee tre 1.00
The Game Fish of the Northern. States. ROOSEVELT..... .......... 2.00
Trout Culture. Suack. Illustrated...... he Were cen cts Wah rin te a ree ri 1.00
With Fly-Rod and Camera, Samuets. 147 plates...................56- 5.00
BOATING AND YACHTING.
Art of Sailmaking. Illustrated. New edition...........2........:eee eee 5.00
Amateur Sailing in Open and Half-Open Boats. Brppiz. Illus... 1.50
Boat Building and Sailing. Netson and Kemp, Illustrated............ 2.00
Boat Sailing and Management, PRESCOTT......................00005- Zé
Boat Savior’s Manual, QUALTROUGH .......-...00.. 0... e cece eee eens .... 2.00
Canoe and Camp Cookery. ‘‘SHNECA”........... 0.0... ccc eee ee eee eee 1.00
Canoe and Boat Building for Amateurs. W. P. STEPHENS.......... 2.00
Canoe Handling and Sailing. C. B. Vaux, New edition.............. 1.00
Canoe, Voyage of the Paper. BISHOP............ 0.0.2. e pee ee ee eee eee 1.50
Canvas Canoes; How to Build Them. PARKER B, FIELD............. 50
Corinthian Yachtsmen, or Hints on Yachting. BImDpin...... .. 1.50
Cruises in Small Yachts and Big Canoes. SprEED. Illustrated....... 2.50
Fore and Aft Seamanship for Yachtsmen........................-.. 50
Forms of Ships and Boats. BLAND............02... 0000 cee cece eee 75
Four Months in a Snmeakbox. BISHOP...,...:....0...- ccc eee eee eee ne 1.50
Brazar’s Praetical Boat Sailimges.-. 2.2. cg.s ect. othe t ewes tae bbe cee 1.00
Hints on Boat Sailing and Racing. FITZGHRALD................+---- 1.00
Manual of Naval Architecture. WHITE....................cce cee eeeee 9.60
Masting and Rigging of Ships. Kippina. Ilustrated................-. 1.00
Marine Engines and Steam Vessels. Murray. WHighth edition....... 2.25
Model Yachts. 118 desions and working diagrams. GROSVENOR.........-. 2.00
Practical Boat Sailing. Davies. Illustrated......................-..05- 2.00
Practical Boat Building. Netson. Illustrated............... .......-. 1.00
Rigger’s Guide and Seaman’s Assistant. Sixth edition. Illustrated. 1.25
Ropes, Their Knots and Splices.............. 20.0... eee cee eee 50
Sails and Sailmaking. Kippine, N.A. Twelfth edition. Illustrated..... 1.25
Sailor’s Language. W. CLARK RussELL. Illustrated..................... 1.25
Sailor’s Manual and Handy Book. QUALTROUGH..................... 3.50
Sailor’s Sea Book. Rosser. New edition........-......ceeeecrecseseeees 1.25
Small Yachts. C. P. KunHarpt. Third edition, enlarged, 470 pages....... 10.00
Steam Yachts and Launches. KunHarpr. New edition............... 3.00
The Marine Steam Engine. Sennerr. 244 illustrations....,........... 6.00
Yacht Architecture, Designing and Building. Drxon Kemp....... 16.80
Yacht Building for Amateurs. BIDDLE....................0.2 eee eee ee 1.00
Yacht and Boat Sailing. Kemp. Illustrated, 2 vols..................... 10.00
Yacht Designing, Hints to Beginners. Bmpue. Ilustrated......... 1.00
Yachts and Yachting. Cozzmns. 135 illustrations................-+.-..+5 2.00
Yachtsmaw’s Guide. PartTerson. New edition................++.+--+--- 5.00
VachtsSman’s Plan diy, Boolcs. § ri hcd he lees tess on bo Ratt ee ne Nein 1.50
HUNTING—SHOOTING.
Adventures on the Great Hunting Grounds of the World....... 1.00
American Sportsman. DWWIS.. 52.3400 ..bs. ee Sea celeste. 2.50
Art ot Shootine. JUANGASTURG 0 «eters ask see rioters geen segs tne eee eps 3.00
Big Game of North America. SHIELDS.................. 0. eee eee eee 3.00
Breech-Loader. “GREENER S,aaish.. cheese eases eee tre tee eter oy gearee 1.00
Cruising in the Cascades. SHIELDS................ 00 cee cee eee ee eee 2.00
Field, Cover and Trap Shooting. BoGarpus. New edition......... .. 2.00
Frank Forester’s Field Sports, 2 vols............. 2.0.0. c eee e eee eens 4.00
Game Laws in Brief. With pictures from Forest and Stream............ 25
Gunsmith’s Manual, A Practical Guide. Illustrated, 376 pages...... 2.00
Gun and Its Development, with Notes on Shooting. GREENER... 2.50
How I Became a Crack Shot, with Hints to Beginners. Farrow 1.00
Hunting in the Great West. SHIELDS.......... 0:0... 2c. cece ee ee eee res)
Hints and Points for Sportsmen... .........-...5. 0.02 escent eee 1.50
Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. ROOSEVELT.... ...................05- 3.00
Instructions in Rifle Firing. Capt. BLUNT................. 00.00.0005 2.00
Letters to Young Shooters. GALWAY. ............. 0c cence teen eee 2.50
Modern American Rifles . 2.0... ce sine yee eg ere ce bese se eneepeeueetes . 2.00
Modern American Pistol and Revolver. Mlustrated..... ........... 1.00
Modern Shotguns. GREENER 2... 6.0. cece cee tee eee tenes encase 1.00
Pistol, VEG. sens ee = cee Perera Roh eae tor f= Rae ree een cele ager Lee 50
Shooting on the Wing...... fe asa by eye opted cng phates ans MRA IRN foe Snschutased ere awe anv 75
Shooting on Upland, Marsh and Stream. LEerrrineGwkuh............ 3.50
Shore Birds. Paper................s..:-082-5 ah A at eats SS oe 15
Sport with Gun and Rod. Cloth, hindsomely illustrated............... 5.00
Sportsman’s Paradise, or the Lakelands of Canada. Illustrated... 3.50
Still-Bhanter. “SVAN DY RB ee oe oe vec ccoeirencites os pace ets eee ae eee ee 2.00
Trajectory Tests of Hunting Rifles......................... 0.28... 50
Wing and Glass Ball Shooting with a Rifle. H. C. Buiss........... 50
Wild Fowl Shooting. LrrrincweEtL. Half morocco, $3.50; cloth:.... 2.50
THE HORSE.
Diseases of Horses. Dauzimn, Paper ...... ccc cee ee cess eee ee eeeee 75
Dadd’s: Modern Horse Doctor................... 2... WP Pty te BY ., 1.50
Horse, The, and His Diseases, and Rarey’s Method............... 1.25
Training the Trotting Horse....................... oe rose dat cotati edeteae ee 3.50
Horse Training Made Easy. Jrenyines. Illustrated.................... 1.25
Horsemanship for Women. Mean. Illustr.ted by Parker.............. 1.25
Mayhew’s Horse Doctor. 400 illustrations. ......5.....-..0..00-Feceeees 3.00
Mayhew’s Horse Management... .. 2.00.00... cece ccc eee eect eeesesess B00
McG@lure’s Stable Guide. css. i. . cto cc eeig eee hes echoes 1 O00
Saddle Horse and Guide to Riding. Mlustrated...................... 1.00
Stonehenge on the Horse. English edition, 8vo......,......2.0c cece eee 3.50
Stonehenge on the Horse, American edition, 12m0...,,.,,,.,+0.++++.. 2.00
CAMPING AND ADVENTURE.
Price
Adventures in the Wilderness. Murray. Illustrated................. $1.25
Adirondack Tales. Murray, Illustrated, 2 vols., each,.................. 1.50
Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks. NORTHRUP................ 1.25
Camping and Cruising in Florida. With map. HENSHALL.,......... 1.50
CAMPING AND TRAPPING.
Amateur Trapper, Paper, 50 cts,; cloth,,........... 00: e epee eee eee 75
Camping and Camp Outfits... 0.0.0. ccc cece tee cea tease ene reane 1.25
Canoe and Camp Cookery. ‘ SENECA”...,,.......... Sere eet nee 1.00
Complete Ainerican Trapper. Gursson. Illustrated.................4.- 1.00
Gipsey Tents and How to Use Them................ 6 sce cece cee es 1.25
Hints on Camping. Henprerson. Paper, 25 cts.; cloth. ..............055 1.00
Hunter and Trapper. THRASHER. ......6...0 es cect eee eee eee e tence seen 75
Log Cabins and How to Build Them ................. 0... s scence eee 1.50
Trappers’ Guide. NewnHouse. New edition,..............-.ce pee eee ees 1.00
Woodcraft. ‘NESSMUK”........ shibrad's decneee pct MA ciN Ia giecctleeuiis Pc es es 1,00
GUIDE BOOKS AND MAPS.
-Guide to Moosehead Lake. Farrar, Cloth.............. 0.0.0.0... 1.00
Guide to Richardson and Rangeley Lakes. Farrar. Cloth...... .. 1.00
Guide to Adirondack Region. STODDARD...........-..6...0 cue ee enee Pas
Guide to Androscoggin Region ............. 00. eee cece ene 1.00
Guide. to"Lake Georgé. ). 005100). Wud es ee Se 50
Map ofelake: George. us > >» 9 00—,15 00
Making net expenditures of regatta committee,,,,.,60-s4+.0+0008 94
FINANCIAL REPORT OF SECRETARY-TREASURER, 1893.
To balance from former sec- Hemenway & Son, 1892...... $3 50
TOGADY ss b05 weg eee ates Teens 58 Office expenses.............- 52 52
Ferdinand & Co., 1892.,..... 500 Express charges.,,........- 7 45
Year Book.,,...............561 00 Forest ANp STREAM,,,...... 4 00
Year Book postage..,....... 21 82 Year Book, ./..........: vee 424 00
Camp dUsSiis cau; tenanaakias 240 00 Year Book postage......... + wl 82
Lumber sold in camp........ 217 34 Code books (200)............ 16 00
Code books sold in camp.... 420 Code books duty...... ASAnhs spalalll
Eastern Division, 30%....... 116 70 Lease of camp site, ......«.. 1 00
Atlantic Division, 302Z.,...... 88 80 Camp expenses,....,......- 464 19
Central Division 30%,..,...... 50 70 Insurance........ Mattie vs 2 50
Northern Division, on ac- Transportation, ........0++.. 15 50
OLEH init ileleletoer eile, ,-131 84 Bank commissions,,........ 6 56
—— Regatta committee.:,.....,. 23 94
$1238 98 Hngraving paddling trophy.. 1 °0
Bakanees ial dates dacauuats 189 40
To balance..........+.5 ve» D189 40 ————
Dus from Northern Div,,., 88 74 $1238 98
$278 14 ~=By balance (total) ....... $278 14
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The correct amendment reads as follows:
Board of Governors._Srec. 4. In each division at its next annual
meeting the active members thereof shall elect in the same manner as
their regular officers, one member of that division to serve on the
board of governors of the Association, whose duty it shall be to have
general control of the funds and finances of the Association. The
board of governors at their first meeting shall by lot détermine their
terms of office, one to retire on Novy, 1, 1895, one to retire on Nov. 1,
1896, one to retire om Novy. 1, 1895, and one to retire on Nov. 1, 1898, and
thereafter all members shall be elected foraterm of four years or
until their successors are elected. The commodore shall be a member
ex-officio.
Duties.-Suc. 5. It shall be the duty of the board of governors ta
appropriate and apportion suitable sums to the officers and commit-
tees for necessary expenses for the running of the association and the
meets, etc., from the finances in the hands of the secretary-treasurer,
and the Association shall not be responsible for any amount in excess
of the sums so appropriated. They shall hear and determine all ques-
tions of dispute on appeal from the decisions of the regatta or execu-
tive committees when referred to them.
Quorum.—Sec, 6. At all meetings of the board of governors three
sball be necessary to make a quorum, but in the event of the absence
of any member from any cause, the executive committee of the same
division from which he comes may select any other member of the
Association to represent him during his disability only, and in the event
of a yacancy occurring, the same shall ba filled for the unexpired term
My thé active members of the division in the same manuer as for a full
erm,
Meetings._Sxrc. 7. The stated meetings of the board of governors
shall be held during the annual meeting of the Association in August,
and at the annual meeting of the executive committee in November,
but special meetings may be held at any other times and places at the
call of the president or at the request of three members of the board,
Officers.—Src. 8. The officers of the board shall be president and
recorder, whose duties shall bé as in other organizations, and they
shall be chosen annually at the stated meeting in camp.
Rifle Bange and Gallery.
EXPERT RIFLEMEN.
Wissmn’s Cypress Hills Park wason Nov. 7 the scene of the most
successful and best contested rifle tournament ever shot in this coun-
try. Theriflemen engagedin the contest were the representatives
from the most prominent shooting societies in New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut. Not since the summer of 1886 has New York seen
so many expert riflemen engaged in a contest for championship hon-
ors a8 were gathered together on Tuesday.
The match in 1886 brought together twenty-five contestants who
were at that time the best in the country. The match on Tuesday in-
cluded the most expert of those engaged in the contest in 1886, as well
as many new candidates for championship honors, who have beeome
prominent since the last contest.
From New York, New Jersey and Connecticut came the entries,
and included the best marksmen of the many societies located in these
States. The magnitude of the entries was a great surprise to every
one, Even our working committee hardly dared to hope for an entry
equal to that of 1886, But like everything else that seems to be 4 suc-
cess, when our local shooters found that eyerybody was going in then
they also, even the lamentors, began to climb over one another in
their hasteto get in, with the result of 38 paid entries on Saturday
night, Noy. 4 /
As early as 8:30 A. M. the expectant riflemen began to arrive in the
park, and when the hour for opening the shoot drew near the shoot-
ing house was well filled and the riflemen present were busily engaged
in getting themselves as well as their rifles into shooting trim.
The preliminaries preparatory to the opening of the match were
very much simplified by Dr, J. A. Boyken, who after Mr. Plaisted had
ealied the shooters to order to elect a committee to take charge of
the shoot, made the motion that inasmuch as the organizers of the
shoot had brought it to a successful head, that they be requested to
finish their work by continuing their good work.
This motiom seemed to meet the desires of all present, and Messrs,
C. G. and B. Kettler and Plaisted were requested to act as the commit-
tee of the shoot.
Promptly at the time set (10 A. M.) the contest was started. The
shooting house contains ten shooting stands, eight of which were oc-
cupied by the shooters inthe match, They were distributed three
and four ona target, At most all shooting contests there are sure to
be incidents of a more or less humorous nature.
M. Harrington of the N. Y. Rifle Club on his first shot, being in a
state of mental aberration, neglected toinsert a bulletin his barrel,
the result was a gooseegg. Mr. Harrington felt that he had received
what the pugilists call a knock-out blow, and he was inclined to retire
from the contest then and there, but on the advice of a bystander that
he still bad ninety-nine shots to score with, he reconsidered the mat-
ter. Another contestant who struckill luck on his first shot was
Wr. C, Collins of the Greenville (N.J.) Rifle Club; in his case the rifle
was properly loaded, and, as the shooter claimed, properly held, but
the marker at the target was unable to locate the shot, and Mr. Col-
lins was forced to accept a goose egg for astarter. To a young shooter
like Collins, this experience was a decided *‘Douche” to his ambitions,
but William has plenty of grit in his personality, anda little upset of
that nature was only an incident to be soon forgotten. Collins again
stumbled on his tenth shot, making anotlier miss, here was more dis-
couragement for him, but. from this point on to the end he kept his
shots on the target.
We noticed that all of the contestants from the expert down to the
lay shooter were at times disinciined to accept the results of the mark-
ers’ showing, but during the day there was not one who had faith in
himself or his rifle to risk challenging the markers’ showing.
There is a rule among the New York shooters which is enforced at
all shoots, that if a shooter doubts the correctness of the marking at
the target, he can, on depositing $1 with the committee, challenge the
marking and have it investigated. If the shooter's challenge is sus
tained his $1 is returned to him, otherwise he forfeits it. Al) riflamen
know the uncertainty and the eccentricities of the lubricated bullet in
cold dry weather. It requires the best kind of management upon the
part of the shooter at such times to keep his rifle in normal condition.
and his temper as well. All riflemen are afflicted with streaks of
erankiness in their nature, and like the cracks in the weather board,
the older Gu experience) the§shooter the moré pronounced become his
erankiness. But on Tuesday the most that could be heard from any |.
of the contestants was a quiet growl over the results of an unfortunate
shot, and when the eccentricities of the bullets became too pro-
nounced, the individual would lay aside his rifie and seek out John
Wissel, who seemed to be possessed with the means-to remove the
wrinkles from his countenance and return him to his work with re-
pewed spirit. And thus the day rolled on, here and there a shooter
rolling up good scores and building up hopes for champion honors,
and at other times east down by the success of some other contestant
in the race.
it was expected that the contest would result in a new record being
made, but such was not the case. That n0 new record was made was
due to the Jateness of the season, and also to the fact that those from
whom the breaking of the records was looked for were under too high
a teosion. The contest in many respects resembled an individual! race
and each contestant was sinched to the last degree, Fred. C. Ross,
Brooklyn’s favorite rifleman, led his competitors, and at the close of
the contest he was 13 points ahead of M, Dorrler, with a total of 2194.
His last single score for the Wissel Trophy was 229,
THE WISSEL TROPHY.
The hopes and aspirations of all of the contestants centered in the
Diamoud Lucket, presented by Mr. Wissel. The first manin the group
to show up as a likely candidate was C. G. Zetler. This old shooter
started off in the race like the old racer that he used to be, but like
many another, the pace was too hot for him, and at the finish ©, G,
was in the rear with the other unfortunates who had found the pace
too hot and the distance too far.
The next man to show in front was Henry Holges, with the fine
score of 229. Many thought that this score must remain high, and Mr.
Holges was the recipient of many congratulations from those present,
Whatever Ho!lges’ inner feelings may have been, he openly expressed
his belief that the Trophy would never come his way. In this he was
right, for not long afterward Louis Flach succeeded in putting up 230,
which proved to be the high score of the day. This -score was fol-
lowed by another made by Chas. Hutch.
Fred Ross had a grand opportunity at onetime in therace. He had
& possible 234 on the ninth shot. A twenty-one would tieand atwenty-
two meant victory. The result of his shot was a twenty; total 229,
one point behind the leaders.
After each man had finished his 100 shots his scores were footed up
and his total chalked up.
The tie for the Wissel Trophy between Messrs. Flach and Hutch
was, after a consultation with the two shooters, ordered by the Com-
mittee to be shot off, three shots each. In the meantime the day was
fast drawing to a close and the light uncertain. Hutch ruined his
chances by making a 14 on his first shot. He finished his score with a
total of 57. Flach made 60, thus winning the much-coveted emblem of
expert marksmanship.
With the finish of the shooting came a desire on the part of the
shooters for something to stay the inner man. The Committee, how-
ever, had anticipated their wants by a previous consultation with
mine host Wissel. After a sufficient time had been given the thor-
oughly tired marksmen to remove the stains of the contest, they were
escorted to the dining hall, the tables of which were laden with one
of those game dinners for which Mrs. Wissel is so justly celebrated,
By the natural fitness of things, Wm. Hayes was placed at the head
of the table, with the two champions, Ross and Flach, at his right and
left. With the finish of the dinner came speeches and the presentation
of the trophy, and the division of the entrance money to the winners.
Mr. Hayes in his remarks paid a high tribute to the memory of an
old comrade and fellow-rifleman, George Schalk, of Pottsville, Pa.,
who only a few days since passed over to the great majority.
Other speakers were : Mr. Fabarius, that worthy old shooter, who,
although his age is nearly four score (76), takes as much pleasure in
his rifie as he did in his boyhood days; Mr. Dutcher, from Patterson,
N.J.; Mr. Brooks, from the same city; M. Dorrler, Mr. Holges, from
the Harlem district; L. C. Watts, of Newark, and others. As all
things are said to have an end. so had this meeting of expert riflemen.
Each and every man expressed his utmost satisfaction over the match
and its arrangement, To mine host Wissel and his worthy wife was
yoted the best wishes: a long life and a happy old age. The scores of
each contestant will be found appended:
FC Ross, Zettler KR @........... 22 22 24 25 20 21 24 20 21 24-223
24 24 19 20 16 24 23 23 20 18—211
25 23 18 24 18 20 21 22 22 24—217
24 24 24 23 22 24 22 24 22 19—228
23 24 22 19 24 21 20 22 22 33—220
22 24 23 21 21 22 25 20 21 2i— 217
24 22 20 20-22. 26-21 21 25 19—219
22 24 23 21 19 22 23° 21 24 24223
24 23 22 24 23 21 24 24 23 21—229
20 21 22 21 21 20 17 23 22 20—2U07— 9054
M Dorrier, Greenville R C..,.... 24 18 22 21 22 22 228 21 21 20—R14
21 20 25 24 25 18 25 21 21 23—223
22 24 22 20 22 16 20 22 20 24—212
19 23 22 22 21 28 23 25 22 24@—223
22 22 18 22 28 22 22 21 21 18—211
24 23 20 22 14 23 22 21 22 25—216
21 22 19 22:19 23 23 22 23 24—219
23 23 24 22 22 22 22 22 22 20—222
24 25 22 25 18 18 21 22 28 23—221
24 21 23 22 24 25 22 23 18 18—220—2181
W Hayes, NewarkS.§.......... 24 21 19 24 21 17 20 20 23 24—213 ;
24 23 22 17 21 238 20 28 24 22219
24 23 22 18 24 22 21 23 21 17—215
20 23 22 21 23 20 22 24 24 21—220
24 20 23 22 24 23 17 23 20 22—218
24 20 21 21 17 24 21 23 23 23-217
19 21 23 23 17 21 20 21 22 18—205
21 22 21 28 23 23 18 19 24 24—218
21 23 19 21 20 22 22 23 24 21—216
24 21 23 23 22 22 22 20 23 25—225—2166
Charles Hutch, Harlem R. C..,.18 25 18 18 24 22 22 24 20 22—2138
21 18 25 24 23 23 18 21 17 24—214
20 19 22 20 25 22 19 20 21 18—206
25 20 28 19 15 21 16 21 19 19198
2b 22 24 21 22 21.20 22 21 21—219
22 20 22 20 23 24 20 25 22 28 —244
24 23 23 22 24 25 24 20 22 23—230
18 21 26 19 25 22 17 19 18 25—209
238 24 25 24 23 22 23 17 23 24—225
24 24 22 21 21 24 23 20 22 28—224 9165
L P Hansen, Excelsior R G,,,,,.21 23 14 22 17 21 21 21 25 22—207
24 18 24 18 21 17 24 21 22 25—vI4
17 25 19 19 21 28 21 28 23 22213
23 21 18 21 23 23 21 24 25 18—222
23 25 25 18 24 1& 24 23 20 22—222
21 22 24 21 22 24 22 25 20 24995
24 18 22 21 18 18 19 22 20 24—206
21 19 29 22 24 21 24 21 20 21-213
24 24 21 24 19 17 21 28 25 22-429 ~—..
18 23 21 25 15 22 19 22 23 20—208—2150
Geo Schlicht, Miller R ©...; ... 22 23 21 21 22 20 19 24 28 19214
22 21 22 18 22 23 28 24 23 24—202
24 21 24 21 18 21 17 21 21 22-210
24 20 23 25 22 19 23 24 17 19—216
23 24 22 23 22 24 23 22 24 18 995
20 24 20 24 23 28 21 25 24 21—995
28 22 18 23 24 21 20 17 23 23—214
23 9 16 23 23 21 25 22 22 28207
23 23 22 20 22 21 23 19 20 21—2id
22 25 19 14 17 19 21 23 23 18—201—2144
Louis Flach, Zettler R. .,...... 21 20 16 19 21 18 22 21 16 23197
20 380 22 19 19 21 22 22 21 20—206
25 22 20 19 16 21 24 25 23 18—213
24 23:18 22 21 23 22 19 18 18—208
25 21 18 23 22 23 21 22 25 22—222
22 21 24 17 19 25 22 20 19 28212
20 23 23 20 24 23 22 19 20 24—218
19 24 20 25 24 23 24 24 22 25930
19 23 24 23 16 22 22 22 25 22-218
22 24 22 23 23 22 22 18 20 25—223 2146
H Holges, Zettler R, ©.......... 22 21 22 19 22 15 19 21 22 22—205
23:25 19 22 20 24 20 22 20 21-216
20 23 24 20 24 18 25 23 22 23—222
22 22 25 24 22 25 22 22 25 20—229
17 24 23 23 22 20 21 15 23 19—207
23 24 21 18 20 19 19 24 22 20—210
14 $4 22 21 21 21 21 20 21 18—203
22 22 20 21 21 21 22 22 21 24217
22 24 22 23 24 24 22 16 20 18—215
23 21 20 21 23 18 21 24 23 283—217—2141
HM Pope, Hartford R. Q....... 19 21 21 25 18 18 21 18 28 18—202
3 22 21 20 20 21 22 21 24—210
22 22 21 22 23 18 24 20—218
22 23 24 23 24 21 21 23992
24 17 21 24 18 24 25 22219
23 23 19 17 23 20 22 22218
21 20 28 17 24 24 21 20-217
22 16 20 21 21 21 18 22 23 22 406
28°25 19 15 23 21 24 24 21 25—221
22 17 25 22 20 19 19 20 20 16—200—2128
Geo W Plaisted, Greenville R. C.17 20 20 24 24 22 25 12 25 23212
22 24-23 17 20 22 20 23 22 25218
24 21 18 25 20.20 17 23 23 20-213
23 22 22 13 22 22 21 23 12 21—201
19 24 22 20 24 16 22 17 20 18802
18 1/7 44 24 20 17 15 17 23 18—192
20 19 23 19 19 24 23 22 20 24—213
22 21 18 21 20 21 21 22 21 23—210
16 21 21 21 19 22 23 20 24 22—208
22 23 22 20 22 21 23 21 23 17—214—2083
KR. Busse, New York City 8. C..19 20 25 22 22 21 12 18 20 21200
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20 20 17 17 23 22 20 21 19 22-203
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18 18 12 20 19—201
21 23 23 22 20—213
23 21 20 22 21 19 23 23 24 20216
15 16 19 11 21 22 18 25 21 21—189—v078
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W C Collins, Greenvile R 0.164 188 211 190 213 181 197 180
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Rifie Notes.
Tam Williamsburgh Schuetzen Corps, Captain G. A. Schmidt, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., has removed its headquarters to No. 139 Evergreen
avenue. Beginning No. 12 the corps will shoot twice a month during
the winter season for the club trophies.
In the issue of Forust AND Stream of Oct. 7, under the heading of
“Rifle Notes,’’? we gave the shooting societies a short diatribe upon
what we considered to be the proper thing to build up a healthy
interest in shooting matters. We are pleased to note that the germ
of our advice has struck soil in many directions and the result is that.
we hear of arenewed interest upon the part of many of our local
societies in adopting gallery practice for the winter season. The
New York and the New York City Schuetzen Corps have formulated
programmes for a winter shoot, and we hear that several others of
our New York societies are considering the advisability of adopting
the same course.
The three-days’ prize shoot of the Empire Rifie Club, with head-
quarters at No. 12 St. Marks place, New York city, which was opened
on Saturday, Noy. 4, was highly successful. There was a large
attendance of prominent riflemen from the many shooting societies
in and about New York. The competition was brisk during the three
days and many good scores were the result.
We read with interest the rifle notes of our Pacific Slope contribu
tor ‘Roeel,”’ which appeared in last week’s issue. As we have hereto-
fore remarked, we wish that the east and the extreme western part of
this country could be brought still closer together, so that our great
army of rifle shooters could have greater facilities for social inter-
course and friendly competition on the range. However, we have a
medium of intercourse open to us in the columns of ForEsST AND
Stream, and while this old standard of the true sportsman abides with
us we may feel, as week by week we peruseits columns, thata kindred
interest draws us into those close fraternal relations that even the
“breadth of a continent cannot separate. To ‘‘Roeel’” we would say
keep up. the intercourse, let us know what the brotherhood on the
Pacific Slope are saying and doing. In the words of that good old
mother to her departing son, ‘Write often.”
WHILE the riflemen who had been engaged in the contest at Wissel's
on Tuesday, Noy. 7, were discussing the merits of Mr. Wissel’s game
dinner, a match was made between Gus Zimmerman and Fred O. Ross,
for 100 shots a man, $100 a side. The match to be off-hand (mo palm
rest), both men to shoot lubricated bullets loaded from the breech,
without cleaning. To many who know the two shooters, the first im-
pression would be that the match was somewhat one-sided, But when
the conditions are taken into consideration, there is but little choice
between them.
The champion match at Cypress Hills Park has been the means of
creating renewed interest in rifle shooting. There is every prospect of
there being several individual matches made and shot off before the
winter sets in.
Providence Should Have a Club.
PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Oct. 28.—Editor Forest and Stream: It has often
occurred to me very strange that a city like Providence has no rifle
club. Why don't some of our riflemen get together and form some
such an organization? To be sure the militia boys have their shoots
all summer, but there is a class of shooters who cannot spare a day
every week to practice; but if a club was formed, a good indoor
range started and some interest shown, why wouldn't it be a success
here as well as in our other cities? Are we going to let that old arm,
the rifle, fall into disuse? We can’t use them in the woods hereabouts
on account of the danger, butit looks as if there is a day coming
when we shall be glad to do our shooting in an indoor range, and with
the rifle. Game is geiting more and more scarce, and sometimes
after tramping a good day in the woods we come home without hay-
ing fired the gun.
As for a matter of economy, indoor rifle practice, with our low-
ae aims and ammunition, should be one of the most popular,
0 can say that the sport is not fascinating? Not many who haye
tried it, lam sure.
Of course there are one or two rifie galleries here in Providence,
but all gentlemen sportsmen have experienced the company they
generally attract. “Sports,” but not sportsmen,
Now I for one would like to hear the views of some of our riflemen
here in this city, and should this fallunder the notice of any such,
should be pleased to communicate with them. ook at the fun the
boys are haying in the clubs in other cities and ses what we are miss-
ing. Come, who will start the ball rolling. A, C. H.
Greenville Rifie Club.
Amt the weekly gallery shoot of the Greenville Rifle Club at its head-
quarters, No. 112 Cator avenue, Jersey City, on Noy. 10, the following
appended scores were made, 10 shots, 25-ring targe*: Dorrler 242, J.
Boag 227, Robidoux 234, Collins 230, C. boag 229, Scheeline 223. Agnew
215, Hill 217, Purkess 240, Plaisted 231, Spahn 231, Gotthardt 230, Dodds
229, Chavaut 218, Maug 200, Daniels 156.
Tur two days’ gallery prize shooting tournament, which was opened
on Nov. 11, was brought te a successful close Noy. 12. The programme
put up by the club was in every respect of the most liberal character.
Twenty prizes, ranging from $40 to $2, with a premium list of five
premiums from $10 to $2, was sufficient to bring together the most
expert gallery shooters in and about New York.
f the members of the club who were conspicuous for their per-
sonal labors in making the shoot a success and adding every possible
leasure to the wants of the visitors, may be mentioned the Vice-
President, Edw. Barr, John Hill, Al. Lembeck, Wm. C. Collins, Capt.
Robidoux, Jas. Kaiser, Jas, Dedds, Henry Mang, President Henry
Gotthardt, Colin Boag, and in fact, all the active members of the club,
for there was not one that did not contribute in some manner to make
the tournament asuccess, Among the posnbend riflemen present
who participated in the shoot were the following: Otto Uehlein, presi-
dent of the German-American Shooting Society of New York; Henr
Holges, B. Zahn, Louis Flach, L. Buss, Wm, Rosenbaum, Fred. Lind-
Kloster, New York. From Jersey City came Capt, L. P, Hansen, J.
Rebhan, Capt, Henry Mahlenbrock and Capt, E. Fish
isher, from Hoboken,
Visiting marksmen pronounced the ranges the finest ever shot on.
Scores: M. Dorrler 73, 74—147; L. Flach 72, 74146; C. Hutch 73, 73—146;
L. B, Hansen 62, 73—145; Win. Rosenbaum 72, 73—145; Wm. Robidoux
73, F, C. Ross 74, Hi. Fisher 72, L. Buss 72, W. C. Collins 72, C. Boag 71,
G. W. Plaisted 71, Jas. Dodds 71, Hy. Holges 71, Otto Uehlein 70, B.
Zahn 70, J. Rebhan 76, J. Spahn. 69, }. Lindkloster 69, Geo, Purkess 68.
Premiums 5 best tickets: M. Dorrler 857, L. Flach 357, L. P. Hansen
356, H. Holges 339, C. Boag 349, BH, Fisher 349,
Cincinnati Rifle Association.
Cincinnati, O., Nov. 5.—TDhe Cincinnati Rifle Association held its
regular practice shoot at its range to-day and made the scores
appended, Conditions were 200yds. off-hand at the Standard target:
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Revolver Shooting in England.
Tue final competition for the revolver championship of the South
London Rifle Club took place on Oct. 31 on a cold but otherwise favor-
able day for shooting. The result is as follows, Walter Winans, win-
ner of championship and gold jewel, using Smith & Wesson revolver,
Winans model, U, M, C. ammunition;
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SeCONGKEOLES peceres bea ceeeeras seer erates ot) 0: 16. 2% 740
Third score......... tienes ee STE Geeta
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Fifth score..... Oe Or T Wa rata atau a prea aT Psa 47 6 T F 6—40—202
Lieut, Heath, winner of silver jewel, using Colt .45cal. revolver,
Eley’s ammunition, black powder, total score 200.
C. F, Lowe, winner of bronze jewel, using Colt ,45cal. revolver, black
and smokeless powders, total scores 196.
F. H. Frost 188, Howard 178, BH. VY. Keen 170, Mortimer 146, R. §.
Kemp 128, Colman 125, H, Andrews 104, Clementi Smith 77, Lieut, Var-
ley 73, R. de Salis 61, Roxburgh 51.
Mr. Winans thus won the championship for revolver shooting of
both the North and South London rifle clubs; Mr. C. F. Lowe has won
both the bronze jewels (third prize) of both the North and South Lon-
don rifle clubs: Mr, Andrews, the winner of second prize at the North
London Rifle Club, did not complete his score at the South London
Rifle Club, retiring after a few shots, as he did not seem satisfied with
the conditions, Lieut T. W. Heath, the winner of second prize, is
getting up a “National Pistol Association” for next year and hopes to
have good prizes for all sorts of pistol shooting and a championship
jewel for the competitor making the highest aggregate score at both
the North and South London rifle clubs. We wil give further details
after the project takes shape.
Hartford Rifle Club.
Hartrorp, Conn., Noy. 11.—Inclosed find scores of the Hartford
Rifle Club shot at their tri-monthly shoot at Union Grove this after-
noon, Conditions were Standard target, 200yds. off-hand, Weather
was good:
Medal match, one entry only:
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EEK Rand,........005 ss aiakinw alaistetatebeep\etel pialcld? 7 710 910 5 9 6 B 9—80
J M Foote, Jr.......0.:- peer egitencry ne wt 9 7 ON B 7 7 7 10—75
DOH GWANGS 25 thee bate anse teen eses “fares 610 6 7 7 6 8 7 5 6—t7
W J Dunbar........ sia lovataveharatblarseate cleftotstc 38 5 69 5 8 3 9 6—62
Re-entry match:
POPS ane sietelererects CI AAAS Petinnse ,»---1010 8 7 810 810 9 6 86
9 7 8 710 8 910 6 10-88
10 710 7 9 9 8 7 6 780
8 7 8 61010 9 8 10 10—86
(DANY oF Wee SS oes ey todo peeereeeesl010 7 9 9 8 9 910 5—86
895898 7 6 7 9%
RANG Sere ee Sonprinnagded © tt) Gounoeeee . 10 8 710 7 8 710 7 9-88
8 67 7 9 710 910 781
HO OLeaoeesteriew saiedaleriavenisseae weascse de 9 6 810 710 4 % 877
9 810 7 6 7 4 8 810-77
H, M. Pops, Sec'y.
New York Central Corps.
Ar the monthly meeting Nov. 8 the results of the season shoot for
1893 were given out and the prizes distributed to the members as fol-
lows:
Class medals for most number of bullseyes: Champion class, Gus
Zimmerman; 1st, H. D. Muller; 2d, J. Hisenhardt; 3d, H. Berkmann;
4th, W. Schneeweiss.
Medal and money prizes on man target: ist medalto F. Bauman,
24 medal to G. Zimmerman; 3d, $15, F. Shroeder; 4th, $12, J. Jorden;
5th, $10, J. Hisenhardt.
Prizes on ring target: Champion class, G. Zimmerman, F. Schroeder,
FP. Schmidt, J. Reitweesner, H. Kroeger; ist class, H. D. Muller, A.
Rohde, H. Young, R. Flierdl, H. Richard, W. Seppenfeld; 2d class, J.
Duks, J. Hisenhardt, J, Jorden, ¥. Bauman, C. F. Gennerich, W. Weil-
baer, W. Treschmacher, H. Graunerman, M. Teschmucher; 38d class,
M. Fichen, F, Luhrs, E. Berkmann, H. Halsten, J. Lowe, W. Fajer, H.
A, Fiche, J. Faersch; 4th class, W. Schneweiss, F. Jutjens, A. Richter,
A, Lubeck, W. Bergmann, A. Luck, L, Grote, J. Ehlenberg, J. M. Ten-
ges, H. D. Schmidt, .
Point medals: Champion class, G. Zimmerman, F. Schroeder, F.
Schmidt; ist class, H. D. Muller; 2d class, J. Hisenhardt, W, Koch; 3d
class, W. Fajen, J. Foersch, H, Holsten, F. Luhrs, J. Lowe, . Berk-
man; 4th class, F. Jutjens, W. Schneeweiss.
Miller Rifle Club.
Amonc the many shooting societies located in Hoboken, N. J., there
is none more prominent for its many victories and the distinction of
its members as crack shots, than that old club known ag the Miller
Rifle Club. The club derives its name from that old and well known
rifleman, David Miller; aman whoin the earlier history of the now
famous Zettler Ritie Club, was one of its most reliable team members.
The Miller Club has upon its niemiberehilp rolls some of the best off-
hand rifle shots in the country, and the history of the club is replete
with victories gained over the best and strongest rifle clubs located in
New Jersey. The club whose headquarters is located at No, 423 Wash-
ington street, is now ina flourishing condition, and its members are
highly interested in the winter gallery shoot. Scores of the members
participating in the weekly shoot, Wednesday, Noy. 1; 10 shots, 25-ring
targets, distance 75ft.; Geo. Schlicht 240, Captain Fisher 239, David
Miller 237, M. Meyers 237, M. Kloepping 236, J. H. Kruse 235, F, Schmidt
235, HW. Lueill 230, M. Vanderheyden 219, G. Will 220, G. Rogers 211, R. H.
Dewey 206.
Zettler Rifle Club.
Tar weekly gallery shoot of the Zettler Rifle Club, at headquarters
Wo. 219 Bowery, New York City, on Tuesday night, Oct, 31, brought
together fourteen members in competition for the club prizes.
wis Flach and Henry Holges tied for the honors for the high
scores of the night, each making 248,
The champion medal was won for the week for the best score on his
first entry by Flach who made 247. Several of the other members in
the competition made goud averages. ‘The scores, 10 shots, 25 ring
target, distance 75ft: Louis Flach 248, Henry Holges 248, B. Zettler
247, T. GC, Ross 247, Geo. O. Plaisted 245, R. Busse 245, Gus Nowak 246,
Henry Strate 244, M. B. Engel 243, C. Percival 242, C. G. Zettler 240,
H. D. Miiller 239, Geb Krauss 236, R. Hormann 238.
Excelsior Rifle Club.
Hughes 233, Hennessey 222, Ward 231, Weber 227, C, Thomas 222,
Weer y gallery shoot Nov. 7, 10 shots, 75ft.: 0. Buechle 239, James
Empire Rifle Club.
™ On Tuesday, Oct. 31, the Empire Rifle Club held its regular weekly
gallery shoot for club medals, 6 members participating, Wm. Rosen:
baum, the crack shot of the club. distinguishing himself by making 4.
total of 1,205 points on the 25-ring target in a series of 50 consecutive
shots. This is a first-class average on thisrange, which by the way
is full 100ft.; Rosenbaum’s best €ffortin 10 shots during the evening
was 245. The next best score was made by Ben Zahn, who made 241.
Zahn will with more experience be a hard man to beat, either at
200yds. or in the gallery. The scores are appended, 10 shots, 20-ring
target, distance 100ft.; Wm. Rosenbaum 245, Ben Zahn 241, Henry
Zetiler 238, H, Roseustraus 238, Chas Zettler, Jr. 236, W, Busse 235.
THE three days’ gallery prize shoot of the Hmpire Rifle Club, which
was Opened on Saturday night, Nov. 4, was brought to a sucvessful
close on Monday night, Nov. 6. :
Many of the local shooting societies were represented by their best
marksmen. There were also several delegations of riflemen from Con-
nécticut and New Jersey.
Among the many visitors from New Jersey were M. Hickey, of the
Friday Night Club, Hoboken; Messrs. Mahlenbrock, Bird, Ebe, Middle-
ton, Pfeffenberger and Busch, of the Hudson Rifle Club, Jersey City;
Michael Dorrler, Greenville Rifle Club, Greenville. From Conuecticut
came Mr. Harry M. Pope, of Hartford, and Mr. 5. J. Lyons, of Col-
linsville. Among the local experts who took part in the contest werd
Fred. C. Ross, Louis Flach, C. G. and B. Zettler, of the Zettler Rifle
Club; Chas. Bore of the Williamsburg Shooting Society, Brooklyn.
The programme called for 12 prizes ranging from fb down to $1.
_ The competition for the first position on the prize list was extremely
lively to the end of the tournament, and when the last shot was fired
and the results of the threes days’ shooting footed up, it was found
that the honors for first position belonged to that old expert, M.
Dortler, with two scores of 74 each or a total of 145 points out of a
possible 150. Henry Holges and Chas. Hutch were both close behind,
the former with a total of 147 and the latter with 146. The range
being full 100ft. long and the center of the bullseye only tin. in
diameter, calls into play the best exertions of the rifleman, close
shooting rifles and the best of ammunition, The rifles used by the
sate in this contest were the Winchester (single-loader) and the
Ba lard. On the question of ammunition and its merits they were
divided, some using U. M, C. and others the Winchester (22 rim-tre
short). Considering the inexpensiveness of these little cartridges,
their close shooting qualities are remarkable. The scores, tickets 3
shots, 2 best tickets to count:
M Dorrler.,.74 74148 FC Ross,...72 73—145 WRos'baum 71 71—142
H Holges....73 74147 B Zahn...... 72 72144 © Horney.,,70 70—140
C Hutch..,.71 75146 LFlach...., SJ Lyons, ,.67 67—134
L Buss......73 73146 CG Zettler.,70 72142 HM Pope, ..66 67—138
Hutch vs. Buss.
CHARLES Hurcn, of the Harlem Rifle Club, and Louis Buss, of the
Empire Club, had a well contested 100 shot match last week on the
range in Sulzer’s Harlem River Park, The conditions were $25 a side,
.22cal. rifles, distance about 200ft., 18 ring target.
The result was a victory for Hutch, with a margin of 17 points. The
scores are appended:
Hutch,,,.. eaet eed nn 17 17 14 17 15 14 16 17 15 14156
15 17 17 13 16 16 18 27 16 16—161
14 16 11 18 17 18 18 18 18 10—158
1617171818 1817 15 9 16—161
16 18 18 15 13 14 17 18 18 12—159
15 15 17 16 16 18 17 17 16 17—164
17 16 16 15 18 12 18 15 16 15—158
14 14 17 15 18 14 17 17 18 17—156
15 18 16 17 18 18 16 17 15 16—161
16 161317 8 16 14 17 15 15—147—1576
Buss.,.....5 peveeveveservseserseeld 14 15 17 16 10 12 17 16 16—145
15 17 14 13 17 16 17 16 15 16—156
18 14 14 18 17 15 14 17 13 17—157
15 16 17 14 14 16 17 16 16 17—158
14 15 14 14 16 14 17 16 16 12—148
15 17 16 14 16 16 16 15 15 14—155
17 16 14 15 16 17 17 15 16 15—158
15 17 17 17 17 11 17 17 16 16—160
16 14 16 14 15 17 18 18 17 16-161
15 16 16 18 16 14 14 16 17 16—161—1559
Ce
Excelsior Rifle Club.’
THe Excelsior Rifle Club of Jersey City, N. J., has got its winter
gallery shoot for the season 1893-94 well under way. While the mem-
bership of this club is small compared to some of our other local
shooting societies, the enterprise and shooting spirit of the active
members is up to a par with the best. The club has several members
whose experience in rifle practice is limited to one or two seasons, but
for all that they are by their energy and perseverance fast coming to
the front as experts with the rifle. Among the younger members of
this enteresting coterie of riflemen there are no one who gives more
promise as a good shot than J. Binns. Atthe weekly shoot on Tues-
day, Oct. 31, Mr Binns put up the good score of 243 points on the 25
ring target, outshooting such good men as L. P. Hansen, John
Speicher and others. The scores, 10 shots, distance 70ft.: J. Binns 243,
L. P. Hansen 242, John Speicher 236, C. Thomas 235, R. H. Duff 226,
GC. L. Pinney 223.
Our Own Rifle Club.
Tue Our Own Rifle Club, of Hoboken, N. J., has started out well
onits winter practice, and the active members of the club give prom-
ise of turning out a team of excellent shots before the season is over.
The club has several matches in contemplation with the other
Hoboken and Jersey City Heights clubs, and as the season advances
the Our Owns will no doubt givea good account of themselves. The
scores of the members participating in the regular weekly shoot on
Tuesday, Oct. 31, 10 shots, 25 ring target: A. Malz 24, G. Victoria 224,
J. H. Kruse 233, A. Steuber 234, W. Dilger 231, F. Sessman 228, Capt,
Hencken 223, Theo. Brown 224, C. Prein 215, H. Schultz 215, O. Keller
206, J. Stein 208, J, Offen 204, D. Page 203.
A Rensselaerwyck Score.
At target practice yesterday afternoon, at the Rensselaerwyck
range, Major Charles H, Gaus, inspector of rifle practice of the Third
Brigade, and Major Robert Lenox Banks, Jr., did some remarkable
shooting. Major Banks made a score of 49 out of a possible 50, Major
Gaus scored 48 out of 50,
Major Banks’ shooting was all the more phenomenal as at the first
shot at 500yds. he scored 4, and the succeeding 4 shots were bullseyes,
and all the five shots at the 600yds, range were bullseyes.
Grap-Shaating.
All tles divided unless otherwise reported.
FIXTURES.
If you want your shoot to be announced here
send in notice like the following:
1894,
April 46.—Interstate Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ Association's
Grand American Handicap at Dexter Park, Long Island.
May 22-24.—Knoxyille (Teun.) Gun Club tournament, $1,000 added
money.
June 5-7,—Kansas State Sportsmen's Association’s fifth annual
tournament, Topeka, Kansas, J C. Clark, Sec’y.
June 19-21 —Chamberlain arbres and Target Company’s first
annual tournament, at Cleveland, Ohio. $1,000 added money.
June (third week).—Atlantic City Rod and Gun Club, three days’
tournament, Address R. CG. Griscom, See'y, Atlantic City, N. J.
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS.
Matches galore are on the tapis, aud all of which we have cogni-
zgance should be well contested, the principals in each case being
closely matched. One of those which will interest Jerseymen partic-
ularly will take place at Willard’s Park, Paterson, on Thursday, Dec.
7. the principals being Dr. P. J. Zeglio of Warrenville, N, J, and'T. W.
Morfey of Paterson. Hach man will shoot at fiity live birds, 30yds.
rise, 50yds. boundary, otherwise Hurlingham rules to govern. Dr.
Zeglio is a well-known member of the Newark Gun Club and in form is
agood ninety per cent.man. The bulk of his shooting has been in
team matches and sweepstake shooting, and this will be his initial
contest as a match shooter in this locality. Morfey isa seasoned
match shooter and is well known in shooting circles as a steady man
before the traps. Another proposed match will be of interest to both
New Jersey aud Pennsylvania if arranged. The challenge for this Is
probably now enroute. The challenging parties are John Rothaker
of the Cosmopolitan Gun Club of Plainfield and Charles (‘‘Dutchy”)
ith of the same town, who challenge Albert Rust of Philadelphia
od Wm. Wolstencroft of Frankford to a match at 100 live birds each
inder American Shooting Association rules, the losing team to pay for
ithe birds, the stake to be nominal. This affair should bea closely
contested one as there is scarcely any difference in the shooting
ength of the teams. If possible the match will be shot at the Fan-
od grounds of the Climax Gun Club. Then thereis the prospective
teh between T, W. Morfey and the Trenton expert Ed Hill, the
te not yet arranged, and a chance for the return match between
ttle’ Neaf Apgar and Ed, Hill, this to be shot, if at all, at Pater-
Each of these will be at 100 live birds per man. Again W. §.
Canon, the one-armed expert of Newark, and Howland Gasper of New
ork, are likely to have another at one another, so taken all the way
fhrough there will be plenty of sport.
| About fifty sportsmen went to Pine Brook, N. J., on Saturday, Nov.
Ti, to witness a 100-bird match advertised to be shot between T. W.
Morfey of Paterson and T. E. Morford of Newton. The visitors how-
er were disappointed, as Mr. Morford failed to appear. It trans-
pired that neither of the principals were interested in the making of
the match, the terms being arranged, and a forfeit of $25 each being
placed in the hands of Mr. Frank Faber of Butler by other parties.
Mr. Morford knew nothing of the arrangement until the above pre-
liminaries had been gone through with, and then he at once put his
foot on the whole business, refusing positively to shoot a match for
money, his position not plowing him to do so. Messrs. Martin &
Gottschalk of the Pine Brook Hotel, where the affair was to take
place, received no notice of Mr, Morford’s refusal to shoot, and were
allowed to go ahead with advertising the shoot, procuring the birds,
iste. Mr. Morfey also thought everything was correct, and at, the ap-
pointed hour he was on hand ready for business. His disgust as well
as that of the others who were on hand can be better imagined than
described when they learned that there would be no match. The par-
ties who pretended to be acting for Mr. Morford are of course respon-
sible for the outcome of the affair. Mr. Faber, the stakeholder, turned
lover the forfeit money to Mr. Morfey, aud this ended the affair,
_The live bird shooters of New Jersey and those of Kings county,
NY. Y., know positively that they are to meet at the traps in an inter-
state contest at live pigeons. Mr. Jacob Pentz, the projector of the
contest informs us that all preliminaries are arranged and that Dec. 5,
New Yorkers and Jerseymen who wish to may wager their shekels
ind at the same time witness some of the liveliest Kind of shooting,
is match was brought about by a remark made by a Kings county
ert in the presence of Mr. Pentz, the remark in substance that no
te could turn out a team to defeat a Kings county contingent. As
i loyal Jerseyman ‘‘Uncle Jake” could not allow such an opinion to
unchallenged, and he at onee offered to show the Kings county
tleman that Jersey could put upateam to make Kings county
bstle, Hence the match should be one well worth the witnessing.
Sach team will comprise 20 men, each man to shoot at 15 liye pigeons
inder Hurlingham rules for honors, the price of birds and a nominal
stake of $10 aman. The match will probably be started at 9 A. M., in
order to finish before dark. Both New Jersey and Kings county are
well stocked with expert shooting men and as a matter of course each
ill put out their choicest men. and that a battle royal yyill result.
A small party assembled at Erb’s grounds in Newark on Election
Day, and amused themselves with trap practice. Among them were
J. A. R. Elliott, of Kansas City, and M. F. Lindsley, of West Hoboken.
The opening event was a 25-bird practice shoot between Elliott and
andsley, the result being Elliott 23, Lindsley 21. Then followed three
\0-bird sweeps, $5 entry, with two moneys in each, the scores being;
Manon 877, Lindsley 10109, Buliott $88, Erb688, Hollis989. This
was an unusually light attendance for a holiday, but was doubtless
owing to the absence in the field of a number of the usual frequenters,
Hverybody who shoots a gun knows George: A, Mosher of Syracuse,
and knowing him favorably everybody will’ of course be pleased to
learn that he has assumed the position of assistant manager of the
newly formed Syracuse Gun Co,, an organization which promises to
put on the market the simplest high-grade hammerless gun ever made,
Mr. Mosher has our best wishes as well as those of his hosts of shoot-
ing friends for his future success.
Miss Annie Oakley and her manager, Frank H. Butler, have been at
the Continental Hotel in Newark for the past two weeks awaiting the
completion of Miss Oakley’s new houseat Nutley. “Little Sure Shot”
is in perfect health and spirits despite having given two performances
very day for six months when in Chicago.
The monthly shoot of the Roseyille Gun Club, of Newark, will be
held on John Erb’s Bloomfield avenue grounds, on Thursday, Nov. 23,
and all shooters are invited to be present and take a hand in the sport.
‘ Snooth, will be at artificial targets. Shooting will begin at 10
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_ Hiliott and Class are to come together again to-day in a 100-bird eon-
test at the Morristown Driving Park. The match will be ealled at1
P.M. They were to have shot on the White Plains track on Thursday
but were unable to do Bo, as the track is undergoing extensive repairs’
“LL. H.,” Asbury Park, is informed that under the conditions he men-
tions **E.”’ would be entitled to second money.
C. H. Townsenp.
Class in Great Form,
‘Tose who visited Paterson on Oct. 27 with the intention of seeing
Prank Olass of New Jersey “snowed under” in his match against Jas.
A. R. Elliott of Kansas City, and instead of that saw a tie at ninety-six
fills each on the 100th round, were rather surprised at the skill and
ferve of the J tetas baci in holding his own so gamely in a contest that
Was nip and tuck from start to finish. Then when he lost the shoot
ete hardest kind of a nerve tester by losing a bird dead out of
bounds—they were willin to acknowledge that Class still retained his
ld staying powers. The birds on that occasion were a fairly good
ot but the weather conditions were all against them, else the above
igures would probably not have been reached. The consensus of
opinion seemed to be that while Class was off in the use of his second
barrel his first-barrel form was superior to that of Hiliott, the latter
being a shade slower.
The second match was to have been shot at the Morristown Driving
Park on Nov. 4, but on that day the rain fell in torrents and it was
jostponed to Noy. 11, which proved to be better as far as weather con-
ditions went than the day of the Paterson match, but far from what
yas desired. The light was dull daring the entire afternoon, while a
old, raw breeze from the northeast blew with just force enough to
tive the pigeons life, clear away the smoke and send an occasional
hill up and down the spine.
‘The attendance was fair, the more prominent among whom were
Mr,, Mrs. and Miss Lindsley and Eddie Collins, of West Hoboken; Al.
deritaze and wife, of Jersey City; T. W. Morfey and Henry Wolf. of
terson; Dr. P. J. Zeglio, of Warrenville; John Rothaker, of Ger-
ntown; Neaf Apgar, of Henry C. Squires & Son, New York; Chas.
smith, of Plainfield; Mr. Campbell of Dover, and a number of Morris-
Own sportsinen whose names could not be learned.
was 1:50 P. M. when the match begun, T. W. Morfey acting as
ieferee, Henry Wolf pulling the traps and the scoring bemg done by
representatives of the sporting journals. Class won the toss and
nt first to the score, pulling down a fast driver from No. 2 trap, one
arrel doing the work. Hiliott also got a fast one, a right-quarterer
rom No. 4 trap, which was stopped with a clever first. Everything
ressed Niort until Elliott went to the score for his tenth
. ‘Pull was called, over went No. 2 trap, and the fall of the
Tap was instantly followed by two reports from Elliott’s gun, but
dimost useless was the act of pulling the trigger, as the bird, a slim,
fatty blue ons, jumped fully 5yds. as the trap went down, caught its
yings in a trice, aud must have been not less than a yard from the
yds. boundary before the second barrel, quickly as it was pulled,
onits way. Fly! well its speed was simply wonderful, waoile as
pelng hurt we do not believe either charge flew close enough
oO even frighten it. E
Neither men lost again until the twenty-first round, when Class got
Dird which was almost identical as to form, color, speed and method
ight with the one above described. Class, however, hit this flyer
bh Soth barrels, but its great speed caused it to go behind the line
Jdie. The round ended with 23 kills for Class and 22 for Biliott, both
slass’s and one of Elliott's being dead out of bounds, and all the
being good ones. ;
i this stage of the game it was plainly seen that Class was in by
‘the best form, quicker by several yards and centering his birds
with his first barrel. His second also was used with much better
fect than in the previous match. Elliott was certainly out of fettle,
slow and draggy in the use of either barrel and not getting his
down as cleanly as of old. Attimes he would for a few rounds
his usual snap, but this was soon followed by a lapse back,
‘On the first quarter the birds were good enough for any one to
Wactice on, there not being a genuine ‘‘duffer” in the50, The round
shot in 30 minutes,
h the second quarter Class was the first loser, on a right-quarter-
driver fast enough to get away from any one, but which got the
efit of both charges and gave up the ghost just beyond the fence.
alliott had similar luck on his eighth bird, an incomer to the right and
fast one at that. It was barely touched with the first barrel, but
ht the second in full only to fall dead outside. Class lost no more
M this round. Elliott's twelfth and fourteenth were lost and the
it until the thirteenth round was he’scored against, this being a dead
mt of bounds of one of the ugliest divers of the day, a right-quarter-
FOREST AND STREAM.
ing driver from No. 5 trap. which never stopped zig-zagging until its
life left if just beyond the line. Blliott also Jost a circler to the right
aud finished the round with 23 kills, Class scoring 24, his lost bird
being dead out of bounds. The figures now showed 71 for Olass to
67 for Elliott, with the same fine form on the part of Class and a lapse
by Elliott to his slow shooting, wre
The final quarter was almost a repetition of the one preceding it,
Class losing thirteenth bird dead out of bounds and getting the rest,
while Hiliott had a driving twister carry two full loads over the fence,
missed another and scored 23.
ae ended the race with a total of 95 kills for Class against 90 for
liott.
The birds were a fine lot and not more than three or four refused
flight when the trap was sprung, requiring Hageying, Only one bird
was called. Had the day been a few degrees colder and the light
clearer the birds would have been veritable ‘‘hummers,”’ and even as
it was they were fast enough to keep the shooters thinking,
The Jersey crack once more surprised the talent, his score of 95
being more creditable than the 96 killed at Paterson. birds and weather
considered. And it must not be forgotten that he did not miss one of
his 100 birds, while his score in an 80-yard boundary would haye been
98 kills. His formis now better than ever and if he retains it he
should quit even with the hottest of the cracks.
Both men used Greener guns, Elliott using American wood and
Class Schultze powder. The time of the race by quarters was 30m.,
30m,, 33m. and 32m, The longest runs were, Class 20, 32 and 26. Hilli-
ott 23. Class used his second barrel 47 times and Elliott 48 times.
At this point we might give the score of the shoot by throwing in a
whole lot of 1s, 2s, 0s and es,” but Forest AnD StREAM has got beyond
that stage. Instead of using a column to explain to you the direction
of flight of each bird and leaving you to guess as to whether the prin-
cipals did their best work on drivers or incomers, on right or left
GUBTTGrers, we shaw you in a neat, handy form, readily understood,
the approximate direction of flight of each bird, using for this pur-
pose our own exclusive trap score type, one of the many good things
which has helped to make FoREST AND STREAM what it: is— the great-
est journal on earth for sportsmen and everybody else.
Here is the score and the trap score type; the first line of figures
showing the trap sprung and the third the barrel used,
Figures in third line: 1, first barrel kill; 2, second barrel kill; e, dead
out of bounds; 0, missed.
Trap score type—Copyright 1893, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co.
2142322434515125222422314
TS TSO BRT 8 TA TON
QIASS ..cc cere A 2221221 2221123211220 201 223
452212252445254223383842444
| cs ep Ac i alee or Gree es SPT ee Ft a
22e2112211222122111222122 9
3322453134333548114344238
RHE SN TNO RST HSER ILAR ARNO
LL1 221 222102 21222122221 2 12
4482431541214422424324242
SRON ESI AS 0S DER OY THEH ROO
221221111112 eL 2212271 22 2 Ie oF
42121432124542442542294113
SENT AAS F597 ASHSCH IL CNY
Hiliott,.,....... L121112222011222221122022 0-2
244242441542 5552445212454
SHL SSH SS RRO ANS TONATORKA
2222212706022 2020122122232221 2 9
42224338414155545344352133
NZETION TT SON S AHO 1 AHS a
TIT Lite ee22iterzi 2142711120 13
4414422452153415413241422
SY LZARNSASZ LR SAAR F357
elz2le21rortte21211141221 11 1 1—23—950
Table showing how the men stood on strings of ten shots each:
SEE eaten: fro rre ter ahs eee +ye2210 20 27 37 47 57 66 76 85 95
EMHOtt, cccceepesweepeversrerreservevsrerrers 9 19 Bt 34 44 54 63 72 80 90
C. H. Townsenp,
“Father Time” Wins a Buggy.
Parmapeipara, Nov. 11.—Trap-shooting around Philadelphia has
been very slow since the game season opened the first of this month,
but promises to be lively in a few weeks. On Saturday next the new
club at Vitzwatertown, about 12 miles from here, will have alive
bird shoot for several prizes, and on Thanksgiving Day the Forest
Gun Club will bold a tournament. In this shootthereé will be no divid-
ing of purses until the pro rata equals the entranée, this will make
the boys shoot. and probably there will not be so much dropping for
place. Aboutthe middle of December the Keystone Shooting League
will give a three days’ tournament, two days at targets, one day at
live birds, and with such men as A, J. Rust, W. and J. Wolstencroft,
H. (‘Landis’) David, W. Garvin, H. Thurman, Capt. Pack and the
rest of the League boys as hustlers it should bea great success, One
of the main events will be a team race between residents of Pennsyl-
yania and New Jersey, and as we expect a delegation of good shooters
from New Jersey it will make a very interesting shoot. We have con-
ceit enough here to think we can hold our own with any State in the
Union at the traps at either targets or live birds,
The only shoot advertised for to-day was on the grounds of the
Flourtown Club and fora buggy as the prize. The grounds of this
club are about a rnile from the town, which is just outside of the Phil-
delphia city limits. Theclub is quite a lively one for the number of
members, and they have some very good shooters in their ranks who
will be able to hold their own next year at the Penunsylyania State
shoot, The club bas just joined the Association and say they intend
to take part next year and try to win some of the trophies,
The small number of shooters on the grounds compelled those that
were present to take extra chances, so as to get the buggy shot’
off, J S. Peterman shooting for J. H. Matz, M. T. Sheets, D, D. Yeakel,
W. S. Kerper and himself, A, Peterman for W. Rhodes.
These grounds are very hard to shoot on, there being a hill right in
front of the traps covered with trees and bushes, and the scores were
very poor, as some of the trees had their leaves on them and some
were bare, making a very broken background.
Shoot for a buggy, missand out: J. H, Matz 0, Worthington 1, H.
Thurman 4, Landis 2, David 3, W. Rhodes 5, M. 1. Sheetz 1. H. Thur.
man 0, Landis 1, David 4, David 0, Landis 11, J.S. Peterman 7, H. Thur-
man 15, Landis 12, David 0, Landis 13, A. Peterman 3. D. D Yeakel 3,
David 8, Thurman 2, W.S. Kerker i2, H. Thurman 0, Dayid 14, C. H.
Kerker 0, J. S. Peterman 1, Dayid 4, Thurman 3, J. S. Peterman 0.
A few one-money miss-aud-out events wound up the day's sport.
emt!
Waverly Gun Club.
Tae monthly shoot of the Wsvyerly Gun Club, at Dexter Park, on
Monday, Nov. 6, brought together only four members in the club
event. The day’s shooting was deyoted to smashing the bluerock
targets. Inthe regular club event for the club medal the honors
went to O, Hillier, who succeeded in breaking 6 out of the 10 shot
at. with Pop Van Sfaden second with 5 to his credit. The third
sweep resulted in a tie between Van Staden, Hillmer and Rigen with
5each, In the shootoff the old yeteran’s staying qualities abided
with him to the end and he got the verdict. Thefourth event resulted
in a tie between Van Staden and Hillmer with 6 breaks each. The
shoot-off resulted in another yictory for the veteran. The fifth and
last event of the day was a repetition of the fourth; Van Staden pul-
verized 7 of the 10 shot at and pocketed the pot. Messrs Hillmer,
Febliesen and Rugen tied for second money with 5 each, and on the
shoot-off Febliesen shot out his competitors. The scores are here
appended:
J No, 1, No. 2. No. 3.
H Van Staden............ 0110010101—5 0110010101—5 100101 0101—5
O Hillmer....,...........1101010101—6 0010100101—4 0100110101—5
CG Fehliesen .............. 0101000001—3 1110011001—6 0001010000 —2
Rugen......-.-2--.2......U100010000 -2 O11 100000—4 0101101001 —5
TGravene sates sea. an cedeena 0100001100—3 0001000010 —2
No. 4, No.5
H Van Staden.,................ Serer 0000111111—6 0111101110 —7
© Biller ore ees sees eee -1100100111—6 1101110000—5
CG Febliesen... .-0100001100—3 1001001110—5
Rugen,..... . .1000000001—¢ 0001001010—3
EiGraily oer Sepa ea etconekvaekian pace wakes Sasa eben 0011000111—5
Wauregan Gun Club.
PELHAMVILLE, N. Y., Nov. 10.—Ten live birds per man, prize cap and
coat:
a) Fy MiS: pois a nee 2 O022012201—6 A Dietzel... .:...2.... (1202212012—7
W H Brickner,,...,..10i212e0ei—6 1M F Brickner,. ~llese1121—6
: .0110201e11—6 J Dietzel,,,.......,...120110e1e2—6
J W Spencer.,........02e2200112-6 J A Picken........_...0100002000—2
GW Silberhorn,....,0010ie00e—2 J Harmeling,._....... 9(21000002—3
D Volenti..,,.,,...., .2001201121—7 FM Lyon,............ 2020120002—5
The birds were 4 fast lot of flyers. The prize was a fine bunting cap
and coab. D. Volenti and A. Dietzel tied and shot off at three birds
each; A. Dietzel won with one kill, I, H. Miiis, Referee and Sec'y,
443.
Election Day at Maplewood.
Fisher....,,.....011111101111011—12
sees e-- OU1T100ITL01101— 9 Smiith.,,,.......100111111111111—13
Yeomans... ... 011111011110011—11 Drake,,........ 110101111011111—12
No, 4, 10 birds, $1: Hobart 9, Fisher 6, Thomas 7, Yeomans 6, White-
head 9, Drake 9, Smith 10, Osterhout 4, Thompson 4
No, 5, 20 birds, $1.50:
Fisher, ,,.,11111110001101011111—15 Osterhout..00001000010100100100— 5
Smith,.,...41110111111101111011-17 VnId’stine00011111111000000111—10
Drake., ....10111111111110111111_18 Thompson.01101101111000110001—11
Hobart, ., .11011111010101110110—14
Thomas, ...11110111000111101010—13
Yeomans, ,11111111110110101110—16
No. 6, 10 birds, $1; Thomas7, Hobart 7, Whitehead 7, Yeomans 8,
Smith 10, Fisher 4, Van Idestine 5, Drake 9, Thompson 5, Osterhout 5.
No. 7, 15 birds, $1:
Hobart,...,....111111111011010—12 Quad............101110111100110—10
Thomas .,.,....101111111110101—12 Drake .,........11111110111101113
Bisher, 225104 111000110010011— 8 Dr Little ....... 010110000111101— 8&
q -+-+-».101011111111011 11‘ Thompson, ,.,,.101100000111000— 7
Smith .........5 110110001111011—10
No. 8, 10 birds, $1, expert rules: Thomas 5, Yeomans 7, Fisher
6, Hobart 5, Smith 5, Osterhout 5, Whitehead 8, Thompson 6, Dr, Lit-
tle 3, Drake 5, Howard 5.
No. 10, 10 birds, $1:
EMOMAS igus et ere eye 1001000111—5 Little.........,....,.+.1011110100—6
Fisher ......,,.--+-,,-1110101110—7 Quad...,.. eeaaeeseea--L111100110—7
Thompson,,.....,..,.- 1111111000—7 Howard,,,...,......-.111000100i—5
Yeomans...,.,,... », 10111101118 Smith. ,,...........005 1010110101—6
Whitehead,.........-. 1111101101—8 Osterhout,........... 211000101116
Drake .5...0 yy cece eee d111011011—8 Hobart. ;sidisc. isl. 1001101111—7
No. 12, 10 singles and 5 pairs, $1.50:
DTA Sie anntesiiaeenise satienes wart hee veeeeeeelIIIIIIII1 11 10 01 1040—16
DRASTIC a pe anaes wneionmenrvarevshare dea Sieteetre totes «11171011011 10 01 10 10 10—18
LOD ACI eva cerennwiauaanadiacee’ seceeeese-+1100011101 10 01 10 11 10—12
MEOMIETINE Dotnrcmaaedaecadienies 1010111010 10 11 10 10 11—18
THOM PRON ee ass : 1011101111 10 01 00 10 10—12
THOMAB, s10sceyesu +0111101001 00 11 10 11 10—12
Smith,,..... etresyseeeeseenssseeer21110111111 10 10 01 01 10—14
Little,...... ecereere syeerewennescsenssasss 0000001000 00 01 10 01 10—5
MoBEGAN.
Rochester Defeats Onondaga.
RoonestEeR, N. Y., Noy. 2.—Twenty members of the Onondaga,
County Sporting Club, of Syracuse, came to this city to-day and tried
conclusions at clay pigeons with the Rochester Rod and Gun Club on
the Monroe avenue grounds in the morning and afternoon. The con-
tests consisted of seyen sweepstake events of ten, fifteen and twenty
birds, and a team shot of twenty men on a side of twenty-five birds.
All of the sweepstakes were closely contested, and many excellent
scores were made.
The local club had made arrangements for making the occasion one
long to be remembered with pleasure by the visitors, and that their
eiforts were most successful the happy crowd of Syracuseans who
left the city at an early hour this morning gave evidence Lunch was
prepared for the guests at the grounds, and in the evening all the
marksmen enjoyed a banquet at Worden’s. After partaking of a
sumptuous meal—for every one had a ravenous appetite—a programme
of toasts was carried out.
President Fulton announced WV. C. Hadley as toastmaster, Mr.
Hadley proved himself the right man in the right place. He is a crack
shooter, but he is also a crack at presiding over a banquet table. The
Speeches were not of the ‘‘cut and dried” sort. ‘The listeners were
hardly in a mood for such. Jokes at the expense of one another,
lively stories and reminiscences were the order, and for several hours
all had a royai good time. Letters were read from C O. Barrett, the
well known Boston shooter; August Schmitt, ex-Vice-President of the
Rochester Gun Club, and others.
Here are the subjects of the toasts to which responses were made:
“Onondaga Sportsmen’s Club,” Harvey McMurchy; * Syracuse Ath-
letic Club,” C. H. Mowry; ‘* Rochester Rod and Gun Club,” President
Fulton; ‘*‘What About the Score at Parma?’ W. J. Mann; “ How I
Missed That Bird,” t. C, Meyers; ‘* What I Know About Wheeling,”
Gus Moshier; ** What I Know About Shooting Mud Hens,” 0. Wolcott;
“Gun and Sporting Goods,” G. H. Mann; ‘The Sword of Bunker
Hill,’ a song, Dan Lefever; ‘‘ The Laws for the Protection of Fish
and Game,” C. Ayling; ‘‘What Part His Bitters Took in the Conven-
me G. Holloway; *“How I Made 79 Miles in 68 Minutes,” Jimmy
Wood.
The summary of the days shooting contests follows;
25 single Kingbird targets: —
Quondaga: H. Ayling 23, Mosher 20, Cool 17, C. Ayling 22, Dugard 24,
PD. Walters 19, Cruttenden 9. G H. Mann 21, C. Howell19, Herman 16,
Mowry 22, Tuttle 19, Carr 23, MeMurchy 21, Hi lloway 20, Lefever 20,
Macomber 17, Perry 21, Marble 21, C. Green 20. Total 494,
Rochester: W. J, Mann, 21, Stewart 24, Glover 19 Tassell 21, Quirk 14,
Foley 21, Borst 21, Meyer 21, Hadley 24, Van Ostrand 21, Lane 23, Byer
23, Hicks 22, Babcock 15, I, Ressenger 22, Norton 20, Glover 22, Wolcott
20, Hunt 20, Newton 23. Total 417.
Team shoot,
The Newark Gun Club.
THe turnout at the November shoot of the Newark Gun Club, held
on John Erb’s Newark grounds on the 9th, was better attended than
the preceding one, but still the members do not show up as they
should. Nota resident member was on hand, those present being T.
W. Morfey, Henry Wolfe and T. C. Wright, of Paterson; M. F. Linds-
ley, of West Hoboken; Dr. P. J. Zeglio, of Warrenville, and W. G.
Hollis, of Kearny. J. A. R, Elliott, of Kansas City, was also present
and took part in the fun.
The poor attendance at the recent meets of this club are undoubt-
edly caused by the unsettled state of the money market, and just now
the number of absentees is likely to be larger than usual, a number of
the regular attendants being away in the field and covert.
The day was not an exceedingly favorable one, the air being cold
and raw and the light by no means clear. The birds were fair and the
handling and retrieving of the usual order, which always means good
on these grounds. The opening event was m $2 miss and out; then
came three 10 bird events, $5 entry, 3 moneys, the third of these events
being also the club shoot. After this there were shot three miss and
out events, $2 entry. The scores are detailed:
No, 1: j :
MOE CYiceelsecevcirenec te idhiapsettlU sO WACIP Tb ne costes 6 vaadeaeen eaeels
No. 2. * No. 3, No, 4,
Morfey, ...-cceeceesees===.0100021221— 6 1121110212— 9 1111001011— 7
Lindsley. sew eevesesaeny Lesrleee21—10 2222021222— 9 0202202220— 6
Elliott. ~» 0212122212— 9 1211111211—10 2112121101— 9
Wright .., ,2122012121— 9 0021111101— 6 1111220106e— 7
HONS nae cer preerpere «ve2ll020112e— 7 1121111212—10 2111011210— 8
ZeZO...enees saerrereseens 2121121121—10 211111221110 1111222212—10
Le ees Rass sweneas ,2002102110— 6 21211018e00— 6 0210011122— 7
No. 3 Wright and Wolf shot off for third money, Wright winning
on the second round of the miss and out: :
No.5. No.6. No.7. - No.5. No.6. No.7.
Lindsley.,,...... 22200 «12 «22222 Zeglio............11212 10 0
Wphhnaecee ev sl Q 12111 Hollis.,,.........1% Ce kwh
MOGOTrESY. Sc ecceeesc 11120 «#10 © =©612111 :
Election Day at Fanwood.
Brow are the scores made at the live-bird shoot held by ‘‘Dutchy”
Smith at Brener’s Grove, Fanwood, N. J.,on Nov. 7. Thesntrance fee
in each event was $3. The birds were a good lot:
No. 1, No. 2, No. 3. No. 4. No. 5.
(OSS ee 12122 —5 02222—4 1112 4 2011—8 1122—4
Rothacker.......... 22211—5 22122—5 1122-4 20U1—2 2122—4
Pierson......-..-... 12222—5 2122U—4 0202 —2 0202—2 0012—2
Darby .......,.:....221—4 11222—5 2100- 2 eae weve
Scott Terry.......-. 201714 1217-5 2012-3 2022-8 1110-3
LN pie PE eS 112215 12221—5 2112-4 3 Ae ae
EMERG guaesysirln se eae On—t Wii4 .,,..; nee
The World’s Fair Championship.
CurcAco, I!., Novy, 9.—To-day John Watson showed me the World's
Fair championship medal which he had just received from the manu-
faciurers tor forwarding to its owner, Mr. Chas. Grim, of Clear
Lake, Ia., who left the matter of design, ete., to Mr. Watson. The
medal is a handsome one, with the usual diamond, the green wreath,
The face shows a miniature world for token, and the conceit of the
world’s championship is yery happily carried out in the detail. Both
front and obverse are treated simply and with reserve, and the gem ig
oneofreal yalue, I belicye this is the finest shooting medal Tf have
seen of its class, and one cannot escape the conviction that under the
stereotyped phrase, ‘‘value $100,” there is an actual and full value to
the dollar. it is a sterling medal and commemorative of a sterling
event, E, Hoves,
4 4 4,
FOREST AND STREAM.
(Nov, 18, 1898.
Election Day at Dexter Park.
In order to accommodate some of his regular patrons, whose politi-
eal aspirations are ‘‘passe,”? Louis Miller opened his grounds on
Election Day for live birds and bluerock shooting.
The shooting opened with a sweep at 15 bluerocks, in which Shorte-
meyer and Phister divided first. The second event was at 6 live birds,
which went to Phister, with a clear score. The third event was a
repetition of the second and resulted in a tie between Phister, Fessen-
den and Shortemeyer, with 5 kills each. The fourth was the same as
the second and third, and was won by Fessenden with a clean score,
The fifth event was at 15 bluerocks. The result was a tie between
Shortemeyer and Short, each with 13 breaks to their credit. The
sixth and last event of the day was at 10 bluerocks, 6 entries. In this
sweep Shortemeyer-came to the front with 9 breaks to his credit.
The scores.
No. 1, 15 bluerocks;:
Shortemeyer. ...111110111111111—14 Levens,...... , -110110110111011—11
Phister..... we: 110111111111111—14 Short........... 011111111101111—13
No. 2, 3 and 4, 6 live birds, 28yds.
No. 2. No. 3. No. 4.
RAP DISUOU sera ala faeces ek aneeas a ease ney 111112—6 111210—5 2212015
PERU SOW ste ererede cotecs a cock ev skdete oer nrntrns Seated 112101—5 101001i—3 .........
TSH OU bass cabled caries en a AGE e ae & AreNnbesy web Ay Aa
WSO VONSS 5 arena dint d Limit « Rinacaeatelite aes 221120—5 0022214 .........
HWESSCHACH Sc oaca au kisaa oie Gata e as eee Gea es 112201—5 1 222lei1—5 112112—6
Te SHOrLemey ere Me aceasta als wast ate ae 112202—5 022111—5 021122—5
CUSIMIMNOOS hee fetatan 3 nieres she noweed Mattel 022100—3 i1011e2—4 .,,......
No. 5. No. 6.
LShHOrtemeyers...cs..s006 carve rvees 011011111111111—13 1101111111—9
TIUSTON Gpayso star sieant acne anteaters ite 111111111011110—13 0101111011—7
TRAHISUB Ice a etree nee tates > Sa eaten oh ds ae ols 011111111001111—12 0111111101—8
H Knebel, Jr 001010100010111— 7 0111101001—6
CSimmons .. 01010110011110i— 9 0010111111—7
W SEOVCUStervi.ts tices apeee ss cpan sively as 100111101010011— 9 1010000011—4
Crescent Gun Club.
©THE monthly shoot of the Crescent Gun Club at Louis Miller’s Dex-
ter Park grounds, on Thursday, Noy. 2, brought together only five
members in the regular club eyent. A match between Capt. Shep-
hard and J. W. Coulston, at 25 birds each, both-of whom are members
of the club, which was shot off just previous to the club event, was
robbed of much of its interest on account of Coulston’s inability to
ive the Captain a close race. The birds were as a lot good, hardy
yers, and Oapt. Shephard, although a good shot, could only bring 19
of them to grass. If Coulston will only remove’ the extreme drop in
the stock of his gun to the normal, he will find that his birds will be
more liable to receive the contents of his cartridges. Extreme drop
in gun stocks is one of the failings of the novice in trap-shooting. In
the club event at 7 birds, L. Hopkins was high with a clean score to
his credit. He was, however, kept on the 'tragged edge” by President
Gilman up to the end of the contest, when the latter dropped out with
a clean miss on his seventh and last bird. 4 "
After the close of the club event the members indulged in a series of
sweepstakes at 8 birds, miss and out. Hopkins continued his BES
form by killing all his birds, John Cottier, a man prominent in Kings
county polities, came on to the grounds late in the day and tried his
new Diamond Daly ejector at the birds. Want of practice and the
new gun, coupled with the good quality of the birds, was too much of
a handicap for Mr. Cottier. The scores:
Individual match, 25 birds, American Association rules:
Gap Shephandiiy teeta tee nean natin nan -1022220112122101220202210—19
J W.-Goulston, 6; pins cae as sagen sue se eee -@112000222002001200012012—13
Club match, 7 live birds, American Association rules:
; RAN LAGS FIALEEN
I, Hopkins........ 22121141—7 Capt Shephard... 022102 2—5
RYNN SET SulLRew>
J W Coulston..... 0000e200—-1 W Gilman ......1111110-6
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Sweepstakes, 3 birds, miss and out, 3 moneys:
No . No. No. 3
ARS N oN w—
LL HopkKins...... araretetalanaeiete 1223 1 112-3 112-3
wH \ ASS NLA
Capt Shephard............%22—8 1 122-3 121-3
SHY ad
M Jobns.........: Seca eee 0S eke cet
AVL YH OR,
Morey ....... Phipitiaeeeesiehst ss 00 2-1 01 1-2 0.0 0—0
NAL v CANA ASH x
WY: (Gilman ia secasccats 1213 0 110-2 011-2 1
ANS Hoc NAS >
J W Coulston ,,.........,. 02 2—2% 1 o 2-2 BAG) i= i)
NOY Lio
CM OnENIAN hanenssines pas sapien 211-3 111-3
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Parkway Rod and Gun Club.
Tu monthly shoot of the Parkways at Dexter Park on Wednesday,
Novy. 8, did not have its usual representation of class members. The
election the day previous and the hunting season now on were no
doubt responsible for the light attendance. Of the first class members
Leo Helgans was theonly one on the ground, and the result was
that he had a walkover for the A class prize, on a score of five out of
seven. In Class B there were four entries, and the class winners
proyed to be H, Bramwell, with a clean score of seven kills to his
credit, In Class C Col, Selover got the bulge on his class competitors
and captured the parachute ona cleanscore. The club appropriates
a certain amount each month for the purchase of prizes to be divided
between the three classes. On this occasion the prizes were three silk
umbrellas. There is also a gold medal, which goes to the member
who makes the best scoreat each monthly meeting, the same to be
worn by the member winning it until the next monthly shoot. The
result of the club event was a tie between Bramwell of Class B and
Col. Selover of Class C, In the shoot off Bramwell won the med
with two kills out of three to Selover’s one, After Bramwell had paid
the penalty to which all such honors are subjected, a sweep at three
birds, miss-and-out, was made up with eleven entries. The result was
a victory for Lee Helgans on his ninth bird. The scores are appended:
Club shoot, class handicap:
Class A. 28. i Class C, 21.
A Andrews,.............1210020-4
H Knickman,,.,..... .. 000222 —3
A Lehman,,.... AA eee 0211102—5°
ER Book nian) eesess 2201110—5
T T Edgerton............ 12119116
Sweep, 3 birds, 3 moneys:
rele ans ened saves eee 222
TT Edgerton,....,......
Hse, MAIC aes ot sete cake 201—2
H Selover....+..---: foes 110-2
D Van Siclen......... J ett 000—0-
GPebler rene ea ee cca 011-2
W! Schaur. fo i2ii0 0... ..8. 020—1
Nassau Gun Club.
Tur Nassau Gun Club held its monthly shoot at Louis Miller’s
Dexter Park grounds on Tuesday, Oct. 31, eight members participat-
ing. Theregular club event called for 10 birds per man, American
Association rules. The shoot was opened at sucha late hour in the
afternoon that there was no opportunity for sweepstake shooting,
|and the consequence was the shooting was confined to the club event.
The birds were a fairly good lot, and there were some instances in
which the ability of the shooter and the quality of his gun and
cartridges was made prominent. An interesting feature of the shoot
was the shooting off of the tie between Messrs. Selover and Young,
Both killed 10 straight in the regular event. Jim Bennett was also a
tie with them, but in the shoot off, 3 birds, miss and out, Bennett —
dropped out. Messrs. Selover and Young fought it out nip and tuck
to the eleventh bird, when Young slipped up onan easy leit quarter-
ing incoming bird. It was one of those shots where the over confidence ©
of the shooter plays havoe with his winning chances. The scores are
appended:
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CONTENTS.
The Kennel.
A Plain Business Talk.
Points and Flushes.
The United States F. T. C. Trials.
Dog Chat.
Answers to Correspondents.
Editorial.
Some Canine Complications.
The Anarchist Argument.
Snap Shots.
The Sportsman Tourist.
Danvyis Folks.—xy.
Notes of a Trip to Manitoba,
Railroads and the Park.
The Quebec Winter Carnival.
Natural History.
Horns of Female Caribou.
Shark and Remora. -
Coming of the Arctic Summer,
Hunting and Coursing.
California Coursing Notes.
Western Massachusetts
Club.
Condition of Greyhounds.
Hunting and Coursing Notes.
Fox
Yachting:
Current Comments on the Races.
Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers.
Game Bag and Gun.
The Buffalo Remnant.
The First “Close Season.”
Three Days in Pennsylvania.
Mud and Misery.
Chicago and the West.
Boston and Maine.
Canoeing.
A, C, A. Membership.
Rifle Range and Gallery.
Greenville Rifle Club,
Zettler Rifie Club.
Rifle Club Doings.
Rifie Notes.
Trap Shooting.
Class Defeats Elliott at Paterson.
Saturday’s Match at Morristown
An Old-Time Picture.
Drivers and Twisters.
Answers to Queries.
Sea and River Fishing.
The Trigger Fish,
Angling Notes.
Fishculture.
A Sea Fishery Conference.
Work of the Pennsylvania Com-
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The Kennel.
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SOME. CANINE COMPLICATIONS.
THe courts have been considering a batch of canine
cases lately; and some knotty points of dog law have been
unraveled, which it would be just as well for us all to
know about,
Thus, if one happens to be a fragile young woman, she
should understand that a big powerful dog has the right
of way on city sidewalks; and the owner cannot be held
liable for injuries sustained by those against whom the
beast runs amuck, This has just been determined in a
New York case where an action was brought by a young
woman, who, while walking on Sixth avenue had been
thrown down, and had one of her legs broken, in collision
with a dog big and powerful as aforesaid. She sued the
owner for damages. The Court held that inasmuch as the
animal was not trespassing, but was going along the pub-
lic street, where it had a perfect right to be, the owner
could not be held responsible for the results of the col-
lision.
A more complicated dog and woman collision is now
before the Vermont courts. The point to be determined
in this instance is whether one man may be held in dam-
ages for injuries inflicted by another man’s dog in the
owner’s own house and upon the owner’s own wife. To
the unsophisticated lay mind it would appear that at all
events in this case, too, the dog was not trespassing. The
cause is that of Isham vs. Dow. Dow had some sheep.
Isham had a dog. Isham’s dog attempted to eat up
Dow’s sheep. Dow hadagun. With it heset out to kill
Isham’s dog. Isham had a wife. Isham’s dog, wounded
by Dow’s gun, ran into Isham’s house and jumped against
Isham’s wife, knocking her down, and injuring her so
severely that she was critically ill afterward. Isham ys.
Dow for $10,000 is the result. What became of the dog
is not told.
What is a person to do when a stray and friendless dog
persists in casting itself upon his good graces and adopt-
ing him for a master? The Brooklyn police courts have
gone so far at least as to say that he may not hurl the
animal through a window. The other evening a citizen
set out tomakeacall. On the street he encountered a
wretched stray dog, which made up to him, licked his
pose him to much, if any, danger.
; VOL. XLI.—No. 21
No. 318 Broapway, Naw Yors,
hands, and then and there, in canine dumb show, took
him for better or for worse. The man responded with a
kick, and boardea a street car. The dog followed him in
and nestled down at his feet. Brooklyn street cars do not
carry dogs, and when the conductor spied the animal, he
asked the man if it belonged to him. The man looked
down at the dog, and the dog, misinterpreting the glance,
responsively wagged its tail in content and good will.
Then the man swore some, grabbed the dog, swung it in
the air and dashed it through a window. The glass
crashed; the astonished dog went yelping up the street;
the man swore some more; the women in the car made
a commotion; the conductor called a policeman; the po-
liceman carried the canine catapult off to the station
house; the judge fined him $25 in court the next morning
for cruelty to animals; and he made himself square with
the car company by paying for the smashed glass. All
of which teaches us that a dog, as well as a human be-
ing, may sometimes be mistaken in his man. ‘This
Brooklyn citizen was not at all the kind of person the
dog took him to be.
Dogs have certain recognized legal privileges, one of
which is that of proceeding in an orderly manner along
the public highway unmolested by other dogs; and the
courts: will sustain a man who endeavors to uphold this
right for a dog, even when the dog belongs to somebody
else. The Massachusetts case of Matteson vs. Strong,
damages for dog bite, is the one in point. Daniel B.
Matteson, of Palmer, was out walking, attended by
Albert King’s dog. The quadruped was set upon with
ferociously felonious intent by the dog of Homer C.
Strong, Esq. Matteson attempted to restrain King’s dog
when Strong’s dog attacked it. He was bitten by the
aggressor, brought suit in the Superior Court and recovered
$375 damages. But Strong contended that the plaintiff
had attempted to separate the dogs after they had begun
fighting and that by so doing had unnecessarily put him-
self in danger—had cast himself into the breach when he
should have stayed out of it. He carried the case up to
the Supreme Court. There the finding of the lower court
was sustained in a decision which it will be well for one
to note carefully for future guidance. It reads:
We cannot say, as a matter of law, that the plaintiff was not in the
exercise of due carein putting bis hand on the collar or neck of the
dog which was in his custody, in order to bring him along and prevent
a fight. Under the circumstances it may have been a very proper
thing for him todo, and at the time it may not have seemed to ex-
In eases of this kind a great deal
depends on the size, the apparent disposition, the conduct and the
situation of the two dogs, and upon other circumstances which are
usually proper for the consideration of a jury. There was other
te&8timony which would have warranted the jury in finding that the
plaintiff was negligent, but neither the undisputed evidence in the
ease nor the hypothetical statement embodied in the defendant's
second request for aruling was enough to justify the court in order-
ing a verdict for the defendant.
THE ANARCHIST ARGUMENT.
Tue letter elsewhere printed to-day came to hand last
week after FOREST AND STREAM had gone to press, but be-
fore it had been published. It is written by an Hastern
banker, whose connections with railroads and mines in
Montana is close and has extended over a number of
years. In the course of his business journeyings this gen-
tleman has become familiar with the Park and Cooke
City miners, as well as with ranchmen and miners in
many localities in central and southern Montana. We
are not surprised to see our correspondent take up cudgels
in behalf of the good men of Montana. They are abund-
antly able to take care of themselves and need no defense,
but it is irritating to see one’s friends called bad names in
print, and the impulse is strong to say a word.
Most of this ground, except where wanton attacks are
made on the character of Montana people, has been thor-
oughly gone over in past years, and the communication
of Mr. Brackett only brings to the surface old straw to
be threshed over again. It would be asimple matter to
take his letter, paragraph by paragraph, and pull it to
pieces, showing by conclusive testimony that he has
failed to inform himself on many points in connection
with the National Park. It is absurd, for example, to
any one who is familiar with the Park in winter, to
tread his statement that the game has long since been
driven from the vicinity of the Cooke City wagon road
and neyer returns to it, for it is perfectly well known that
the greatest winter range for elk within the borders of
the reservation is along the Cooke City wagon road,
thousands of them being seen there daily throughout
the winter. No one expects to find game camped along
the roadside in summer, for then it has withdrawn to the
higher lands and to the timber.
But it is not worth while to go over this ground, which
must be thoroughly familiar toall readers of FOREST AND
STREAM. Those who have forgotten the details of the
case are referred to an article in this journal about a year
ago entitled ‘‘Cooke City vs. the National Park.”
SNAP SHOTS,
Here is a foreign minister of whom any country might
be proud, and it is the privilege of these United States to
take pride in him. Minister W. W. Thomas, Jr., repre-
senting our Government in Sweden, took part in the great
elk hunt given by King Oscar, the other day, in the for-
est of Hunneberg, in honor of the Emperor of Germany.
When the hunt was over the diplomatic representatives
of France, Germany and Italy were all present and ac-
counted for, but Minister Thomas had disappeared, and
much solicitude was felt lest he had been wounded by
the game or some other calamity had befallen him. It
was not until 10 o’clock at night, and when the party
was about to break up, that he came in, worn out with
fatigue, all tattered and bespattered with mud; and ex-
plained to King Oscar that having wounded an elk he
had thought it the sportsmanlike thing to follow it up
and give it the cowp de grace. The chase had been long
and arduous, but the American had to show for his re-
ward the finest specimen of all the forty elk killed in the
hunt; and for his pluck he received the congratulations
of both the sovereigns.
Nine of the Montana elk which were exhibited near the
Cliff Dwellers in the World’s Fair have been secured by
Mr. Edward H. Litchfield, of Brooklyn, for his game pre-
serve in the Adirondacks. The elk were last week taken
to a farm in Rome, N. Y., where they will winter. With
them are three black-tailed deer, also destined for Mr.
Litchfield’s preserve. This experiment of restocking the
Adirondacks with elk, for such in effect it is, will be
watched with decided interest. The elk was indigenous
to the North Woods; and was exterminated only by fool-
ishly persistent pursuit. There is much ground for
believing that once again restored to its native home the
species would thrive; and that with the protection
accorded it by wise laws and by an enlightened pub-
lic sentinient, it would become a permanent factor in the
game supply of the region.
Major J. Fry Lawrence, of Louisville, Ky., who died
suddenly while on a hunting trip, on Nov. 11, was presi-
dent of the Kentucky Fish and Game League, an organi-
zation numbering 1,500 members, and one of the most
powerful institutions of the State. He was a member of
the World’s Fisheries Congress, and attended some of its
meetings in Chicago last month. The discussions bearing
upon the protection of fish awakened his liveliest interest.
The extensive distribution of fish by the U.S, Fish Com-
mission in Kentucky waters was due largely to the per-
sonal influence of Major Lawrence, and no one appreci-
ated more fully than he the lasting benefits to be derived
from intelligent stocking of streams.
There is a clause of the New York game law which
forbids one person to kill more than three deer in a sea-
son. From what we can learn this law is on the whole
beneficial, but it does not restrain the raids of some
of the meat hunters who live on the borders of the
Wilderness and make annual autumnal forays on the ven-
ison supply. Some of these hunters take out wagon
loads of game just as they did before the law was enacted,
As we go to press the meeting of the American Orni-
thologists’ Union is being held at Cambridge, Massachu-
setts. The attendance is large, and many interesting
papers will be presented to the Congress. The hospitali-
ties of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, which might
almost be called the father of the A. O, U., will be
offered during the meeting.
The subject of the alarming decrease of food fishes in the
waters of the Atlantic coast is one of importance which
it would be difficult to over-estimate. The consideration
of it, set on foot by the New York Commission, should
receive attention from every one who can contribute sug-
gestion or information,
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Che Sportsman Conrist.
DANVIS FOLKS.—XV.
The First Fox.-
SAM moving about cautiously in his SeereS was at-
tempting the impossible feat of building a fire in the
stove without making a noise, for it was early and he
hoped that he might not disturb any of the family.
The wood: tumbled about in the box as if endowed with
perverse life. The griddles would slip and clatter and the
doors bang as if they were made for no other purpose,
Uncle Lisha bemg a light sleeper was roused and
came forth to learn the cause of the unseasonable disturb-
ance, with his waistcoat in one hand and buttoning his
suspenders fumblingly with the other.
“What on airth is the motter, Samwil? Baby haint
got the croup er nuthin’, has he?” he whispered anx-
iously.
“No,” wasanswered in a hollow whisper, ‘‘goin’ hunt-
in’. Thought I'd hey me a baked tater and cupo’ tea tu
start on *f I e’d get ’em’thout wakin’ the hull neighbor-
hood, but this consarned stove’s ben dancin’ a jig sence I
fust touched it an’ the wood, turnin’ summersets. But
[ve got the tatersin. Sorry I waked ye, Uncle Lisher.
Drive, you ol’ fool, quit yer whinin’ an’ caperin’. We
haint goin’ yit.”
“T'd glep’ a plenty,” and Uncle Lisha drew a chair to
the stove and toasted his feet comfortably on the hearth.
‘“Where be you goin’, Samwil?”
“Well,” said Sam, carefully filling a powder horn while
Drive watched the operation with intense interest, whin-
ing and treading the floor with his front feet, ‘I’m a-
goin’ tu take Peltier a fox huntin’. I b’lieve f Ie’n git
him int’rested in ’t an’ hey him kill a fox er tew itll git
him over mopin’ an’ honin’ himself to death arter that
misible gal. The’ haint nothin’ like huntin’ tu take a fel-
ler’s mind offem trouble.”
“Wal,” said the old man ina draughty whisper that set
the candle flaring, ‘‘I d’ know but what it'll help some,
but I shall reckon more on fishin’. But I tell ye, 1 b’lieve
he’s kinder taken a shine tu that aire Varney gal, ’at was
here tu the apple cut, an’ that’s a-goin’ tu cure him.”
«?T wont mount tushucks. Peltier haint that kind o’
chap tu shift his likes sudden. I don’t b’lieve he'll ever
keer a row o’ pins for any other gal. The best ’at can be
done for him is tu git him from dwellin’ on his trouble,
an’ I don’t know o’ nothin’ better ’n huntin’. The quiet
of the woods an’ the noises which is nigh about the same
thing, is mighty soothin’, an’ the smell o’ the dead leaves
an’ the spreuce an’ balsam is stren’thenin’ tu the narves
an’ when you git raly woke up with the hootin’ o’ the
haound a-drawin’ nigher an’ you hear the fox a-rustlin’
the dry leaves an’ snappin’ the dry twigs, it sets your
heart afire an’ burns aout all the foolishness an’ trouble.”
‘“Mebby,” said the other, ‘‘but fishin’ is turrible soothin’,
I’d ruther chance it on fishin’ an’ that Varney gal. She’s
a strornary nice gal.”
Sam. opened the oven door and tested his cookery with
a pinch. ‘My tatersis done, Set by an’ ha’ some, Uncle
Lisher?”’
But the old man chose to wait for a more elaborate
meal, and Sam hastily swallowing his tea, potatoes and
cold meat and assuming his equipments was ready to de-
part just as Pelatiah appeared, and the two held forth in
the growing whiteness of the winter dawn with the old
hound sobering down to the business of his life, ranging
steadily before them.
There had been a hoar frost In the night and every
fence and tree was turned to misty silver and pearl, and
the mountain arose before them against the paling azure
like a great cloud of pearl, unstable, ethereal, as if the
lightest breeze might waft it away. There was a haziness
in the atmosphere giving it an apparent softness that
seemed to belong to another season, and make one almost
expect to hear the songs of birds coming from the silver
foliage and seo {the stir of insect life among the feathery
herbage of the frost, grown in a night upon the snow.
But the few sounds that scarcely broke the silence
were all of winter. The smothered chuckle of the ice-
bound brook, the resonant crack of a frozen tree, the
mufiled crow of a housed cock, and the discordant cries
and flicker of the gay plumage of a jay early faring
abroad were the only signs of life astir save the hunters
and their hounds.
Old Drive soon found the warm trail of a fox that had
been mousing among the snow-covered aftermath, and he
presently set the mountain side and hills to bandying
melodious echoes that awoke all the valley from its slum-
bers.
A dozen house dogs burst into vociferous baying at the
distracting multitude of airy voices and as many cocks
sent forth their ringing challenges, and one by one the
farmhouse chimneys began to lift their slanted pillars of
smoke against the peajl-gray hills and blue of the sky.
There began to be signs of choring, the creaking and
slamming of barn doors, the lowing of cattle, and men
calling them to partake of their brown loaves, the stacks.
Then were heard the mellow notes of horns and conches,
presently followed by a cessation of the sounds of labor.
These, after a time, began again, with the clear, woody
ring of ax strokes, the mufiled thud of flails, the shouts of
ox-teamsters and the drawling creak of their sleds.
The hunters gave heed to none of them, Only to the
voice of the hound were their ears attentive as it tended
toward the hills that buttressed the mountain side, letting
here an echo fall asleep, there awakening another to wild
mimicry.
“Bf he haint got him up, he will in less’n five minutes,”
said Sam after a moment of breathless listening to the
hound’s eager baying. ‘You pull foot for the south end
o’ Pa’tridge Hill. ‘The’s a big hemlock in the aidge of a
leetle clearin’. Stan’ there. If he gits past ye goin’ he'll
come back that way. Stick to ’t as long as the dawg stays
on the hill, Til go to the north end.”
He struck off at a swinging gait and Pelatiah in a di-
vergent course made his way to the point indicated, He
reached it much out of breath with climbing and excite-
ment, bis heart beating such a tumultuous accompaniment
to the music of the hound, drawing nearer and nearer,
that he could scarcely hear it.
He cocked his gun and strove to settle his trembling
nerves while he strained his eyes fo catch a glimpse of the
fox, for he could hear the hound crashing through the
FOREST AND STREAM.
f [Nov. 25, 1893.
brush and whining and panting as he puzzled over a
double of the trail. Then his heart stood still at a sudden
flash of ruddy fur among the brush, his gun was at his
shoulder, his finger feeling the trigger, and with a qualm
of disgust he saw a red squirrel scampering along a log.
The music of the hound swept past, and Pelatiah’s heart
sank with the sense of lost opportunity. But he remem-
bered Sam’s assurance that the fox would come back,
and took hope again. He backed into a comfortable
position against the hemlock and listened half dreamily to
the pulsing diminuendo of the hound’s bugle notes and to
the minor voices of the woods. A party of inquisitive
chickadees sounded their cheery call close about him, a
nuthatch piped nasally as he crept in a downward spiral
along the branching trunk above. A woodpecker indus-
triously tapped a dead tree, the squirrel dropped a slow
shower of cone chips, and a company of jays attuned
their voices to unwonted softness as they discoursed to-
gether.
Yet he was continually aware of the hound’s mellow
notes overbearing all these sounds, though faint and far
away, till suddenly there broke above them all the short,
thin report of a rifle, and almost with the fading out of
the brief echo the baying of the hound ceased.
=‘ Wal,” said Pelatiah, letting his hopes down to
the earth with asigh. “The fox ’s dead, that’ ssar-
tain, but I shouldn’t ha’ thought Sam would ha’ cut in
ahead on me an’ shot him. That wan’t the Ol’ Ore Bed!
*T wan't laoud enough! It’s some skunk that’s sneaked in
an’ stole aour fox, an’ by gol, he’ll haftu hump hisself if I
don’t ketch him er run him in.”
He pushed rapidly forward in the direction that he
heard the shot. His course was lengthwise-of the ledge,
with so few obstacles that a half hour’s walk brought him
to the end of the fox’s track, marked with a great blood-
stained wallow in thesnow. Leading straightaway from
it toward the little valley behind the hill went the tracks
of a big pair of boots with a disproportionate stride.
“A short-laiged critter,” Pelatiah remarked, as he set-
tled himself upon the trail, ‘“‘an’ I guess my shanks’ hosses
*} fetch him,”
The trail presently led him to a narrow clearing and a
little gray house that stood in forlorn nakedness of shade
trees and outhouses, close to an untraveled highway. The
big boot tracks held straight across the poor little garden
with its feeble array of bean poles bearing their withered
garlands of rustling vines, past the starved woodpile and
its dull ax, to the neatly swept doorstep.
‘‘Consarn his picter,” and Pelatiah waxed hot with
wrath as the trail grew warmer, ‘‘he’s sneaked intu Wid-
der Wigginses. But he needn’t cal’late petticuts “ll save
him, Ill skin *im if the’s a dozen women stannin’ raound,
The blasted thief,”
He stepped softly upon the plank doorstep, and was
about to enter, when he heard the excited voice of a boy
and stopped to listen. He also heard the sibilant rush of
air from the nipple of a gun and the soft pop of a with-
drawn patch mingling with disconnected words and knew
that the speaker was cleaning a rifle.
“Oh, ma,” cried the yoice with a grunt that indicated
the pushing down of a patch, ‘‘I tell ye, it wasfun. I
popped him right plum through the head, an’ sir, I
dropped him right in his tracks, An’ haint he a neat one.
An’ neow I’m goin’ to skin him an’ stretch him an’ take
him daown to Clapham’s an’ sell him an’ git you some tea
an’ sugar.”
“Tt ll be turrible good tu hey some agin, ’specially
when a body is feeling so peaked,” said a feeble voice,
‘An’ haow did you happen tu kill a fox, Billy? That's
men’s game.”
“Oh, IT was up on the hill tryin’ tu git a pa’tridge, an’ I
heard a haoun’ dawg a-comin’ an’ I jes’ stood still as a
post, an’ fust I knew it, I seen the fox come bobbin’ along
an’ up an’ let him hey, an’ daown he flopped, an’ sir, I
couldn’t b’lieve ’twas treue, an’ when I rally got a holt
on. ’t I got dizzy an’ all of a tremble, an’ the nex’ thing I
thought on was the tea an’ sugar fer you. An’ then the
haoun’ dawg come up an’ chawed him a spell, an’ then I
slung him on my back an’ p’inted fer hum.”
All the fire of Pelatiah’s wrath was quenched and he
was about to retire as silently as he had come, when he
was arrested by the voice of the woman pitched to a tone
of earnest reproof.
“©, Billy, you hedn’t ever ortu done that. You'd orter
waited an’ gin the hunters the fox, It’s jest stealin’.
Father allus said so. O, Billy, they ‘Il be arter you, an’
nob’dy knows whot they won’tdu tu ye, Whose haoun’
dawg was it, Billy?”
“Tf was Sam Lovel’s ol’ Drive. It’s the fust fox ’at ever
I shot,” Billy whimpered, ‘‘an’ haow bel ever goin’ tu git
yer tea an’ sugar?”
“Tt don’t make no diffunce, youmus’ take that aire fox
right stret ta Samwil Lovel. You've got tu take it tu
them it belongs tu. Mebby the Lord ‘ll pervide; but I
d’ know, it’s long a-waitin’. Hang up the gun an’ start
right stret off. Take the fox an’ start right off like an
hones’ man.”
Pelatiah broke in unceremoniously upon poor Billy’s
mournful preparations for departure, his unannounced
appearance startling alike the boy and his sick mother,
who stared at him half frightened, half indignant, from
her yncomfortable support of seant pillows.
“The’ don’t nob’dy want no fox, Wis Wiggins,” he burst
out impetuously. ‘‘Samwil an’ me don’t want him, ner
won't hey him, nuther. Bub cn take him right daown tu
Clapham’s a’ git all he canfer him, Dollar an’ a half, I
shouldn’t wonder, We won't hev it, [tell ye. We wouldn't
tech tu take the fust fox ‘at a boy ever shot. We know
how he feels, me an’ Samyil.”
Certainly not by experience did Pelatiah know; but by
sympathy, perhaps he did, to-day.
“Be ye much sick, M’is Wiggins? Bub hed better git
Darktor Stone tucome up. Ill hev mother come over.
Good day.”
He hurried to go, in as great confusion as that in which
he left the widow and her son, who found not words but
only grateful looks to thank him,
He stopped at the meager woodpile and plied the dull
ax with sturdy strokes till three or four armfuls of wood
were ready for the stove, and then hurried away up the
long eastern slope of the hill. He laughed at himself as
he recalled his recent small adventure. ‘‘Poor leetle
shaver, a-Hoppin’ raoun’ in his dead father’s boots an’ me
a-bilin’ myself up tu lick somebody. Gol!”
Then through the stillness of the woods the mellow
No tea ner no nothin’.
pose. Listening to get the direction, he became assured
that the earnest, insistent baying was almost confined to
a fixed point.
“By golly, he’s started another, an’ holed him, I guess.
But I'll mog over and git the dawg.”
As he neared the place, the steep western side of the
hill, he found that the hound was moving in small circles
and felt renewed hope, and his heart gavea great choking
bound as he caught a glimpse of the fox dodging among
the rocks and brush of the steep hillside. So steep and
slippery was the footing that Pelatiah was obliged to slip
his arm around a sapling to hold his position, and so
standing he cocked his gun and waited, his heart rising
and sinking as Drive’s notes approached and receded,
Suddenly, like a ruddy blossom that had burst from the
wintry hillside, the fox appeared on the top of the rock
and turned to look back at the dog. The sight was drawn
against the arched side, the trigger was pulled, there was
a kick of reassuriug force, a responsive roar and a writh-
ing, slowly-lifting ‘cloud of smoke that for one moment
of sickening doubt Pelatiah tried to peer through, and
then he was filled with unspeakable joy at sight of the
fox lying beside the rock, gasping spasmodically, while
his magnificent brush was moved with tremulous undu-
lations. And then he knew how Billy Wiggins had felt,
Not till he had laid hold of his prize did he find voice to
halloo to Sam, but then he did it with such repeated
yociferations that there was danger of alarming all the
valley.
Sam soon appeared on the scene, imperturbable but con-
gratulatory.
“Vou done almighty well, Peltier, but where’s your
tother fox? I hearn a shot an’ the dawg come tu me.”
“Wal,” said Pelatiah, hesitating a little, “Widder Wig-
ginses boy shot him, an’ I hedn’t the heart tu take it away
from him, An’ she’s, sick an’ they’re poorer ’n snaikes.
“‘An’ ye done almighty well, Peltier,” Sam said, after
attentive consideration of the case. ‘‘Huldy an’ me’ll go
over there to-morrer an’ see tu’em. An’ neow le’s skin
that aire fox. By the gret horn spoon, he’s a buster.”
ROWLAND H, ROBINSON.
NOTES OF A TRIP TO MANITOBA.
In Two Parts—Part Two.
(Concluded from page 425).
OnE day I met with a curious example of the readiness
with which some people adopt and repeat the opinions of
others rather than see and judge for themselves. I was
out driving with a young friend, fresh from England,
and he gave utterance to that stale, groundless, but too
common remark, that bird life was rare in this country
and bird music unknown, At the moment he was speak-
ing, half a dozen meadowlarks were pouring out their
finest strains, twenty shore larks were within hearing,
and the chinks of the music were filled up with the notes
of innumerable vesper sparrows, lonyspurs, savanna
sparrows, and shattuck buntings, while crows, kingbirds
and wild ducks were within sight and hearing.
In my journal, next, I find these two notes. The first
relates to an extended published account of my last hunt,
in which D. was a successful participant.
“G, W. tells me that on the Sunday when D, received
the account of the huntin which he figured so prominently,
he spent the whole day in reading it over till he had it
nearly by heart, and this was all his conscience would
permit him todoon that day, though he eyed the old
rifle tenderly from time to time; but he went to bed very
early and arose soon after 12 to thoroughly clean out his
old ‘blunderbuss,’ although the hunting season was half
a year ahead.”
Another note runs: ‘‘Twoof the farmers have been
out gunning after each other for some time, and I heard
Mrs. D. describing them as two persons who had a great
disregard for each other,”
One day while driving in the hills with a friend we
came face to face with a bear. Of course, we had no gun.
This is the third time in my life that this has happened,
and in every case I was gunless, also in every case bruin
went off at racehorse speed.
On another occasion a number of the old settlers were
swapping wild pigeon yarns. One had fired into a great
flock and brought down eleven pigeons with a shotgun;
another had fired into a vast cloud of the birds with a
rifle and brought down thirteen; then another speaker
had fired both barrels into a solar eclipse of billions of
pigeons and brought down nothing but a wretched little
sparrowhawk. ;
Late in August a farmer came to tell me that while
driving his binder he put up a strange beast that seemed
slow and stupid. He had never seen its like before, ib
appeared to be a cross between a deer and a lynx, as it
had long ears with black tips on them, but yet had the
head, tail and color of a deer. It was only 20yds. away
when he started it, and it moved so slowly that he set his
dog after it. But although the latter, a collie, was close
at hand the strange slow animal suddenly developed into
a gray streak and was out of that field (one of 100 acres)
before the dog could get started. This last piece of in-
formation was enough. ‘‘My friend,” said I, ‘“‘you have
struck a narrow-gauge mule,” and sure enough when I
went to the same place I put up the same mule, brought
him down on thé wing and went home in triumph with
the first jack rabbit (Lepus campestris) I ever killed, and
the only one I ever heard of being killed north of the
Assiniboine!
I subsequently learned that since my last residence in
Manitoba the species had greatly increased and is now
abundant in southern and western Manitoba, with the
natural consequence of occasional occurrence in the ad-
joining regions.
Late in August I went with a medical friend for an ex-
tended buckboard trip into the sandhills. We were far
beyond the furthest settlement and not even looking for a
trail, when suddenly we came upon a fresh track, and on
following it were led to an Ojibway camp of two tepees,
The Indians had a freshly-killed moose, and I tried to buy
a quarter of it, but they would not sell any. I then tried
to buy the head, but no, they still said ‘‘no sell” and
even refused to sell enough for a meal. ‘‘Well,” said I,
‘‘we want some meat for our dinner.” To this the spokes-
cadence of the old hound’s bugle notes stole upon his} man replied only by handing us his knife and intimating
ears, and all his thoughts were turned to the day’s pur-1| by a gesture that I was to cut what I needed. Thatdone
Nov, 25, 1893.
FOREST AND STREAM.
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Tasked “how much for this?”
plied with emphasis,
Then a bright idea struck me; so, beckoning to my com-
rade over by our camp, I said, “Shaw, let me have
your whisky flask.” Then said I to the redman, ‘Will
you have some of this?’ His English before was broken
and labored, but. now he replied promptly, ‘“You bet!”
He then produced a little tin yessel into which I poured a
proper quantity, which he swallowed joyfully. ‘Call
your friend,” said I, and the other Indian was duly made
happy in the same way. Now, all this time the squaw
was toiling and moiling about the fire, cutting wood and
drawing water for us as well as for her lord, so I held up
“No sell, Give, jhe re-
I am afraid J early lost all hold on his respect by asking
him if Scotland was a large town, and also if it was not
named after Sir Walter Scott, who‘first?made it famous.
But on a certain day I feil forever in his estimation.
He was a carpenter and I was using his saw. A nail
loomed up in my plank just in the line of cutting. I
stopped and said to the Scot:
“They say that there is nothing that pleases a carpenter
more than to hear you sawing a nail with his best saw.”
The carpenter dropped his hammer and his lower jaw;
for a moment he regarded me dumbfounded. Then, with
a tough ejaculation and a voice seething with scorn and
disgust, he vehemently burst forth, ‘‘Well, that just
MULE DEER——SKETCHED AS SHE RAN,
the still available flask and said, ‘Shall I give the squaw.
some?” Her eyes sparkled with the pleasure of anticipa-
tion. But the redman shook his head, and with an air of
stern rebuke said, ‘No, bad for squaw.”
My sitting room at Carberry had become a sort of resort
in evenings for those of the inhabitants who had tastes
artistic or for natural history, and the usual belt competi-
tions in yarns were often observable. I have already
mentioned briefly a pigeon match we had there, and an-
other evening wolves was subject of contest. Two of
the latter stories ran as follows: A friend of the narrator
was making a trip on foot 100 miles through the Canadian
woods in March, when, toward one evening, as he was
drying his clothes. over a brisk fire, he heard the cry of
wolves rapidly approaching him. He was entirely un-
armed, and there being no time to lose, although at the
moment he was stark naked, he quickly shinned up the
nearest tree, and there the wolves kept him until next
day, when they left him. He came down unhurt, but
nearly frozen, reclothed himself and got back to a settle-
ment allright. But he died six months afterward from
nervous prostration induced by the horror of that night. |
The next contribution was to this effect: ‘‘We were
showed up in a shanty on the Petawawa, some six of us,
and at last were about starving, when one evening we
heard wolves close at hand. Then a struggle on the porch
of our shanty. Wertished out with axes and firebrands,
just in time to drive back a pack of wolves and secure a
fine fat buck, killed, neatly bled and ready cleaned for us, |
and all done while one could count three; and 80 we were
saved.
The crowning glory of another pinnacle ran thus:
“Ves, I knew him; that’s young McHooly; awful sight |
now; terribly mangled he was; the doctor didn’t think he
would pull through; but they are good stuff those Mc-
Hoolys. Yesee, he had just got his first watch, a brand
new Waterbury of the old-fashioned build, and like all
youngsters, he was forever winding it. Well, that’s all
right for a Waterbury, you know; but it was all wrong
forhim. Yesee, he got it out one day on the prairie and
kinder recklessly exposed the machinery, and first thing
he knew the breeze blew his coat tail in among the cogs,
and he never knew till he was dragged in. Fortunately,
it was the hour movement; for it was twenty minutes
before help came. They say if it had been the minute
movement he never would have known what he died of.
It seemed to affect his brain, too; so he'll never be no
good only for a bookkeper or a school teacher, or some-
thin’ of that sort.”
_ On one occasion no one had a yarn ready and I was
called on for a story. I could not think of one so gave
the following excuse: -
A hundred years ago a famous hunter was killed by a
buck on the banks of the Ohio. His friends buried him
where he fell and each one placed over the grave a pair of
antlers, and each one made it a duty to bring a pair of
antlers whenever he found himself in the neighborhood.
The custom continued for years, until there was a vast
pile of deer horns 30 or 40ft. in diameter and even more
in height to mark the grave of the old deer slayer; the
additional pairs were always thrown on top, and loose
ones were also pulled away and piled on top, so that when
last seen this wondrous pile was perfectly tightly inter-
locked, There they were, hundreds of antlers, but so
securely intertwined that it is absolutely impossible to ex-
tract a single specimen.
_ “Now,” said I, “that is just the way with my stories, I
have hundreds of them piled up right in sight, but 'm
biest if I can pull one out of the pile or find a loose one to
offer you,”
But it wasn’t needed; my yarn set the rest agoing.
A newcomer from the land of Burns afforded us some
amusement by his truly national manner of taking 2 joke.
shows how much you know about it, for there is nothing
worse for a saw.”
I groaned a little and went away to lie on the prairie
for a while, but presently an Irishman came along. I re-
lated the incident to him and he fairly bellowed over it.
This made me feel so much better that, like Diogenes,
having found a man”I was contented, and went again
about my business.
On another of these evenings the subject of conversation
the was difficulty of getting a decided answer out of a half
breed, and I was able to contribute the following personal
ty
YY
“OF course not,” I said.
‘Besides, real good cedar ain't so plenty as it used to be.”
*T know all that, but what is it to cost?”
“Then ve seen the time I could just step to the swamp
with a spade, and git all the tamaracribs I wanted in five
minutes, but it ain’t like that now, Isuppose I'd ha’ to go
-a half a mile or more for ’em.”
“T know all that, what I want to know is’*—
**An’ maybe you think it’s no trick to eit jest the right
sort of gum jesb when ye want it for caulking.”
‘*“Botheration! are you going to tell me or not?”
*‘Another thing, it ain't every man you meet can build
a Canoe,”
“Do you think I'd be here fooling around if I thought
it was?”
“Well, I.dunno, there's a terr'ble lot o’ work about it,
it’s near a two weeks’ job, an’ wages is away up now, it
ain't like it was twenty year ago, I tell ye, canoe building
was cheap then, but ye got to squeal for it nowadays,
specially when they is built to order.”
“Now, look here,” I said, ‘I’m not beating you down,
and I don’t want any more explanation. Once for all,
what would she cost?”
“Well, I dunno, ve crowd a man when he’s busy, ye
have to pay for it; I dunno, but I guess ye can’t git that
canoe under fo’ dollars, an’ I ain't partic’lar to do it at
that even,”
By this time, you see, I was once more quite at home
in Carberry, but my visit was drawing to an end, for the
summer was nearly over. I had more than carried out
my programme, for I had one and a half sketches, three
pages of notes and three skins for every day of my trip.
Besides, I had sown wild rice in fifty different localities,
and had renewed my acquaintance with the scenes of my
early days. Once more the Bald Hill, the Lone Spruce,
and Lake Chaska were familiar friends, and the song of
the prairie lark my daily delight.
Among my sketches from life are two at least, which I
prize out of all proportion to their artistic worth. They
are drawings of wild deer as they stood or ran, and in one
instance I might have used my gun instead of my pencil
had I been so inclined.
On Sept. 6 I gathered up my accumulated treasures and
returned to Winnipeg, and there proceeded to make a
careful search among the faxidermists, etc,, for interest-
ing items of nattral or other history.
The Albion Hotelis a place that all visitors speedily
find, for the yard in rear contains, besides some bears,
lynxes, etc., In cages, three moose, three elk, a mule deer
and a Virginia deer, running loose, following and sniffing
suspiciously at the strangers who venture near them, I
had not much time for sketches, but procured a snap
camera, and exposed twenty plates with the usual result,
as I found out when too late, not one picture! This was
the more disappointing, because the moose were very fine
animals and had given me several opportunities of photo-
graphing them while they fed on grain that was lying on
the ground. This, according to some books, is not
THE REMAINS OF FORT GARRY——SEPTEMBER, 1892.
experience, which was to the point and also illustrated the
vast size and purchasing power of a dollar in the back
country, where nearly all business is done by truck and
swap.
Te the summer of '85 1 was traveling among the back
lakes of Ontario and thought I should like to take home
a good birch canoe. There was a half-breed named True-
axe, who was famous for his canoes, so Lsought him out
and asked him if he could build me one. He was reclin-
ing in the sun by his door, and whittling a stick at the
time. He replied slowly:
“Well, I dunno, I'm terr’ble busy, what size do you
want?”
“To hold two men and a hundred weight of baggage.”
‘Well, I dunno, there’s a terrble lot of work about a
canoe like that.”
“T know that, I don’t expect to get it for nothing.”
“Ve see it ain't like it was twenty year ago, when I
could cut a dozen canoe barks right at the door,”
possible, and, according to others, it can be done only if
the animals kneel or straddle grotesquely, but these
moose neither straddled to any extent nor knelt, they
simply lowered their heads and fed like horses.
Lalso wenta good deal among the Hudson Bay Co.’s
men, and in particular was regaled with the conversation
of two old factors, whom I shall call Cumberland and
Garry, We went together to the remains of the old fort,
and in this, the best of company, | saw it thoroughly, and
learnt much I never knew before. The old gateway is
almost all that now stands, but the outlines and remains
of the walls are clearly visible. Thesoft maples (Negundo
aceroides) that were planted in the central courtyard
twenty-five years ago—Garry told me, are still there; they
are about40ft. high, and the largest measures 4ft. 11tin,
in circumference a foot from the ground; the next in size
is 4ft. 74in,, and all the rest are Lut little leas.
Down toward the river fronf are the remains of the
south bastion, and here as we stood together I heard the
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[Nov. 25, 1898.
story of the old fort for the last forty years told by eye-
witnesses, ‘‘Here’s where I stood” said Garry, ‘‘where
Riel shot Scott, Here were we held under the rifles of
the half-breeds. I could see the puff of smoke, out of the
corner of my eye, but I could not see Scott without turn-
ing my head, and this we dared not do, for we did not
know but that that might decide our own fate. Here’s
where they imprisoned the Governor, and here is where
he leaped from the window to escape.”
And so they talked on and exchanged little bits of
gossip, and asked after this one that went to Ungava, or
that one who was sent in command to the Mackenzie
Delta, and remarked on the degeneracy of the present
times. Yes! this was a favorite topic, and in connection
with it Garry gave a brief sketch of his own life.
When a boy in Hdinburgh, forty years before, he had
read Ballantyne’s “Young Fur Traders,” and became forth-
with fired with a desire to enter the Hudson Bay Co.’s
service, and see this great Red River with its plains, its
buffalo and its wild life. It was no easy matter in those
days to get an appointmentin this great exclusive cor-
poration, but he had influential friends, and after his
well backed application had been on file nearly a year he
was ordered to join their ship at Liverpool, and ultimately
found himself at Fort Garry as an articled clerk,
“These were the happy days,” said he, “all we of the
company were like brothers together, we had lots of
work, but also lots of play, we lived merry lives and had
as much of adventure as was necessary to vary them,
The Indians in those days were never starving, they had
plenty of buffalo and gave us no trouble. For thirty-five
years [ have roamed this region in the service of the com-
pany, and during all of that time I have never once had
to defend myself from Indians, though I had to fight
many times to save myself or my goods from white
men.
“In books we read continually of the North American
Indian, either as a ‘bloodthirsty savage’ or as the ‘noble
redman’. One description is as false as the other; we have
always found them like a lot of big children, whimsical
and capricious at times, but usually disposed to be kind,
and always manageable if humored a little. Things went
smoothly enough in those days, and the first to break the
_ general good feeling was the advent of missionaries. I
don’t say it is religion that was the cause, but the fact re-
mains, and we all observed it, that wherever a mission
was established trouble began, and the Indians, from
being wild men with no vices, became mere beasts, with-
out a single manly quality, with their own vices grown
rampant and every evil passion and disease of the Old
World added. The reason in part was no doubt that the
missionaries demolished one set of moral ideas without
replacing them with others, and also these teachers ex-
erted themselves continually to make the Indian settle
. down in one place to be taught. Now, this is incompat-
ible with hunting, and being a hunting race they had no
taste for agriculture, therefore they were simply reduced
to destitution, and the destitute population of the village
naturally became depraved and criminal. This, at least,
is partly an explanation, but of one thing every trader in
the company is sure, as long as an Indian remained wild,
that is, a real nomadic redskin, we could give him a year
or even two years’ credit with perfect safety, but as soon
as the missionary influence began to manifest itself and
the Indian cut off his long hair and wore breeches, we
knew from wide and invariable experience that we could
not trust him as far as we could see him, and were not
allowed to give him credit to the value of asingle copper.”
Ernest E, THOMPSON.
RAILROADS AND THE PARK.
Liditor Forest and Stream:
Col. Win, S. Brackett, of Fridley, Mont., in a letter re-
cently published, conveys the idea that there is but one
possible way to reach Cooke City by railroad, and that by
way of the National Park. This statement is not correct,
as a line of road has already been surveyed from Billings,
on the Northern Pacific road, to a point near Laurel,
where the Yellowstone is crossed, the road then following
Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone River, crossing Rock
Creek and Bear Creek, to the mouth of the cafion of
Clark’s Fork. Entering the cafion, the line of road will
pass completely through and thence west by north into
Cooke City. As far as the cafion of Clark’s Fork the
road can be built at a very low cost. That portion which
will have to be built throngh the cafion will present the
same features as the engineers had to contend with on the
Northern Pacific, the Union Pacific and the Rio Grande &
Western. This survey was made by Philip M, Gallaher,
chief engineer of the Billings, Clark’s Fork & Cooke City
road, and the members of the engineering corps were one
of the best set of men that have ever run a line through
the Western country; so that there can be no doubt as to
the feasibility of such a line, with the additional advantage
of not having heavy snows to contend with.
Cooke City, as I know it, consists of a low grade silver
tamp, containing an immense amount of ore, also gold
ore in paying quantities, and I fear that perhaps it is the
fact that there being such a valuable franchise to be
secured that is making it more apparent that it will not
hurt the Park or tend to cause the disappearance of game,
as it was considered it would do only a few short months
ago,
Asto the danger of fire, I think the people of Yellow-
stone and Park county, on the line of the Northern Pacific
Railroad, can and will testify that there is nothing more
dangerous as far as fires are concerned than to have the
locomotive running through that country. If they suc-
ceed in putting a line of road through the Park and should
use steam—as they certainly will if successful—we may
depend upon it that all the timber land will be burned.
Mr, Brackett intimates that the people of Cooke City, or
at least a portion of them, threatened to burn the forests
of the Park and slaughter the herds of big game within
its boundaries. If Mr, Brackett pretends for one moment
to say that the desperate men, as he terms them, or men
who have become desperate through waiting for a road to
be built in to Cooke City expect to do anything of this
kind, I cam assure him that any jury of his fellow citizens
in Montana are perfectly competent to handle any such
characters. As fay as my experience with Montana men,
miners and mine owners, goes, I have found them asa
class to be men of a great deal higher grade than any-
thing Mr. Brackett would wish us to believe, and far
above any dirty incendiarism, and J fear that Mr. Brack-
ett must have received his information from rather a poor
source if he wishes us to believe anything of this kind.
Mr. Brackett must know as he is familiar with that por-
tion of Montana that a road builtin through the portion
of the Park that is spoken of would be impossible through
the winter and early spring months, the snow being any-
where from 15 to 40ft, deep along part of the line and
remaining always until late in the spring, This I under-
stand they expect to avoid by a system of heavy snow
sheds, but the fact still remains that all this trouble can
be avoided if the other road is built, that is the road
reaching Cooke City from the east. It would seem as if
this question of opening the Yellowstone Park to railroad
companies should be settled now once and forever, and
all corporations taught that the land given by the United
States to the people, either for the protection of game or
forest lands, as sanitariums for future years or as a source
of protection of the water supply for the large river
systems either east or west, cannot be encroached upon
in any way or manner. If this could only be understood
thoroughly so that the question could never come up
again, it would seem as if some good work had been done
this year. I trust that the Government will put the
stamp of disapproval so strongly on this matter that it
shall never be heard of again, ‘There is but one objection
that I can imagine can be brought against a road through
the Clark’s Fork Cafion, and that is that elks crossing
from the Park to the Prior Mountains cross the lines of
the surveyed road at a point say from fifteen miles south
of Dilworth to the mouth of the cafion. This ranch, if I
remember rightly, is known as Brown’s, and the elk
crossing over through this gap are generally on the move
and are not apt to remain for any length of time between
through the two hills, so that I do not think the danger of
either frightening or killing would be at all excessive.
I do not Enow Col. Brackett, and presume that hisletter
was written in good faith and with a thorough feeling for
the preservation of the Park, ashe claims it was; but I feel
that the other side of the case should bestated before any-
thing further is done in this case, Mr, Brackett is thor-
oughly mistaken if he thinks that sportsmen—or ‘‘mis-
guided sportsmen, who, as lobbyists,” as he terms it—
are opposing the wishes of the people of Montana, I fear
“the people” to whom. he refers occupy a very small por-
tion of Montana, as the Montana people that I have met
and lived with are very proud of their Park, and always,
I trust, will be. I have yet to find any of these men who
are, as he states, incensed against the Eastern dudes who
are fighting the proposed railway to Cooke City. Mr,
Brackett must remember that these men are not fighting
a railroad to Cooke City by any other route; and in fact,
many of us have interests in Cooke City which we would
most gladly see something done with, and are only too
anxious to see a railroad built from any other part of Mon-
tana into Cooke City as long as it does not interfere with
the Park,
I agree thoroughly with him when he says let us pre-
serve the forests and preserve the game of our park in an
enlightened, rational and broad-minded spirit. The last
clause fills the bill exactly. I trust Mr. Brackett will be
broad-minded enough to see another route is possible, and
let his line of road from Cinnabar along the Yellowstone
to Cook City fade away, for I am sure in later years Mr.
Brackett would not be proud of haying had a hand in
opening up our Park to the innumerable reads that would
be built through it. He must know that this is a case
of one out all out, or oneinallin. He says that he wishes
to avoid impending and overwhelming disaster to the
Park, and at the same time do justice to the Clark’s Fork
miners. On this point I am sure we will agree and I
trust he will see the justice of this course.
YELLOWSTON®,
THE QUEBEC WINTER CARNIVAL.
QUEBEC, Noy. 11.—Kditor Forest and Stream: A winter
carnival, in the historical city of Quebec, has been decided
upon, and the citizens of that grand old Gibraltar of
America have been heartily tendered the codperation of
the sister cities of Montreal and others who will send
down large contingents of seyeral hundred members of
military, snowshoe and athletic clubs.
Quebec, with its grand old fortresses, walls mounted
with cannon, and warlike surroundings; its natural to-
boggan slides in many directions, its imposing g¢ tes,
forming arches, which may be appropriately decorated,
its spacious skating rinks, covered, and in open air,
where thousands may enjoy such exercise and take part
in hockey and lacrosse matches on ice, its renowned
curling rinks and curlers, its beautiful drives, outside and
inside the walls of the city, its grand citadel, frowning
forts, batteries and glacis, with the military guards and
fine regimental bands, its Indian tribes from the great
Lake St. Jean and Lorette district, who will be encamped
in their wigwams, with their dogs and sleds; there will
be also the typical Canadian trappeurs’ huts, with all the
accessories connected with the hunters’ life.
Every foot of Quebec and its surroundings, in all direc-
tions, has seen the fierce battles and struggles of two
great Huropean powers, and the memorable disaster by
which Gen, Richard Montgomery, of the Continental
Army, on Dec, 31, 1775, lost his life while scaling the cliff,
fighting for its possession. Its history is filled with the
most important early records of America.
Although Canada, by the fate of war, was changed
from a French to an English colony, a great portion of
its people have retained the use of their language and loye
for fatherland. Thousands above and below Quebec can
only speak French. . Time has made but little change in
their customs and habits, and there are many peculiarities
connected with their life, making them a remarkably at-
tractive and interesting people. Quebec has long been
renowned for the amiability and hospitality of its citizens
of all nationalities and stations in life, and has always
been the favorite garrison town of the British Army,
The magnificent new Chateau Frontenac Hotel, one of
the finest in America, controlled by the Pacific Railway
people, will beopen. It is built on a site unequaled in the
world (on the Dufferin Terrace), and will be conducted in
the very best style of a high-class hotel, and is now one
of the great attractions of the place,
The enthusiasm shown by the Quebecers, and their
united efforts to make this carnival a success, will, no
doubt, be well rewarded. All the railroad compani.s are
heartily entering into thescheme, and cheap excursions to.
the far-famed city during the first week in February will
no doubt attract an immense number of excursionists,
who will greatly enjoy their visit.
The carnival is under the distinguished patronage of
their Excellencies the Harl and Countess of Aberdeen, and
the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, and the execu-
tive committee is composed of seme of its best citizens.
Quebec, in mid-winter, is in all her glory; the weather
is cold, but dry and invigorating, and it is the gayest
period of the year; every one is ozonized, full of vim, and
outdoor enjoyments are in great vogue, and once enjoyed
are never forgotten. J. U, GREGORY,
atnyal History.
HORNS OF FEMALE CARIBOU.
Boston, Nov. 13.—Hditor Forest and Stream: Your
editorial in issue of Nov. 11 on ‘The Woodland Caribou”
surprises me in one particular, viz,, in the statement that
“the female usually has horns.” My own impression was
that only about one female caribou in a dozen had horns.
I have personally seen no great number of caribou, but of
these only one female had horns. J have the head of this
one now in my possession. ;
I think the guides and hunters in Maine whom I know
and with whom I have talked about this matter have all
agreed with my observation. If I am wrong in this I
would like to be corrected and hope you will receive and
publish enough testimony from such sources to settle this
oint.
e The last bunch of caribou that I saw was composed of
one bull and four cows, and not one of the cows had any
trace of horns. Apropos of your items about ‘‘Abino
Specimens,” let me say that Owen Chase, of Brownsville,
Me., recently showed me the skin of a young white otter
secured somewhere in the neighborhood of Passadum-
keag, and he reported another specimen as having been
previously taken in the same region. Cc. H. Ames,
[As stated in the editorial to which our correspondent
refers, the female woodland caribou usually has horns.
All the authorities agree that in the genus Rangifer—
which ineludes the caribous of the new world and the
reindeer of the old—both sexes bear antlers, and if we are
not mistaken it was Mr. Montague Chamberlain, who first
called attention to the fact that a considerable proportion
of the females of {he woodland caribou in Maine and New
Brunswick were hornless. We haye been told by hunters
of the district north of the Bay of haleurs, that, in their
experience, if was the exception to find a female caribou
without horns, Mr. Ames’s testimony as to the proportion
of horned females among those that he has seen in Maine
is interesting so far as it goes. We refer our correspon-
dent to Caton’s ‘‘Antelope and Deer of America,” pp, 199
to 210, and “Standard Natural History,” volume 5, page
305, or to any good work on natural history or almost any
work on hunting in northern latitudes.
A recent letter from Mr. Chamberlain, in answer to a
request for latest advices on the point in question says:
‘Regarding the hornless cow caribou of Maine and New
| Brunswick, I still have the opinion that I expressed in my
letters to FORESTAND STREAM. After the letters appeared
IT continued my research among the hunters, and all that
I learnec. confirmed the opinion that very few of the cows
have horns. Some hunters had not met with any cows
wearing horns, some had seen many examples.”’|
SHARK AND REMORA.
PROBABLY none of the fishes in the Aquarium at the
World’s Fair have attracted more attention than the
sharks with their almost constant attendants, the
remoras. Many visitors have mistaken the remoras for
young sharks and have expressed wonder at the wise
provision of nature by which the young are carried
around and protected by their mother. Some even went
so far as to suppose that the mother nursed the young
while attached to her body.
As a matter of fact, the remora differs widely from the
sharks in structure and habits, It belongs to the spiny-
finned fishes, near to the crab-eater and the mackerels in
the modern systems of classification, while the shark has
its nearest relatives among the skates and chimeras, fish-
like vertebrates with cartilaginous skeleton and other
peculiar characters.
The remoras are commonly known as “suckers” or
‘sucking-fish,” They have a very wide range, being
found in all seas, though most abundant in temperate and
sub-tropical regions. Four species occur on our coasts
and all of them are parasites on larger kinds of fish or
other aquatic animals. Some of them are found attached
to vessels, other fasten themselves by preference to
sharks, swordfish, billfish and turtles. One of them is so
constant in its attachment to the swordfish that it is
called the swordfish sucker; another one is equally well
known as the billfish sucker.
The largest of the remoras, individuals measuring 4 or
5ft. in length, according to Mr, Silas Stearns, are to be
seen about vessels on the red snapper banks, in the Gulf
of Mexico, where they remain to secure the bait that is
thrown overboard.
The peculiar sucking organ by means of which the
remoras attach themselves to their hosts, is shown in the
accompanying drawing by Mr, Baldwin; it is a modified
dorsal fin, moved forward to the top of the head for the
convenience of its possessor. This disk is a very power-
ful organ, as may be discovered when a living fish is
allowed to attach itself to a table and one attempts to pull
the fish away.
Does the presence of the parasite worry its host? Cer-
tainly, if we may judge from the efforts made by sharks
to rub off the remora by contact with the rockwork in the
aquarium. The sharks often become greatly emaciated
and worn out by their efforts in swimming with such im-
pediments. Itis not unusual to see too or three remoras
attached to the same shark in captivity. The parasite
does not feed upon its host, but darts away to consume
any fragments of food remaining from the meal of the
shark, and as quickly returns to its lodging place.
Although perfectly able to swim well, it prefers to be
carried around without unnecessary exertion,
The early discoverers of North America saw the
remora and wrote about their habits, especially their use
by the natives of the West India Islands in fishing for
larger sea animals, The following account, from
Ogilby’s ‘‘America,” is published in the ‘‘Fishery In-
dustries of the United States:” “Columbus from hence
[from Cuba] proceeding on further Westward, discover’d
a fruitful Coast, verging the Mouth of a River, whose
water runs Boyling into the Sea, Somewhat further he
Noy. 25, 1893.]
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saw very strange Fishes, especially of the Guican, not
unlike an Eel, but with an extraordinary great Head,
over which hangs a Skin like a Bag. This Fish is the
Natives Fisher;
fastened about him, so soon asa Turtel, or any other of
his Prey, comes above Water, they give him Line; where-
upon the Guican, like an Arrow out of a Bowe, shoots
toward the other Fish, and then gathering the Mouth of
the Bag on his Head like a Purse-net holds them so fast,
that he lets not loose till hal’d up out of the Water.”
The U. §. Fish Commission has been yery successful in
keeping remoras alive at Wood’s Holl, at Washington
and in its great Aquarium at the World’s Fair, and the
species has been under observation for six months at a
time. Mr. L. G. Harron has been immediately in charge
of the salt-water fish, and to him weare indebted for the
notes on habits here recorded. A
In the aquarium the remora is nearly always attached
to sharks or turtles, leaving its host only when fed. It
prefers to consort with the sharks, but when there isa
scarcity of these animals, it will accompany turtles of
suitable size. The big green turtle sent by Mr. Black-
ford has seldom been without a guest of this kind, The
for having a Line or handsom Cord |
all. When continuous night has become continuous day
without any perceptible approach to spring an Alpine
traveler naturally asks whether he has not reached the
limit of perpetual snow. It is true that here and there a
few bare patches are to be found on the steepest slopes,
where most of the snow has been blown away by the
wind, especially if these slopes face the south, where even
an Arctic sun has more potency than it has elsewhere. It
is also true that small flocks of little birds—at first snow
buntings and mealy redpoles, and later shore larks and
Lapland buntings—may be observed to flit from one of
these bare places to another looking for seeds or some
other kind of food, but after all evidently finding most of
itin the droppings of the peasants’ horses on the hard,
snow-covered roads, The appearance of these little birds
does not, however, give the same confidence in the
eventual coming of summer to the Arctic naturalist as
the arrival of the swallow or the cuckoo does to his
brethren in sub-Arctic or sub-tropic climates. The four
little birds just mentioned are only gipsy migrants that
are perpetually flitting to and fro on the confines of the
frost, continually being driven sonth by snowstorms, but
ever ready to take advantage of the slightest thaw to
hry
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SHARK AND
remora is just as well contented to he on the upper side
of its host, in which case it is upside down, as on the
lower side.
When swimming free, it moves as easily and gracefully
upside down as when upright, and it rolls over without
any apparent effort, When the remora becomes sick it
leaves its attachment and les on the bottom, where it
either recovers or soon dies. It is very quick in its move-
ments, darting after its food “‘like a shot,” and returning
at once to its resting place. Itis fond of beef but itis
particularly devoted to clams.
In the aquarium at Wood’s Holl, one of the remoras
became a universal pet, and would come to the surface
and feed out of the hand. Its attitude when at rest was
singular, the head and front part of the body being
always raised a little above the level of the tail, thus re-
sembling the poise of some water snakes. Ds SB:
THE COMING OF THE ARCTIC SUMMER.
In his address before the Geographical Section of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr.
Henry Seebohm paints a vivid picture of the sudden
coming of the Arctic summer, and we quote from the
Geographical Journal for October the following para-
raphs:
: “The sudden arrival of summer on the Arctic Circle ap-
pears to occur nearly at the same date in all the great
river basins, but the number of recorded observations is
so small that the slight variation may possibly be seasonal
and not local. The ice on the Mackenzie River is stated
by one authority to have broken up on May 18 in latitude
62°, and by another on May 9 in latitude 71°. If the Mac-
kenzie breaks up as fast as the Yenisei—that is to say, at
‘the rate of a degree a day—an assumption which is sup-
ported by what little evidence can be found—then the dif-
ference between these two seasons would be nine days.
My own experience has been that the ice of the Pechora
breaks up ten days before that of the Yenisei, but as I
have only witnessed one such event in each valley too
much importance must not be attached to the dates. Ac-
cording to the Challenger tables of isothermal lines, the
mean temperature of January and July on the Arctic Cir-
cle in the valleys of the Mackenzie and the Yenisei
searcely differ, the sumimer temperature in each case
being about 55° F., and that of winter —25° F,, a differ-
ence of 80° F.
“Onthe American side of the Polar Basin summer comes
almost as suddenly as it does on the Asiatic side, but the
change appears to be less of the nature of a catastrophe.
The geographical causes which produce this result are the
smaller area of the river basins and the less amount of
rainfall. There is only one large river which empties
itself into the Arctic Ocean on the American side, the
Mackenzie, with which may be associated the Saskatche-
wan, which discharges into Hudson Bay far away to the
south. The basin of the Mackenzie is estimated at 590,000
square miles, while that of the Yenisei is supposed to be
exactly twice that area. The comparative dimensions of
the two summer floods are still more diminished by the
difference im the quantity of snow. ;
“The arrival of summer in the Arctic regions happens
so late that the inexperienced traveler may be excused for
sometimes doubting whether it really is going to come at
REMORA.
press northward again to their favorite Arctic home-
They are all circumpolar in their distributions, are as
common in Siberia asin Lapland, and range across Can-
ada to Alaska as well asto Greenland. In sub-Arctic cli-
mates we only see them in winter, so that their appear-
ance does not in the least degree suggest the arrival of
summer to the traveler from the south,
“The gradual rise in the level of the river inspires no
more confidence in the final melting away of the snow
and the disruption of the ice which supportsit. In Siberia
the rivers are so enormous that arise of 5 or 6ft. is scarcely
perceptible. The Yenisei is three miles wide atthe Arctic
circle, and as fast as it rises the open water at the margin
freezes up again and is soon covered with the drifting
snow. During the summer which I spent in the valley of
the Yenisei we had 6ft. of snow on the ground until the
first of June. To all intentsand purposes it was mid-win-
ter, illuminated for the nonce with what amounted to
continuous daylight. The light was a little duller at mid-
night, but not so much so as during the occasional snow-
storms that swept through the forest and drifted up the
broad river bed. During the month of May there were a
few signs of the possibility of some mitigation of the rigors
of winter, Now and then there was a little rain, but it
was always followed by frost. If it thawed one day it
froze the next, and little or no impression was made on
the snow. The most tangible sign of coming summer was
an increase in the number of birds, but they were nearly
all forest birds, which could enjoy the sunshine in the
pines and birches, and which were by no means dependent
on the melting away of the snow for their supply of food.
Between May 16 and 30 we had more definite evidence of
our being within bird flight of bare grass or open water.
Migratory flocks of wild geese passed over our winter
quarters, but if they were flying north one day they were
flying south the next, proving beyond all doubt that their
migration was premature. The geese evidently agreed
with us that it ought to be summer, but it was as clear to
the geese as to us that it really was winter.
“We afterward learnt that during the last ten days of
May a tremendous battle had been raging 600 miles as the
crow flies to the southward of our position on the Arctic
circle. Summer in league with the sun had been fighting
winter and the north wind all along the line, and had
been as hopelessly beaten everywhere as we were wit-
nesses that if had been in our part of the river. At length,
when the final victory of summer looked the most hope-
less, a change was made in the command of the forces.
Summer entered into an alliance with the south wind.
The sun retired in dudgeon to his tent behind the clouds,
mists obscured the landscape, a soft south wind played
gently on the snow, which melted under its all-powerful
influence like butter upon hot toast, the tide of battle was
suddenly turned, the armies of winter soon vanished into
thin water and beat a hasty retreat toward the pole. The
effect on the great river was magical. Its thick armor of
ice cracked with a loud neise like the rattling of thunder,
every twenty-four hours it was lifted up a fathom above
its former level, broken up, first into ice floes and then
into pack ice, and marched down stream at least a hun-
dred miles. Even at this great speed it was more than a
fortnight before the last straggling ice blocks passed our
post of observation on the Arctic circle, but during that
time the river had risen 70ft, aboye its winter level,
although it was three miles wide, and we were in the mid-
dle of a blazing hot summer, picking flowers of a hundred
different kinds, and feasting upon wild ducks’ eggs of va-
rious species, Birds abounded to an incredible extent.
Between May 29 and June 18 I identified sixty-four species
which I had not seen before the break up of the ice.
Some of them stopped to breed and already had eggs, but
many of them followed the retreating ice to the tundra,
and we saw them no more until, many weeks afterward,
we had sailed down the river beyond the limit of forest
growth.
“The victory of the south wind was absolute, but noten-
tirely uninterrupted. Occasionally the winter made a des-
perate stand against the sudden onrush of summer. The
north wind rallied its beaten forces for days together, the
clouds and the rain were driven back, and the half-melted
snow frozen on the surface. But it was too late; there
were many large patches of dark ground which rapidly
absorbed the sun’s heat; the snow melted under the frozen
eee: and its final collapse was as rapid as it was com-
plete.
‘In the basin of the Yenisei the average thickness of the
snow at the end of winter is about 5ft, The sudden trans-
formation of this immense continent of snow, which lies
as gently on the earth as an eider-down quilt-upon a bed,
into an ocean of water rushing madly down to the sea,
tearing everything up that comes into its way, is a gigan-
tic display of power compared with which an earthquake
sinks into insignificance. It is difficult to imagine the
chaos of water which must have deluged the country be-
fore the river beds were worn wide enough and deep
enough to carry the water away as quickly as is the case
TO Wires he
“The alternate marching of this immense quantity of
ice up and down the Kureika was a most curious phenom-
enon. Tosee a strong current up stream for many hours
is so contrary to all previous experience of the behavior
of rivers that one cannot help feeling continuous astonish-
ment at the novel sight. The monotony which might
otherwise have intervened in a ten-days’ march-past of
ice was continually broken by complete changes in the
scene. Sometimes the current was up stream, sometimes
it was down, and occasionally there was no current at all.
Frequently the pack ice and ice floes were so closely
jammed together that there was no apparent difficulty in
scrambling across them, and occasionally the river was
free from ice for a short time. At other times the river
was thinly sprinkled with ice blocks and little icebergs,
which occasionally ‘calved’ as they traveled on, with
much commotion and splashing. The phenomenon tech-
nically called ‘calving’ is curious, and sometimes quite
startling. It takes place when a number of scattered ice
blocks are quietly floating down stream. All at once a
loud splash is heard as a huge lump of ice rises out of the
water, evidently from a considerable depth, like a young
whale coming up to breathe, noisily beats back the waves
that the sudden upheaval has caused, and rocks to and fro
for some time before it finally settles down to its floating
level. There can be little doubt that what looks like a
comparatively small ice block floating innocently along is
really the top of a formidable iceberg, the greater part of
which is a submerged mass of layers of ice piled one on
the top of the other, and in many places very imperfect
frozen together, the bottom layer becomes datacheda
escapes to the surface, and loudly asserts its commence-
ment of an independent existence with that commotion in
the water which generally proclaims the fact that an ice-
berg has calved.
*Hinally comes the last march-past of the beaten forces
of winter, the ragtag and bobtail of the great Arctic army
that comes straggling down the river when the campaign
is all over—worn and weather-beaten little icebergs, dirty
ice floes that look like floating sandbanks, and straggling
pack ice in the last stages of consumption that looks
strangely out of place under a burning sun between banks
gay with the gayest flowers, amid a buzz of mosquitoes,
the ‘music of song birds, and the harsh cries of gulls,
divers, ducks and sandpipers of various species.”
Game Bag and Gun.
THE BUFFALO REMNANT.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba.—Away up in the northern part of
the Canadian northwest, almost as far from New York as
London is, there are a few herds of buffalo, numbering
in all between 200 and 300 head, the probability being
that there are not more than 200. The Indian is still,
however, their greatest enemy and is making good use
of his knowledve of the haunts of the buffalo,
A law was passed at the last session of the N, W. T.
Legislature to preserve this game, but nothwithstanding
this their numbers are fast diminishing. There is no
treaty with the Indians living in the Vermillion District,
where the buffalo are found, so the operation of the law
does not extend to them. LHven if it did there are not
enough mounted police in that country to enforce it.
The possibilities are that the slaughter which has been
going on with more or less regularity all summer will be
resumed with increased energy as soon as the snow gets
deep. Then the fleet-footed Indian on his snowshoes
chases the unwary animal into the drifts, where, becom-
ing imbedded in the snow, he falls an easy prey to his
pursuer. I have discussed the subject with several trap-
pers who have come to Winnipeg from the far north and
they all agree that the law cannot preserve the buffalo as
long as they are within gunshot of the Indians. The
scarcity of food in the Vermillion District is another
thing that makes it evident that the buffalo must go.
Rop Ranpom.
Washington Wildfowl.
SPOKANE, Wash., Noy. 8.—Sportsmen now ave paying
their attention to ducks, geese and chickens. While it is
unlawful to offer them for sale, we who do not “shoot?
sometimes get hold of them, Four gentlemen went out
a few days ago I understand, near Davenport, forty-miles
west, and returned with 86 geese and other gamne. Other
parties have succeeded in bringing back 50 and upward.
Sunday seems to bea big day with the average sportsman;
on that day the trains leaving the city take a goodly num-
ber of people, the success is varied, but on Monday num-
erous families enjoy the toothsome duck, A. B, K,
4B0O
THE FIRST “CLOSE SEASON.”
From the new ‘* Game Laws in Brief.”
WHEN you come to think of it, that prolonged voyage
of Father Noah with the animals shut up in the Ark was
the first ‘“‘close season” of which we have any record.
Old Noah, as one might say, had the first game: preserve
in history. Thus it appears that game protection is an
ancient and honorable institution, its origin coincident
with the Deluge,
time were far-reaching even to the uppermost parts of
the earth, and far-extending even to the present time, If
the human race owes its own preservation to the fact that
Noah had sense enough to get in out of the wet and knew
enough to stay in while it rained, quite as truly do we
owe all our shooting to the sagacity and enterprise of the
pioneer game preserver of the earth. z
Asa game protector Noah was a decided success. He
shut in all species of game, and the inclosure of gopher
wood was pig-tight, bull-proof and horse-high, as the law
demands. No poachers presumed to trespass on the pre-
serve. There was nobody to say that he didn’t know it
was close season, or he didn’t know that elephants were
included in the law.- During all the year and more that
Noah was in command not a gun was fired on any kind
of fur or feather. :
There is nothing in the record to indicate that Noah
himself had any sporting instincts or cared particularly
for hunting big game; but among his claims to distinction
it must be put down to his credit that he was the great-
grandfather of the most renowned sportsman the world
has ever known. For Noah begat Ham, and Ham begat
Cush, and Cush begat Nimrod, who ‘‘was a mighty
hunter before the Lord.” The very fact that Nimrod’s
achievements in the chase
are thus referred to in the
chronicle of the times, and
were thought worthy of re-
The beneficent results of that close |
FOREST AND STREAM.
_errors from time to time, one in the issue of Nov. 11,
,near the bottom of page 402. The way you have it
punctuated it reads, ‘‘the little wolf Briggs,” whereas
I meant to have paragraphed this and used “The Little
Wolf” as the title to the narrative. In the eighth line
from the last, on page 403, in speaking of the way Bige-
low was rigged up, you have it that he borrowed the
Kid’s “‘shape.” This was, I think, written ‘‘the Kid's
shaps,” for I meant the leather riding leggings most of
the cowboys wear.
This year’s trip was very successful, beautiful weather,
everyone well and no accidents. While Dakota is full of
hunters we had no difficulty in finding fair shooting.
Sharp-tailed grouse were very plentiful, some ducks, and
we had two good days of goose shooting. One afternoon
five of us got fifty-five. W. B, M.
WAS HE HIT OR PLAYING POSSUM?
We had feasted on rank bacon for more than three
months and were as meat-hungry as only hunters can be,
with all chances against us, when one morning old
Snoozer growling sayagely, called our attention to the
hillside opposite camp, and I mentioned to my partner
that there must be a deer over there. 8S. grabbed his
gun, and had not gone over 200yds. when I heard him
shoot and call me. Not knowing what might be the
matter, I picked up a rifle and started on a run to join
him. ‘No hurry,” he calls, “I got him. Just step up |
and pass your opinion on that shot.” [joined 8. and he |
pointed out a large buck down on his back and beating |
the air with all fours, apparently in his death struggle. I
could see the bullet hole a trifle above the tip of the
shoulder, and the distance being nearly 200yds., praised 5S. |
cord along with the story of
the Deluge and the peopling
of the earth, shows us that
even in that primal age his
|Nov. 26, 1898.
THREE DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
ALTHOUGH the reports from most all of the easter 1
counties of Pennsylvania are that quail are very scarce,
and most of the gunners are bringing in very small bags,
there are some counties that still have a few left.
Two of us—Landis H. Davin and H. Thurman—lett
Philadelphia Oct. 31 to pay a visit to our old trap-shooting
friend Wm. Spicer, at his home in Danville, And on
our arrival at 6:30 the next morning Spicer was there to
meet us and hustled us off to his home, where his good
wife had a steaming warm breakfast ready for us. Then
we were hurried into the wagon with two fine ponies
attached, and in a jiffy were oif along the river road
almost before we had time to look at the dogs or anything
else, as Billy said we were late and everything would be
shot off before we got there, There were lots of gunners
out, this being the first day of the season. The rabbit
shooters were thick and their hounds had the birds pretty
well scattered before we got at them, but we had a fairly
good day and came back at night with two quail and two
rabbits, and I certainly think we could have gone over
the same ground the next day and doubled it. We re
turned with such appetites that I thought we would dis-
may Mrs. Spicer, but the more we ate the better she
seemed to like it.
This day our team left us about fiye miles from town on
the farm of Mr. Davis, one of the finest in this part of the
country. The son of Mr. Davis gave us a hearty welcome
and told us to pitch in, but that there was not much
game, as a party of eighteen the day before had only been
able to get two rabbits and one quail, Before we had
been out a half hour a covey of birds flushed wild and
went to cover along a small creek, where we marked
them down, and from that
time until 12.0’clock we had
some good shooting. When
we came in for lunch the
count was thirty-three quail
and one rabbit. After an
hour's rest we took another
short tramp and succeeded
fellow men accorded to an
in bagging ten more quail
expert sportsman recogni-
tion and honor for his sports-
manship. The fame of Nim-
rod has endured from that
day to this; his name still
stands for prowess with the
weapons of the field; and
budding sportsmen for these
thousands of years have
swelled with pride when
local editors have tickled
their vanity by, dubbing
them ‘mighty Nimrods.”
Inasmuch as Noah lived
for three hundred and fifty
years after his voyage in the
Ark, it would not be in the
least unreasonable to as-
sume that he survived long
enough to witness some of
the hunting exploits of his
own posterity; to take a
just pride in the redoubt-
able skill of his great-grand-
son, and to hear, with the
before the wagon came for
us. The bag this day was
forty-three quail, one rab-
bit, one squirrel, two snakes.
The next morning it was
raining, but nothing daunt-
ed, we started for pheasants
in Wolf Hollow, fourteen
niiles off, The day was a
disappointment to Spicer
and J. Kessler, who was
indulgence of an old man
for the exuberant fancy
of the young, the hunting
yarns which Nimrod used
to spin as they sat around
the fire in the cabin at night.
We may almost fancy the
venerable patriarch at such
times beaming on the story
teller with senile smile, and
making reply, ‘‘Yes, son,
you are a great sportsman,
let you tell it; but when I
was a younger man than I
am to-day,gaway back in my six-hundredth year, long
before you were born, I had a little game pocket of my
own, such as the world will never see again. And come
to think of it,” he would add, reflectively, ‘I allow it was
a lucky thing, Nimrod, that a man with your true sports-
man proclivities was not in the Ark along with me and
the game.” ,
For as it is now, so was it in the days of Noah. From
the time of ihe Flood to your own, my dear sir, who
shall read these pages, never yet has youngster: told a
hunting story that his elders could not go him one better.
Our curious and interesting picture of the Ark is from
one of the rare volumes of De Bry’s Voyages, printed at
Frankfort-on-the-Main, in the year 1591. It has been
engraved for the Brief from a copy of the book now in
the possession of the editor. Old as is the drawing it is
yet of a date some two hundred years more recent than
that of the manuscript preserved in the British Museum,
from which we have taken for our title page vignette
Ly picturing of the Hares leading the Dog to the
gZibbet. ;
There were artists in those days. This picture of the
animals coming out of the Ark and the older caricature
of the Hares and the Dog are inimitable in their way.
As Seen by a Caribou Hunter.
Editor Forest and Stream:
The picture of the woodland caribou in last week’s sup-
plement is beyond criticism; simply perfect.
PINE TREE,
The Saginaw Crowd.
Editor Forest and Stream: :
Now that ‘‘Podgers” the Commentator has given over his
commenting, and more’s the pity, it appears to be in
order for some of the rest of us to take upon ourselves the
duty of saying that Mr. Mershon’s story of the ‘‘Saginaw
Crowd” has been admirably well done throughout; and
for one I can testify to appreciation of it. May the
Crowd gather together for many years to come and the
Crowder-in-Chief be there to tell of it for the rest of
us, Henry R. BRown.
Mr. Mershon notes ‘‘There have been a few typographical
ENDING OF THE FIRST RECORDED CLOSE TIME ON
ALL SPECIES
Fac-simile from DeBry’s Voyages—LeMoyne’s Brevis Narratio—printed in the year 1591.
‘Game Lows in Brief from the original in the possession of the editor of the Brief,
for his excellent marksmanship. “Tll go around and
bleed him and bring him down.” My pocket knife being
tather dull I told 5. to ge ahead and [ would bring him
a skinning knife, I returned to camp, got the knife, and
upon rejoining 5. on the spot, where I only a few minutes
before had seen a large buck in his death struggle, there
was nothing but a few blood spots and some hair, while
S. stood scanning the surrounding brush with eyes as big
as salicers.
Well, we looked for that buck for a whole day and
never found him, not even with Snoozer’s help, and to
this day, had I not seen the fresh tracks and blood, I
would be hard to convince that the whole thing was not
a day dream, caused by a stomach overloaded with musty
bacon. Mux.
Alabama Game Conditions,
SELMA, Ala., Nov. Nov. 8 —For a number of years fol-
lowing the war game of all descriptions became very
scarce, as all the newly made citizens had old army mus-
kets and blazed away at everything from a tomtit up,
wild or tame. But now affairs have changed; thanks toa
wholesome game. law, game has again become plentiful.
Squirrels and quail are found within a mile of the city
limits, turkeys within two miles, ducks in the river at the
city wharf nearly every morning that is cold, and on the
ponds close around throughout the day; deer within 20
miles, the grounds being easily reached by rail. Ducks
are coming in earlier and in greater quantities than has
been known for years, consequently the market is well
stocked with game killed by pot-hunters of dusky hue.
The sportsmen have had but little sport. owing to a long
drought that makes hunting difficult. A party of gentle-
men went on a deer hunt a few days ago, but it was too
dry to be a sticcess, only one deer being the result of a
two days’ hunt, As soon as the remainder of the cotton
crop is gathered, fox and cat hunting will be in order, as
there are several fine packs of hounds here, and great
sport is anticipated.
Fishing for trout and perch has been excellent through:
out the year, and is still fine, I shall tell you of a bear
hunt that I am going on shortly. MAy,
“BINEINS went cut hunting this morning.” ‘All alone?’ ‘Yes:
didn’t even take a dog.” “S*pose he'll kill anything? “No; not un-
less he gets melancholy and commits suicide.”— Washington Star.
with us with his dog, as we
found that the men in the
neighborhood had skinned
out the pheasants very ma-
terially; in fact Mr. Craw-
ford told us that he had
killed only the day before
nine pheasants over the
same grounds that we hint-
ed, and we only got four
pheasants, three quail and
one rabbit. Spicer and
Kessler said they could have
started a great many more
close to town, and we would
not have had a ride of
twenty-sight miles, which
up and down hill in this
country takes considerable
time. But we wete more
than satisfied with the trip,
and hope at some future
time to be able to repay
our friend Spicer for his
kindness. They were cer-
tainly three pleasant days.
Total bag: Sixty-seven quail,
four pheasants, four rabbits,
two squirrels and two snakes. The best that has come
into this town so far this season. ;
Lanbis AND THURMAN,
OF GAME.
Engraved for the
American Dog and Chinese Pheasants.
HOLLAND, Mich., Nov. 13.—#ditor Forest and Stream:
T inclose letter which you have forwarded me from Mr,
OG. J. Ashley, Shanghai, China, AsI am unable to take
advantage of Mr. Ashley's excellent offer, I send you his
letter for publication, if you desire, so that any one
wanting Mongolian pheasants and haying such a as as
Mr. A. wants, can exchange to advantage, A, G, B.
SHANGHAI, Oct. 11.—A. G. B.: Dear Sir—I see in
FOREST AND.STREAM of Aug. 26 that you are anxious to
get the pure-bred Mongolian pheasant. It was from here
that our Consul, Judge Denny, sent several lots of pheas-
ants to Oregon. J can send the pure-bred pheasant from
here to New York. Iam not in the business of shipping
pheasants, being a resident here many years and fond of
sport. Iam anxious to get a good dog, either an Irish
setter bitch about two years old and well trained, especi-
ally to retrieve, as very few English dogs that we get
here retrieve, or a pointer bitch of good breed and well
trained, to cross with dog that I have. I will guarantee
to deliver in New York city two dozen pheasants (as you
may direct, so many cocks to so many hens), you to
deliver the dog in New York city. Of course I should
have to ship several lots of birds to insure having two
dozen, but if afew more than two dozen should arrive
safely you are welcome to them all. If we can agree to
exchange an early answer will oblige, and the pheasants
can be landed in New York in time for breeding next ~
spring. If you look up the FOREST AND STREAM of March
16, 1898, page 280, you will see something of our shooting
last winter. C. J. ASHLEY,
Pennsylvania Wild Turkeys.
Muncy, Pa., Nov. 13.—Last week some bags of 6, 8 and
10 ducks each were brought in. Wild turkeys are re-
ported very plenty on the Bald Eagle Mountain, west of
this place. They have come down to the corn fields.
Pheasants are plentier than last year. There was some.
fun with the squirrels, but it did not last long—the know-
ing ones had all the fun, the rest had the ees =
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Nov, 25, 1893, ]
MUD AND MISERY.
A YAR ago this winter I was in Caddo Parish, La.,
building a mill. On Saturday there was to be a circus in
Shreveport, and the hands all said they wanted to go.
This met with my approval, as I had been wanting to
work in a day’s shooting at Soda Lake. Sol paid off on
Friday and bade the boys be on hand by sun-up Monday
morning. They all returned except one, who met with
a female that—but of this in future.
The accounts which I had heard of the ducks on Soda
Lake were enough to cause one to adopt the creed thatall
men are liars. There live a civil engineer and his rod-
man at the house, who, when I told them of my plan,
said that as it looked like a spell of wet weather, when
they, of course, could do no work, they would like to go
along, besides the U.S. engineers were working some-
where about the lake, I did not find out what that haa
to do with the case. Then there was Church, of course
he would go. Church was a ‘‘dead game sport” of the
sort peculiar to some sections—warm-hearted, reckless,
generous to many faults, but a good shot and rider.
Also, he knew the trail to Soda. The civil engineer was
not just a plain engineer, but rejoiced in the title of
assistant engineer. That night we found Church in his
favorite seat by the big
open fire at the back
of the store, playing
“sell out” with the
Doctor. In about five
minutes we had bor-
rowed two horses and |
a mule and gotten
down from the shelves
our grub for a couple
of meals. As ducks
were to be so plenty
we did not need to
take much —just a
hunk of bacon, a little
salt, two bottles of
pickles and some
crackers. No use to
fool with canned corn-
edbeef. However, I
stuck into the sack two
cans from Armout’s,
and as the rodman had
a predilection for on-
FOREST ANU STREAM.
another trip. The Engineer was armed with a Colt’s
10-gauge, his rodman had an old Scott gun, and I had a
Parker 12-gauge and a .45cal. Colt’s six-shooter. Church
had been a deputy sheriff in *84 and always had a .41cal.
Colt’s at his saddle horn. The rodman rode the mule, an
old gray sway-backed relic of the War. His chief had a
pony of which its rider stood in awe, I had a pretty good
horse, the best swimmer of the lot, and Church rode a
little black stallion that was always having to be hunted
whenever he was not being ridden, We had been riding
now for two hours or more and were past the Gum
Springs. It blew harder every minute, and began to
rain, the fog drifted through the trees in great clouds,
every now and then a branch torn off by the wind would
come crashing down.
Church had overtaken us with the miraculous gun and
assumed the lead. Wesonn came to Red Bayou, which
we could not cross, for the ford was too deep and swift to
attempt before day. ‘‘We will have to ride up the bayou
to the bridge at Nute Smith’s and cross there.” The wind
had gone down but the rain descended still; there was no
end of the water. We had to partly reconstruct the floor
of the bridge before it was safe to cross, In the bayou
were heaped up cabins and outhouses which had been
brought down by last spring’s floods, the water was rising
Keay,
1 i ST AD Dest oe
ions, I put in about a
461
but it was an hour later when we broke out of the willow
brush and saw the lake in front of us and the Caddo
hills on the opposite side. We had come in to the lake
about fifteen miles from the point where the cabin was
situated. Our horses were up to their knees in water
now as we began our return march, skirting along the
edge of the lake.
As yet we had not seen a duck, Church said it was
too warm, but our fingers were numb and I don’t think
Church was competent to give an unprejudiced opinion.
At last we came in sight of our cabin, but there was
Red Bayou between us, much deeper and almost as swift
as it had been in the morning when we refused to cross ~
it about ten miles above. As we dismounted to rest and
consult, a fat mallard drake dashed out of a little clump
of willows, four guns came up, and the poor old drake
fell as though he had flown against a board fence. Each
one asked the other ‘“What made you fire?” and each one
said, “I did not want to have any more turkey scrapes.”
lt was decided by a majority vote, with only one dis-
senting voice, that Church should swim across and get
the old punt which we could see fast to a tree by the
cabin. Inthe meantime the mallard should be picked
and our grub gotten ready to cook as soon as we should
be across. At the first attempt Church’s pony got bogged
up, and after being
helped out refused to
go into the water
again; so Church
waded out as far as he
could and struck out
for the other shore.
The water was cold,
as we all found after-
ward. At last the
leaky old boat, which
the Engineer called a
““canoe,” arrived; our
saddles and guns were
crossed safely, and I
was to work up the
dinner while Church
crossed the horses.
The cabin had lately
been under water and
the inside was_ soft
mud, not an inviting
place for a banquet,
but we were hungry
SS Se
and the Engineer and
peck. Have you ever
Church were thirsty.
noticed that an amount
The horses were
of stuff which seems
more than ample in
the store dwindles
crossed in a most
unique way, the rod-
man made the bridle
down to a most ridic-
fast to the stern of the
ulously small portion
punt, and Church
when you open up the
grasped the horse’s
sack at dinner time?
Church told us of a
tail with one hand and
a thick club im the
colored woman who
other. The rodman
would get some hot
coffee and biscuit at 2
o'clock the next morn-
paddled and Church
swam and pounded,
sometimes’ under the
ing, and offered to ride
water and occasion-
and tell her to have it
ally above, until one
ready for us. Imabout
horse was over.
an hour he returned,
said ‘“‘all right,” and
The mule was the
last to undergo the
took up the game with
ordeal. Judging from
the Doctor.
the language and
When I woke up at
noise, he made it very
1 o'clock and called
the leveler and rodman
interesting for Church. -
it was cloudy and cold,
the wind blew hard,
I was too busy trying
to keep a fire in the
smoky hut to look out
atthe fun. It was be-
and the scummy clouds
dashed across the moon
in a wild race. Old
Uncle Felix, who held
the keys to the yard,
was hard to rouse,
though I knew he
heard me pound on
his cabin door. When
he came out, slowly
rubbing his eyes, he
said,‘ Youse swine hab
rain to-day,” and after
catching up and sad-
dling the stock he re-
marked, ‘‘Boss, done
fouget dat nickel!”
This was the first I
had heard of ‘ dat
nickel,” however, I
gave him one. ‘Got
your slicker?’ Mine was tied on tomy McClurnen saddle,
_ “Tm going to leave mine and wear this big coat,” said
the Engineer. ‘“‘Guby Boss,” said Uncle Felix, as his
THE WILDFOWL,—XXI.
AMONG
THE DUGK THAT NEVER COMES UP
fast, It was beginning to get a little light now, and the
high water marks left on the trees by the last flood could
be seen above the reach of our gun muzzles as we sat on
legs cast swift shifting shadows while he swings the | horseback and splashed through the mud and water in
lantern. :
As we ride out of the little lane from the yard the geese
single file.
About three miles further on we were riding in pro-
hiss and scold, and some pigs grunt and scramble out of | found silence except for the slosh, slosh of the horses’ feet
the way. The clouds cast strange moon shadows and if | in the mud, when two beautiful turkeys sailed across a
is cooler. In a few minutes we see the fire light showing
in red streaks through the sides of Aunt Susan’s cabin.
She is on time with her biscuit and coffee, and as a work
of special courtesy has some “‘salt meat” in the pan over
the fire. Her husband, pro tem., objects to her charge
of fifteen cents and urges her to collect twenty. We
settle the matter by giving her twenty-five cents. Now
ib is quarter after two and almost dark; the clouds are
thick and heayy as we ride past the mill and take the
road along the river toward ‘‘Hayti,” where we expect to
meet Church at the crossroads. We ride through miles
of cottonfields and acres of dead cotton woods, bleached
skeletons of trees. Before we are within a mile of the
crossroads we hear furious riding behind us and Church
comes loping along. ‘‘I had to stay and finish my game
with the Doctor, When you all come to the crossroads
take the right hand trail by the row of cabins and I will
overtake you about the Gum Spring. I’ve got to ride on
and get Walter Ivy’s maverick.” Church always called
Ivy’s gun “‘maverick,” because there was no name on the
rib. It had done wonderful shooting in the past, accord-
ng to tradition, and I saw it bring down 115 ducks on
| ;
}
little opening in the woods just ahead of us. Church
tried to fire his gun without any cartridge in it, dropped
it with a withering denunciation, pulled his Colt’s and
shot twice, the second ball broke the wing of the last
turkey, which fell floundering in the short brush. I did
not know whether to congratulate him for the shot or
revile him for not having his gun ready. We had been
in line, so that I, who rode next, did not like to risk a
shot for fear of hitting him. Unfortunately for us, when
Church jumped off his horse at the exact spot where the
turkey fell, no turkey was visible. It had vanished, and
though we hunted for half an hour we had to abandon
the foolish bird at last. We rode on again in silence,
save afew mutterings from Church in reference to his
luck. I noticed that our guide turned his horse’s head
oftener than it seemed necessary tome. We were in the
heart of an interminable swamp, and still the rain fell
and the water rose to meet it.
At last I hinted that we should be somewhere near the
lake now as it was after 2 o’clock P. M. and we had been
riding steadily for about twelve hours. Church said he
could put his finger on the lake at a few moments’ notice,
ginning to get dark
when all were across
and Church had found
his pony, which he
had forgotten to tie
and which had wan-
dered off as usual.
The duck was de-
voured in a minute,
the crackers (nothing
but dough now) were
sent after the duck,
the cornedbeef was not
fit to eat, having a
*“sort of grees pus”
over it, in short, we
cleaned up everything
but a dozen or so of
the onions,
Church removed his
clothes and tried to dry them, with poor success.
‘‘Are you sure of the trail back? If you are not, let us
stay here to-night,” said I.
“Certainly I am; I know every tree in the parish,” said
our guide.
Our horses had had nothing but water and were shiver-
ing and tired, but I made up my mind to a twenty mile
ride, and we were soon in the saddle again. Still it
rained, and it was ‘“‘plumb” dark. I suppose we had
gone about a mile when Church had the grace to ac-
knowledge that he had not the remotest idea of where he
was. Wecould hear the rushing of water on all sides
and seemed to be surrounded by torrents.
‘Here is where the old bridge used to be, we will have
to swim this bayou.”
“All right, guide.”
We had tried the foolish experiment of loosening the
bridle and giving the horses their heads: they at once
made motions as though they would roll, instead of im-
mediately taking the right course, as they should have
done according to the books, The little horse swam
boldly over—and back.
“The bank is too steep to land. I'll try it further up.”
This time they did not return and if was my turn. I
did not like it. The cold rushing water with no shore
visible was not inviting, but Church yelled ‘‘Come on,” ©
and I thought of the fun of hearing the Engineer cross,
so I thrashed my horse until he slipped into the water
with a deep grunt. When we reached the opposite bank
there were logs in such a jam that we had to swim up
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FOREST AND STREAM.
stream for a good bit before finding a suitable landing,
I could hear the engineer and rodman as they took the
water together; neither wanted to be last.
Church said he was dead sure of the way now. ‘This
is Black Bayou, all we have to do is to follow along this |
bank,” We followed the bank for about 200yds, and then
ee re another slough, which Church called “‘Cow
ide,
We kept this game up until we had crossed five bayous;
out horses were worn out and had to be more than coaxed
before they would cross the last, which was wider than
any of the others.
“Let us find a spot above water and camp until day,”
said the engineer.
Church said he now knew exactly where we were.
‘That is a fine thing,” said I; “I do, too.”
It was with difficulty that we found a “high spot” to
camp on. When we found it, it was only a few inches
above the waterlevel. Stilltherain fell; the water seemed
to be rising at the rate of an inch an hour.
We dismounted, stiff and heavy, and tied the bridles to
small bushes so the horscs could eat the twigs, which they
did so thoroughly that a spherical space was soon cleared
about each animal with a diameter twice the length of
the tie line,
After several unsuccessful attempts, we made a fire by
soaking lead pencil chips in whisky, and then the rod-
man and engineer holding my slicker over me, I used the
last match and got a blaze. It was lucky that the engi-
neer had such a supply of Fabers. At last we had a mon-
ster fire, and were warm, though soaking wet.
The rain had dwindled to a heavy fog and after a while
the moon showed us a little light. We sat around the
fire on rotten and soaking logs, but there were few jokes
retold. Suddenly a large cur dog appeared. He was so
hungry that his behavior was most friendly, I gave him
the spoiled can of beef and we were friends at once.
I spread my saddle blanket for a bed (the saddle sup-
plied an excellent pillow), made the dog lie down, and I
lay between him and the fire, as close as possible to
both, Only once did I wake up, when the fire burned
low, and all was quiet but the rushing water and the
horses as they broke off small branches and ground
them up.
We had used all the available wood at hand, so I had
to go some distance to find any. As I wasstepping along
carefully on account of snakes just in front of me I spied
a bear. His back was turned and he stood up pawing a
tree as I have seen them do in Colorado.
In an instant I jerked out my Colt’s and was selecting
a place to fire ati, just behind the fore shoulder. The rush-
ing water made such a noise that he had not heard me
and the wind blew from him to me. I calculated to give
him three cartridges as quickly as I could pull the trig-
ger and have three to stop him if he came or ran.
As I finished this plan in my head the bear turned and
saw me and said, ‘‘We must be on an island.”
It was the engineer.
He had been gathering twigs for his horse, and making
the finest image of a bear I ever saw, with his long over-
coat and little wet black hat pu'led over his ears. When
T told him that in three seconds he might have been “‘too
dead to skin” he became quite angry.
Do you suppose he was provoked because I had not
fired? I don’t know.
We carried some wood back and revived the fire. The
hound had taken my place on the saddle blanket and was
shivering and sad, probably the result of the spoiled
corned beef. The rodman and Church slept without a
turn until it was daylight. Our breakfast consisted of
two red raw onions each. The derelict dog seemed to
have no appetite, though he was convalescent.
We held a pow-wow and decided to follow up the
bayou we had crossed the night before until we came to
some known spot. All that day we floundered around in
the swamp, not seeing the sun once. Hyery now and then
the bayou widened out into a lake, which we had to skirt
for fear of bog holes.
As dusk settled down again we were a sorry crowd; the
clouds had vanished and it was much coldér. We had no
matches nor means of making a fire; our provisions con-
sisted of about six small onions and one sick dog; our
horses were worn out and we were not yery fresh.
“I wish I was in my own dear back yard,” said the rod-
man, ‘‘how quick I would go into the house.”
“Shut your fool face and try and make a little fire with
your gun,” was all Church could say.
We tried dissecting a cartridge and strewing the pow-
der along a log and then exploding a cap, but we had
nothing to catch; every shred of clothes we wore was wet
and it was of no avail to flash the powder.
The others sat down with their backs to a fallen cypress
and proposed to wait for day.
I did not see the fun in this: so I skirmished about, and
found a large tree long dead; and with my big jack-knife
1 whittled into it until I found some soft dry punk in the
interior. Then 1 cut up four or five cartridges and
moistened the powder, made a pile of punk and powder
in layers and suitable proportions and snapped a cap at
the mass, After several attempts I had a red coal about
as large as one’s fist.
After blowing until my face ached and my eyes ran on
account of the smoke; it was disheartening to see the red
xrow smaller and smaller and the ash grow larger, until
here was nothing left but a little spark which soon van-
ished,
At any rate my efforts: had warned mea little. As I
called the dog and made him lie on one side with the log
on the other, I could hear a rooster crow away off to the
right. The others were all asleep and strange to say I
soon was inthe same fix, _
At day we all woke in ample time, our horses apparently
had not moved during the night, but stood with heads
hanging down and eyes shut.
I told of the rooster I had heard crow during the night.
We saddled our disconsolate stock and stiffly moved off
in the direction from which the sound seemed to have
come.
In about five hundred yards we left the forest and en-
tered a cotton field. We could seea little bunch of cabins
away over across the dried stalks,
“That's Israel's store,” said Church,
Israel had corn for our horses and crackers for us, also
some vitrified, dark-colored bread which he called “ginger
cakes,” out of respect for honorable age. He also sent a
woman to make us some coffee.
After eating for an hour or more our stock had ad-
[Nov. 25. 1893.
vanced almost tu par; we were full, warm and contented.
Church and I went again to Soda, when we brought
back 208 ducks. PSB:
CHICAGO AND THE WEST.
[From a Staff Correspondent.)
Phenomenally Good.
Cuicago, Ul,, Noy. 11.—The season just closing has
been a phenomenally good one for wildfowl in all this
section of the West. The shooters who struck Minnesota
just before the freeze up had great shooting. E. T. Mar-
tin, a market-shooter operating in that State, sent in to
Van Uxem last week for 3,000 more shells, and reported
very heavy mallard shooting.
Mr. Abner Price, of this city, with a friend, are lately
back from Duck Island Club, below Peoria, Mr, Price is
an old time duck shooter, but says he never had a better
shoot, The two guns killed over 800 mallards in two
weeks.
At Hennepin and Swan Lake clubs, Senachwine Lake,
and the Illinois River country thereabouts, some very
heavy shooting, largely on mallards, was had for over a
week, Last week the weather warmed up, and the flight
worked back north above Koshkenong and all oyer the
Horicon Marsh.
Mr. L. M. Hamline, of the Diana Club, returned from
Horicon Marsh Monday last. He says that he has hunted
ducks all his life, and all over the country, but never in
his life did he see in one flight as many ducks of all kinds
put together as he did of mallards on the day before he
left.
In the South Also,
Clear in the South, also, the flight has reached, as wit-
ness the following from the valued ForREST AND STREAM
correspondent, ‘‘Arodnac,” in Louisiana, who writes from
New Iberia. Noy. 4:
During this past week IJ visited the towns Jeannerette, New Iberia
and Abbeville. Never in my life have I seen as many snipe and ducks,
I learned at Jeannerette that Mr Henry Hebert, the well-known
sportsman. and the best shot of the parish, has been killing from
seventy to uinety snipe a day. My friend, Mr. L. Lyons, told me that
boys of 13t0 15 are bagging from twenty-five to forty ducks of a
morning.
At Abbeville a number of pot and professional hunters were in town
Thursday while I was there, selling teal duck at 10 centsand mallards
at 25 cents per pair, snipe 70 cents per dozen. The merchants of
Abbeville state that such a quantity of game was never seen before,
and complain that it has cut down their sales of meat and other pro-
visions. Mr. Ed Smiley, a thoroughly reliable gentleman, told me
ues boy killed and picked up fifty-four greenwing teal with two
shots.
At New Iberia the snipe are more numerous than duck,
We have had very dry weather for two months, and this accom-
panied by the late low tides on the Gulf, has dried up all the sea
marshes, and the game has been compelled to seek the small lakes
and rice ponds near the towns, which causes such a slaughter. Every
mau and boy who owns a gun can be seen going to or coming from a
bunt.-
The outlook for quail shooting is splendid, and as soon as the frost
lays down the high brush [ will give them a trial.
Slaughter the Right Name.
Slaughter is the right name for the way ducks have been
killed along this line of migration this fall. No one can
tell what made the flight so heavy here, especially as re-
gards the unusual numbers of mallards. Sofaras I know,
the best shooting had anywhere in the United States this
fall was on the Horicon Marsh. I have just taken from
Mr. Perey Stone’s note book afew of the scores of the
Diana Club, which I append, Mr, Chas, Wilson shot at
the club nineteen days and he bagged 544 ducks. Dr, H,
©. Buechner killed on one trip of four days 127 ducks, and
on another trip of three days 141, One day he brought in
36 mallards, Mr. C. B. Dicks in three days bagged 131
ducks. Mr. Hamline’s big day was 58 ducks, of which 54
were mallards. John Yorgey, the Diana keeper, and a
member of the club, on one day killed 110 ducks, and 104
of these were mallards. Query: Is that a thing to be
proud of? And query again: Whatdid he do with them?
Mr, Melchior in one day killed 127 ducks, many of them
mallards, Mr, Barrell in six days killed 192 ducks, and
150 of them were mallards. Query: Is that anything to
be proud of? Mr. Shailer succeeded in killing 41 mallards
in one day. Mr, P. F. Stone in ten days, or parts of days
(he does not shoot afternoons), killed 318 ducks, and he
told me once that he got over 40 mallards oneday. Wal-
ter Dupee shot ten days. His smallest bag was 23, and he
ran up to 48. Others shot in about the same ratio.
The average at the Diana club house for the past thirty
days, big bags and little, good shooters and poor, has been
over thirty ducks to the gun, each day, and of these by
far the greater number. were mallards, About half the
club members shoot all day, early and late. The other
half shoot about half the day, usually stopping after the
morning flight. At the Upper Club such bags have not
been frequent, but were possible, as those who pushed
down tothe lower end of the upper marsh discovered
lately. I have not the scores of the Upper Club,
Slaughter the Right Name.
I haye always been friendly and always expect to be to
the Horicon clubs, and I know personally almost every
man mentioned above, and I belong to the Upper Club
myself; yet, I repeat, slaughter is the tight name for such
shooting as that, and I know of no market shooting this
year, anywhere, so murderous as that. I shot with
market-hunters last winter, and I am invited to come
there and shoot again, but I willsay that I saw no such
murdering as this, nor do Il want to. Readers can frame
their own opinions and their own criticisms, but these
certainly are the facts, Probably the Horicon marsh
bred 50,000 ducks this year, if any estimate can be made
on such matters, and the members who preserve this last
of the great Wisconsin duck marshes certainly are en-
titled to the sport for which they fight the law breakers,
but if the marsh raised 5,000,000 ducks, I can conceive no
sportsmanlike title conveyed through a club membership
to kill every one of those birds possible. Let a few of them
go. Give the poor birdsa chance. It is just as much
fun to kill 25 mallards in one day as it is to kill 50, and
the man who has 25 of these great birds in his boat ought
to start home and throw his shells in the water if he can’t
resist the temptation. That’s enough, especially in these
days. This big flight doesn’t mean that the ducks have
bred in unusual numbers this year. It means that they
are passing south over this section this fall, for reasons
known f0 00 one,
I think the boys will be staggered a little when they see
the above figures in print. It seems natural to go on
shooting while one can, but it won’t hurt to think this
thing over. Mr, Stone, the club manager, grew serious
|tainties of the tyip,
jducks in ninety days last winter, and the tarpon fishing:
| there is better than it is in Florida, so they tell me.
‘quail shooting along the Aransas Pass Railroad, north of
as we looked over these figures. He says he thinks a
movement will be made to establish a daily limit tu the
bag for each gun. He thought 50 mallards would do.
Half that is plenty for mallards, though a bag of 50 mixed
birds would not be so bad. Mr, Stone deéprecates the
habit of pounding the birds all day, and rarely ever stays
out after 10 o'clock in the morning,
Of course when one shoots he want to get a bag, but
there is reason in all things. Is not the matter herein
worth thinking over? And is not slaughter the right
name for shooting such as the aboye, no matter who on
earth did it?
The Story Continued.
Let us continue logically the story of destruction and
depletion, not croaking, but just giving facts, It’s a lone
way to Washington, away out on the Pacific coast, isn’t
it? Certainly away out in Washington the game and fish
never will nor could be exterminated, could they? Well,
here is what comes to me in a letter from Snohomish,
Wash., under date of Noy. 1:
‘It may interest you somewhat to hear of the shooting and fishing in
this locality, though I cannot say much in favor of it. Owing to the
denseness of the forest it is almost impenetrable, and it seems to be
the invariable opinion of those who have hunted elsewhere that it is
the worst—the ‘tmeanest” country to hunt in that ever was. Difficult
as if is one might have some sport by simply following the cut trails,
were it not that they are incessantly hunted in season and out Bi as
lawless a class of shooters as ever shouldered a gun. Three or four
years ago both ruffed and blue grouse were abundant along all the
trails and roads in this vicinity, but now you might go a dozen
miles without seeing one. There are still a few deer not far away, but
the pro:.j/ect of seeing one unless driven by dogs would be dim indeed.
Bears of the black variety seem to be more plentiful than any other
large game, and with two or three good dogs there would be no great
difficulty in getting a shot at one, especially to a person with plenty of
wind and a pair of strong legs. Cougars are also occasionally met
with and they seem to be of a more courageous and dangerous type
than their cowardly relations of California and the Bastern States.
Duck shooting is pr bably the finest sport to be had on this coast, at
least this immediate portion of the coast. It would, howeyer, be
difficult for a duck to rest upon any of the beautiful waters of this
immediate vicinity f -r half an hour without being shot at Three or
four years ago these same waters were full of ducks, bub now they
know enough to stay away. But at various points along the Sound
within twenty or thirty miles of here the ducks are said to bem
millions and the shooting fine.
The trout fishing is a prominent feature of this country, The
treams are magnificent and have before now swarmed with trout of
several varieties, But the fishers are proportionate in numbers and
fully equal to the oecasion of depleting the waters. Already it is
necessary to go from twenty to thirty miles away to get first-class)
fishing, But when one does go so far it is a comfort to say that he-
gets it, certainly all that any one could ask. Talking about the
number of ae that fish here, I must say that it is something’
astonish‘ng All ages and all sexes fish not only forsport but for the:
pot—mostly for the pot. The State has good game and fish laws, but
very few persons pay any attention to them. Yesterday was the last
day of the trout season, but I think thatI could safely undertake to:
find fifty violators of the law within two miles of this place to-day,
The methods employed by these people are those which procure for-
them the greater amount of fish in the shortest space of time. This:
includes the use of dynamite, nets, spears and various other contri-.
vances which I could describe but do not know the names of, as I)
neyer saw them until I came here. It is the finest field for a game-
warden imaginable, but where they keep themselves is more than I
know.
I could tell you some things about the trout, the flies which I have
found to be best, ete., but I have now to limit myself in the amount,
of writing that I do. and consequently must refrain. Should it be,
desirable, however, I should be pleased at some other time to do so.
JEPTHA G. DunLAP.
Mr. Dunlap could please the Forrest AND STRHAM’s large:
family no better than by writing more of his part of the
country. Meantime, how about the continued story? If’
FOREST AND STREAM did not raise its voice for the sake of
a different story, what would be the conclusion of this.
story, and how long before the conclusion came?
The South.
Mr. Wilbur Dubois of Cincinnati writes Mr. Waters of’
this office as follows;
A friend and I want to go quail shooting in January somewhere in:
the South for acouple of weeks. Can you recommend some really
good point where we could find plenty of birds, with possibly a
sprinkling of woodeock and mallards? (I don’t know whether Mr..
Hough would say this is a hard bill to fillor not.) My friend is Mr. W..
W. Peabody, Jr., secretary of the B & O,S. W.R R., and he will havea.
rivate car and can go to any locality, and we should be happy to.
Eve you and Mr. Hough go along if we can contriveto get away. We-
expect to have a lady with us, and I am afraid this will spoil the-
affair for Mr, Hough. Perhaps he could reconcile himself to his fate,,
however, if informed that she is an old acquaintance of his, Damé
Bang by name. In the way of femininity this will be the only local)
demon in the car.
We hope to get off some timein the month] haye named. From,
your wide experience in the South I thought you might perhaps know
of some particularly good locality.
Mr. Dubois was advised by Mr, Waters to go to south-.
ern Louisiana, If it should come to pass that the Western,
force of FOREST AND STREAM could join the party, there.
would be a heavy jar as we all struck the sea coast coun--
try. Of that, more, or maybe less, anon, ax they say in,
some Dewspapers,
This morning Mr, John EH, Ennis, district passenger:
agent of the Missouri Pacific Railway, invited me to his:
office, and asked if I did not want to join a private party-
in a special car, to go, to Rockport, Tex,, where they were:
invited to enjoy the hospitality of a Texas baron, a friend)
of Mr. Ennis’s. Tarpon fishing, canvasback shooting, and|
later quail shooting, are among the attractions and cer--
Rockport shipped 55,000 canvasbacls-
The
Rockport, is notedly good. Invitations are coming in
pretty well to-day, and I don’t know where one could
get more inviting ones than thetwoabove. I handed Mr,
Ennis the invitation from Mr. Dubois, and the former at
once formulated a scheme to merge both these pioposed
trips into one, and will write Mr. Peabody to that effect.
Should this be the event, and should the Western staff be
able to join the car, there would be a still greater crash as
we brought up against the deep-water improvements at
Rockport, That would be, to use the vernacular, a trip
for your life. Of this'also some more after a while, and
may Fortune throw 7-11 out of her checkered box, for I
know of no man more deserving than myself, nor any
man who would like a trip better than Mr. Waters.
Wants to Know.
A gentleman to bé known as ‘‘H.,” of Cleveland, O.,
writes as below:
LT notice a letter from *F.O. 5 ” on page 384 of Forest anp STREAM
for Noy. 4, speaking of Spring Lake. What county is this in and what.
is nearest railroad station, Do you know what accommodations can be-
had near the lake?
Also.can you inform me where fair duck shooting in latter half of’
November, also in first half of December is likely to be found, with-
out trespassing on preseryes, where a helper can be engaged, distance:
not over 600 miles from Cleveland?
Spring Lake is an old channel of the Illinois River, not
far below Peoria and only a few miles from the Duck
Nov. 25, 1898.]
FOREST AND STREAM,
453
Island Club preserve, where Mr. Abner Price had the fine
shooting mentioned aboye. Manito, on the branch from
Peoria, is the nearest railway station. When I was last
there Lawrence Haggerty was running avery comfort-
able hotel for shooters on a cabin boat. Quarters of some
sort could probably be obtained if he has left. 1 found
everything very comfortable and had good shooting on
my trip. Itis still open country, I believe.
As to the late duck shooting, one could not do better
than to go to lower Louisiana, or to Texas. ‘“‘H.” would
yery likely find just what he wanted at Rockport, where
Iam told there is open shooting, The country back in-
land from the sea coastfis also good, Reelfoot Lake, Tenn.,
would once have filled this bill more nearly. You have
to stretch your 600 miles these days if you want a cer-
tainty of shooting.
Good Deer and Duck Shooting.
Iam told by one of the conductors on the Wisconsin
Central line that deer are very abundaht along that road
this fall. He particularly recommended Gills’ Landing,
where the Fox and Wolf rivers unite, about 210 miles
above Chicago. At almost any point north of that dis-
tance, clear up to Ashland, one isin good deer country.
The crop is unusually abundant this fall, but probably
more illegal deer were killed this season than ever before.
This is owing to the closing down of the mines in the iron
country. The miners all went out hunting, and they
killed thousands of deer before the law opened, though
they left thousands more—because they couldn’t get
them,
My same informant seemed well posted on the Minne-
sota country through which he ran, and named points
where friends of his had had good wildfowl shooting this
fall. The duck shooting was excellent at Heron Lake,
Cottonwood county, also at Big Stone Lake, and at Lake
Traverse. It was very good at Morrisand Ashby, and
near Fergus Falls, This is Charlie Burton’s old country.
He and his friends shot for years each fall at Seven Mile
Lake, not far from Ashby,
The chicken crop in Minnesota was good this year.
909 Smcorrry Burnpine, Chicago. E, Houea.
BOSTON AND MAINE.
Boston, Noy. 18.—Boston gunners are waiting for the
flights of coot and other ducks at the best gunning re-
sorts along shore. At Annisquam but few birds have
yet been taken. A big storm is wanted to start them.
Some of the gunners haye been down there, but with in-
different success reported, At Essex River the shooting
has yet been poor, though some black ducks have been
taken. Many of the gnnners the best posted, do not wait
for storms for good black duck shooting. On the con-
trary, they watch at the fresh-water creeks and rivers,
nights and mornings, and take the ducks as they come in
to their favorite drinking resorts. They claim that black
ducks require fresh water for drinking, and that they will
leave the salt water twice a day and fly inland for it,
This they do in fair weather, but in rainy weather they
can get fresh water enough in the little pools up among
the rocks, just above the high tides. Mr. Fred Ih, Whit-
ing, assistant business manager of the Boston Herald, is
anticipating a duck shoot of this sort with some friends.
A number of Boston gunners have been off Dennis and in
other parts of Barnstable Bay after coot the past week.
They report that the black duck keeps well off shore and
are very hard to get. The same is true of Chatham Bay,
though some good bags of coot have lately been made |
there. At Brant Rock there has been but little good shoot-
ing yet. No geese have flown yet, and ducks have not
yet been plenty.
Gov. William E, Russellis back from his fall shoot in
Maine, This year he has spent considerable time in the
vicinity of Poland Springs, making that celebrated resort
his headquarters. It is reported that he has not succeeded
in getting a deer, though several have been seen in that
neighborhood, One was killed in the town of Hebron,
only a few miles away from the Governor’s hunting
ground, last week. A couple of noted sportsmen of the
Androscoggin Gun Club, of Lewiston, Me., Mr. G. R.
Hunnewell and Mr, E. L, Post, gave the Governor and his
distinguished party a beautiful day’s sport with their ex-
cellent bird dogs. The Governor is said to have made
some excellent shots, bringing his bird down with the left
barrel on a long distance. The Governor is much pleased
with partridge shooting in the vicinity of Poland Springs.
Messrs. Hunnewell and Post were congratulated by the
Governor and _is party on the fine training and beautiful
wor of their dogs, and the party will doubtless try the
early woodcock and partridge shooting another season
there, and with the same gentlemen and their dogs.
A movement is on foot in Lewiston, Me., for the forma-
tion of an association of Maine sportsmen and gunners,
for the purpose of liberating different species of game
birds. The association is proposed to be something like
the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association,
in its work toward the acclimatization of game birds at
least. This movement originated with Mr. G. Gay, of the
John P. Lovell Arms Co., of Boston. Mr. Gay is soon to
issue a circular letter to thesportsmen and hunters of that
State, calling a meeting at Lewiston, Dec. 7. In the cir-
cwlar Mr. Gay will call attention to the success the Massa-
chusetts Association has had in liberation of sharp-tailed
grouse from North Dakota, pinnated grouse from Illinois
and Iowa, and quail from the South. He will call atten-
tion to the fact that Maine is believed to be admirably
suited to the propagation and growth of such birds as the
black game of Norway and Sweden. But in this move-
ment Mr. Gay, or any other enthusiast in the propagation
of game birds, will find that it will require special acts of
the Maine Legislature to make it legal to let loose any sort
of game or fish in the woods or waters of that State. The
Fish and Game Commission of Maine will be likely to look
upon any such proposition as one requiring supervision,
lest some sort of game be introduced that shall prove in-
imical to the noble game and fish already there. It was
proposed in the Maine Legislature, at its last session, to
take some steps toward the introduction of black game
from Norway and Sweden, but the measure was killed,
partly because there was a fear that the game already in-
digenous to the Maine woods might be injured thereby.
Still the ‘‘tracking snow” is yery slow abont coming,
and the deer hunters, allready to go to Maine, are waiting.
Up to Noy. 19 there had been no tracking snows in the
lower part of Maine, though a couple of inches had fallen
in the northern sections, only to go off about as soon as it
came. The body of leaves is so great on the surface that
deer hunting is next to impossible. -The deer mentioned
in the papers as captured of late, are doubtless stumbled
upon, or possibly—though I dislike to say it—taken with
the aid of dogs. On the first snows deer hunting must
be excellent in many sections of that State, I have a
number of reports from different sections in Maine, which
mention a good deal of hunting that will be done as soon
as the snow comes, by resident gunners. If city sports-
men wish to accompany them, they will doubtless be
welcome, providing they are willing to pay the resident
hunters well for guiding and toting the game, if any is
taken, The same reports say that the amount of lumber-
ing to be done in Maine this winter is unusually small,
and thus a great many men, who would otherwise have
been employed in the woods, either chopping or teaming,
will have the time on their hands, and much of it is
likely to be used in hunting. It looks like a hard season
for the game.
Indeed, Maine grows more and more in danger of being
“hunted to death.” Her own people are very enthusiastic
over the abundance of big game reported this year, and
the way that it is believed to be increasing, and every
man and boy is either the owner of a rifle, or soon will
be. From its own people there will be gunners enough
to destroy all the game in the State, if the increase in
sporting enthusiasm is continued. Then the fame of the
State is reaching across the water. A London hunter,
with ‘“a plenty of money,” has lately been in Bangor, and
he has had great luck—so the papers say—and has killed
an albino deer in the woods somewhere above that city.
He is reported to be greatly pleased with his success, and
to declare that he will be back another season with a big
party of his friends to hunt big game. Then, the amount
of reporting that the daily and Sunday papers are giving
game matters in Maine is sufficient to send an army of
deer hunters into that State. These reports only ‘‘score
the hits;” the misses are never mentioned, Such is
scarcely fair shooting, but it has its purpose just the same;
a false notion of Maine hunting is put into the heads of
even those who ought to have sense enough to know bet-
tea. But nevertheless the tendency is greatly against the
retention of a supply of game in the wilds of Maine.
SPECIAL.
MORE ABOUT THE .22.
HORNELESVILLE, N. Y., Nov. 4.—Hditor Forest and
Stream: In all probability the air must be awful thin in
Exeter, Neb, where ‘‘Diamond Walt” can do such great
work with a .22 short rim-fire cartridge. It may be that
the yards are shorter out there, and the wood soft, be-
cause the .22 short R. F. here will not penetrate 5in. of
pine nor 3in. at 200yds,
We have some good shots here, but they can’t kill a
woodchuck that is twice the size of a prairie dog at 305yds,
with a .32-40. I do not believe that any one can seea
prairie dog at 303yds., let alone shooting it.
Iam a gunsmith and sell the best of all kinds of rifles.
I belong to the rifle club, was champion of the county for
seven years and won the medal this year, so I know a
little about rifles, I have a new plug hat, if ‘“Walt” can
hit it at 325yds. off-hand with his .22 short Winchester
Tl give him the hat and $10. If he does not hit it in five
shots it will cost him $5 to treat; or I'll let him shoot at
the hat all day and give him a dollar every time he hits
it, if he will give me twenty-five cents when he misses.
The .22 long rifle is the proper cartridge to use at any
range over 100yds. J. OTIS FELLOWS.
TouEDO, O.—Editor Forest and Stream: Having read
in recent articles of FOREST AND STREAM the experience
of various brethren with the .22cal. short cartridge, I was
tempted to experiment a little on my own account, which
I did with the following result:
I took the side of my barn as a starting pointand meas-
ured off with a line 350yds. or 60 rods, and then elevating
the sights I fired several shots. Upon going to the barn I
found that the bullets had gone entirely through the lin.
pine boards which compose the side of the barn; how
much further they went J am unable to state. Every one
of the bullets struck fairly and made a neat, round hole.
The cartridges used were Winchester .22 short; the gun a
Winchester single shot .22 short, having a 24in. barrel,
which I have used for five and one-half years and which
in that time has been fired many thousand times without
having cost one cent for repairs, Thus much for the pen-
etrating power of the .22cal. short, AUTOKEE.
New Haven, Conn. Nov, 4.—Editor Forest and Stream;
T haye used a’.22cal.{in outdoor shooting, more or less, for
the past five or six years. My present .22 is a Marlin re-
peater model of 1891, with a twist in the rifling of one
turn in 18in, It is fitted with Lyman front and rear
sights (no middle sight), and will take short, long and
long rifle cartridges indiscriminately in the magazine. I
give it the best of care, particularly the inside of the
barrel.
I have never made any long shots such as ‘‘Diamond
Walt” speaks of; but I once shot a woodchuck sitting in
the mouth of his burrow, so that I could see nothing but
his head, which disappeared at the report. Walking up
to the burrow I was surprised to find the woodchuck stone
dead. He had been killed instantly, and had not had
time even to slide down his burrow, which they nearly
always manage todo, if within a foot or so of it. The
distance actually measured Y7yds. I have often killed
muskrats, ducks and grebes at from 150 to 200yds., and
am perfectly satisfied in my own mind that the .22cal. is
good up to 300yds., if, as ““Diamond Walt” says, ‘‘one
knows how to use it.”
The other}morning a friend, also a lover of the .22cal.,
and myself went out to asmall pond near here in the
hopes of seeing some ducks. We arrived at the pond just
before daylight and found a man witha sLbheul already
there, apparently also looking for ducks. hen light
enough to see we sawfour ducks in the center of the
pond. The pond is somewhat circular in shape and about
300yds, in diameter. My friend and I opened on the
ducks and all four of them were being blown ashore dead
before the man with the shotgun had a chance to fire
ouce, they being out of range for him, They proved to
be ruddy ducks, and a more disgusted man than he of the
shotgun I have seldom seen. They now adorn our collec-
tion. Of course I do not mean fo say that we only used
four cartridges that morning, but our record was not a
bad one considering.
The .22 long rifle is a cartridge far superior to the .22-
short for range, accuracy and penetration; as I and my
friends have often proved by firing at stationary objects
on the water, There is not so much variation and a con-
siderably flatter trajectory. I sincerely hope that the
devotees of the .22cal, will increase as its virtues become
better known. TELILLA.
Hditor Forest and Stream:
I think I have used nearly every make of .22 rifle, and
while I strongly recommend them for small game, they
are far too small for deer and other large game. As re-
gards their range, it is far greater than usually supposed.
With a .22 short cartridge from a Merwin & Hulbert rifle
I shot a large osprey 5ft. 8in. from tip to tip at 120yds.
distance, the bullet going fairly through the neck, A
friend of mine who was standing fully 200yds. further off
than the bird said that the little bullet sang past him high
in the air, and was traveling very fast. With a.22 Win-
chester I made some good shooting from a small bluff at
a log in the river, some 600 or 700yds. away. Thecartridge
in this case was the .22 long rifle. The first deer I ever
shot fell to this gun, with a long rifle bullet in the heart.
On another occasion I fired four shots at a deer quite close
to me without any result. Now I use the .45-90. The .22
short will penetrate about din. of well seasoned pine, but
wood is a poor thing to test penetration with, unless the
very greatest care is used in getting timber, sound, of the
same age and degree of solidity. There is too much varia-
tion in ‘‘pine,” as many call spruce, hemlock, Norway
pine and even basswood. What weneed is some invari-
able material. A self-registering, pneumatic target an-
swers very well for tests of impact, and the ranges tell
the trajectory and range of a rifle. I shall try sheets of
felt in my next test and will write you my experience.
Many of my friends say that wood seldom tells the truth.
I have shot a .22 short through 44in, of clear, sound pine,
and on trying it again on similar wood (to all appearance)
I have found the bullets only penetrated from 2 to 3in.
A long rifle will go through a 5in, pine slab (white pine, I
mean). All these penetration tests were made at 20 and
a0ft. I very much doubt a .22 short going through 4 or
even din, of very soft pine at 200yds. At least, 1 have
never seen any one do it and neverdid it myself. Hastern
and Western yards are so extremely alike that the error
between the measurements may be disregarded, unless
indeed the distance is measured by a human ‘‘pedometer.”
I hope to hear some more of this. L. D. VON IFFLAND.
The Ontario Moose Season.
BELLEVILLE, Ont., Noy. 10.—Deer have not been killed
in such large numbers as usual in this county since the
season opened, and partridges and ducks have also been
scarce. Writing from Bobcaygeon, however, Mr. Robt.
Foy states that one day last week eight deer took the
water in Concession Lake at once before the dogs, and
four of them succeeded in escaping.
Incited probably by the example of other law-breakers
from your side of the line whose exploits in violation of
our game law have been published to the world in full
detail, two New Yorkers have invaded our territory and
have gone to the Mattawa country in pursuit of moose,
which are protected under the laws of this country until
Oct. 20, 1895. The game warden has been informed of
the facts and the apprehension and punishment of these
outlaws and the ruffians whom they bribe to guide them
are among the probabilities of the near future. RK. 5S. B.
Deer in the Cabbage Patch.
Mr. Pueasant, L. I., Noy. 16.—Some weeks past we
noticed in our garden, which is some 50yds. from the
house, quite a well-worn deer trail. Surprised that deer
should come so near the house, weinvestigated the matter
carefully, and learned that a fine buck and a doe made
regular trips to our cabbage patch at an early hour in the
morning. Figuring that the loss of some fine cabbages
was well worth a shot at the buck, we waited until the
morning of the 10th and had no trouble in securing the
buck by a well-calculated shot.
This buck, so far as we can learn, is the heaviest deer
taken this year on the island. Weight dressed, 275lbs.;
age, 4 years; with an unusually perfect head and antlers.
FP, L. SCHENCK.
To Refrain from Quail Shooting.
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 16.—Hditor Forest and Stream:
At a special meeting of the Pittsburgh Gun Club, held
Noy. 10, at W. 8. Brown’s gun store, 520 and 522 Wood
street, the following resolution was unanimously adopted,
yiz.; Owing to the scarcity of quail in Pennsylvania at
present time the members of the Pittsburgh Gun Club are
respectfully requested to refrain from shooting same
within the State of Pennsylvania during the season of
1895, By taking this action and securing the co-opera-
tion of other sportsmen’s clubs, there is every reason to
believe the quantity of quail will be very materially in-
creased during the season of 1894.
ELMER HK. SHANER, Sec’y.
Long Island Deer and Ducks.
SAYVILLE, L. I., Noy. 20,—F rom the best obtainable in-
formation it is estimated that sixty deer were killed on
Long Island in the season which closed last Thursday.
Of these twelve were killed by local parties, including one
nine-year-old buck. A pet doe owned in Sayville came
to a tragic end at the hands of a so-called sportsman
from New York, who bought her for a consideration of
$25 and then foully murdered her. As might have been
expected, his work was clumsily executed, for though
shooting buckshot in a barn he missed his first shot.
Ducks are very scarce at present, owing it is said to the
continued mild weather. They will probably be back
again in numbers later.
Pennsylvania Game.
SUSQUEHANNA, Pa., Nov. 18.—Our gunning season
promises well here. Birds and rabbits are plentiful, with
afew wildcats thrown in. I drew a bead last week on
one in Wolf Swamp, about fifteen rods off, with No. 6shot.
It did notstop him. Night coming on I called the dog off,
promising to follow him up another time. O, H. 8.
“Chained to Business.”
GRIFFIN, Ga,—Your paper is all that a sportsman could wish. It is
to those who are bound by business ties a source of pleasure, and
they can, after reading it, ‘‘clank their chains” and think of pleasant
things that “used to be.” PT.
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FOREST AND STREAM.
Monroe Marsk Ducks.
DETROIT, Mich., Noy. 18.—The Monroe Marsh Club at
the head of Lake Erie is probably one of the finest duck
preserves in the West, as it comprises a very large amount
of wild rice land, and also has a splendid bay filled with
wild celery, and is the first place that the canvasbacks
stop to feed coming from the north. A great many can-
vasbacks are killed there every year. The highest bag
this season was made by Deeming Jarves, on Nov. 1%,
being 48 canvasbacks. The same gentleman killed on
Nov, 15, 58 mallards, and on Noy. 16, 30, making 136
ducks for the three days’ shoot,
Indians and Game.
Mircunit, §. D., Noy. 14.—Word was received here
from Fall River county that about 200 Indians passed
through Edgemont on their return from a hunt in the
mountains. The Indians say they secured over 700 deer
and antelope besides other game. The people of Fall
River county are protesting that the Indian agents are
doing absolutely nothing to stop this fearful slaughter of
game, aud while the white settlers are prohibited from
killing deer and antelope even for their own use, the beef-
fed redmen are permitted to kill all they want and more
too. H. G, NICHOLS.
Michigan Quail and Grouse.
SAGINAW, Mich.—I have been out after birds near home
two days since the season opened, but find that where
quail were very plentiful last year, they are very few now.
No doubt they are winter killed, but am glad to say there
are enough left over for seed, so that with an open winter
they will be thick again another year. Ruffed grouse are
more plentiful than for the last two or three years. Some
very large bags have been made, I hear, though so far I
have not been fortunate enough to get over half a dozen
birds in a day’s tramp. W. B. M.
The Gatineau Country.
ATHENS, Ont., Nov. 15.—We have just returned from
our annual deer hunt up the Gatineau in Quebec; secured
fourteen fine deer and over 700lbs. of salmon, besides bags
of ducks, partridges, etc. Took a lot of kodak views of
scenes on the trip, but the box containing plates got
broken and plates were spoiled. B. L.
“Piseco” at Port Royal.
Commanpant’s Orrics, U. §. Nayal Station, Port Royal, 8. C., Nov.
10.— Editor Forest and Stream: I wish you could be made to realize
how much your complimentary editorial, in issue of the 11th inst.,
just received, is appreciated, not only by me, who gets the lion’s share
of the praise, but by the little band of whites around me who are in
daily contact with poverty and distress, beyond my wish or power to
describe, and who welcome every dollar or other articles sent to help
us help the starving.
It is now over two months since the deluge. The little corn, peas
and potatoes that, ruined for all other purposes, could be and was
used as food by the hungry, is gone. Through some unknown cause
the fall stock of bass and ‘‘winter trout” (squeteague) has not put in
its usual appearance. I fished four hours a week ago, Where last
. year at this time I would have been as sure as a fisherman can be of a
goodly catch of sheepshead and whiting, a few 6in. yellow-tails was
my only reward—no end of toadfish my punishment. I fished for
recreation, Others go out daily in the boats Gov, Tillman so kindly
aye me, to get jood for their families, and never now with anything
ike success, and in another month the small remainder will be gone,
following the prawn and shrimp to: Florida; and all willstay gone
until that happy day late in March comes that brings the drumfish.
Houses, furniture, bedding, stock and crops are gone, and nearly
400 people on this island alone are living now on the food doled to
them weekly by the Red Cross Association, and what do you think this
ration is? Let me tell you, and you try to see how far it would go
with you. Forafamily of 7 persons, for one week, 1 peck of grits,
ilb. of pork. Reduce that tothe share of one crippled person, but
still with an appetite: grits, },qt. per day, pork 1,,lb. per day.
Of course there are lazy people among them who wouldn’t work a
stroke if they could get enough of anything eatable to keep hunger
away, but the above-described ration don’t fill the bill or even a small
art of their stomachs. But there is not work of any kind for the
ies majority. The phosphate works are all stopped, dredges and
flats sunk and wrecked. They would rebuild their homes, and such
as haye been able to save of their own wrecked cabins—‘rectified”
they call it—or of their neighbors’ that have floated on to their land,
enough lumber for a start, are without hardware and tools. The Red
Cross is now issuing nails, and a worthy lumberman, Mr. Amos Cum-
mings, has offered at cost to Miss Barton as much rough lumber as
she wants, and I am in hopes of getting a share for our poor.
Of course we personally do what we can, and many a boiler full of
grits and pork has gone from our kitchen; but itis a task beyond our
means to begin to do what we would like to do—and feel ought to be
done. Sowe all cal! on our friends to help us, and I flatter myself that
among the FoREST AND STREAM clientage there are still a goodly num-
ber of friends of PISECO,
A Sick-Bed Vow.
BretHany, W. Va.—I find myself this fall living in a beautiful wooded
hill country in West Virginia, a country whose scenery is as beautiful
as any I have ever seen, but which contains but little game, Three or
four weeks ago I snatched a few hours from my very confining duties
and tramped with dog and gun oyer these grand hills to see if they
would yield any feathered game, I succeeded in bagging a few quail,
doves and one ruffed grouse. Since then I have been suffering from
a seyere attack of sickness. No one but an ardent loyer of sports
afield can realize with what intense longing my thoughts have dwelt,
as I lay in bed, on the pleasures of bird shooting. J made a vow that
I would spend my two weeks’ vacation at Christmas in quail shooting.
Now I write to beg some fellow sportsman to tell me, either throug
the columns of this paper, or, better, by a letter directed to the undeér-
signed at the Formsr anp Stream office, where I can find good quail
shooting not more than 300 miles from Wheeling, W. Va. Prairie
chicken shooting would be preferred, but I suppose that is out of the
question, Ido not inquire about accommodations. All wish to learn
is where quail are plentiful, SHEPHARD.
“American Big-Game Hunting” Abroad.
Tr hunter and naturalist will finda never-failing charm in these
papers and in the beautiful illustrations. * * * Thereis variety of
sport as well as variety of style, and bison and elk, blacktail and
wapiti, prong buck and bighorn are among the wild animals whose
trail is followed by theelub. The scene changes with the nature of
the sport and the game; and each writer proves himself something of
a student of natureas well asalover of manly exercise, while there
are few who do not give evidence of a dash of the vigorous and char-
acteristic humor of the West. The (Edinburgh) Scotsman, Oct, 28.
Pennsylvania Railroad Tours to Washington.
Pursuing the policy which has been so successfully maintained dur-
ing the past few winters, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company an-
nounees a series of pleasure tours to Washington for the fall, winter,
and spring of 1893-4. These tours haye wou great popularity on ac-
count of the universal interest which attaches to the National Capital,
the low rates, conyenient limits, and liberal conditions which the
tickets bear,
The dates of leaving New York are November 30th, December 14th,
December 28th. January 18th, February 8th, March ist, March 22d,
April 12th, May 3d and May 24th.,
The rate for these tours will be $13 from New York, Brooklyn and
Jersey City, covering all necessary expenses excepting meals en route
The special train will leave New York at 11:00, Brooklyn 10:40, and
Jersey City 11:14 A. M., and arrive in Washington at6:20P.M. A
tourist agent and chaperon will accompany each tour and render
valuable service in the welfare of the participants.
On the third day tke parties will leave Washington at#:15 P.M., thus
affording considerable time in the most beautitul and interesting of
American cities. Tourist agents at 1196 Broadway, N. Y. and 860
Fulton st., Brooklyn will book parties in advance for hotel accommo-
dations at Washington.—Adv.
Sea and River SHishing.
THE TRIGGER FISH.
Mr. P. G. SANFORD, of the Winchester Arms Co., has
added to the articles of virtw in his cosy office, in the same
block with ForEst AND STREAM, a handsome mounted
specimen of the trigger fish. The curious creature re-
warded and astonished that gentleman one day last Octo-
ber, when he drew up his line from Long Island waters,
at the old wreck, about half a mile off Westport, Conn.
Mr. Sanford was fishing with fiddler bait and was intent
on the capture of blackfish, the wonted and prosaic fish
of the neighborhood, and when this curiosity stuck its
head above the surface, the fisherman did not know what
to make of it, until he found that it had a trigger, and
then, being a gun man, Mr. Sanford recognized it as a
specimen of the trigger fish, common enough in some
waters, but a rarity in the Sound. He brought the speci-
men to New York and put it into the hands of a taxider-
mist for preservation. His pride in the handsome trophy
wong be complete if it were not that the fish is a muzzle-
loader.
Our illustration, taken from the ‘‘Fishery Industries,”
shows the peculiar first dorsal fin from which the fish
takes its name. There are three spines which, when
erect, can be lowered only by pressing back the last one
behind. Pressure against the large spine in front has no
effect, nor against the second one, but when the third is
pulled back as one would a trigger, all will fall, with a
sharp click, and lie flat, sinking into a recess in the back
like the trunk of a centerboard. Mz. Sanford has been
studying this natural trigger device, and one of these days
probably we shall see it applied to the Winchester arms,
These particulars of the species are found in the ‘‘Fishery
Industries:”
“The leather-jacket of Pensacola (Balistes capriscus),
called ‘trigger fish’ in the Carolinas, and at Key West
and the Bermudas known as the ‘turbot,’ occasionally
finds its way astar north as Massachusetts. Itis, how-
ever, of no importance north of Florida. In the Bermudas
it is considered a valuable food fish. According to Mr.
Stearns, ‘itis yery common in the Gulf of Mexico from
Key West to the Mississippi River, and lies in deep water
near the coast on the ground where red snappers and
groupers are caught. It is one of the most abundant
species. In regions where it is not eaten it is regarded as
a pest by the fishermen from its habit of stealing bait
from their hooks. Its manner of taking the bait is rather
peculiar, I think, for instead of pulling the line backward
or to one side it raises it up so quietly that the fisherman
does not perceive the motion, and then, by careful nibbling
cleans the hook without injury to itself. Expert fisher-
men, however, can tell by the “lifting of the lead,” as it
TRIGGER FISH,
is called, what is going on below, and know what they
have to contend against. The usual remedy is to seek
other fishing grounds where leather-jackets are not so
troublesome. When one of these crafty fish has been
hooked there is not much probability that it can be
landed, for its sharp, powerful teeth are almost sure to
cut some part of the gear, enabling it to eseape. I have
several times known of their biting in two the large red-
snapper hooks on which they were caught. They remain
throughout the year on the fishing grounds, where the
water varies from ten to forty fathoms. On these same
grounds it is probable that they spawn.’
“Only adult species have been seen in West Florida.
More could probably be learned of its spawning habits in
the vicinity of Key West, where it occurs in shallow
water and quite near to the shore. At Key West it is
known as the turbot, and is a favorite article of food.
It is to be seen almost daily in the market.
“The skin of this species is used for scouring and polish-
ing purposes at Key West and the Bahama Islands.
In the Bermudas also the skin of the turbot is used by
carpenters almost to the exclusion of sand-paper, the
former being better adapted for fine work in polishing
wood.
ANGLING NOTES.
Spawning of American Saibling.
THERE are but three bodies of waterin the United States
where the American saibling are known to exist. In one
of these three lakes, Sunapee Lake, in New Hampshire,
the saibling affords excellent fishing, as the fish are
abundant and of good size. Ontheshore of this lake is
the only hatchery in the United States devoted in great
part to hatching the saibling artificially, and therefore it
is of especial interest. A magnificently located and thor-
oughly equipped private summer hotel and sanitarium is
in process of erection at Soo-Nipi Park, the property of
Dr, John D. Quackenbos, at Sunapee Lake. The Doctor
spent last week on the ground superintending important
Se eign in the plan. He writes me under date of
oy. 4:
Poem in Prose.
“JT have just returned to New York from the dreamy
haze of a New Hampshire Indian summer, leaving behind
me on the Lighthouse Shoals at Sunapee the grandest
sight ever looked upon by angler—the American saibling
spawning on their self-selected mid-lake beds. There, in
water from one to two feet deep, in all the glory of their
nuptial tints, flash schools of these dazzling beauties, now
circling in proud sweeps about the rocks they would
[Noy. 25, 183.
select as the scenes of their loves, the poetry of an epi-
thalamion in every motion; now offering to the sunlight
in graceful leaps those gleaming sides of gold dashed with
vermilion; anon, suddenly darting in little companies,
the broad margin of their fins seeming to trail behind
them like white ribbons under the ripples. Oh, what a
wedding garment. Nature has given such to no other
salmonoid; even death does not rob our saibling of it. In
three hours, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, I helped to take eizhty-
one specimens, ranging from 1 to 45lbs. each, and on
Thursday, in three and a half hours, we captured sixty-
one. It is not considered advisable to keep the nets on
the beds for more than three or four hours a day, lest the
fish should become alarmed and desert the shallows for
deeper and less accessible grounds. There seems to be no
limit to the hordes that are coming up from the depths on
to that three-acre reef, and if the weather prove faiyora-
ble the screens in the new and elaborately fitted hatchery
bid fair to be crowded with eggs to the possible capacity
of one and one-quarter millions.”
Cold-Featured Business.
‘Already there are 300,000 brook trout eggs in situ,
double the largest number ever taken before, and forty
huge landlocked salmon (from 6 to 15lbs. each) await the
accomplished hand of human accoucheur, Too great
praise cannot be lavished upon the faithful attend-
ants at the Sunapee hatchery—Mr. Alonzo J. Cheney,
Mr. Wm. W. Hubbell and Mr, Henry C. Brown, of Hud-
son Center, the last-named gentleman.a member of the
town board of education, who has consented to give his
time as long as necessary to the prosecution of the good
work, No weather deters these men, no hardship. With
icy hands they tenderly loose spawner and milter from
the net’s clutch at dead of night, up to their breasts in
freezing water when the necessities of the case demand
it, beaten and drenched with tempest, but even with
sprightliness unehilled, always cheerful, never complain-
ing, no half-hearted service, no profanity if things do not
go exactly right. I have nowhere seen such disinterested
devotion. And then the courtesy shown to visitors, who
must at times be very trying. Some afternoons there are
regular receptions, and over and oyer again to inquiring
lady and wondering farmer must be told the old story—
and it is always fully told without a sign of impatience.
Verily one may sit on the porch of the camp nowadays
and take lessons in genuine politeness—by which I mean
kindness kindly expressed,
Then and Now.
‘Nor can one help contrasting the success which has
providentially crowned the efforts of our new Commis-
sioners with the comparatively scanty ‘take’ of previous
seasons. The liehas been mosteffectively given to maledic-
tion. The reported allegation that no new hatchery was
needed at Sunapee because ‘the ignoramuses appointed by
the Governor could not half fill the old’ ($275 woodshed),
has been demonstrated to be as preposterous as it was
malicious; and above all, the gentleman anglerand sports-
man finds, in the way business is conducted at the station
of the N, H, Fish Commission, abundant confirmation of
his opinion that fish catching and fish hatching may be
successfullly carried on in an atmosphere of refinement
aud morality.”
Postscriptum.
Since receiving the letter above quoted from Dr, Quack-
enbos I have heard direct from the Sunapee hatchery in
a letter from Mr. Brown, that on Nov. 3, 148 saibling were
‘taken in the nets; on the 4th 26, and in the forenoon of
the 5th 16, making a total of 332 in five days. This catch
of spawning saibling has not been equaled in any previ-
ous year. The saibling yields about 1,200 eggs to the
pound of fish, and 200 at least of those already captured
are females averaging 3lbs. in weight. Say that they will
give 3,000 eggs each, the fish now in hand will furnish
600,000 eggs and the season is not yet over. But 600,000
isa remarkable result and one not before dreamed of at
the Sunapee hatching station. Looking over my memor-
anda of odds and ends pertaining to fisheulture I find
that in 1891 the catch of spawning saibling at the Sunapee
hatchery between Sept. 3 and Noy. 2 amounted to a total
of 128 fish. The saibling taken in September and early
October of that year must have been taken in the nets at
the mouth of the brook, on which the hatchery and camp
are situated, and not on the Mud Lake shoal to which
they usually resort for spawning purposes. The largest
catch in one day in 1891 was 61 on Oct. 31. The unusual
catch of spawning saibling this year is particularly grati-
fying for other reasons than those already stated, as this
lake must be the one to furnish saibling eggs and fry for
other waters, if other waters are to be stocked with this
beautiful game fish; and it is not at all probable that the
N, H. Fish Commissioners will consent to sending eggs
to other waters before Sunapee Lake itself is ‘‘made stiff”
with the fish which is often called by the name of the
lake, As I am closing these notes another letter comes to
me stating the eggs already assured at Sunapee amount
to over a million, and the maximum number any previous
year was 300,00. A, N. CHENEY.
The Seductive Smelt,
QUEBEC, Noy. 4,—In your issue of 21st ult. that grand
fisherman, sportsman and fluant raconteur Chas. Hallock
relates of the ‘“‘seductive smelt,” and it would seem the
sport is rather costly in the localities he mentions,
Here in Quebec it is now at its zenith, and all the ex-
ense attached is time, a bamboo rod, piece of cord and
half a dozen small hooks, some folks put the whole half
dozen on their line at once in the same manner as flies,
but with a few shot for sinker, and three fish at a time
is a common occurrence. Some connoisseurs use worms
for bait, but the majority a bit of red meat and then a
smelt cut up, which these small cannibals seem to prefer,
The best time is when the tide begins to fow to about
three-quarters full, and then at the finish of the ebb. The
wharves are lined with fishermen of all sizes, ages and
tackles. Forty rods on one barge, all catching, is not an
unusual sight. Even the ladies enjoy the sport from the
decks of the Quebee Yacht Squadron.
Good smelt fishing is to be had in August at all the
watering places on the lower St. Lawrence, Muncy Bay,
Caconne Riviere Ouelle, Kamoureska, Riviere du Loup,
etc., etc., and at Quebec from the beginning of October
to late in November. Fresh smelts sell at from eight to
ten cents per pound, and at one time I have known the
seiners to sell their prospective draw for 75 cents to $1,
,
Nov. 25, 1893.]
the purchaser getting whatever that draw of the net
might contain, the uncertainty making it interesting.
Whatever may be the cause, it is a fact that within the
last ten years smelts have been exceedingly more plenti-
ful than formerly, and the quantities taken make it a
boon to the citizens,
The tommy cod, although taken in quantities in the
lower St. Lawrence all summer, only arrives here about
Christmas, when they are taken through the ice; Cabanes
built on the ice of the bay of St. Charles River, are often
leased to parties for the tide, but it is tame fishing and
the fish not for a moment to be compared to the lively
smelt, which is a real delicacy. Both smelts and tomcods
are only caught in tide waters, Three Rivers being their
limit on the St. Lawrence. X 95.
“Frozen Fish Thawed Out.”
MONTREAL, Can,—Previous to my last visit to the north
of France the downpour of rain had been very great.
The canals had overflown into the fields. Winter setting
in with unusual severity gave us a solid sheet of ice on
the ground both sides of the canal banks. Until the snow
came we enjoyed the best of skating, and while skimming
along we frequently noticed large fish imbedded in the
ice, and several of these frozen fish we cut out and carried
home quite stiff. Isaw them thawed out before the fire.
They became quite lively and would doubtless have re-
mained so had they been restored to their element.
Dayip DENNE.
In Washington Waters.
SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 8.—The first of the present month
was a sad one for all fishermen. On that day the law
regarding trout went into effect. It did not, however,
affect those who are fond of catching salmon, which
come up above the mouth of the Little Spokane, about
twelve miles below the city. Some friends went out last
_week and returned with three salmon weighing 9, 11 and
12lbs. respectively, all caught with a 7-ounce rod and
spoon hook, ts BR KS
Lake Minnebella Black Bass.
Mr. Gro. ELMER, of Minneapolis, sends us a photograph
showing a catch of 143 black bass made on June 27 and
28 on Lake Minnebella, seven miles south of Litchfield,
Meeker county, Minn. The top string of 20 fish weighed
7O0lbs., and there are 62 fish which weighed 2tlbs. on the
average, The fish were taken with live frogs for bait and
used 7-0 Kirby Carlyle hooks.
The 999th Time,
AND the next time will round out the 1,000th repetition
of this injunction to no-name correspondents who send
notes for publication, requests for information, money
for papers or books, Sign your name, Anonymous
communications will not be published. Anonymous in-
quiries will not be answered. Anonymous senders of
money will not have their orders filled.
Hishculture.
Pennsylvania Fish Protective Association.
THE eleventh annual meeting and dinner of the Pennsyl-
vania Fish Protective Association was held in the rooms at
No, 1020 Arch street, Philadelphia, Tuesday evening, Noy.
14, and was a most enjoyable gathering of members and
their friends. President Henry C. Ford, of the Pennsylvania
Fish Commission, read a valuable paper, which is here
printed in full, reviewing the work of the Commission; and
a most gratifying and encouraging review it is. Mr. A. M.
Spangler, who has the credit of being the father of the Asso-
ciation, and who during the eleven years of its existence has
been untiring in promoting the interests with which it is
concerned, read an address full of good counsel, and worthy
the careful reading and reflection of even a wider circle than
that to which it was immediately addressed.
The Pennsylvania Association is an organization of grow-
ing strength. It is engaged in an unselfish and wholly pub-
lic-spirited work. It should have the active, hearty, co-opera-
tion of thousands where it now has the support of tens, As it
shall become better known, as the people of Pennsylvania
shall cometo understand what it means for them and for their
children, they will give it increased recognition. In these
days, when for the most part every man is for himself, and
when most of us appear to believe that after us is the deluge,
and act on that principle, it is a duty to support and uphold
such an organization as this Pennsylvania Association, a
duty which belongs to every citizen of the State who is intel-
ligent enough to appreciate the importance and necessity of
putting an end to fish-basket greed and imposition,
Work of the Pennsylvania Commission.
Gentlemen of the Pennsylvania Fish Protective Prepared Blanks sent free on application. ;
Lady Venus. Eberhart Pug Kennels’ (Cincinnati, O) pug bitch
Lady Venus (Spokane—Lalla Rookh), Oct. 26, eight (four dogs), by
their Sir Douglass (Douglass Ii.—Lady Verne). ; ,
Chloe. F. K. Pidgeon’s (Saugerties, N. Y.) pointer bitch Chloe
(champion Tammany—Bertie), Nov. 7, four (three dogs), by his
Graphic VI. (champion Graphic—Daisy I1.).
SALES.?
=~ Prepared Blanks sent free on application.
Gem—Florence whelps. Black and white ticked Euglish setters,
whelped Oct. 1, 1893, by Martin J, Flaherty, Providence, R. 1, a dog to
Stephen H. Briggs and a bitch to Richard Randall, both of same
lace,
F Trinkle. Silyer fawn pug dog, whelped July 8, 1893 by Happy Toby
out of La Belle Senora, by Eberhart Pug Kennels, Cincinnati, O., to
Miss C. R. Hall, Hartwell, O. ‘
Tremoni, Jr. Black and white English setter dog, whelped April —,
by Tremont out of Jennie F., by E. O. Damon, Northampton, Mass., to
W. M. Wood, Pittsfield, Mass,
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
There is no charge for answering questions under this head. All
uestions relating to ailments of Gogs will be answered by Dr, T. G.
crebood a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Communications referring to other matters connected with Kennel
Management and dogs will also receive careful attention.
E J. J. C., Detroit, Mich.—Dash D. is not registered.
A. L, Tampa, Fla.—Write to Spratts Patent. 259 Kast Fifty-sixth
street, New York, or Dr. H, C. Glover, 1293 Broadway, New York, for
their vermifuge. directions will accompany the packet so that
you will have no trouble in administering the medicine.
W. CG. W., Port Henry, N. Y.—Prince Robert (A.K.C.5.B. 15,091,
Vol. VL) is by Robert le Diable (5,556, Vol. IV.) out of Ferry, by Tam-
many (4,114, Vol. III.) out of Erie, by Rake Il out of Browney.
Robert le Diable is by cham. Croxteth out of Spinaway; Tammany by
Pilkington's Tory out of Moonstone.
J. ©. W., New York.—I have a ten-weeks’ old fox-terrier puppy
which seems to have caught cold; is troubled by a bad cough followed
by gagging, and also has poor appetite. Ans, Probably distemper
coming on. Give the following mixture:
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Sie Morpher Siip hace psiis slats aalalats alesaliste ata vie kee actieete ele gr, 14
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gE Mix. “Give one teaspoonful three times a day.
B. A. D., Cambridge, Mass.—I haye a pointer bitch, she is a good
hunter and a good retriever, but flushes the birds and runs after them
when they rise. Will you inform me how I can break her of this?
Ans. The trait to which you refer is very easy to correct, There is no
part of training which requires so short a time and so little exertion.
Put a checkcord on your dog and when in the presence of birds, you
can control him easily with it. When he fiushes prevent from him
chasing, and if heis persistent and hardheaded, punish him with the
whip. If extremely hardheaded, use also a spikecollar. By punishing
him for his errors or disobedience, you will in time reduce hi
subjection. “Training versus Breaking” or ‘Modern Training” will
give you more elaborate informationif you requireit. Wecan furnish
them.
Bunting and Coursing.
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS FOX CLUB,
“T HAVEN'T shot a fox, but I’ve had an experience,’’ re-
marked Jerome Marble, the well known sportsman, when I
met him on Montgomery Mountain last Wednesday after-
noon, I also have had an ‘‘experience,’’? and but for the
warm welcome I received as LOREST AND STREAM’S repre-
sentative, it would have been a very cold one. This was at
the sixth annual gathering of the Western Massachusetts
Fox Club at Westfield, Mass., Nov. 15 and 16. On Tuesday
evening the bustling little town was invaded by many men
from outlying towns as far away as Worcester, who, with
guns, corduroys and leggings besieged the Central House
natil there wasn’t a bed left, and the rest went to the Foster
House, kept by a brother fox hunter, Mr. Hatfield. The re-
ception and lodging committees, composed of Messrs. J. D.
Cadle, G. E. Whipple and N. A. Harwood, and R. D, Gillet,
Dr. J. A. Shepard and J. T. Way, soon had every one com-
fortably settled, and the Business Club threw open its doors
to the visitors, who spent a pleasant evening with stories of
former hunts and anticipations of the deeds to)be done on the
morrow, while Charles EF. Rice, a visitor from Worcester,
kept the fun going by singing several comic songs.
“Early to bed and early to rise” is the New England fox
hunter’s motto, and daybreak on Wednesday found a num-
ber of sportsmen ready for the drive to the hillsin the vicinity
of the Montgomery Reservoir, about four miles from town.
Each conyeyance held a hound or two, all eager for the
fun they knew instinctively was coming. The weather
did not look propitious nor did it turn out at all favorable for
the hunters. It rained a little and snowed a little—in fact, it
was ‘‘foul weather” for the sport. Nothing daunted, the fol-
lowing hunters were on hand when the hounds were cast off
and afterward during the course of the day: Senator John
R. Thayer, Charles J. Rice, J. M. Marble, B. F. Kinney, J.
M. White, Capt. D. M. Earle, E. S. Knowles, C. B. Holden,
R. D. Perry, W. R. Deane, President Kennedy of the Worces-
ter Fur Club, all of Worcester, Mass.; O. F. Joslin and F. J.
Stewart, of Oxford, Mass.; Albert Hobbs, of Brookfield, Mass.;
M. T. Mason, of Northampton, Mass., owner of the Connecti-
cut Valley Kennels; G. H. Hibbard and W. C. Doane, of Chi-
copee, Mass,; Mr. Perkins, of Ware, Mass.; J. W. Clarke, of
Montgomery, Mass.; Mr, Gibbs, C. RK. Austin, O. M. Ball, P.
R. Otis, J. B. Hazelion,§ J. R. Jeffers, F. F. Shepard, B, R.
Holeomb, L. P. Lane, H. N. Kingsbury, R. H, Kneil, J. F.
Way, C. HE. Hibbard, W. Warren, J. S. Gross, C. D. Allen,
buygler, and G. W. Roraback, presidentof theclub. The sec-
retary, Mr, Goodnow, was prevented from taking part in the
fun this year. A number of others took part during the two
days’ hunt whose names I could not secure. The weather
cleared toward noon, but it did not become any warmer, and
it required a good.deal of hardiness and “anticipation” to
hold a post with the damp, cold wind blowing through one’s
whiskers.
About thirty hounds were cast off soon after daybreak in
the vicinity of the lower Montgomery reservoir on the east
side of the Montgomery range. Led by B. R. Holeombe’s
Prince, they were soon in full cry on the trail of reynard,
even before the hunters could distribute themselves on the
most adyantageous points. During the day the hounds
worked away from the east side of the range into the reser-
voir valley, and finally the fox took most of them toward the
summit of the mountain. Mr. L. P. Lane, the treasurer of
the club and a cashier in the Wirst National Bank of West-
field, was stationed near the storage reservoir, and to him
fell the first brush, and three sharp reports rang out, which
was a signal to the other shivering hunters that a fox had
bitten the dust. Mr. Lane thought sufficient for the day is
the pelt thereof and returned to town early with his prize.
On the level ground between the reservoirs Mr, Hatfield had
stationed himself, and he was the next to stop the earthly
career of another fox. Then fortune favored E. Williams, of
Westfield, on the opposite side of the ridge, and soon the
third brush was laid low, and J. W. Clarke bagged the last
one near where Mr. Lane had potted his, This completed
the score of the day, and though the hunters held on to their
posts wishing and waiting for a chance to burn powder, the
day was drawing to a close when the retreat was sounded,
and the stragglers camein one by one to the farmhouse,
where the carryalls and barges, etc., were waiting to take
the cold and hungry crowd back to town.
A gathering of New England sportsmen is not complete
without a feast, and the W. M. F. C.is no exception. The
tired hunters quickly donned their so-to-meeting clothes and
prepared for the banquet to commence ai 6:30 P. M. Form-
ing in twos at the Central House, the company, about 150
strong, marched to the Town Hall, where three long tables
loaded with good things awaited them, When every one,
after an hour’s activity, had heaved the sigh of satisfaction,
President Roraback introduced the Sumuer Male Quartette,
who rendered some glees ina pleasing manner. After an
encore the president introduced the toastmaster, H. W. Hley,
DR. VAN HUMMELL WITH VAN'S PETER AND NANCY, AND JUDGE WILLIAMS.
International Coursing Meet, Huron, 8. D., 1893. .
a prominent lawyer of Westfield, who forthwith gave utter-
ance to some very practical ideas in a very earnest manner,
Among other things he illustrated a true hunter as a type
of individuality and that we were in need of thisindividuality
in every sphere of life as a check to communism, socialism
and anarchism. His similes were well drawn and the speech
was a blending of hunt and patriotism, He then introduced
Hon, L. F. Thayer, chairman of Selectmen of Westfield, who
amused the company with some witty stories about foxes
and lawyers. Senator-elect Ledyard Bill, of Paxton, Mass.,
of whom much was expected, after expressing his
pleasure in being present, excused himself from mak-
ing a speech on account of a cold. Then the quartette
warbled again and President Kinney, of the Worces-
ter Fur Club, congratulated the club on the excel-
lence of its hounds, their owners and the character of its
gatherings. The Hon. Arthur S. Kneil, of Westfield, made
an pune a peer he pleaded guilty to being an original
sinner and his witty stories put every one in a good humor,
especially when he told the good old story of the stranger
who, when asked by a fox hunter, when the hounds were in
full ery, “Do you hear that heavenly music?’ remarked that
‘“ PUTTING LORD NEVERSTILL INTO SLIPS.”
International Coursing Meet, Huron, 8. D., 1893.
he “‘couldn’t hear it because those d—— dogs made such a
noise.” Hon. H, Bliss, representative-elect for West
Springfield, Mass., then followed with some bright remarks
after being introduced as another original sinner. Repre-
sentative O. F. Joslin, of Oxford, also made an appropriate
speech. After this Mr. Ely presented a handsome hammer-
less, in the name of the club, to President Roraback, who,
big, bluff, hearty sportsman though he is, was visibly
affected and unable to more than thank his fellow clubmen
for their kindness, which was as much a surprise to him as
it was appreciated. A few words from W. R. Dean, of
Worcester, and then Senator John R. Thayer, of the same
town, made a very sensible speech, in which he dwelt upon
the advisability of New England business men devoting
more time to relaxation and pleasure in their daily life, so as
to better recuperate them for their work. The quartette
warbled again and was encored, of course. H, Sprague
Knowles spoke briefly and then as the company was dis-
persing Mr. Chas. F. Rice, of Worcester, favored us with a
couple of good songs, accompanying himself on the piano.
The annual business meeting of the club was then called
to order by the president, andthe members, without any red
tape or oratorical frills, proceeded to elect officers for the
ensuing year, as follows: President, Geo, W. Roraback;
First Vice-President, F. S. Gross; Second Vice-President,
Wm. Warren; Treasurer, L. P. Lane; Secretary, C. M. Good-
now; Executive Committee, in addition to the above officers,
John T. Way, G. A. Lakin and Robert H. Knell. The presi-
dent, as the meeting adjourned, invited every one to partici-
pate in the hunt next day. The visitors were escorted to the
Business. Men’s Club and an hour was passed in pleasant
conversation, etc.
THURSDAY.
The weather hdd become much colder during the night
aud a heavy frost had brought ice to the ponds. Bugler
Allen sounded the reveille at 5 A. M., and though it was a
good two hours before Old Sol could be counted on to dis-
perse the gloom, the hunters hurried to the hotel for break-
fast, and a start was made about 6:30 for the Hast Mountain,
several miles from town.
_ Before going any further we eles as well relate a little
jokein which a Westfield man, Mr. A. R. Brown, was the
victim. This member of the reception committee, pro tem.,
had been indefatigable in attending to the comfort and
wants of the visiting sportsmen, and it was midnight ere he
sought his own roost after giving the club bugler strict in-
Junctions not to pass him by when he made his matutinal
roundup. It was still dark when tara-tara-ta-ta sounded the
clear notes of the bugle under his window. Scarcely realiz-
ing that he could havé been asleep five hours, he nevertheless
hastily dressed himself and with the ardor of a fox hunter
hurried along the deserted streets to the hotel for breakfast,
Not a soul was stirring, and congratulating himself on his
activity, he reached the hotel only to find it clothed in dark-
ness, hen he bethought himself to strike a match and look
at his watch when he found it was just 2 o0’clock. Realizing
that it was all a joke, he stole back to bed and slept so
soundly that the genuine reveille failed to wake him, and it
was § o’clock and the hunters had ‘gone away” two hours
ee en he opened his eyes, and there was one hunter less that
ay. :
But to continue our story. I luckily had no such experi-
ence, thanks to Mr. Conners, who rattled me out of the
warm sheets in short order, and providing me with a Sania
pistol” of large caliber loaded to the muzzle, to be used only
in case an Arttic fox came along, I was soon seated along-
side Mr. C. R. Austin, who had kindly constituted himself
roy cheberon,
o time was lost after the company arrived at the foot of
the mountain in casting off the hounds, about fifteen couple,
and every man-with gun in hand made his way to a point of
vantage where_a fox might be likely to pass. Among the
hounds were Messrs. Kinney & White’s Logan, the noted
performer at the B. F. C. trials, and Aggie and Major, W. R.
Dean’s Diamond, John R. Thayer’s Grover, O. F. Joslyn’s
Rock.and Juliet in charge of F. G. Stewart, G. EB. Perkins’s
Towser, from Ware; C. H. Brace of Lee had two, Mr. Mason
three. A number of others came from the Chicopee Hunt-
ing Club, Messrs. Owen Eros. of Granby had three hounds
and Charles Clark of Chester two, From Westfield there
were B. R. Holcomb’s entire kennel of sixteen, with Dot,
Dash, Prince and Drive as leaders, J. Jeffers’s two Illinois
and three Southern dogs, C.D, Allen’s Jeff, Jo and Dan, J.
T. Way’s Jake, C. E. Austin’s Babe, Williams Bros.’ three
dogs, Mr. Tice and R. H. Parks one each.
Some of the hunters placed themselves along the sides of
the steep hill, while others climbed to the very top—no easy
matter—as it was almost like going up the side of a house,
and the loose stones made {anything but secure footing.
Once on the summit, however, the glorious view amply re-
paid one for the loss of breath. On the west side lay a
stretch of country bounded by the continuation of the Mt,
Calm range, and at the foot of the hill lay the Hampton
Ponds, noted bass waters; on the eastside a grand panorama
lay before us. About five miles away, but seemingly almost
at one’s feet, wound the famed Connecticut River, with the
towns of Holyoke, Chicopee and Springfield nestling on its
banks at the foot of another range of mountains,
There is little to be said of the hunting, or whatever one
may choose to call it. Ambushing would be a more correct
term. Once the hounds strike the trail they are searcely
seen by the majority of the hunters, The “heavenly music”
alone is what may be termed the ;hunter’s barometer, that
warns him by its gradually increasing sound to be on the
alert for the passing fox, and then all is tension and excite-
ment, or, as proved to be our experience, the music gradually
fades away in the distance and the tension is relaxed and
there is nothing to do but loaf and wait and try to keep
warm. We waited a good deal that day for the fox that
never came. As the hours passed away we thought what a
good opportunity this must be for a man to review his past
and make good resolutions for his better guidance in the
future, resolutions which, I fear, would be forgotten if the
fox came along and he missed it. The hounds drove toward
the south continually the first hour, and toa newspaper man
fell the first brush, E. G. Clark of the Times and News Letter
bowling over a handsome fellow at the southern extremity
of the Mt, Tom range. Another fell te the aim of Gurdon
Bill, of Springfield, and Owen Upton, of Westfield, secured
the third and last one.
As might have been expected as soon as the sun had dried
the frost out of the leaves and grass, scent lay very pad
and the strong cold wind did not improve matters. Wit
no music in the air to keep us up to fighting pitch, and a
sense of our duty, discipline relaxed about 10 o’clock and
several of us getting together at the north end of the range,
a bonfire was built on the lee side of a large rock and here
we sat till nearly noon, toasting our shins and swapping
stories till the wee sma’ yoice inside admonished us that it
was along time between meals. Wethen broke camp and
made for the wagons at the foot of the hill where we found
the rest of the company assembled. Luncheon over and
‘‘pistols” exchanged, the hunters and what dogs had been se-
cured jumped into the wagons and we drove down into the
valley searching for a note to guide us to the other hounds,
Nothing was heard, however, and after driving round for an
hour afew of the more patient hunters scattered into the
woods again to seek their dogs or wait for them to turn up.
The rest drove back to town thoroughly chilled through.
There was little hunt, owing to the adverse weather condi-
tions; but the opportunity to meet such a jolly, whole-souled
lot of sportsmen amply repaid one for any physical discom-
fort. These Massachusetts fox hunters are jolly fellows, and
I can assure “E.G. H.’’ that far from their lonely vigils being
productive of misanthropy and other brooding ills, our expe-
rience leads us to believe that in a true appreciation of the
joys of this lifenot even a rollicking, hard-riding Kentuckian
could excel them.
I cannot conclude this “tale of a brush,” asone might term
it, without thanking the members of the W. M. F. C. for the
many courtesies extended to me during my visit. Although
a stranger to all, FOREST AND STREAM was an easy Pees
to their good graces. Hspecially am I indebted to Mr. and
Mrs, 8. S. Conners. ‘‘Woronoca’’ met me at the station and
insisted that I should make his house my home during my
stay, and besides introducing me to the comforts of his well-
appointed house, Mr. Conners did all in his power to aid me
in forming the pleasant acquaintances which I Pore torenew
at the next meet. . W, I
@#eseees
The Worcester Fur Club’s score of foxes “‘assassinated’’ so
far this season is as follows: Lyman A. Baker 8, Frank Hart-
well 5, Charles H. Howe4, KH. 'T. Whittaker 4, Henry Newell
4, N.S. Harrington 3, A. C. White 3, John M. White 3, John
R. Thayer 2, W. R. Dean 2, A. B. F. Kinney 2, J. H. Fuller 2,
S. A. Smith 2, A. C. Moore 2, James Adams 2, L. E. Bliss 2,
George H. Waite 2, E. J. Bates 1, E. W-. Gill 1, George Bates
1, Charles E, Steele 1, ae ee Kinsley 1, L, E, Divoll 1,
Albert Hobbs 1, E. H. Cate 1, D. C. Luther 1, R. D, Perry 1,
Milton Rand 1, Charles Pierce 1. Total, 64,
Nov. 25, 1898.)
Californian Coursing Notes.
SAN FRANCISCO, Noy. 6.—Things in the coursing line are
pretty busy now in and about this city. ‘Most of-the leash-
men can be seen at early dawn exercising their dogs in anti-
cipation of the big meeting that isto come off on the Newark
rounds on Thanksgiving Day, under the auspices of the new
San Francisco Coursing Club. It is pretty certain that at
least from 50 to 64 dogs will enter for this stake, and as the
major portion of the proceeds will be handed ofer as a dona-
tion to our Midwinter Fair (which, I may say, is spreading
out into vast proportions and bids well to rival in many of
its exhibits the great one of Chicago), the managers of the
coursing meeting are expecting to see the largest crowd at
Newark that was ever seen on these grounds before. All the
crack dogs of the Pacific coast are sure to be nominated, and
_if weather suits, and of that there is but little fear, the lovers
of the leash hereabouts will witness two such days’ sport
as has not been seen here for some time. Of course, Mr.
Grace will be in the saddle and the greatest slipper in
America, James Wren, will handle the leash, so there cannot
be any danger of mistakes. -
On this occasion there will be two stakes, an All-Aged one
at $5 each for all comers and a Puppy Stake at $2.50 each for
members’ dogs only. The new club has now 46 members on
its books and they control about 140 dogs,
There were two very fine specimens of the greyhound
added to our stock of longtails Jast week. Mr. R. EH.
Lopez, who has brought from Australia during the past
year many fine thoroughbred horses, arrived here last week
again from the southern hemisphere, bringing another con-
signment of thoroughbreds and the two dogs referred to
above. The breeding of these dogs is of the bluest blood
and if their performance in the field will be anything in pro-
portion to their appearance they should be dangerous oppo-
nents. They will be run at Newark on Thanksgiving Day,
so we will soon see what they are likely to do when pitted
_ against some of our California cracks.
_ Whe interstate meeting, which was postponed until spring
in consequence of the international event, bids fair to equal
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would have a nut to crack that would throw the Chicopee
Lass—Pear! of Pekin case completely in the shade, and may
cause a rehearsal if not a reversal of the whole proceedings.
Of course I take it for granted that the card was run as
printed in the papers above mentioned, GAZEHOUND,
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Condition of Greyhounds.
Editor Forest and Stream:
In your paper of Noy. 4, Dr. G. Irwin Royce in his remarks
on the winners at Goodland, speaks of my greyhounds being
in better condition this year than ever before, hence they
have gone to thefront. Now I am not finding fault with the
Doctor having his opinion, every man has a right to that,
but any one reading his remarks might suppose that this was
th ea year my kennel had taken honors on the coursing
eld.
I think the record of my kennel during the five years that
I have been coursing in this country, will bear comparison
with any greyhound kennel in America, as the following
results show. It may be as well to mention that for seven
years the only coursing meeting held in America, except in
California, has been the American Coursing Club meeting,
held annually in October at Great Bend, Kansas. I have had
the pleasure of running greyhounds at that meeting for five
years out of the seven, with the following record. In 1888, I
was the runner-up in the American Field Cup, a thirty-two
dog entry, with White Lips; in 1889 I was again the runner-
up for the same cup, with White Lips. In 1890, I ran with
the last four in the same stake, with Lancashire Lass. In
1891, [| ran into the last four for the same stake, with Master
Peter, and in 1892T was the runner-up for the same stake,
with Master Peter, and I think every man who was present
on those occasions will admit that it was only a bit of bad
luck and not the want of condition in the greyhounds that
prevented my taking first honors on some of those occasions,
A greyhound must be fit to run to enablehim to bea
runner-up in a thirty-two dog stake, especially when cours-
ing a Great Bend jack, The only other public coursing
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KENMORE COURSING CLUB AT GOODLAND, KAN.
. C. luse with Lightfoot. 8. Mr. Davis.
D.O. Miller. 13. H. C. Lowe with St, Lawrence and’ Melitta.
T. W. Bartels with Bon Bon. 18. R, Taylor, Slipper.
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any of the meetings held hitherto on the celebrated Merced
plains. The lovers of the leash in that district are alread
making arrangements and the purses will, as usual, be wort
competing for. The meet will be held, I think, on Washing-
ton’s Birthday. Indeed, this is a much better season of the
yeat to hold a meeting on the plains than in November, as
the hares will not then be such flyers and much mote satis-
factory coursing may be looked for. Due notice, of course,
will be given before the end of the year of this great event.
A coursing club was started in the southern portion of the
State last month, with its headquarters at Los Angeles, and
I have it on the best authority that some young gentlemen
of the millionaire class who reside about Bakersfield, also in
the southern portion of the State, intend forming a club
among themselves during the coming winter months, and
will give good purses to be competed for. This is what is
wanted, not only in California but allover the country; and
if these young gentlemen with long purses and high social
positions will only take to the grand old sport, it is safe to
say that in a very few years the gameot the Jeash would
become the most popular, as it is the most enjoyable, of all
our field sports.
The Chicopee Lass—Pearl of Pekin case evidently promises
to be one of the celebrated cases of the leash in this country.
I see|that at the last meeting of the American Coursing
Club held at Goodland, Kas., on Oct. 18 last, it was
ae to accept the decisidn of the National Greyhound
Club in this case. This surely is somewhat singular to say
the least of it, as I read in the very same issue that the N. G.
Club had been most unceremoniously washed out of exist-
ence by almost the same individuals a few days before, pre-
sumably, I suppose, in consequence of their incompetency.
Tt does not appear that even the usual cheap. compliment of
a vote of thanks for past services was accorded the kicked
out body, yet these very men of the American Coursing
Club, or at all events the ean portion of them, accept the
decision of the clubin the hicopee Lass case, that upsets their
own tuling of a year ago. This surely is an admitted proof
that the N. G. Club Enows more of coursing rules and ethics
than do the gentlemen of the American Coursing Club. Why
then, may I ask, are they so unceremoniously hurled from
their exalted pedestal and replaced by the very men who by
their own action admit that they are their inferiors in cours-
ing knowledge? Strange work this, isit not? J udging the
new organization by such methods as this it is difficult to
see how they can gain confidence from outside clubs.
I see that the International meetirg as reported in FoREST
AND STREAM was, on the whole, a success, and that with the
exception of the course between Ban Boy and Laplander,
which evidenly was misjudged, Mr. Williams did very well,
and possibly with more experience will be all that could be
wished for asa judge. But what seems a puzzle beyond all
comprehension is the working of the card as published,
for sues never since the first coursing match was run in
the world were dogs so outrageously mixed up and made to
run altogether out of their proper places. For instance, why
did Voltaire in the second round of the Cup get a bye, as it
clearly belonged to Delsarte. Why the former was brought
up to the top of the card from the bottom beats comprehen-
sion; consequently nearly all the dogs ran in the wrong
place before the card was finished for the Columbus Cup.
The same thing occurred at Goodland last week, I trust
that some of the gentlemen who had charge of this depart-
ment will explain how they managed or what guided them
in their actions. If any of the losersin the cup had made
protest lam inclined to think that the N. G. Club, or the
mrore recent formation, the “American Coursing Board,”
14. Dr. Van Hummell,
1. Dr. Cattanach with Princess May. 2. W, Walker. 3. P. Dawson withRhea, 4. C. F.Webs‘er,Seec’y. 5. F. Robinson. 6. M.B. Tomblin, Vice-Pres.
7. 9. J KR. Cochran with Nancy.
10. Mr. Woodard
15, C. Barrow with Bird’s Eye.
11, E. H. Mulcaster, Judge, on horseback.
16. Dr. G. Irwin Royce.
meeting ever held this side of California, tomy knowledge,
until this year, was at Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1890, when
I won the National Derby with Liberty, by Lord Neversettle
out of Partera, and my two greyhounds Little Climber and
Line of Luck, both by Lord Neversettle out of Partera,
divided the Hutchinson Stakes with Babazoun.
H. C. Lowe.
LAWRENCE, Kansas.
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Forest and Stream Fur Club’s Meet.
THE annual outing of the Forest and Stream Fur Club
took place at Wakefield, N. H., Oct. 16 to 26. The weather
was hot and ground dry, making it hard following for the
hounds, whose occasional loss of the trail was in marked
contrast to the steady driving of previous years.
An early start was made Monday morning. The hounds
soon hit a hot track and trailed rapidly away, and soon had
reynard on his feet. Each ‘assassin’? grasped firmly his
murderous 10-gauge and eagerly scanned the surrounding
hills for a sight of the fox, but all were disappointed. The
hounds drove steadily westward and soon were out of hear-
ing. No more was heard from them for the day, in fact, one
of the dogs was not found until Wednesday, and another not
until after the meet was over. Ill luck seemed to follow us
the whole week, for after the hardest kind of work on our
part and hours of unsatisfactory trailing by the hounds we
succeeded in killing 4 foxes against 9 the previous year.
Some of the boys not so enthusiastic over fox hunting as
the others, gave it up and turned their attention to other
game, and such a bombarding you never heard, the result of
which was 12 rabbits, 10 partridges and 41 gray squirrels.
M.
Farmineton, N. H,
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HUNTING AND COURSING NOTES.
The Los Angeles Coursing Club held its first meeting Oct.
29, and is said to have been a success. Tom Rice’s Tom won
first prize, and C. J. Nestor’s Queen was the runner-up. The
club will hold another meeting shortly,
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A meeting of the executive and field trial committee of the
National Beagle Club of America will be held at the A. K.
oS 44 Broadway, New York, on Monday, Noy, 27, at
4P.M.
We have received a picture of the “Buckstaff medal,”
awarded at the N. W. Beagle Club trials to Messrs. Dilling-
ham & Remmele’s beagle Mayfly. A beagle’s head is rep-
resented on the medal, which hangs from a bar under which
is a rabbit ‘‘on the run.’”’ It seems a handsome piece of
work and we congratulate Mayfly’s owners upon their good
fortune.
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Westfield, Mass., is a pretty town, through which the
Westfield River runs, The town is surrounded by hills
covered with woods and brush, affording a capital hunting
country. Grouse are plentiful and there are lots of foxes.
The town seems to be devoted to the manufacture of whips
and segars. Mr, Jeffers, who showed the foxhounds Nora
and Nancy at Providence and Danbury, winning firsts and
seconds, kindly piloted us through the American Whip Co.’s
large factory, affording us a novel and entertaining experi-
ence. Another whip and dog man is Mr. Whipple, whose
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fancy runs to English setters, of which he has hada large
number. He just lost a Rockingham—Donna bitch, Donna
Innees, that he thought a great deal of. She was afflicted
with paralysis in the hind parts, and her owner;felticom-
pelled to put her out of her misery very recently. He’owns
a good-looking dog, Buck II., by Buckellew out of, Lady
ary.
Mr. Dell A. Hamilton, of Worcester, Mass., has bought the
foxhound Hector from John G. Sibley, of Gilbertville, Mass.,
and on Thursday last shot two foxes ahead of him in the Gil-
bertville country.
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The Worcester Coon Club is composed of Chas. S. Barton,
L. N. Kinnicutt, Charles Bowker, Waldo Lincoln and George
Richardson, and they have a good many skins to show.
With their coon dog Ned they grassed three big “‘ringtails”
last week.
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Uncle Nathan Harrington, of Worcester, Mass., who is
said to be 76 yearsold, has a great reputation as a fox hunter
and original character. He was expected to be present at
the Westfield hunt, but did not turn up. He shot his third
fox this season near Dority Hill with the first barrel. The
day after this hunt a party of hunters including the veteran
sportsman, were discussing the merits of black and smoke-
less powders in fox hunting. One hunterremarked: “I don’t
want any black powder in mine when I am fox hunting, any
more than when I am in the brush; there is so much smoke
that you can’t see to put thesecond barrel on. Whatdo you
think about it, Uncle Nathan?”’ ‘‘Black’s good enough for
me, You don’t need to see to shoot the second barrel :iffyou
can kill ’em with the first.’”’ And that’s true enough.
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The Radnor Hunt has elected the following officers: Pres.,
A. J. Cassatt; Vice-Pres., Rudolph Ellis; Treas., George
Philler; Sec’y, W. S. Ellis; M. F. H., Charles EK. Mather.
Governors—Clement A. Griscom, Henry L. Geyelin and
Lincoln Godfrey. Charles EH. Mather, M. EF. -H., gave a
breakfast at the club house on Saturday morning last.
After breakfast the members and guests had one of the
finest hunts of the season. Starting a fox about 8:45 they
ran him to earth after an hour and a quarter’srun. Another
good run followed with a fox that was lost near Haverford
College. This huntis one of the few in the country which
has not to draw on the wily aniseed bag forits fun. They
follow the real Simon pure witha brush onit. Frank Gil-
lard is the huntsman, son of the noted huntsman of the
Duke of Rutland’s Belvoin Hunt, in England.
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President Roraback of the Western Massachusetts Fox
Club, tells us that hereafter the dogs that take part in the
annual hunts will be registered with the club before they run,
Thisisa good move, It leads to greater accuracy in pedi-
grees and lends more interest to the competition.
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Word comes from Denver, Col., that ‘‘a nice little coursing
party’’ will charter a special car and go to Goodland, Kas.,
for a quiet bit of coursing. The members of the party will
put in $5 each for an eight-dog stake and run it off in a day.
Mr, Ralph Taylor will go along and has kindly consented to
slip. Should the weather be unfavorable the affair will be
put off till Dec. 30. Coursing interests are simply on the
hum out in Denver; every Sunday parties can be seen driving
out in nearly every direction with from two to six hounds,
going out for a course.
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The St. Patrick Kennels haye matched Buenarita (Norwe-
gian—Buenretero) against A. C. Lighthall’s Buster (Goldust
ee) for $100 a side, The race will be run off near Denver
on Noy, 26,
Hachting.
THE popular interest in a contest for the America's Cup is a fairly
constant quantity, varying a little according to chance circumstances,
such as the personality of the challenger or defender, or the record of
either boat; but it is at all times sufficient to create a stir, throughout
all parts of America at least, The technical interest, on the part of
experienced yachtsmen of both nations, is a far more variable quan-
tity, disappearing almost entirely in some contests, such as those be-
tween Madeline and the Countess of Dufferin, and Mischief and At-
lanta, in which both defender and challenger were of the same type;
andrising to the highest pitch in such races as that of 1885, in which
the wide compromise centerboard was pitted against the narrow keel.
Although the old issue of sloop and cutter, with its clearly marked
line of separation over vital points of design, has entirely disappearcd,
and the two contestants of 1893 have very many points of design in
common, the technical interest this year is quite as great and even
more important than the popular, as is shown by the numerous com-
ments and criticisms which have appeared since the last race, some of
which we reprint this week. Of the British criticisms, it must be said
that in the main they are remarkably fair and impartial in the state-
ment of facts, and correct in their deductions.
IMMEDIATELY after the races there was a revival of the old clamor
over the centerboard on the part of some British critics, but on sum-
ming up the races finally most of them now concede that Vigilant’s
superior speed lies in her power, and not in the mere possession of a
centerboard. The Field devotes some space to an interesting discus-
sion of both the centerboard and the extra live ballast of Vigilant, but
in our opinion it undervalues the importance of the latter, Vigilant's
gain in carrying a very large crew is.a double one. In the first place,
apart from all mathematical considerations, it has been repeatedly de-
monstrated in practice in this country that under the proper condi-
tions live ballast is the best by far that can be carried. and will almost
invariably defeat fixed ballast, even in the form of low lead. While it
is a long step from Mary Emma, Mr. Iselin’s racing sandbagger of
1875, with her draft of 20in., to Vigilant with her draft of 14ft., itis
quite certain that both Mr. Iselin and Mr. Herreshoff had the old hoat
in mind when the new Cup defender was planned, and thatin the ab-
seuce of any specific Jimitation to the crew, such dimensions and form
were chosen as would give the greatest possible effect to live ballast,
That there was a material gain in this way can hardly be disputed in
the light of past experience in the same direction; but the advan-
tage did not stop with the mere carrying of the weight at the end ofa
long horizontal lever, the half beam of the yacht, and the facility for
trimming fore and aft by this extra weight. Under the interpretation
of the measurement rule which has been followed this year, each
yacht is allowed the privilege of being measured with no crew on
board. What this means to Vigilant is easily seen when we consider
that after measurment she takes aboard no less than 444 tons of
unmeasured ballast, while Valkyrie, with less than forty men to Vig-
ilant's seventy, has but 214 tons of unmeasured ballast. This means
that the excess of sailing waterline over measured waterline is upward
of one foot more in Vigilant than in Valkyrie, a clear gain of that
much length.
Asstuine the right of Vigilant, in default of any express prohibi-
tion, to avail herself of this kind and amount of ballast, there still
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iis a nice question of ethics whether such a course is to be considered
fair and sportsmanlike. This much may safely be said, that had it
Ibeen Valkyrie instead of Vigilant that thus took advantage of a plain
‘defect in the rules, there would have been a greater clamor than was
raised over the alleged over-length of Thistle in 1887; and further, that
itis one of those tricks which can be played just once. Itis quite
‘probable that before next season a fixed limit of crew will be incorpor-
vated in the rules; or if this should not be done, every designer will be
awake to the privileges accorded him in the tacit indorsement by the
club of Vigilant’s action; and she will no longer haye a monopoly of
this “unmeasured increment” of power.
THosE yachtsmen who first took an interest in the keel yacht |
through the lively controversies of 1879-80 will remember well a
peculiar type of Buglish yacht which attracted much attention on
this side from the fact that it possessed quite a large amount of beam;
the “Itchen boat,” commonly called, or ‘‘lengther,” at that time racing
very actively about Southampton water. These yachts were unique
among British craft'in being one of the two exceptions to the then
universal tonnagerule, the other being the racing yachts of Lake
Windermere, and both were raced under a waterline length rule.
Another peculiar feature of the Itchen boat was its rig, many being
semi-sloop rigged, with mast very far forward and a single jib.
These yachts, to which the Yachtsman alludes in an article quoted
elsewhere, were most excellent examples of the evil of great power
on a limited length, being of great beam and draft, with a large area
of midship section, excessive sail area, fast in smooth water, bad in a |
sea. and at all times hard to steer. Their beam, however, commended
them to Americans, and several were built in Boston about 1880, others
were imported, and the type has played an important part in the
evolution of the present American keel cutter; Pappoose is directly
related to the Itchen’ family, though of later and better design, and
both Liris and Kathleen are closely related to Curtsey, Lil and Eclipse,
The'earliest of the Boston keel yachts, ante-dating even the Itchen
boats, though different and more crude in model, had much in com
mon with them, a great beam, a hollow midship section, the huil be-
ing that of a wide centerboard boat, and an excessive draft, made up
by a deep oak keel with an iron keel below.
Whether in its crudest form, of the primitive Boston keel, built
from centerboard moulds, and with a midship section resembling a
draftman’s T square, or in the more elaborate work of skilled de-
-signers, with a beautifully curved section of the “‘wineglass” form;
the type was marked by certain strong characteristics. The beam
and draft were greatin proportion to length, the section was very
hollow, giving a minimum of accommodation below, the weight was
hung very low, the sail area was excessive, requiring a large crew,
the boat was very fast under normal racing conditions—smooth water
aud moderate breezes—but ‘expensive to build and run, hard to steer,
and a poor seaboat.
In the general features of her design Vigilant is closely allied to the
Ttchen boat, and the experience with this type on both sides of the
Atlantic, shows pretty clearly what may be expected from her and
others like her, While various circumstances, such as the defects of
Liris’s rig and the perfection of Minerva’s design have operated at
times to restrict the development of this type, there is no question
that itis diretly favored by local conditions in America and existing
American rules, and we do not for a moment question the right or the
wisdom of a designer, who, after studying these conditions and rules
produces an extreme example of the type to race under them. One
question we would raise, however, at this time, and that is whether it
is best for the clubs either actively or passively to continue to encour-
age through the rules a type which is so expensive, unhandy, and,
we believe, detrimental to the best interests of yachting, No doubt
the experiment has paid, and paid well, this year in the defeat of the
fastest yacht which has ever challenged for the Cup, but now that the
whole yachting world is awake to what was but six months since the
exclusive secret of Mr. Herreshoff, this great advantage of the de-
fender has largely disappeared. This being the case, would it not be
to the advantage of all parties, in view of the prohibitive expense to
which racing has been raised this year, to impose certain reasonable
limits on erew and sail area, if not to make an effort to transfer the
principal racing to a smaller class than 87 or a possible 90ft.
In mentioning the Itchen boats, the Yachtsman, endeavors to prove
that the value of beam was fully realized in England before the suc-
cess of Puritan and Mayflower. This, however, was very far from
being the ease, even the victories of the Itchen boats over some of the
fast tonnage cutters of the day failed to make any serious impression
in England, and it is quite probable that but for the visit of Genesta
and Galatea to America, and the success of the yachts built to meet
them, the narrow cutter and the lengther would still be racing in Brit-
ish waters, It was the defeat of Genesta by Puritan which gave a ful-
erum to the lever which a few yachtsmen had been using ineffectually
for some time to overturn the old tonnage rule.
As THE various quotations show, the lessons of the races have been
studied with considerable care on both sides, and the erroneous im_
pressions published just after the lastrace are likely to have little effect_
Tt may dono harm, however, to recapitulate the more salient points
developed by the races, some of which were only visible when the ex-
citement was over, and there was time for a cooler and clearer view.
In the first place, the radical and deciding difference between the
two yachts laid neither in the size nor in the centerboard, but in the
type, as indicated in the midship section. Thatof Vigilant approached
the T square or the ‘wineglass” form of the old yachts already dis-
cussed, and of the still greater extreme of the modern fin-keel; while
Valkyrie showed in her section the greater area and the fair and easy
S curve of the modern cutter as found on both sides of the Atlantic.
The inequality in this respect was most marked, far greater than in
any other,
As regards actual size or power, let us assume that Vigilant could
be reduced in dimensions and sail area, of course preserving all pro-
portions, until her sailing length and rating exactly coincided with
those of Valkyrie, and what would be the result. On the basis of
Valkyrie’s actual measurement, apart from the excess of spinaker
boom, the reduced Vigilant would be about 83ft. l-w.1., 10,500sq. ft, of
sail. All time allowance being thus eliminated, we believe that Vigilant
would stil! win under any conditions that are favorable to her in her
preserit size. The best and fairest conditions im all of the races were
those of the triangular course, and the very large margin which can-
not be explained away out of the lead of 12m., would more than
cover the reduction of Vigilant’s size to Valkyrie’s rating.
As regards the centerboard, if we assume that, while still of the
same rating, Vigilant is robbed of her board and deepened in propor-.
tion to Valiyrie’s draft; or, on the other hand, that Valkyrie has her
lead raised to Vigilant’s draft and a centerboard inserted, there still
exists a difference in beam, form of section and ratio of sail to
length, which experience tells us must make Vigilant the faster
Paco minor points present themselves before we leave the hull;
the all-metal construction of Vigilant and the elaborate composite
build of Valkyrie are nearly equal in the matter of weight, while the
eopper-sheathed bottom of the latter was probably as good or nearly
so for the ten days following the last docking as the bronze bottom of
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FOREST AND STREAM.
[Nov. 25, 1898.
| herrival, The triangular form of Valkyrie’s lateral plane aided her
| greatly in all the maneuvering as opposed to the long, straight keel
and sluggish movements of Vigilant. The question of wheel vs. tiller
is a hard one to decide, but eyen many American yachtsmen concede
4 certain superiority for the tiller in racing.
Going now to that portion of the yacht above the deck, many inter
esting points present themselves. In the novel and original disposition
of her rigging Vigilant was unquestionably superior to Valkyrie, the
latter having the old mechanical details of the conventional cutter rig,
suchas all shrouds to the hounds, while three of Vigilant’s ran to the
upper cap and but two to the hounds, Vigilant's mast was also stayed
fore andiaft by two wire rope stays, from upper cap to a point just
above tthe deck, set up with turnbuckles, and strained over an A_
shaped brace, acting like the bridge of a fiddle, just where the thrust
of the gait came. The rigging throughout was more complicated, and
made up of more parts, each demanding an exact amount of careful
adjustment, but it was at the same time lighter and gaye better sup-
port to the spars, than the conyentional shrouds and runners of Val-
kyrie.
No doubt there was a certain element of weakness in the experi-
mental nature of the rig, and also in the fact that a failure of one of
| the many members would belikely totresult in a general wreck, but the
fact is that Vigilant’s rig kept her spars in her under the tremendous
strain of the last bad quarter of an hour. The comparison of the two
| rigs,as seen through the series of races, is likely to lead to the general
adoption of theHerreshoff rig, and it is more than likely that Valkyrie
will profit by a similar arrangement of shrouds and iron work next
season.
In sail, so far as material and making goes, the advantage was mani-
festly with the English boat, the cotton of course is no better than
that used here, but the duck is more carefully made, and driven up
harder in the making than in American mills. So much lies in the
bending and using of the sails that itis a hard matter to say whether
the blame for a poor sail lies with the maker or user; in this case it is
only necessary to say that Mr. Ratsey’s work was as perfect as one
would wish to see, while every sail bore the evidence of tender and
careful manipulation in bending and working out to its best form.
Vigilunt’s sails were well made, and of a special grade of very fine
duck, but they by no means set as well in use as those of Valkyrie.
In the matter of sail area, Vigilant had some advantage in the pre-
vailing light weather, in being over-canvassed; while Valkyrie would
probably be materially improved for American racing by more can-
yas, with possibly a litte more.
In the sail plans, however, as worked out by the designer, there was
a marked difference, and all in favor of American practices. This dif-
ference was in the jibtopsails; in the first place, as in all American
cutters, the bowsprit extends beyond the cranse iron, in the case of
Vigilant, just over 2ft., thus throwing the topmast stay well forward
and keeping the jibtopsail well clear of the jib and mainsail, while on
Valkyrie the topmast stay comes down to the cranseiron, With no
pole outside the sails carried on this stay are different, the British
fashion being to carry ordinarily a “No.1 jibtopsail’” extending the
whole length of the stay, but cut high in the clew, like the American
“large jibtopsail.”” This sail was set on Valkyrie whenever the spina-
ker was used, as in the finalrace, The same sail was used on Vigilant,
but only in reaching or on the wind; in a strong breeze with Spinaler
set and also in reaching in moderate breezes, she relied on a “ballwon-
jibtopsail,” improperly called by most yacht skippers a “balloonjib,” a
very large sail of Irish linen, extending the whole length of the top-
mast stay and sheeting aft well beyond the mast.
This very useful sail was carried by Vigilant at all times save when
on the wind, and for windward work in very light airs she had a
special “balloon jibtopsail,” considerably smaller, a sail not com-
monly used. Valkyrie had indeed a sort of “balloon jibtopsail,” her
‘‘spinaker jib” or ‘“‘bowsprit spinaker,"’ as the English terms go, but
she used it very little, and neyer as Vigilant used one or the other of
her ‘‘balloon jibtopsails.**
When dead before the wind Vigilant had her main boom well off,
her spinaker with the sheet carried around the forejstay, her jib and
staysail lowered, and her balloon jibtopsail set, the wind from the
spinaker being spilled into the latter sail. Valkyrie, on the contrary,
had her boom further in, the spinaker was carried square across the
deck, the balloon foresail was set, also the jib, and only the No.1 jib
topsail.
In connection with the spinaker two other points remain to be
noticed, while Vigilant’s spinaker boom was just off the length allowed
by the rule, Valkyrle paid for an excess of no less, than 6ft.of spinaker
boom, a penalty of nearly half a minute in 30 miles; a most extraor-
dinary and unusual handicap for a designer to assume voluntarily for
the sake of a little more speed down wind.
The difference in setting light sails, spinakers and jibtopsails, was
also very great; on the British boat they were set flying, no matter
how hard the wind, while on the American they were as inyariably set
in stops and broken out. No doubt on short courses there is a certain
advantage in being trained to set these sails without the delay and
trouble of stopping them up, but in anything more than a very light
breeze the advantage is entirely on the side of the American plan; and
in fact, in any weather it is the better. The actual handling on Val-
kyrie was far better than on Vigilant, but there were times in the
races when it would have been an advantage in coming around a mark
to have the spinaker mastheaded and hauled out before the turn was
made, leaving only the breaking of the stops when once on the new
course. The disadvantage of the English plan was plainly shown on
the last day, the spinaker being first torn on the foot in setting it fying
in the strong wind.
Apropos of this setting in stops, the Yaehtsman remarks: “British
skippers do not care to risk their spars by such a sudden and tre-
mendous jerk as the breaking out of a stopped spinaker is bound to
cause.” This, however, does not explain the fact that the Spars never
break under the Same conditions on an American yacht, and that
spinakers and balloon jibtopsails are invariably set in this manner
without damage to the sails or spars.
In this point of setting light sails in stops Valkyrie’s crew was at a
serious disadvantage, enough often to offset their unquestioned
superiority in drill and quick working.
This drill and discipline of the Hnglish crew was shown in many
ways, the quick handling of the spinakers, and the machinelike
regularity and quickness with which the head sheets were handled in
tacking, butit was by no means the case that the handling on Val-
kyrie was uniformly better than on Vigilant. As long as everything
Tan properly in the accustomed routine, the English crew was the
better, but under adverse conditions and in emergencies it did not
show up as well as the crew of Vigilant. The finest work done in the
whole series of the races was that on board Vigilant in the run of the
final race; her mixed crew of Norwegians and ‘‘Sou’wegians” turned
to with a will and shook out areefand packed on sailin a way that
made one forget all about their slow and clumsy work a little before
in setting the spinaker.
It may be assumed that after weeks of trial aud careful working np,
Vigilant was in yery perfect form, and sailed as near to her best as
any yacht does in her first season. So far as stability goes, Vallcyrie
probably lost nothing by the reduction of weight and ballast on this
side, she was at all times a stiff boat, and even in the last race would
have carried her whole mainsail easily to windward, and at no time
did she show the need of the ton of lead put aboard before that race,
tis most likely, however, that the experiment of putting her in a new
and very different trim at the last moment, and sailing her in the Cup
races without a trial, resulted as such a yenture usually does, to the
yacht's disadvantage, and that, while stiff enough, she was off her
fore and aft trim, and acted differently. Whatever the loss in this
way may have been, it was not enough to influence appreciably the
finalresult.
Looking now at the performance of the two yachts, that of Valkyrie
in the windward work of the last race has been generally over-rated
by British yachtsmen. In the first place, neither yacht was canvassed
according to the weather conditions existing at the time of the start,
but on the basis of telegraphic reports of a heavy gale coming up the
beach and timed to reach Sandy Hook at noon, It may be said now
that this ‘‘gale” proved far lighter off New York than was anticipated,
and moreover it did not begin until the race was over, reaching its
height about 10 P. M. instead of at noon. With a falling barometer
and the telegraphic reports, both yachts shortened sail more than was
necessary, but with different results, ~
Valkyrie turned in a small reef, setting her No, 2 jib, forestaysail
and jibheader. This disposition of canyas was one she was accus-
tomed to, and she balanced and handled perfectly under it; she could
have carried the whole mainsail and jibheader easily. though it is
possible that she might have gone no faster to windward. Vigilant,
contrary to all American usage, followed Valkyrie’s example in a cer
tain way. She, too, turned a reef into her mainsail, but her first reef
is nearly twice as deep as Valkyrie’s. With this serious crippling of
her driving power she still carried her No. 1 jib, it being hanked to the
stay and difficult to shift. Her foresail was seb anda jibheader over
the reefed mainsail. The result of this morfydite reefing, which was
strongly opposed by some of those in charge was that the yacht was
robbed of the driving power of the big mainsail, so essential to the
speed of a wide craft, and at the same time the big jib paid her head
off continually, causing her to work in a manner never seen before,
Had she followed the usual Americon practice of carrying whole
mainsail and headsails, without a topsail, she would have gone faster
and easier, and would have been at the outer mark from three to five
minutes sooner. Much has been said about the poor working of her
centerboard, but the loss from this item was probably very little, on
and off the wind, the reduced mainsail and the very bad balance, how-
ever, was a far more serious matter.
Added to this error in canyassing came other eyils as usual in its
train, and Vigilant was never worse handled than in the first half of
this race; she made a miserable start, and when she had made up a
part of this loss by hard footing she was robbed of it all by the seri-
ous blunder of the first off shore tack, which placed her back again
right under Valkyrie’s blanketing,
The handling of Valkyrie in this part of the race has been justly
praised. she won the start by sheer skill at the stiek and quickness of
turning in the boat herself, and she was sailed beautifully, keeping her
rival under her lee.
In stroug contrast to this, however, is the work of the two boats on
the run in; the good work on Valkyrie ended when she set her spina-
ker, and the bungling stopped on Vigilant with the tardy breaking out
of the same sail. With her spinaker once drawing, though with two
bad tears in the foot, Valkyrie set her large jibtopsail and balloonfore-
sail, still carrying the reefed mainsail and jibheader, and apparently
settled down to a quiet afternoon sail home. Her crew worked
briskly and skillfully in shifting spinakers later on, afler the first one
tore, but apart from this incident she sailed along in a leisurely, go-
as-you-please fashion, making no effort to get more sail.
Vigilant, on the other hand, although the wind was steadily freshen-
ing, no sooner had her spinaker drawing than all hands were at work
on the balloon jibtoptail, the larger one of the two, and this sail was
set, after some trouble with a fouled hook, which made it necessary
to send a man down the topmast stay. While this was doing, men
were at work along the boom casting off the reef, and at the mast-
head and gaff end lashing up the jibheader and sending down the
halliard and sheet for the second clubtopsail, which was set over the
smaller sail. All of this work was difficult and dangerous, and in the
rising breeze carried with it a serious risk of losing @averything; but
to all appearances the only thought on Vigilant was to win. On
board Valkyrie no effort was made to prevent Vigilant from passing
to windward, but she steered a straight course in, regardless of her
dangerous opponent, the latter passing her easily at the last.
By way of excuse for the apparently slack work on Valkyrie, it is
said that her mast was sprung on the last of the windward work, and
that no more sail was set because it might carry away and kill some-
body. There is every reason to doubt that the mast was damaged at
all, but ifit were an oceasion like this, the last possible chance after the
work and outlay of a whole season, is one that justified almost any
risk, and toracing men, in default of conclusive proof of the weak-
ness of the mast, the excuse will seem a poor one, From what we
know personally of the men on Vigilant, we feel safe in Saying that
had they been in charge of Valkyrie, with but 40s. to save, as events
proyed, and in the leading berth, they would either have saved the
time or have been towed in dismasted. As the wind blew toward the
close of the race, the risk on Vigilant was no small one; but with larger
spars and sails than Valkyrie, a’mast smaller in diameter, and lighter
rigging, and with whole mainsail, elubtopsail and balloon jibtopsail
set, besides the big spinaker, she was simply sailed to win—or to break
down—regardless of all ordinary considerations of safe sailing,
To us Valkyrie’s work to windward was disappointing, from the
models and rigs of the two boats, we had looked to see Vigilant's supe-
riorivy lessen materially or disappear entirely under such conditions of
sea and wind as prevailed in this race; and to see Valkyrie beat her
decisively to windward. So far as we can see, Valkyrie was canvassed
and sailed perfectly, from the start to the weather mark, while
Vigilant was yery badly canyassed, poorly ‘sailed, and possibly
hindered somewhat by the derangement of her centerboard. Under
these conditions Valkyrie’s gainis very much less than we looked
for.
Apropos of the final race and that “sprung” mast, the Wield of Nov.
4 speaks as follows: ‘With regard to the Valkyrie not having set her
elubtopsail on the run home, Lord Dunraven informs us that it was
not done because so much time would have been lost in hauling down
the jibheader and setting the 1,700sq. ft. topsail, and Valkyrie was
rolling so much more than Vigilant that he did not like to risk sending
aman out to the gaif end to lash the clew of the jibheader, and so be
able to use the sheet without hauling the sail down. The masthead
had shown some signs of weakness, but that had nothing to do with
the non-shifting of topsails.". This is a rather humiliating confession,
as in effect it admits that the British tar, with his heart of oak,
stopped short at a job that was done, and done well, by zood Yankee
sailors born in Norway and naturalized on Gowanus mud and Krom-
bach’s beer. Working at the ends of these long spars is neither safe,
easy nor pleasant, but if it is done on one boat it must be done on the
other, and the failure to do it is a strong admissicn of the superiority
of the opposing crew. While Valkyrie rolled more than Vigilant, the
work on the latter was dangerous enough to involve serious risk to
the men in the very probable event of the topmast going; but there
are times in a great race where a heayier risk js justified by the cir-
cumstances, and this was apparently one of them. The setting of
corresponding sails on Valkyrie, even after Vigilant had shawn the
way, would have changed the result of the race,
Noy, 25, 1898.]
CURRENT COMMENTS ON THE RACES. |
Tue opinions and criticisms evoked from both sides of the Atlantic
by the recent international races would make in themselves a very re-
spectable volume of current yachting history, but the bulk of them,
both American and British, are not worth preserving, their chief
characteristics being ibees Ay op prejudice mingled with an ex-
tensive ignorance of everything pertaining to the origin of the Amer-
ica’s Cup, the early races and the detaiis of the arrangement and
actual sailing of the present contest. As typical of this class we may
mention a correspondent of The Yachteman, who asks a number of
questions concerning the origin of the Cup; and on this side a cor-
respondent of the Marine Journal who, ignoring the fact that it is all
but a physical impossibility for a challenger from across the ocean to
win from the picked one of four defending yachts, demands a return
to the conditions of the first race, compelling the challenger to sail
against an unlimited fleet. Ibis probable that very few of these com-
ments come under the eyes of our readers, and we herewith present
some of the more important ones, The Yachtsman sums up the whole
matter as follows:
We still adhere to our belief that an extra spread of 1,000sq. ft. of
sail without any alteration in hull dimensions, would not have sufficed
to put Valkyrie on an equality with Vigilant, but thisis a mere matter
of opinion, and the main point is, as has been poited out, that our
champion yacht, although the best that could be chosen from the fleet
of our large class racers, was outsailed because she was outbuilt.
“Now, we fancy that even patriotic experts on the other side of the
Atlantic, will hardly interpret this phrase as indicating that Mr,
Herreshoft has conclusively established his superiority over Mr.
Watson in the art of yacht designing—thisis not the sense in which we
understand the yerb ‘to outbuild;’ and it is an everyday phrase in
British beets circles. ‘ : :
“There haye been innumerable instances in which inferior designer's
haye turned out a craft which has beaten the efforts of the best yacht
architects, simply by adapting the extreme dimensions at their dis-
‘posal, and signal proof has often been afforded of the inferiority of
these designs in the defeat of such boats in a succeeding year by
yachts of smaller dimensions, but designed with consummate skill.
We could point to very many such instances under the 1730 rule, and
this is the sense in which we understand the word ‘outbuild.’
“Tt must not be supposed, however, that we seek to disparage Mr.
Herreshoff, None but a vessel of superlative quality could have
‘sailed as Vigilant did during the last International races, and her
designer’s reputation is too well established to suffer from au un-
enerous and untruthful attack as such an intention would cause the
foregoing lines to become. We merely intend to emphasize
‘Thalassa’s’ argument, that the extra beam and sail spread of
Vigilant, went a very long way toward her victory over Valkyrie.
Some journals are in the habit of calling Vigilant the ‘more power-
ful’ yessel, and by this, we presume, a reference is intended to her
greater beam; for, so far as we can learn, she is the reverse of
‘powerful,’ and to our thinking, Mr. Watson would find it an easy
task to beat Valkyrie thoroughly with a vessel of Vigilant’s beam and
gail spread. 5
“But the fact is simply this, that the ideas of our designers are more
eramped than those of our enterprising cousins, and if we may
éver hope to see the old Cup back in these waters, the challenger must
be prepared to build a craft of proportions so extreme that no advance
ean be madé on them during the period of Yankee incubation,
“We have referred in another place to Satanita as an illustrationof a
inisdirected effort (fron an International point of view) to out Herod
Herod. She has been a successful yacht this season in the waters for
which she was built, but, as Mr. Leslie reminds us, the climatic con-
ditions of Sandy Hook are widely different from those of the Solent
and the Clyde, and such a boat as Satanita would be the very worst to
choose as a challenger for the Cup. .
“When we first published the news of Lord Dunraven’s challenge and
that of Mr. Carroll, we predicted both Navahoe’s and Valkyrie’s
failure in their respective enterprises, although we confess that the
| former made such a very much worse display than we had anticipated
' that our hopes were somewhat raised as regards Valkyrie. In both
cases the primary odds were fearfully against the challenger—as they
will always be, until the challenger sees his way to build for one object
only, leaving all other considerations in the background or until some
such International arrangement as Thalassa suggests becomes an ac-
complished fact. The latter alternative, although by far the more
desirable, will, we fear, be difficult of realization, for the America Cup
has become of transcendent importance amon International trophies;
and although our American consins have now shown themselves
willing to take up the glove on terms as fair as in any preceding cases,
yet it is perhaps too much to expect of them to grant an abandonment
of what may be called their historic advantages, for it must be.re-
membered that these have been embodied in the conditions governing
races for the Victoria Cup.
' “Tt would go far to achieve a greater degree of equality between the
two countries if a uniform rule of measurement could be arranged,
This is an old idea, of course, but it may be none the worse for that,
Although this in itself would not by any means obviate all the
difficulties of a challenger on either side, it might prove to hea boon
to both countries, for it is quite possible that under the existing
régime, a challenger fit to cross the ocean may become an actual im-
possibility, and this would be avoided by a common rating rule of a
more sensible nature than that now existing in either country, while
ai the same timeit would certainly tend to put new life into the classes
Jess dignified than that of ‘cup challengers’ and ‘cup defenders.”
“phat our present rating rule is not the best that could be devised
for cultivating the microbe of a successful challenger, must be patent
to anyone who remembers the extinct length classes of Southampton
Water. Weare no great admirers of the type of boat evolved by that
System of measurement, but we have not the slightest doubt that, had
this primitive rule of mere load-line length been adopted instead of the
present bastard scheme, our 85-footers of to-day would have been fit
10 cope with any sailing thing afloat, These same Southampton
‘footers’ are now of historical interest. They were brought to great
erfection long before the era of the Genesta—Puritan races, and. that
eing so, they form a conclusive argument in favor of the Britisher
when the question is raised as to which of the two countries, England
or America, has taught the other the more in the matter of yacht
designing. Prior to the Genesta challenge, the almost unballasted
beamy skimming-dish, fitted with a centerboard, was the pride and
joy of American ee But it was not a skimming-dish that met
ienesta, although one was fruitlessly built for this purpose. Puritan
was & combination of the keel boat and the beamy centerboard, The
keel boat attributes were, however, lost sight of in the crow of self-
¢gratulation with which Unele Sam announced his triumph. Then,
_\wben the Galatea matches were sailed, the defender, Mayflower, was
endowed even to a greater extent with the features of the keel boat,
and Unele Sam crowed louder than ever over the yirtues of his (British
invented) centerboard. But the climax was reached when Volunteer
—a still further advance in the keel direction—defeated Thistle, This
time there could be no question about it, the American type was
invincible—at least that is what the American press would have had
us believe. But the new deed told another tale from experts in yacht
racing —as then understood by the New York Y C. 4
“Now all this time we had a local class of some importance at
Southampton. ‘That it was of ‘some importance’ may be gathered
from the fach that many owners were willing to support it at an ex-
euditure of considerably over £600 for the mere building of a 30ft.
oat. These yachts were sonore lly Gn the Genesta period) of about
three beams to length—or fully as broad as any of the then Yankee
centerboard cracks of the same length—and they were deep keel boats,
with a very hollow midship section, How, then, did our cousins teach
us the value of beam? / ‘ Dc,
“Does not the blame for such a;boast being even possible, lie with the
Yacht Racing Association in sticking to a rule which, as the South-
ampton classes proyed under their very eyes, did not and could not,
produce what they have lately stated to be the object of their doubtful
anibition—the ‘fastest? yacht? We have not yet learned the full
value of the centerboard, although we have invented it, evenin view
of Valkyrie's defeat; but this is hardly to be wondered at when one
calls to mind the experience gained in our waters through Queen Mab,
not to speak of Iverna and many other British centerboard boats, and
also through the record of Nayahoe. But we bad learned the value of
beam long before the time when Uncle Sam ‘claims’ to have taught
us our lesson. On the other band, the Vigilant of to-day far more
closely approximates to the Southampton 30 footer of ‘84 than to her
boasted Yankee prototype of the same date. Her ancestry is not
doubtful—it is British.” ware
Yn the same number the VYachtsman suggests the desirability of
‘Square courses and no time limit, but offers no better reason for either
than that it would remove all possible srounds for the criticisto that
Vigilant, thongh fast enough at home, could not win over British re-
gatta courses. What a foreign yacht can do over bad local courses is
-amatter of no importance whatever. No one thinks the worse of
Genesta because she was beaten by Puritan over the inside course, and
it will be a long day before the courses for a Cup coatest will be
arranged after s6 which, through local conditions, some of the
British clubs are compelled to race over, Apart trom the prevalent
light winds on our coast, no better or fairer courses ate to be found
-aouywhere than off Marblehead or outside Sandy Hook. or even off
ewport. ‘This same cry for four-sided courses was heard from the
Ulyde after the defeat of Thistle, and was as absurd then as it is now.
‘The day has fortunately gone by when important iternational
‘matches are decided over local courses, and no time record over such
courses can stand alongside of an actual trial on the open sea. a5 10
-. Pian TAaces.
e Vachtsman, however, continues as follows: “Our opinion is that
FOREST AND STREAM.
Vigilant would have proved the crack of this season (notwithstanding
the fleet she would have been required to meet) had she been built
only for racing in these waters. She likes smooth water, and she
would get it, in most instances, throughout a British season. The
moral of her success seems to point to the fact that in the large class
our designers have regarded excessiye sail spread with too much
dread, and that Mr, Soper, in designing another Satanita. should rely
on enormous initial power and -a corresponding area of sail, rather
one upon, as in the smaller classes, great length of loadline and small
sails.”
Tn discussing the previous races The Yachtsnan makes the statement
that it was generally admitted in America that had Irex challenged in
place of Genesta, she would certainly have taken the Cup home.
This will be news to Americans, as it has never been considered at all
possible here that Irex would have fared materially better than Ge-
nesta. Trusting only to memory, and without looking up the records,
we are strongly of the impression that at the end of 1884 Genesta had
wo as mich prize money and was considered quite as fast a boat as
Irex, the latter only beginning her long and honorable reputation
with her second season, in which she showed great improvement over
her original form, as was the case later on with Iverna. Itis quite
possible that O’Neil might not have made the serious mistake that
Carter did in the last great race, but we doubt very much whether he
would on the whole have sailed his boat any better, as Captain Car-
ter’s handling was generally commended here.
We recently quoted some remarks from the Field on centerboards
and ballast, the subject being continued in the following issue as
follows:
“Tn reference to the remarks we made last week about the ballast
erew carried by Vigilant in her trial races and races for the Cup. we
find that ths Boston Herald has directed attention to the matterin a
This paper says it is fortunate for Vigilant
that there was no restriction as to number of crew, as there is in the
yery sensible manner,
small classes, as otherwise Vigilant would not have been able to carry
her big sails in a strong breeze.
nearly 444 tons in all.
words, mien and not lead are shifted.’
“The question of carrying big crews in beamy boats has been
pretty well discussed, both in this country and in America, and
the sort of ersft it engenders has been generally deprecated. In
the result crews have been limited in the small classes in both
countries. As a matter of fact however, a big crew (instead of
dead weight in the form of ballast stowed under the platform) is more
objectionable in a large vessel than in a small one; and it must be
remembered, as we pointed out last week, that weight in the lead
keel or inside ballast hox would be generally more effictiye than the
equivalent weight under the weather railon deck. This matter is so
The accompany-
little understood that it is deserving of illustration.
ing wood cut represents the midsection of a yacht with a beam of
zg
2%t., and draft of water 14ft. The figure 1 represents the general cen-
ter of gravity of the weight of the vessel and everything on board her;
aud 2 represents the center of buoyancy when the yacht is heeled to
The length of the righting arm is represented by 3, the resultant
ofthe weight of water displaced acting upward through 2, and the
weight of the yacht acting downward through 1; the weight of the
Rb.
water is exactly equal to the weight of the yacht.
“If a weight be placed on deck at 4it will raise the center of gravity
(1) determined by the equation
Wx F
D
where W is the weight on deck in tons, ¥ the height the weight is in
feet above the center of gravity (1), and D the weight of the yacht in
tons. Say the weight equals that of thirty men, or 2 tons (thirty men
are chosen to represent the ballast men Vigilant carried in her races
I It will be pre-
sumed the average height these thirty men are located above the cen-
ter of gravity is 10ft,; when the yacht is in the pee position they
over aud .bove the forty men required to work her).
yer raise the center of gravity (if the weight of the yacht equalled
0 tons)
2% 10 .
“q50 70. 1tt.
A study of the figure will show \that, if the center of gravity (1) is
(by sine of angle) 0.052ft.,
raised, therighting arm (3) will be shortened
and so the righting power would be decreased.
“But the weight (4) is placed, say, 10ft. out horizontally from (1)
measured when the yacht is in the upright position, then (hy the
Same equation) (1) would be shifted horizontally in the direction of
the small arrow, and the righting arm (8) would be lengthened 0.13ft.,
or double the decrease due to placing the weight (4) so much above
@). Thus there would be still a gain of 0.052ft. in length of righting
lever. or stiffmess, by having the thirty extra men on deck: there
would be a still greater gain if they were below in, say, the position
(5), Next, suppose that, instead of haying the thirty extra men on
deck, an equivalent weight of lead (2 tons) is placed on the keel at (6)
11ft, below the center of gravity (1), then by the equation already
cited, the center of gravity would be lowered 0,15ft., and the righting
arm (3) would be lengthened 0.06ft. Thus the effect on the stability
of the yacht in smooth water would be the same whether the men
were out to windward on deck, or an equivalent weizht placed on the
keel. Butin point of fact, the weight in a fixed position on the keel
would be much more effective than a more or less shifting weight on
deck; andinasea way the bad effect of haying weights winged out
would not be experienced
However accurate the Field's calculations may be, they are based on
false premises so fat as the actual form of the yacht and disposition
of the ballast is concerned, and they introduce an element, the height
of the center of gravily, which needlessly complicates the matter.
In a wide flat boat, at least, the height of the center of gravity need
not be considered and, the real question being the advantage ofa
certain weight af 4, on the weather deck, or stowed as low as practi-
eable inside, the actual conditions are nearly as shown in the follow.
ing diagram
While this section is not correct, it represents quite nearly enough
that of Vigilant, and the mE of keel shown, 15 degrees, is about
Ehat ab which such a model will do its fastest sailing. The Wield's
! The Boston Herald says the aver-
age weight of the séventy men on board Vigilant was 150lbs., or
l The Boston paper concludes by saylng ‘it is
nothing more nor less than shifting ballast in human form—in other
4.61
diagram is not intended to be correct, but the adyantages of live bal-
last depend so much on the type of boat that we have, in the second
diagram, attempted to represent as closely as is possible the true
section of Vigilant, the position of her lead, the amount of freeboard
and the angle at which she is at her best. The lead keel if shown by
the solid black. the center of buoyancy in the upright and inclined
positions is indicated approximately, the weight of the crew on deck
is shown at 4, and that of the same weight of lead stowed as low as
possible by the shaded section at 6,
In its first position, at 4, this weight is at a distance of about 12ft.
from ©. B. 1, while in the position 6 it is about 4ft,, its righting power
being measured in the one case by the lever arm 12 and in the other
by the arm 4, or a gain of 3 to 1. 4 '
The Field assumes that if this weight were not carried at 4in the
shape of crew it would be carried below the present keel in the shape
of more lead; but it would be much nearer the case to assume that
the designer, after selecting the extreme limit of draft possible, had
still provided for his crew weight on deck, and that if denied this priyi-
lege he would be compelled to put the same weight in lead at 6 in the
second diagram, on tep of the existing lead keel, rather than at 6in
the first figure, below the same keel, A study of the second diagram
will show that, apart from measurement of waterline and the shifting
of the crew in any desirable direction, the gain through the weight of
the extra crew at 4is most important in a boat of Vigilant’s section,
and to it must be added the weight of the normal crew, 244 tons more,
acting on the same long leyer arm,
Passing to the matter of sail area the Field says:
‘In a clever article on the America Cup races, the Shipping Gazette
intimates that neither the New York nor the Y. R, A. rating and time
allowances sufficiently value sail spread. ‘There is no doubt some
truth in this, but under such limited conditions that it is seareely a
toatter which can be adjusted without creating worse anomalies. The
Vigilant has, in round numbers, 1500 sq. ft. more canvas than Valkyrie,
and, according to the accepted formula, if Valkyrie’s speed equalled 12
knots Vigilant’s should be 12.5 knots, and the allowance on a course
of thirty miles would be six minutes. But it is seldom that the
conditions for ‘full speed’ exist, and the Y. R. A. adopted 0,45 of
the full speed allowance only, the following being found by a special
formula, The New York formula is somewhat different, and .5 of the
full speed allowance is used. It can be supposed that the Americans
discovered in the same way we did that the average tints one yacht
can allow another is only about half what the extreme time would be.
In considering this subject of excessive sail, the cases of vessels being
under-canvassed must not be overlooked. Satanita is an example of
this class of vessel, and, while small sails are in some ways to be com-
mended, there is no doubt if arule were framed to promote such an
end, that a very undesirable type of hull would be at the same time
promoted: But, leaying the rating rule out of the question, there has
een evidence this season that the scale of allowances between large
and small vessels is inadequate. That is to say, the ‘curve’ appor-
tioning the allowances is too flat, say between 40-rating and 150-rating.
This, of course, could be easily remedied by altering the scale; but it
would be rash to do it on the evidence of one season’s racing only.”
The following, also from the Field, was written, we believe. by Mr.
Harry Horn, who came over specially to report the races. What he
says about the over-confidence of Valkyrie’s crew is quite correct,
and it is quite possible that the good showing of the yacht in the first
attempt at a race was a positive hurt to her afterward. The Field's
comments on the moral effect of racing on the wrong side of the pond
among a strange fleet, are quite in harmony with our own views:
“Tt seems hard to haye to say now for the fourth time that the crew
of the English boat has become demoralized after a race or two, yet
this is the case. It seems that the crew came over here too confident,
and consequently are easily cast down. The circumstances and con-
ditions haye much to do with this state of affairs, as ocean sailing
among a lot of steamers is very different to racing in the Thames,
Clyde, or even at Plymouth. This fact must be recognized by any one
wanting to win the America Cup, and it seems clear that any yacht
coming out with the intention of winning this Cup should come early
in the year and get used to the conditions of the case, and practice
ocean sailing rather than over Isle of Wight and Torbay courses. Itis
the old, story; the boats of the place, be it England, Ireland, America
or the Fiji Islands, are the most suitable to the place. Hence to beat
them in their own waters you must accommodate yourself to the cir-
cumstances, and not think that by mere pretty work, such as starting
first, tacking in no time at all, ete., youcan win, No,no. Thatis not
the game, but rather to go over the course at a reasonable speed and
keep going right along; no pretty work is needed to do this. Not that
this should be put down as the primary reason for defeat, but rather
as one of them, since nothing demoralizes a crew more than to get a
good start and then lose it. True, all the last four challengers
have tried to look the same wind as the defenders. This was
wrong, as the defenders in each case were beamier, hence pro-
bably closer winded, Again, one and “all of the challengers
have added to their sail plan for these waters, and most of
them have found their trim altered for this reason, and have
found the boats hard to steer in a fresh wind; this was particularly
noticeable in the case of Genesta, On the last day, in a fresh wind,
her helm was across her all the time; and one hears the same yarn
about Valkyrie; but these are trifles; the whole question must simmer
down to one of power, i, e., driving power, and, plainly put, it is sheer
nonsense to expect one boat to give another 10 or 14 per cent. in sail
area, i. ¢., driving power, and expect towin. This, after all, is what
we have been doing for the past eight years, always, no doubt, expect-
ing that the Yankee boat could not carry her sail; but haying been
wrong now four times in eight years, it seems that the time has come
now when we should give in and try to equal our good friends in
power to drive a given hull, etc., through the water.
‘““When the time allowance which Vigilant had to allow Valkyrie was
declared in the New York Yacht Club the writer had the honor to be
near that true and cleyer yachtsman, Gen. Paine, and heard him say
that he would rather have the cloth (7. e., 1,000sq. ft.) than the time
allowance. These few words cover it all, and show the cause of our
continuous defeat, namely, our wanb of driving power. To put it
plainly, what would the world think of a man with a steam
yacht of 85ft. l.w.l., capable of developing 1,000 I. H. P., challenging
another yacht of, say, 85ft. 6in.1.w.1., with 1,100, for a 30-mile race,
and giving him 126s. time allowance? Surely the most appropriate
term other than crank would come from an Huglish rather than an
American dictionary.
The last race for the Cup was indeed a surprise to many, as the ma-
jority believed that Vigilant would beat Valkyrie badly in a fresh
breeze, and were surprised to find Valkyrie leading them by im. dds.
at the outer mark, while, on the other hand, the Valkyrie party ex-
pected that in such weather their vessel would beat Vigilant easily to
Windward. Both boats were perfectly handled, and a better race
could hardly have been sailed. Vigilant’s speed down wind was some-
thing to talk about afterward. The result of these races proves con-
clusively that it we want to win the Cup we must give up our foolish
idea of expecting to do it with a boat of 10 per cent. less sail area,
and therefore with far less power, and no doubt it would be better
if the next challenger were to arrange it so chat the sail area should
not exceed a certain amount by 1 per cent., as in the case of the l.w.1.
It was unfortunate tliat Valkyrie lost her two spinakers, as, but for
this accident, she would certainly have won-this race; but, as she
would surely have lost the next triangular one, there was not so very
much cause for regret, the general opinion of everybody being that
in a hard reaching wind Vigilant would beat Valkyrie very badly. It
was very evident that the races took place far too late in the year, and
it is more than likely that they will never be sailed so Jate again.
“Valkyrie shipped a couple of tons of lead the day before the race,
which reduced the time allowance she had to receive from Vigilant
from tm. 48s. to 1m. 33s.. the reason for putting in this lead being that
the vessel was not steering well, it being evident that in stripping out
all her cabin fittings they had lifted her stern, and consequently she
was by the head. It seems a great pity she was not sailed at exactly
the same l.w.!. as the one on which she won her best races in Hogland.”’
The question of the inequality of sail area, and in fact of size in gen-
eral, between the challenger and defender has been discussed atlength
by Lieut.-Col. J. T, Bucknill (*‘Thalassa’’) in several publications; but
the true gist of the matter comes down to this, that the privilege of
outbuilding is one of the chief prerogatives of the defender, and one
that in all probability he will be loath toresign. As long as it exists,
the only one to blame for an inequality in size or sail area, in other
words a deficiency of power on the aye of the challenger, is the de-
signer of that vessel, it resis with him to select his elements and
dimensions for the home or foreign racing, or both; but if he would
win the Cup, he must keep to the latter alone. Certainly Valkyrie
comes nearer to the American ideal than any preyious challenger; in
fact she carried more sail than Volunteer, but Mr, Watson could not
possibly know how much his opponents were prepared to outbuild
him as soon as they Enuew his approximate power.
We fully agree with Col, Bucknill that the contest would be far fairer
if the two partics were bound by the same limit of sail area or sailing
length, and we can see nothing unfair in it; in fact. we are of the opin
ion that some reasonable limitation on sail or size would be of adyan-
tage all around, to the defender as much as the challenger, in inducing
a more moderate and less costly type of yacht. Ino our opinion a re-
turn to the 70ft. class for Cup racing would be of the greatest. advan
tage to the defender and it would be still better if some limit, however
large, were placed on the sailing Jength as well.
“Spinaker,”’ the Clyde correspondent of tue Boston Globe, is, as
usual, at sea over the centerboard, and with amusing results. In one
letter he writes; “What Vigilant has again proven is that a center-
board means everything on certain points of sailing. and in a certain
weight of wind.” Three days after, just after the final race, he writes:
“Friday's race has at least proven one fact, that the latest design in
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FOREST AND STREAM.
[Nov. 25, 1898
British keel boats is more than a match for the latest American
design in centerboards in anything like a good breeze of wind and a
} sea; aud this confirms the Olyde opinion, that the centerboard
is a holiday toy, not good enough to face a race across the Atlantic,
with its varied checks of wind.”” We are not much surprised at these
opinions of our Clyde friend, but we are at the accompanying editorial
opinions in the Globe, that: “The one thing which stands out the
most prominently after the winning of the Cup is, perhaps, the
triumph of the centerboard type over the keel. The improved Ameri-
can centerboard has again beaten not only the improved British keel
but also what was supposed to be the best American keel which could
be turned out,” This opinion, however, is in a great measure con-
tradicted by the remainder of the same article, which goes on to
ere out the radical differences in other important points between
igilant and Valkyrie, leaving the impression on the mind of the
reader that perhaps the centerboard had really little to do with the
result after all.
*“Spinaker™ has been on this side and should be well posted in Cup
matters, but he falls into the error of stating that the New York Y, C,
has laid down an ultimatum that a challenger should establish a
record at home before crossing the Atlantic. No such condition ex-
ists, either within or without the deed of gift,
Crossing to this side, the Intelligencer, of Belleville, Ont,, has
always devoted much attention to international racing since the days
of the Atalanta challenge; and, as it proves, is possessed of an incon-
yeniently long memory. In an editorialon the races it handles in a
vigorous manner the question of Vigilant’s relationship to the Ameri-
ean centerboard sloop, quoting liberally from the old sloop advocates
as to what really constitutes a sloop, and showing how far Vigilant is
from the qualifications once universally accepted,
A writer over the nom de plume of ‘‘Pioneer,” in the San Francisco
Field Sports, discusses the two yachts very fairly, and though evi-
dently an American, touches on the same question of the type and
origin of Vigilant, as follows: ‘‘The victories have been American
largely through our, batural aptitude for new ideas; the main eyi-
dence of conservatism being the continued use of an almost eliminated
little centerboard in a deep vessel of another type. We said some
years ago that boards were better than keels, and light draft with in-
side ballast only, better than deep vessels with outside weight. We
haye taken the transatlantic rig bodily, also their depth and manner
of carrying ballast; then why not honestly say we are sailing deep
cutters and beat John Bullat his own hobby? Is it not more to our
credit to build faster models and sail them better, than to shout etern-
ally about the centerboard doing it all, making believe that we are
sticking to skimmivg dishes with inside ballast?’ b
The Model Yachisman and Canoeist comments on the races as fol-
lows: ‘There has been a prolific crop of excuses for our defeat and
numerous utterances from people who find it easy to be wise after the
event. Attention has been drawn to the circumstances of Valkyrie
being lightened until her l.w.l. was shortened 15in. just prior to sail-
Ing, and it is surmised that she did not sail in America up to the form
she showed in her races at home. It is also noticed that Vigilant car-
ried a lot of live ballast by having about twenty men on board that
would not be required to work the ship, and there may well be some-
thing in both of these items that has contributed to bring about our
defeat. The ballast taken out would probably have been useful in the
second race, but not sufficient to have turned the loss intoa win. In
the last race it would no doubt have been of considerable advantage,
and perhaps turned the scale in spite of accident. The live ballast in
a beamy boat like Vigilant would count for something, it may be more
than can be gauged; and we think it would be better in future races if
the crews were limited, as there is no telling how far this feature can
be carried with success, even in large yachts; and that the depend-
ence, even to a small degree, on live ballast is objectionable, no
yachtsman who wishes well to the sport will be inclined to deny.
Valkyrie was, however, designed and built—talent and money made
their effort in her—to win the America mane and the combination has
failed. For our part we expected it would.it is a big special task,
and if ever the Cup is to be won all conventionality must be set aside.
The challenger must be designed, not for our waters, our courses and
our breezes, but those of America. It must be remembered that the
time allowance is small, and consequently is not a prime factor in
arranging for success; that under these conditions and the conditions
of American breezes and waters, that the limiting of the l.w.l. makes
it peecuicaly a length class race, and therefore that the most power-
ful boat of the length is sure to win. In smooth water and long
heaves of sea, beam gives more power than depth of body, and whether
the great beam pays over hereor not, it will pay over there.” We
could continue these quotations indefinitely, but enough are given to
show the general drift of opinion, at least on the part of the yachting
press.
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.
INAUGURAL MEETING—NEW YORE, NOY. 17, 1893.
Tu present year has been a most eventful one in this country, and
occurrences that would ordinarily have attracted wide notice have
been almost lost sight of in the bustle and excitement of the great
Chicago jubilee. Many events of seemingly great importance just
now are destined to be-forgotton before they haye been long relegated
to the domain of history; while others that may seem small and insig-
nificant beside the vast Beceanks and imposing ceremonies of the
Columbian year, are destined to assume an added importance as they
glide further andfurther into the past. To this latter class belongs
the organization of the new Society of Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers of the United States, which, as has already been told in
the Forrest AND STREAM, was called into existence early this year, and
which, within the present week, has celebrated its inaugural meeting
in New York.
When we consider the vast interests which must be favorably af
fected by the successful carrying out of the new scheme, and of the
work long since accomplished in the same direction by similar societies
of other nations, notably Great Britain, itis a matter of wonder that the
formation of such a society has ‘een so long deferred in the United
States. It would profit little now to discuss the causes of such inac-
tion, as it is evident that they no longer exist, but on the contrary
have been superseded by others which have resulted in the very suc-
cessful inauguration of a body which promises to be permanent, and
to have a most powerful influence on the progress of naval design at
home and abroad.
The work of the society this year has goneno further than the pre-
liminary organization and the announcement of its aims, but the roll
up to the date of the meeting included 265 members and 170 associ-
ates. The meeting was called for Noy. 16-17, the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers very courteously placed its club house at the
disposal of the sister organization, and the meetings were held in the
roomy and well-appointed lectureroom. After a meeting of the
council the general meeting was opened by the president, Clement A.
Griscom, of Philadelphia, the president of the International Nayiga-
tion Co., in the following address:
Gentlemen—You have conferred upon me the honorable duty of
ealling together the first general meeting of the Society of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers of the United States. While I am
very grateful for this distinction, I do not accept the honor as a per-
sonal tribute, but rather as your recognition of the important inter-
ests over which I preside, and which are so intimately connected with
our art.
7 The organization of this Society at_ this time and under the inspira-
tion of such names as William H. Webb, Charles H. Cramp, George E.
Weed, H. Taylor Gause, William T. Sampson, Horace See, Frank T.
Fernald, Francis T. Bowles, Washington L. Capps, Edwin D. Morgan,
George W. Quintard, Harrington Putnam and Jacob W. Miller, is sig-
nificant of the lively interest which the busy people of this country
are at last taking in the international struggle for marine supremacy.
Your articles of incorporation state that the particular object of
this Society is the promotion of practical and scientific knowledge in
the arts of shipbuilding and marine engineering and the allied profes-
sions, and this object is to be furthered by meetings for social inter-
course among members, at which shall be read and discussed profes-
sional papers on appropriate topics, the knowledge thus obtained to
be. circulated by publication.
That the need of such a society as this was recognized by the naval
architects and marine engineers of our country is strikingly exhibited
by the immediate eae to the call for members by a roll of 265 ap-
plicants duly qualified by professional standing, which roll of members
includes, I can certainly say, most of the distinguished men of the
profession in this country, and the appreciation of the need for this
society was quite as remarkably shown by the application of 170 gen-
tlemen to become associate members, who, although not profession-
ally qualified asnaval architects or marine engiceers, are qualified by
profession, occupation or scientific attainment to discuss the qualities
of a ship and her propelling machinery, and this list includes experi=
enced ship owners, gallant yachtsmen, scientific experts of kindred
professions, and men interested in the development of our national
and commercial navy. You are, therefore, to be congratulated that
your society has been so successfully and happily inaugurated.
Societies similar to yours exist in Great Britain, in France and in
other Huropean countries, anditis admitted that their influence upon
the development of the art has been invaluable. As long ago as
January, 1860, eighteen distinguished naval architects and marine
engineers, and otherwise scientific men, met at the hall of the Society
for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, in
London, and established the British Institutions of Naval Architects.
The:e eighteen men were all distinguished and included, among
etners, the Reverend Joseph Woolley, Principal of the School of
Mathematics and Naval Construction, Portsmouth; John Scott Rus-
sell, John Penn, John Grantham, Nathaniel Barnaby and E. J. Ried
The first meeting of this institution was held March 1, 1860, with Sir
John Somerset Packington president; and surely you will all sustain
nae in the expression that to the knowledge disseminated by the de-
liberations and discussions of that society, widely promuleated during
the thirty-three years of its existence, Great Britain owes much of the
development of her commercial and nayal power.
_ There can be no doubt that such a society as yours, so firmly estab-
lished by your distinguished membership, should exercise a valuable
influence on the future of our Navy and of our commercial marine.
Sir Nathaniel Baruaby, late chief constructor of the British Navy,
and one of the organizers of the British Institution of Nayal Archi-
tects, remarked in my presence a year or two ago that no nation
could maintain an efficient navy without a prosperous commercial
marine to support it. This is. a truism from a distinguished and
observant man, and when I found the rolls of this society, even now
in its infancy containing the names of distinguished nayal officers,
naval architects and naval engineers, who have chiefly deyoted
themselve to the development of our merchant marine, I was
reminded of Sir Nathaniel Barnaby’s remark, and congratulated
myself, as an American, that at last there had arisen in this country a
public sentiment that is organizing to improye and to develop the art
of shipbuilding, and it struck me also as significant that this society
was called into existence almost with the construction of our new
national navy, showing that the appropriation by Congress for a series
of cruisers and battle ships not alone adds power and infiuence to our
national flag, but stimulates throughout the land an interest in mari-
time affairs, without which no nation can be truly great, and has al-
ready created a public sentiment anxious to support and encourage
the development of our mercantile marine.
In our country, where the national policy is to maintain no large
standing army, and only a moderate navy, a Naval Reserve merchant
fleet, quietly and usefully employed in the peaceful pursuit of com-
merce, Is a8 hecessary a8 are the millions of well-trained and self-sup-
porting State militia, slumbering on their arms, unseen and industri-
ously employed, to the support of the regular army.
It is 4 constant source of proper national congratulation that it is
not necessary that the power and strength of our nation should be
represented by its regularly maintained army and navy, but the assur-
ance of our national safety, from foreign and domestic foe is in the
reserve power of the people, ready and able and willing to respond to
a national eall. ‘
Our splendid State militia is recognized as the source from which our
national army would be instantly strengthened in time of war, but
the nation seems to have overlooked the fact that our navy should
have a similar reserve strength. The national sentiment which is
now producing a new navy cannot overlook the axiom that a navy
ey be sustained successfully without a merchant marine to sus-
ain it,
The inauguration of your society, therefore, seems to haye occurred
at a fruitful moment, when our new nayy is well under way, meeting
with a popular response; and when there is also shortly to be realized
an important addition to your merchant marine and naval reserve
strength. And your first general meeting occurs at a time in our
naval and commercial history when its discussions are sure to have a
great influence on the future of the arts which represent the building
and running of ships, both naval and commercial. A
Ishall not detain you with a history of the decline of our foreign
commerce nor with the history of shipbuilding in this country. AS
long as your yards were supported by orders from our merchants,
your skill occupied no mean place in international competition. Cir-
circumstances forced the merchant of the last generation to abandon
ship owning in foreign trades, but. being educated to transportation,
his son, with the energy of the father, largely became the builder and
operator and owner of the railroads of this generation.
The ship owner in foreign trade nearly passed away, the practice of
the art in that field slumbered, but that the art of shipbuilding had
not expired with you is shown in the magnificent types designed and
constructed for the trade of our coast, our Lakes and our inland
waters, aud perhaps nothing is more significant than the fact that you
are always abie, when necessary, to build a better naval cruiser than
the last, and a better yacht to defend the America Cup.
As Iam one who believes the Cup is here to stay, so do I believe that
with a demand for commercial vessels, your architects and engineers
and mechanics will show that the skill still remains with you, not only
to eope successfully with the highest talent of any country, but also to
keep in advance. Gentlemen, the future influence of this society—on
the art of shipbuilding and on the laws which affect the safety of life
and property at sea—is in your hands.
The first paper was on the subject of ‘‘The Hvolution of the Atlantic
Greyhound,’ by Charles H. Cramp, Esq., President Wm. Cramp &
Sons’ Ship and Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, Pa., read by Sec’y-
Treas. Capps, Mr. Cramp being present, but unable to read it him-
self. The second paper was on the ‘Determination of the Approximate
Dimensions of 4 Vessel to Fulfilla given Programme or Requirements,”
by Joseph J. Woodward, Nayal Constructor, U.S.N. Wollowing this
was a paper on ‘United States Treasury Rules for the Inspection of
Machinery and Boilers," by James T. Boyd, Esq., General Manager,
George FP. Blake Manufacturing Co. Aftera recess for lunch, the
afternoon session was opened with a paper on the “Production in the
United States of Heavy Steel Engine, Gun and Armor Forgings,”* by
Russell W. Davenport, Esq., Vice-President Bethlehem Tron Co., South
Bethlehem, Pa. The final paper of the first day was on ‘‘Coal Bunkers
and Coaling Ships,’ by Albert P. Niblack, Lieutenant U. 8S. Navy.
During the day a nominating committee was appointed and an election
of permanent officers held, resulting as follows: Clement A. Griscom,
President; Chief Constructor Theodore D, Wilson, U. 8. N., First
Vice-President; Charles H. Cramp, Chief Engineer George W. Melville,
U. 8. N.; George W. Quintard, Irving M-. Scott, Francis A Walker and
William H. Webb, Vice-Presidents, and Assistant Naval Constructor
Washington L, Capps, U.S. N., Sec’y-Treas.
& In the eyening, over 80 members met at the Brunswick, the dinner
being followed by speeches.
The second day's proceedings opened with the reading of a paper on
“Steel Ships of the United States Navy,” by Theodore D, Wilson, ex-
Chief Constructor, U.S. N. In the absence of George W. Melville,
Engineer-in-Ohief U. S. Navy; his paper entitled “Notes on the
Machinery of the New Vessels of the United States Navy,” was read
by Secty-Treas. Capps. The next paper read by the author was on the
“Comparative Performances of American and foreign Freighting
Ships—Our Superiority,” by Wm. W-. Bates, Hsq., late Commissioner
of Navigation, Treasury Department,
During the afternoon session three papers were read: “Some
Thoughts on the Design of New York Ferryboats,”’ by Col. Edwin A.
Stevens, Pres. of the Hoboken Ferry Co.; “On the Law of Frictional
Resistance,’ by Prof. W. F. Durant, of Cornell University, and on
“The Steam Yacht as a Naval Auxiliary in Time of War,” by Wm.
Gardner, Esq. Owing to lack of time, the following papers were read
by title only: “The Wetted Surface of Ships,” by David W. Taylor,
Naval Constructor, U.5. N. ‘'The Influence of Speed and Weight of
Machinery on the Determination of the Other Elements of the Design
of Steam Vessels,’ by John J. O'Neill, Esq, Naval Architect and
Marine Engineer. “The Deyelopment of Shipbuilding on the Great
Lakes,” by J. F. Pankhurst, Esq., Vice-President and General Manager
Globe Iron Works, Oleveland, Ghio.
We are unable, owing to lack of space, to give even an abstract of
the various papers and discussions, but the proceedings on both days
were interesting in the extreme, Both papers and discussions will be
published later on. The meeting finally closed with expressions of
thanks to Lieut. F. 1 Bowles, to whom the Society owes its first in-
ception, and to Pres. Griscom and Sec’y-Treas. Capps, who have each
contributed largely to the success of the first meeting.
Southern Y. C.
NEW ORLEANS, NOV. 0.
Quits a crowd of people witnessed the race on Noy. 5 between the
sloops Nepenthe, 50 6ft., and Montauk, 43.4ft. of the Southern Y. G,
For quite a while there has existed a friendly rivalry between the two
boats, and it was decided to arrange a race, so that the question of
superiority besettled.
The breeze had been yery light during the forenaon, almost from
due north. At abouti:30 P. M.the wind shifted a little fo the west,
then began to freshen, and when the starting gun was fired it was
blowing about 10 miles an hour.
The race wasrun over atriangular15 mile course and under the
rules of the Southern Y. C.
Nepenthe, owned by C. P. Richardson, was sailed by Capt. Young.
Montauk. owned by Peter Labouise, was sailed by Commodore Dennis
Ansiel, of Pass Christian, Miss.
The signal gun was fired at 2 o'clock P. M.; at 2:01:50 Montauk
crossed the line and Nepenthe followed about 134 minutes later. The
course to the first stake was a dead beat to windward, both boats were
handled beautifully, but Nepenthe after turning the stake showed her
wonderful speed and finished the first circuit with enough time ahead
to win theracs. By this time the wind had increased in velocity to 17
miles an hour, which exactly suited Nepenthe and forced Montauk to
haul down her topsail.
The full times were:
1st 2d Cor-
Start. round. round, Finish, Elapsed. recte
Nepenthe,...,,... 20310 30003 34250 44155 23845 2 38 45
Montauk,,........2 01 50 307 35 43020 5 06 06 25416 259 92
ANOoDRAC.
A. ©. A. Membership.
ATLANTIC Divison: Wm. J. Leath, Philadelphia, Pa.; Stephen
eae Arlington, N, J, Central Division; W. H. Burtis, Rochester,
.
WNavahoe.
Tux first heard from Navahoe after she sailed from Madeira on Oct-
23 was at Fortress Monroe on Noy. 15, the yacht arriving there with
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll and all on board in good health. She reached
New York on Saturday morning after a voyage of 46 days from Cowes.
Very heavy weather was encountered at tii.es on the Passage, but
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Rifle Range and Gallery.
Greenville Rifle Club.
THE success of the club in its prize tournament has been the means
of awaking the Greenville citizens to the fact that the local rifla club
is of a decidedly lively character. For a young organization to dare
to back a gallery programme aggregating nearly $300 against the
judgment and advice of old and experienced men familiar with the
Management of shooting tournaments, and to carry the venture
through successfully merits recognition. So the Friday night shoot
following the tournament, brought out the active workers of the
club, and many of Greenville’sicitizens who had become possessed with
a desire to inspect the club house and ranges of the society. The vis-
itors were extended the privileges of the house by the house commit-
tee under the lead of Vice-President Barr. The shooting was interest-
ing in many ways. John Spahn, one of the second class men, made
the fine score of 245, beating that old expert M. Dorrler one point. It
is expected that Spahn will engrave that incident upon the memory of
the little Spahns for future reference. Messrs. Tracy and Bischof,
two new members brought into the club at the last regular meeting,
on Noy. 13, were present and participated in the shooting. The scores,
10 shots, 25-ring target: J. Spahn 245, M,. Dorrler 244, J. Boag 237, C.
Scheeline 233, C. Boag 232, G. Purkess 232, Plaisted 230, Chavant 225,
Collins 228, Gotthardt 221, Agnew 216, Dodds'215, Daniels 203, Graef 213,
Bischof 214, Barr 196,
At 100 Yards.
SyrAcusn, N. Y¥., Nov. 10 —Hditor Forest and Stream: I inclose
target made by myself at 100yds. offhand, that I wish to submit to
you and ask you if you have any target in your memory which
measures less string méasure, which is §i4in. I am unfortunate in
one subject; I have no one as witness to the fact; butit was done in
good faith. I fired two other shots at the same target that were out
about lin., but fortunately they were the first two, consequently those
that caught the center are consecutive. I would like to know who has
made a better string. I would not object to haveit published, only
for the controversy it might bring up. If will let you use your own
judgment about it. A, ALS.
Excelsior—Greenville.
THe Greenville Schuetzen Park, at Greenville, N. J., was on Satur-
day, Noy. 18, the scene of a friendly contest between two teams made
up from the members of the Mxcelsior and the Greenville Rifle clubs.
M. Dorrler and L, P. Hansen were selected as captains to represent
the contesting teams, and the men were chosen without regard to
their club affinities. The weather conditions were the worst seen on
this range this season, At one moment the target could hardly be
seen on account of the heavy banks of cloudsrolling in from the south-
west, and whose inky blackness was so deep that at one time during
the afternoon lights had to be lighted in the shooting house in order
to permit the scorers to record the shots. At times the clouds would
roll by and the light would be all that could be desired; but while the
luckless shooter was reloading his rifle for another shot that veil of
blackness would roll back again, until it became a matter of luck as
to whether one could get a glimpse of the bullseye or not. Dorrler
led his team with the high score of 22%. Hansen was at the head of his
team with 215. The conditions of the match were 10 shots per man,
distance 200yds., German ring target. It was intended to have shot a
series of 10-shot matches, but the weather was such that the second
match was cut down to 5 shots, which ended the afternoon's sport.
Dorrler’s team was successful in both events, which was quite satis-
factory to the winners, at least, All hands adjourned to the Hotel
Armbruster, where mine host had prepared an abundant lunch for the
benefit of the tired shooters,
An hour was spent in feasting and pleasant intercourse, after which
an adjournment was made to meet again on Saturday, Nov. 25.
First match:
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Tue team held its opening shoot in the Zettler gallery Nov. 17,
divided into two teams under the leadership of Messrs. Range and
Radlott as captains, 10 shots per man, gallery distance:
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Miller Rifie Club.
Tae weekly gallery shoot brought together only ten members in the
medal competition. The honors for the evening for the highest seore
fell ta Geo. Schlicht, with 243 points; the old veteran D. Miller was a
close second with 242, L. Schmidt was a good third with 241, the other
scores are as follows: Meyers 236, Sohl 248, ex-Captain Dewy 201,
Meyer 218, Vanderheyden 227. Rogers 214, Will 207
Nov, 25, 1898,]
FOREST AND STREAM.
463
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Zettler Rifle Club.
Tumtweekly gallery shoot on Nov. 14 brought together seventeen
members in competition for the club prizes and the champion medal.
‘The champion match at Cypress Hills on Noy. 7 and the fact that the
day was Election Day necessitated the postponement of the regu-
lar monthly meeting of the club from the 7th to the 14th,
The fact that the election of a new board of officers comes off next
tonth and other matters pertaining to the interests of the organiza-
tion would be called up, had the effect to bring together more than
the usual number found at the Tuesday night shoots. Speaking of
the election to come off next month, in canvasing the matter with
some of the prominent and more active members the general drift
seems to be toward a re-election of the present board. The present
officers are prominent in thé board of officers of the new Bund estab-
lished in New York the past year and is thought to be desirable to let
matters remain as they are. B, Walther, Geb Krauss, Gus Nowak,
Fred Ross, C. G. Zettler and B. Zettler contain in their personality an
prasovesis upon the ways and means of perpetuating rifle shooting
interests.
The club at the present time is in first-class condition and bids fair
to hold its present position as the leader among the fraternity of rifle-
men for many years to come.
With the close of the business before the club an adjournment was
followed by a lively competition among the members present for high
scores.
The champion medal was captured by Fred C. Ross with the fine
score of 247. The honors for Bees score of the night was divided
between B. Zettller and Ross, each with 248.
_ Champion medal, 10 shots, first entry: F.C. Ross 247, M. B. Engel
246, L. Hach 244, J. H. Brown 243, C. Percival 242, Plaisted 241, Holges
241, Walther 241, B. Zettler 240, R, Busse 229, P. H, Schmidt 238, C. G.
Zettier 238, Gus Nowak 235, George Krauss 234, R. Hamann 233, H. D.
Muller 233, H. Strate 233, A. H. Kohlmetz 230, C. J. Watson 226.
Best 10-shot score, five entries: B. Zattler 248, F. C. Ross 248, H.
roles 247, M. B. Engel 246, R. Busse 245, L, Flach 245, P. F. Schmidt
245, B. Walther 245, J. H. Brown 243, C. Percival 242, C. G. Zettler 243,
G. W. Piaisted 241, Geb Krauss 238, Gus Nowak 238, H. D. Muller 235,
A. H. Kohlmetz 230, C. J. Watson 228.
Our Own Club.
Tre weekly gallery shoots are being well patronized. Last week it
was voted to present a medal to the member bringing in the most can-
_ didates for membership during the next year. This will no doubt
stimulate the active workers of the club, and will result in a consider-
able increase in the membership, The competition for the medal is
liable to be the means of bringing into the club an undesirable element,
easy to acquire, but difficult to eradicate. Scores in the weekly com-
(tue 10 shots, 25 ring target, gallery distance: J. H. Kruse 239, A.
Iz 230, F. Sessmar 244, A. Struber 234, Capt. Hencken 226. W, Dilger
997, M. Heldmann 223, H. Schultz 219, W. Bohmke 219, O, Keller 212, F.
Offen 209, J. D. Sinclair 209, D. Page 206, F. Vonderhayden 205.
Warget shot by Henry Walters, of the Turtle Bay Rifle Club, Oct. 8,
shots, .22 R.F. short U. M. C., distance 50yds., 59 out of possible 60.
Excelsior Rifle Club.
Tur weekly gallery shoot on Nov. 14 was of more than ordinary in-
terest to the members. Twelve members participated. Another
pleasant feature was the presence of Geo. ©. Varick, one of the old
members of the society, and whose home has of Jate been in Old Vir-
ginia. Mr. Varick is a native of Hudson county, and is well known to
the shooting fraternity in and about New York. L. P. Hansen, the
popular captain of the club, was in fine fettle and succeeded in making
the highest score of the night. Ten shots, zo-ring target, distance
25yds.: L. P. Hansen 246, Chas. Thomas 236, O. C. Boyce 233, John
Spicher 232, Thos. Hughes 230, C. L. Pinney 230, C. Ward 229, James
EE G. G. Varick 227, Wm. Weber 226, C. Bauchle 222, C.
ers 22
Lady Miller Club.
THE members keep up an active interest in meetings and weekly
practice. On Thursday night, Nov. 14, the club opened the new series
for the next six months’ practice. Ten members participated. The
following were medal winners: Miss Miller first class, Mrs. Ahrens
second class, Mrs. Stein third class. The ladies all shoot off-hand at
the same target and at thé same distance as that used by the Miller
Qlub, viz., 75ft. This being a fact, we think that the members are en-
titled to much praise for the good scores they make. The scores of
Tuesday night, 10 shots, 25-ring target, distance 75ft.: Miss M. Miller
227, Miss Begerow 226, Mrs. Meyns 214, Mrs. Fisher 210, Mrs. Ahrens
208, Miss Kloepping 210. Mrs. D. Miller 205, Mrs, Stein 205, Mrs. Weber
208, Miss A. Anderson 200.
RIFLE NOTES.
The New York City Schuetzen Corps has organized a team for gal-
lery practice during the winter, R. Busse, Captain; C. F. Roedel, Sec-
retary; H. Radlof, Treasurer; C. G. Zettler and A. Runge, Shooting
Masters. The team will occupy the Zettler range on the first and third
Friday in each month.
The rifle match between F. CG. Ross and Gus Zimmerman, which was
booked to take place in Wissel’s Cypress Hills Park on Thursday, Noy.
28. is reported to be declared off, The cause is said to be owing to
Zimmerman’s rheumatic afflictions which will incapacitate him from
holding a rifie for some time to come.
Now that the match between Ross and Zimmerman is off, the shoot-
ing fraternity would like to see a contest brought about betwten Ross
and M. Dorrler, of Greenville, N. J. Itisa matter of debate between
the followers of these two experts as to which is the better shot in a
100 shot race. This matter was nearly brought to a head the night
following the champion match at Cypress Hills Park on Nov. 7, and it
was a matter of much disappointment to those present that the match
was not consummated then and there. Who will throw down the
gauntlet to reopen the incident?
The Miller Rifle Club will hold a gallery prize shoot, open to all
comers, on its headquarters range on Dec, 24 and 25. A programme
of 16 cash prizes ranging from $30 down to $1 will be put up for the
riflemen to compete for.
The regular monthly meeting of the Greenville Rifle Club, Noy. 13,
was of great interest, Several of Greenville’s prominent citizens who
were present at the tournament two days before wereso much pleased
with the arrangement of the club house and the personality of the
membership thal they made ppatta ae oe for membership. The per-
sonality of the candidates, nine of whom were residents of Greenyille,
and one from Bayonne City, were such that under a suspension of the
by-laws the ten gentlemen were unanimously elected as members and
instructed in the third degree of actiye workers. They were Edw.
L. Schenck, Edw. Wuestner, Jr.,'Geo. Buyer, A. Huel-
Wuestzer, Sr.,
OG. W. Graef, Valentine Holzapfel, W. Charlock, Chas.
sen, F. Bischof,
Zoncada.
There is a report current among the New Jersey riflemen that the
members of the Excelsior Club of Jersey City are contemplating a
consolidation with the Greenville Club. If this event should take
place it would bring together the strongest body of riflemen within
the borders of New Jersey, and would no doubt add much to the rifle
interests of Hudson county.
The Excelsior and the Greenville Rifle Clubs will have a friendly
team match on the Greenville Schuetzen Park range on Saturday
afternoon, Noy. 25. Each team will consist of five members selected
from their respective clubs,
Grap-Shooting,
All ties divided unless otherwise reported.
FIXTURES.
If you want your shoot to be announced here
send in notice like the following:
Nov, 28-30.—Brige’s three days’ tournament, at Toronto, Canada.
Noy, 30,—Riverside (Cal.) Sportsmen's Club tournament.
Nov. 30.—Bogardus—Hall match, at Springfield, Ill.
Noy. 30,—Wentz—Bacon match, at Dayton, Ohio.
Nov. 30,—Cedar Rapids ([a.) Gun Club tournament.
Nov. 30.—Janesville (Wis.) Gun Club tournament.
Noy. 30,—AlLday shoot at live birds, on John Erb’s ground, Bloom-
field avenue, Newark, N. J.
Noy. 30.—All-day shoot at Wiedenmeyer’s Park, Newark, N. J.
Noy. 30,—Riverside Gun Club tournament, at Red Bank, N. J. Jive
birds and targets.
Nov. 30.—J. A. Hartner’s tournament, Orangeville, Md.
Dee. 10-12.—West End Gun Club tournament, at Davenport, Ia.
1894.
Jan. 9.—New Jersey vs. Kings county, team shoot, on Al. Heritage’s
grounds, Marion, N. J.
April 4-6.—Interstate Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ Association’s
grand American handicap at Dexter Park, Long Island.
May 1-6.—Arkansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s tournament, at
Fort Smith, Arkansas.
May 22-25.—Knoxville (Tenn.) Gun Club thirteenth annual tourna-
ment: first days, target, $1,000 added money, known traps, unknown
angles; last day, live pigeons. Open tothe world. No handicap. R.
Van Gilder, Sec'y.
June 5-7,—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s fifth annual
tournament, Topeka, Kansas. J. C, Clark, Sec’y.
June (second week)._New York State Sportsmen's Association for
the Protection of Fish and Game, thirty-sixth annual tournament, at
Utica, N. Y., under auspices of Oneida County Sportsmen’s Associa-
tion.
June 19-21.—Ohamberlin eee and Target Company's first
annual tournament, at Cleveland, Ohio. $1,000 added money.
June (third week).—Atlantic City Rod and Gun Club, three days*
tournament. Address R. C. Griscom, Sec’y, Atlantic City, N. J.
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS.
Next week J. A. R. Elliott will attend the Toronto tournament and
the week following he will devote to field shooting. Then he will
return to this section, unlesssome unforeseen accident occurs, and
will shoot a match against J. Frank Class, of Morristown, under the
following conditions: Each man to shoot at 200 pigeons, for a stake
of $500 a side, Hurlingham rules to govern except as to boundary,
which shall be 50yds., match to be shot at Willard’s Park, Paterson,
N. J, beginning not later than 10:30 A. M. ona date to be fixed. The
birds to be used in the above match will be brought from Missouri
and all ‘hummers” are guaranteed. After his return Mr. Elliott will
also shoot a 25-bird match at Pine Brook, N. J., against Samuel Castle,
the Newark veteran. the stake to be $100 a side. This will be 25yds.
rise, single barrel only allowed, gun to be held below the elbow until
bird is on the wing. Although Mr. Castle is sixty-three years of age
he is by no means an easy mark at any style of shooting and is par-
ticularly expert at the style mentioned for this match. The parties
who arranged for this match were desirous of making it a find, trap
and handle affair, but much to his credit it can be said that Mr.
Elliott emphatically refused to shoot any such match, claiming, and
justly, that such matches should not be sanctioned by any fair-
minded sportsman, as the temptation to outbird an opponent in order
to defeat him was an incentive to resort to brutal methods of hand-
ling. In this stand Mr. Elliott will be upheld by sportsmen at large.
Find, trap and handle matches are out of place in this age of enlighten-
ment, and if shooters do not have the interests of legitimate sport at
heart and discountenance such contests, they should be stopped
by the authorities.
Destruction is being wrought among the quail in the vicinity of
Lynch's Station, Va., those who are doing the most of the work being
Charles Heath, of Orange, N. J., and Wm. Tell Mitchell, of the
‘Pocket Farm,’’ where we spent our summer vacation, Bothmen are
erack field shots, and having dogs second to none in the country, meet
with success on all their forays. The birds are plentiful not only in
that section, but all along the line of the well-equipped Richmond &
Danville Railroad as far as Asheville, N. C. Northerners who are
looking for good shooting and incidentally wish to meet a jolly lot of
whole-souled sportsmen, cannot do better than to take this line and go
as far as Charlotte, N. C., where we will guarantee that any of the
members of the Charlotte Gun Club will be ready and willing to put
them on the track of all the birds they care to bag. Landlord Quincey,
of the Buford Hotel, will take good care of them while in town. We
haye put up at this house and will vouch for fair treatment for all
who stop there. Another prime place for the feathered game is Mount
Airy, N. G., seventy miles from Greensboro, via the Cape Fear &
Yadkin Valley Railroad. Mount Airy is situated in a picturesque
locality, with beautiful scenery, and is a beautiful place.to spend an
outing. Game is very abundant, and W. A. Bryan, of the Renfro Inn,
is always ready to direct sportsmen to the best spots for sport, as well
as to take good care of them during off hours, His place is equipped
on modern lines and the terms are extremely reasonable,
Boston, Mass , Nov. 15.—The monthly meeting of the Massachusetts
State Shooting Association, composed of the leading trap-shooting
clubs throughout the State, was held yesterday on the grounds of the
Massachusetts Rifle Association. All sections of the State were repre-
sented by teams and individual competitors, and the excellent weather
conditions, coupled with the large attendance, made the occasion note-
worthy from a sportsman’s point of view. Match for team champion-
ship, M.S. S. A., teams of three, representing only clubs belonging to
the association, 10 Boston targets each man: Boston Shooting Asso-
ciation, Climax §, Choate 9, Warren 9, total26. Marblehead Club, Cur-
tis 7, Pray 6, Marvel 8, total 21. Lowell Gun Club, Rule 7, Little 6,
Burton 7, total 20. Worcester Sportsmen’s Club, team No. 1, Mass-
croft 6, Gilman 8, Davis 5, total 19. Team No.2, Harvey 6, Buck 7,
Hoyle 6, total19. Lynn Sportsmen's Club, Martin 4, Ullman 7, Forbes
6. total 17. Match for individual badge, M. 8.8. A., 20 Boston targets,
unknown traps and unknown angles, twenty-seven contestants: Cli-
max 19, Choate 18, Buck 17, Francis 17, Davis 17, Ullman 16, Jones 15,
Allison 15, Judkins 15, Burton 15, Masseroft 15, Nichols 14, Gilman 14,
Rule 14, Harvey 13, Derby 12, Parker 13, White 12, Little 12, Wads-
worth 11, Forbes 11, Warren 11, Hooper 10, Martin 10, Hoyle 9,
Weatherby 9, Keating 6.
A letter from Roger Van Gilder, secretary of the Knoxville Gun
Club, gives us the pleasing information that the tournament of the
club to be held in May, 1894, will last four days instead of three as pre-
viously announced. May 22, 23 and 24 will be target days with $1,000
added to the purses, and May 25 will be devoted to live bird shooting
and a championship match at targets, $10 to $25 entry. The number
of targets will be announced later. The prospects are that the 1894
shoot at Knoxyille will be the greatest shoot ever held in the South,
and that the entries will go far above one hundred. The addition ofa
live bird day will attract a good many Northerners who would not go
so far to shoot at targets alone, but who will do so when they are as-
sured ofa chance to ruffle feathers. Now at this point we would sug-
est to the Kuoxville clubmen that they make their entries not less
than $1 a bird, have no events with less than six or seven birds, and in
no event have more than four moneys.
Rep Bans, N. J., Nov. 18—The club held a shoot yesterday afternoon
on its Beach street grounds Thetargets were bluerocksthrown from
5 traps at unknown angles. The summary follows: No. i, 10 singles:
James Cooper and John Cooper tied on 8 each; Mr. Gurnsey and Tim-
brook Davis, 6 each; C. E. Throckmorton 4, R. L. Linderman 3. No. 2,
10singles: Guernsey 8, James Cooper and Davis, 6 each; Linderman
5, John Cooper and C. E. Throckmorton, 4 each, No. 3, team shoot at
25 singles per man: Teami: Guernsey 17, Jas. Cooper 14, Davis 13,
W.N. Little 17; total, 61. Team 2: E. W. Throckmorton 14, John
Cooper 18, Linderman 17, C. E. Throckmorton 12; total, 61. This event
was decided by a shoot-off at 5 birds per man, and was won by Team
2, which scored 13 to their opponents’ 9.
Much to the regret of the army of live bird shooters of New Jersey
and New York, the long talked of question of supremacy between the
representative shooters of Kings county, N. Y., and of New Jersey
will not be settled until Jan. 9. Last week we announced that teams
of 20 men each as above would meet on Dee. 9, but after we were in-
formed to that effect it appears that the Kings county men decided
that they could not shoot until after the holidays. Hence the shooters
of the two States will be obliged to nurse their patience until that
date. When the match comes off it will be on the grounds of the well-
known Al, Heritage at Marion, N. J., where so many battle-royals
have been fought to a finish. The Jerseymen parficularly regret the
change of date, us they were all cocked and primed for the fray on
Dee, 5.
The Merion Gun Club and West Manayunk Shooting Association met
in a team contest at Lower Merion, near Philadelphia, on Nov. 14, the
teams comprising ten men each and each man shooting at fifteen tar-
gets, under the rapid-firing system. John Heft of the Roxborough
Cun Club wasreferee. Theresult: Merion—T. Barker 14, H. Kincaid
14, S. Miller 13, C. Osborne 10, Corman 10, J. Humphrey 10, Booth 9,
Pyle 9, C. Freyer 8, W. Roberth 6; total, 106. Manayunk—H, Rudolph
14, P. Byrne 13, F. Ogle 12, T, Schofield 10, B. MecMonable 9, W. Shields
9, S. Hoff 9, W. A. Wize 8, L. Bernard 6, F. Merkel 5; total, 95.
On the day announced for the Morfey—Morford match at Martin’s
Pine Brook Hotel, those who had guns with them shot a few sweep-
stakes, the results being as follows: Hyent No.1, 5 birds, $5 entry, 2
moneys—Olass 5, Wolf 4, V.eonard 4, Morfey 4, Martin 3. No. 2, same
—Martin 5, Class 5, Morfey 5, Wolf 4, Leonard 4. No. 3, same—Martin
4, Morfey 4, Leonard 4. This was shotoff, miss and out, Morfey cap-
turing the pot. The birds were a fairly good lot.
The Midway Gun Club held its monthly shoot at Mattawan, N. J., on
Noy. 17, live birds being used. A good lot of flyers were supplied. In
the first event at 6 birds James Van Brackle killed 6, John Terhune 4,
E. Muleahy 3, John Applegate 3, William Perrine 2, Charles Muirhead
1, Frank Worrelli, At5 birds Yan Brackle took first on a straight
score, FE. Worrell and Mr. Gosner shot two matches at 3 birds each,
Worrell winning both.
The return match between Messrs. Edgarton, Forbel, Selover and
Young, which was to beshot off on Noy. 15, at Dexter Park, at 25
birds, $25, highest score to take the pot, Young not showing up, the
other three contestants made a three-cornered match of it and shot it
out. Lee Helgans being present shot along to keep himself in prac-
tice. Geo. Forbel killed 20 out of his 25, Edgarton 19, and Selover 17.
Helgans killed 20.
Dr. P, J. Zeglio reports that game is scarce in the vicinity of War-
renyille, N. J., and that bringing in two or three birds as the result of
a day’s tramping is about the limit. This is about the consensus of all
reports received from the northern portion of the State. In the south-
ern counties fair bags are made, although nowhere is the supply any-
thing to brag of.
M. F, Lindsley and T. W. Morfey were billed to shoot a 50-bird match
at Erb’s on Nov. 17, but the match was postponed owing to the Class-
Bliiott match taking place at Paterson on that day. The Olass-Hlliott
match, by the way, was to have been held on the Driving Park at
White Plains, but as the track was undergoing repairs the match was
trausferred to Paterson.
A big list of entries is expected at the three days’ liye bird tourna-
ment to be held at Toronto, Can., on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs-
day of next week. Among the shooters will be a number of well-
known Americans, including Rolla Heikes, J. A. R. Elliott, Harvey
MeMurehy, John Parker and M. F. Lindsley, all of whom will try to
uphold the shooting honors of the Republic.
There will be open sweepstake pigeon shooting at Watson’s Park on
Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 30), commencing at 10o°clock A. M., and on
Friday and Saturday following, commencing at 1 o'clock P. M., with
lunch at the park cottage.
W S. French, secretary of the Oneida County Sportsmen’s Associa-
tion informs us that his association claims the second week in June,
1894, for the thirty-sixth annual tournament of the New York State
Sportsmen’s Association for the Protection of Fish and Game, to be
held at Utica.
At the last medal shoot of the Colt Hammerless Gun Club, of Hart-
ford, each man shooting at 25 targets, Cook won with 24 breaks, J.
Melrose got 23, Risley 23, Olmstead 23, S. Hills 20, Hotchkiss 19, Pitkin
17 and Stone 1d.
John Erb will have his live bird traps in position from 10 A. M. until
dark on Thanksgiying Day and will haye enough good birds to supply
allcomers. There will be no regular programme, but impromptu
events will be arranged to suit the shooters.
The Riverside Gun Club, of Red Bank, N. J., announces an open-to-
all target and live bird shoot on its grounds on Thanksgiving Day.
Shooting all day and everybody can be assured of a welcome.
The East Side-Mutual Gun Club will hold a live bird shoot at Wie-
denmeyer’s park, Newark, on Thanksgiving Day. The events will be
open to all comers.
John A. Hartner informs us that he will hold an open to all shoot at
targets at his home, Orangeville, Baltimore county, Md., on Thanks-
giving Day.
Louis Miller will keep open house on Thursday, Nov, 30 (Thanksgiv-
ing Day). Bluerocks, live birds and roast turkey will be the order of
the day.
J. A. R. Elliott is meeting with great success in the introduction of
his new loading block among the sportsmen of the East.
The Hell Gate Gun Club will hold its monthly shoot at Dexter Park
on Nov. 27.
C. H. TOWNSEND.
Targets at Sardinia.
Sanrvr1A, N. Y., Noy. 15.—The following scores were made on the
Union Gun Club’s grounds 4% the two days” tournament given by the
members on Thursday and Friday, Nov, 9 and 10:
No. 1, 10 singles:
ta ee oeasan 1111111101— 9 Hammond........... 1111111111—10
Olmsted....,.....s,, 1111111011— 9 House.......02.e0ee 1110111011— 8
ANDGLOWS 2.2 essens 1111111111—10
No. 2, 10 singles:
Kelsey... s.sssseceeer 1111111101— 9 Rice,.......... 9 ee 0111101111— 8
Hammond.,,....... 1011111011— 8 Schwab.............. 1111001101— 7
(OTM S060 ee eons eels 1111111111—10 Colegrove........;... 1111101110— §
Andrews ,...... .««.,2111111711—10
No. 3
RISE ncactoncenie «a0 1111110111—9 Olmsted......... » ++,» 11111111019
Hammond,........s:: 1111111110—9 Bement........... .+..1110101110—7
Ge ths Me egy pee 101111110i—8 House....... wear .., 11000111117
No. 4
R@IRGY: (23 bs 5, teense < 0111111111— 9 Andrews ........... .1111111111—10
Hammond,.........5 0011111111— 8 House,........ 0011111101— 7
Chases Rte Pie .1101111111— 9 Bement,............. 1111101111— 9
o. 5:
Kelsey...... i eae 0113111111—9 Hammond............ 1111110111_9
ANAL Bac neaze lt ae alee 1111101111—9 Bement....,.......... 1110111011—8
Olinsted....,. .scecs ees 1011011111—8
Second day, 10 live birds:
Kelsey. ......s Seperas 2121011121—. 9 Olmsted............+ 0211012101— 7
Hammond ...,...+.- 2201122210— 8 Bement ............:- 1021210202 — 7
AMTIGTGWS, we s.s cee ew cue 1122171211—10 House, ........ceececs 0221010210— 6
Three live birds:
Kelsey.......+. eS 122—8 Bement..........:.us0002--0s 011—2
Hammond..... ctinnnd iene 100—1 AMdrewS,.......c.cscseeceeee 101—2
Ten targets
KeIkGy Siy2 ansschb hats 1111111111—10 Andrews.....,....... 111111111110
Hammond ,... ..cies 1011011111— 8 House........... -«1111101101— 8
UMTS Soe ok wees 1110111111— 9 Bennet.........:.... 1110111011— &
Five pairs
Kelseyviads ose: 1i 01 10 1011— 7 House.........,.: 01 11 O1 10 11— 7
Hammond...,,..11 11 11 11 11—10 Olmsted.,......... 1i 11 11 1010—8
Andrews ....... 10 11 00 00 10— 6 Smith............ 11 11 01 10 1i— 8
Benuet...siaeasss 11 00 11 O1 10— 7
Fifteen singles:
Kelsey...... ..-.101111010111111_12 Honse..........100111111011111_12
Hammond,,,..,111110111101100—11 Bement,,,,.,... 001111111010111—11
Andrews..... ,211111111111111—15' Smith,.....,.... 111111110011111—13
Olmsted.......5 101111111111110—_13 Colegrove,,.,...101111111110111—13
Hi. ANDREWS.
Castle Defeats Pierre.
‘Tue second match between Samuel Castle, of Newark, and Eugene
Pierre, of Boonton, was shot at Martin’s Pine Brook Hotel, on Thurs-
day, Nov. 16. It was one of the much-to-be-condemned find, trap and
handle affairs, and judging from reports the handling of the birds was
in ato wise gentle, nor was the cayenne pepper box allowed to get
empty.
Each man shot at 25 live pigeons, under old Long Island rules, and
the birds are said to have been all ‘‘corkers,” which may be believed
when the manner of “livening” the birds isconsidered. Thestake was
$300. The score follows:
CASTIBE s Faenup yn a> te seetenescer’ erence Pewee 0010111110110001111111111—18
PTEEEG a. cones oa ewanea 0000110111110111101011011_1§
Aenean nn nee
464
Class Defeats Elliott at Paterson,
Oncr more has the pigeon shooting talent been surprised and once
more was J. Wrank Class the one who surprised them, It will be re-
membered that when Class and Wlliott first met ina contest it was
redicted that Class was outclassed and would fall an easy victim to
ansas City Elliott's skill. There were some, however, who believed
that Class not only retained his skill of former days, but also possessed
latent skill and nerye which had never been called forth. Olass sus-
tained this good opinion by tieing his opponent on 96 kills ont of the
100 birds, and lost the shoot-off at 25 birds each by haying a bird fall
dead out of bounds, When the second match was. shot, at Morris-
town, Class again took the field by storm by killing 95 to Blliott’s 90.
Class’s 5 lost birds falling dead outof bounds. His friends simply
took this as a matter of course, but there were still many to say it
was “a fluke!” They didnot take into consideration the fact that
this self-same Class in match shooting had previously averaged over
93 per cent, at 850 birds, nor did they consider that to kill 95 of the
Morristown birds required more science than to kill 98 such as were
trapped for the first match.
On Nov. 17, howeyer, those of the doubters who went to Willard’s
Park, in Paterson, saw Class kill 99 out of 100 fair match birds against
95 killed by Elliott, who lost three birds dead out of bounds. The day
was a fair one for the sport, although not by any means clear. When
the match started, at 1:52 P. M., the sun was shining brightly and the
sky was clear. Within an hour, however, the sky had clouded and the
air became chill and raw, making it uncomfortable to stand about
without an overcoat. The attendance was light, not over fifty specta-
tors being on the grounds, owing to lack of advertising. It had pre-
viously been announced that the match would be shot on the White
Plains track, but as that place was in the hands of about 150 Italians
undergoing: repairs, the scene had to be shifted to Paterson at short
notice.
It was just 1:52 when Elliott stepped to the score and downed aslow
bird, which scarcely left the trap before catching the contents of
the first barrel. Class followed by grassing a fairly fast driver, using
both barrels. Previous to this T. W. Morfey, of the Paterson Gun
Club, had been chosen as referee; Henry Wolf, of the same elub,
pulled the traps, while the representatives of the sportsmen’s journals
acted as scorers. Mr. Morfey’s red Irish Hagle did the gathering, and
did it in great form. The match progressed smoothly until theseventh
round, when Class scored the first goose egg, losing a right-quartering
driver, which in our judgment he should have killed. However, this
was his only lost one of fhe match.
Elliott grassed 15 and then lost a right-quartering driver that twisted
in all styles. His 17th was similar in direction and Hight, and this also
went over the hills and far away. The first quarter ended with 24
kills for Class to 23 for Elliott.
The Kansas City man ran into hard luck on the second quarter. His
third bird was hit hard with both barrels and seemed barely able to
carry its dose, but nevertheless it managed to get over the 18in. wire
fence marking the 50yds. boundary and then gave up the ghost. His
17th bird, which like the one above mentioned was a right-quartering
twisting driver, was hit awfully hard with both loads, but this, too,
died over thefence. When this bird was examined it was fouud to
be hit, and hit deep at that with no less than seven No.7 trap shot.
On the third quarter Hiliott’s 12th bird refused flight as the trap was
pulled, and before it could make upits mind whether to fly or not,
wideawake Eagle pounced out and gathered it. This of coure gave
Elliott another bird, which turned out tobe another of those right-
quartering twisters, which caught both barrels full and went over the
fence to die. Following this he killed 38 straight and ended with a
score of 95 kills to Class’s 99.
The scores show conclusively that both men were down to form.
Class used a quick and effective first barrel, while he abandoned his
slap bang style with his second, the result being some fine second bar-
rel kills, Elliott shot in form much superior to that he displayed in
the previous match, both barrels being used safely and effectively.
The general opinion was that in his present form Class outranks
Elliott, and is shooting well enough to defeat any man in the country,
He is certainly doing remarkable work and improving with each con-
test. That he has been greatly under-rated in the past is sure, and
those who have persisted in placing him into the third rank will prob-
ably alter their opinions, An average of 9624 out of 100 for three
matches is a fine showing, even though the birds be not of the “genu-
ine bluerock” order.
A glance at the detailed score will show that Hlliott’s weak point is
on birds bearing to the right, all hislost birds taking this direction.
The birds as a whole were not near as good as those trapped for the
previous match, but still they were a fair lot of match birds. Only
two birds were called on account of refusal to fly.
Elliott’s best runs were 38, 19 and 15. His second barrel was used 55
times to kill, He used a Greener gun and American wood powder.
Class made a run of 92 and used his second barrel 45 times to Kill,
He used a Greener gun and Schultze powder, his cartridges being
loaded by Von Lengerke & Detmold.
The times of the match by quarters vere 24m., 29m., 25m. and 25m.,
a total of 1h. 48m. for the 200 birds,
The exceptional birds (the direction of flight is shown by the de-
tailed score) were, Class’s 4th, 6th (quick kill), 9th (very fast), 16th
(splendid second), 34th (lightning bird and quickly killed), 40th Cine
second), 63d (awfully fast, elegant second), t4th, 67th. 82d (an uly
zig-zageing driver killed in beautiful style), 89th (a vig-zagging, right-
quartering driver, changing direction by the yard, as fine a kill as
eould be made). i
Elliott, 3d (good), 9th (ast and a quick second which was needed),
12th, 14th and 27th (all fast ones and well stopped), 3ist Gast, hit with
both barrels and quickly), 34th (same), dist (best bird and prettiest
kill of day, a lightning driver), 57th (elegant kill of extra good bird),
[8th (humming driver, a gia second barrel kill), $lst Gast and a
good kill), 88th (good kill of fast bird).
Class's 7th bird, the only one he lost, was a hummer and could have
been missed by almost any one. His 97th was shot on the ground and
he was given another bird which was a fast one and well killed.
Elliott's 28th was shot on ground, referee giving him another bird;
on his 32d the trap was pulled before he called “pull” and another
bird wasallowed, the same occurring on his 36th round. His 42d bird,
which fell dead out of bounds, was hard hit with both barrels, and
dropped less than a yard beyond bounds, His 62d bird was one which
any one would have been excused for missing but he hit it hard with
both barrels and saw it drop over the boundary. On his 83d round he
called no bird on a duffer.
Below is the score in the style usually presented by Forrest anp
StreAM, which style, by the way, all our esteemed contemporaries
would like to copy if Uncle Sam’s copyright did not preyent them
from doing so, } try: ae
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1, first barrel kill; 2, second barrel kill; 0, missed; », dead out of
bounds, In the second line an } signifies a bird which is killed close
to the traps, commonly called a flipper. T signifies a towerer.
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Saturday’s Match at Morristown,
Tae day following the shoot at Paterson the men met again on the
Morristown Driving Park, and ones more was a surprise administered,
this time by the unaccountably poor work done by Class, who at one
stage of the game seemed to lose both nerve and skill, losing no less
than 9 birds in 28 shot at. Up to the first of these misses he led Elliott
by one bird, but from this out he was as good as beaten. ,
During the early part of Saturday the weather was clear and crisp,
with a stiff southwesterly wind. Before the match began the condi-
tions were materially changed, the sun had become obscured and the
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air became raw and damp. The wind did not change its direction,
blowing at about twelve miles an hour. The attendance was light,
not over seventy-five people being on the ground. Among these were
Al Heritage, of Jersey City; M. F, Lindsley and Eddie Collins, of West
Hoboken; ‘Uncle Jaek” Harrison, of Doyer; John Cockefair, of Bloom-
field; Samuel Castle, C. M. Hedden and J. EH. Wheaton, of Newark;
Messrs. Campbell and Wemple, of Glen Ridge; Elliott Smith, president
of the American Wood Powder Go.; 5. R. Martin and John Class, of
Pine Brook; J. R. Boyle, of Willard’s Park, Paterson; John Riggott, of
Rockaway; Dr. P. J, Zeglio and J, ¥. Zeglio, of Warrenville, and J. W.
Hoffman, of Orange Valley,
It was 1;40 P. M, when the first shot was fired, John Riggott being
referee, Elliott shot first, bringing down a fair rizht-quartering driver
with his first, Class following witha first-barrel killof a left-quartering
driver. The first miss was by Elliott on his 11th round, when he made
a clean miss with his first and put his second too far behind a fast
right-quarterer. _ Class ran clean to the 20th round, when a left-quar-
tering incomer flipped out of his first load and only got enough of the
second to accelerate its flight, Score on first quarter, 24 each. At this
stage a drizzling rain started, making everybody feel miserable for
half an hour, when it stopped.
On the second quarter Hlliott lost his 3d, a fairly fast one, his 12th,
an awful ugly twisting driver which fell dead out of bounds, and his
ith, which was missed with the first and simply frightened with the
second. It was in this quarter that Class began his miserable work,
using his old slap-bang style of firing both barrels, a style of which
he was never the master. The birds that he lost were not the slowest
of the day and on the other hand none of them were what could be
called ‘‘screamers.” Ina string of twenty-three he lost no less than
hine, and while three of these fell dead out of bounds the others were
no more than feathered; in fact, three of them were simply fright-
ened. He had been shooting a ragged and erratic first barrel from
the start, and while this streak lasted his second was little, if any,
better. Of the nine lost six were on this quarter, his total being 43 to
Elliott's 46.
Elliott's form was first-class throughout, his kills, as a rule, being
neat and clean, On the third quarter he lost his 9th bird dead out of
bounds, this being a mean twister with plenty of staying powers,
which enabled it to carry the shot out. His 20th looked like a clean
miss with the first, while the second simply hurried it across the
field. Class lost his Ist, cleanly missed, his 2d, which was a fairly
fast twisting incomer to the left, and his 7th, a fast twisting left-
quartering driver which fell dead out of bounds. At this point he
seemed to pull himself together and of the next thirty-eight birds he
lost only one, and that fell dead just over the fence, At the three-
quarter mark Elliott had scored 69 to Olass’s 65 and the race was all
over but the shouting.
On the last quarter Elliott lost his second, a bird which flipped up as
the trap was sprung, and then dropped out of the first charge He
put his second in and while the bulk of the charge appeared to enter
the ground immediately under the bird’s body, it took to its wings
and may be still flying for all tha damage it received. His 10th also
went over the fence and then he killed out, making his total 92 for the
match, Class’s only loss on this quarter was his 19th bird, which fell
dead out of bounds, giving him a total of 89, this being the third time
only in three years that he has fallen below the 90 mark.
There is no doubt but Elliott could haye killed one or two birds more
in the last half, three of those he lost being only fairly fast. His
form was far above that of Class.
The time of the match by quarters was 35m., 33m:, 27m. and 30m., a
total of 2h. 5m,
een used his second barrel 62 times to kill. His best runs were 16,
and 15,
Class used his second barrel 50 times to kill, it being used 28 times
to killin the first half. His best runs were 19, 14 and 36.
The birds were not the cracking good lot that they were expected to
be, although several yards faster as a whole than those trapped at
Paterson the previous day. They were of the mixed order, which are
likely more than any others to cause hard shooting. Some were
“screamers,” then would come a few fairly good ones, then a batch
which were all the way from yery fast to very slow, this keeping the
shooters guessing on each shot,
This was the fourth match shot between these experts, and the
scores have run as follows, exclusive of the shoot-off of the tie in the
first match, when out of 25 birds Elliott killed 24 to Class’s 23.
1. a: 2: kh. T.. Per cent.
9 99 89—379 94.75
96 90 95 92-873 93:25
The full score of the final match is here given:
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The Virginia Championship Again.
Lyncu, November,—Kditor Forest and Stream: In your issue of
Nov. 41 notice a reply to my article on the Virginia championship cup
from W. F, Summerson. The facts I give herewith, and call on your
trap editor to correct in a foot note any mistakes that [ may make.
At Charlotte, N. C.,in the presence of Mr. Townsend I challenged
Mr. Summerson for this cup after asking him if there was any one in
ahead of me, receiving a reply that there was not and that he would
shoot me for it at Richmond, Va., and name an early day, also inform-
ing mé of the conditions under which we should shoot, to which I
agreed. I then waited some time for him to set the day, but only re-
ceived reply to my letters of inquiry that he would shoot as soon as
able, and learning he was off shooting at country fairs and other
places, I notified him he must either comply with the conditions and
shoot or forfeit this cup, and was somewhat surprised to receive the
following letter from Mr. H. F. Wayman, dated June 12: “I notice
aa a a aa
S A Stray Shinplaster
Comes to us once in a while for a copy
of ‘*Game Laws in.Brief;’? but shin=
plasters nowadays are scarcer than Moose
in New York; and 25 cents in postage
ae stamps will do just as well.
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is $2).
(Nov. 25, 1808
your challenge in the American Field to shoot Mr. W. I. Summersgo:
for thecup. I beg leave to inform you that mine comes in first.
Oy eine for him to get in a better condition. He has been
sick.
To which [ replied: “You make a mistake for these reasons,
while my challenge to Mr. Summerson was only published last we
challenged him while at Charlotte, N. C., on the 18th day of May,
if you will recollect the conversation between us on the way to Ku
ville, Tenn., you will remember that I told you I had challenged Me
Summerson for this cup and that I considered I had a walkover for if,
‘This challenge was given and povepiat in the presence of the trap
editor of Formst ann Stream, and Mr. Summerson then told me ng
one was in ahead of me and that he would name an early date for
race. But assuming you had in an earlier challenge, you nor }
Summerson neither had any right, under the rules goyerning this
to postpone a match over 30 days. Any other challenger has a rig
to force a shoot, as your agreement with bim would be a waiver
your right against any one else, and hence if it were as you say, y
now have no rights in the matter until after my race with him, whi
I shall insist upon coming off, or Mr. Summerson must forfeit
cup.
At the same time I wrote Mr. Summerson: “TI received a letter from
Dr. BE. F. Wayman to-day stating that be had @ challenge in for
State cup ahead of mine and guess that he based his opinion upon
date of my challenge that was published last week, but as 1 Ghallen
you while at. Charlotte, N. C., May 18, you can point out to him his
error, 48 you will recollect you told me in Mr. Townsend's presence
there was no one in ahead of me for this cup; that you would shoot
me and set an early day for the race, and as you now have only four
days left in which to comply with the rules I hope you will do so,
neither you nor myself have any right to change the rules governing
LEIS Uy) ee et ,
“If Dr, Waymanis so anxious to shoot we could all then shoo
once, or we could throw heads and tails for who should shoot you
first, and then the other shoot the winner on the same day, and if
don’t matter where the cup is to be shot for in this State. I only want
time enough to get there,”
Does the above look like I would not shoot anywhere but Rich
mond? And if he had been in such health that he could not go to
Richmond, why did he write me on June 14 as follows: ‘“Why not go to
Tolchester, Md.? If you will go, I will.” When I wrote him, upon
seeing an account of the cupTace between him and a local friend, he
replied as follows: ‘My friends Dr. EH. F. Wayman and Mr. John MW,
Kinney formulated rules under which it [this cup] is to be shot
Tn future, should you want any information on the subject, pou
correspond with either of the above gentlemen.” I immediately wro
Mr. Kinney, inclosing a stamped envelope, but up to this time ha
received no reply; and now this gentleman tells us that the Stauntc
Gun Club formulated the rules under which it is held. Tcan’t see ho
they or any one else had a right to change the original conditions
this cup, and would like to read the code of rules that are more sports:
manlike and yet allow a man to ignore challengas.
The above is but a plain statement of facts in this case, and T leaye
the sporting public to judge whose course has been the more correct.
In conclusion, let me say to Mr. Summerson that, should he feel
that he eyer wishes to meet me at the score for money or glory, I will
pocket my pride and take pleasure in showing him his trae standing”
as a shot, W. T. Miresrin, .
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An Old-Time Picture.
WE publish this week an excellent hali-tonereproduction of a photo-
graph taken at Le Roy, N. Y., in 1864, during the tournament of the
New York State Sportsmen’s Association. The picture represents Mr,
W. Wingert, a noted inventor and gunmaker of Detroit, Mich., and h
partner, Charles Bradford, both of whom haye passed over to
great majority. Mr. Wingert is said to have been the first man in th
country to transform a muzzleloader into a breechloader, and the
picture shows them in the act of examining a pair of the altered puns,
The guns thus altered were the Lafaucheux, the barrels of which:
(before altering) were fastened to the fore end by two pins passing:
through lugs on the under side of the barrels. The method of pro
cedure was simple. Once the screw-end was separated from the
C. BRADFORD,
W. WINGER?D.
breech, the hole in the lug nearest the forward part of the fore end
was lengthened to admit of play for the Ps forward and back. The
pin passing through the rear was transformed into a catch and the
operation was complete, Ail that was necessary in manipulating the
un was to loosen ihe rear catch, slide the barrels forward on the
orward pin and tip them ready for loading,
After repeated inquiries and a deal of correspondence we have fai
to elicit any further information in reference to either the firm, t
working of the altered guns, ammunition used, or in fact any points
of interest beyond what is here given. We understand, however, that
Mr. Bradford was a regular visitor to the New York State shoots ane
was the first one to use a breechloader at them. j i
We would be pleased to publish any further information which itl
may be in the power of any of our readers to imparton this interes!
ing subject. For the photograph from which this cut was made
Forest anp StreAm is indebted to Mr. C. H. Finch, a veteran sports
man of Syracuse, N. Y., and one of the charter members of th
Onondaga County Sportsmen's Club.
The Paterson Gun Club,
Tun semi-mothly shoot of the Paterson (N, J.) Gun Club took plac
at Willlard’s Park on Nov. 14, there being a fair turnout. The dai
was fair and quite a number of spectators were present. The sho
ing poripriser: both target and live bird events, Among those whr
took part were ‘‘Benny” Abbott and ‘“‘Oharley”’ Lenone, of Passaic
Edward Hill and Charles Zwirlein, of Trenton. In two events at
targets each the scores were as Se
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Our harvest being gotten tn, our governour sent four
men on fowling, that so we might after a more special
manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruit
of our labours; they four in one day killed as much
fowl, as with a little help beside, served the company
almost a week, at which time amongst other recreations,
we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming
amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest king
Massasoyt, with some ninety men, whom for three days
we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed
jive deer, which they brought to the plantation and
bestowed on our governour and upon the captain and
others —LETTER OF EpWwarD WINSLOW, 1621.
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THE PILGRIMS’ THANKSGIVING TURKEY.
THE observance of a day of thanksgiving had its origin
very early in the beginning of New England. Barely a
year had elapsed after the landing at Plymouth Rock,
when Governor Bradford issued the first proclamation
for the setting apart of such a day. The Indians had
shown the new-comers how to manure their lands ‘‘with
herrings or rather shads, which we have in great abun-
dance, and take with great ease at our doors,” and plenti-
ful crops had been gathered. In November the ship
Fortune arrived with a reinforcement of thirty-five
colonists. There was abundant reason for the Governor's
command, The 138th of December, 1621, was made a day
of rejoicing; and the delectable custom of feasting on
Thanksgiving turkey was instituted there and then.
The Pilgrim Fathers were sportsmen—not, perhaps,
“true sportsmen” according to the highly artificial code
’ we have developed, but sportsmen according to their lights
in that day and generation. ‘Let your shot be most for
big fowls, and bring store of powder and shot,” wrote
Edward Winslow to his friends in England in 1621,
“Bring every man a musket or fowling-piece; let your
piece be long in the barrel and fear not the weight of it,
for most of our shooting is from stands.” No shooting
flying nonsense there we may well believe. It was meat
the Pilgrim Father was after when he rested his piece,
braced himself for the shock of the recoil, then pulled
himself together and chuckled as he saw the devastation
wrought by the swan-shot. Amid the hardships and dire
privations of the planting of the colony—forty-six of the
one hundred and one settlers, be it remembered, died in
that first winter—there was no time nor thought for the
fine frills of the arl. Hewas the best sportsman who
could show the most for it; and one of these days it will
be in order for some appreciative student of colonial
history—Rowland EH. Robinson for example—to tell us
how considerable and important was the part taken by
these grim old Puritan sportsmen with their heavy-
weights long in the barrel, in the establishing of Plymouth
Plantation.
_ here was game galore in those days. ‘‘ And now,”
writes Bradford, ‘‘begane to come in store of foule as
winter approached, of which the place did abound when
they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees),
And besids water foule ther was great store of wild
turkies, of which they took many, besids venison, etc.”
That was written in 1621,and there you have,more than two
in America; a subject on which, no doubt, these first
comers waxed eloquent in their old age, when they took
to recounting old times to their grandchildren, and one
as well, upon which every descendant of the Pilgrims may
wax eloquent in our own day as he tells his grandchil-
dren what duck shooting was when he was young.
The wild turkey indeed has been obliterated, not only
from the bounds of Plymouth Plantation, but fronr New
England. Some affirm that still he may be found in
the wilder parts, the skulking survival of a noble race;
but no Massachusetts sportsman of 1893 would dream of
going out to shoot a wild gobbler for his Thanksgiving
dinner, as did the men of Plymouth in 1621. To the
“‘great store” in those early days does a grateful nation
owe the blessed institution of Thanksgiving turkey. The
name of the sportsman who shot the game for that first
feast of rejoicing has been lost in the lapse of time, but if
ever turkey hunter hunted better than he knew it was
this man whose hunting and whose home-bringing set
the pattern for the Thanksgiving feasting of lo! those
hundreds of years. The wild turkey of New England has
perished from the face of the earth, but he has left an in-
delible impress upon the Thanksgiving platters of a
nation, and for this achievement the bronze plumage of
the Pilgrim bred will shine for all time glorified as with
the sheen of pure gold.
THE COAST FISHERY CONFERENCE.
- WHAT are the causes of the prevailing scarcity of food
fishes in Atlantic Coast waters? What can be done to
remove the destructive agencies and to restore the fish-
eries? These are questions which have been’ forcing
themselves with growing insistence upon the attention of
fishermen for months past. That the time is ripe for
their consideration is demonstrated by the communica-
tions which are pouring in upon the New York Fish Com-
mission in response to their circular published in our
columns last week calling for aconference on the subject.
The meeting will be held‘in this city on Dec. 13, It
will be attended by representatives of the United States
Fish Commission, the Fish Commissioners of Maine,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Vir-.
ginia and North Carolina, the last two States having
been included on the suggestion of United States Com-
missioner MacDonald. Fish protective societies, angling
clubs and individuals will be represented. It is but fair
to assume that the menhaden fishermen and the pound
men will be there and give their side of the case,
The investigation is one which cannot be completed
in a day; this conference of Dec. 13, let us hope, will
only mark the beginning of a movement which shall
not be abandoned until the important purpose declared
by the projectors shall have been secured.
AN IMPORTANT POWDER TEST.
WE print to-day the first portion of the report by Mr.
Armin Tenner on the gunpowder tests recently conducted
by him. The introductory paper is preliminary to the
actual figures of the test; it deals with certain fundamen-
principles of the science of shooting; and like the entire
report it is deserving of careful study. The conclusion of
the report will be given in succeeding issues,
These tests by Mr. Tenner and the experts who acted
with him are the most thorough, intelligent, comprehen-
sive and exhaustive public trials of sporting gunpowder
ever made in this country. The conditions attending
them were such as to command confidence in their im-
partiality of conduct and correctness of conclusions.
The trials are timely and meet a recognized demand.
Popular knowledge has by no means kept pace with the
introduction of new and novel explosives, Sportsmen
have had put into their hands compounds, of the con-
stituents and properties of which they know absolutely
nothing, beyond the bare statements of the manufacturer.
The powders have been taken on trust; and their use has
of necessity been in large measure experimental and
uncontrolled by any adequate comprehension of govern-
ing principles. Under such circumstances, Mr. Tenner’s
report published in the FOREST AND STREAM will be wel-
comed by the shooting public; and we may expect not
only that it will materially add to popular information
on the subject of explosives, but thatit will lead as well to
amore reasonable and intelligent use of gunpowders.
Mr, Tenner’s name is not unfamiliar to the readers of
hundred years ago, the noted beginning of game decrease | our shooting columns, to which he has been a frequent
contributor. Born in Thuringia, Germany, Mr, Tenner
came to this country at the age of seventeen, enlisted in
the 11th Missouri Volunteers, and at the close of the war
took up his residence in Cincinnati, where he was con-
nected with the German press. He was one of the organ-
izers of the Cincinnati Acclimatization Society and the
Cincinnati Zoblogical Gardens, serving as secretary of
both these institutions and as manager of the Gardens.
Going abroad as manager of the International Telephone
Company, he secured franchises for the operation of tele-
phone exchanges in Russia, Italy, Switzerland and other
European countries.
Always interested in guns and shooting, he indulged
his bent in that direction, and of late years has been
active in promoting the popularity of trap-shooting in
Germany. He was long a director in the German Shoot-
ing Association, and acted as manager of their tests: of
arms and powders. Concluding at length that, as he
puts it, Germany was too small a country for him, Mr.
Tenner came back to America, bringing with him a fine
set of the most approved ballistic instruments of the
day; and as he has already stated in our gun columns,
he proposes to establish here a proof house for the test
of firearms, on the plan which has proved so popular and
so useful under his management abroad.
THE RACCOON.
No LONG description is needed to introduce to our read-
ers the raccoon, figured in our animal supplement of to-
day. Almost every man and boy in the country knows
the coon, and most of them have had the pleasure of
hunting it in the moonlight nights of the late antumn and
early winter.
The raccoon belongs to the group of split-footed car-
nivores known as the Arctozdea, or bearlike animals, and
is in the same family with the coati-mundis of South
America, which are often seen in menageries, and may
be recognized by their peculiarly long snouts and their
long ringed tails. Its nearest relation in the United States
is the raccoon-fox or Bassaris of the Southwest. There
are two species of raccoons in North America and one in
South America. The two first are known as Procyon lotor
and hernandezii, and the South American form, the crab -
eater, is Procyon cancrivorus. This is somewhat larger
than the common North American animal, but as its fur
is much shorter, it does not appear to be so large.
The coon is distributed over the whole of the United
States wherever forests grow, and we have also seen its
track along streams on the great plains where the only
timber consisted of an occasional cottonwood in the river
valley. It is especially abundant in the South, and in
that section is eagerly pursued by the negroes, who hunt
it with dogs, driving it into a tree from which it is then
shaken out, or, if the tree cannot.be climbed, shot; or the
tree is felled. The same method of pursuit is followed in
the New England and other States.
The coon is readily tamed and becomes an amusing pet.
As it gains confidence, however, it is likely tobe trouble-
some, for its capacity for mischief is unlimited.
Past numbers of the FOREST AND STREAM have had
numerous accounts of the pains and pleasures of coon
hunting, and to these the readers who are not familiar
with this fascinating sport are referred.
This number contains as an illustrated supplement a
portrait of the Coon, drawn by Mr. Ernest E. Thompson,
This is the third in a series of four. Those already
printed are: The Moose, Oct. 14, 1898; Woodland Cari-
bou, Noy. 11. The last one will be of the Virginia Deer,
Jan. 6, 1894. The dates of the former series, of which
copies can be supplied, are as follows: Sept. 8, 1892, The
Panther. Oct. 6, The Ocelot. Nov. 3, The Canada Lynx.
Dec. 1, The Bay Lynx. Jan. 5, 1893, Gray Wolf. Feb.
2, White Goat. March 3, Coyote. April 6, Antelope.
May 4, Fox.
In one of our early October issues Mr. G, O, Shields,
writing from Pelan, Minn., reported, ‘‘I have lately talked
with many settlers who live in and near the moose
country, and they all say that they shall continue to kill
moose and other game, the same as heretofore, law or no
law.” Senator Henry Keller called at the office of the
Hallock Enterprise the other day and gave out that when
the Minnesota Legislature met again he would introduce
a bill offering a reward of $25 for the conviction of a
person found guilty of killing moose or elk or prairie
chicken out of season, We shall see what we shall see,
468
FOREST AND STREAM.
[Dnc. 2, 1898.
Che Sportsman Conrist.
A STORY OF INDIAN DAYS.
No doubt there are some few moments in the life
of every man, and of a mountaineer in particular, when
he really thinks that his life isabout done, And when he
honestly thinks so, he acts just as though it was true,
although he may really have been in no danger. At other
times he may be placed in the utmost peril and danger;
bullets may be flying thick around him, yet he seems to
heed them not and does not get scared until the danger
is over.
In the summer of 1861, | mined in Georgia Gulch in
Golorade, I worked hard six days, and kept Sunday by
hunting, as much for the love of it as for the meat I
usually secured. Along in October we shut down our
claim and began to scatter for the winter. Father con-
cluded that he would stay on the claim; but I was too
fond of hunting to want to spend another winter in the
mountains so near the snow range, Some friends were
going down to winter where the Arkansas River puts out
of the mountain; and I concluded to go with them.
Game was reported to be plenty and so it was. Snow
had begun to fallin South Park and the traveling was
heavy the first two days; then we got out of the snow
belt. The first day out I killed an antelope, the next a
big blacktail buck; and these kept the company in meat
until we reached Cafion City. Here the teams stopped a
few days while the men hunted around for a suitable
place to winter. George and I went down on to asmall
stream called Hard Serabble. Here we found game in
abundance, such as elk, deer, black and white tail, ante-
lope and turkeys, with good feed and plenty of water.
We killed two deer and hung them up; went back, got
the outfit, moved down, got our deer and then went to
building a cabin on the Maxwell Grant for winter quar-
ters.
I had begun-to see that my friends were very stingy and
thought they would get what money I had brought along,
irrespective of what | was to pay for my part of the cook-
ing, which was done by Al’s wife, I made up my mind
that I should leave them as secon as an opportunity pre-
sented itself. A man named Vicroy owned a ranch three
miles below where we were camped; and he had started to
build a mill. He wanted a man to uig out a place to set
the wheel, so IT took the job. I got my traps together,
settled up with my friends, and went down to work, As
there was no particular hurry for the excavation, I hunted
more than half the time. We had all the game we
wanted.
I had been in my new quarters about ten days, when
one evening Vic wanted to know if I could drive oxen. I
told him I could and that I had graduated in bullwhack-
ing, and had stood up near the head of my class. Said
he, ‘‘That’s good. Will you take two yoke of oxen and
go down to Major & Russell’s winter quarters, and leave
a light wagon and bring back a heavy one? It is fifty
miles down on the Arkansas River. You can go down in
two days and come back in two. Pueblo is half way.”
“All right,” said I, “when shall I start?’ ‘‘To-morrow.”
The next morning early 1 yoked up two yoke of good
oxen, hitched on to a light wagon, put in my blankets,
some bread, a little salt, sugar and coffee, and a fore-
quarter of an antelope, for I always like to have a piece
of meat to roast when I am sitting around a camp-fire
alone; it helps kill time.
‘You can stop at Pueblo,” Vic told me, “‘I will over-
take you there.”
I supposed it must be a town, but when I got there I
found it te contain about a half dozen houses, all of
which seemed to be filled with red pepper, or chili, as
they called it, except one cluster, which was inhabited by
«a Mexican named Juan Chickette, A more bloodthirsty
looking greaser | never met. I told him who I was and
that Vicroy owned the team and would be there that
night. Juan told me I could stay and put the oxen in
his corral and feed them if I would pay him then. I
told him.I had no money, so I would go up on the creek
and make camp, for I had some doubts about Vic’s com-
ing that night. I went up a short distance, camped,
turned the oxen out, watched them until nearly dark,
then hobbled two, and prepared camp for the night.
Next morning early 1 was up after my oxen, which had
not gone far, I let them feed until I got through my
breakfast, then hitched up and started on my road, I
saw a great many antelope and a few whitetail deer, but
none were near enough for me to get a shot at.
I kept hurrying up the oxen, and by three o’clock I had
reached the big ranch. Here were those big prairie
schooners, just such as I had used a few years before,
chains by the ton, yokes by the cord, work-oxen by the
thousand, Itwas their winter quarter for trains that had
come out and could not get back before winter set in on
the plains. Here I received kind treatment and was well
cared for, I told the foreman who I was and what I
came for; and that Vicroy had said that he would over-
take me at Pueblo. ‘*Oh,” said the foreman, ‘* he may
not come, you Gan wait or you can take the wagon; for
Vic may not come, he is one of tliose fellows who are al-
ways behind. I have known him for years.”
When bed time came they wanted me to sleepin the
house, but I would not; I was used to sleeping outdoors,
and the weather was fine,
The next morning I told the foreman I would start
back, as there would be no use of my waiting; so I
hitched on and started. Sometimes I would get up in
the wagon and ride, sometimes I would walk and hurry
the oxen up, for 1 wanted to reach Pueblo before dark.
Along about noon I saw a small cloud of dust rising
ahead. I thought it was Vic, and sure enough it was.
He came up and began to apologize for not coming
sooner; some teams had come down from the mines for
vegetables. and he could not get away. I told him that
his friend Juan would not keep me unless I paid him in
advance, which I would not do, for I was afraid to let
them know [ had a dollar.
‘““Well,” said Vic, ‘‘you stop there to-night. I told him
I would pay him when J come back.”
“No,” said I, “I would rather camp where I did coming
down,” Then we separated.
Probably an hour had elapsed. I was poking along
behind the wagon, when I thought I could hear Indians
yelling. On looking back I could see quite a cloud of
dust rising. I gotup into the wagon and stopped the
team so I could listen,
could hear Indians yelling. I started up the team, but
kept watching back, I could see the dust plainer; it
seemed to be coming, and I could hear the yelling more
distinctly. My first thought was to leave the team and
run for the river. If I could get to the brush I would be
all right. But it was more than a mile. If I left the
acon there would be nothing to get behind to make a
ght.
One thing was certain —they would soon be there. I
had passed over a piece of rolling ground, which hid
them, but the dust was rising nearer, and the yelling was
getting to be very distinct. I was certain that the Indians
were on the war path, that they had got Vicroy and had
cen ees and would soon have my scalp dangling from a
girdle.
I stopped the team, got up on top of the wagon box and
could see them coming. Yet they must have been a mile
and a half away. I thought I could see some near the
timber. :
I jumped down, wunhitched the oxen, turned them
round, chained them to the wheel, climbed back up into
the wagon, took some bullets out of my shot-pouch, laid
them oh my roll of blankets, laid my pistol by them, and
then rested my rifle across the hind end gate and waited
for them tocome, And come they did. One seemed to
be at least a quarter of a mile ahead of the main body. I
waited until this leader got within about 200yds., when I
fired. At the crack of my rifle down went the horse and
rider. But in an instant the Indian was up and started to
run for the river. The yelling was terrific; the Indians
began leaving the road to head the leader off. I reloaded
my rifle as quick as I could, but before I could get a cap
on the nipple they began shooting at the dismounted In-
dian, and soon I saw him stumble and fall, Then they
closed in around him. In a few minutes two of them
started toward my wagon, They had a white handkerchief
onaspear. I got down out of the wagon after sticking
my pistol in my waist, They rode up within about 10yds.
and spoke to meé in Spanish. I could understand them
tolerably well; they told me they were friends to the
white man. The Indian they had killed was a Comanche
and had. been stealing their horses and was on the best
horse they had, and if I had not killed it he would have
got away.
Soon they raised the bloody scalp on to a spear and be-
gan their war dance around it. I hitched up and left.
But | was so weak that I could hardly stand up. It was
nearly dark when I got back to Pueblo, I put the oxen
in the corral and ate and slept in the house that night, for
I had not got over my scare, and old Juan's cut-throat
countenance looked like the harbinger of peace compared
to those Arapahoes. The next day I reached home,
When Vic came he told me that his horse had bolted to
the brush as he was nearer the river, and he hid until
they passed. Then he did not know what to do, for he
thought it was'a war party. But he ventured near enough
to Big Ranch to see people moving around; and when the
Indians returned they stopped and exhibited the scalp.
Then he felt much better, for he was afraid they had got
my scalp as well as his team. Lew. WILMOT,
TWO DAYS AT HAMMONASSETT.
Wh reached the club house nestled in this remote Con-
necticut valley at dark. On the way thither the presi-
dent and Thad picked up two flight woodcock and two
quail and had given the dogs a preparatory run through
stubble and alders in prospect of the work of the mor-
row. The Doctor arrived shortly after, having shot over
the club land on the way up from Madison. He emptied
his game pocket of two woodcock, a quail and a partridge,
We sat before the blazing hickory logs taking our otium
cum dig. and laid our plans for the morning. Rex, Wad
and May lay stretched in lazy idleness before us and the
birds of other hunts looked down on us from their hooks
and perches on mantel and wall, and gave us prompting
for many a story of doubtful accuracy.
The thermometer stood at 28° F. as we packed the dogs
and ourselves into the club wagon at 8 o’clock next morn-
ing bound for the ‘Episcopal church region.” The sun
was just topping Pea Hill; not a cloud in the sky, every
leaf and twig and blade of grass glistened like silver under
the heavy coating of hoar frost.
What words can paint the fall glories of the woods seen
through an atmosphere so clear that hills ten miles away
seem to be close at our feet.
What pen can tell of the thrill of hope and courage and
strength and thankfulness for very life, that infused us as
we climbed those glorious wooded hills, up, up into the
blue ether, away from the dust, the worry, the turmoil,
the sorrow of everyday hfe, up toward the blue of God’s
Heaven, into the arms of our dear mother Nature, with
her kindly touch, which softens all our sorrows and heals
all our wounds.
In the shadowy depths of the woods the frozen ferns
gleamed white and ghostlike on each side of the road, or,
looked like coarse lace set out against the darker back-
ground of forest and glen. We have cast aside all
our troubles for the time. Here in a ‘‘Happy Valley” of
our own, a Connecticut Arcadia, where the silver billand
the financial situation are not, our greatest anxiety is the
fear thaf perhaps two steaks, some chops and ham and
eggs will not be enough for dinner,
he first cover visited was a buckwheat patch planted
by the club and allowed to stand and ‘‘die down,” afford-
ing unlimited foodand good cover. Old Wad hadscarcely
reached its edge when he began to make game, and the
pup Rex, as he came around, backed up his grandsire in
handsome form, Before we were organized for our shots
[the birds flushed wide off, but the Doctor's gun dropped a
single. Wad retrieved neatly, and before we had gone
twenty paces another and smaller bevy flushed at the ex-
‘treme upper end of the field and dropped into some alders
near the church brook. We found them without much
trouble, and from a staunch point by Rex in thick cover
I winged one bird which dodged off to the left, and an
instant later fired at what proved to be a large hen bird
to the right. I saw a cloud of feathers drift down wind
and supposed I had killed; but after following my winged
bird for some distance and being unable to find it, I re-
turned for the other. The bird was not where it should
have been, but some light feathers and a half point from
Rex showed me that this bird, too, had been wounded
We watched the pup and called Wad around, who backed
in great shape. The scene was typical of a point on quail
in cover. A hundred yards below stood an old and de-
serted farmhouse, weatherworn and gray. The brook,
ten steps from us, babbled and gurgled on its way to the
sea. and the old church of nimety years, looking strangely
out of place in this out-of-the-way region, loomed up
against the cloudless autumn sky to the right. The dogs
stood almost at right angles to each other. Rex, with his
head inclined sharply to one side, slightly crouching, and
his left hindleg cataleptically poised, stood as though
carved in stone. Wad at his right on a moststylish back-
ing point, head, back and flag all on a line.
e watched them and commented on them, and on our
beautiful surroundings, on hills and woods, and on the
delightful excitement of the moment. What was the
hurry? A few seconds, or moments, made no difference,
and one don’t get these sensations so often that they can
be thrown away. At last I walk up and whirr goes the
bird straightaway. I score a kill on an easy shot and
Rex and Wad move on and point. Wad retrieyes—Rex
has not yet learned this senior year study,
1 start to move down to where some of the birds were
supposed to have flown, but missing my dog I turn and
eall ‘‘Rex,” and see him pointing at the same tussock
from which my bagged birdhadflown. I walk back and
say, ‘‘Why, Rex, you were a good dog to find that bird,
but don’t shake my trust.in your intelligence by pointing
again where she got up. Come away, come on, good
dog, Rex; come on, don’t be a fool.” No reply from the
graven image. I walk up and kick about the grass, but
find nothing. **Rex, come away from there.” Finally I
take him by the collar, but as I do so he breaks his point
and puts out his paw and rests it on a thick bunch of
grass, and as I part the matted grass I see and lift out a
fine hen quail in her Jast gasps. Jt was the bird I had
wounded which had run with the other, and the sagacious
brute of a dog had made his mind, or scent, up that there
were two birds in that bunch of grass, and by his intelli-
gence had added one to our bag.
We left this cover after the proper amount of caressing
and good-boy-ing had been done, and went up the hill to
the upper buckwheat and into woodecock and partridge
cover. The Doctor had three pretty chances on the way
up, two at quail and one at a woodcock. The woodcock
and one quail came to bag.
I was walking through a tangled thicket of sprouts,
cat-briers and alders when Rex gave unmistakable evi-
dence of being on a partridge trail, I ‘‘got ahead,”
‘crashing through the brash,” unable to make proyress
without noise. The pyrotechnics went off and so did my
feather-weight gun, and I saw through the scrub oak
which had not yet shed its leaves, a bundle of brown
feathers fall to the ground, but only winged, and in my
hurry to get to the spot on account of Nex’s unfinished
education, I lost an easy shot at another bird, which got
up when I was hors de combat with the gun open and
tangled up in a grapevine,
The dog took the trail and I lost him, but after a time
came upon him lying down beside a rock and evidently
satisfied with himself... I could see no bird and the dog
would not go on when ordered to. As soon as I could Bet
the Doctor with old Wad, I explained matters and a
‘dead bird” ‘‘seek” to the old boy disclosed my dead
partridge within 10 paces of my dog and a hundred yards
from where I had fired. As soon as the bird was bagged
Rex got up and began hunting again as before.
We went down the hill to keep our appointment with
the president at Bunnell’s Bridge. Before noon we had
started four bevies of quail, but we shot indiffer-
ently and the birds acted as though they did not want to
come to bag, and at noon we had but five—three quail, a
woodcock and a partridge. We lunched at Bunnell’s
Bridge, on the banks of the Hammonassett.
At this point our president left us for the club house
and New Haven, and the Doctor and I finished our
day by a tramp to the club, picking up three more birds
and watching the fine working of the two dogs, Wad and
Rex. Wehad a dozen points, but in many places it was
impossible to shoot. We put our eight birds—tive quail,
two partridges and one. woodcock—in the ice box, got
into our sweaters and slippers, and dropped off after sup-
per into that gentle insouciance which always follows a
day’s hunt and a good meal.
- We hunted hali the next day and added three quail,
two partridges and two woodcock to our score. After
luncheon we bowled down to Madison, eleven miles, be-
hind the club pair, and at 9 o’clock were recounting
another happy outing to our wives and indorsing our
statements by the present of twenty-three birds—eleven
quail, seven woodcuck and five partridges. Incoa,
A Moose on the Last Day.
Wassinaton, D. C., Noy. 25 —Three weeks ago, just
as I was about leaving here for 4 short trip to the woods,
I read with interest a well-illustrated account by one of
your correspondents of how he killed ‘his first moose.
I killed my first moose on Oct, 26, 1883, still-hunting
on a perfectly still day, with neither snow, rain or wind
to help me. Iam just back from my tenth moose hunt
and report that on Saturday I killed my lust moose, on a
bitter cold windy day, with the frozen leaves covered
with several inches of crusted snow, just the day when
the sensible still-hunter stays in camp to clean his gun,
boil bean soup, mend moccasins and the like, ;
This was my last day, however, so out I went and in
the face of adverse circumstances got a young bull about
five years old which measured 6ft, 3in. My measure-
ments are those of one who has measured a good many
and lived out. I have never yet seen a 7-foot moose. The
head and horns weighed 774lbs. My Indian shouldered
these while I took the hide, 51lbs,, and we had a two and
a half hour tramp with them the next morning In a
blinding snowstorm. That is what I call good work
and the sort of hunting that gives the mest pleasure—
the hunter’s wits against the game's.
Your correspondent I mentioned wondered where one
of his guides, an Indian, got thenameot Seymour. His
name is not Seymour, it is Ignace Simon. He and his
brother Hyacinthe are both good hunters, and I have
employed both of them at times as far back as 1884 and
1886,
They are sons of old Antoine Simon, who was drowned
only, The pup, however, took the trail, and working! five or six years ago in the Ottawa River.
down slowly and snakelike, came finally, 60yds, below, to }
an open spot with grass tussocks at the end and edge of the
After listening a little while I! alders, where he made his final and unmistakable stand.
The Canadians drop the nasal twang in pronouncing
French, and Simon becomes Seemo, mistaken by your
correspondent for Seymour. CECIL CLAY.
i.
Duc, 2, 1898. |
| dlatuyal ZHistorg.
WILD TURKEYS OF NORTH AMERICA.
BY D. G ELLIOT.
ArtHouGH the New World has contributed but one
genus to the great family of the Phasianide, yet the
species that are comprised within it are the most import-
ant and valuable to man of all the known forms of galli-
naceous birds, either in their wild state, as furnishing
food to forest dwellers, or through the various domesti-
cated strains which knowledge and ingenuity has been
able to produce from the wild creatures themselves.
The turkey is of very ancient lineage, and existed in
early geological times, various portions of the skeletons
having been found both in the Miocene of Colorado and
the post-Pleiocene of New Jersey. These represented
species larger, as well as smaller, than those living to-day.
Very confused ideas prevailed among Europeans of a
few centuries ago as to the native country of these splen-
did birds, and the trivial name by which they are every-
where recognized was bestowed on account of the erro-
neous belief that they were introduced into England from
Turkey, and were indigenous to that country.
Up to the last few years it was supposed only one species
of the genus Weleagris existed, the common wild turkey,
as found in the eastern border of North America, and that
from it sprung all the domesticated races in their differ-
ent forms, so familiar throughout the world, and it was
not until 1856 that Gould separated the bird, then believed
‘to be found only in Mexico, from its northern relative,
as M. mewicana. This is very distinct from the common
wild turkey, and undoubtedly is the source from which
the greater portion of the domesticated birds are de-
rived, The name of the genus Meleagris, from the Greek
edeay pid, a guinea fowl, is another evidence of the con-
fused ideas existing regarding these birds, and it was sup-
posed to be the same species known to the ancients under
that name. Wxternally, on a large scale, in their general
form and mode of carriage, turkeys have a certain re-
semblance to guinea fowls, but their skeletons possess very
different characters, and of course in these days there is
no likelihood of any one confounding the two in any way
whatever. They represent two well defined subfamilies
of the one great family.
The visible characters which identify and separate tur-
keys from all other birds may be briefly stated as follows:
Head and upper portion of neck naked, with a wrinkled
skin, covered more or less with wartlike protuberances,
an extensile appendage on the forehead, adewlap present,
a tarsus coyered before and behind with broad scales,
and armed, in the male, with a spur. The feathers are
firm and smooth, and of highly metallic colors, especially
in the male, which sex is also distinguished by a ‘‘beard,”
or tuft of lengthened hairlike feathers projecting from
the breast, Turkeys are both arboreal and terrestrial, and
are capable, when on the ground, of outrunning a fairly
swift horse.
At the present time there are four species and subspecies
of the genus recognized in North America, and one, a
most gorgeous bird, fairly rivaling the hummingbird in
the resplendent metallic brilliancy of its plumage, is a
native of certain portions of Central America.
The four North American birds are about equal in size,
having a general resemblance to each other in the colors
of their plumage, but each possessing characteristic dif-
ferences, which cause them to be readily recognizable.
One has been known since the discovery of the North
American continent, another was described, as already
stated, in 1856, and the other two within a few years, one
indeed only in the summer of 1892. They are Meleagris
gallopavo, the common wild turkey; M. mexicana, the
_ Mexican turkey, but not restricted by any means to that
country; M. gallopavo osceola, the Florida wild turkey,
and M. gallopavo ellioti, the Rio Grande wild turkey.
These four may be characterized in a key somewhat as
follows:
I, Plumage highly metallic.
a. Upper tail-coverts and tail very dark reddish chest-
nut, the latter tipped with rusty.
a’. Primaries white with black bars, I. gallopavo.
b'. Primaries brownish black with white bars, not
reaching the shaft. IM. g. osceola,
b. Upper tail-coverts and tail chestnut, tipped with
buff. M. g. elliott.
ce, Upper tail-coverts and tail tipped with white.
M. mexicana,
It will be seen by the above that the first two species
are very similar in appearance and that the main differ-
ence is in the coloration of the primaries, or long stiff
feathers of the wing, sometimes called ‘flight feathers.”
In the common wild turkey the black and white are
pretty equally distributed on these feathers, and they both
reach the shaft, while in the Florida bird the white bars
are narrow, somewhat broken, and donot reach the shaft.
These markings, though apparently so insignificant and
apt to be overlooked by the casual observer, are never-
theless constant, and it is by such characters, trivial as
they may seem, that the subspecific forms are established
and the geographical distribution of animals on our globe
ascertained,
The next two, species and subspecies, have more evi-
dence that they should be separated from the Northern
and Eastern bird, and while the If. g, ellioti at first sight
might be mistaken for the common wild turkey, by com-
paring the two it would be at once perceived how much
they differ in the coloring of the rump, upper and under
tail-coverts and tail. The feathers of the rump are black,
with a metallic coppery bronze subterminal bar, and
broadly tipped with dark ochraceous buff; the coverts are
chestnut with narrow black crossbars, and broadly tipped
with buff. The tail is mottled with pale chestnut and
black, with a subterminal black bar, and broadly tipped
with dark ochraceous buff. The feathers of the rump of
_the common wild turkey and also the tail-coverts are
broadly tipped with dark chestnut, and the tail is tipped
with rusty, giving a very different appearance to these
parts, as shown in MV. g. ellioti. The primaries of the
Jast-named also are more like 1, mewicana than those of
M. gallopavo, and furnish an additional character to dis-
tinguish the Rio Grande bitd, The female of W. g, ellioti,
however, in the grayish tips of the feathers on the upper
parts. of the body and the pale buff tips on those of the
under surface, differs so entirely from the females of all
other species of turkey, that it raises a serious question
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whether this form shovld not be accorded a full specific
tank equal to mexicana and gallopavo. Lastly, M. meavi-
cana, in its white-tipped tail-coverts and tail, is easily dis-
tinguished from the other forms,
Wild Turkey—wWeleagris gallapauo,
ia: ie gallopavo, Linn. Syst. Nat., Vol. I., 1766, p.
Habitat, eastern United States, from southern Canada
to northern Florida and eastern Texas. west to the plains.
Naked skin of the head and neck blue, the wattles red.
Feathers of neck and body generally coppery bronze,
changing with greenish or purplish refiections, and mar-
gined with black, Back and rump black, with red reflec-
tions; sides, and upper and lower tail-coverts dark chest-
nut, with a subterminal black bar, and with purple
reflections, and tipped with dark chestnut. Tail chestnut,
barred and mottled with black, with a subterminal black
bar, and tipped with pale chestnut or rusty, A long,
pendent tuft of hair-like feathers from the center of the
breast. Bill and legs red.
It has been a moot question among writers what should
be the proper name for this well-known bird, but as Lin-
neeus zave that of gallopavo to the ‘‘New England wild
turkey” of Ray, there can be no doubt as to its rightful
appellation. The turkey was first introduced into the
West India Islands in 1526 in a domestic state, and into
England in 1541. In the reign of Francis I..it was im-
ported into France, and it was first served on the table in
that country on the occasion of the wedding of Charles,
TX., in 1570. Bred with care it increased rapidly, and
was soon introduced into Asia and Africa. At the time
of the settlement of America the turkey was generally
distributed all along our eastern seaboard from Florida
to the New England States, but it has long since become
practically extinct as’ a wild bird north of Pennsylvania,
and in that State it is confined to a few mountainous dis-
tricts. Its range was given by most writers as much
more extensive than is really the fact, because it has been
confounded with the Florida bird on the eastern coast,
and with the Rio Grande turkey in the southwest, these
forms having only lately been recognized as distinct, It
may now be considered as restricted from Pennsylvania
to northern Florida of the Atlantic States, through the
Gulf States to southern Texas, north to Canada and west-
ward to the plains. Its habits are so well known and the
methods employed for its capture so thoroughly under-
stood, that it is not necessary to discuss them here; but no
more wary, keen-eyed, alert wild denizen of the forest
exists in any land than this noble bird, and any hunter
may well feel proud and elated when, by methods only
permissible to the true sportsman, matching his knowl-
edge and skill against the sagacity and cunning of this
thoroughly game creature, he succeeds in outwitting and
bringing to bag so splendid a quarry. Long may it be
preserved, the grandest of our feathered game, to orna-
ment our woods and rouse its echoes in the early spring
time with its rolling challenge, sounded from some lofty
perch, in defiance of its rivals or in response to the low
call of the female.
Florida Wild Turkey—weleagris gallopavo osceola.
Meleagris gallopavo osceola, Scott, Auk, 1890, p. 376.
Habitat, Tarpon Springs, Florida, and about the south-
ern half of the Peninsula. Resembling M. gallopavo, but
differing in having the white on the primaries and outer
secondaries in the shape of narrow broken bars not reach-
ing the shaft. The inner secondaries grayish brown with-
out bars and mottled with brown on inner webs. The
subspecies is found in the southern part of Florida, but
its exact range has not yet been definitely ascertained.
The type specimen came from Tarpon Springs, where it
was procured by Mr. Scott. It is a well marked race,
easily recognized from the common wild turkey by the
characters given above. It is abundant in the section of
the State it frequents, and is named after the celebrated
Seminole chief.
Rio Grande Turkey—WMeleagris gallopavo ellioti.
Meleagris gallopavo ellioti, Sennett, Auk, 1592, p, 167,
1, IL.
F Habitat, lowlands of southern Texas and eastern Mex-
ico. Distinguished from other turkeys by the ochraceous
buff tips on the tail and its upper and lower coverts, by
the deep blue black of the lower back destitute of the
brilliant metallic reflections of the other forms, and in
the female by the grayish tips of the feathers on the
upper parts, and the pale buff or grayish white edgings
of those on the under surface, The tipsof the tail and
those of the upper coverts are paler than in the male.
This is a very strongly marked form of wild turkey, so
strongly characterized indeed in the female as would
warrant it, as I have already said, to be considered an in-
dependent species. There is no female turkey that [
have ever seen so peculiarly marked as is that sex of the
Rio Grande form, the nearest being the female of M. mex-
icana, but this bird has no gray edgings on the upper
back and only extremely narrow ones on the lower sur-
face, The general coloring of the feathers is also entirely
different.
Mr, Sennett, who procured and described this new tur-
key, states that it is common on the coast, and in the low-
lands, from about the Brazos River in Texas, to Vera
Cruz, in Mexico, wherever timber and food are abundant,
up to an altitude not exceeding 2,000ft. above the level of
the sea. No evidence has been obtained that it inter-
grades with any other form, all the specimens procured
being remarkably alike, and exhibiting a conspicuous
difference from the other known kinds of wild turkeys.
It is a large bird, frequently weighing over 20lbs., and the
males are very handsome indeed in their metallic and
buff colored plumage.
Mexican Turkey—WMeleagris mexicana.
| Meleagris mexicana, Gould Proc. Zool. Soc., 1856,
61
| Habitat, Rocky Mountains, from western Texas to
Arizona, and south along the table Jand of Mexico, above
an altitude of 3,000ft.
The Mexican turkey can always be recognized by the
broad white tips to the tail-coverts and tail. The general
_ plumage is fiery copper, with black and green refléctions,
|and the primaries are barred with black and white like
| those of IW. gallopavo, quite different from those of osceola
and ellioti. This bird is undoubtedly the source from
which all the domesticated strains with white-tipped
feathers arose. The jet black or bronze, domestic race,
were derived from the eastern wild bird; but whenever a
with yellow. 1
lowed by a line of black and broadly tipped with red, this
tame turkey is seen with these peculiar white or very
pale buff-tipped feathers, it is very certain it contains
some of the blood of the Mexican species. This turkey is
a bird of the highlands, rarely met with below 3,000ft.
above the level of the sea, and from that up to 10,000f,
It is very common in the localities it frequents, often
met with in large droves; I have seen thirty or forty
of them together, and it does not differ in its habits
from the other species. When the Spaniards first entered
the City of Mexico they found extensive zodlogical gar-
dens maintained by the Emperor Montezuma, containing
nearly all the animals of his own country, as well as
others brought from a distance, and to the beasts of prey,
it was stated, that turkeys were supplied asfood. High
livers and greatly favored we must regard these pets of
imperial majesty, When the turkey was first domesti-
cated in Mexico is not known, but its introduction into
Europe in the sixteenth century would show that it was
reclaimed from the wild state long prior to the advent of
Cortez. ;
The Mexican turkey grows to a very large size and it
seemed to me that the average, judging from those I shot
and saw in New Mexico on the borders of Arizona, was
larger than that of our Eastern bird. The- males are
yery handsome, and especially conspicuous from the
amount of white, or buffy white, on the lower back and
tail. They are shot mainly from the roosts on moonlight
nights or in the early morning, and on account of the
lofty trees in those localities and the height at which the
birds perch, a rifle is the only weapon certain to reach
them and bring them to the ground. They are very
tenacious of life and many sorely wounded birds contrive
to effect their escape amid the shadows of the surround-
ing woods, or in the dense brush and thickets of the
mountains and valleys. I have treated this bird in this
paper as a species, although in the A. O. U, List it is con-
sidered only a subspecies of the common wild turkey.
Possibly the two forms may run together, but at present
it is not known that they do, and so I leave it as a
species.
With the last species the list of wild turkeys known at
the spresent day to inhabit North America is exhausted;
but before bringing this article to a close it would per-
haps be well to say a few words upon the “noblest Roman
of them all,” albeit he is not a North American citizen—the
gorgeous ocellated turkey of Yucatan and Guatemala.
This wonderfully plumaged bird is slightly smaller than
our wild turkey, and is a native of the district lying be-
tween the base of the promontory of Yucatan and the
extensive forests which overspread the northern and east-
ern portions of Guatemala, and westward probably to the
lands bordering the Usumacinta and RioSan Pedro. Itis
doubtful if it is found in the republic of Honduras. It
dwells in districts interspersed with open tracts and dense
forests, is even more shy and wary than our own bird, if
such a thing could be deemed possible, goes in small flocks,
and in its habits resembles closely our wild turkey. The
best description would give but a faint idea of this bird’s
appearance, but the following may help one to recognize
it if seen for the first time: Head and neck deep blue, the
lower part of the sides and front of the latter covered with
bright red wartlike excrescences. A large, thick wattle
between the eyes, extending to the bill, and another pen-
dent over the bill, both deep blue, and terminating with
yellow excrescences. Similar wart-like excrescences over
the eyes and also between the eyes and the bill, bright
yellow.
Feathers of upper part of back bright metallic
green at base, succeeded by a line of black and tipped
Back and rump feathers blue at base, fol-
last color richest on the rump, Scapulars like the back.
Secondaries white, irregularly barred with grass green,
Primaries white, barred with brownish black. Shoulders
and smaller wing-coyerts rich green, margined with black; ~
greater wing-coverts deep red. Upper part of breast
like the back. Flanks and lower parts generally black,
feathers tipped with brilliant red. Upper tail-coverts and
tail feathers light brown at base, mottled with black, fol-
lowed by an irregular bar or broad spot of deep blue,
margined above and below with black, succeeded by a
line of yellowish; the remainder of terminal portions deep
red, The coverts are very long, extending half way down
the tail. Bill, legs and ieet red. Such is the plumage of
this extraordinary bird, which far outstrips the peacock
in gaudy apparel, and vies in its changing tints and bril-
liant metallic hues, resembling the rainbow in their
startling contrasts, with the hummingbirds, those fairy
feathered jewels of the air. Various vain attempts have
been made to domesticate it, and it is not probable that it
will ever be, like its northern relative, a familiar object
near the abodes of men.
THAT WHITE RATTLESNAKE,
Beatrice, Neb., Nov, 1.—In the issue of Oct. 28, ‘‘Dr,
Jes,” of Douglas, Wyo., advances the theory that the
white rattlesnake I mentioned as being captured near here
was simply an ordinary rattler which was shedding his -
skin. ,
Mr. Chas. King, living 13 miles east of this city, has the
snake still alive, and yesterday I drove out toseeit. Mr,
King’s replies to my inquiries, I think, preclude any other
theory than that the snake is an albino. I saw it a few
days after he first captured ib, and again yesterday, and I
can see no difference in the condition of the skin, although
about forty-five days, twice the time consumed in the
process of shedding the skin, have gone by. [I still hold to
the theory I first advanced, that the snake is an albino, a
freak in a specimen of the common black prairie rattle-
spake. Mr. King tells me that the Smithsonian Institute
is corresponding with him and will probably secure the
little serpent for their collection. I hope this will be
brought about, so that Eastern readers of the FOREST AND
STREAM may see ittoo, Mr, King said:
‘““T captured the white rattlesnake about Sept. 20, The
skin smooth and the color bright then, and I do not notice
any change now in the condition of skin or in the color
compared with the same at the time of capture. There is
no change in any way that I can detect up to the present
time (Nov. 13), The snake is perfectly healthy and live-
lier than is generally the case with a rattlesnake. I feed
it milk and water mixed, once in two or three days. It
does not lap the milk like a cat or dog, but puts its mouth
down in it and drinks after the manner of a horse
or cow and swallows very fast. If not disturbed it
will drink all it wants before leaving the dish
and then does not drink again for two or three
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days, as near as I can determine. I have not noticed
any change in the color of either the spots or the
body since he has been in my possession, The skin is at
the present time smooth and glossy, not inclined to
roughness, nor does it differ from the skin of any snake
except in color. JI puta live mouse in the box afew days
after capturing him. This one he struck and killed and
then swallowed it. I have since put a number of field
mice and common house mice in the box with him, but
he does not molest them in any way, though they run all
over him. The mice if left in the box a day or two
become sluggish and die, though the snake does not touch
them,”
The little fellow is very lively for a rattlesnake and
carries a set of fangs such as always go with the ordin-
ary rattler; and he seems to be of a rather pugnacious
disposition. If you so much as put your hand toward his
box, when he can see you, he starts his ‘‘music box” and
coils at once, all ready for business on short notice.
I would like to hear from other readers if any other
cases of a like nature have ever come under their notice.
I have killed many rattlesnakes, but never saw anything
like this one. EL CoMANCHO.
AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ UNION.
THE eleventh congress of the A. O. U. was held at Cam-
bridge, Mass., Nov. 20 to 23. The business meeting, which
always precedes the public sessions, was held at the resi-
dence of Mr. C. F. Batchelder on the evening of Nov. 20,
At this meeting the old officers were reélected, as follows:
Dr. Elliot Coues, President: Messrs. Wm. Brewster and
H. W. Henshaw, Vice-Presidents; Mr. John H. Sage, Sec-
retary, and Mr. Wm. Dutcher, Treasurer. The council
for the year consists of Dr. J. A. Allen, Messrs, C. B. Cory,
C, F. Batchelder, D, G. Elliot, Robert Ridgway, and Drs.
C. Hart Merriam and L. Stejneger. Highty-three associ-
ate members were elected, but there were no elections of
honorary, corresponding or active members.
The new committee on ‘Classification and Nomencla-
ture of North American Birds” consists of Dr, J. A. Allen,
Wm. Brewster, Dr. Elliot Coues, Dr, C, Hart Merriam and
Robert Ridz way.
The new committee on ‘‘Protection of North American
Birds” is made up of Dr. Frank M. Chapman and L. 8.
Foster, Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Capt. C. E, Bendireand
Mr. Montague Chamberlain.
The public meeting, at which the papers presented to
the congress are read; was held in the Nash lecture room
of the University Museum. In the absence of the presi-
dent, Dr. Coues, who is detained in the West, Mr. Wm,
Brewster, the vice-president, presided. On behalf of Har-
vard University, Dr. George L. Goodale welcomed the
Union to Cambridge. The following papers were read:
Bird Migration in Chester county, South Carolina, viewed with
Reference to its Cause—Leverett M. Loomis.
Brief Remarks on the Origin of Bird Migration—Frank M. Chap-
man,
The Survival of the Fittest—D. G. Elliot:
Protective Coloration and Natural Selection—J. A Allen.
Protective Mimicry~ J A. Allen.
The Island of Trinidad and its Bird Life; Illustrated with Lantern
Slides—Frank M. Chapman, .
On the Tongue of Dendroica tigrina—Frederic A. Lucas.
Observation on the Ruby-throated Hummingbird—Jane L. Hine.
General Impressions of Tropical Bird Life—Frank M. Chapman.
The Labrador Duck.—Another specimen, with some additional data
of extant specimens—Wm. Dutcher.
Renarks on the Nest of Cistothorus palustris —Louis B, Bishop.
. Habits of the Double-crested Cormorant (Phaluerocoraz dilophus)
in Rhode Island—Geo, H. Mackay.
Remarks on the Fauna of Wy.ominz—C, Hart Merriam.
Some Mexican Notes—H. W. Nelson.
Change in Feeding Habits of the Night Hawk since the General Use
of Electric Lights—A. P. Chadbourne.
Instance of Reasoning in the Scarlet Ibis—A. P. Chadbourne.
The paper which had in it most of popular interest was
that by Mr. Frank M, Chapman, on the Island of Trini-
dad and its Bird Life. It was read before a large audi-
ence on the afternoon of Wednesday, and was listened to
with great attention. It was quite fully illustrated with
lantern slides and was the paper of the day. Many other
of the papers were of unusual interest.
It was voted to hold the next congress of the Union in
New York city, a session to begin on the second Monday
in November, 1894. Sixteen active and thirty associate
members were present during the congress.
The members of the Union were invited to attend an
informal reception on Monday evening, Nov. 20, at the
residence of Mr. C. F. Batchelder to celebrate the twenti-
eth birthday of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. During
their stay in Cambridge every hospitality was extended
m4 ie visiting members of the A. O, U. by the Nuttall
ub.
At the close of the meeting thanks were tendered to
Prof. Geo. L, Goodale for the use of the Botanic Lecture
Room of Harvard University; to the Colonial Club, of
Cambridge, for courtesies extended, and to the Nuttall
Ornithological Club for its cordial welcome and generous
hospitalities extended the visiting members,
As remarked last week, the A, O. U. may almost be
called the child of the Nuttall Club, and the parent on
this occasion extended to its lusty offspring kindnesses
which will long be remembered by the members of the
Union. These and the other pleasant features of the con-
gress of 1893 render the meet perhaps the most enjoyable
that has ever been held.
Female Caribou Horns,
“NEw York, Nov. 23.—Your picture of caribou I con-
sider very fine, In regard to the female caribou with
horns my experience has been that when with young they
always carry antlers, sometimes so large and so well
_ bunched that they come toan untimely end. I killed one
on my last trip by mistake; a good sized cow seen with
antlers 100yds. away among the bushes can be very easily
mistaken for a young stag.
Iam glad they are going to have a carnival at Quebec.
only wish I was not so crippled, they always have a jolly
time at these carnivals. I have been there and would
advise all who are able to go by all means, it is a most
delightful experience. WAKEMAN HOLBERTON.
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MODERN SPORTING GUNPOWDERS
In the Light of the Public Powder and
Primer Tests Carried out at Chi-
cago and Carney’s Point,
New Jersey.
BY ARMIN TENNER,
Expert in Gunpowder, Guns and Ammunition.
General Observations on the Theory of Shot
Shooting.
For centuries black powder, which, as is well known,
consists of a mixture of saltpeter, charcoal and sulphur,
has been used as an explosive and as a propelling agent
for all kinds af weapons, from the smallest pistol up to
the heaviest cannon.
Saltpeter, or nitrate of potash, represents oxygen in a
solid form, one volume of saltpeter containing about as
much oxygen as 3,000 volumes of atmospheric air. When
raised to a certain temperature, this oxygen will easily
separate and combine violently with the carbon, thus
forming carbonic acid and a certain proportion of car-
bonic oxide; and these in conjunction with free nitrogen
constitute the principal gaseous products of combustion.
The charcoal employed in the manufacture of gunpowder
is generally obtained from light, spongy wood. In Eng-
land and on the European continent dogwood or alder
buckthorn is considered to be best adapted for all small-
arm powders, Lately numerous attempts, with more or
less success, have been made to substitute other materials
for wood, mainly with the object of diminishing the
quantity of smoke usually developed by a charge of ordi-
nary black powder.
The quality of the charcoal exercises a great influence
upon the behavior of a gunpowder, inasmuch as the rate
of combustion and the hygroscopic nature of the same are
to a great extent governed by the kind of wood and the
mode of burning employed in the manufacture of the
charcoal.
The sulphur, having a great tendency to combine with
oxygen at a moderate temperature—about 560° F.—facili-
tates the ignition of black powder. The comparatively
non-absorbent properties of black powder and non-sus-
ceptibility to age are chiefly due to the sulphur. These
qualities and its comparative non-susceptibility to dry
heat and cold impart to black powder its greatest ballistic
value. Many of the nitro powders do not compare fayor-
ably in this respect with the old propelling agent.
Fine-grained powder, as arule, burns quicker in a closed
space than coarse-grained, and the gases are generated
accordingly in the same proportion. For this reason the
recoil is generally greater and more perceptible to the
shooter with the former than with the latter. Fine-
grained black powder also develops a higher bursting
strain in the gun barrel than coarse-grained, which in
some especially fine-grained kinds frequently reaches and
sometimes even surpasses the limits ordinarily drawn
for nitro powders only. A finer grain than FFF should
not be used in shotguns.
The object sought by the gunner in loading a still finer-
grained |\lack powder is the desire to propel the pellets
as quickly as possible to the destination. Many shooters
believe that this can be accomplished best with the fine-
grained, and that on this account they need not lead a
quartering bird as much as if they were using a coarser-
grained powder.
While it is true that the finer-grained powder will
bring the pellets to a distance of 40yds, somewhat quicker
than the coarser-grained, this difference does not practi-
cally cut any figure. A bird flying at the rate of forty
miles per hour will travel about two to three inches
further if the pellets are propelled by coarse-grained tnan
if they were driven by fine-grained black powder; if, in
both eases, the distance between the shooter and the bird
at the moment of firing is 40yds. Considering that the
pattern at such a distance shows a diameter of from 24 to
dft., this trifling difference will hardly increase the
chances of hitting the bird.
The pellets constituting a pattern at 40yds. never
reach a point simultaneously. As soon as the shot
has left the muzzle of the gun it begins to spread both
longitudinally and laterally, and this dispersion increases
with the increase of the distance. At a distance of 40yds.
the difference in time of the arrival between the foremost
and hindmost pellets of a shot charge amounts to about
zis of a second; here the shooter has to reckon with 4
greater difference than the one caused by a smaller or
quicker combustion of the powder, consequent upon the
size of the grains, Some claim that owing to the partic-
ular nature of certain powders a greater stringing of
the shot is caused than by some other powder. This
assumption, however, cannot be substantiated by any-
thing like a plausible explanation,
Chokebore barrels generally throw the shot through the
air in a more compact form than those of open or cylin-
drical barrels. So far an unimpeachable explanation of
this phenomenon has not been found. That theory prob-
ably comes nearer to the truth which asserts that the
pellets sliding along and rubbing against the sides of the
barrel when passing the choke are directed toward the
center of the shot charge; because it is a well-established
fact that the pellets having been subject to the most fric-
tion are the ones generally found on the target the furthest
away from the center and among the scattering shots.
To determine this yery question, as to what portion of
the shot charge generally constitutes the center of the pat-
tern, I have, on a former occasion, fired over 1,000 shots,
using for this purpose shots of different colors.
The causes for the occasional scattering of shots from
the chokebore barrel will be explained hereafter.
There can be no doubt that black powder has rendered
valuable service, both as a blasting and as a propelling
agent, and that for a long period of time it has met all
reasonable expectations, as regards the purposes for which
it was employed; but at length it has fallen under the
same law to which all human creations are subject, viz., the
old and good must give way before the new and better.
As a blasting agent, it has already lost much of the
ground it formerly occupied. Nearly all great military
nations have also’substituted for the old black powder, as
‘barrel,
a propelling agent for their infantry rifles, nitro or smoke-
less powder, mostly made of gun-cotton, and it is only
a question of time when the former will take the place of
the latter for heavy ordnance purposes.
Black powder has held its own thus far as ammunition
for sporting rifles. But recently, very promising results
have been achieved with nitro powder, eyen in this de- ~
partment; warranting the assumption that at an early
day nitro powders will be employed for this kind of am-
munition also, thus leaving for the black powder, for the
present, only a use for revolver cartridges. But it can
reasonably be expected that for this weapon too, asuitable
nitro powder will soon be found,
As a propelling agent for shotguns, nitro powders have
been long employed, among the oldest of which is the
Schultze powder; formerly known in Germany as wood
or Hetzbacher powder,. and originally invented by the ~
German Colonel Schultze.
The Schultze powder used in this country is of English
origin, being manufactured in England under the super-
vision of Mr. Griffith, one of the most celebrated ballistic
experts in the world, and to whom it owes many of its
present valuable qualities.
The object aimed at primarily by the military author-
ities in introducing the nitro powder for infantry weapons
was of a somewhat different nature from that which has
and does present itself to the sportsman in choosing a
smokeless powder.
In infantry weapons the principal aim was to create
for the sinall caliber rifle and the long bullet a higher
velocity, that is a greater penetrative force, than can be
attained with black powder, thus rendering it possible to
open an effective fire on the enemy at a longer range than
heretofore. But all this can only be accomplished to a
satisfactory extent by the aid of nitro powders, which,
moreover, in case of rapid firing, obscure less the field of
view.
Now, why should the gunner desert black powder in
favor of a smokeless, in face of the fact that the limits for
killing penetration with the shotgun and black powder
can and will hardly eyer be materially extended by means
of another propelling agent, since black powder, summer
and winter, in sunshine and rain, varies very little in its
behavior, seeing that in proportion to its work, the strain
upon the gun is comparatively low, that it reacts less
violently under increased charges than many of the nitros,
and does not create corrosion in the barrels as. readily as
some of the nitros, that it is less sensitive than smokeless
powders to obstructions in the soul of the barrel? The
answer to this question should easily be given by any
intelligent gunner.
In the first place, it is the comparatively great amount
of smoke produced by black powder, which, under certain
conditions, especially in a quiet air, can become very
annoying, inasmuch as it hinders a quick and certain
use of the second barrel, rendering it frequently difficult
for the gunner to determine quickly the effect of the first
Then again, black powder, as arule, produces a
much heavier, and for the gunner more perceptible, recoil
than nitro powders, The recoil of aservice charge of fine-
grained black powder, for instance, is nearly double that
of a service charge of DuPont or Walsrode smokeless
powders. In case of frequent shooting, this heavy recoil
often compels the gunner to cease shooting, or at least
effects detrimentally his shooting ability.
Furthermore, black powder is more noisy, heats the
barrels quicker, and generally fouls them more than the
smokeless powders. ;
Comparing one with the other, the advantages and dis-
advantages of black and nitro powders, leaying out of
consideration for the present the question whether and to
what extent the use of nitro powders presents a greater
danger for the gun and gunner than black powder, the
result would be always in favor of the nitros,
All nitro powders at present accessible to the gunner for
use in shotguns, are more violent in their action than
black powder, This greattr violence, however, under
normal conditions, can hardly be considered as an alarm-
ing element, but it can, through many causes, become
really dangerous, and very few gunners are in a position
to discover these causes and guard against them.
Here is the field for such instruments and devices as are
scarcely at the command of the individual sportsman.
Systematic experiments carried out under strictly uni-
form rules are necessary, and these again can seldom
be carried out by the layman. n
The qualities of a propelling agent, especially those of
nitro powders, are more or less affected, (a) by dry heat;
(b) by moisture in the atmosphere; (c) by long storing;
(d) by the igniting agent; (e) by the wadding material; (f)
by the method of crimping.
Now, if in any given case several of these causes which
have a tendency to imcrease the violent nature of the
powder combine, the gunner will meet with strange phe-
nomena which will startle him, and probably induce him
to discard the use of such a powder. As a rule, the
gunner is thus tempted to condemn nitro powders in
general, and to fall back to the noisy black powder.
Several nitro powders in the market to-day, however,
may be considered as comparatively safe in the hands of
the intelligent, sensible sportsman.
The first requisite in the use of all nitro powders is to
avoid, as much as possible, any and all excess oyer the
standard charges, then the selection of a suitable shell
and a proper wadding material, =
In several of the European countries proof-houses are
established and maintained, either directly by the States,
or are conducted under the rules laid down by statute,
where they merely test raw gun barrels and finished uns
for strength. In addition to and independent of those
proot-houses, there are private institutions in many of the
countries maintained by contributions from the gunning
fraternity. The object of these institutions is to furnish
gunners on a broader scale all the information per-
taining to the different branches of gunnery. Here the
real qualities of gunpowders, guns and ammunition and
parts thereof are determined by the aid of the most
improved scientific instruments and devices, and in ac-
cordance with well established and uniform rules. The
results of the work of these institutions are regularly and
continuously put before the great mass of gunners through
the medium of the sporting papers, or by way of printed
minutes,
Of course these institutions are frequently looked upon
with distrust by some manufacturers of or dealers in
sporting arms and ammunition, at least from those who
have good cause to fear a fair and thorough comparative
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‘test between their own articles and those of their com-
Petitors. But that distrust has long ago given way to a
better sense of understanding. The conviction now pre-
_Yails that the work of these institutions not only benefits
the gunners at large, but also the well-meaning manufac-
turers and dealers, and that they afford specially to the
home industry a great assistance and help. It may be
presumed that in this country also such an institution
will not suit the taste of some interested parties, although
an attitude of this kind would hardly conform to the gen-
eral principle of American enterprise, for which it is
claimed that our manufacturers willingly follow the
‘progress of their industry, The gunners, however, can,
if they follow the example set by their fellow sportsmen
of the old countries, easily overcome all such unwarranted
opposition or jealousy, inasmuch as they will simply
patronize and bestow their confidence on such manufac-
turers and dealers as do not fear or hesitate to see their
products subjected to a fair and honest comparison with
other similar articles of manufacture.
The encouragement I received at the hands of numerous
ners from all over the country in respect to my inten-
tion to establish in this country an institution of the kind
alluded to, makes it appear pretty certain that such an
institution will meet with a great deal of codperation and
assistance af the hands of the intelligent and wideawake
American sportsmen,
Following my request, numerous suggestions have been
offered by gunners as to how the powder test should be
conducted. As far as these suggestions touch a general
interest, they have been taken into consideration. I have
thus been obliged to dwell in my report on questions not
‘in direct relation to these tests, and to give my report
somewhat the character of a treatise on the theory of shot-
shooting.
The Bursting Strain in Gun Barrels.
The combustion of nearly all gun powders takes place
under different conditions in a confined space from those
in the open air, In the open air most of the nitro powders
burn comparatively slowly, and, contrary to black pow-
der, without explosion, On this account, the handling of
nitro powders is not as dangerous as that of black powder.
As much as 300lbs. of cotton powder can be burned
in the open air without creating thereby any serious dan-
ger for the surroundings. But when powders are brought
to combustion in a confined space, their behavior under-
goes quite a change. The nature of ignition plays in this
case a very important part.
When a charge of powder is exploded in the gun bar-
Tel, the stored potential energy is transformed into live
force, The developed, strongly condensed gases occupy
about 230 times the space of the volume of the original
powder charge, and, in consequence, a strong tension is
created, first, in and near the powder chamber, and then
along a certain portion of the gun barrel; this is termed
bursting strain, or gas pressure, and imparts to the pro-
jectile, and in the shotgun to the shot charge, the propel-
ling foree. The more space afforded to these gases to
spread in a gun barrel, the less the strain will be at a
given point, and on the other hand this tension will in-
crease if its spreading is for some cause made difficult, or
if confined to asmali space. For this reason the tension
will always be comparatively low with such pewders as
generate their gases more slowly and gradually than with
a powder which burns more suddenly, and which devel-
ops the great bulk of its gases before the shot charge has
found time to move much toward the muzzle and create
a larzer space for the expanding gases.
The modern blasting agents develop, as a rule, their
gases so suddenly that on this account they cannot be
employed as propelling agents. Such a sudden combus-
tion and development of the gases is called a detonation,
Every gunpowder, the black powder not excepted, can,
through the agency of a highly violent primer and for
other causes, be brought to a very sudden ignition or
combustion, although the black powder will, in this res-
pect, resist many ordinary causes more effectually than
the nitro powders. But this sudden combustion hardly
ever assumes the nature of a real detonation, yet it may
resemble the latter so closely that, especially with a
powder susceptible to dry heat, it no longer conforms to
the limits of safety for the gun and gunner.
The perceptible signs of such sudden conbustions are
generally an extraordinarily heavy recoil, producing fre-
quently a ringing in the gunner’s ear, a marked vibration
of the gun and a bad pattern, sometimes coupled with a
balling of the shot. ©
As long as the gunner uses a well built, strong gun, he
is seldom exposed to any real danger, although, in some
instances, the action of the gun is more or less damaged,
But the case is quite different if such a shot happens to
occur in a cheap, less substantially made gun, which,
as a rule, does not possess sufficient strength to withstand
such a high pressure. Here the locking device will likely
fail to answer its purpose, or the barrel may bulge or
burst. Even with powders not affected by dry heat, such
a result can be brought about merely through the agency
of a violent primer,
Nitro powders, as a rule, will not stand an increase of
the.charge beyond the standard load as readily as black
powders, but in spite of these facts, many shooters will
not draw correct conclusions from them. They seem to
believe that the strength of penetration will grow with
the increase of the powder charge, and do not conceive
that such is not the case, that they frequently achieve
just the contrary from what they are striving at, and that
they create a-source of eminent danger.
In a subsequent chapter it will be demonstrated that
many American gunners are in this respect guilty of
gross carelessness, and ill-informed. They simply indulge
in the luxury of wasting powder and shot.
The loads of nearly all nitro powders are measured with
.the dip-measure, which affords ample accuracy, Three
drams by measure represent, according to the specific
weight of the different powders, from 38 to 44ers, by
weight; equal to 2.65 to 2.78 grams. The corresponding
charges of Walsrode powder are smaller by weight and
mt bu:k, they are for 12-bore guns, 29 and 31, or 31 and
ors,
All propelling agents develop in summer, and especially
in warm and dry weather, a higher bursting strain than
in winter in a low temperature or moist atmosphere, and
fine shot again creates, owing to the larger surface of
friction, a higher gas pressure than the coarse or larger
grea and the bursting strain of Iioz, is less than with
joz, of the same size shot,
_ In America much shooting is done in summer and dur-
ing warm weather. A great number of our celebrated
shots prefer to load for 12-bore ammunition 3idrs., in-
stead of the normal charge of 3drs., or of Walsrode
powder 3lgrs. in place of 29grs.; forgetting that these
maximum charges are only suited and intended for cold
or wet weather.
Asa rule the pattern is always less satisfactory from
the large load than from the service charge, and in some
cases where powders susceptible to dry heat are used, the
chances of a balling of the shot are materially increased
by the heavier load.
The quantity of powder loaded in excess of the standard
charge is therefore uselessly wasted, and the same rule
applies generally, as will be subsequently shown, to an in-
crease of the shot charge beyond 1{oz.
_ The gas pressure in a shotgun reaches the highest point
in the cartridge chamber and immediately in front of the
Same in the direction toward the muzzle.
Black powder, as a rule, produces at this point less gas
pressure than the nitros, but a somewhat higher bursting
‘strain in the middle and up to the muzzle than the latter.
It has been stated, previously, that the bursting strain,
especially when smokeless powders are used, is influenced
by several causes. The soft, elastic felt wad diminishes
the gas pressure compared with the felt or any other hard
wadding material, and also diminishes the chances for a
balling of the shot, which occurs much less frequently in
Europe than in America, probably on account of the
more moderate mean temperature and the higher per-
centage of humidity in the air prevailing there, compared
with a large part of this country.
The true causes for the balling of shot have thus far
not been satisfactorily established. Some advance the
theory that owing to an exceptionally sudden combus-
tion of the powder, the temperature in the cartridge is
raised to a point of fusing a portion of the shot. But
since the wad has its place between the powder and shot,
the effects of such a high heat would naturally leave its
traces also on the felt wad. The heated gases passing the
edges of the wad to fuse the shot would necessarily char
these edges more or less.
In the course of the experiments at Chicago, in a com-
paratively large number of cases, the shot balled, and these
were nearly all cartridges loaded with more than 3drs.
a Etee powder; but no charred or singed wad was
ound.
Again, others hold that the balling of shot is brought
about by a friction of the shot differing from the normal
conditions whereby the cohesive quality of the pellets is
increased to such an extent that they cling together in
lumps of greater or smaller dimensions. This theory like-
wise is not unimpeachable.
In my opinion, which is shared by many others, it ap-
pears more probable that in consequence of the sudden
generation of the gases of a large powder charge and the
high tension thus created in the shell, the energy devel-
oped ceases to exercise its forces in a gradually shoving
manner, but more in the shape of a heavy blow, thereby
causing a portion of the shot to press together. Such a
heavy blow apparently is too strong for the wad to retain
its quality as a buffer. As a matter of fact, the balling of
shot occurs more frequently with hard wads than with
soft and elastic ones; and this presumably for the reason
that a soft wad more effectually deadens the force of the
blow than a harder material. It was further proved in
Chicago that the tendency of balling was less with harder
shot than with softer, and less with pellets of a more
even spherical shape than with those less rerular in form.
The balling of the shot occurs more frequently in the open
barrels than in the chokebore. The cause for this may be
due to the effect of the passage of the shot through the
choke, whereby the bunches formed are again torn apart.
If this theory is correct, the next question would be,
why, in such a case, the choke should not show traces of
bulging, since a hard and stiff top wad often suffices to
bulge the barrel at the point of the choke in soft Damas-
cus barrels.
Twelve-bore guns are generally chambered for 23 and
24 shells. Some guns are chambered for 3in. shells. In
guns chambered for 2{ shells, 23 shells can be used with
about the same result as the longer ones, provided the
proper wadding material is employed. In all such cases
the felt wad should be somewhat larger in diameter than
the bore of the barrel. An elastic wad 1l-gauge will
then be most suitable for a 12-bore barrel, in order to
prevent the gases from passing the wad at the point
between the end of the shell and the end of the chamber.
The 2¢shells, however, should not be used in a gun cham-
bered for 2% shells, and a shell 3in, long will, in such a
case, present a serious element of danger. If the 3in.
shell is crimped strongly it can be squeezed into a 23
chamber, but when fired in such a chamber the crimped
part cannot open and conform to the shape of the cham-
ber in the regular manner. An artificial obstruction is
thus created which prevents a normal expansion of gases
and, as the Chicago tests have proven, is likely to cause
a bursting strain in the chamber higher than the average
gun can safely bear.
At the point where the cartridge chamber ends, and the
so-called ‘‘soul” of the barrel commences, there should
never be a perceptible shoulder; that point should be of a
conical or tapering shape and ought not to be of great
length. The latest American guns, as a rule, are in this
respect made in strict accordance with what experience
and science have proven to be the safest and most advan-
tageous style, so.are also the Francotte and other imported
guns.
Wads made of cork or other materials less elastic than
felt should never be used in connection with nitro pow-
ders, for the reason that they may give occasion for ex-
traordinarily high gas pressure, and on similar grounds
the use of brass shells is not advisable.
In order to achieve a thorough combustion of the nitro
powders, the shells should be crimped at leastiin. The
strong crimp also serves to prevent the shell loaded in the
left barrel from opening through the effects of the shots
fired from the right barrel, or vice versa. But even if the
shells are crimped well, it shows good judgment on the
part of the gunner, if he, after firing several shots from
one barrel, examines the cartridge loaded in the other bar-
rel, or takes out the latter and loads it in the barrel for
the next shot.
If the crimp of the shell becomes loose and the shot
charge happens to move up a shorter or longer distance
in the barrel and such a shell is fired, a bulge or burst
may be the consequence, the effect being-about the same
{ determined with the spring device.
as in the case when the muzzle of the barrel is filled with
dirt or snow.
Shells made of very stiff paper should not be turned
down more than din., and for such shells the round crimp
is preferable to the square-edge crimp.
Pieces torn from a shell and deposited in the soul of the
barrel ought to be considered an element of danger, inas-
much as they may serve as an artificial obstruction. If a
fired shell shows traces of damage, or when other strange
signs accompany a shot, the gunner should in all such
cases ascertain whether his gun barrel is free of all ob-
structions before he continues to fire.
The question as to how much bursting strain a shotgun
will safely stand has been put to me by numerous parties.
This question can hardly be answered in a general way,
since the gas pressure still comparatively safe for one gun
may prove hazardous for another less substantially built
gun. It may, however, be assumed that all shotguns ~
placed in the hands of a gunner should be strong enough
to withstand the bursting strain developed by a proof-
house charge of powder and shot for finished guns.
The proof-house charge for finished guns, as prescribed
by law in several European countries, for the testing of
finished guns, is equal to about Tdrs. black powder and
l3o0z, of shot. In order to determine what gas pressure
such a load would give in this country, and to establish a
standard of comparison for all nitro powders in reference
to bursting strain, 64drs. of DuPont's FFF black pow-
der, which appears to develop, bulk for bulk, a greater
gas pressure than the Huropean black powders, and 1{oz.
shot, No. 7, were loaded into the gas-pressure gun at Chi-
cago, and fired. This load developed a bursting strain of
1,100 atmospheres or 16,170lbs. to the square inch. Very
few guns would prove strong enough to withstand such a
strain for any length of time,
About 75 per cent. of the figures quoted is as much as
the ordinary shotgun ought to be subjected to. The limit
for shotguns is much lower than that drawn. for the
modern small-bore military rifles, which will stand a gas
pressure as high as 3,500 atmospheres, or from 35,000 to
40,0001bs. 7
For measuring the bursting strain, a Hahn’s pressure
gauge for 12-bore was employed at Chicago and Carney’s
Point, and this caliber forms the basis for all experiments
herein referred to.
The construction of this instrument, which at the
present time is recognized as the most improved and re-
liable, differs from all the old similar apparatuses, inas-
much as with it the bursting strain can be taken simul-
taneously or separately on the old crusher gauge princi-
ple and by means of a spring device. ‘
The bursting strain figures quoted herein were all
The double spring
taking the place of the metal cylinder on the crusher
gauge is actuated by a piston plunger, reaching into the
interior of the barrel and there conforming accurately to
the side of the bore.
When the gases press against this piston, the latter acts
on the spring, pressing it together, A pin reaching to
the spring next to the barrel and resting there is driven
outward in proportion to the degree the spring is pressed
together, and this pin travels through a graduated screw
disk, thus registering the extent of the contraction of the
spring, or, in other words, enabling the operator, by
means of the graduated disk, to read off the gas pressure
in plain figures. :
This spring is much more sensitive to low as well as to
high gas pressure, than the metal cylinder, which, when
pressed down to beyond a certain depth, will, owing to
the increased density of the metal, offer much more re-
sistance proportionately than it did in its original length
and shape. Consequently the spring device, as a rule,
furnishes somewhat higher figures than those obtained
under similar conditions with the crusher gauge, but the
figures secured with the former may be ccnsidered nearer
the truth than those obtained with the latter. This ex-
planation appears to be called for, since in its absence,
and when the figures herein given are compared with
those obtained with the crusher gauge, the former might
be looked upon as far too great and therefore unreliable.
The fact that the gas pressure values as obtained at Chi-
cago and Carney’s Point seem rather high when compared
with similar figures taken from the same powder charge
in Europe, can hardly be accounted for simply by the dif-
ference in the instruments employed. There can be no
doubt that these variations are, to a great extent, due to
the difference in climate. It is certain that the majority
of propelling agents will, when loaded bulk for bulk, de-
velop a higher bursting strain in this country than in
Europe, where the mean temperature is below that of
America and the air less dry than im a great portion of
the United States. : A. ‘
The gas pressure gauge plays in ballistic experiments a
very important part. It is of great value and help to all
gun and ammunition manufacturers, and indispensable
for powder manufacturers. ‘
In the absence of such an instrument, the ballistic
properties of a powder, especially with reference to
its degree of violence, can never be satisfactorily estab-
lished, and, again, the causes for increased bursting
strain in gun barrels can only be determined with the aid
of such an instrument. -
Velocities and the Method of Ascertaining Them.
The term velocity applied in a general way designates
the rate of speed at which a projectile or the bulk of a
shot charge travels through the air up to a certain point.
This velocity can be ascertained by various methods, but
the instrument now generally employed is the chrono-
graph Le Boulenge, originally invented by a Belgian mili-
tary officer bearing that name, The application of this
instrument is as follows: When a bullet or shot charge
leaves the muzzle of the gun, it is obliged to cut a fine
silver or copper wire stretched across the muzzle. This
wire conveys a current to an electro-magnet on the upper
part ot the instrument to which a cylindrical rod, covered
with a zinc sheath, is perpendicularly suspended and held
by the attraction of the electro-magnet. This rod, which
is called the chronometer, drops immediately the wire be-
fore-mentioned is broken and the current opened. The
target is connected by wire with a second electro-magnet
on a lower part of the chronograph, wherein a second
current is created, Tothissecond electro-magnet ashorter
rod issimilarly suspended called the registrar, which drops
as soon as the perpendicularly suspended and sliding tar-
get is moved from its contacts and the current thereby in-
terrupted, Theshot charge having cut the wire stretched
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in front of the muzzle of the gun and thus opened the
first circuit, the chronometer is caused to drop. Before
it has fallen below a certain point, the shot charge has
reached the target and forced this away from the con-
tacts, causing thereby the second rod or the registrar to
drop. The shorter rod falls on a disk and doing so re-
leases a spring, to which a knife is attached and which
now flies horizontally to the falling first rod, thereby
nicking it at a certain point the zinc cover of the latter.
Now, the longer this chronometer falls—that is the longer
time. the shot requires to reach the target—the higher up
on the Jong rod this nick made by the knife will be found;
and, on the other hand, the quicker the shot gets to the
second screen and causes the registrar to drop, the lower
the knife mark on the zinc will be. With the aid of a
graduated rule, which graduation conforms strictly to the
laws of gravity, the time occupied by the traveling shot
in reaching the target can easily and quite accurately be
determined.
The velocities were taken at Chicago and Carney’s Point
with the chronograph at a distance of 40yds. from the
muzzle of the gun. The figures quoted should be under-
stood thus: When a velocity of, say, 804ft. is mentioned,
it means that if the pellets had continued to travel a full
second at the rate of speed they traveled up to 40yds., they
would then have reached a distance of 804ft.
Velocities taken up to a distance of 40yds. are termed
Initial Velocities, although, in a strict sense of the word,
this term should only apply to the velocities at the muzzle.
But it is almost impossible to take the velocities at this
point, and, therefore, they are, as far as hand-fire weapons
are concerned, generally taken at distances from 25 to
7dyds., with the shotgun at 40yds.
Velocity represents life force or penetrative power.
From the velocity figures a pretty reliable conclusion can
be drawn as to the killing power of a shot charge; and no
other means or methods employed for ascertaining the
penetrative power constitute as trustworthy a guide as the
figures obtained from the chronograph. For this reason
the velocities will be taken herein as the basis for com-
paring and judging the penetration of the several pow-
ers.
Gunners, as a rule, use for determining the power of
penetration of a certain powder or gun a cardboard or
paper pad. The results of such tests are unreliable and
generally misleading. Lead bullets and shot deform more
or less in striking any kind of an object, and this deform.
ation is governed by the velocity imparted to them, Shot
pellets driven with a comparatively low velocity will asa
rule deform less than those propelled by a higher velocity,
and the former will thus penetrate deeper than the latter,
although they lack in actual killing force. To illustrate
this still better it may be here stated that a bullet fired
from a large caliber rifle will at a distance of d00yds, pen-
etrate a sand pile or block of wood only half as deep as at
a distance of 1,000yds., although at the latter distance the
real penetrative power is only about one-half of that at a
distance of 800yds. It is easily explained why such should
be the case, the bulletis simply deformed to a much greater
extent at the shorter distance than at the greater. The
same law applies to shot pellets; and for this reason the
resulis obtained by a penetration test of such a character
are of very little value.
The gunner will do much better if, in testing a powder
or gun for penetration, he will employ a metal plate of
sufficient size asa target. This target should be painted
with white lead or any other suitable color. Pellets No.
7 fired against this target at a distance of 30yds. should
make marks about the size of a three cent nickel piece;
that is, flatten out that much, if they strike the target
with sufficient force.
The figures obtained with the chronograph, especially
when, as it was done at Chicago, they are taken in con-
nection and simultaneously with the bursting strain, offer
many yaluable hints for ballistic researches, If, for in-
stance, the chronograph registers a velocity below 700ft.,
then the penetration is lacking and short of sufficient
killing force. If, on the other hand, the velocity of a
shot charge exceeds 900ft., an unsatisfactory pattern may
generally be looked for. For 12-bore guns the most ad-
pat eee ous velocities are those moving between 800 and
A propelling agent maintaining, under all conditions, a
velocity of 800ft. and above, affords ample guarantee for
a vegular and sufficient killing power. If, on the other
hand, the velocity drops below 800ft., it means a decrease
in penetration, and all velocities under 700ft. will not kill,
as a rule, at a distance of over 40yds, Nine hundred feet
velocity may be considered the maximum speed for all
shot charges fired from a12-bore gun. Guns of a larger
caliber loaded with standard powder charges will give a
higher mean velocity than those of a smaller bore, The
mean velocity of an 8-bore gun, charged with a standard
load of black or nitro powder and shot No. 7, is about
890ft., that of a 10-bore gun 840ft,, that of a 16-bore gun
800ft., and that of a 20-bore gun 770ft.
Larger size shot will, with the same powder charge,
give a higher velocity than that of a smaller size. The
difference between shot No. 1 and shot No. 3 at a distance
of 40yds. is about 30ft.; between the former and shot No.
5, 60ft,; between No. 1 and No. 7, 90ft., and between No. 1
and No. 10, 175ft.
Increased shot vharges generally diminish the velocity.
The difference between 14 and 140z. shot in a 12-bore gun
is about 30ft, in favor of the smaller charge, and in a
similar proportion the penetrative power of the smaller
charge exceeds that of the heayier. In other words, the
larger the shot charge the smaller, as a rule, the pene-
trative force. But this fact alone would hardly warrant
the adyice to gunners to use as a maximum shot charge
1toz. shot in a 12-bore gun.
The object by the gunner in loading itoz. of shot, is to
increase the chances of hitting. He desires to obtain a
closer or, at least, a larger pattern with the heavier charge.
But, even in this respect, the desired end is very rarely
reached, as a rule, and as the Chicago test has again
proven, 140z. of shot do not improve the pattern much
compared with one obtained from 1toz, charge, and the
chances of hitting are by no means improved. Taking it
for granted that one particular gun will give a better
pattern with i+oz. than with itoz. of shot; the same as
one gun will shoot one size shot better than another, and
again, another gun will shoot one kind of powder better
than others; all phenomena which afford the institutions
for testing firearms, powder and ammunition, good oppor-
tunity for rendering the gunner valuable services by way
of establishing for each gun the most suitable kind of
powder and powder charge, the best adapted shot charge
and wadding material, etc.; a problem which the average
gunner can hardly ever solve satisfactorily, yet, im
general, the results reached in this respect in Chicago
will fit the case pretty closely, and the experiments were
conducted in the premises, as in all other lines, with a
view only to the rule, not with regard to exceptions.
Attention has been called to the fact, previously, that,
the shot cloud in traveling through the air will spread
both longitudinally and laterally, and that the pellets
constituting a shot charge never reach a given point
simultaneously. It has a’so been stated that, as a rule,
the shot charge fired from a chokebore barrel, retains a
more compact shape than that fired from an open barrel.
Similar conditions apply to smaller or larger shot charges.
The smaller shot charge generally will disperse less in
proportion than the larger, and the difference in the
arrival of the foremost and hindmost pellets is greater
with the larger shot charge than with the smaller, This
very difference, however, offsets all the presumable ad-
vantages of the larger charge in the way of an increased
chance of hitting against the smaller charge, for the
simple reason that even when the larger shot charge
makes a better pattern on a stationary target, this differ-
ence in the time of the arrival of the pellets isnevyer taken.
into account,
The conditions are different when in both cases the
shots are fired against a moying object. In this event,
only those pellets come in consideration which arrive
somewhat like simultaneously and which constitute the
pattern or killing circle. Here the size and density of the
pattern is about the same from both charges, and conse-
quently the chances of hitting are alike, with the killing
force always in favor of the pellets from the smaller charge.
Pellets striking game very forcibly will accomplish best
what is most desirable; they will produce a violent shock,
and it is a shock which makes a bird, when hit, collapse
and drop almost perpendicularly to the ground,
After this deviation from the object at issue, the main
theme shall again be resumed. :
The velocity of shot decreases as the distance of travel
increases, and this law applies in a more marked extent to
finer shot than pellets of larger size.
Shot No. i, for instance, shows at a distance of 10yds. a
mean velocity of 1,142ft.; at 60yds., only of 820ft. Shot
No, 5 has, in the first place, 1,150ft.; in the second place,
720ft. velocities. Shot No. 7 shows, at 10yds., a velocity
of 1,085ft.; at 60yds., of 640ft. Shot No, 10 has, at 10yds.,
a meet velocity of 1,080ft.; at 60yds., only of about
The length of the barrel, above 24in., does not exercise
a great influence on the velocity or penetration, especially
with nitro powders, which generally develop the bulk of
gases before the shot charge has moved more than about
itt. in the barrel,
For nitro powders the maximum length for barrels is
reached with 26in.
The Recoil.
The gases developed by a powder charge in the gun
barrel have the tendency to expand uniformly in all
directions; they act, therefore, with the same force on
the bullet or shot charge and the breech or stock of the
gun.
The backward acting force, push or kick transmitted to
the shooter’s shoulder is termed recoil. The higher this
velocity creating the recoil the more perceptible the back-
ward movement of the gun will be to the shooter, and
heavier guns will give away to this backward movement
to a less extent than guns of lighter weight; but the
shape of the stock as such has no bearing on the recoil
as long as the stock fits the gunner’s shoulder. If the
force of the recoil is exercised more gradually the gunner
will hardly notice any difference between a light and a
heavier gun, but if this force is brought to bear in a more
sudden and pushing manner, the effect will be more sen-
sible to the shooter, and in some cases it may assume such
proportions that, as previously remarked, the shooter’s
abilities are seriously affected, or it may even compel him
to discontinue the shooting for the time altogether. The
extent of recoil is ascertained by means of several for-
mulas, which serve their purpose better than the various
recoil gauges or devices for measuring the recoil, Larger
powder and shot charges naturally produce a heavier
recoil than smaller charges, and this difference again
will be more marked with lighter guns than with those of
a heavier weight.
Nitro powders, as a rule, develop a lighter recoil than
black powder, especially fine-grain black powder, and from
this it would appear that the former generate their gases
more gradually than the latter. This, however, is not the
case, It is evident, therefore, that the recoil is influenced
by other factors, which still await discovery.
The recoil takes effect from the moment the gases com-
mence to develop, but it reaches its highest point only
after the shot charge has left the muzzle of the gun,
The time occupied by this process is only about one-
fourth to one-sixth of a second, and for this reason the
shooter does not feel the effect of the recoil in accordance
with its progressive development. The recoil is felt by
him only after the shot charge has left the muzzle, because
the sense of the recoil is not transmitted from the shoulder
to the brain in such a short time as that elapsing from the
moment of ignition and the moment the shot charge
quits the gun.
The Effects of the Climate and Humidity Upon
the Properties of Gunpowders.
It has been stated previously that all propelling agents
are more or less susceptible to the influence of dry heat,
moisture in the air, and low temperature, and that on this
account many of them change their ballistic properties.
The effect of cold, to which all gunpowders are sub-
jected, may be presumed as being about the same in
this country as elsewhere, This effect is seldom felt to
any marked degree until the thermometer points to zero,
and increases in extent as the temperature sinks and as
the cool metal exercises a stronger chilling effect upon the
gases generated by the powder charge.
All gunpowders develop in cold weather a lower bursi-
ing strain and velocity than in warm and dry weather.
This influence can never be neutralized totally, but it
can be overcome to a certain extent by means of an in-
creased powder charge. Such charges as 3tdrs. of H. C,,
Schultze, 8. S., DuPont and Wood, and 31 or 52grs. of the
Walsrode powders are then in place, and even the black
powder, which is less affected by cold than the nitros,
should be loaded in heavier charges,
Black and some nitro powders are very little affected
by dry heat or humidity, but some of the latter are rather.
susceptible to these influences, and it is quite a difficult
task in such a case, to find the means of successfully
meeting and preventing these effects. The phenomena
coupled with the effect of dry heat have been described
before. The effect of moisture is especially noticeable
with cartridges having been stored for some time. Gen-
erally a slower velocity or diminished penetration, an
irregular combustion and a tendency for hang-fires are
the perceptible signs of the influence of moisture.
Very few countries in the world can compare with
some parts of the United States of America in regard to a
high mean temperature and a high percentage of moisture
in the air. These influences are, in all probability, the
causes for the fact that several gunpowders show a differ-
ent behavior in this country from that in Europe, and
even act different in one section of this country than in
another. It has also been pointed out that some powders
developed at Chicago a higher mean bursting strain than
they generally do in Hurope, where the air is compara-
tively less dry than in the West. This difference will
assume larger proportions in such localities where the
moisture in the air or the temperature reaches extreme
figures,
The mean temperature for the total year in Germany is
about 50° F. orl0°C. The highest variation is 69° F’., equal
to about 20°C, ;
France has a mean annual temperature of 68° F., or
about 12°C. The mean annual temperature in St. Peters-
burg, Russia, is 42° F., or about 5,60°C. In New York
and along the Atlantic Coast the mean annual as
ture is 52° F. or about 12° C., the highest variation 108° F.,
equal to 42° C. Turlock, in California, reaches a mean
annual temperature of 89° F., or about 31° C,, while in
Texas Hill, Arizona, the mean annual temperature
reaches the startling figure of 108° F., equal to about 43° C,
The highest variation at this point is 122° F., or about
50° C,
In California and several of the Southern States the
temperature seldom drops below the freezing point, but
in a number of the Northwestern States frequently much
lower than in Central Europe.
In the Central European States the moisture contained
in the air averages during winter 83.7%; in the spring
72.38%; in summer 65.7%, and in the autumn 79%, therefore
for the total year 75.2%. At Pike’s Peak, at a point over
14,000ft. above the level of the sea, the humidity for the
total year reaches 817, and at Mount Washington, 6,000ft.
above the level of the sea, for the total year 90%, The
Pacific and Atlantic States show about the same degree of
moisture in the air for the year, namely, 71% in the former
and 77% in the latter.
In Europe the air is saturated with moisture the most in
the winter, In thiscountry the highest points of humidity
are reached in summer, and frequently, on a hot, bright
day, the moisture of the air measures 947, a phenomenon
which accounts for the fact that the same degree of heat
appears often in this country comparatively more oppres-
sing than in Burope.
Some of the States west of the Mississippi and in the
South show a remarkably dry air. The mean humidity
in Texas for the year is 68%, in Colorado 55%, in New
‘| Mexico 53%, in Montana 50%, and in Nevada 444.
The variation in the percentage of moisture is greater
in this country for the single day as well as for the total
year than in central Europe, and the highest extremes are
found again in America.
From the figures quoted it will appear evident that such
powders, which are susceptible to dry heat, must show a
different behavior in those sections of the country where
a portion of their moisture is absorbed by the air, than in
parts where the percentage of moisture in the air is more
uniform and high.
A powder doing quite well in New York and California
may, owing to the effect of the dry air, prove compara-
tively useless in Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
The combustion of the dryer powder will be much more
sudden and the gases will be developed a great deal
quicker than under normal conditions, resulting, asa rule,
in an extraordinary heavy recoil, a bad pattern, and per-
haps, in some cases, in a balling of the shot,
For all such sections of the country those powders are
the best suited which are non-susceptible to dry heat or a
dry air, and the result of the Chicago powder test fur-
nishes, in this respect, the necessary guidance. But, if
the gunner prefers for some reason to continue the use of
a powder to which he is accustomed, although it does not
meet the requirements just referred to, then he ought, by
all means, never to load more than ddrs, for a 12-bore
gun and the equivalent for guns of other calibers. He
should likewise use an elastic felt wad and avoid a too
strong crimp of theshell.
Gunners residing or using gunpowder in such parts of
the country where the percentage of moisture in the air
is high, should again consider the question if and to what
extent a propelling agent is hygroscopic. A powder
which absorbs moisture readily will hardly answer in this
case, inasmuch as both the ignition and combustion of
the powder will not take place under normal condition.
The penetration will be lacking in force and hang-fires
will oceasionally occur,
In duck shooting, in rainy or foggy weather, and in
snow, those powders will give the best results which are
the least affected by humidity in the air, i
At Chicago all powders were tested in regard to their
susceptibility to moisture.
The Behavior of the Several Powders Toward
Highly Increased Charges.
It has been obsexy
react to increased
, previously, that all nitro powders
arges more violently than black —
powder, As long as the ordinary 22in. shells are used, —
there is hardly any danger on account of an overcharge
of powder, whether this increase has been brought about
intentionally or accidentally. When the powder charge 1s
much in excess of the standard load, the shell will tither
not permit the regular size wad, or the regular shot charge
or the erimmp or turn oyer will be shorter than usual. All
these last named factors will counterbalance to a great
extent the effect of an increased powder charge. But
when longer or brass shells are used, or the Walsrode
powder is Joaded into shells not provided with an extra
high base wad, then the reaction of the increase will
exercise its full force, and in such a case more or less
danger is created.
Tt will be shown that the various powders, jas long as the
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charges are only slightly increased, will still produce
permissible bursting strains.
_ The question now remaining to be answered is: How
will the several powders behave if the charges are in-
creased, say by one-half of their bulk or weight? It !.us
been considered necessary to solve also this question.
Clean and Corroded Gun Barrels.
The preservation of a person’s teeth depends to a great
extent on their cleanliness. If they are neglected, if the
remnants of food are allowed to accumulate, the teeth
will decay, and, sooner or later, fail to answer the pur-
pose for which they are intended and needed. A good
housekeeper will take pains to have her cooking utensils
bright and clean, From a person moving in good society
and laying claim to culture and refinement, it is expected
that he should never allow dirt a resting place under his
finger nails, and a good mechanic will always see that his
tools are clean.
_ A gun is the shooter's tool; it is and ought to be also his
_pride. He should never allow the residue of powders to
‘exercise a detrimental effect on the barrel, and this can
* only be prevented if the gun is cleaned immediately after
it has been used, or perhaps one or two days thereafter.
A clean gun will do better service than a neglected one.
Some gunners cherish the preposterous belief that a
ee with the “soul” full of rust spots and cloaked with
irf will shoot sharper and kill better than one where the
interior of the barrel is spotless and bright, Occasionally
a person of this type will even go so far as to create rust
in the soul of his gun artificially. It is hardly worth
while to argue with such persons and to endeavor to con-
vince them that they are doing a foolish thing, Against
such stupidity the gods even will fight in vain.
The residue of all gunpowders, if left in the gun barrel
for any length of time, will show a tendency to corrode
them. Black powder, as a rule, will corrode the metal
less than some of the nitros, which all contain more or
less acids of some kind, and these will facilitate the cor-
rosion of the metal. This effect may in some cases be
strong enough to show itsinfluence evenin the case where
the barrels are cleaned within a reasonable time after
use. Such a quality of a powder is certainly not a desir-
able feature.
This question, too, has been considered important
engugh to be made the subject of a test.
Soft or Chilled Shot.
The question whether soft or chilled shot will give the
better penetration or exercise the best killing effect is one
of those frequently discussed in gunners’ circles, A
great many gunners hold that chilled shot, owing to its
being somewhat harder than the soft shot, will penetrate
the skin of an animal or the feathers of a bird more
readily than soft shot.
The difference in the effect of both in this respect is
yery small indeed, so trifling that it will practically cut no
figure. While it is true that the soft shot pellets will
more easily deform than the chilled shot pellets, the kill-
ing qualities of both are yet about the same, because, as
previously pointed out, it is the shock brought about by
the pellets striking the game which produces the most
effect, and this effect is nearly the same with both kinds
of shot. The chilled shot is principally preferable to soft
Bas i account of leading the barrels less rapidly than
sott shot.
The Effects of the Primer Upon the Qualities
of GQunpowders.
On a previous occasion it has been said that the primer
may intluence the behavior of a propelling agent. This
rule applies more particularly to the nitro powders, which
generally—and as the Chicago and Carney’s Point tests
haye again clearly demonstrated—cannot be exploded
satisfactorily with the comnion or black powder primer.
These powders require a special or strong primer, such as
in this country is known as primer No, 3. These primers
are made with due regard to the nature of the nitro
powders, The fulminate is chosen with a view to bring-
ing about a more effectual ignition than can be produced
with the ordinary primer. To accomplish this requires a
great deal of skill and knowledge of the action of the
fulminates; since certain fulminates may, under certain
conditions, cause too violent an explosion of the powder,
and thus create a serious element of danger. On the
other hand, the force produced by the explosion of the
fulminate may prove so powerful that instead of igniting
the powder it will develop sufficient gases to start the
shot charge before the flame of the primer has found time
to take proper effect upon the powder.
fhe question now arises; Do some of these strong
primers as such and as lately introduced for the use of
nitro powders, really represent an element of danger?
This question has been considered of so great import-
ance that, although the Chicago test has solyed it pretty
satisfactorily, it was concluded to arrange a special
primer test, which has been since carried out, and the re-
sult of which is herewith submitted to the American
sportsmen, ;
All powders tested at Chicago were subjected to another
test at Carney’s Point, where the new Schultze powder
called Pompton, and anew leaf powder made at Walsrode,
‘and which reached me after the Chicago test had been
concluded, were tried under the different conditions, and
the result of this trial is now embodied in this report.
The velocities were taken at Carney’s Point by one of
_the gentlemen connected with the firm named, and the
bursting strain was again taken by Mr. Thomas, of the
U. M. GC. Co., with the assistance and under the control of
myself and others. The Chicago test pointed to the fact
that some of the powders would likely undergo a material
change in their behavior if tried under different condi-
tions and in another section of the country, This opinion
has been fully verified by the Wilmington trial.
The primer test. as far as this problem involves the in-
terest of the shooting fraternily, was made as thorough
and exhaustive as possible, and the result of this trial in
connection with that of the powder tests will, 1 think, set-
tle quite conclusively many questions in the premises on
which the opinions of the gunners of this country are at
great variance.
In order to enable the reader not conversant with Con-
tinental European standards of weights and measures to
digest all figures herein quoted, the equivalents of the va-
rious European weights and measures may here be given
in American standards, One meter is equal to 3,2807ft.,
ten meters are equal to 32.8087ft. (In ihe tables of this
report the meter has been reckoned as being equal to 3ft.
and 32in.) One millimeter is equal to .03937in. One gram
or gramme is equal to 15.4233grs. One atmosphere is
equal to 14.7lbs. pressure to the square inch. Ten atmos-
pheres are equal to 147.0lbs.
All powder charges were carefully measured or weighed
and the shot counted for each load with the shot-counter
or trowel, .
Watson’s Park was selected for the Chicago tests. The
proprietor of this celebrated shooting ground, Mr. John
Watson, afforded us all possible opportunities for con-
ducting the trial, and his son, I. Watson, rendered us
throughout the test much valuable assistance. Both of
these gentlemen and fellow sportsmen are entitled to the
thanks of those called upon to conduct the test, and to
those who witnessed the trial, for their complaisance dis-
played in the premises,
I am further under great obligations to Mr. William
Thomas and Mr, C. 8. Hisey, who volunteered to serve at
Chicago as expert witnesses, and who deyoted much time
and rendered valuable assistance in the execution of the
work. They controlled all experiments, and every gas
pressure figure quoted in the report on the Chicago trial
has been ascertained by these two gentlemen.
The primer test likewise bore a public character, and
was carried out at the shooting ground of Messrs, E, 1.
DuPont de Nemours Co.’s gun cotton factory at Carney’s
Point, New Jersey, near Wilmington, Delaware. These
gentlemen placed the grounds named and some of their
instruments kindly at my disposal, and rendered us all
possible assistance to bring the test to a satisfactory issue.
The experiments conducted at Carney’s Point were
carried out under different climatic conditions from those
at Chicago; and they. constitute, therefore, a valuable
link in the trial as a whole. :
[TO BE CONTINUED. |
BOSTON MEN IN MAINE.
Boston, Mass., Noy. 25.—Of late a big number of big
game hunters have been happy. There has been one or
two ‘‘good tracking snows” in Maine, and deer have been
obtained so much more easily than had previously been
the case, with the ground deeply covered with dry leaves.
Hunting, up to these snows, had, in fact, become ‘‘a game
of chance,” with the chances against the hunter. Deer
are very wild animals to approach at the best, and with
the woods full of dry, crackling leaves, the chances have
been decidedly against the hunter. This brings me to
mention what I am asked to mention by a gentleman well
known to the hunting fraternity, Mr. lL. Dana Chapman,
treasurer of the Megantic Club, a gentleman greatly
interested in fish and game, and well posted on fish and
game subjects. His name herel use, not by his authority,
but for the force it carries. He is surprised at the manner
in which the newspapers of the day are treating the sub-
ject of big game hunting, especially this fall. ‘‘One
would think, by reading these articles, that there were herds
of game around loose, and to get a moose or deer, all the
hunter, even the novice, has to do is to select his location
in Maine and go there and come home with a full quota
of game. There never was a greater mistake. While
deer are really plenty,” says Mr. Chapman, ‘‘it must be
remembered that it takes hard and earnest hunting to get
them, and sometimes for a good dealof time. Deer area
shy game to hunt, and oftener than otherwise the chances
are decidedly against the hunter. This is right and does
not discourage the genuine hunter in the least.”
Some good work is being done by the Megantic Club in
the way of stocking with landlocked salmon, under the
direction of Mr. Chapman, Secretary Arthur W. Robinson
and Supt. Robert Phillips. These gentlemen have recently
returned from a trip to Big Island Pond, one of the ponds
of the Megantic preserve, where they went to put in their
new home 1,000 landlocked salmon of last season’s hatch-
ing, The little fish are some 3in. in length. They took
them in cans up to Kennebago Stream. It was a job to
keep the water sufficiently aerated fill the cans reached
the Phillips & Rangeley Railroad, when it was found that
the roughness of the track gave the cans sufficient motion
to keep air in the water. From Kennebago Stream the
fish were carried in wire-covered pails.to their home. Mr.
Chapman says that not more than three or four fish were
lost, notwithstanding the long carry through the woods,
and he very kindly says that much of this success is due
to the carefulness of their three guides, James Mathison,
Will Haines and Jerry Wilbur, These guides take great
interest in the restocking business in Maine waters. The
little salmon were liberated in a brook that runs into Big
Island Pond. They kept together for a time, but in the
course of an honr or two they had all disappeared. The
club, under the superintendence of Mr. Phillips, has built
a hatchery at the same pond, where the location seems to
be excellent, and the plan is to obtain a lot of trout eggs
and hatch them. Mr. Chapman is also interested in
obtaining a lot of smelt eggs from Lake Auburn in the
spring and batching them at the Big Island Pond hatch-
eries, This measure is proposed, in order that the land-
locked salmon may have food. Commissioner Stanley is
of the opinion that the success of landlocked salmon in
Maine, or any other waters, is contingent upon a plenty of
landlocked smelt for food. It has been found to be com-
paratively easy to get the smelt eggs, at their spawning
time in the spring, and they hatch out in a few weeks,
requiring no great care, when they are ready to be
liberated,
Mr. Chapman’s restocking party did not succeed in get-
ting any big game on their trip, though in an excellent
deercountry. They saw them, heard them run and ‘‘heard
them skulk,” but the leaves were too dry to get within a
gunshot. But at the same time over 40 deer have already
been killed at the Megantic Club preserye this season;
several since the recent snows. Dr. Heber Bishop, so well
known as one of the promoters of the club, with a couple
of friends is there at the present writing. They will hunt
in the Kibby Valley. The Doctor usually brings ont a
moose,
Mr. A. R. Justice, A. W. Kelley and their friend Mr.
Voorhees, of New York, have been to the Merantic Club
preserve, with good success this fall. Mr. EH. A. Best and
friend Mr, Currier, of New York, have lately returned
from Spencer Bay, on Moosehead Lake, where they got
three deer. Mr. Henry V. Cunningham, attorney, with
Melvin C. Adams, at 20 Pemberton Square, was to leave
Sunday evening for Aroostook county, Me., on a much
needed vacation. He is hoping to get a deer, though his
stay will be necessarily limited. Dr. W. L, Simpson of
Boston, and D, L, Sparry have just returned from King
and Bartlett with a couple of deer. Mr. 8. C. Dizer, of
Prouty & Dizer, of Boston, is back from the Maine woods.
He got a deer.
The Harry Moore party got back to Boston on Monday.
The party went away with small expectations, but the
gentlemen have come back greatly pleased. They went,
as the readers of the FOREST AND STREAM will remember,
to Gerrish’s Camp some 15 miles in from the Katahdin
Tron Works, in Maine. They are charmed with the region,
under the very brows of White Cap Mountain, one of the
larger of the Katahdin region, in a deep valley. Early in
the trip the ground was bare and the leaves dry, and they
found it very hard to get shots at deer. But still they did
secure oné doe, which Mr. Calvin Austin, who was obliged
to leave for home after two or three days’ hunting, brought
out, About the fourth day there came 3in. of snow,
and the right royal fun began, The whole party was
delighted with the multitude of deer, as evinced by the
‘tracks. Indeed the tracking of deer was almost bewilder-
ing, even on the first day after the storm. They found
that the deer were amply able to take care of themselves,
and had to be approached with a great deal of caution.
Almost invariably the deer they were trying to approach
would be behind some “‘blow-down,” and often he would
skulk; or if the hunters had got too near, he was off with
beautiful bounds. Mr. Leroy 8. Brown carried a shotgun.
He had supposed that deer would not be plenty and that
he could get a few partridges while the others hunted for
deer. But when he found that deer were as plenty as
partridges, his idea changed. He found it very hard to
get within shotgun range of deer, though he had a
number of ghots that would have been easy for arifle. At
last he approached a ‘‘blow-down” with a good deal of
caution, the tracks leading up toit inabundance. Out
popped a handsome doe, and was off. Naturally, and
earlier in the trip, Mr. Brown would have supposed that
the game had all flown, but he had learned caution, and
peered into the brush a moment longer. A big pair of
eyes met his. His gun came to his shoulder. A beautiful
buck fell at the discharge.
Mr. Geo. C. Moore got a handsome buck. Mr. Faulkner
got a buck and Mr. Smith gota buck. Hach of the party
had a deer, except Harry Moore. Alasfor him! Always
the life of the party! Was he to go home without a deer?
Yes; it must be so! But there is something to tell. He
had shot a moose, a fat two-year-bull. Was Harry
frightened when he came upon the beast? No. He had
heard of the camel at the World’s Fair, and his first
thought was that one of them had strayed. His next
thought was to shoot it. It was done. But oh, the misery
of getting the camel down three miles from the side of
White Cap Mountain and through dense woods to camp,
where it could be transferred by teams! It was done, how-
eyer, and the moose came to Boston. It was taken out
to Harry’s place at Jamaica Plain, and hoisted up into a
eouple of trees in front of his residence, where it was
admired by a host of people. The next day Harry’s pro-
vision man placed it standing on a couple of barrels, in
front of his store, and within an hour there were hundreds
of people looking at the creature. The amusing part of
the story is that all the servant girls thought it was a
camel sure. They had been riding in the electric cars,
and ‘‘Did'nt they see the hump?” SPECIAL,
Dr. George McAleer of Worcester, H. 8. Seeley of New
York, Senator Risteen and Dr. Heber Bishop, president of
the Megantic Club of Boston, left last week for a two
weeks’ sojourn near the boundary mountains in north-
western Maine. Their main camp will be in the Kibby
Valley, not far distant from the headwaters of the rivers
St. John, Penobscot, Kennebec and Chaudiere in Canada.
THE MICHIGAN DEER SEASON.
Dayton, O.—Editor Forest and Stream: Your corres-
pondent from Marshfield, Wis., hits the nail on the head
in regard to the open season in that State, and the same
applies to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. J spent the
season up there this year, and talked with many hunters,
residents as well as visiting sportsmen. All agree that
the open season should be November instead of from
Sept. 25 to Oct. 25. The change would protect the deer
for several reasons. In the first place, there would not
be nearly so many does and fawns killed. As any ex-
perienced hunter knows, at that season of the year the
majority of the deer killed would be bucks. Whereas,
under the present law, it is just the reverse,
At the lake where I was camped there were three
camps, and the total number of deer killed was just fifty;
and I believe there were only ten or eleven bucks, the rest
were mostly fawns, This will doubtless seem a very large
score. But one of the camps was occupied by two pro-
fessional hunters, who killed and shipped thirty-three
deer. Is it any wonder that deer are getting scarcer? I
need not tell any brother sportsman, who has hunted in
that country, how they got so many deer; for we all
know they get them any way they can without regard to
la
Ww.
And that brings me to my second point, which is, that
by making the open season in Noyember much of this
slaughter of the innocents would be prevented, because
then they could not hunt at night with headlight, on
account of the snow and moonlight nights, but would be
compelled to get their deer by still-hunting in day time,
the same as the rest of us. And even they do not object
to that, because, being expert hunters, they could kill
their share of big bucks, and one big buck would bring
them more money than three little fawns. So even if
they only killed one-half or one-third as many, they
would be as well off, and it would make a vast difference
in the future supply of the deer. Of course this night
hunting is wrong, but I have my doubts if it can be
stopped, As nearly every settler in that country has a
headlight and uses it to get his supply of meat, it would
require an army of game wardens to enforce the law.
l have hunted a number of years in both Wisconsin
and Michigan, and my experience teaches me that in
both States the open season ought to be the same and
should not begin before Noy. 1. I hope the sportsmen of
these States who enjoy legitimate still-hunting will bring
such a pressure to bear on their legislators as to change
the open season in both the States to November. It
would increase the supply of deer and give us all a
chance to enjoy legitimate sport. Besides, then there
would not be so much yenison spoilt by warm weather.
BUCKEYE,
474
FOREST AND STREAM.
CHICAGO AND THE WEST.
[From a, Staff Correspondent. |
Philosophy Censured by Mr. Hough.
VINCENNES, Ind., Nov, 15.—The great sage of Concord,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, was a thinker, but his thoughts
do not all bear inyes igation, and, at best he must have
shone more as a philosopher than a newspaper man,
which latter follows much the harder calling. Philosophy
is dead easy compared to news. Emerson, in one of his
jagged rhymes, deprecates travel as follows:
“Who bides at home,
Nor goes abroad,
Carries the eagles and bears the sword.”
This doctrine may do very well as applied to foreign
travel, for we have a good enough and big enough
country right here, but take it in general, ib will do best
for him who is out of affairs and concerned only to medi-
tate. Travel is the best education, and had Emerson Aad
more of it, he might haye graduated out of philosophy
into the higher plane of journalism, in which he likely
would have been a corker, being naturally able to make
it short.
I venture the assertion that, philosopher as he was,
Ralph Waldo Emerson did not know how to clean a quail.
Further, I will venture that a great many readers of
FOREST AND STREAM do not know how to doit. Had I
obeyed the advice of the philosopher whose ignorant
wiseness I once loved because I couldn’t understand it
and didn’t dare call it anything but wisdom, I should,
perhaps, be now carrying more eagles in my pockets, but
neither I nor the public at large would ever had known,
let us say, how to undress a quail in the speediest and
neatest way in the world.
Clean Quail with Scissors.
To clean a dcezen quail in six minutes, and do it without
even soiking your fingers, you need a pair of scissors,
The long-handled, short-bladed scissors used by taxider-
mists are best, as they cut bones with less exertion of-
strength. This morning my friend had a bunch of birds
befone him. Taking up one cf them he removed the head,
wings and feet in five brief clips, cutting off the wings
pretty close up to the body, and the legs above the
knuckle joint, Just where the feathers begin. Then he
tore the skin of the breast, rolled it back from the sides,
and stripped it down along the back almost in one piece.
A few plucks at the remaining feathers left the bird bare
except the tuft of feathers on the tail. Again taking up
the scissors the artist inserted a sharp point through the
flank of the bird up near the shoulder, and made a clean
cut back through the ribs to the thin part of the belly,
under the end of the breast bone. This was repeated for
the ‘opposite side. Of course the bird then fell nearly
apart, the viscera being all exposed. The artist did not
now reach in with his fingers to eviscerate the bird, but
placing the points of the scissors well up in the cavity of
the body, just above where the heart lay exposed,
he made one neat clip and cut the liga-
ments which bind the upper viscera to the back
bone. Then still using the scissors and not his fingers, he
easily and in one movement raked back all the viscera,
which hung quite free of the abdominal’ cavity and
attached to the tail or ‘‘Pope’s nose.” One more clip
close up to the body severed the ‘‘Pope’s nose” and viscera
and tail feathers all fell at a stroke, the bird remaining in
the hand clean and free from blood. The fingers of the
artist were not soiled. He could have worn kid gloves
and not have soiled them. The bird was as clean as any
I ever saw, andthe whole operation was performed in one
half less time than I ever saw used in doing it before, If
Ralph Waldo Emerson were alive I would back John ee
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THE MASSACHUSETTS TROUT LAW.
THE proceedings instituted by Mr. Walter L. Gilbert,
of Massachusetts, to test the meaning of the statute for-
bidding the sale of trout during the close season has just
been terminated by a decision adverse to Mr. Gilbert
handed down by the Supreme Court.
Mr. Gilbert is engaged in the industry of trout culture.
He raises fish for the market and has long been contend-
ing for the privilege of marketing them in the close sea-
son. He was the author and promoter of a bill in the
Legislature to permit the sale of artificially reared trout
at times when wild trout might not be taken. The bill
was defeated, its opponents contending, and rightly, that
thus to open the market for domestic trout would result
in the capture and sale of wild trout.
Then, throwing consistency to the winds, Mr. Gilbert
claimed that the law already existing gave him the very
privilege which he had been endeavoring to secure by the
proposed new law. He contended that the statute forbid-
ding the sale of trout in close time was intended to apply
only to wild trout; and that in despite of it he might law-
fully sell his cultivated fish, To test the case he sold one
of his own trout in the close time, and induced a friend to
lodge complaint and institute a prosecution. The lower
courts decided against him and he appealed to the
Supreme Court, which (in the opinion printed in full in
our angling columns) declares that artificially bred fish
are not exempt from the provisions of the statute. The
court further holds that such a law is constitutional, even
though ‘‘owners of property may thereby to some extent
be restricted in its use,” for ‘‘it has often been declared
that all property is acquired and held under the tacit con-
dition that it shall not be so used as to destroy or greatly
impair the public rights and interests of the community.”
This outcome of Mr. Gilbert's putting the statute to the
test is just what we predicted it would be. There is a
yast deal more of bed-rock constitutionality in the fish
and game laws than many lay critcis give them credit
for; and the more clearly the principles of protective legis-
lation are comprehended, so much the more reasonable
and constitutional do the statutes reveal themselves to be.
We have never fully shared the ferocious opinion that
Mr. Gilbert should be drawn and quartered for his as-
sault upon the trout law. Weare quite ready to believe
that he hasbeen engaged in an honest fight for what he
thought to be his individual rights. Now that the courts
have found against him, and that his efforts have resulted
only in demonstrating the impregnability of the statute
he was contesting, we trust that he may still find abun-
dant reward for his commendable enterprise as a trout
culturist, with the opportunities afforded him under the
law as it stands.
AN APPEAL FROM ‘PISECO.”
THE story was told the other day of the experience of
**Piseco” (Capt. L. A. Beardslee, of the Navy) and his com-
mand in the terrible storm which swept the Sea Islands
last August; and some account was given of the devasta-
tion then wrought, and of the suffering which followed.
But the half has not been told, nor can it be told, of the
desperate condition of the survivors. The storm destroyed
everything—houses, clothing, food, crops. The people,
some thirty thousand of them, were left absolutely desti-
tute of the means of subsistence, without even the opportu-
nity of working to earn food. All that now stands be-
tween them and death by starvation, cold and disease, is
the supply of rations, clothing and medicine contributed
from outside and issued to them under the direction of the
Red Cross,
By virtue of his position as commandant of the Naval
Station on Paris Island, Capt. Beardslee has had thrust
upon him the responsibility of caring for the hundreds of
helpless people on the island, and, assisted by Mrs.
Beardslee, he has been acting as Miss Barton’s agent on
the island. For months Capt. and Mrs. Beardslee have
been surrounded by this misery and distress, to the miti-
gation of which their daily thought and endeavor have
been devoted. To bear up under this constant strain, we
may well believe, has called for fortitude in an unusual
degree. '
With the coming of cold weather the condition
of the storm sufferers is more desperate than before.
The demand forsuccor should be answered more promptly
and more generously than ever before.
Because of the pleasant, and in a way intimate, rela-
tion which ‘‘Piseco,” as a centributor to FOREST AND
STREAM, hasso long enjoyed with its readers, and because
we honor him for the noble work he is doing and for the
lofty spirit which animates him in that work, we second
his appeal in behalf of the storm sufferers of the Sea
Islands.
‘‘Thus it stands,” he writes. ‘‘There are 30,000 Ameri-
can citizens who must be almost entirely supported by
charity until they can get a spring crop in April or May.
Unless they are furnished with food they willstarve; with
bedding, they will die from exposure; with medicines,
they will perish of fever. Everything not perishable is
needed, especially money to buy lumber, nails, brick and
hardware to rebuild the houses; cast-off and warm cloth-
ing, cooking utensils, pans, pots, spoons, &c. Most of the
express companies send free all articles directed to
MISS CLARA BARTON,
President Red Cross Association,
For Storm Sufferers, Beaufort, S. C.
Articles sent to the Clyde S. §. Co,, Pier 29, East River,
New York, then to care of James E, Edgarton, Agent,
will be forwarded to Beaufort free.
MEDAL AND DIPLOMA.
THE World’s Fair medal, which is to come to. FOREST
AND STREAM one of these days, will be of bronze and in
diameter a half-inch more than the width of this column,
The design has been submitted to the Secretary of the
Treasury by Aug. St. Gaudens and the medals wiil be
ready for delivery in about six months. The obverse side
bears a figure of Columbia, which in this particular
instance is typical of the character of the FOREST AND
STREAM as a national journal—national in scope, in sym-
pathy, in influence, in warm support. On the reverse
will be a figure of Youth, which on our individual medal
will signify that the prize-winning sportsmen’s journal
of America will never lose the buoyancy, the vigor, the
enthusiasm, the sprightliness and the joyance of the
youthful spirit.
The diplomas will be ready with the medals. Mr. John
Boyd Thatcher announces that the matter to be placed on
each diploma will be limited to 300 words. Now does
any one dream that it will be possible to put into 300
words all that ought to be said about the ForEST AND
STREAM’S exhibit at Chicago?
THIRTY-SIX PAGES,
THIS ISSUE contains thirty-six pages, provision thus
being made for the prompt giving of our annual list of all
the field trial winners of the year, __
SOME FOREST AND STREAM CONTRIBUTORS.—I.
COL. SAMUEL WEBBER—*VON Ww.”
No ONE who should have seen ‘Von W.” in mature
life, standing over 6ft. 2in. in his stockings, would have
supposed that he was such a puny infant that his grand-
mother made a standing joke of having put him in the
cofiee-pot when a baby (in 1823); but it was, perhaps, due
to that very delicacy in infancy that he owed the robust-
ness of later years.
His father, an old physician, devoted as much care to
his physical development as to his mental education, and
he was brought up, like most country boys, to groom and
drive the horses, take care of the cows and pigs, hoe corn
and potatoes, and saw and chop wood, and encouraged to
frequent holidays in the woods and fields. Like Christo-
pher North, he became a fisherman as soon as he was
breeched, and at twelve years old was the possessor of an
old-fashioned French flint-lock fowling piece and was a
pretty fair rifle shot.
From that time until he left home at seventeen to get a
mechanical education in the
mills and shops at Lowell,
all his holidays were spent
in the woods, and if neither
fish nor game were in season
he collected wild flowers
and rare plants. In those
boyhood days, from 1836 to
1841, the hills of the Con-
necticut Valley were clothed
with a heavy old growth of
oak, beech and chestnut,
= the abode of numerous gray
squirrels, and it was no uncommon thing to get half a
dozen before breakfast any good autumn morning. But
the advent of the railroads in New Hampshire has
stripped the hills of those trees, and gray squirrels are
usually scarce, though ‘‘Yon W.” reported an unusual
invasion of them last year. This was the favorite game
of his early years and gave him skill with the rifle as
well as with the shotgun. Ruffed grouse were always
more accessible in the old woods than in the present
sprout lands which have taken their place, though there -
are possibly more birds now than then. But as yet
sporting dogs were almost unknown in the country towns;
wing shooting was a hidden art, and ‘‘Von W.” says he
never claimed to be anything more than a fair shot on the
wing, though he often took a squirrel on the jump.
His especial weakness was trout fishing, and he had the
reputation among his townsmen of being able ‘“‘to catch
trout out of a stone wall,” and in fact, some of the moun-
tain brooks were little else in late summer,
During the first half-dozen years of his mill life his
annual ‘‘fortnight’s vacation” was always obtained in June
and spent on the trout brooks of New Hampshire and
Vermont, and in later life, when more deeply engaged in
business, he always found time to slip off once in a while,
for a day or even a half day, to some neighboring stream
or old nook known as a haunt of ruffed grouse or gray
squirrels, or perhaps to a woodcock cover, and by the
active exercise in the open air keep himself in good fight-
ing physical condition. Always very fond also of eques-
trian exercise, he spent many hours every year in the
saddle, until he met an injury received from a fall due to
the breaking of the transom bolt of a wagon in 1861 while
driving in the rain to inspect a camp ground for use by
the battery of artillery, which he had raised, as well as
two of the New Hampshire regiments. This mishap dis-
qualified him for service in the field, as well as for future
saddle exercise. It, however, in no way interfered with
his pedestrian powers, and since 1871 when he gave up
“mill life” and devoted himself to the practice of his pro-
fession as a hydraulic engineer, he has been able to devote
many odd days to the trout, as well as some to the birds
and squirrels, and when in 1876 he was appointed chair-
man of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Commission,
he visited many of the waters of the State with the view
of stocking them.
In connection with his colleague, the late A. H. Powers,
Col. Webber introduced the ‘‘winninish,” or landlocked
salmon, into New Hampshire, and built the first State
hatching house at Livermore Falls, in 1877. He also
planned and superintended the erection of the fishway
over the Amoskeag Falls, at Manchester, N. H., one of
the most successful ones ever built,
A year in ’50-51 was spent in Europe, where he served
490 FOREST AND STREAM:
[Duo, 9, 1893,
as one of the jurors on machinery, at the original ‘‘Crystal ; exercised, much good judgment and knowledge of the
Palace” in Hyde Park, and after his return he arranged hate ce shy Hea ue ah See fa Hs ‘
, : : , aking their slow way down the stream, they crep
the interior of the one on Reseryoir Square in New York, | stealthily up to every promising place, taking here a
afterward destroyed by fire. He was one of the judges at wary old trout from his log-roofed stronghold or root-
the Centennial in Philadelphia in 1876, serving on four
netted hiding place, and there, three or four from be-
groups; judge at Atlanta in 1880, and laid out Machinery neath a circling raft of foam bells that slowly wheeled
Hallin New Orleans in 1884, and arranged the engines
and undulated at the foot of a tiny waterfall, reinforced
and shafting. ‘The title of Colonel, by which “Von W.” with new bubbles as others burst and keeping ever the
: ; :
is commonly known, was earned by service as aide-de-
same,
camp: to the Governor of New Hampshire in ’61-2-3,
in charge of camp grounds for new regiments.
A subscriber in early life to the old Spirit of the Times,
‘Von W.” was well acquainted with many of the “Spirit
Crowd,” Wm. T. Porter, ‘Frank Forester,” Phil Anthon,
cum multis aliis, of the old sporting writers. His pro-
fessional duties have carried him into every State in the
Union east of the Mississippi, and he has been over most
of the country from Nova Scotia to New Orleans, though
his fishing and shooting have been confined to New Eng-
land, taking in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and
Massachusetts, with whose waters he is pretty familiar. —
Though fast approaching the allotted period of three
score and ten, ‘*Von W.’s” love for the woods and the
waters, the fields and the flowers, and ‘‘all that dwell
therein” are undiminished, and though he can not discern
the sights of a rifle as well as of yore, he can still cast a
fly or wield a paddle, though he prefers a mountain
stream to the cramped confinement of a boat or canoe.
Che Sportsman Courist.
‘DANVIS FOLKS.—XVI.
Going Fishing.
AT an early hour the two anglers were behind the
woodshed,Pelatiah turning the moist soil, dotted with green
tufts of young motherwortand catnip, while Uncle Lisha
stooped before him, turning the clods with his fingers ¢nd
picking up the lusty worms as they were disclosed.
“The ’s sati’faction in fishin’ from the fust start,” he
said as he dropped a worm into the battered teapot be-
tween his feet. ‘‘More’n there isin huntin’, You don’t
see nothin’ afore you when you're puttin’ paowder int’
your horn an’ shot int? your bag. But when you grab
holt of a worm’s head an’ feel him a lettin’ go of the airt
slow an’ reluctan’, you c’n eenamost feel a traout snatek-
in? at him. An’ there bein’ worms goes to show the’ must
be fish, bein’ that they was made for one’nother, There,
Peltier, I b’‘lieve we’ve got ‘nough,” and he arose, straight-
ening his spine with the backs of both grimy hands which
he then brushed on his trousers, and the two set forth.
A dappled sky, filtering soft streams of sunshine, and a
constant waft of south wind invited them; the long
whistle of meadowlarks called them, and a highhole on
a dry stub drummed a rapid, ringing roll to accelerate
their steps.
Presently they came to a thicket that bordered the
brook, where gray stumps of departed trees stood half
disclosed among the misty ramage of saplings and the
dark pyramids of young evergreens, and where yellow
beds of adder tongue mimicked sunlight, while spears of
bloodroot pierced. their own green shields and the first
moose flowers splashed the shadows with their white
blossoms.
As they entered it a partridge uttered a note of alarm
and went hurtling away out of a flurry of dead leaves,
and a woodchuck smothered his own querulous whistle
as he retreated into his newly opened hole.
Uncle Lisha, feeling in his pocket for his knife, slowly
searched for a proper rod,
‘ Als ee
Mean bursting strain, 6,862 Ibs,
Variation, 1,529 lbs,
Velocity.
832.3 ft. equal 252 meters,
855.4 * 66 259 eg
951.1 ue es 285 oe
924.8 © 280 “
1,069.3 * cPSLS
Mean velocity, 926 ft.
Variation, 237 ft.
The same load in Nitro Club shells, U, M. C. wads:
Velocity.
848.9 ft. equal 257 meters,
901.7 ** tt 273 Fs
835 6 “ SR] i
901 7 ‘ 278 us
8455 = DU ts
Mean velocity, 866 ft.
Variation, 66 ft.
§.S. powder, 3drs., 1140z, shot, furnished by Montgomery Ward &
Velocity.
743.0 ft. equal 225 meters.
749.7 ** C-7ir Cf
756.2 ** 6 229 ee
179.3 ** 236 LD
No record.
Mean velocity, 755 ft.
Variation, 36 ft.
DuPont's smokeless powder, 3!4drs., 1140z. shot No, 7, in Smokeless
Velocity,
863 10ft. equal 262 meters.
904.10 274 te
898.3 ** pairs O:
871.5 ‘* ‘e264 ‘
891.8 tc tc 270 te
Mean yelocity, 886 ft.
Variation, 40 ft.
Velocity.
789.2 ft. equal 239 meters.
878.5 *< ot Relit £0
iat ba sooo. eee
871.10 264 re
865.3 ‘ Mo pay te
Mean velocity, 872 ft,
Variation, 162 ft,
496
FOREST AND STREAM.
[Dro. 9, 1898,
Walsrode smokeless powder in grains, 29grs., 1Jg0z. shot No. 7, fur-
nished by O. Hesse, in Bischwell shells:
Bursting Strain.
8,193.2 lbs. equal 556 atm.
ot 565 as
8,305.5 *
@ 8.3055 ¢ «565 ¢
7,319.4 ¢ “502 4
8.21738 « BG
—Mean bursting strain, 8,076 lbs.
Variation, 926 lbs.
Velocity.
882.3 ft. equal 252 meters.
842.2 te ee 955 ce
878.5 eet ee 266 be
885.1 ** Ae EP ilse Y
885.1 ** ce 268 $f
Mean velocity, 864 ft,
Variation, 53 ft.
Walsrode smokeless powder in grains, 3igrs., 11g0z. shot. No, 7 (win-
ter load), furnished by H. C. Squires, in Bischwell shells:
Bursting Strain.
9,055 2 lbs. eqiial 616 atm.
10,422.3 ** eae 00s
11,7453 " iat OG. te
8,790.6 * Sher al!
9,849 0 ‘* eneO Olas
Mean bursting strain, 9,972 Ibs.
Variation, 2,955 lbs.
Velocity.
842.2 ft. equal 255 meters.
957 8 * Gem peyy at
9181 * 278 a
918.1 *¢ Cl eis oe
845.5 *¢ 256 “a
Mean velocity. 896 ft.
Variation, 115 ft.
Walsrode powder in grains, 29grs., 11g0z. shot No. 7, brought to this
in the
country from Germany in t
cago:
Bursting Strain,
7,581,9 lbs, equal 517 atm.
8,305.5 ‘ eta 0
8,878 8 6 4k 604 ae
8,349 0 * OE ade
Mean bursting strain, 8,273 lbs.
Variation, 129 Ibs.
year 1892, and since stored in Chi-
Velocity.
832 3 ft. equal 252 meters.
avira ENS ie
871.10 mbt ok
878.5 * ON TP te
Mean velocity, 864 ft.
Variation, 46 ft.
Walsrode in grains, 29grs., 11492. shot No. 7, furnished by O. Hesse in
Climax shells, primed with black powder:
Bursting Strain
7,026.6 lbs, equal 478 atm.
8.437.8 * “eb 74 ot
9,055.2 *£ Sra 616 ee
8,746.5. ‘* se oo, fh
8,746.5 * ois nah
Mean bursting strain, 8,402 lbs.
Variation, 2,029 lbs.
Velocity.
795.9 ft. equal 241 meters.
822.2 * Pap ee
sUyfeetis tte ia ly
805.8 ‘t se 244 4)
808.11 ee 245...
Mean velocity, 807 ft.
Variation, 27 ft.
The test for bursting strain and velocity was continued
and partly repeated on Sept. 22, On that day the ther-
mometer registered 66° F., equal to 16° C., the barometer
29.8, the hygrometer 757.
Table B.
American wood powder, BAanBN ilgoz. shot No. 7, equal to 366 pellets,
in Nitro Club shells, U
Bursting Strain.
6,585.6 Ibs. equal 448 atm.
6,056.4 ** oe ET Diet
6,056.4 * Oe SPIE
5,850.0 “* Pras ies
7,070.7 481
Mean bursting strain, 6,329 lbs.
Variation, 1,190 lbs.
The same load in Smokeless shells:
Bursting Strain.
9,584.4 lbs. equal 652 atm.
7,688.1 *¢ GS BE
6,908 2 *¢ Sy
6,717.9 *¢ Wtf eo
8,805.3 * $559) 1s
Mean bursting strain, 8,845 Ibs.
Variation, 2,867 lbs.
. C. wads;
Velocity.
865.3 ft. equal 262 meters.
848.9 ee ae 257 iT)
888.4 ** re 269 be
954.7 * i
825 5 ** ce eb0) U
Mean velocity, 872 ft.
Variation, 109 ft.
Velocity.
865.3 ft. equal 262 meters.
858.2 * SO Z60L
RGB at SteORsS xc
eVdetsyt™ OS Di ty
937.11 ie coda, ate
Mean velocitv, 881 ft.
variation, 79 ft.
HE. C. powder, 314drs., 14g0z. shot No.7, in Smokeless shells, U. M. C.
ee
wads:
Bursting Strain.
9,011.1 lbs, equal 618 atm,
7,688.1 ae Ea
7,644.0 * SP OEHaO ott
7,776.3 * I ateAOh 1S
6,885.5 * % 6465 +
Mean bursting strain, 7,791 lbs,
Variation, 2,166 Ibs,
Velocity.
914.9 ft. equal 277 meters.
759.5 ** fe 230.
974.3 ‘* 205 aT
R5crASH SOF DI mate
901.7 ‘* fe 278 3
Mean velocity, 881 ft.
Variation, 215 ft.
Gohulize powder, 3}4drs., 1440z. shot No. 7, Smokeless shells, U. M. OC.
wads:
Bursting Strain.
12,936.0 lbs, equal 880 atm.
9,981 3 ‘ SS GTo ss
11,107 2 * oy, F'EQ" tt
7,467 6 ‘ fe BOB: =S
11,657.1 * be case ee
Mean bursting strain, 10,611 lbs.
Variation, 5,469 lbs.
Velocity.
885.1 ft. equal 268 meters.
861.11 ) eo ss
cep yrs Nae Suny Ue
ee RET De Dir ot
1,027.10 “311 a:
Mean velocity, 899 ft.
Variation, 185 ft.
5.5. nodes 344drs., 14goz. shot No, 7, in Smokeless shells, U. M. C.
wads:
Bursting Strain.
8,349.6 lbs. equal 568 atm.
i plea OREN wee
8,293.7 ‘ Samal! ye
6.629,7 ‘ ie Bry
7,599 9)“ teary
Mean bursting strain, 7,674 lbs.
Variation, 800 Ibs.
Velocity.
941.2 ft. equal 285 meters,
891.8 ** eg
848.9 ** Repos 20
908 2 ** ef At
Wiviset A AG cay
Mean velocity, 909 ft.
Variation, 109 ft,
DuPont’s smokeless powder, 38grs., 11g0z. shot No. 7,in Nitro Club
shells, U. M. C. wads:
Bursting Strain.
5,747.7 lus. equal 391 atm.
7,555.8 ‘* ste OS
7,526.4 '* be ake os
5,880.0 ‘f Smee OG ote
4,689.3 ‘* WS sats
Mean bursting strain, 6,279 lbs.
Variation, 1,808 Ibs.
The same load in Smokeless shells;
Bursting Strain.
8,173 ¥ lbs. equal 656 atm.
9,408.0 * 640 *
Sipne\US'a etbhoe ss
8.5260 + Byo
6,321.0 ‘ vey eae se
Mean bursting strain, 8,396 lbs,
Variation, 3,234 Lbs.
Velocity.
762.9 ft. equal 231 meters,
SPADE WES etztitey NETS
B4Tz se fF 5
852.0 “ Me? Bate os
785.10 eee BiR & oe
Mean velocity, 618 ft.
Variation, 90 ft.
Velocity.
855.4 ft. equal 259 meters,
832.3 *¢ Bee 252) es
852 0 * ne 258 vf
835 6 ee ee 953 ba
838.10 th bd es
Mean velocity, 843 ft,
Variation, 28 ft.
DuPont’s smokeless powder 40grs,,11g0z. shot No.7, in Nitro Club
shells, U. M. C. wads:
Bursting Strain.
8,040.9 Ibs. equal 547 atm,
5.3508 “ *t Bba
11,568.9 ‘* OF rey.
6541.5 sft 4a ts
Sensis | 6! SERRE
Mean bursting strain, 7,440 lbs.
Variation, 6,218 lbs,
The same load in Smokeless shells:
Bursting Strain.
9,849.0 lbs. equal 670 atm.
8,040.9 ** ms eOae te
11,9658 *« “ gia &
12,936.0 * ggg
65415 ag
Mean bursting strain, 9,866 Ibs.
Variation, 6,359 lbs,
8173.2 = BBG tt
TBR eB
7786.8 BBQ «
6,5u6.1 ** s 4638
Velocity.
855.4 ft. equal 259 meters,
808.11 “245 3
8785 * 266 2
802 4 ‘* se 24a ff
818.10 e248 es
Mean velocity, 888 ft.
Variation, 76 ft.
Velocity.
852.0 ft. equal 258 meters,
828.0 * ary | (3
885.0 * Way ok
952.8 te a 2o0 ae
887.5 * 266 a:
Mean velocity, 881 ft.
Variation, 124 ft.
832.3 ft. equal 252 meters,
838.10 ne donner?
884.4 ** fe 7269 ff
858.8 ‘* ee OU
865.3 ‘* Oe 3
Mean velocity,.865 ft.
Variation, 52 ft.
Before commenting on the results shown in the forego-
ing tables, it appears advisable to single out for the gunner
some of the points which ought to govern a comparison.
It has been said before that one of the most desirable
features of a propelling agent is that it should retain ils
ballistic properties winder all conditions.
There should
never be any extraordinary variations in bursting strains
and velocities. The latter should never drop below 775{t.,
because all figures below cease to represent the desirable
lnlling force, and they should not exceed 900ft., for the
reason that higher velocities generally give cause for a
less satisfactory pattern, as this has been clearly demon-
strated whenever the charges of E. C,, Schultze, §. 8.,
Wood and DuPont powder were increased to 3idrs,
It has been stated previously that a bursting strain of
12,000lbs. to the square inch still may be considered as
comparatively safe, but such a pressure is certainly too
high to be endured by the average gun for any length of
time. A gas pressure of 10,000lbs. may be considered to
have reached the highest point of safety for a continuous
service.
As will be seen, the gas pressure of a service charge of
DuPont's black powder is about 7,203lbs., the correspond-
ing velocity 890ft.
The black powder known as “Dead Shot” developed a
lower gas pressure, but the velocities were, in some
instances, likewise somewhat low, and the same rule
applies to the ‘‘Orange Extra.” American wood powder
dropped in two instances below the desired average
| velocity and reached only in the Smokeless shell the
required figures, and this both in regard to bursting strain
and velocities. EH. C. powder likewise makes the best
showing in the Smokeless shells, whereas it fell a little
short in the two other instances, although it should be
| borne in mind that 38grs. in a common shell and without
black powder priming hardly represent a sufficiently
strong charge of this powder. §S. 8. powder did well in
point of velocity in two instances, but in one case these
figures reached a point higher than desirable for a good
pattern; it dropped below the average values in the
Climax shells,
Schultze Powder gave the best results in point of
velocity in the Smokeless shell and as regard gas prvs-
sure in the Nitro Club shell. In the Climax shell the
Neh figures approach very closely the lower normal
mit.
Schultze powder (Pompton), which differs from the
regular Schultze powder by a much harder grain,
developed high and also uniform velocities, but the burst-
ing strain, especially that of the increased—3idrs.—
charges, appears somewhat high, which may to some
extent be due to the fact that this powder was tested for
bursting strain and velocity separately from the others
and in a comparatively dry atmosphere. The quoted
figures, however, demonstrate that the maximum load of
this powder, when used in warm and dry weather, should
not exceed sdrs. The increased charges of Walsrode
grain powder naturally developed a corresponding high
gas pressure and higher velocities than the standard
charge, but the figures of bursting strain still move in
the permissible limits.
The velocities of the standard charges, those in Climax
shells primed with black powder included, are quite
uniform and of sufficient height, and the gas pressures
likewise move in the normal limits and show only slight
variations, ;
American wood powder, as Table B shows, did not
appear very sensitive to increased charges, which may
partly be due tothe fact that cool and cloudy weather pre-
vailed at the time; a condition more beneficial to this
powder than to any other, inasmuch, and as will be de-
monstrated hereafter, the wood powder is more hygro-
scopic than the several other powders tested.
EK. C. powder unexpectedly showed great variations
with the increased load, which are of less consequence as
far as the bursting strain is concerned than in regard to
the velocities.
The gas pressure figures prove that this powder, like all
nitro powders, will occasionally re-act heavily to increased
charges.
8. 8. did comparatively well with the increased charge.
DuPont's smokeless powder was tested in two lighter
charges, both making a good showing in point of velocity,
but the variations in gas pressure appear to prove that the
combustion of this powder lacks somewhat in uniformity.
This powder is not yet in the market, and before it is in-
troduced there is little doubt but what it will, in this re-
spect, be sufficiently improved. The slight fault is prob-
ably due to an oversight in the process of manufacture.
It belongs to the gun cotton powder class, and its chemical
composition warrants a good prediction in regard to its
future. It still lacks somewhat in point of non-suscepti-
bility to moisture, but being a gun cotton powder, it will
only be a question of time when it will likewise in this
respect do as well as other powders of this class.
But the experiments teach that in its present condition
the DuPont smokeless powder should not be loaded, bulk
for bulk, with black powder; 22drs. constitute the maxi-
mum charge for warm and dry, drs. for wet and cold
weather.
The bursting strains developed by the Schultze powder
likewise show that it is unwise to load more than @drs. of
this powder for 12-gauge guns in summer,
The Pattern Test.
The pattern test commenced on Sept. 28. Inasmuch,
and as previously observed, one particular gun seldom
shoots all kinds of powders equally goud, it was concluded
to use several guns for this occasion. The guns employed
were: A Francotte* gun, loaned by Von Lengerke & An-
toine; a Greener gun; a German gun, with the right bar-
rel of cylindrical bore, the left, as all the others, choke-
bore; and a Smith gun, Both barrels were used by the
German gun, thus making in reality five different ouns.
From all powders five rounds were fired, one shot from
each gun. All shots were fired at muzzle rest, and at a
distance of 40yds.
The weight of the Greener gun was above 7lbs,, those of
theothers below 7lbs. The figures quoted in Table C con-
stitute the number of pellets counted in each case within
the 30-inch select circle.
Table C.
3i4drs. DuPont’s black powder FEF, 11g0z. shot No. 7:
139 205 167 107 177 — 795 Average pellets 15; var. 98
3drs. DuPont's black powder FFF, 14g0z. shot No. 7:
249 279 268 159 270 — 1221 Average pellets 244; var. 116
8drs. American Powder Mills’ Dead Shot, 11402. shot No, 7:
230 271 241 123 241 — 1106 Average pellets 221; var. 148
8drs. Laflin & Rand's Orange Extra, 11¢0z. shot No. 7:
240 268 224 147 111 — 990 Average pellets 198; var, 157
3drs. American BW. C. powder in Nitro Club shells, 13g0z. shot No. 7;
256 245 123 161 240 — 1025 Average pellets 205; var. 133
3drs, American E. ©. pawder in Smokeless shells, 11g0z. shot No. 7:
220 x44 149 93 187 — 893 Average pellets 178; var. 151
3drs. American E. C. powder in Climax shells, 11g0z, shot No, 7:
196 277 256 148 263 — 1140 Average pellets 228; var. 129
* The best mean pattern was obtained with the Francotte gun.
3drs, Schultze powder in Nitro Club shells, 14g0z shot No. 7:
284 258 108 149 282 — 1081 Average pellets 216; var. 174
The same load in Smokeless shells:
196 173 219 98 214— 900 Average pellets 180; var. 116
The same load in Climax shells:
158 290 192 115 120— 875 Average pellets 175; var, 175
3drs. American Wood powder in Nitro Club shells, 1102. shot No. 7:
134 152 231 176 150 — 848 Average pellets 168; var. 197
The same load in Smokeless shells;
180 192 80 101 175 — 728 Average pellets 136; var, 112
drs, American Wood powder, by Watsou, in Smokeless shells, 11g0z.
shot No. 7:
246 218 254 117 223 — 1058 Average pellets 211; var. 137
3drs. American Wood powder in Climax shells, 1440z, shot No. 7:
189 207 122 182 194 — 794 Average pellets 158; var. 85
3drs. S. 8. powder in Smokeless shells, 14¢0z. shot No. 7:
155 249 155 98 195 — 802 Average pellets 1(8); var, 151
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
191 206 129 1138 238 — &77
The same load in Climax shells;
242 188 278 163 283 — 1154 Average pellets 230; var. 120
3drs. DuPont's smokeless powder in Smokeless shells, iJgoz. shot No. 7:
174 280 152 88 188 — 882 Average pellets 174; var. 192
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
175 243 204 163 245 — 1030 Average pellets 206; var. 122
29ers. Walsrode powder in grains, 1)g02. shot No. 7:
178 259 258 134 287 — 1066 Average pellets 213; var. 125
29ers. Walsrode powder in grains, from Hesse, 11g0z. shot No. 7: '
246 172 243 122 249 — 1032 Average pellets 206; var. 127
3igrs. Walsrode powder in grains, from Squires, 11402. shot No. 7:
170 150 257 142 231 — 950 Average pellets 190; var. 185
29grs, Walsrode powder in grains, Climax shells, 11g0z. shot No, 7;
135 168 183 146 135— 865 Average pellets 173; var, 48
8drs. Schultze powder (Pompton) in Smokeless shells, 11402. shot No.7:
182 127 178 140 250 — 877 Average pellets 175; yar. 128
Sl4drs. American wood powder in Smokeless shells, 11g0z. shot No.7:
151 173 204 187 185 — 900 Average pellets 180; yar. 53
3!4drs. American wood powder in Nitro Club shells, 14g0z. shot No. 7:
185 180 177 684 215 — 841 Average pellets 168; var. 181
3\4drs. BE. C. powder in Smokeless shells, 11g0z. shot No. 7:
219 205 230 87 258 — 999 Average pellets 199; var. 171
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
238 283 253 126 302 — 1202 Average pellets 240; var. 176
314drs. Schultze powder in Smokeless shells, 11g0z, shot No. 7:
189 155 96 155 121 — 716 Average pellets 143; var. 93
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
219 240 210 138 233 — 1060 Average pellets 212; var. 115
3l4drs. S. S, powder in Smokeless shells, 1149z. shot No. 7:
190 190 189 225 186 — 980 Average pellets 196; var, 37
The same load in Nitro Club shells: :
214 237 206 123 202— 982 Average pellets 196;-var, 114
88grs. DuPont’s smokeless powder, in Smokeless shells, 1}g0z. shot
0, 7:
220 264 219 78 245 — 1026 Average pellets 205; var. 186
Average pellets 175; var. 125
“The same load in Nitro Club shells:
236 258 257 137 284 — 1172 Average pellets 234; var. 147
40grs, DuPont's smokeless powder in Smokeless shells, 11402, shot No. 7:
174 146 155 147 229 — 851 Average pellets 170; var. 83
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
249 254 287 172 195 — 1107 Average pellets 221; var. 82
The foregoing table shows the surprising result that the
mean pattern obtained with the nitro powders aresuperior
to those given by the black powders. In many cases the
black powder is preferred by gunners simply for the rea-
son that better patterns are expected from the same, and
on former occasions I have often found that this presump-
tion was well founded. In judging the values of the pat-
tern the corresponding velocities must always be taken
in consideration, since, as repeatedly observed, the lower
velocities generally produce remarkably good patterns,
The figures contained in Table C could easily lead to
erroneous conclusions if the given pattern values would
not be compared with the corresponding values of yveloci-
ties. Let us pass the black powders for the present, and
direct our attention to the nitro powders,
American wood powder shows in two instances unsat-
isfactory patterns; in the other case 211 pellets constitute
the mean pattern, and this value is confronted by a mean
velocity of 812ft.
E. C. powder makes the best showing in the Climax
shells, but the corresponding velocity is only 699ft.
Schultze powder gives in the Nitro Olub shells a mean
pattern of 216 pellets, with a corresponding velocity of
8zift. §S. 8, powder makes in all three shells a good
showing in point of pattern, among which the values
obtained in the Climax shells represent the highest figures,
namely, 230 pell-ts. But the corresponding velocity again
is only 7doft., or below the permissible limit,
DuPont's smokeless powder makes the best showing as
regards pattern with the 38ers, charge, which produces a
corresponding velocity of 813ft.
Schultze powder (Pompton) shows a somewhat lower:
mean pattern, but this is confronted by the comparative-
high velocity of 883ft.
Walsrode grain powder gave a mean pattern of 213:
pellets with a corresponding velocity of 864ft,
With the increased charges the HE. C. powder has, in.
one instance, given the high pattern of 240 pellets, con-
fronted by a very satisfactory velocity, but on the whole
this powder, too, produces a less satisfactory pattern as:
the velocity increases.
Schultze powder shows with the increased charge the:
best pattern in the Nitro Club shells, namely 212 pellets;
the velocity is about the same as that of the E, C, powder.
8.8. powder did well in both shells, giving, with a very
high velocity, a mean pattern of 196 pellets. Wood pow-
der only reached a mean pattern in one instance of 180
pellets; the corresponding velocity is above 870ft. Wals-
rode powder maintained in both shells the average veloc-
ity, but fell, compared with the Schultze E. C, powders,
somewhat short in point of pattern.
On several occasions it has been observed before that
many gunners claim to obtain a better pattern with ljoz,
of shot than with 1{oz.,and that they consequently would
increase the chances of hitting by using the larger shot
load. I have already attempted to show that even in such
a case where a larger number of pellets form the itoz.
charge are counted on a stationary target than from the
1foz. charge, this fact would by no means substantiate and
prove the correctness of the assumption mentioned.
But the question is: Does the larger charge really pro-
duce on the average a better pattern than the smaller
charge? The answer to this question can be found by
comparing the pattern values contained in Table C with
those found in the next table:
‘Table D.
Chicago, Watson's Park, Sept. 25, 1893.
PATTERN TEST WITH 144 OUNCES SHOT.
Schultze powder, 3'4drs., 40z. shot No, 7:
Velocity, Hea ft. equal a meters. oe pellets.
244. le
Average, B22 tt. Average, 216 pellets.
Duc. 9, 1893.)
FOREST AND STREAM.
497
EH. C. powder, 314drs., 11402. shot No. 7:
Velocity, $12.0 ft. equal 246 meters,
799.1 242 ff
te bs
219 pellets.
256
927 iad
Average, 805 ft. Average, 234 pellets.
Walsrode powder in grains, 3igrs., 1140z. shot No. 7:
Velocity, 845.0 ft. equal 257 meters. 284 pellets.
ft BEB bey paras 208 ¥
249
Average, 841 ft. Average, 247 pellets.
American wood powder, 34drs., 1140z. shot No. 7:
Velocity, 746.3 ft. equal 226 meters.
te 156.2 ue te 4249) té
255 pellets.
250 *
237 ~— SS
Average, 247 pellets.
Average, 705 ft.
8. S. powder, 3¥4drs., 1140z. shot No. 7:
Velocity, 789.2 ft. equal 239 meters. 143 pellets.
a 756.2 ** oa Om La Ly Dee
23D &
Average, 771 ft. Average, 184 pelleis.
DuPont's FFF powder, 34drs., 1440z. shot:
Velocity, 835.1 ft. equal 253 meters. 208 pellets.
73 838.5 te ot 254 we 171 ef F
od
Average, 836 ft. Average, 175 pellets.
DuPont's smokeless powder, 3!4drs., 11402, shot:
Velocity, 845.0 ft. equal 257 meters. 232 pellets.
“ 914.9 oe be 277 ae ee +
Average, 879 ft. Average, 243 pellets.
Now let us compare the figures found in Table D with
the best values contained in Table C. What do we find?
We find the surprising and instructive fact that in nearly
all cases a decrease in velocity and in pattern, or at least,
in the last instance, such a small increase that it prac-
tically amounts to nothing.
Schultze powder has lost 77ft. in velocity and gained
only 4 pellets in pattern. HE. C. powder shows a loss in
velocity of 76ft. and a decrease in pattern of 6 pellets.
Walsrode powder lost 45ft. in velocity and gained 457 pel-
lets, Wood powder lost fully 130ft. in velocity and
gained 67 pellets in pattern. 8. S. powder shows a de-
crease in velocity of 138ft. and a loss in pattern of 12 pel-
lets. DuPont’s black powder lost fully 190ft. in velocity
and 2 pellets in pattern. DuPont's smokeless powder
shows a decrease in velocity of 50ft. and a gain in pattern
of 9 pellets. In point of pattern only Walsrode and
wood powder show slight gains, but in the last case this
gain is more than counter-balanced by the accompanying
loss in velocity, because a velocity of 757ft., as the
wood powder produced, hardly represents a sufficient
killing force.
Among the properties excepted from a reliable propel-
ling agent is the non-susceptibility to moisture; since all
highly hygroscopic powders will be affected detrimentally
through the influence of moisture in the air, whereby they
will cease to produce a sufficient penetrative force for a
killing effect. A powder easily affected by moisture will,
as a rule, not stand storing, unless kept in a very dry
lace.
The so-called waterproof shells afford very little protec-
tion against the influence of moisture.
‘In testing and judging powders it is, therefore, neces-
sary to establish if,and to what extent, a particular pow-
der is hygroscopic, and at what percentage of moisture
the effect of the latter begins to be felt, inasmuch as one
powder may still do good service with a certain percent-
age of moisture, while another containing the same per-
centage may cease to give satisfaction, A quantity of
each of the several powders was filled in open dishes and
these placed in a refrigerator, showing 75 per cent. of
moisture, and there kept and subjected to the influence of
the humidity for 18 hours, They were then loaded in the
regular manner and fired.
Table E.
Chicago, Watson’s Park, Sept. 27, 1893.
MOISTURE TEST.
DuPont black powder FFF, 3drs., 1440z. shot No, 7:
Bursting Strain. Velocity.
7,988.0 lbs, equal 540 atm. 1,041.00 ft, equal 415 meters.
7,908.6 ce oe 538 be 1 031.00 +e + 312 ae
BH. C. powder, 3drs., 1402. shot No. 7:
7,732.9 lbs. equal 520 atm, 785.10 ft, equal 238 meters,
8,173.9 ** hte rcHte RO $a Le OT
American wood powder, ddrs., 14g0z. shot No. 7:
4,498.0 lbs. equal 340 atm. 723.00 ft. equal 220 meters.
4,468.8 ** pie SUL eee chy. Cie se ene sore ate
Schultze powder, 3drs., 14g0z. shot No. 7:
6,497.4 lbs. equal 442 atm. 782.6 ft. equal 237 meters.
7, b22.8 ** ah 5265 ¥* SOD MS Mh aes mare
Schultze powder (Pompton), 8drs., 1}g0z. shot No. 7:
6,937.4 lbs, equal 472 atm. 818.10 ft. equal 248 meters.
5,688.9 ** Se sah d de Bebe ck tS G8 U
S$. S. powder, 3drs., 1}g0z. shot No. 7:
. 7,026.6 lbs. equal 478 atm, 779.5 ft. equal 236 meters.
7,144.2 “ sa 688. 808.11 + \ 245 a
Walsrode powder, 3lers., 11g0z. shot No. 7:
10,598.7 lbs. equal 721 atm. 898.3 ft. equal 272 meters.
10,113.0 © = ** 688 ciclo Lae coulis
Walsrode powder, 29zgrs., 1}g0z, shot No, 7:
7,688.1 lbs, equal 523 atm, 8856 ft. equal 253 meters.
7,791.0 “ se DSR Sb2/00°+" | FF) 2b8i 9) tt
DuPont smokeless powder, ddrs., 14¢0z. shot No, 7:
11,657.1 lbs. equal 793 atm. 801.8 ft. equal 270 meters,
fe aer sore isos Ontianss 852.00 tt 258 Ue:
To ascertain to what an extent the several powders
were affected by the moisture, the vulues quoted in Table
— must be compared with the corresponding values given
in Table A. It will thus be found that the burstine strain
of the DuPont's black powder did not change, while the
velocities show a slight increase. HE. C. powder shows a
small increase in bursting strain, with a loss in velocity.
Wood powder lost 2,000lbs. in pressure and 120ft. in
velocity. Schultze powder shows a decrease in the burst-
ing strain of about 1,50ulbs., and a loss in velocity of 70ft.
Schultze powder— Pompton—lost 3,000lbs. in bursting
strain and 69ft. in velocity. 8. 5. powder shows a loss in
gas pressure of about 1,000lbs. and in velocity of 133ft.
Walsrode, 3lgrs., winter load, shows a slight increase in
gas pressure and a loss in velocity of 4ft. Warlsrode
29ers.—standard charge—lust 500lbs. in gas pressure and
in velocity 18ft. DuPont's smokeless powder shows an
increase in bursting strain with velocities about the same
as before. This test was by no means asevere one. In
actual service the powders are frequently put to a much
more trying treatment. This theme will again be touched
in the report pertaining to the Wilmington trial,
In about the same degree as some powders are suscept-
ible to the influence of moisture, others are again affected
by dry heat, A reliable propelling agent should likewise
be non-susceptible to this last-named influence.
To ascertain if and in what degree the various powders
are affected by dry heat, the powders were put in a closed
oven showing a temperature of 205° F., equal to 80° C.,
and kept there for one hour, After being taken out and
given time to cool, they were loaded in the usual manner
and fired.
A powder not affected by heat should show only slight
increases in both bursting strain and velocity.
Table F.
Chicago, Watson's Park, Sept. 28, 1893.
DRY HEAT TEST.
Walsrode powder in grains, 29ers., 1lgoz. shot No. 7:
Bursting Strain. Velocity.
9,231.6 lbs. equal 628 atm. 895 00 ft. equal 271 meters.
9,231.6 ‘ Sa occae® 888.4 ‘* 269 a
Schultze powder (Pompton), 3drs., 1140z. shot No. 7:
12,539.1 Ibs. equal 853 atm. 1,093.10 £t. equal 331 meters.
10,025.4 ** a GO ne 974.5 ‘* eS sf
E. C. powder, 8drs., 14goz. shot No. 7: :
8,599 5 lbs. equal 585 atm. 852.00 ft. equal 258 meters.
9;011,1 ** ae OLae wae 908.2 ** SZ a
Schultze powder, 3drs.. 11g0z. shot No. 7:
9,408.0 lbs. equal 640 atm. 1,031.1 ft. equal 312 meters.
8,746.5 * = 559° OIC eSliy
American wood powder. 3drs , 11g0z. shot No. 7:
6,983.2 lbs. equal 475 atm. 885.1 ft. equal 268 meters.
(RE Ge Fe a Siiomes 828.9 ** eet ¥
DuPont's smokeless powder, 3drs,, 14g0z. shot No. 7:
14,700.0 lbs. equal 1,000 atm. 951.00 ft, equal 288 meters.
14,259.0 ** . O70 ee 858.1 * se 260
S. S. powder, 3drs., 11g0z. shot No. 7:
9,275 7 lbs. equal 631 atm, 1,037.00 ft. equal 317 meters.
10,249.9 * ee 607s 997.4 * * 302 ee
DuPont's powder FFF. 3drs., 11g0z. shot No. 7:
7,908.3 lbs. equal 538 atm, 951.00 ft. equal 288 meters.
7,718.2 ‘ ae BIAS Oe 74.3 ee Pa te
For the purpose of comparing the figures in Table F,
the corresponding figures in Table A must again be con-
sulted, This done we find that the Walsrode powder
shows an increase in gas pressure of 958lbs., in velocity
27ft. Schultze powder (Pompton) gained 1,154lbs. in
bursting strain, and 140ft. in velocity. EH. C. powder
shows an increase in gas pressure of 800|bs., in velocity of
29ft. Sehultze powder gained 133lbs. in bursting strain
and 168ft. in velocity. American wood powder increased
its bursting strain by 321lbs., its velocity by 12ft. S.S.
powder shows an increase in bursting strain of 1,449|bs.,
in velocity of 91ft. DuPont's black powder gained 610lbs,
gas pressure and 72ft. in velocity. DuPont's smokeless
powder shows an increase in gas pressure of 4,9691bs., in
velocity of 29ft.
An increase of bursting strain up to 1,000lbs. may still
be considered natural and permissible, and an increase of
velocity of 50ft. may be regarded as of no importance.
To ascertain how far the several powders differ in the
way of heating the gun barrels by rapid and continued
firing, equal rounds of shots were fired in quick succes-
sion from each powder, and in every case the temperature
measured in the middle of the gun barrel. DuPont’s
smokeless and Walsrode powders showed the lowest and
same degree of heat; then followed Schultze powder with
increased heat, and then, with the same values, E. C. and
wood powder, then Schultze (Pompton), then S. S.
powder, and then, with the highest degree of heat, Du
Pont’s black powder.
The recoil test produced the following result: Least
recoil, of even value, DuPont's smokeless and Walsrode;
then followed, with increased recoil, BE. C., Schultze,
Schultze (Pompton) and American wood powder; then
S. S. powder, and then, with the heaviest recoil, Du
Pont’s black powder.
In regard to the development of smoke, the several
powders are governed by the following rotation: Du
Pont’s and Walsrode developed the least smoke, of even
value; next came Schultze, Schultze-Pompton, E. C. and
S. 8. powder; then wood, and as last, of course, DuPont's
black powder.
The barrel fouling test resulted for the several powders
as follows: The least fouling of the gun barrel was found
with the DuPont's and Walsrode smokeless powders;
next came Schultze, Schultze-Pompton, and 8. S. powders;
then wood and E. C. powder. The residue of the E. C.
powder proved, occasionally, to be of a quite solid form
and tending to clog the locking device of the gun.
Among the black powder, Laflin & Rand’s ‘‘Orange
Extra” produced a remarkable small residue, much less
than generally found with black powders.
With this last test, the Chicago powder trials were con-
sidered finished, It was understood and agreed, however,
that a repetition on a smaller scale, and in conjunction
with a primer test, should take place on some future day.
and in another section of the country.
For this second test, to which all interested parties were
again invited, Messrs. E. I. DuPont de Nemours Co. kindly
placed their shooting ground and some of their instru-
ments at their gun cotton factory located at Carney’s
Point, New Jersey, near Wilmington, Delaware, at our
disposal.
Schultze powder—Pompton—reached Chicago after the
test there had commenced, and I was further requested
to test a new Leaf powder recently brought out-by Messrs.
Woltt & Co., Walsrode. Both of these powders were sub-
jected to an exhaustive test at Carney’s Point. So that
the result of this trial will afford the same basis for judg-
ing these powders as the basis established for tlie others,
The experiments at Carney’s Point commenced with the
primer test. The experiments were conducted with a
view to ascertain to what extent the qualities of the sev-
eral powders, as far as bursting strain and velocities are
concerned, are affected by the primer, and especially to
determine, if, and to what degree, the stronger primer
will increase the violence of the nitro powders; that is,
render them more or less dangerous; and further, which
primer will, as a rule, secure the most regular ignition.
It has been further determined, how much faster the
stronger primer will bring about an ignition and combus-
tion of the powder charge than the common or black
powder primer.
Table CG. ,
Carney’s Point, N, J., Oct. 26, 1898.
PRIMER TEST.
Bursting Strain. Velocity.
8,507.2 Ibs. equal 576 atm. 841.9 ft equal 255 meters.
© ‘ . B25 7 . . ue
wis0 * = 60 gags 6 bag
109221 “ 743 BIR7* * g4R
9318.8 * 634 4 Boag gig oe
' The same load in Smokeless shells:
10,936.8 lbs, equal 744 atm. 858.0 ft. equal el meters.
‘ ‘ 5 ‘
7,893.9 ** 537 828 9 ‘+
9,934.3 * « 669 ¢ 852.0 OBR st
9437.4. % 642 858.8 = «260
6,350.4 = 439 795.9 % O41
The same load in Riyal shells:
8,517.9 lbs. equal 579 atm. 828.9 ft. equal 251 meters.
4 te ot te 249 a3
8,114. B2 822.0 “
5,909.4 * « 402 * 7bG0 aaa
8,055.4 © 582 825.5 B50
63945 + 4Bh Seiags TS oc
The same load in U. S. Rapid shelis:
6,°15.0 lbs. equal 450 atm. 812.0 ft. equal aa meters.
rig 2 ac OF v3
5,909.4 ** ree Bd O2IEt 779.8 ‘*
7,673.4 ** 522) * 766 0 ‘ te 282 LG
7,938.0 ‘* “te 540) iS 799.9 ** ee R42 se
8,996.4 ** StS TG 12s (OTD Nace eS to4 ce ¢
The same load in Bischweiter shells: ;
9,162.8 lbs. equal 624 atm, 822 0 ft. equal 249 meters.
13,891.5 ‘* 945 ** 842.2 255
8,070.3 * en doe! 928 0 ** 281 se
11,2348 ** Fer a (ras 858.8 ** e260 ss
10 010.7 ‘* fo 6GIe 828.9 ** $5 eri +
The same load in Bachmann shells:
10,759.4 lbs, equal 732 atm. 822.0 ft. equal 249 meters,
10,495.8 ** a 842,2 ‘* 255 te
6,776.7 ** re el te 795.9. ** al fe
9,481.5 ** 645 < 812.0 * se 246 fs
10,407.6 * some samas 838.10 se 254 a
The same load in Winchester shells, No. 3 primer:
8.349.6 lbs. equal ae atm. 795.5 ft. equal Bae meters.
“ 4di + 28+ es
6,492.7 ** 785.10 3
7,849.8 ** oF tod: et 812.0 * fe 246 uf
6,041.7 ** OE BME 1d 782.6 * ie Tate SP
6,570.9 ** bg ee ig abe 676.0 * se 223 a
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
8,996.4 lbs. equal oF atm. 832.3 ft, equal 252 meters.
at 4: “e 6
6,174.0 ‘* 795.5 ** bie OA
7,364 7 ** PaeoU Lise 818.0 ‘* se 248 Ke
7,982.1 ** = 043. 4S 828.9 ‘ ©. 251 oe
5,953.5 ** Ae by a 785,10 Ae ats) ie
The same load in Creedmoor shells, Winchester No. 2 primer:
6 394.5 lbs. equal 435 atm. 756.2 ft. equal 229 meters.
5,997.6 ** eS ris neta
6,129.9 ‘* ee ae 743.0 * e225 st
7,100.1 ‘* ‘6 483 S* 782.6 ws BYE Ke
ROIS! Come le ao 782.6 ** eri iH
The same load in Kynoch’s Grouse shells:
5,071.5 los. equal 345 atm. 766.0 ft. equal 232 meters.
at
7,364.7 ** yee Olay 812.0 ‘* 246 ue
7,585.2 ‘ Ve eaitllal Lb 805.8 ‘* i R44 ui’
7,364.7 ‘* A a mae
6,526.8 “* «ddd. 769.4 ** © 233 “4
The same load in Climax shells, common:
4,851.0 lbs. equal 330 atm. 704.4 ft. equal 214 meters,
4,938.2 ** spl 733.7 ‘* Pe ae
4,630.5 ‘ & 315 # rt.
4,762.8 ‘* en Nay ester
5,247.9 ‘ aye ee
eee
The same load in Sporting Life shells:
6,262.2 lbs. equal 426 atm. 782.6 ft. equal 237 meters.
Sher dab ate 2ag
6,394.5 ** . 712.0 ** 23
7,408.8 ** se eDOdeN 766.0 ‘* se 2382 “4
6,749.3 ‘* Pe Oy is 921.5 ** e279 =
7,673.4 * Cimenave, fc 822.0 ** te 249 t
Oct. 27—Continuation of the Primer Test.
Thermometer 69° F., equal to 20.5° C.; hygrometer, 90%.
Walsrode leaf powder, 3lgrs.. equal 2.1 grams; 1!¢9z. shot No.7, in
Smokeless shells:
Bursting Strain. Velocity.
ne lbs, equal 402 atm. 792.5 ft. equal 240 meters.
,055,6 ** “* 549. ¥ $41.9 ** eh '
eflimome on aya 825.2 ** 250. u
6,571.6 ** te day Mt 795.9) ~* te Rat as
6,659.8 ** ia olds 805.0 ‘* 244 gt
Mean bursting strain, 7,002 lbs.
Variation, 2,046 lbs.
The same load in Vienna shells:
Mean velocity, 812 ft.
Variation, 49 ft.
Bursting Strain, Velocity.
6,953 0 lbs. equal 473 atm. 848.4 ft. equal 258 meters.
9,966.6 ** Seba eure 818.7 * 6 248 a
10.054.6 ** ve TIG8AE 848.4 * fe 258 Fe
9,966.6 ** eo Sas 885.1 ‘ cos FS
8,995.4 ‘* Vol zee 828.9 ** OL rf
Mean bursting strain, 9,186 lbs. Mean velocity, 845 ft.
Variation, 3,101 lbs. Variation, 77 ft.
Walsrode leaf powder, winter load, 22 grs., equal to 2.2 grams, 1}goz.
shot No. 7, in Vienna shells:
Bursting Strain. Velocity.
10,407.6 Ibs, equal 708 atm. 868.7 ft. equal 263 meters,
11,4660 “ He ists 875.2. ** Babe -
LORE a) GG: 5s 852.0 * S258 es
10,231.0 ‘+ TEeROCQnmey 865.3 ** we 262 ba
10,201.4 ** Mee AS 865.3 ** te 262 a
Mean bursting strain, 10,419 Ibs. Mean velocity, 871 ft.
Variation, 1,676 lbs. Variation, 23 ft.
DuPont’s smokeless powder, 3drs., 114g0z. shot No.7 in Rival shells,
common;
Bursting Strain. Velocity.
6,438.6 lbs. equal 438 atm. 709.8 ft. equal 211 meters.
7,893.9 * ey 852.0 * Seas pple | bet
9,893.3 ‘ Sag Se mAs 871,10 ee a
8,555.4 ** are lian Baposte 25a tt
7,805.7 ‘* Lt) aah LS GEE | PRI ake
The same load in Smokeless shelis:
9,393.3 lbs, equal 639 atm. 861.0 ft. equal 261 meters,
4c 750 oe ‘ 268 oe
11,025.0 © gg5.1
8158.5 * 555 852.0 5B &
97020 ¢ * 660 * ggg * 27 «
10,6722" “ 696 “ 855.4 BBQ
Schultze powder (Pompton), 3drs . 11g0z, shot No. 7 in Hley shells:
8,952.3 lbs. equal 609 atm, 838,10 ft. equal ae meters.
* rs ee Sul te
9,304.1 ** Co © ABBY a2 828.9 ‘
8,820.0 ** pe OU iease 785.10 ‘ e238 ff
9,922 5 *¢ © 675“ 835.6 ‘ eC eb3 ‘<
8,952.3. ** GP) 836.6 ‘* “e264 *
The same load in Smokeless shells:
9,348.2 lbs. equal BBS atm. 858 8 tt. equal 260 meters.
a4 i Qe ‘ be .
9,613.8 ‘* Z 875.2 ** 265 :
9,084.6 ** F618 ie Se a Bee ei
9.878.4 ** oe Ore te 878.5 ** 256 s
9,834.3 ** e% <669)** 885.1 ** e258 rs
The same load in Rival shells, common:
6,329.9 lbs. equal 417 atm. 808.11 ft. equal oe meters,
its Lad 4: we
5,733.0 ** me eBu0 802.4 ** 3
6,394.5 ‘* Soe Ta ete 812.3 ‘e246 fe
7,408.8 s® apO4s 818.10 *‘ te 248 “
8,423.1 * pout Cale 828.9 * sf sal a
The same load in Sporting Life shells:
8,114.4 lbs. equal 552 atm. 802.4 ft. equal 243 meters.
be 5 te te 245 ry
81585 * 555 808,11
sessg | B87 766.0 * 932 «
604.7 “* = gt 782.6 * g37 «
6,262.7 “42g 785.10 238 «
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
7,408.8 lbs. equal 504 atm. 802.4 ft. equal 243 meters.
41. ao ee
6,085.8 ** eA 4 831.10 252 fF
9.084.6 ** Se Lieto 815.4 * rh RAG we
8,952.3 ** hy GT 808.11 e245 ft
7,364.7 ** aaerel iene 838.5 ** e254 Ss
The same load in Bachmann shells:
9,702.0 lbs. equal Ot atm. 842.0 ft, equal 255 meters,
65 . as 5 7
9,569.7 ** st 835.6 °* 253
9,496.2 ** OG. =* 838,10. cet &
9,172.8 ** eG: 691.0 209 ¥e
9,304.1 ** Se Gea po 785.10 a Pate
The same load in Bischweiler shells:
7,408 § los. equal 504 atm. 828 9 ft. equal 251 meters.
8,298.8 ** Se bhe et 825.5 * Sry hy
8,202.6 *f ees otet 0 $18.10 me et “6
7,620.3. ** Sp ale 828 9 “* Ue west se
6,923.7 ** Ee OG 795.9 ** «241 a
The same Joad in U. S. Rapid shells:
5,999 6 lbs. equal 408 atm. 812.3 £t. equal 246 meters,
7,188.3 Ae si 489 te $12.3 ee ae 246 Ty
4,983.3 ** fe 339° f° 775.11 te 9385 se
4,542.3 se 309 *8 712.6 “ i eae Si
7,188.3 * * 489 << 815.7 “ ag “
498
SE
The same load in Winchester Riyal, No. 3 primer:
10,7594 lbs. equal 732 atm. 828.9 ft. equal ish meters.
795.9 ** MS ri
7,879.2 * $58 546. wet :
7,805.7 ** Ron 825.5“ e250 3:
6,526 8 ** "vada. 802.4 ‘* at EN He
8,202.6 ~* 1S 550s 812.3 * e246 4]
The same in Climax shells:
6,262.2 lbs. equal 426 atm,
4,894.1 ‘* DS ebb) 1
5,203.8 “* “ 354
eeeece ade
795.9 ft. equal 241 meters.
694.9 os te SOTOR se
795.9) * oS RAT, +
Givtie dae seen fee
The same load in Kynoch Grouse shells:
8,775.9 los. equal 597 atm. 821.11 ft. equal 249 meters.
oe ae 498 at ‘ ae 244 ae
7,330.6 805.8
5,953.5 ‘ WIS cette ob 802.4 ‘* eee 1248 e
9,172.8 ‘* «624 «—* 845.0 “ Seo *
8,952.3 ‘* + e609 Fs 789.2 ** e209 “
The same load in Creedmoor shells, Winchester No. 2 primer:
5,556.6 Ibs, equal 378 atm. 795.9 ft. equal 241 meters.
4.6746 “* SE gols ee erate S4/2
4.004.1 * ** 833 «CFS 7366“ Sey ae “
4,718.7 ** a peal Tela 216 ¥
4,851.0 ** Py UBRUIE Sa 683.0 ** ‘205 W
At this juncture a heavy rain set in.
Schultze powder, 3drs , 1}g0z sh it No. 7 in Smokeless shells:
8,580.1 lbs equal 583 atm. 802.4 ft. equal 243 meters.
7,815 7 * eae oe) 789.2 * Fe 239) i
- 7,320.6 ‘ tte OB eA fay) = eed] Ds
The same load in Eley shells:
7,276.5 lbs. equal 495 atm, 785.10ft. equal 238 meters.
7,629.3 ‘ Peat Si FF 795.9 & +t RA Fe
8,334.9 “ Seobiva te 795.9 * oe
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
5,865.3 lbs equal 399 atm.
4,938.2 ‘* We catefit SC 746.3 * nt
8,864.1 ** « 603 * 825.5 ‘* 2500 oe
The same load in Winchester Rival shells, No. 3 primer:
6,659.1 Ibs, equal 453 atm, 782.6 ft. equal 237 meters.
5,556.6 ** be sky tt? 762.9 ‘* eal te
5,762.4 “* See 1992-85 Vill 235 ts
The same load in Kynoch shells:
7,232.4 lbs, equal 492 atm.
OGLOrO ee sic Sessa
6,938.6 ** ted GSS
The same load in U. 8. Rapid shells:
5,203.8 lbs. equal 354 atm.
6,521.8 ** ie dda 762.9 ** a PB
5,865.3 ‘* re 6399 «+ 775.11 oe PB Ee
The same load in Winchester Rival, common:
5,821.2 lbs. equal 396 atm. 766.0 ft. equal 232 meters,
5,855.3 ** Ts i ahs 726.9 * e220 et
4,851.0 ‘* Rr es0
241 at
766 0 ft. equal 232 meters.
226 tt
789.2 ft. equal 239 meters.
fairs Sita Spey I:
igo:D) asl ee HeD, et
766.0 ft. equal 232 meters.
i I 74
Sent 717.0 ft, equal 217 meters.
aR | ce ejo ener Me ta ee Me
4674.6 * “ 318 « nb
The same load in U.S. Climax shells:
4,454.1 Ibs, equal 803 atm.
4,410.0 ** 800 *
4,336.5 ‘ Ce eo be
743.0 ft. equal 225 meters.
Te te
717.0 * ined
K. C. powder, 3drs., 11402. shot No. 7 in Smokeless shells;
6,350.4 lbs, equal 432 atm.~ 815.7 ft. equal 247 meters.
-790,6 ** AAG SFE 808.11 6245 e
8,658.8 ** Ee Ab fe 825.5 * Fe 50. re
The same load in Hley shells:
7,144.2 lbs. equal 456 atm,
5,071.5 “ H345 te
5,159.7 “* et Dy
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
4,762.8 lbs. equal 324 atm. 756.2 ft. equal 229 meters.
5.909.4 -‘ rie ea alee 733.6 ‘ e219 rT
5,556.6 ‘* ee wayia eG 782.6 ‘* Si eoy ae
The same load in Kynoch Grouse shells:
5,247.9 lbs. equal 357 atm. :
4,938.2 * bs Bt 8
524719 6% Bay ue
The same load in Rival shells, common:
4,674.6 lbs. equal 318 atm. 828.9 ft, equal 251 meters,
4,630.5 *‘* Sy 733.3 * re el cS
4,630.5 *“* AN apts 723.6 * FLD re
The same load in Winchester Rival, No. 3 primer:
4,806.9 lbs, equal 327 atm. 756.2 ft. equal 229 meters.
5,027.4 ** er OG V2.7 * ft ad. vv
4,894.1 ** Saeeoooe oe nikon
The same load in U. S. Rapid shells:
4,806.9 lbs. equal 327 atm.
4,674.6 ‘f CP abhen 10
4GIB7 | st (ga) tt
The same load in Climax shells:
4,586.4 lbs. equal 312 atm.
4,498.2 ‘ Le SUG sie
4,851.0 ‘* 330 6‘ 681.0 ft. equal 209 meters.
The same load in Creedmoor shells, Winchester No. 2 primer:
4,630.5 lbs. equal 315 atm, 743 0 ft. equal 225 meters.
4,601.1 ** Be STR Me 710.6. ** peat 5: §
ez’ 4,542.3 < se B09. Fe 759.5 * 210) *
Walsrode leaf powder, 3lgrs., equal 2.1 grams, 1102, shot No. 7:
7,791.0 lbs. equal 530 atm, 874.9 ft. equal 265 meters,
515‘
808.11ft. equal 245 meters.
792.5 * “240 “
799.0 <* fr 242 a
772.9 ft. equal 231 meters,
TOL Ora aan Ome ean hte
M320 0 Sue | aes
736.6 ft. equal 223 meters.
723.6 * 219 oi
736.6 ‘ SP PR ty
%,570.5 ** i! 858.3 * f §260
8,158.5 ‘* Soe te 881.9 ** a SOK te
DuPont’s smokeless powder, 234drs., 11402. shot No. 7:
8,158.5 lbs. equal 555 atm. 888.4 ft. equal 269 meters.
5,115.6 ** va uaa. ee 815.7 * pie wee Oy
8,246.7 ** fii at 861.11 he Cae “
Walsrode powder, granul., 29grs,, equal 1.90 grams, 11492, shot No.
8.511.4 Ibs. equal 579 atm, 815.4 ft. equal 247 meters.
8,423.1 “ > lavas 29° 812.0 ** paeeedb fe
7,011.9. ** ieee? vir 785.10 Sate) te
3iédrs. DuPont smokeless powder, 11goz. shot No. 7:
9,657.9 los. equal 657 atm.
384grs. Walsrode leaf powder, 11g0z. shot No. 7:
6,615.0 lbs. equal 450 atm.
34zrs. Walsrode powder, granulated, 11g0z. shot No. 7:
7,893.9 lbs. equal 537 atm.
8lédrs. Schultze powder, 11402. shot No. 7:
7,982.1 lbs. equal 543 atm.
8\éedrs. Schultze powder (Pompton), 11g0z. shot No. 7:
11,510.0 lbs. equal 783 atm. ;
American wood powder, 1)40z. shot No. 7:
7,188.3 lbs. equal 489 atm.
3lédrs. §.S. powder, 11402. shot No. 7:
11,818.8 lbs. equal 804 atm.
3)drs. B. C. powder, 11402. shot No. 7:
8,379.0 lbs. equal 570 atm,
34grs, Walsrode leaf powder in Smokeless shells, 11g0z. shot No. 7:
6,923.7 los. equal 471 atm,
Oct. 28—Continuation of the Primer Test.
5. 8. po vder, 3drs., 1/goz. shot No. 7 in Eley shells:
alédrs,
Bursting Strain. Velocity.
7.564.7 los. equal 501 atm. 766.0 ft. equal 232 meters,
6.791.4 ** re a Pa 789,2 * 239 Me
6,952.5 * S405, att 726.9 ** ae tS *
The same load in Smokeless shells:
7,438.2 lbs. equal 506 atm.
8,158.5 ** ee ODD ane 749.7 ft. equal 227 meters,
6,967.8 * ets 703.3 * 213 ee
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
7,542.1 lbs, equal 513 atm. 706.6 ft. equal 214 meters.
5,071.5 * + 345 PES OV Sais YAW
5,953.5 ** SS Pa0se se evictent he Y28 etl
The same load in Winchester Rival, No. 3 primer:
6,060.1 Tbs, equal 453 atm. 792.5 ft. equal 240 meters.
5,292.0 ** Seog Us aE. GTS Rae aire 20S es:
5,071.5 ‘ iad: (ONG) 2 EPIRA XS
The same load in U. S. Rapid shells:
6,218.1 lbs, equal 423 atm, 696.9 ft. equal 211 meters,
'
5,865.3 ** e399, 4° 720.3 * oF ale f
HOTS fF Sia aiy ae 693.6 * Ue (PACH AY
The same load in Climax shells:
5,512.5 lbs. equal 375 atm.
4,674.6 ** = B18, ** 726.9 £t, equal 218 meters,
4,630.5 ‘ We eit Wb 703.3 ** 213 es
FOREST AND STREAM.
The same load in Winchester Riyal shells, common:
5,600.7 Ibs. equal 381 atm, 687.0 ft: equal 208 meters,
4,983.3 ** ae cenit AE W20: Set) GE NETS ema
Chote wo CON RITE 678:0' = ES 205 1c
The same load in Kynoch Grouse shells:
7,011.9 lbs. equal 477 atm,
4,894) te sh 333° tt 703.3 ft. equal 213 meters.
5,292.0 ee +e 360 ee 696 9 os a PAbE at
The same load in Creedmoor shells, Winchester No. 2 primer:
4,718.7 lbs, equal 321 atm. 720.38 ft. equal 216 meters.
4851-0. Eco 0g cet oo
4,674.6 ‘* Soros mad 700.0 ** Ke 212 We
American wood powder, 3drs., 11g0z. shot No. 7 in Eley shells:
, 6,085.8 lbs. equal 414 atm. 762.9 ft. equal 231 meters.
5,512.5 ** AP hah 2 713.9 * te 214 wr
5,292.0 ** coe SiO iuahe TBpIoee che ORO ate
Same load in Smokeless shells:
6,085.8 lbs. equal 414 atm, 749 7 ft. equal 227 meters.
5,424.3 * Spears st Males oh oy “e214 *f
5,247.9 ** se Alife 49 T7127 * “234 *e
Same load in Nitro Club shells;
5.953.5 Ibs, equal 405 atm.
5,159 7 *§ bt 769.4 ** My
5,292.0 ‘ 3 Spfifty 691.0 ** ce
The same load in Winchester shells, No. 3 primer:
6,129.9 lbs. equal 417 atm. 687.9 ft. equal 208 meters.
5,336.1 ‘* PO Gp y Wy 723.6 ‘* Paley RY
byeakay try Le sisal) op 691.0 ** ee 209 ‘
The same load in U, S. Rapid shells:
4,674 6 lbs. equal 318 atm.
44982 “ 316 +
4,454.1 * « 3n3 f
The same load in Climax shells:
6,997.6 lbs. equal 408 atm.
5,292.0 * Sree 691.0 ** 6 = 209 1)
5,292.0 ** Oe Sieh 785.10 338 *
The same load in Winchester Rival shells, common:
5,865.3 lbs. equal 399 atm. 722.9 ft. equal 220 meters.
5,292.0 ** = SOON 678.0 * = 205 a
5,336.1 ‘ “e363 220 of
The same load in Kynoch Grouse shells:
5,292.0 lbs. equal 360 atm.
5,203.8 * % B54
SUA fay o Sodbe 6) a See,
The same load in Creedmoor shells, Winchester No. 2 primer:
5,380.2 lbs. equal 366 atm. 691.0 ft. equal 209 meters.
5,600.7 ** sey 726.9 * Dae lh bh et
5,909.4 ** fh Angee 696.9 = 217 ‘
Sea and River ishing.
ANGLING NOTES.
Forest and Stream as an Educator.
ONLY a few weeks ago I pointed out in these columns
that boards of supervisors had it in their power to protect
. black bass during the month of June; protection that the
State law denies them, although they spawn through the
entire month. The note was copied into a Warren county
paper and the supervisors of the county were urged to
take action upon the suggestion at their meeting then
near at hand. One of the first things they did when they
assembled was to introduce a resolution making a close
season for black bass in all the waters of Warren county
from January first to July tenth. The extra ten days
beyond what was advocated in FOREST AND STREAM,
namely, January first to July first, will benefit the fish
undoubtedly, but it will cause some confusion, doubtless,
as other counties, so far as they have shortened the season,
have fixed upon July first as the opening day for black
bass fishing. I suggested this to one of the supervisors and
he adopted the suggestion.
Catching versus Stocking.
DvuRinG the past few years occasional notices may have
been seen in the country papers that such and such lakes
have been restocked with black bass by the planting of
a certain number of bass weighing from one-quarter to
one-half pound each. I have in mind one such lake that
was restocked with 200 bass, and this is a big plant as they
average, For a year or two the bass furnished by the
State have run in numbers to each applicant from 60 to
300 and formerly the number was much smaller. Of
course the waters are improved by just so many fish, but
they will not restock the lakes if June fishing is per-
mitted.
There is another view of the case besides the June fish-
ing. Last week I went into the smoking car of a railway
train to smoke a cigar and found a lawyer distinguished
all over the State and who is as fond of fishing as he is
versed in law. When our cigars were lighted the con-
versation turned to fish and fishing and among other
things he told me that one day last season while fishing
with a friend in the same boat on the St. Lawrence they
caught together 285 black bass. At night there was a
question as to who caught the greater number of the fish
and it was decided to try it again the next day, each man
in a separate boat. My friend caught 163 black bass that
weighed 207lbs, and his friend caught 188, weight not
given, or a total of 346 bass in one day and 581 in two
days, or about, judging from weight given of one lot. 725
pounds of fish. As he told how he caught all his fish on
a single hook, and that hook as good as new after two
days’ fishing; and how his friend took an unfair advantage,
considering that it was a fishing match, and used a bait
hook with minnows and above it a fly on the leader, and
in this way made 21 double catches, I became so interested
in this recital that I forgot to ask what he did with so
many fish. As I look back now I realize that I neglected
to put a very important question to him. If he owneda
fish market I could understand what became of the fish,
but as he is a lawyer lam still in the dark concerning the
disposal of over a quarter of a ton of black bass. How-
ever, another question arises: Will 200 black bass per
annum do more toward stocking a lake 36 miles long,
than 581 much larger black bass taken in two days from
the St, Lawrence will do toward unstocking that stream,
A Story About Two Mascalonge.
While my lawyer friend was yet telling us of his black
bass fishing he incidentally mentioned that after years of
fishing in the St. Lawrence he never had captured a
mascalonge. I considered it a pertinent question to ask
how it came about then that not long ago two masca-
longe were exhibited in the city where he lives, and duly
chronicled in the newspapers as being the fruit of his
skill as an angler. That did not phase him in the least;
he only laughed and said: “‘L only claimed that I
‘hooked’ them, and now I will tell you the truth. Istole
them. I found a net set contrary to law, where I had
previously found others and destroyed them, and in it
were two mascalonge of about twenty-five pounds each.
I hooked out the two big fish, cut the net in pieces, and
let the other fish in the pound escape.” A, N, CHENEY,
746.6 ft, equal 223 meters.
233 2 (St
PALS oh
723.6 £t. equal 217 meters,
OSiat es eee Rs
yd ve eT)
743.0 ft, equal 225 meters.
722.9 oe ‘se
691.0 ft. equal 209 meters.
NOcpaee Me bela art
.
[Dec, 9, 1893,
FROZEN FISH THAWED OUT.
Boston, Mass., Nov. 19.—Some years ago a friend made
up a party for a day at ice-fishing in Laconia, N. H. Pro-
curing a good supply of bait at the Quincy Market (I am
not certain whether they were “mummychugs” or ;
shiners) he took a late train and spent the night at a hotel.
Next morning wasa perfect fishing day with the single ex-
ception of the thermometer being 28° below zero. As there
was no wind and they were ardent lovers of this winter
sport they soon found themselves on the ice, notwith-
standing the cold. Having cut a few holes through sey-
eral feet of ice they decided to bait up, but met with a
disappointing obstacle in finding that the contents of their
bait can had become tired of waiting and had frozen solid.
As nothing was to be gained by standing on the ice they
returned to the hotel, and, for experiment, put the can on
the stove to thaw, which it soon did. To their surprise a
large number of the fish were swimming around as if
nothing out of the way had happened. All the fish were
then put into a tank with running water in it where all
that had been doubtful of recovery were soon as well as
the others. I wish I were sure that the fish were not
“mummys” as, if they were, the above would not be at
all strange.
The other case was when a jar of fish was sent to the
house in which my mother was staying while in France..
As it was too late to cook them when they arrived, the
cook left them outside the window thinking that they
needed plenty of air. During the night the thermometer
dropped to several degrees below freezing, and, very
naturally, the contents of the can were a chunk of ice in.
the morning. This the cook reported with great conster-
nation, but was told to put the can on the stove and see
how it worked. This he did, and left it until almost en-
tirely free from ice, when he took it off and found the fish
in perfect health.
As regards leaving fish out of water until they freeze
solid and then thawing them, I have tried it many times:
myself and they have neverlived, This is, I believe, due:
to the fact that their lungs are devoid of water at the:
time, although I am not at all certain. J, H. B.
SILVER Bay, Lake George, N. Y., Nov. 28.—In the lat-
ter part of October I went out for a day’s fishing with
Capt. Harris of the steamer Ticonderoga. Early in the
forenoon we caught afew perch, which froze almost as
soon as we got them in the boat. About 3 o’clock in the
afternoon Capt. Harris suggested putting on one of our
perch and trolling, This we did, spinning him on an or-’
dinary gang. After trolling about half an hour we took
in the line and found that the perch had revived and was
flopping quite vigorously. H. S, PAIne.
WALTHAM, Mass.—Last winter while catching chubs for
live bait I caught a small salt water perch or cunner. He
was kept alive for oyer two months in a cold outhouse,
Every night the water, fish and all, would freeze to a
solid cake, every day he would be melted out, and ina
short while be as lively as ever. He must have been
frozen and thawed out at least forty times without the
slightest injury to him. FONTINALIS.
Croton Oil and Bullheads.
Editor Forest and Stream:
I noticed with deep interest an item in your journal on
the remarkable catch of two fishes on one hook at one
time.
I have had an experience in this direction, only a little
more so. It was back in the early seyenties that good old
Deacon William H. Phillips of Chagrin Falls, O., and the
writer, went one balmy evening in May to the head of
Adams & Co.’s pond to angle for the festive bullhead.
It was late when we arrived, and, after baiting up, set-
ting our rods and building a fire, we opened the lunch
basket and made way with its contents, after which we
lighted our pipes and took a smoke, conversing the while
on the degeneracy of the times, the cussedness of inani-
mate things and matters in general.
Knocking the ashes out of our pipes we went to our
rods and pulled up, when a very great surprise was in
store for us. Deacon Phillips had thirteen bullheads
strung on his line and I had twelve.
We had used fat pork for bait, and, hearing that the oil
of rhodium would attract fish, we went to a drug store
and purchased a supply, which was freely poured on the
bait. An analysis showed that the druggist’s clerk had.
made a mistake and sold us croton oil.
This incident was related at the meeting of the Ameri-
can Fisheries Society in Detroit in 1891 by Hon, A. C,
Williams, at the time Fish Commissioner of Ohio, and I
regret to say that it was received with doubt, if not de-
rision, but good old Deacon Phillips, well along in the
eighties, is still alive and active in both mind and body,
and you cannot make him mad quicker than to smile-
when this remarkable incident is related, FLy FISHER.
PurT-1n-Bay, O., September, 1593.
Izaak Walton Club.
Lockrort, N. Y., Nov. 23.—This place boasts another
anglers’ club recently formed called the Izaak Walton.
Club. I was the guest of Mr. Hustin at their lodge on
Lake Ontario, Four-Mile Point, four miles east of Youngs-
town. Itis an ideal home for the fisherman and is loved
equally well by the bass. Fully 1,000 of the gamy beau-
ties have been captured on the grass beds, 3800yds. from
shore, during this season. On Oct. 4 W. E. Hustin and
William H. Case, expert anglers of Lockport, put in a
full day’s fishing there. They captured 29 black bass.
Mr. Hustin captured 10 of these and twice landed tvem ait
atime. Of the first pair one weighed 24lbs. andi the
other 31lbs. M, EL. A. |
Some Michigan Fishing WNotes.,
CENTRAL LAKE, Mich., Dec. 1.—The herrings visited —
our river after their usual fashion somewhere: about the
12th of the month. Iwas sick in Grand Rapids at the
time and did not see them,
The trout fishing hereabouts was very poor last sum- |
mer. My luck was about the same as that of ‘“Von W.,”
I caught about half a dozen. I think that overfishing and
the non-observance of the six-inch law explains the
wherefore.
There seemed to be a disease among the black bass last:
summer which also affected the sunfish. Many were:
-en dead, No explanation is offered, KELP,
: ;
DEC. 9, 1998.]
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FOREST AND STREAM.
—
SALE OF TROUT IN CLOSE SEASON.
THE Massachusetts trout law, Public Statutes, Chap. 91,
Sec, 53, provides: ‘‘Whoever sells, or offers or exposes
for sale, or has in his possession a trout, land-locked*sal-
mon or lake trout, except alive, between the first day of
September and the first day of April shall forfeit for
every such fish taken in this Commonwealth between said
dates, ten dollars.” [A subsequent enactment changes
the dates].
Mr. Wm. L, Gilbert, a trout culturist, having caused
himself to be prosecuted for the sale of a trout reared by
him, carried his case up to the Supreme Court to deter-
mine whether the statute quoted applied to trout arti-
ficially reared, and to test its constitutionality. The full
text of the decision is here given:
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, Dee. 4, 1893.
lcertify the annexed to be a truecopy of the opinion of the Supreme
Judicial Courtin the case of Commonwealth vs. Gilbert, decided on
the 28th day of November, 1893,
Geo. F. Tucker, Reporter of Decisions.
ALLEN, J.—There aretwo questions in this case, namely,
whether the defendant's act was within the true meaning
of the statute forbidding the sale of trout; and, if so,
whether the statute is constitutional.
1, The defendant contends that the penalty imposed by
Public Statutes, Chap. 91, Sec. 53, for selling trout does
not extend to the sale of trout which have been artificially
propagated and maintained. Whatever force this conten-
tion might have if Sec. 53 stood alone, a reference to other
sections of the same chapter and to the history of this
legislation makes it clear that such troutare not exempted.
The chapter contains many provisions for the protection
of trout and other useful fishes, and amongst them are
those for the encouragement of their artificial propagation
and maintenance. No question is made that Sec. 53 is ap-
plicable to all other protected trout except such as have been
artificially propagated or maintained; as, for example, to
trout found insuch small or great ponds and such
streams as are specially protected by the provisions of
Secs. 10, 12, 14, 23, 24, 27. By Sec. 26 it is provided that
“fishes artificially propagated or maintained shall be the
property of the person propagating or maintaining them;
and a person legally engaged in their culture and main-
tenance may take them in his own waters at pleasure,
and may have them in his possession for purposes prop-
erly connected with said culture and maintenance, and
may at all times sell them for these purposes,
but shall not sell them for food at seasons when their
capture is prohibited by law.” J. M, Avent
Lillian Russell...... Jackson—Denmark Kennels..Black, white and tan....EHng. setter bitch .... Philip Gladstone...... War kit eh Sel sis a slee. be oak | $66.66 ) Thos. Bond
ALL-AGE STAKE—19 Srarrers. '
Judges—Dr. M. F. Rogers, F. I. Stone, A. M. Young, Manchester, Tenn.
First..... \WAtw AWS 33 saseonaaae do bvtere! BENING oat ete senioen Black, white and tan....Eng. setter dog...... IVOMeR gO sue see ee eet Florence Gladstone.... $300 Owner.
Second...Antevolo............ Pierre Lorillard, Jr............ White andlemon........ Eng. setter bitch ....Count Noble........... Gladstone’s Girl....... $200 C. Tucker.
EIT 2 eNOVELMSt oyees ae ines Avent & Thayer Kennels...... Black, white and tan....Eng. setter bitch ....Roderigo... .......... Fi0= PCCD Sst cs elo wie lei «dle $150 J. M. Avent.
(Major J. R. Purcell’s Flockfinder III. awarded Pointer Club’s special of $100 for best pointer in the Trials. )
United States Field Trials, at New Albany, Miss., Feb. 13 to 18.
Judges—Col. A. G. Sloo, Vincennes, Ind.; P. H. Bryson, Memphis, Tenn.; B. M. Stephenson, LaGrange, Tenn.
THE SETTER DERBY—13 STARTERS.
First..... Lillian Russell...... Jackson—Denmark Kennels... Black, white and tan....Eng. setter bitch....Philip Gladstone...... PA OUISIKES nl ceret ys oes neat $250 Thos. Bond.
Second... Lochinvar........... Avent & Thayer Kennels...... Black, white and tan....Eng. setter dog...... (HAT CAM ome Och tens Bessie Avent.......... $200 J. M. Avent.
Minds see SpOlbe uses conics sae Manchester Kennel Co........ Black, white and tan....Hng. setter dog...... Wantuards. 3. -eeeeeet Georgia Belle.......... $150 A. P. Gilliam.
Absolute Winner—Lillian Russell; $200 additional. ;
ALL-AGE POINTER STAKE—13 STARTERS.
First..... Lad of Rush......:.. UeTinpeA damage les cse Ns be tes Liver and white......... Pointer dog...:...... Rush of Lad........... MODY ERM he na. Sele $200 LL. W. Blankenbaker,
Second BEUYAN) ssh ae. ee crt Dr) D: WwW. Yanda: 2.2.2... Black and white ........ Pointer dog.......... EOC CEOS. . yp earenilase Tei TL a, 2 toe ha $175 Hd. Garr,
Ridgeview Beppo.. SEES Kennel saisschssnet Liver and white......... Pointer dog. eae ole Bepposhit 2.9. ce eee oe Revelation ......-..... $41.66) H. M. Short.
MM oDT0 lng t Jane) erg At Wine ie A. Castleman .............. Liver and white......... Pointer dog.......... pS UTES Aa ah PPh Dell $4. ac.t hear 6 Se $41.66 + W. B. Stafford.
Bones Mesh re é. W. UNTOO AERA A agora On bb ab Liver and white......... Pointer dog.......... BOD eae a Ss Jscmusttes PAE At aNr tc Hare a Ah cl | $41.66 ) I. H. Poindexter.
ALL-AGE SETTER STAKE.
BES Greene: Novelist............. Avent & Thayer Kennels...... Black, white and tan....Eng. setter bitch.... Woodhill Bruce....... INoveltiyeeres< ieeigar aces $200 J. M. Avent.
Second... Bettye S............. Avent & Thayer Kennels...... Black, white and tan....Hng. setter bitch.... Roderigo .............. IBGb2E Gap af Meie-te ee b175 =J. M. Avent.
Third.. (2b oysyesaVe SE oak So buce Ate tea Gre eee ee eee Black, white and tan....Eng. setter dog...... Count Noble........... Frecnlorys (tt) Peas eee ee j 372.50 | Owner.
Tre ale NUANIG eos 2 ece5e eet Whyte Bedford................ Lemon and white........ Rin gyesettersbitehn sa eG led G Waid Grasen tenes ieen ee vtarion aretha era | $72.50) A. P, Gilliam.
Absolute Winner—Novelist; $200 additional. : J
Northwestern Field Trials, at Morris, Man., Sept. 4 to 6.
Judges—W. Hamilton Spencer, Grand Forks, Dak.; John Davidson, Monroe, Mich.
THE DERBY—12 STARTERS.
EMTStier tes Ightfield Dogwood. cy ae Heywood-Lonsdale..... Liver and white......... Pointer dog.......... Ightfield Dick......... COWSslips een ine oesinsl ate mee beiotere Sefton Hallam.
Second.. Polly Shaw........-- Wiebe gine 3 sob atiacciss dso 3ppe Black and white ........ Pointer bitch........ Ightfield Upton........ GeNneyICV etn iam paneer Sefton Hallam.
MANS Lass oy SVS) ENT Pee Say Ae od GiieMotionis F. T. Kennels.. Liver and white......... Pointer bitch........ {8s dl AEH Sn a Hd Dolly sexier cess Capt. C. E. McMurdo.
ALL-AGE STAKH—15 STARTERS
First..... Dick Bondhu IIv....John Wootton................. Black and white ........ Eng. setter dog...... Dick Bondhue......... Manitoba Belle........ ...... Owner.
Second... Brighton Tobe...... TOM Gee DAV CY at mine peat boise cleat Black and white........ Eng. setter dog...... MHocksleyewm: Sey oee san Leddersdale ....,...... sess: Thos. Hallam.
Third....Cleopatra............ SWs (BO WiGlIS sencee os «ahah Black, white and tan....Eng. setter bitch ....MingolIIl.............. (Cpnaaporatyie As jcc eee. faa Joseph Spracklin.
. CHAMPION CUP—5 STARTERS.
First..... Manitoba Shot...... Moss LoOhnSOM yes.) eelite Black and white........ Pointer dog......... Ightfield Coton.,...... Ightfield Psyche....... ...... Thos. Johnson,
Manitoba Field Trials, at Souris, Man., Sept. 12 to 14.
Judge—W. Tallman, Plainfield, N. J.
THE DERBY—13 STARTERS.
First..... Topsey’s Rod........ Avent & Thayer Kennels..... Black, white and tan....Eng. setter dog...... TOGERIS OSs ni sey sos te per Topsey Avent.......... $160 J. M, Avent.
Second...Tate ................. Avent & Thayer Kennels..... Black, white and tan....Hng. setter dog...... Jean Val Jean......... Mamie Avent.......... $115 J, M. Avent.
Third.. { ith cyliGl eset clacel eens Avent & Thayer Kennels..... Black, white and tan....Wng. setter bitch ....Jean Val Jean.........Lucy Avent............ § $37.50) J. M. Avent.
wer) 38 Losers tayo} NOM, Sepa AVG MIST SIDE yaaa een See Tey ho Black, white and tan....Eng, setter dog...... Duke of Manitoba..... COra. tee cee | $87.50 { Owner.
ALL-AGE STAKEH—17 STARTERS.
nS tree Count Gladstone [V.Avent & Thayer Kennels..... Black, white and tan....Hng. setter dog...... Count Noble .,........ CEI 5 ste 11s eer aero 225 6d. M. Avent.
Second...Chevalier............ Avent & Thayer Kennels..... Black, white and tan...,Hing. setter dog....... Jean Val Jean......... Tey Avent........345% $125 J. M. Avent,
Third....Bettye S............ Avent & Thayer Kennels..... Black, white and tan. . Eng. setter bitch .... Roderigo............... ‘BosReepyie.: sty teeuis ost $100 J. M. Avent.
4
‘ AMATEUR STAKE—8 STARTERS.
First. .... GTO metres tte cmt eee eee URED EKODCLES apenas meee eels POLE oe COORD ANAS OAOe Trish setter dog...... Pee NERO A ees brat TROSG, Boieem ncleblateslele nize Ee Owner.
DECOM eNOC a rater act ners iscetone ee IE EODCEDR sre tat epee ie terse Orange and white....... Eng. setter dog...... Cabelatcr sos h eee DURA A Aad ences las. Res *| Owner.
Mb irdees oA erica er tates lerete ae {W2. FESINITIS ae A alc ates eck ae Liver and white......... Eng. setter bitch.... Duke of Manitoba..... (COT aera ne Gin eae [*] | Owner.
[*] First prize, $50 silver cup. Second prize, doatlenartaled shotgun. Third prize, pair of slips.
United States Field Trials, at Bicknell, Ind., Nov. 6 to 11.
Judges—John Bolus, Wooster, O.; Royal Robinson, Indianapolis, Ind.; John Barker, Racine, Wis. In All-Age, Capt. C. EH. McMurdo judged in place of Mr. Robinson.
THE POINTER DERBY—138 STARTERS.
First..... Strideaway.......... ate E. ane sfesave, Ast- lets hear cae Liver and white......... Pointer dog.......... Kane of eri: 2.2 5a Pearl’s Dot............ $250 Owner.
Second... Little Ned...... Re As pV HN OTT SAU ences moa atoyd Liver and white......... Pointer dog.......... Ridgeview Dazzler....Kate Claxton.......... 3200 EF. Richards.
Whrdoees Selabieate we ntsc tte Charlottevilie F. T. Kennels.. White and liver ticked.. Pointer bitch......-- Va ay) 521) Onan tS Dolly Dexter.......... $150 C, EK. McMurdo.
THH SETTER DERBY—18 STARTERS.
First..... Topsey’s Rod........ Avent ye Thayer Kennels...... Black, white and tan....Hing. setter dog...... VOCAL E Oeeeaitt tare aera ois Topsey Avent.,........ $200 J. M. Avent.
Second...Daisy Hunter II..... J, H. & J. A. Hunter... ...... Orange and white....... Eng. setter bitch .... Antonio................ Daisy Hunter.......... $250 J..H. Johnson.
Roderigo........-... ele Mavtield cmeien an fesse Black, white and tan....Eng. setter dog...... PASH HOT LO hss sieve e aise + Lady Hope............ $50 | Owner.
Third.. 1 Callie White........ Mariahacter Kennel Co........ Black and white.........Eing, setter bitch ....Gath’s Mark........... Georgia Belle.......... $90 -A. P. Gilliam.
MTV Oe oe es ne B. W. Butterfield.....,......., Black and white......... Eng. setter dog...... Max Nobler.. 02. ss. Daisy Belton.......... $00 Vowner
Absolute Winner. '
ye yototi Strideaway..........Geo. H. Gray........,..-..:,-.Liver and white.........Pointer dog..........King of Kent.........,.Pearl’s Dot............. $100 Owner.
ALL-AGE POINTER STAKE—20 STARTERS.
First..... Hiram kine sets. eee ASSP A HOUSUOL IE weep tet a Liver and white......... Pointer bitch........ Robin Adair........... PSTGSSOs0i es ee eter etee $200 LL. W. Blankenbaken.
Second...Kent Elgin.......... eA SH TOud serene eres eunesiae Black and white......... Pomber doce nena King of Kent.......... Wera, Bane. 320s 2s... $175 J. M. Avent.
Third..., Little Ned........... AY Ma ICG ee RE SAG SARS RE SAS Liver and white......... Pointer dog.......... Ridgeview Dazzle..... Kate Claxton.......... 3125 FF. Richard.
ALL-AGE SETTHR STAKE—20 STARTERS.
First..... Chevalier,.......... Avent & Thayer Kennels...... Black, white and tan....Eng. setter dog...... Jean Val Jean......... Lucy Avent............ $200 J. M. Avent.
Second...Dan’s Lady.......... Theo. Goodman............... Black, white and tan....Eng, setter bitch ....Dan Gladstone........ Lilly Burgess......... $175 J. H. Johnson,
Third...,.Gleam’s Sport,....., Manchester Kennel Co........ Liver and white......... Eng. setter dog...... Wane arden «cet. gaye Georgia Belle.......... $185 A..P, Gilliam.
Absolute Winner. “
geeecees Chevalier.,..........Avent & Thayer Kennels...... Black, white and tan.,..Hing. setter dog...... Jean Val Jean......... Lucy Avent... .......05 $100 J. M. Avent.
"Trish Setter Club’s.
- ditions.
Duc. 9, 1893.]
FOREST AND STREAM.
B08
International
Field Trials,
at Mitchell’s Bay, Ontario,
Nov.
aut. gU@,
Judges—John Davidson, Monroe, Mich.; G. T. Guttridge, Chatham, Ont.; N. T. Tristem, Detroit, Mich.
THE DHRBY—11 STARTERS.
ALL-AGH STAKE—20 STARTERS.
Prize. Name of Dog. Owner. Color. Breed, Sire. Dam. Amount. Handler.
First.....Warwick Nellie..... DRA LOULETI alters Seber cele al. Liver and white.......... Pointer dog.......... Cambden Dick........ Windsor Forest........ $82 W. Huddleston.
Second...Fingaln.............. ALE De WeeltCOMs aleve ma ct aad cee Red tied. t ore ect Trish setter dog....-.. Win Sies Meer cons oes Ruby Glenmore......--. $60.50 Jos. Spracklin.
Third AViciitb ey ees aes Wa BAW Gllse 85st oe es oe Black, white and tan....Eng. setter dog...... Cincinnatus........... Da phneriines aoncasa oe $30.75 Jos‘ Spracklin.
, NID Yale SPC oere iy eee ofiedh Vip B52 70881 RENT e oy eno nineae Black and white........ Eng. setter dog...... Baneham ssluiowdore NGI wc esos aoceee es $20.50 Jos. Spracklin,
ALL-AGE STAKE—15 STARTERS.
First. .... Cleopatra............ Dy Ve ss CLI SG terepsot ote nt dccbelne nd Black, white and tan....Eng. setter bitch....Mingo II.............. Cam brianamen wien ae $62 & cup..Jos. Spracklin.
Second...Brighton Tobe....... CVG NDI Av.cry fue Aint. A iad eon Black, white and tan....Hug. setter dog...... Mocksleyas. Accs: a) coe Lheddersdale..*--°...... $46.50 T. G. Davey.
hinds: . Musas ih o2 bad babes (Ss A. P. Heywood-Lonsdale...... Liver and white......... Pointer bitch.,...... Ightfield Dick......... Ightfield Clio.......... $23.25 Sefton Hallam.
Eastern Field Trials, at Newton, N. C., Nov. 20 to 25.
Judges—s. C, Bradley, Greenfield Hill, Conn.; J. B. Stoddard, Chicago; W. W. Titus, Waverley, Miss. W. A. Coster took Mr. Titus’s place in the Derby.
THE DERBY—19 STARTERS.
Hirst. .... Topsy’s Rod......... Ayent & Thayer Kennels...... Black, white and tan....Hng. setter dog...... RVOMETIZO Os 2 s5)-. = 4) oe Topsey Avent.......... $500 J. M. Avent.
econd,. seme hac: © 36, 02 2 18 33 ath e'
White Squall, Gesnor.......... .......31.01 2 20 34 wee
380FT, CLASS.
Mollie Bawn, W. Kavanagh ,...........2+.92 1 55 35 1 51 28
Valda, G. H. Duggan.,.............. cee 1 58 10 1 52 34
Ringling: mh AareGOe teptr cet acer es pen 25.45 2 06 24 2 04 34
Unda, R. A. Kidd 25 00 Did not finish.
BipagG, OL Glank epee betes ils tae sini 23,00 2 13 25 3
21FT, CLASS,
Thora, H, A. Simms...........22..-08- 19.05 2 28 26
June 24._Virst series race for 25 and 1#ft. classes; south wind with
showers, freshening to a good breeze at finish:
Length, Elapsed. Corrected.
Bug, G. A, Duggan.....-......e.sseuaae 15,05 3 09 30 3 05 42
Debutante, W. 8. Clouston.,.,......... 18,00 3 22 20 3 22 20
Little Marchioness, R. ©. Nelles.,...... 17.06 3 10 47 3 09 58
Wide Awake, H. M. Molsov.,.........5 16.08 3 21 33 3 20 05
July 1.—Sir Donald A. Smith cuprace: The start was made at 11
A.M. and thirteen boats crossed the line, There was a Jicht draft of
air from the southeast at the start, and the day was hot and fine.
Lulu, Valda aud Chaperon, in the order named, went away from the
fleet, but by 2:15 the wind was dead, only the first leg of the course
had been covered and the race was abandoned.
July 8.—Third series race for the A., 30 and 21ft. classes.
Eagle, Chaperon, Valda, Mollie Bawn, Frolic, Coquette. and Rita
started. A fresh clubtopsail breeze was blowing and the weather was
threatening. On the second leg of the course. a reach from the
Valois to the Chateauguay ouoy, athuuder squall of unexampled
foree struck the lake.
Valda, Eagle, Chaperon, and Mollie Bawn were leading, and were
carrying all plain sail when the squall of wind, rain, and thunder
struck them. Eagle and Chaperon instantly capsized and sank within
a quarter of an hour, Valda and Mollie Bawn were knocked down, but
gottheir canvas on deck in time to avert disaster. Rita and two
boats that were Hot racing, Petre! and Butternut, were also capsized
at a moderate distance from shore. VYaldaunder bare poles ran down
unoder Bagle’s lee and took off one of her crew. but was unable to
make fast to the wreck, drifted down to leeward, anchored. put in
three reefs, worked back to Kazle and Look off two more of her crew,
She then ran down to the Chaperon, and
picked up three of her crew and was the only boatiin the fleet under
. A Stray Shinplaster x
Comes to us once in a while for a copy ae
of **Game Laws in~-Brief;*? but shin=
plasters nowadays are scarcer than Moose
in New York; and 25 cents in postage
stamos will do iust as well.
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control during the whole squall, and its successor, which was only less
furious than the first. ‘
The naphtha launeh Idle Hour put off from Pointe Claire, and re-
ceived the remainder of the Chaperon’s and Hagle’s crews, with the
exception of C. H, Leyin, the commodore of the club, who went down
with his ship. The crews of the Rita, Petre! and Butternut were res-
cued from the shore. After this most unfortunate disaster all racing
was postponed for one month.
Aug. 26.—Re-sail Sir Donald Smith’s cup. The start was at.3:40.
The day wasvery fine and warm, and there was hardly wind enough
to carry any of the boats overthe line. There were twelve starters,
and at 6 P. M. the race was ahandoned. '
Sept. 2—Re-sail Sir Donald Smith’s cup race. There was a heavy
gale from the northwest. At the start it was blowing harder than it
has ever done ona racing day on Lake St. Louis, It being reported
that the Chateauguay Buoy had been carried away, it was decided to
sail around the Pointe Olaire Buoy, a course of about seven miles to
windward and return. All the boats at the start carried three reefs in
the mainsail and stormjib.
Valda more than held Chaperon until Valois Bay was opened, when
the wind lightened up; the sloop got into trouble in changing jibs,
when Coquette passed her. The wind let up steadily all the time the
windward work was being done, and at Pointe Claire all were carrying
full lower sail, but on the run it freshened up until it was heavy work
carrying spinakers. The time of the race was as follows:
Start. Finish. Elapsed.
Chaperon, A. EB. Jarvis...............9 31 37 4 47 40 1 16 038
Coquette, A. Hamilton ..............-8 33 38 4 51 53 1 18 45
ValdaeGwih.Dueran.iiecuiescsis. 3 32 11 4 55 55 1 23 45
Mollie Bawn, W, Kavanagh 3 32 00 5 00 44 1 28:
Dream, A. Irving 32 10 5 02 52 1 30 42
Undine, G. Marler 3 34 30 5 11 05 1 36 35
The course was not officially measured, but Chaperon was the win
ner. At a meeting of the sailing committee, held on Sept, 9, it wes
decided that under the terms on which the cup is raced for the sailing
enn had no power to alter the course, and the race was declared
off.
Sept. 9.—Resail of second series race for A, 30ft., 25ft, and 21ft-
classes. There was a strong southwest wind, and single-reefed main-
sails were carried throughout the fleet,
A CLASS,
Elapsed, Corrected.
(HADGLOBM veda d sedan e teh tsi lle ied ccnelet las feleticy 1 54 28 2 54
GOGUSCUEE. ata lablshpiacasins tdtes cectere tee iee ine 2 0% 39 2 05 35
FE nS ide pO oe fo Sea ate ls Bi daca 1 54 11 1 54 12
S0FT, CLASS.
Wipe awit. = sciicehbiesepelassaisiceensiae syste nc 1 57 44 1 52 03
VETER tails PeRiuidescadecthc ce ataet acts elt 2 01 02 1 53 52
THT MR COAE LICL ater cationic mast dait etre cach 215 13 2 08 32
Sept. 16.—Third series race for 18ft. class.
south wind;
Strong, squally west by
Elapsed. Corrected.
FUE Yaa Vy Ue theta ask tit tats cicada a ataha date ctctdstotclaletal avon 2 31 038 2 28 04
EAE TED an EL OSA) Bd ee PMC sat 6A SEO e Sree Sener, 2.49 35 2 48 35
Little, Marchioness, . ogc. nse centtere seer tioecens 2 51 47 261 47
Sept. 23.—Resail Sir Donald Smith's cup. Another attempt was
made to sail this racein alightair. The fleet had now dwindled to six
boats, and again after the time Jimit had expired not half the course
had been sailed, and the race had to be abandoned.
Sept. 80 —Fifth race for Sir Donald Smith's cup:
Elapsed. Corrected.
WalleaB awe pon lepbiehitbeckbinelhhe hp tassh anions 2 08 36 2 08 36
Waterwitch, Butternut and Undive did not sail over the course,
AS a result of the season’s racing, Chaperon wins the Honorary Com-
modore’s cup by taking two straight races in the A Class series. She
also wou the only race that was sailed for the Sir Donald Smith cup.
Mollie Bawn wins the 30ft. class series, and the Commodore's cup by
two straight wins and the Sir Donald Smith cup by a sailover. Bug
wins the series in the 18ft. class by two straight wins.
EKeel and Centerboard in the Cup Races,
(From the Boston Globe.)
AuTHoucH the result of the Cup races was the triumph of the
centerboard over the keel type of yacht. yet the centerboard as shown
in Vigilant was a nearer approach to the keel type than ever before,
and there was a great deal both in the racing during the Cup contest
and earlier in the season to eneourage the strong adherents of the
keel.
Vigilant, an improved centerboard, won over Valkyrie, an improved
keel, yet the differences between the boats were so marked in other
ways that it may well be doubted if the question of type was brought
any nearer settlement than before.
American ¢xperience in the 30,40 and 46ft. classes seems to haye
shown almost conclusively that a keel-boat can be designed to beat a
centerboard in these lengths. The only apparent reason for not
carrying the same idea into the larger classes was the excessive draft
—from a cruising standpoint—which must be given a keel-boat in
order to secure as good powers of holding up to windward as would
be possessed by a eenterboard with moderate draft of hull,.but practi-
cally unlimited draft for windward work by dropping her board.
When therefore two of the Cup defenders were announced as of the
keel type, it was confidently expected by advocates of the type that
sufficient draft would be given, and that all considerations says those
of racing would belaid aside. In one of these, Pilgrim, an extreme
draft was promptly taken, but in the other, Colonia, a draft was taken
which was the greatest permitted by the launching facilities at the
works where she was huilt, only a little over 15ft.
Pilgrim did not come up to expectations held of her, but Colonia
did just what was expected of her, beeause of her lack of draft and
consequent absence of sufficient lateral plane. She slid to leeward
badly in windward work, and was never in it in this line with the
pe eneard and undoubtedly would have shown little better against
Talky rie.
In eyete other respect Colonia was the equal and in some respects
the superior of Vigilant, and the question which now most naturally
arises is where would she have been had she been given proper draft
to do good windward work?
Th answer cannot but be fayorable to her admirers or those of the
keel type in general, and about as interesting a thing as could happen
for next season’s racing would befor Mr. Rogers to have Qolonia
deepened as she ought to be, in order to make her the enlarged Wasp
she was supposed to be but wasn’t.
In Valkyrie Mr. Watson apparently had sufficient draft at 17ft., and
the yacht held to windward very well with Vigilant. Her designer's
failure seems not to bein that he adopted the keel type or failed to
make a much better boatio windward work than Thistle, but in that
he did not give her enough sail, and did not follow closely the latest
approved speed patterns of shallow bodies, extremely hollow gar-
boards and straight keels.
With a sail plan morenearly the equal of Vigilant’s, and with a form
of hull more nearly approaching that of the flo keels, Valkyrie would
have been @ much more dangerous cust:mer than she really was.
There is more and more reason, as the science of yacht designing
deylopes, for believing that, except in the very small classes, the
ceoterboard is more of a question of expediency than of speed. It
will bot be an easy thing for Americans to confess the defeat of the
cherished centerboard, but our own cutters have shown that it ean be
beatén in three classes previously named, while Colonia’s perform-
ce fie haye given reasons for belief in the same direction in the larger
classes.
The types of boats produced by America and Great Britain are
approaching each other more closely every year, and the contest for
the Cup are ceasing to be the distinctive ones of type which they once
were. It would beno discredit for one country to drop or for the
other to adopt the centerboard, but the simple use of a centerboard by
our British cousins will not win them the Cup. They will havea
chance at it when they build a boat suited to American weather con-
ditions and which takes advantage of the rules under which the
defender is built, and not before.
That such a boat could cross the ocean safely no American will
doubt after the cruising qualities shown by Navahoe, Neither would
she be required to makearecord in English waters before coming,
though there is little doubt but that she could make one if she chose.
Jubilee would be found a vastly different boat abroad than Navahoe,
while either Jubilee or Vigilant would undoubtedly prove an eye-
opéneér in British waters.
And both could and would be sent across if necessary.
W. E. Roprnson.
Zettler Rifle Club.
Tue weekly gallery shoot for the champion medal and the cash
prizes, Noy. 28, brought together thirteen members. The competition
for the champion medal resulted in a victory for Louis Flachon a
score of 245; Ross was a good second with 244. The best score of the
night was made by Ross, 248. f
thampion medal, first entry: Louis Flach 245. F, C, Ross 244, Geo.
W. Plaisted 243, B, Walther 243, M. B. Engel 242, B. Zettler 229% Geb.
Krauss 238, H. Holges 236, C. G. Zettler 234, H. D. Muller 231, H. Strate
231, Gus Nowak 231, A. H. KohIlmetz 225.
Best score, five entries: F C. Ross 248, Louis Flach 245, H. Holges
245. G. W. Plaisted 243, B. Walther 243, M. B. Engel 243, Gus. Nowak
242, H. D. Muller 239, H, Strate 239, C. G. Zettler 239, B, Zettler 289,
Geb, Krauss 228, A. H. Eohlmetz 228,
810
FOREST AND STREAM.
[DEc. 9, 1898
Rifle Bange and Gallery.
Jersey Men at the Targets.
THE weekly outing of the {Greenville Rifle Club,in Armbruster’s
Shooting Park, Greenville, N, J. on Dec. 2, brought together only four
members in the fifty shot handicap sweep. The result of the contest
was asurprise to at least one of the four. Plaisted, in his experi-
ments of late with nitro, combined with black powder, led him deeper
into the fields of experiment, and on this occasion he came on to the
range with his cartridges loaded with another brand of nitro. This
time the combination did not pan out a scucess and the result was
that two of the three competitors buried him under such a total, that
he has not been able to reach the surface as yet.
Collins and Chavaut are highly elevated over their victory over the
old man and propose that at the next competition they will bury that
other old veteran, M. Dorrler, in the same hole, Michael says he will
try to be there to participate in the ceremony.
Chavaut’s third and fourth scores, 221 and 220, show that he is
capable of expert work when the conditions are favorable. ‘
Colin Boag has a habit of changing his sight, that is not conducive
to reliable work under match conditions in off hand shooting,
Many old and expert riflemen make it a rule never to move their
sights after oncestarting out in a match, but follow the variations in
their rifle by holding forit. The scores in the Saturday’s competi-
ton are appended: 50 shots, off hand, 200 yards:
W CC ilins,,......... 20 23 17 19 24 20 14 28 21 14195
20 21 19 17 16 21 24 19 18 24199
16 20 23 20 19 20 19 22 25 21—205
28 17 21 18 17 18 23 24 22 18—201
20 18 25 20 12 20 24 21 20 19—203—1003-+-60=1063
CH Chavaut.......... 22 15 23 19 20 14 22 19 22 21-197
22 16 22 21 24 21 16 21 23 22—208
24 24 21 20 20 23 22 23 22 22—221
21 23 18 23 25 24 22 23 20 21—220
18 23 17 21 20 20 12 25 20 21—197—1048-440=1083
GW Pilaisted.......... 20 16 24 25 20 20 19 18 24 12198
20 18 24 20 17 19 21 17 18 23—197
22 15 18 17 21 18 18 22 12 18—i181
20 22 17 17 24 22 24 16 21 20—206
20 21 23 22 20 20 21 18 28 19—207— 989—Scratch
23 20 21 15 20 13 20 23 15 13—183
14 22 22 19 15 20 18 15 20 28188
18 22 20 17 17 17 20 21 19 20191
24 23 22 20 17 11 24 22 24 16—203
20 15 23 18 25 19 21 18 22 19-200— 965+ 75=1040
C Boag.,....+
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Port Chester Scorers.
Port CuEestrer, N. Y., Dec. 1—The Port Chester Rifie Club had a
shoot on Thanksgiving at its range ‘‘just for fun,*’ Last year we had
a turkey shoot and yoted it a nuisance and a bother and made no
money by it. So this year we decided upon a quiet time by ourselves
and we hadit. While waiting for the members to arrive we started
an individual ten-shot score to pass away the time. This was shot out
in due time and then having ten persons on hand we appointed the
two lowest men in the individual score as captains and they picked
out a team of five each and we shot a team mateh of five shots, which
resulted in a surprise for all hands, as it was expected a different re-
ault would be the outcome. We then had another five-shot race, in
which the other side squared accounts. Below arethescores; 200yds.,
off-hand, German (25) ring target:
Bachman,.,...... tre Artes badroeget hae 19 20 19 17 20 24 25 15 22 18—199
SiG Me wy ernie Peer eta tana a tet ST 22 28 18 18 16 19 17 19 20 22—189
LOTT aja tarcsasaiateeretie retentions SAAT EG 13 14 17 17 18 21 22 24 18 19 -183
Smith,.,..., Haeieeristsiect Sern RODG DOBOL 25 22 20 15 22 14 22 21 9 16—177
Townsend...... Sy RE Smt: 1313 9 9 18 23 22 23 12 02164
OSS ie/ucihha teed erersalejsjarcrs itabeneke teseeee 9 17 21 22 17 2019 18 15 O—158
MOnrittyiy ss tasesscesserenscedses a... 9 011 19 O18 17 9 15 12—110
MGN erry jaialur etn: SLnettenirg .....12 012 12 1212 910 12. 0— 91
MEQ Milisen Vyas one tes Meee nie 0138 0 91816 018 0 0— 64
First match.
Team No. 1. Team No, 2.
Bachmann, .18 16 21 16 24—95 Smith.,.,.., 15 17 23 22 21—98
Rudd...,,...20 18 12 21 22—94 MeQuilken..i8 17 12 17 17—81
G Rudd.,.,,20 18 20 13 18—84 Hess.......5, 14 14 19 14 12—73
Towusend...17 17 0 17 21—72 Merritt ,,, .18 0 22 10 22—72
MeNeil,..... 0 20 23 16 11—70—415 Horn,,,.,, 12 20 23 12 0—67—891
MeNeil,,,,.,22 22 2
Rudd....... 14 16 21 21 19—91
Bachmann..18 19 9 20 2i—8? Hess ...... 20 20 19 19 11— 89
Townsend... 0 18 245 14 12—79 MeQnilken. 9 13 21 22 20— 76
G Rudd..... 18 0 0 14 14d—46—8396 Merritt.... 9 10 14 22 14 §9—428
Dec. 2—Scores to-day, 200yds., off hand, German ring target:
Smith.,,... 22 19 19 19 28102
ae 14 21 23 18 16— 92
NCO) Gee iicateislv shed ts tiescutiseseod 23 24 17 25 23°17 14 22 24212
SUL Es crate ha didety scaSoutie de Ae Gae tii etee cbs 21 23 24 19 15 17 22 22 19 19—202
SOU eepen eee sata Peo cay adliee coal 19 28 19 21 23 19 22 18 19 10—188
Ropp.
Hoboken Riflemen Shoot.
THE annual prize and turkey shoot of the Gen. Herzog Co. No, 3,
Washington Rifles of New Jersey, which was held a Dierken’s Hall,
Hoboken, on Thanksgiving Day, was quite successful. The mem-
bers came out in foree, hoping that the fates would land the boss
turkey in their individual possession, and the resident riflemen in
and about Hoboken turned out in large numbers, hoping to get a
chance in the final division of the cash programme which was hung
up for visiting shooters.
Fred, Brandt, the shooting master of the company, and under
whose management the shoot was left, was an ever present factor
in the success of the day’s sport.
Captain Hrnest Fisher, of the Miller Club, was present and par-
ticipated in the competition on the public target. The Our Own
Club and other local clubs were prominently represented by their
best shooting talent. Captain Wm. Yorkel, of the Ernest August
Company, while well.down in the list of winners, was way up in the
esteem of his fellow competitors as a promoter of the day’s pleasure.
David Miller, he of the Miller Club, was on hand, and landed with
the winners. David knows a trick or two with the rifle yet,
In the medal shoot, open for members only, the winners proved to
be Otto Schmidt, first, with 69, 69-138, and Charles Larsch, second,
wth 69, 68—137.
In the competition for the turkeys, among the members, 3 shots per
man, possible 75, there was exhibited a deal of good-natured chaffing,
and wen Fred. brandt succeeded in putting up a score of 70 points the
members and yisiting shooters accorded him their heartiest wishes
over his success.
Public prize target, cash prizes:
Capt EH Fisher....... 74 74—148 David Miller....... se. 270 T2142
Fred Brandt......... ..72 74-146 John Meyer........ Diese. 70 71—141
Wim Dilger.............. 70 74144 Capt Wm Forkel,....... 67 T0—137
L Schmidt. .,...:.....,-: 71 72—148 Otto Schmidt..... AGRE sae 66 GB—134
JS Se EE es Soc 71 71142
New York City Schuetzen Corps.
Tmn members assembled in the gallery of the Zettler Bros. Dec. 1
for gallery practice. The men were diyided into two teams of five
men each under the leadership of Capt, A. Range upon the one side
and Capt. H. Kuhlman on the other, The evening was devoted to the
shooting of two team matches, In the first contest Capt. Kuhlman’s
team was the victor, and the second match was won by Capt. Range’s
team, Scores:
First Match.
Capt H Kuhiman.,,...... 218 Capt A Range,,,,.....+..920
R Bussse,. wo cusescecnne 243 GUGLAettlerr yn eead teat 235
TA, Keller’. cscecce ste ee eee e228 TST UR LOLE aes et ateareniets 226
VITAE Te caastahcieminecrnie 221 M Munz,....... “der rr arta
A Lutwig....: piakiwleatslastane .227—1137 Ch Rehm..,,.,... Sota ,222—1124
Second Mateh,
Capt A Ranges... see. 0231 Capt H Kuhlman.,..,,...215
@G@Fettlers cs iccecs Weieee R Busse.....,.. Mine ciciee'y specced
Hiadioityerreerrr re rea CLARSH Et tee eeneanee 211
M MUNZ jo cccccesisses eer etoo A Keller... pee
M Maltzer,........ ,»ezl—ll44 M Raedel...............5. 197—1088
Greenville Rifle Club.
Tue weekly gallery shoot on Dee. 1 brought together twelve mem-
bers in competition for the elass prizes. \W. ©, Collins and M. Dorr-
ler divided the honors for high scores, each making 241. Scores:
W. C. Collins 241, M. Dorrler 241, GC. H. Chavant 239, W. H. Robidoux
230, Agneau 212, Hill 205, J. Boag 239, Purkess 238, C, Boag 236, Hy,
Gotthardt 225, Daniels 211, Maug 202,
225,
Hartford Rifle Club.
points. Medal match, single entry;
H A Pope..,..... 10 10—89
IK Rand ...... 8 776
W J Dunbar, 9 771
F B Covel
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Pronunciamento Not Made in Vain.
ZETTLER Rirte Civ, New York, Dec. 4.—In Forest Anp STREAM of
last and this week, we read a great deal about matches. especially
from Greenyille, N. J. We hope that the Greenvilles and Pxcelsiors
do not think that we are to do the challenging; we are to be chal-
lenged, and at any time they wish to have a match or matches on the
Same conditions as the championship was won, and on such condi-
tions as have been mentioned by our spokesmen at Cypress Hills, L. I.,
on Nov. 7, they can be accommodated at any time and for any amount.
We don’t throw down our gauntlet so soon, RIFLEMEN.
Miller Rifle Club,
THE Millers held an informal shoot on Thanksgiving Night. David
Miller, notwithstanding the fact that he had ouly a few hours pre-
vious labored long and arduously in efforts to subjugate the old
enemy, turkey, whose presence is abroad in the land at this season
of the year, had neryous force enough left in him to shoot himself
into first position. 3
Ex-Captain Dewey also seemed to have added new power to his
nerve center after his day’s experience, and retired with a creditable
score
The scores are appended: D. Miller 240, Aug. Meyns 237, M. Meyer
236, F. Sehl 231, F, Leh] 231, J. Bach 230, M. Willis 222, A. W. Dewey 221,
Murphy 219, Vanderheyden 219, Kummel 201.
Empire Rifle Club.
Tue weekly gallery shoot, Nov. 28, was not up to the usual attend-
ance, only three members participating. The scores are appended:
Wm, Rosenbaum 244, B. Zahn 240, W. Bass. 222.
RIFLE NOTES.
In last week's issue, under the beading of Rifle Notes, we mentioned
the fact of our experience in shooting nitro priming (8grs.) in our
rifle shells (.38-50 everlasting) with the new Winchester (No. 3 W.)
primer, and the balance of the shell filled with F. G. powder. We
risked the experiment in a 50-shot match and the result was a total of
1,078 points on the German ring target, or an ayerage of 21.5 per shot.
The results of this shooting were such that we had a desire to try the
rifie with the same load from the machine rest and shoot a series of
shots without cleaning. The opportunity for such a trial came last
week, and with the aid of our expert, Mr. F. ©. Ross, we proceeded to
carry out the trial, The location selected was on the range (200yds.)
in Wissel’s Cypress Hill Park, and the rest used was one owned by the
Zettler Bros. A few preliminary shots were fired to find the target,
and then a new cardboard was put up as a background to catch the
total shots as well as one over it to catch each ten-shot string. A total
of fifty shots were made in ten-shot strings without cleaning, seating
the bullet in the barrel with a seater. The result of the fifty shots
was 4 group that could be covered by a rectangle 4x45¢in. The first
string of ten shots, using the ee to find a common center,
measured 124,,in., the second string 3M qin, the third string 14in.,
the fourth string 117,,in.. the fifth string 12*,,in., aggregating a total
for the fifty shots of 647,,in., or an average variation of each shot
from a common center of about 1.28in. Now the question comes up,
how would this target be considered from a standard of (non-clean-
ing) shooting based on the lubricated bullet. We would like to hear
from some of the fraternity as to what they consider the merits of
this target to be, based upon their experience with the lubricated bul-
let without cleaning. There is one feature about this target that has
surprised us much, aud that is that there was not a greater perpen-
dicular variation than 45¢gin. in the flight of the bullets, for the shells
were faulty from the fact that they were a lot of old shells, .38-55,
picked up promiscously and cut down to the length of the old ,38-50
everlasting (old style), for which the rifle was originally chambered,
A number of well-known exponents of rifle shooting being assem-
bled together a few nights since in one of our New York rifie resorts,
and the ever present subject peculiar to such cranks being uppermost
in the minds of all, the question of team shooting was launched by
one of them probably with a desire to create a ripple upon the surface
of the at present quiet sea of riflé matters. One individual expressed
his belief that New Jersey could preduce a half-dozen men who could
hold their own at 200yds. against any that could be produced in New
York and Brooklyn The New Yorker took exception to the New
Jersey man’s remarks and requested him to name a similar number
of Jersey shooters who could successfully compete against a team of
New Yorkers, made up as follows: F. C. Ross, H, Holges, Louis
Flach, J. A. Boyken and Chas. Hutch. The Jerseyman was prompt
with his candidates and trotted out his selection as follows: William
Hayes, M. Dorrler, Geo. Schlicht, Geo. W. Plaisted and L. P. Hansen.
“There,*’ says the Jerseyman, “is ateam that can do up your New
Yorkers!" Then the engagement became warm and the patriotic
spirit of the representatives of the two States was wrought up to a
high tension. It reminded one of the days when the champions of
State rights were abroad in the land. We did not linger to hear the
jinale of the argument, and have not heard any further in relation to
the matter except that the Jerseyman departed for home firm in the
belief that he had the best team.
We note with pleasure that the fraternity in Cincinnati keep on in
their practice even though the cold season isadvancing upon us. The
Massachusetts Rifle Association at Walnut Hill have been the pioneers
in keeping up rifle practice throughout the winter season, The Zet-
tler Glub of New York is another of the older societies who haye in
the past devoted regular days through winter for out-door shooting.
Chas. C. Wissel always keeps the Cyprus Hills range shooting house
in condition to be made comfortable for the shooters at all seasons of
the year. This winter Wm, Armbruster, proprietor of the Greenville
(N. J.) Park, will have his range open every Saturday afternoon dur-
ing the winter for the accommodation of the Greenyille and Jersey
City riflemen. With Wissel’s park open on Sundays for those shoot-
ers who have no time to deyote to the riflé during the week and the
Greenville Park open on Saturdays the fraternity in and about New
York will haye plenty of opportunities to indulge in their favorite
sport. We learn, also, that Newark has, or is soon to have, anew
shooting range where riflemen will find accommodations for shooting
seyen days in the week at all seasons of the year,
The Greenville Rifle Club would like to know what the boast of the
Hudson Rifie Club, made in the colunins of Forrest anp STREAM Many
weeks since saying it was always ready to fulfil ifs obligations, and
that it was never at a loss for (best) members to fill upits team. In
the light of past events the Greenville Club queries: What does it
amount to?
The atmosphere about New York is full of rumors of challenges |
floating around trying to find lodgment among some of our rifle |
experts.
We trust that none of our experts, through an imperfect under-
standing of the etiquette governing rifle shooting matters, will under-
take to prevent these little germs from finding lodgment.
The ideal ‘‘Perfection”’ mould, which can be supplied for most of
the popular calibres, is designed to meet the wants of riflemen wlio
like to vary their loads for hunting, target shooting, short range work
and other purposes. This mould is so arranged as to cast bullets of
great variety in weight. Wor instance, the .32-40 M. will cas eight dif-
ferent bullets, varying from 105 to 210grs. The Ideal tools have given
satisfaction to thousands of rifle cranks and are eminently practical
and useful.
Excelsior Rifle Club,
Tar weekly shoot on Noy. 21 ti together twelve members in
the handicap race for elub medals. The good work of J. Binns in the
gallery is bringing him into prominence as one of the experts of the
club, Seores: J. Binns 240, 1, P. Hansen 238, G. L. Pinney 238, Wm.
Weber 234, C. Thomas 229, G. Ward 2288, Geo. G. Varick 227, R. H.
Duff 225, James Hughes 224, J. Ryer 212, Thomas Hughes 204, William
Hughes 202. ‘ ;
The competition on Tuesday night, Nov. 28. brought together only
seven Members. Again Binns showed his good form by making the
fine score of 246, Scores: J. Binns 246, W. J. Hennessey 240, O, C.
Boyce 287, C. L, Pinney 287, R. N. Duff 235, GC. Bauchle 236, GC. G.
Grap- Shooting.
All tles divided unless otherwise reported.
FIXTURES.
If you want your shoot to be announced here
send in notice like the following:
Dec, 10-17.—West End Gun Club tournament, at Davenport, Ia.
Dec. 25,—Union Gun Club tournament, at Springfield, N. J.; 9 A. M.
to1 P. M, live birds; 1 P. M. until dark, targets. Open to all.
Dec. 25.—Open sweep at liye birds, on Erb’s grounds, Bloomfield
avenue, Newark, N. J.
1894,
Jan. 1.—South Side Gun Club's thirteenth New Year's annual,
at Newark, N. J.
Jan. 9.—New Jersey ys. Kings county, team shoot, on Al. Heritage’s
grounds, Marion, N. J.
Feb. —.—Reading Shooting Association tournament; two days
targets, one day live birds, at Three-Mile House, Shillington, Pa.
April 46.—Interstate Manufacturers’? and Dealers’ Association's
grand American handicap at Dexter Park, Long Island.
April 24 27,—Central City Gun Club's tournament, Central City, Neb.
May 1-6,—Arkansas State Sportsmen’s Association's tournament, at
Fort Smith, Arkansas,
May 17-18.—West Newburg (N. Y.) Gun and Rifle Association’s
spring tournament.
May 22-25.— Knoxville (Tenn.) Gun Club thirteenth annual tourna-
ment: first days, target, $1,000 added money, known traps, unknown
angles; last day, live pigeons. Open tothe world. No handicap. R.
Van Gilder, Sec’y.
June 5-7.—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s fifth annual
tournament, Topeka, Kansas. J. GC. Clark, See*y.
June 11-17.—New York State Sportsmen's Association for the Pro-
tection of Fish and Game, thirty-sixth annual tournament, at Utica,
. Y., under auspices of Oneida County Sportsmen’s Association.
June 19-21.—Ghamberlin Cartridge and Paresh Company’s first
annual tournament, at Cleveland, Ohio. $1,000 added money.
June (third week).—Atlantic City Rod and Gun Club, three days’
tournament. Address R. 0. Griscom, See’y, Atlantic City, N. J.
Oct. 45.—West Newburg (N. Y.) Gun and Rifle Association's
fall tournament.
Boiling Springs vs. Passaic City.
Passatc, N. J., Noy. 30.—The fourth contest between the Boiling
Springs Fishing and Gun Club and the Passaic City Gun Club for a
silyer cup of the value of $50 was held on the fine grounds of the first-
mentioned club at Boiling Springs on Monday last and resulted in a
yictory for the Passaic boys. This club has won three of the four
shoots and becomes the possessor of the prize, The afternoon was
dark and cloudy and the targets were thrown very swiitly, and these
two things made the shooting hard and accounts for the low scores
made all around. Mr. Gardiner, of the Passaic team, was suffering
greatly with neuralgia, which explains his low score. As Mr. Palmer
fired at his seventeenth target his gun burst, about 6in, off the muzzle
of his right barrel being blown asunder and the two barrels torn apart
for about 18in, One peculiarity of the accident was that he broke his
target. The event rather unsettled his nerves, l judge, although fin-
ishing his shoot with another and heavier gun may haye had some-
thing to do with it:
Boiling Springs.
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James,...., Barres tninascietacabina artstaas haasaganaes aan tL Pa 1711141111100110101001101—18
UGE SARS t tastvse He pene ween ee yy L011011011190010110110011—16
GATES en entnend te oop reeset pueeteves ,0110000011101110101011111—15
Berger se a peveeeneees © 0101110111001110011111000—15
GEHTUH Ty pas seems pees Se boocee 1011019911110119111111110—21
LONONEG, sss ecre era e etter eee e eee eee ee et 110110011101011111100011—17
Collins. ........ nttae tit otek bb tnpsisaress 0010100001011111011110011—14
GEIGIED eoeneeine ets cttes alread Sthseghnectsnas 0111110101101111100011011—17
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Passaic City.
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Wel yen enna Mager a leshleeanaed eaeseeeees tanta » 1010117011110011011100111—47
Gardiner Penna Ps sere 0011011110001000010010010—10
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Palmer...... +e + 0101111110010101110011001—15
Jelleme ve ee ee -1010011011101101119111110—18
PANTO GTi evesa sates erie teetesttisasittersttenrasoe Remo 0111111110111111011110111—21
Gaston pace yee eee O199111017019111101111000—18
WIBOE cca aa a esdieteasrtetcertoies tak choad 1111071111111001111111110—21
EG VIGtH sis hee ussite eee cet cee eeee ees 2110111111111111011110111—22—177
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Burgess .... 0.55 hie ane r M ters nig eae Al Lihee fifo: So
BW acess rays: et eptecrpety: AOI eae Rory tite Nit
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N. B,—All the above sweeps were at ten birds each, except No. 6,
which was at fifteen birds. W.
Hell Gate Gun Club.
TWENTY-SEVEN Members of the Hell Gate Gun Club, of New York
city, assembled in Dexter Park, Long Island, on Tuesday, Noy. 28, for
the final shoot of the season of 1893. The club event called for 10
birds per man, club handicap rules, 5 traps. The prizes consisted of
four merchandise prizes put up by the club to be competed for during
the season, the best averages to count. The weather on Tuesday was
such as one meets with at this season of the year, atmosphere clear as
a bell, a cold north wind that might have been stored in the Arctic
regions for apes dear with a cutting edge that would penetrate
the heaviest clothing. It was a day in fact that required one to keep
well in motion when exposed to the sweep of the wind in ordet to keep
his circulation in a normal condition.
The birds were an average lotand the consequence was that only
one of the 27 menibers in the contest, H. Thau, succeeded in making a
clean score.
One member, J. Newman, succeeded in making a clean score of
goose eggs; he should be entitled to recognition for a trophy at the
annual meeting in January. Four finished their scores with 9 kills.
Among them was Wm. Hogan, who slipped upon his tenth bird. It
was a case of over confidence on Hogan’s part, A lictla more care
would have enabled us to record a clean score for William. Col,
Voss was another one of the quartette in the 9 hole. The Colonel was
forced inte his position by the good staying qualities of his third bird,
who when once on the wing kept going until Le got beyond the reach
of the Colonel as a counter except at the final round-up, when it
counted as one in the heap to be divided for the final debut in the
kitchen pot, Hugene Doeintck in his fifth bird got one of those birds
that one sees now and again, one that when once free fromethe trap
seems to fill the entire distance from trap to boundary in one elongated
streak; one of those birds that the shooter never seems able to lead,
but is always a little behind him.
The prize winners for the season, as giyen ta us hy Mr. Doeinck, are
as follows; First, Eugene Doeinck; second, C. Weber; third, P. Woelfelj
fourth, J. Linck, Scores:
W Doeinck (28)....... ,1121021121—9 WF Mahlenbrock (25).,0000222120— 5
A Maeller (25) ........1001101110—6 R Lindner (28) .2.., , 0100020022—
LONI: Cres a aaa areca 0100220110—5 H W Voss (28) ..,...0201210101— 6
P Woelfel (25).......- 1000122°22—7 A Knodel (28) .......0220220111— 7
F Fraenzkinck (28), ..0000121020—4 A Kiechle (25)... ....0010220222— 6
J Newman (25)....... 0000000000—0 Tf Benz (25)..........1000002020— 4
OC Rieger (28)........- 0111021200—6 FW Fay (25)..... saaes .0202111222— 8
J Strahmann (28).,..2%e#120211—7 Daniels (28),..........-.0011100021— 5
F Trootel (28)........ 2012012020—6 H Than @8).........2111211111—10
T Rasmus (80).,......2011111000—6 R Regan (28)........2210000010— 4
C Weber (@8).,.......2010122201—-7 W Hogan (25),......2212212120— 4
J Brode (28)..,.....,.2202110121—8 J Linck (25).,,......0110220201— 6
J H Voss (28)... .1111111212—9 EH Peterson (28),.... (0010122000— 4
| Oh Rabenstein (25), ,.1212101221 9
The Toronto Tournament.
Toronto, Ont., Dec. 1—Mr. George Briggs's tournament at the
Woodbine Park, Toronto, Noy. 28, 2) and 30, was not as great a suc-
cess in the way of attendance as could have been desired, but, to use
the stereotyped exnression for such occasions, those present had
lots of good shooting and seemed to enjoy themselves thoroughly;
and as Mr. B. is a good loser, and paid out the guarantee without
eyen a frown, we will conclude that the affair was a success all
around. The universal prevalence of the grip kept a good many
Canadian enthusiasts away and the last day of the tournament fall-
ing on your Thanksgiving Day, when about every gun club in the
States held a local shoot, which kept a good many Americans from
coming oyer whom we know would otherwise have been here.
The birds were far above the average in quality. Mr. Briggs had
aoue to considerable expense to provide good roomy lofts in which to
eep them and as a consequence a duffer was arare exception, and
fenerally when the trap was pulled there was a crack of wings and a
streak through the atmosphere, that required a very quick shot and a
hold just right to secure the desired mark on the score sheet.
The weather was fair and it was very bad, the first and third days
were clear, but a very strong wind blew across the traps, assisting
many a bird oyer the boundary that on a quiet day would have been
scored dead. The second day's shooting was started with the snow
falling heavily, but before noon if turned into rain, and it rained so
ere ay, and hard that though those shooting knew it made the
- birds slower in starting from the traps and slower in flight, yet it
also made them—the shooters—so wet and uncomfortable that about
3 o’clock they asked fora postponement, which was accordingly had
till the next day. y
Mr. C. W.|Miner, of the Union Gun Club, Victoria, British Columbia,
won first oney in the guarantee with the only straight score made.
He has made himself yery popular among the boys in Toronto, and no
one begrudged him his success. He shoots a 7/4lbs. Greener with BE. C.
powder in both barrels. Following are the scores:
No. 1, 20 pigeons, entry $10, $600 guaranteed:
MeMurchy.11110110222211200212—16
W Stroud..22222000120012122222—15
D Munson, 10201201100102122000—11
W Dorland11102200111100121110—14
W Strieker11020200021001022021—11
W *Fiteb. . ,.0002221101102222022—14
A St John..11201121200102011100—13
J Townson22112210111021121001—16
D Blea, ....01011212111111121121—18
A Dixon... ,10122111102120221111—17
J Stroud. .20221221012221202002—15
D G.....,..-00221111022021110002—13
D Black, ...01111211112211121010—17
D Casey. ..11101121120200w.
Mooreroft:.02202000202200120011—10
¥F Herbert,20111221022200002012—13
J Bellamy ,11011102110022110022—14
A © Eddy. .11112200121002111210 15
R Smith, , .2122020212100110121115
O Hardy. ..12211112122221210112 -19
M Reardon.01211110101012210101—14
GC Ayre. ....21011101221210010001—14
W Emond .11211120111211121221_19
© North, ,..21102011222011011221—_16
J Stanton, .00201021120110112022—13
D Nogood.1100020112121001w.
P Wordley.11201021110021000112—13
J Davis... .10122220110201002220—13
T Hanson .11111110122111000012—15
J Rice. ,,...202001111002w.
Chambers,.101010021200w.
W Heath, .202112112111000100wW.
J Brown. . .12001102212222012122—16
OW Miner.12211112112221211112—20
A Emond, .2111201002212110212116
T Margetts01121211202112100111—16
H George. .21122222222122000022—16 J Blackall .02011001111211111122—16
No 2, ten pigeons, entry $7:
George. , P1L10001I2— 7 Dixon, ,....-..550+,--zl00101211— F
Blea.....<. . 2122201121— 9 McMurehy,..,......-2221111111—10
RO PEii oho Pins 1111112021 9 _M. D.,......., , »~1200221212— 8
Emond,.....--.;....2110111212— 9 OC. W. Miner,......,..1210011122— 8
Ji qyisjret [6 1 ener Maes 2220111111— 9
Extra No. 1, 5 pigeons, entry $2: H. George 4, W. Emond 5, H. Me-
Murchy 5, W. H. Skinner 4, W. Fitch 3, W. Stroud 4, C. W. Miner 5, A.
St. John%, D. Munson 5, M, D. 4.
Extra No. 2, 5 pigeons, entry $2:
UO WASe jin tan coatesrcowe presets ie 22200—3 Beldam....issecvevee cvees 11221—5
Emon... 2. oo. ese teens .11212—5) McMurchy,...cedsssscceeee 11012—4
LIVE AER Bat oee orem ee 11022—4 “W. Stroud........... veer O2212—4
ea eee Peveever tt 721 —da Td STU SDL) Ap iny Sacro ene tear 1000i1—2
Crozier..... Ae ate .10000—1 OC. W. Miner tii » t2li—5
Lieiecityh yy a ae deanccucsecezl00—3 (R..Snaith, J... veveeee ea ee GO11I—3
AndersoD...... 26... e sean ee Moorcroft,...., jetties
TARGET EVENTS.
No. 1,10 singles, entry $4: Stroud 8, M, D, 8, Eddy 10, Stephens 6,
MeMurehy 10, D. C 6, D, Black 8.
No. 2, 15 singles, entry $1.50:
Stroud..,..,...-11001110110011i—10 M D....,.......110011110011111—11
MeMurehy,,., ..101111101111111—13 Black,,.,.,.,.,.100110111110011—10
Stephens, ,......110111011011111—12 Kirkpatrick. ....001000010101001— 5
Stark,.....,...-011110101011111—11 McDowall ..,..,101101001110111—10
Hddy,..... .« - «-e211112111101010—12
No. 3, 10 singles, entry $1; Stephens 9, M. D. 5, MeMurchy 10, Eddy
8, Stroud 9, Emond 9, Skinner 9, Lewis 8, Black 5, Crozier 8.
No. 4, 10 singles, entry; Emond 8, Skinner 8, McMurchy 9, Brown 7,
Stephens 9, D. C, 7.
o. 5, 10 singles, entry $1: Skinner 8, R. Smith 6. Emond 10, Lewis
6, Kirkpatrick 9, McMurchy 10, Stroud 7, Sontag 7, Black 10. M. D 10.
No. 6, 10 singles, entry $1: Mr. D, 8, MeMurchy 9, Lewis 10, Bellamy
7, Kirkpatrick 7, Martin 9, Black 7.
No. 7, 10 singles, entry $1: Mr. D. 9, Miner 8, Stroud 9, Emond 10,
Eddy 8, MeMurchiy 10.
No. 8, 10 singles, entry $i: Stroud 8, Kinney 7, Miner 8, Chapman 6,
MeMurchy 9, K. Smith 7, Emond 10, M. D. 9, Lewis 8.
No. 9, 10 singles, entry $1: Kinney 7, Emond 7,,Bellamy 9, Mc-
Maurchy 10, D. C. 8, R. Smith 8.
No. 10, 10 singles, $1 entry: Bellamy 8, Kinney 5, R. Smith 8,
McMurchy 9, Emond 9, Brown 7, M. D. 7, D. C. 8, McDowall 9,
No. 11, 10 singles, $1 entry: MeMurechy 10, Emond 10, Bellamy 6,
CO. W. Miner 8, Brown 8, Casey 8, M. D. 9, R. Smith 6, Kinney 6, D. rif 6.
No. 12, 10 singles: Emond 8, McMurchy 10, R, Smith 9, Trigger 5,
M. D. 8, D. C. 6, C. W. Miner 5, Brown 6. G. G: W.
Thanksgiving Day at Dexter Park.
Truxz to his custom, Louis Miller this season again sent out his invi-
tations to the patrons of this popular trap-shooting resort to come
out on Thanksgiving Day, partake of Mrs. Miller’s turkey dinner, and
withal try their hands at bluerocks and live birds. Louis’ programme
of 10 events, 7 at bluerocks and 3 at live birds, was of a nature to
draw the average Dexter Park devotee, providing he was within
drawing distance. This season many of Miller’s patrons are taking
advantage of their opportunities to get away to the shooting resorts
of the South and along the Atlantic coast too faraway to be within
reach of their favorite pigeon ground, and aS a consequence the as-
semblage at Dexter Park on this day was not up to that of years gone
by. ‘Those who were able to be on hand during the day were amply
repaid for their pilgrimage. New Jersey, New York, Long Island and
even Connecticut sent its representatives to participate in the day’s
sport. The day was oneto be long remembered as the mildest and
mos pleasant for a long line of years, From early morn until even-
ing an overcoat was a superiiuous appendage. The day’s sport
opened with a 10 target sweep at bluerocks. in this event G. Wood
landed first on the list with nine breaks to his credit.
It was after the fifth event that Mine Host Miller said, “Gentlemen,
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PORTRAITS IN INK,
Ill.—THE SHOEMAKER,
THE old shoemaker, grizzled, unkempt, slovenly clad,
warped with many years over last and lapstone, is a
figure in as strong a contrast to the Major as is his untidy
shop to the orderly display of the other’s,
But you will be more at your ease here among the
clutter of leather scraps, worn footgear and lasts, with
the battered old gun in the corner beside the worn rod
whose term of service is still extended by many bonds of
waxed ends.
Here you may sit at your ease or your peril on the rough
little counter or on one of the half dozen rickety chairs,
weak but hospitable even in the decrepitude of age.
Here you will find more genial companionship and get
more useful information in an hour spent with this un-
assuming craftsman than in a day with the pretentious
Major.
You discoyer that it is not altogether greed for fish and
game that entices him abroad in the few days wherein
are conjoined an allurement of propitious weather and
slackness of work.
He admits with a laugh at himself, that he killed noth-
ing in his last day’s outing, but asserts that he had never-
theless a right good time. He got a fortnight’s kinks out
of his back and.shoulders, a heartening smell of the woods,
a feast of fresh. air, and caught some of the wood folk at
a new trick or uttering a heretofore unheard or unrecog-
nized note, or he has seen some strange freak of nature.
If you are interested, he imparts to you his small discov- |.
eries, a poor but hospitable host sharing his meager fare
with a hungry wayfarer.
Or, you may find him just returned from a stolen half-
day’s excursion, rejoicing over a lucky shot, never claim-
ing it to be more, and he relates with the particulars of
circumstance and place, the finding of his grouse and how
he brought it down, as it whirred and clattered almost
unseen in the haze of brush.
When you desire a sight of the finest bird he ever
killed, he bashfully confesses that he left it at a sick
neighbor’s on his way home (a mile out of it though), but
as he knew the sick man would not care he stuck one of
the tail feathers in his hat, and this he displays with
great satisfaction. He sticks it up on the wall beside the
dried head of a big bass and the plumy tail of a gray
squirrel, and you know by the far away look in his eyes
that it will need but a glance at these when the days of
toil are long unbroken to conjure up the pleasant, restful
loneliness of the woods, the glint of clear waters and the
music of their voices.
He does not consort much with men in his outings, but
of choice with boys, whom he delights to instruct in
woodcraft and the mysteries of the gentle art. He baits
the small boys’ hooks with infinite care and unhooks the
horned pouts and thorny-backed perch for them, un-
tangles lines and recovers snagged hooks for them; he
mends the big boys’ tackle, is uncle to them all and re-
joices in their luck as if it were his own.
As you listen to his kindly and interested discourse con-
cerning the wild world and its sports that he so unaffect-
edly loves, and look at the homely, genial face in setting
of grizzled hair and beard, beaming with genuine enthu-
siasm, you realize that it needs something more than an
eminently respectable presence and learned talk of high-
bred dogs, fine guns and fancy tackle, or even the posses-
sion of them, to make a true sportsman, for here is one in
patched raiment and leather apron, who scarcely knows
a pointer from a setter, nor ever owned a high-priced gun
‘or rod, and yet isa true sportsman in the best sense of
that abused title.
For is he not an ardent lover of honest sport, appreci-
ating something in its achievements beyond skillful
Is it not a
privilege to have the confidence of this honest man and
to associate with this simple and enthusiastic lover of
slaughter and the making of heavy scores?
nature?
BEARS OF NORTH AMERICA.
Mr. BrRowwn’s article on the different species of North
American bears printed in another column will be read
Per-
sons who have traveled much through the central Rocky
with equal interest by sportsmen and naturalists.
Mountain region will not have failed to notice that,
among the captive bears so frequently seen chained up at
stations, saloons and ranch houses, there are but few
which are black in color.
of the grizzly type. No doubt many of those who have
noticed this preponderancy of pale, short-clawed bears
have wondered why the brown form of Ursus americanus
is so much more common than the black in this region,
for all who have noted these facts have taken it for
granted that these bears—though not black in color—
were really black bears. At the same time the speculative
traveler will have observed that many of these captives
are red in color, as a red cow is red, or rather even paler
still, almost the color of a yellow dog. He will have ob-
served too, that some of them seem unusually flat-faced
and have not the cast of countenance which is noticed in
the dead bears which have fallen to his rifle, or in the liy-
ing ones that he hasseen in cages. Mr. Brown’s discovery
in the Rocky Mountains of a third species of bear which
is red in color, would account for some of the puzzling
facts that we have referred to.
The paper is in its own field one of the most important
that we have published for a long time, but additional
material js needed far the confirmation of some of Mr,
Brown’s conclusions and for the establishment of his
hypothesis. It may well enough be within the power of
some of our western readers to supply skins, skulls and
observations which would be welcome to the author of
this paper, and we are sure that he would be glad to re-
ceive communications on this subject.
SNAP SHOTS.
Tue decisions of the lower courts in the Moses Sunday
fishing case have just been sustained by the New York
Court of Appeals. Mr. Robert H. Moses, of this city, is a
member of a club which controls the fishing of Clark’s
Lake, in Orange county. In the spring of 1892 the club
caused the punishment of certain trespassers, and in return
the trespassers instigated the prosecution of Mr. Moses
for fishing in the club waters on Sunday. He was convicted,
but on the ground that the statute did notapply to private
waters carried the case to the highest court, only to have
the conviction stand. It is unlikely that this finding will
have any appreciable effect upon Sunday fishing in the
State. The law will continue to be practically a dead
letter, resorted to only at rare intervals as a spite measure
for revenge, as it was in this case, and in the case of the
net fishermen’s prosecution of the Sunday fishermen at
Jamaica Bay a year or two ago.
The circumstances attending the death of Wallace E.
Blackford of Brooklyn, at the early age of 23 years, were
pathetic inan unusualdegree, It was only on the previous
Monday that Mr, Blackford had been married; while re-
turning from the church where the ceremony had taken
place he was prostrated with illness, grew rapidly worse
and died on Monday, Oct, 11. Wallace was the only
son of ex-Fish Commissioner Eugene G. Blackford, and
was associated with him in the responsible management
of their establishment in Fulton Market of this city.
He was a young man of proved business ability,
esteemed for his sterling traits of character, and by his
winning ways endeared to hosts of friends. In this
sudden bereavement by the death of one in whose
bright future a father’s hopes were so fondly centered,
ex-Commissioner Blackford will have the deepest sym-
pathy.
Ex-Fish and Game Commissioner Elliott B. Hodge of
Plymouth, N. H., who died last week, will long be re-
membered as one of the pioneer workers in the public
interests of fish and game protection. When Commis-
sioners Powers and Webber were exploring the State in
1877, in search of a suitable spot for a trout and salmon
At the same time these bears
are almost always short-clawed animals and thus are not
which are full of suggestion.
hatchery, they discovered Mr. Hodge photographing at
Plymouth, and he put them on track of the springs at
Livermore Falls, where the first hatching house was
started. Hewas of the greatest assistance to the Commis-
sion for several years, and when Mr. Powers resigned,
from ill health, was selected to take his place, which he
filled with great success for several years, until he was
attacked with the insidious disease which has finally car-
ried him off. A native of New Brunswick, his early life
was spent in that province and Canada, among the sal-
mon waters, and he was wonderfully familiar with all
the habits and characteristics of the Salmonide. He also
proved an admirable game protector,-and probably
brought more men to justice for violating the laws
than was ever done before in New Hampshire, After his
retirement from the Fish and Game Commission he still
retained the charge and direction of the hatcheries,
which, now ten in number, were responsibility enough
for any one man,
When Mr. Edmund Day, of the Salvini Company, who
is known to FOREST AND STREAM readers as ‘‘The General,”
sent an invitation to the staff last week to spend an even-
ing at the Star Theatre, he wrote: ‘“‘As we are indebted to
FOREST AND STREAM for locating the sections of the coun-
try where good shooting is obtainable, it will afford us no
end of pleasure to unravel the mysteries of the romantic
drama, before the staff.” It is interesting to note that
of the players who unraveled the mysteries, two others
besides Mr. Day are sportsmen. Alexander Salvini is
very fond of quail shooting, and Miss Eleanor Mor-
etti, his leading lady, devotes much enthusiasm to trout
fishing. Sportsmen are to be foundin all occupations and
vocations of life, but the stage has produced one of the
very finest brands. Members of this profession have un-
usual opportunities for observation, and are never loath
to communicate what is of interest to brothers in the
craft. May their writing long add charm to the pages of
FOREST AND STREAM,
The wholesale destruction of eggs of wildfowl, on the
breeding grounds north of the United States, is an abuse
which has often been commented upon in these columns,.
and for the correction of which it appears difficult to de-
vise a sufficient remedy. The Indians gather the eggs for
food; and vast quantities also are collected for the white
part, or albumen, which is used extensively in tne arts.
Under the present tariff, while eggs are taxed five cents per
dozen, albumen is admitted free. The Wilson Bill will
make the whole egg free. President W. R. Huntington
of the Ohio Fish and Game Commission sends us a letter,
in which he contends that this proposed change of duty
will stimulate the destruction of wildfowl eggs for com-
mercial purposes. Just how itis to have this effect we do
not clearly understand; but every one will agree unre-
servedly with Mr. Huntington’s proposition that the im-
portation of game bird eggs should be prohibited, if a
practicable measure can be devised for accomplishing that
end.
Our game columns this week contain three news items
One reports the coming of
European red deer to an American game park; a second
records the importation of foreign game birds contem-
plated by the sportsmen of Maine; and a third chronicles
a movement to bring to Pennsylvania quail from the
West. These game stocking enterprises are as yet in large
degree experimental and tentative; but as increasing at-
tention shall be given to such work there will soon be
abundant experience to furnish safe guidance. This is
the day of small beginnings, Such movements grow with
tremendous rapidity in America. It is certain that we
shall make test of one expedient and another, until in one
way or another an abundant game supply shall be as-
sured,
Special interest will be taken in the projected importa-
tion of black game and capercailzie into Maine. A full
account of the habits and game qualities of the species,
from the pen of Hon. W. W. Thomas, Jr,, our Minister
to Sweden, has been printed in the FoREST AND STREAM,
Many persons who are familiar with the home of these
birds and with the northern portions of the United States,
have testified that American covers are suitable for the
game. Their introduction on an adequate scale is surely
most desirable; we trust that the promoters of the Maine
movement may have support.
816
FOREST AND STREAM.
[DEo. 16, 1898.
Che Sportsman Canzist.
FROM PENOBSCOT TO YELLOWSTONE
IN TEN MINUTES.
WHEN I was a small boy I remember reading a story of
a fortunate individual who possessed a pair of magic
boots. ‘‘Seven-league boots,” he called them, and when
he wished to make a journey—there being no ocean grey-
hounds or limited express trains in those days—he pulled
on the magic boots and strode away over hill and dale,
across rivers and through lakes, covering seven leagues at
each stride. Of course he had an advantage over his less
fortunate townsmen, and while they were plodding around
the circumscribed area of the village, he was visiting the
most distant portions of the kingdom,
Seven-league boots are not common in these degenerate
days. The magic of the old necromancers is obsolete
and the customs of old do not obtain in the year of grace,
1893. Buta new race of wizards—/in de siécle magicians
—have appeared on the earth and things which would
have been deemed impossible by our fathers are to the
younger generations every day facts. The grand chef
@ouvre of these wise men—the White City, the Dream
City, the Magic City—arose from the marsh on the shores
of Lake Michigan.
This entrancing city, for six short months the acme of
the world’s art, knowledge and science, is now undergo-
ing dissolution.
But during its short existence it made easy of accom-
plishment feats which would have taxed even the wonder-
ful properties of the seven-league boots. The four corners
of the earth were drawn together. The habitations and
manners and customs of antipodal countries were brought
into juxtaposition, while people of all races and complex-
ions, jostled one another, uttered a babel of strange
tongues and produced a kaleidoscopic exhibition of strange
costumes and lack of costumes.
There were a hundred places in this White City where
the magic of its builders was so potent that by merely
entering a portal one was on the instant transported far
away from the bustling, energetic metropolis of the great
West to places far and near, where the rush and roar and
excitement of the city were at once forgotten and one
breathed the soft, languid atmosphere of the Orient, or
the healthful, bracing air of our own pine-clad mountains,
East or West. These illusions were so real that it was
difficult to believe that outside the inclosing walls were
the beautiful palaces of the Fair.
From the Penobscot to the Yellowstone is a far ery, and
a journey from one to the other is a matter of days of con-
stant traveling, even in this age of steam. That is, it is
usually a matter of days, but this summer I found it only
a question of a short walk, such as the owner of the seven-
league boots might have taken, There was a little bit of
everywhere at the Fair, and people from everywhere
under the sun paid their respects to Uncle Sam, but two
years ago when I said adio (good bye) to Nick Sockben-
son, Francis Sockalexis and Gabriel on the bank of the
Penobscot River after our long canoe journey down the
East Branch, I did not think that a portion of the Indian
Island would drop down on the shore of the South Pond
at Jackson Park.
Thousands of people visited the various Indian camps
which formed part of Prof. Putnam’s ethnological exhibit,
A group of birchbark wigwams and a house with a frame
of spruce poles and covered with bark, comprised the
Penobscot camp.
The little house was closed to the public, but the wig-
wams were open during the day and many people entered
the narrow doorways. They watched deft fingers weave
ash splints and sweet grass into various shapes, bought
the pretty baskets, miniature canoes, bows and arrows,
and corn-husk dolls, and asked all sorts of questions of
the handsome black-eyed women and dark-skinned men.
) They examined curiously the snowshoes and paddles,
and the canoes drawn upon the shore of the pond. To
most of the throng the camp was simply a part of the
ethnological exhibit, and its inhabitants a strange people
of a different race and color. from theirown. But to me
it was the Indian Island and the Maine woods, and when
I crossed the threshold of the bark-coyered house or those
of the wigwams I took a step which put to shame the
longest stride ever made by the seven-league boots. It
was the Indian Island because there was my friend (and
a good friend, too) Nikola Sockbeson to bid me welcome,
“‘Pokweenokzeeum uijia.” There was his wife Katetin,
a much handsomer woman than most of those among the
sightseers, and there was their pretty daughter Ada.
There was young Sozap Sockalexis and his girl wife
Sozou, who is shy and gentle as a fawn. There was
Katetin’s sister Mrs. Fransway and her daughter Josie,
both fine-looking women. Then there were Noel and
Azon Paris, and Micel Attean and Charlie Daylight, the
Jast so-called because that is the literal translation of his
family name, Jayquaddis
It was the Maine woods, because there were the spruce
poles and the birch bark, which had been brought all the
way from the forests of the Penobscot. There were the
skins of deer shot in localities where I have hunted with
Nick and Francis. There was the immense hide of the
big moose which Sozap Plasoa shot last winter up back
of Pamedomcook, near Meelapswagamoc. In a corner
of the camp were ongamock (snowshoes) and nodahonga
(paddles). Through the half-open door I could see three
canoes at the edze of the water. Louis Pielsock built
one of the birch bark ones, Sebat Shai the other, and the
canvas-covered one was constructed by Sozap Ranco.
There was the fragrance of sweet grass and soft musical
tones of the Wabenaki tongue.
Many pleasant evenings were spent at the camp after
the labors of the day were over, and many pleasant meals
were eaten when mine was the only white face at the
table. What talks Nick and I had over our cigars of our
wayfaring by flood and field, of our camps and tramps
and long voyages in canoes. How many incidents were
recalled, and how we laughed as we lived our adventures
over again, and thought of the time when Andy Patter-
son almost broke his neck on Millinoket Carry by capsiz-
ing the sled with our outfit on it. And then of that day
when I shot the buck near Lunxus Mountain and Francis
got excited and put his right boot on his left foot; and the
time when Gabriel made the potato soup in the rain and
was ashamed to give it to us, but my wife got it and liked
it so well she ate it all. We remembered how we were
caught in the rain on Mud Pond Carry; and how near
we came once to being smashed in the drive near the
rafting-out place on the Penobscot; how we had to hustle
and tug to lift the canoes over the boom with nothing but
the slippery logs to stand on. The big trout we caught
were expatiated on, and the still bigger ones we lost were
mourned over a7ain.
Sometimes my wife would go with me, for she has been
in the woods with Nick for her especial ‘‘guide, philoso-
pher and friend,” We told the old stories over again, the
old legends of the Algonquin mythology which had been
told so many times around the camp fire, but which
seemed new again—the stories of Ktaadn and of Gloos-
kombe, the first man, the man from nothing; the stories
wkarneeyeh aleedebeeklunk (of the old times),
We used to take the canoe on summer evenings, after
the gondolas and electric launches were tied up for the
night, and paddle through the tunnel into the grand
court of honor, where we would float and gaze enraptured
at the entrancing beauty of the great white palaces loom-
ing grandly against the dark, starlitsky. How the dusk
softened their outlines, and how immaculate they seemed.
It was sublime, and it is with no irreverence that I say it
seemed as if we had drifted into the midst of the city
whose streets are paved with gold.
How still it was with the people gone and no sound of
voice of footfall. We would paddle around the shadowy,
bosky shores of the wooded island, sometimes penetrating
little coves where trees and thickets of shrubs hung over
the water, shutting out all view of the buildings, so that
we hardly realized that we were not sure of seeing a deer
come out to drink. Then up into the North Pond, to the
Art Palace and back to the camp, the canoe with those
surroundings running like a wild bird in acage. I never
saw the Fair as I saw it those summer nights with Nick
in the canoe. Sometimes I would sit in the stern and
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Amateur photo by H, A. Brooks.
paddle; sometimes he; with the other in the bow, face to
face, so that we could talk, and no one who saw the Ex-
position appreciated its beauties more than my friend,
whose forefathers were paddling their birchen craft on
New England rivers long before the great Genoese sailed
from Palos. ‘
I never will forget one June night when Nick left meat
the landing at the Woman’s Building and I stood on the
pier and watched him as he crossed the lagoon and disap-
peared behind the island. His paddle made no sound in
the water, but with swift, sure strokes the canoe glided
like a specter out of sight. There was the past and the
present as I stood there alone by the water—the fairy pal-
aces representing the highest civilization the world has
attained all around me, and an Indian in a bark canoe
gliding past them. That is the way extremes met at the
Fair, and art and nature went hand in hand.
Tused to go very often from the Penobscot camp and
walk across the bridge where the Spanish caravels were
moored, around the Agricultural Building, across the
plaza in front of the Administration Building down the
way between the Mining and Electricity halls to the
bridge leading to the smaller island. Then instead of
crossing the other bridge to the large island, I would turn
to the left into a path bordered with trees and bushes. A
few steps and I entered another doorway, which must
have had magic properties, for the Columbian Exposition
had once more disappeared.
Where was I? A few moments ago I had said adio to
friends on the Indian Island; had taken a short walk and
lo! I had crossed the continent. The Penobscot wigwams
had vanished and I was in a hunter’s log camp in the
mountains of the Yellowstone. Would not the owner of
the seven-league boots have been jealous of such a feat?
Such a sudden translation from East to West might well
daze one and make him doubt his senses, but I knew I
was not dreaming, for there was the cabin and there
was the prairie schooner outside the door; and in-
stead of bidding good-bye to Nick Sockbeson was say-
ing, ‘“How do you do, Billy,” to Elwood Hofer, who
is called Billy by his friends for the good and suffi-
cient Western reason that itisn’t his name. Most ex-
hibits were decorated with signs telling what they were,
but though Billy Hofer would not have anything about
his shack which detracted from its truthful appearance,
he did pin up a sheet of paper (to save his own breath),
which informed curious visitors what it was not:
THIS Is NOT DANIEL BooNE’S, NOR
Dayy CROCKETT’s, NoR ABRAHAM
LINCOLN’s, NOR UncLE Tom’s CaBry,
BUT A HUNTER’s CAMP, SUCH AS IS
USED IN THE Rocgxy Mountatns,
And in fact, at night after the last belated caller had
disappeared down the path and we had shut the door and
secured it with the wooden pin, we were to all intents
and purposes in the mountains without a single incon--
gruity to dispel the illusion. The cabin, solidly con-
structed of logs chinked with mud, stood on the island
where nothing but a green mass of foliage met the eye
through door or window. Theold prairie schooner, dingy
with long service, stood by the door, oyer which was the
bleached skull of an elk surmounted by branching antlers.
Inside, the shaggy head of a buffalo bull was the first
object seen as it looked down from the half partition; at
the back of the cabin was a big fire-place flanked on either
side by a buffalo skull. On the mantle were two bear
skulls and over them another pair of elk antlers. On the
floor were the hides of elk, antelope, blacktail deer and
moose. A bear skin thrown over a box formed a con-
venient seat by the table on which lay a six-shooter and
a pair of field glasses,
Kit Carson’s rifle stood in a corner, and Villalonga’s
hung on pins driven into the logs. Two other rifles were
supported by the elk antlers over the mantel, and under
them were crossed a pair of web snowshoes. A pair of
long skees, or Norwegian snowshoes stood in another
corner, and near the table were other skulls of bighorns
and buffalo. There were saddles, pack saddles, bridles,
lariats, shaps, buckskin hunting coats, sombreros and all
the paraphernalia necessary for a trip after big game. A
fily-rod hung on the wall.
Two bunks anda big ‘ft. settle built of round wood
with the bark on were very inviting with their piles of
blankets, If one cared to read, FOREST AND STRHAM lay
on the table. A back door opened out to a thicket in the
rear of the cabin, where a foot-path led down to the
lagoon, Several large oak trees stood guard and rustled
their leaves in a friendly fashion above the low roof.
I was the recipient of Billy Hofer’s hospitality on sey-
eral occasions and remember with especial pleasure
several nights in October which I spent at the hunter’s
cabin.
Those were pleasant chats, long to be remembered,
which we had, with the doors and windows closed to
keep out the chill night air with its suspicion of winter,
while a noble fire roared up the chimney. With the set-
tle drawn up before the blaze and pipes alight, we told
stories of the Hast and West, of the mountains and the
woods, of expeditions in the saddle and afloat, of the pur-
suit of the beasts of the field, the fowls of the air and the
finny denizens of many waters. Then, after throwing
fresh sticks into the bed of glowing embers in front of the
big back log, we would wrap our blankets about us and
go to sleep.
One night I went to the cabin early in the evening; the
rear door had been left ajar for me and I had three hours
to myself before Billy came, I built a fire, drew the set-
tle into place and sat there watching the blaze and the
fantastic shadows which danced attendance, Through
the open door the shimmer of water twinkled and sparkled
through the foliage; a strain of distant music came softly
to my ears like a memory, and now and then a swiftly-
moving shadow flitted by on the lagoon, hardly distin-
guishable through the leaves, and vanishing as quickly as
it came,
AsI sat there the great World’s Fair seemed like a
dream; like something one has read of, or heard of, or
experienced a long, long time ago. It seemed like other
things I have thought of and dreamed about while sitting
by many camp-fires, and the log cabin was, to me, at that
moment miles away in the wilderness.
Some mornings we broiled our own steak over the fire
and sometimes 1 went down to the other camp and had
breakfast with my Wabenaki friends, thus making the
return journey across the continent. To sleep in a log
cabin on the Yellowstone with Billy Hofer and breakfast
in a bark wigwam on the Penobscot with Nick Sockbeson
the next morning was made possible to me by the power
of the latter-day magician of 1895, and of the time I gave
to the great show the hours I spent in those two camps
were by no means the least profitable. W. A. Brooks.
PINCHER.
THE drowsy hum of a big fly, darting to and fro amid
the sunbeams which flood my room with their genial
rays, almost makes me believe that summer is still with
us, instead of brown November, Yet the bare branches
of the trees that make a network against the cold sky,
the flying leaves that now and then tap upon my window
in their passage, and the small white clouds scudding
across the sky recall the fact that the harvest of the year
has come, and soon ‘neath the white robe of winter the
earth will take its long sleep.
Were it not for the huge fire of logs that crackle on the
hearth in the wide old-fashioned fireplace, there would be
a chilliness in the atmosphere of this room, despite the
sunbeams, so I fill the brown bow! of my pipe with some
“Old Virginia” and draw my arm-chair closer to the
blaze, :
This movement disturbs old Pincher, my English set-
ter, who has been stretching out all morning on the deer-
skin rug, but he is not a bit sulky over it, merely raps the
floor gently once or twice with his tail, blinks his eyes
drowsily and proceeds to go to sleep again with one eye
open.
poincher is over 15 years old now, Born in Orange
county, New York State, of respectable parents, Pincher
first made his appearance in our family, from father’s
great-coat pocket. - ;
His puppy days were passed quietly in the comfortable
old barn, in company with five or six foxhounds, a saucy
terrier and a pair of pointers.
To old Isiah, my father’s body servant, fell the task of
breaking the puppy, and poor Pincher’s life was made a
burden for him. Notameal went by but what he was
compelled to stand in a very uncomfortable attitude be-
fore the tempting dish, while Isiah with uplifted finger
held him in check, with ‘‘To ho, easy, doan yo move suh,
To ho—easy boy”—until the word was given to “‘Go on.”
I shall always remember the bright October morning
when father and I, accompanied by Isiah, Stonewall the
pointer, and Pincher, started out to give the pup his first
teal field experience, nt : ;
Just such a day as this, full of sunlight, the air sharp
and invigorating, and the earth just hard enough to make
1 walking comfortable. Pincher at once evinced a dis- —
position to range too widely, and of course the first break
he made was to flush a big covey far outside of any
possible range; but when we struck into the cornfield,
_ they scattered to the lower field.
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tonewall came to a point, and the puppy wheeling sud- | from an active part in the labors of the bee, on a pile of
with such a comical expression of surprise on his face
that I missed clean with both barrels through laughing
at him. Father scored two birds, however, it would take
a great deal to ‘“‘phase” him, and we marked the birds as
Isiah held Stonewall
and allowed the puppy to retrieve, which he did very
prettily; in fact, from his earliest days up to the present
time I never knew Pincher to chew a bird.
On our way to the lower field Pincher came to a point
on a clump of cornstalks,and as I walked up flushed a
single bird, which I dropped with my second barrel.
The covey had scattered in close to the little patch of
woodland that bordered the cornfield, and although we
hunted all over the ground we only found one bird,
which father bagged, but as we were passing through the
woods on our way to the field beyond both dogs came to
a stand about ten feet apart and flushed two birds; we
both scored and then for the next five minutes we were
kept busy. It seems that the birds had taken refuge
under the leaves in the wood and we secured eight in
less than five minutes,
Pincher acted like an old-timer all through it and Isiah
was loud in his praises, when suddenly a big brown
swamp rabbit jumped up under the puppy’s nose and
with an excited yelp he svarted after it,
Isiah almost cried with mortification, ‘Come yeah yo’
daim fool dorg, come back yeah; wha’ fo’ yon dun chase
dat old no ’count rabbit? Come yeah, now, ain’ you
*shamed; doan’ you lick my haind, you all dun gwine to
ketch dis yeah switch, yeah me? Lor’, Mirse General, I
dun think I groke dat dorg from chasin’ rabbits, ’deed I
did, suh, but he's jus’ like a common yaller houn’, ain’ got
no mo’ sense dan a woodchuck. Come yeah, you low
down trash! Ain’ you ’shamed?”
Well, Pincher was in disgrace, until, in the next field,
he held a point at the fence corner for nearly two min-
utes, until we could climb over and get to him.
But since that day he has pointed many a covey, his
hearing has been destroyed and age has crept slowly upon
him, and now who better deserves his position upon the
hearth?
But if I take the old gun down to rub up its brown bar-
rels, the fire of other days will brighten his eye, and he
runs to the door, anxious to revisit the scenes of his youth-
ful exploits.
His old trainer dozes by the kitchen fireplace, his
shining bald head circled by a scant growth of white
wool, and sometimes in the eveninz I go in to smoke a
pipe with him, and as he fills and refills his capacious
*‘cohn cob” with my best tobacco we live over again those
happy days when ‘‘Dat daim fool pup dun chase de swamp
rabbit.” THE GENERAL.
DANVIS FOLKS.—XVII.
A Raising Bee.
BECAUSE of the greater inter-dependence of the people,
“bees” had been much more common in the days of
Uncle Lisha’s youth than in these of his old age, but he
had not lost his fondness for attending them. So one
May morning, when Sam and his father came into the
shop and told him of a raisin’ at Jonathan Young’s, he
needed no urging to drop his tools and toss aside a boot
from which he had but half ripped the worn sole, slough
his apron, don his coat and hat, and declare his readiness
to accompany them,
“T can’t du no gret, onny help du the settin’ raound, an’
mebby hol’ the foot of a pos’ er du the spry runnin’ raoun’,”
he said as he plied his short legs to keep up with his long-
limbed comrades, carrying his hat in his hand to fan his
face at every swing of his arm.
There were tufts of blue violets in the mixed dun and
green of the meadows, and, like stars in the evening sky,
the first dandelions shone far apart in the grvening pas-
tures which the newly turned-out sheep were overrun-
ning, too eager for the fresh grass to heed the passing
strangers,
A new-come bobolink sane before and above them, now
atilt on a fence stake, now aflight on vibrant wings.
Robins were flying to and fro busy nest-building, and a
plover’s wailing call drifted down on the breeze from a
distant field. The haze on the woods was thickening with
gray-green mist of opening buds, with here and there the
yellow tower of a leafing poplar shining out of it.
Whatever subtle impression the changing season may
have made on them, they made no sign but to say, ‘‘It's
an airly spring and a fine growin’ time,” and after a while
_ came to where their neighbors were gathering about the
recumbent bents of Jonathan’s prospective barn, and the
chips of hewing and chiseling that exhaled the fine fra-
grance of fresh cut wood. The carpenter, as redolent of
the same odor as if he were born of a tree, was hustling
about with a square and scratch-awl, while the people
lounged about, watching his movements with curiosity or
gossiping of neighborhood or town affairs. Jonathan
oung, nervously expectant, went from group to group,
discoursing of the barn that was to be.
*“Goin’ to hev bay on the west side o’ the barn floor an’
a scaffil on the east, wi’ a stable ’nunder it, high ’nough
*tween j'ints so ’s ta man o’ my hayth won't knock his |
head off in ’t,” and Jonathan was 5ft. 4in. in his stock-
ings.
“Faint ye ‘fraid o’ bein’: dizzy-headed when we git
*way up on that scaffil?’ John Dart inquired, anxiously.
“Hes the pathmaster warned ye aout tu work on the
rbud in our deestric’?” one inquired of a distant neighbor.
**No, ner won't tech tu till arter plantin’.”
**Wal, aourn hes, the ‘tarnal critter, an’ the rhuds haint
no more settled ‘n my rhud tax is,” the first speaker re-
marked, und then directed his remarks against the fathers
of the town. “Ef thes'lec’men don’t spunk up an’ du
‘suthin’ abaout the bridge tu the village, the taown ‘ll hev
a lawsuit on its han’s fust it knows. One o’ the bupments
is all cove in, an’ the stringers is so rotten you e’d spit
through ’em. ‘Taint safe fera dawg tucross, Darn sech
s'lec’men—slackmen, that’s what I call em.”
rafters where they might sit to comment and criticise un-
disturbed till toward the end of the raising.
Their attention was divided between the active move-
ments of the carpenter, a group of the athletes of the
company endeavoring to get up a wrestling match and a
party of boys playing an old-fashioned game of ball.
‘“You'd better save yer stren’th fer liftin’.” was Gran-
ther Hill’s hoarsely whispered advice to the wrestlers.
“Ye'll need all ye got, fer the’ haint none tew many men.
Them boys a-straddlin’ an’ a-yawpin’ raound haint no
*caount. It’s a heavy frame considerin’ the way trees hes
dwindled sen’ I was on airth. It’s lucky they hev, fer ye
couldn’t raise an ol’-fashioned buildin’ wi’ the men they’ve
got nowerdays. Ye'd better keep yer wrastlin’ till arter
raisin’.”
Solon Briggs slid himself on to the rafter close beside
Uncle Lisha, and began speakirig in a voice that could
not be overheard. ‘That narrowtyve you was relatin’ of
was turrible interestin’, Uncle Lisher. Du you s’pose you
could designate the spot where the ol’ gentleman climb, or
thought he climb the tree?”
The old shoemaker looked a moment at Solon and then
sent a roving glance along the towering mountain wall,
its lower steeps rising like a mist of tender green to the
bristling firs that climbed in dark array up the rugged
steeps to the bald, gray peak. _
“Good airth and seas, Solnn,” he said at last, turning
his face again to his interlocutor. ‘Ef ye knowed wit!iin
a mild, ye might as well hunt fera needle in a hay mow.
It must ha’ been east o’ aour ol’ place. Ye know where
that is?”
An’ proberly,” said Solon, ‘the was persecutin’ his
sarch in the same direction er p’nt 0’ compasses?”
“Wal, I s’pose so. more towards the top, Why, you
haint a goin’ huntin’ arter the money be ye, Solon?”
“Good land 0’ massy, no,” cried Solon nervously.
BOONE AND CROCEETT CLUB'S CABIN,
Amateur photo by .H A. Brooks
“Cause if ye be, I’ve hearn him say ’at he barried it hy
a big yaller birch, an’ that’s consid’able of a guide, bein’
there hain’t mor'n fifty yaller birches tu the acre up that
way.”
““Neow then, men,” the carpenter shouted in an au-
thoritative voice, ‘‘come right this way,” and there was a
general movement toward the place indicated.
“Take a holt o’ this aire bent.”
The men swarmed upon the sills and sleepers and laid
hold of the section of frame.
“Be yeready? Then up withit. All togeth r. Hang
tu the foot o’ them pos’s you men wi’ the crowbars. Up
she goes.”
The parallelogram of heavy timbers rose at first almost
with a jerk, then more slowly, as it was reared beyond
the reach of some.
“Pat in your pike-poles there,” cried the carpenter,
and these being set and manned, it started upward again
more rapidly, then more slowly as it reached the perpen-
dicular. The carpenter was off one side squinting at it.
“Up wid her more! Don’t be afeared. Put in some
pike-poles t’other side. Up a leetle more. A lee-tle more.
There, whoa up. All right. She’s upan’ daown as a
clever cat’s tail. Naow, stay lath it.”
The bent was temporarily fastened in place with boards
nailed diagonally upon it and the sills, and so in turn the
others were raised and the girts entered and pinned.
Then the long plates were uplifted by strong hands and
pike-poles and shoved along the beams, to which the
surest-footed of the company mounted and raised them to
their place on top of the posts and fastened them.
All the while arunning fire of jokes was kept up, not
a few of which were directed against the carpenter, whose
orders nevertheless were implicitly obeyed.
Now, the corps of exempts and invalids were dislodged
from their comfortable post on the pile of rafters. These
were sent aloft, joined in pairs and raised. Then Jona-
than Young, stinding apart, drawn to his fullest height
and with arms akimbo and puffing out his cheeks with a
long exhalation of satisfaction, looked with pride upon
the gaunt, yellow skeleton of his barn and prospectively
clothed it with boards and shingles and filled it to reple-
tion with hay and grain and heard the swallows twitter-
ing under the eaves or saw them darting with unernng
flight in and out of the gable swallow holes, which re-
minded him to call to the carpenter:
| “Don’t forgit to make some swaller-holes fer luck,
Simeon, an’ cut "em in the shape of a heart,’’and he
glanced back to the house door, where his wife s ood with
her daught-rs, gazing at the gaunt structure that already |
dominated the premises, quite overbearing the sumble
log house. They wished it was the frame of a new
house.
Jonathan’s half-grown son came along the path newly
his burden, with free arm outstretched. with head bent
low, staggering and bracing against the weight, which
he stopped often to shift from hand to hand. “A tin cup
voyaging to and fro on the foamy surface touched the
shores with hospitable clinks, till it was swamped and
went down to the shining bottom. The pail came first to
John Dart, who eyed the sunken cup for a moment and
declaring, ‘‘There’s more’n one way to skin a cat,” lifted
the pail to his lips. Then some one rescued the cup with
a hooked stick and drafts were more easily obtainable if
less copious. The company, comfortably and convene-
iently seated on thesills of the barn, were now served
with cakes, pie and cheese.
“When I was on airth first,” said Granther Hill, dip-
ping up a second cupful, ‘‘the’ want no cider to speak on,
It was rum tu_ bees, New England rum er Jamaiky
sperits fer high duck duins. Cider ‘ll du. but it haint so
sartin as rum an’ it’s bulkier I don’t cal’late a man e'ld
du much fightin’ wi’ two three quarts o’ cid+r a swashin’
raound inside on him. Rum was what we useter du it
on. When John Stark was a raisin’ men fer Bennin’ton
he wus in more of a pucker fer rum ’an he was fer
paowder an’ Jead. But he got both an’ the Hessians tew,
er leastways, we did,” and he comforted himself with
another draught, pronouncing it “good for the time o°
year.”
Eunice Young felt flattered by the returning empty
pans and plates. She was sure the supply had been
bountiful, now she knew its quality was approved.
The boys rushed back to their unfisished game of two
old cats.” The wrestlers, refreshed in strenyth and
spirits, tussled in “back holt,” ‘side holt” and ‘‘arm’s
length” in the center of an interested ring of sp: ctators.
The oldest and most sedate kept their seats, smoking and
boasting of their youthful deeds,
As the afternoon waned and the barn’s new shadow
crawled on its first journey toward the house thoughts of
the evening chores fell wpon the conviviality of tlie com-
pany, and they began to dep: rt, till there were none left
on the late busy scene oniy Jonathan, still viewing with
pride his new possession, snd the carpenter picking up
his scattered tools and planning work for the morrow,
As Solon and Antoine plodded across the fields in rom-
pany the firstsaid: ‘*Wal, Antwine, I’ve got the p’ints o’
compasses from Uncle Lisher nigh ‘nough so’s we can
make ’em corroborate wi’ the place where that aire
money’s hid. Your useter the woods ’an what I be an’ I
want you tu du the engineerin’ an’ I'll work the divinin’
rod. l’ve got me a superguberous one ’at I cut from the
north sije of a witch hazel bush.”
‘Bah gosh,” cried Antoine, ‘-Ah’ll can injin near an’
injin far. Ah’ll was be prefick injin in de hwood, me.
Well vo to-morrah mawnin’, ant it?”
“Wal, yes, I guess we'd better, an’ we'll get an’ airly
start an’ meet up back o’ the ol’ Peggs place. You fetch
a spide an’ I'll bring a crowbar an’ a bit o’ suthin tueat.”
“All raght, M’sieu Brigg.” :
‘Bone swear, Antwine,” and each went his separate
way home. ROWLAND E, ROBINSON.
SOUNDING THE ALARM.
DurRiInG the past fall while hunting with rifle for
squirrels in the heavy timber, I have at different times
noticed that both birds and mammalsseem to have several
ways of warning others not only of their own kinds, but
also of different species of the presence of a supposed
common enemy. In fact, the practice might be called
the warning system of animated nature.
As an illustration, suppose the hunter to be going
stealthily through the woods, or quietly seated upon a
stump or fallen tree, and while there to be seen, as he is
almost sure to be, by some of the sharp-eyed little wood
folks. Now suppose the little thing has before been giv-
ing out some notes or sounds peculiar to its species; all at
once those sounds will be changed to others having a
different cadence from those at first given; or as soon as
the hunter is discovered the sounds may quickly cease, or
even if the little thing was quiet be*ore, some sharp note
of dinger will often take the pla‘e of its stillness; and
other mammels and birds in the i nmediate vicinity will
understand the warning, and take up the signals until
nearly every animated thing for quite a distance around
will be apprised of the danger. Then fora while they
will act with the utmost discretion until confidence is re-
stored when the wood life will resume its normal ways
until some movement of the hunter again produces the
same phenomenon. How far beyond the commencing
pvuint those danger signals are kept up or extended, one
may be unable to discover, but I should judge by what I
have observed that they extend in all directions beyond
gunshot distance.
Should any one either with or without a gun while in
the woods where wild life is plenty, take note of this sys-
tem of cautionary cries, he would find it very interesting
and instructive,
Among the causes that lead to the detection by animals
of a person when still-hunting there is one that he sel-
dom or ever thinks about, which is the eff ct the sight
of his shadow has upon them, especially when the sun is
low. No matter how stealthily one may be going along,
or how carefully he may be concealed behind a tree, or
even be seated, his long tell-tale shadow when slightly
moving may be a greater cause of the non-appearance of
game than he is aware of.
Still another cause, which, of course, cannot be obviated
much, is the appearance of the face and hands in con-
trast with the clothes of the gunner or with surrounding
objects. That often attracts the attention of animals, but
more especially is their attention attracted hy the move-
ments of the hands while manipulating the gun. One
cannot help but notice, should he occasionally take a look
behind him when quiet in the woods, how near sqvirrels
and other animals will come up to him from that direec-
tion, while in front he will see none of them, thus show-
ing conclusively that the contrast made by the face and
hands with surrounding objects has more to do with
making the hunt other than a successful one than many
gunners are aware of; consequently, we might suppose
that, so far as complexion is concerned, since his color
more nearly corresponds to surrounding woodland objects,
an Indian would be more succe-sful as a still-hunter than
would one of us, his pale-faced brothers.
Sometimes while gunning the taking advantage of the
knowledge of a few puints uf little consequence seemingly
worn from the house, but henceforth to be an established like these may make a marked difference in the contents
___ | Way, bearing a great tin-pail of cider, bending away from | of one’s game bag.
ALL,
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FOREST AND STREAM.
[DEc, 16, 1898.
Satnyal History.
SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BEARS.
For three-quarters of a century the question of how
many species of bears are peculiar to North America, has
been a problem to zodlogists and a puzzle to all others
interested in the pursuit of these noble objects of the
hunter's ambition, Leaving out of consideration any
questions but those affecting the relationship of our bears,
among themselves, the disputed points are really three in
number: First, is the large grizzly of the Pacific coast to
be separated from those of the Rocky Mountains? second,
what is the “cinnamon” bear? anil third, what is the
“barren ground bear?” The uncertainty as to the third
point is easily explained by the meager description given
by Richardson in the ‘‘Fauna Boreali Americana.” Nor
is ita long chase from condition to cause, through the
confusion which has surrounded the first and second, in
view of the great variability of these animals in size and
color. It is comparatively of late years only that natural-
ists have gone beyond external appearance for their
specific characters, and during the period since anatom-
ical structure began to be considered, it has hardly been
felt safe, by cautious systematists, to base generaliza-
tions on the fragmentary collections of our natural his-
tory museums, unattended, as a large part of the speci-
mens are, by any exact data as to the accompanying
conditions of claw, coat, skeleton and locality.
Within a few months specimens have come into my
hands and, by a coincidence, about the same time similar
material has come into the possession of Prof. E. D.
Cope, which seems to settle the identity of the ‘‘cinna-
mon,” atleast. As to the grizzly—what I shall say here
expresses only my own judgment for future exami-
nation of larger series of specimens, in connection with
all desirable information regarding them, may possibly
cause a revision of this species, but I venture the belief
that the views here set down will not be materially
changed.
In searching among bears for the most reliable specific
characters, it has been found best to rely on certain
features presented by the skull. In a general way, these
are the proportion borne by the extreme breadth, across
the zygomatic arches, to the extreme length from the
pre-maxillaries to the posterior end of the occipital
condyle, measured along the under surface; the propor
tion of the length of the hinder molar in the upper jaw
to the length of the skull; and the contour line of the
upper surface of the cranium from front to back—whether
it is convex oyer the forehead, when looked at from one
side, or what degree of concavity it presents, There are
also more or less variable arrangements of the cusps of
the teeth, but these are highly technical and it is not
necessary to take them into consideration here,
Now, first as to the grizzly, The earliest description of
this bear, accompanied by a scientific name, was that of
Ord in 1815, as Ursus horribilis, based upon the specimens
collected by the Lewis and Clarke expedition in 1804-6
on the upper Missouri River above the mouth of the Yel-
lowstone. He was followed in 1823 by Say, who adopted
Ord’s name for the bears collected by Long’s expedition
in 1820 near the head of the Arkansas River in Colorado,
In 1831 Richardson based the name Ursus feroz on these
two descriptions and on a young male killed on the Sas-
katchewan by the Franklin expedition, of which he was
naturalist. With one exception, which will be again
referred to, all the designations which were subsequently
applied to the grizzly were founded on these earlier des-
criptions; they contain nothing new and have no title to
consideration. What we have, therefore, to do is to com-
pare our specimens with Ord’s account and with each
other, in the light of such facts as have been learned
since his time, to find out whether there is one or more
species of grizzly.
The measurements which will be given here for the
purpose of comparison, are taken from a small number of
skulls in my own possession, but do not differ much from
the average of a much larger series. These show the skull
of the Rocky Mountain grizzly to have an average length
of 18,.44in., with a breadth of 7,67in,, or taking the length
as 1,000 the proportion of breadth is .570. The grizzly is
a narrow-headed bear, with the profile of forehead slightly
concave—a slight “‘stop,” as it were, in front of the eye.
The teeth in this bear are very large, the hinder upper
molar being especially so, when compared with the
black bear, or with the brown species (Ursus arctos) of
Europe and Asia, the proportion of its length to that of
the skull being about .107.
Throughout the Rocky Mountains the so-called “silver-
tip” and the ‘‘cinnamon” of hunters are regarded as dif-
ferent species, and the great grizzlies of the Pacific Coast
are commonly looked on as still another. With reference
to the two former, it will help clear the matter to say here
that the bear called ‘‘cinnamon” by hunters, whether or
not it be distinct, is of the grizzly type and is a very dif-
ferent animal from that to which naturalists give the
same name; this bear is externally, much more like the
black and will be taken up further on.
I have before me now the skulls of two grizzlies, with
whose obsequies | was somewhat associated, which serve
admirably for comparison, each having been an excel-
lent specimen of the supposed form which it represents;
the one being an old male ‘‘cinnamon,” killed on one of the
heads of the White River in Colorado; the other being an
adult female ‘‘silver tip” killed some years later, 50 miles
or so to the northward. These skulls do not show a sin-
gle character separating the two forms. The cinnamon
is 13.75in. long and 7,75in, wide, a proportion of .564:;
with a hinder upper molar 1.4in. long, or a proportion of
-108 of the length of skull. The female is 13in. long and
7.75in, wide, a proportion of .597; the hinder molar being
1,6in., a proportion of .109. A skull of an old male from
California, in the collection of the Academy of Natural
Sciences, gives: length 14.25in., breadth 8.83in,, propor-
tion .584; length of hinder molar 1.6in., proportion .105,
The range of variation in the proportions of five other
skulls taken at random, being from a maximum of .610
to a minimum of .510, it will be seen how insignificant the
variation is in these three skulls, representing silver-tip,
cinnamon and California bears.
In 1859, in the reports of the Mexican Boundary Sur-
vey, Baird described specimens collected in Arizona,
under the name of Ursus horribilis var. horriceus, I do
not see any distinction whatever between these bers and
the most common form of the grizzly found in that
southern region, and in fact they are not now regarded
as distinct.
It hasagain, been said that the bears found in the region
where the Lewis and Clarke specimens were procured,
bear a resemblance to those from the Pacific Coast moun-
tains. This may well be true; matter in motion, whether
it bein the form of water or of grizzly bears, finds out
the lines of least resistance, and a species from the west
of the mountains, working its way eastward, would find
its natural path up the valley of the Columbia and _ the
Snake rivers into Idaho and Montana, but personally I do
not believe that any of these skulls will show peculiarities
which are constant and not dependent upon size and
powerful development. Size, however, unaccompanied
by other fixed points of difference, is not a sound specific
character, and in any event, while it is probably true
that the average size of bears from the Sierra Nevadas is
greater than that of those from the Rockies, it is also
certain that in the latter they sometimes reach enormous
bulk. I have now in memory, days and nights spent in
watching for a grizzly whose well known track covered
quite as much of his native soil as would that of any
California specimen which I have ever seen, and that was
ina Rocky Mountain region which shall be narneless,
for while as yet I haye never seen this bear in the flesh,
he is still alive, and in hopeful moments I have imagin-
ings of a time when my eye may rest upon him—through
the sights of my .45-125,
Size is, furthermore, quite as variable with these ani-
mals as any character can be, and thereon I am about to
state conclusions, which will certainly be scorned by
those fortunate followers of Nimrod who slay 1,500 or
1,000lbs. grizzlies. It is a curious fact in the geograph-
ical distribution of animals—for which an explanation
might be sought among ethical rather than physical
causes—that 1,000lbs. bears are not found inhabiting the
same range of country as Fairbank’s scales, I have seen
but one grizzly actually weighed, and that was a male
which died in the Philadelphia ZoGlogical Garden in 1881;
a larger and finer specimen than the average, and which
weighed a trifle under 500Ibs.
By far the largest of these bears that I have seen were
one from the Sierra Nevadas, known as ‘‘Sampson,” who
with his owner, old ‘‘Grizzly Adams,” was the delight of
my schoolboy holidays, thirty years ago, in Barnum’s
Museum at Broadway and Ann street, New York, and
the male of a pair now in the Cincinnati Zodlogical Gar-
den, which, I am informed by Mr. Stephan, the superin-
tendent, were captured in San Joaquin county, California,
in 1871. Quite recently this bear was under discussion
between Mr, F. J, Thompson, the former superintendent
of the Cincinnati Garden, and myself, and we independ-
ently estimated his weight at 800lbs. I am disposed to
believe that he is quite as large as ‘‘Sampson.” Not in-
frequently bears are offered to me for sale, by parties in
the West, weighing 1,200 or more pounds, In such cases
T always offer a sliding scale of prices, so mich a pound
up to 600lbs, and an increased rate for each 100 addi-
tional, It always happens that the weight finally comes
down to the lower limit, and the owner acknowledges
that the one first given was estimated. I confess myself
profoundly skeptical as to the present existence of a bear
weighing 1,000lbs., anywhere between the Gulf of Cali-
fornia and—-say the Mackenzie River.
Color, in the grizzly, is even more uncertain than size,
and ranges from a deep blackish-brown to pale yellowish-
brown, the last being more unusual than the first, In
most cases the hairs are paler at the tip than atthe base.
Therefore, leaying out of consideration the differences
between individuals when compared with each other, it
may be easily seen that a rough-coated animal with each
hair of two or more colors, or shades of color, will pre-
sent a very different appearance in full winter pelage
from that offered by his more or less worn and faded
coat at other seasons. The hunters’ “cinnamon” is a
reddish-brown grizzly with little or no paler shade on the
ends of the hairs; the ‘‘silver-tip” is a darker grizzly
with the tips a light gray, making a striking contrast to
the black-brown bases of the hairs, which plainly show
where the hair is shorter—on the legs andfeet. The most
common form is a mixture of light and dark, giving a
truly grizzled appearance to what the voyageurs, in their
daring excursions, knew as l’ours gris or cendré; but
almost any dozen of skins collected in any one locality
will contain specimens which it is hard to assign definitely
to either form. Color, then, falls to the ground, as well
as size and skull characters, within the limits of this
species.
One point there is to consider, in which all these bears
agree and in which they differ from all others in America;
that is, the long foreclaw. This character has sometimes
been undervalued, as possessing less stability than I be-
lieve exists. During the past twenty years 1 haye been
on terms of more or less amicable acquaintance with a
ereat many bears of this species, both dead and alive, in
captivity and in their native mountains, and the large
foreclaw, generally blunt at the tip, has been present and
couspicuous in all colors, sizes and ages, from the cradle
to the grave, which I have ever seen, and could never be
mistaken for the short, curved, pointed claw of the rest
of the family on this continent.
There has been less confusion surrounding the black
bear, although he, too, has had his troubles. The species
was first described by Pallas in 1780, under the name of
Ursus americanus, and the black form has been so known
ever since. This bear is characterized by a moderately
broad skull, the width averaging a little more than .600
of the length; a profile which forms a gentle, continuous
convexity from the occipital suture to the nasal orifice,
although an occasional specimen shows a slight concavity
of the forehead. The teeth are comparatively small, the
hinder upper molar in three specimens averaging .092 of
the length of skull. The foreclaw is short, curved and
pointed, much as in the cat, In the Mexican Boundary
Survey in 1859, Baird placed under Audubon’s name of
Ursus americanus var. cinnamomeus three brown bears,
collected in Arizona. There is nothing in his description
to warrant a separation of these specimens from the black
form; as the supposed differences in the skull are trivial,
ind it isa well known fact that cubs of both colors are
sometimes found in the same litter. Coues and Yarrow
mention such a case on the authority of Mr. H. W. Hen-
shaw in the Zodlogy of the Wheeler Survey.
These brown bears seem to be common in the South-
west, and judging from their tracks they reach a size
quite up to the standard of large black specimens. Ihave
uot been fortunate enough to kill any of these bears, byt
in December of last year, among the dense brush at the
bottom of a deep cafion in the Chisos Mountains of south-
western Texas, I picked up a good-sized skull bearing all
the characters of dmericanus, and scattered around,
among the bones and debris of the carcase, were a few
shreds of skin with brown hair still attached, showing
mae the color of the original owner of the skull had
een.
Tn 1853 Audubon and Bachman, in the ‘‘Quadrupeds of
North America,” deseribed Ursus americanus var. cinna-
momeus, Which I believe to be a wholly different animal
from that of Baird, just referred to, and of other authors,
and of this bear it is necessary to speak at some length.
In December, 1873, through the kindness of the late
Gen. James §, Brisbin, U. S. A., a bear was received at
the Zoblogical Garden, in company with other specimens
which fixed it as a Rocky Mountain inhabitant, At that
time Gen, Brisbin was stationed at Omaha, Neb,, and it is
a fair inference that these animals came from the region
most easily reached by the Union Pacific R, R.—south-
western Wyoming or the contiguous portions of Colorado
or Utah. When I first saw this bear I was impressed
with its want of likeness toany I had everseen; his color,
contour of head and general appearance being most
striking, This animal is still living in the garden.
While coming Hast, over the Union Pacific Railroad, in
1684, in the possession of a saloon keeper near the station
at Green River, Wyoming, | saw another bear, precisely
like the first, but was unable to purchase it. In reply to
inquiry, the owner said it came from ‘‘up country,”
which, as applied to bears in that locality, would be very
apt to indicate fhe Sweetwater or Wind River mountains.
Several years later I had the good fortune to kill a third
specimen on one of the heads of the White River in
Colorado, but owing to heavy snows the spoils of this bear
were not brought out. In 1891 Mr, James E, Cooper, the
well-known showman, now dead, brought from the West
and presented to the Zodlogical Society, a bear which a
single glance showed to be also of this interesting form.
Mr. Cooper said he bought it out on the Union Pacific,
and as if was a very old animal and had been in captivity
for a long time, I have little doubt that if is the same one
I saw at Green River seven years previously. This bear
was happily in poor health, and his skeleton has now
come under observation. Finally, during the past sum-
mer, Prof. H. D. Cope procured a somewhat broken skull
in a cavein the Ozark Mountains, Missouri, which in all
essential characters agrees with that of the Cooper bear.
In this skull the differential characters ure very strong-
ly marked; its length is 11.25in., with a breadth of 8in.,
giving the very high proportion of ,710. The posterior
upper molar is 1.25in. long, and is even larger relatively
than in the grizzly, being .110 of the length of skull; and
the concavity of the forehead is very great, All these
points far exceed those of any other North American
species, and are so striking that the veriest tyro in
anatomy would need buta glance at the head of theone still
living, to recognize that his skull must be, essentially, in
proportion and contourylike the one just described, These
bears are each about 5ft, 4in, long and have the claw
of the black species.
The color of the specimen now living, isin autumn a
rich reddish brown, almost bay; as his coat becomes worn
and faded, he becomes pale yellowish brown, the color
being generally uniform over the body. ‘To illustrate
how light he sometimes becomes, I may mention that
some years ago the proprietor of a traveling menagerie
was most desirous of purchasing him to fill a cage left
vacant by the death of a polar bear. The skin of the
Cooper bear is before me now, and is almost of a flaxen
color, with traces of a darker shade on the nape. This
bear being in bad health never had as rich or full a coat
as the other one. The one which I met with in Colorado
was killed in November, and was of similar color to the
first, and I should say, parenthetically, that while no de-
tailed examination was ever made of the skull of this
specimen, its general character was that of the one just
spoken of,
Audubon and Bachman’'s description relates only to ex-
ternal form, bul in connection with the plate accompany-
ing it, no doubt is left in my mind that 1t applies to these
specimens as well. It cannot, however, be retained as a
variety of americanus, the fact being thatit is a strongly
marked species, quite as much, if not more, unlike the
black than it iseven to the grizzly. From the black it
differs in the greater width of the head, the greater size
of the molar teeth, and the highly concave forehead,
while it departs from the grizzly in an even greater rela-
tive width of head;in aless degree in the two otker charac-
ters, and in having a small claw on the forefoot. Itmust
therefore be raised to full specific rank as Ursus cinna-
momeus (Aud. and Bach ), und we have at last a ‘‘cinna-
mon” bear with a distinct and cecided personality.
Unfortunately, nothing authoritative can be said re-
garding the bear spoken of by Richardson in 1831, in the
“Wauna Boreali-Americana,” as the ‘‘barren-yround bear.”
He states that it ranges from north and east of the Great
Slave Lake to the Arctic Sea, and that it dilfers from the
black bear in “greater size, profile, physiognomy, longer
soles and tail,” and from the grizzly, ‘‘in color and com-
parative smallniss of claws.” His description of its color
is not unlike that of cinnamomeus, as given above, and hig
reference to ‘‘profileand physiognomy” as compared with
the black bear, is suggestive. Ina general way he was
disposed to regard his animal as resembling the brown
bear of Europe and Northern Asia,and indeed, calls it
Ursus arctos var. americanus. Now it is true that ex-
ternally cinnamomeus is not unlike small light-colored ex-
amples of arctos; and Audubon and Bachman suggest, in
fact, that their bear may perhaps be the same as Richard-
son's. It is worth considering also that cuinamomeus is
certainly not common in the United States, otherwise its
conspicuous characters could not so long have remained
unobserved by zodlogists; a fact which might be accounted
for by supposing it to bean intrusion from a northern
range. However, in the absence of further material from
that region, no definite opinion can be ventured, but it
would not be surprising if they turn out to be the same.
It is interesting, by the way, to note that Richardson
speaks of a “Ranging Bear” found in the western
districts of the United States and ‘‘said to have a longer
body and legs than the black bear and to be more
ferocious when wounded.” As far as I know, this is the
first literary mention of a name which still survives as
“range bear” in portions of the Rockies, as applied to
certain grizzlies, long-bodied and lank from individual
tendency or lack of food, :
, Dec, 16, 1898,]
FOREST AND STREAM.
519
‘Summing up now the conclusions reached sere, we
have as the three known species of bear peculiar to North
America:
Ursus horribilis Ord. Grizzty BEAR,
_ Characters: Foreclaws much lon ger than hinder ones. Skull narrow;
breadth ayeraging about .570 of the length; forehead slightly concave;
hinder molar in upper jaw very large, averaging about .107 of the
length of skull.
Color: From blackish brown to reddish brown, generally with
paler tips to the hairs, giving a grizzled appearance, especially on the
back and sides.
Size: Large; from 400 to 800lbs,
Range; The Rocky Mountain region from northern Mexico into the
British possessions and Alaska; Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains
of California. Known locally as ‘“‘silver-tip,’’ ‘‘cinnamon,” “brown,”
“grizzly,”’ ‘range bear” and ‘“‘hald face,”
Ursus americanus fallas. Buack Bran.
Characters: Foreclaws shorter than in the grizzly; curved and
pointed. Skull moderately broad; ayeraging about .600 of the length;
forehead generally conyex (occasionally somewhat concave); teeth
small; hinder upper molar averaging about .092 of length of skull.
Color: Jet black, rusty black and reddish brown, or mahogany,
Size: From 250 to 400lbs. (exceptionally larger).
Range: The whole of the United States and Alaska; northern
Mexico and British possessions. Known locally as “black bear,”
“brown bear,’’ “cinnamon bear,” ‘‘yellow bear,’ and “cranberry
bear.”
Ursus cinnamomeus (C4ud. and Bach). CrynamMon BEar.
Characters; Foreclaws as in americanus. Skull very broad, about
710 of the total length; forehead very concave; teeth Jarge, the
hinder molar about .110 of the length of skull,
Golor: Rich reddish brown or bay, to pale yellowish brown (isabella)
the change to some extent being seasonal.
Size: Moderately large, about 400lbs, in the specimens obseryed.
Range: As far as known, the central Rocky Mountain region; per-
haps much further north; the Ozark Mountains, Missouri.
ARTHUR ERWIN BROWN.
ZobLoOGICAL GARDEN, PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30, 1893.
Bluebirds in December.
Takoma, D. C., Dec. 3.—Notwitkstanding the fact that we
have already experienced the present winter several very
cold days and nights in this latitude, it has not had the
effect of driving all the summer birds southward. To-
day in a piece of timber adjoining my place, an unusual
number of birds attracted my attention, and upon coming
closer to them I found they were robins (M. migratoria);
over a dozen bluebirds; besides Juncos, sparrows, and two
or three species of the smaller woodpeckers. The bluo-
birds were in fine plumage, and the sexes were about
- equally represented. Dr. R. W. SHUFELDT.
Proceedings U. S. National Museum.
SEPARATE papers recently issued by the National Museum
contain a description of a new storm petrel from western
Mexico and a catalogue of a collection of birds made in
Alaska by Mr. C. H. Townsend during the cruise of the
U.S, Fish Commission Steamer Albatross, in the summer
and autumn of 1888, by Mr. Robert Ridgway; descriptions
of new species of American fresh-water crabs. by Mary J.
Rathbun; and land shells of the genus Bulimulus in Lower
California, with descriptions of several new species, by
William Healey Dall, INERER
Horns of Female Caribou,
InpIAN Rost, Me., Noy. 27.—I notice what you say (in
your issue of the 11th) in regard to hornless cow caribou.
Since reading your remarks I have inquired of several of
our most reliable guides and caribou hunters about cow
caribou. Their estimate is that not more than one in
twenty of the cows have horns. I knew of six cows
killed from one drove, two of them had horns. I have
heard of only one besides those. C, J. RICHARDSON,
Game Bag and Guy.
LAKE POYGAN DUCKS AND FISH.
Brine at Oshkosh, Wis., the first week in November, I
asked my old friend Orson Cook if there was any duck
shooting. ‘‘Why,” said he, you're right init. Get onthe
steamer John Lynch at 1:30 P. M. and go to Tustin, thirty
miles up the river at the head of Poygan Lake. Never
been there? Well, you want to go, for it is the place for
ducks and fish. So much wild rice up there that the mal-
lard’s get so fat they can’t fly, and the boys kill ’em with
paddles. Bass, pickerel and perch so plentiful it’s no fun
to catch em.” ‘‘EHere, Cook,” I interrupted, stop that now
and tell the truth about the ducks,” “Sol will. The
ducks are there. You can get guide, boat and decoys
there, and will find an excellent hotel right on the edge
of the shooting grounds. Go, and havea good time. I'd
go with you but I sprained my knee launching my yacht
to go on this very trip, and have had to lose all the fall
shooting.”
The next afternoon found me on the steamer, also there
was an old trunk bearing on its outside the scars of six
years’ battle with the baggage men of thirty different
States, its interior stuffed with an old corduroy suit,
wading boots, flannel shirts and extra heavy undercloth-
ing; besides these there was a 12-gauge gun that has been
carried by me hundreds of days and looks like a mighty
old gun, but it’s just as good as ever.
A few miles up the river the boat entered and steamed
across Lake Butte Des Morts (pronounced Beauty More),
some twelve miles long by two miles wide, with many
thousand acres of bog and rush-grown marsh on either
side. When I remarked to the captain that it looked good
for mallards, he said it was, but there was a gun for nearly
every bird. Asking if it were so at Tustin he said, *‘No,
for there is no cover for shooters there. The rice is all
down, and no ducks can be got without decoys, so it isn’t
much use for the natives to huntupthere, If you can
get Charlie Laubenhammer to take you out you will be
all right, He knows all about the ground and is reliable,
He will get you the best shooting to be had.”
~ At4d P, M. we entered Lake Poygan, 12 miles long and
miles wide, most of its shores marshy and a good deal
£ it shallow water, Darkness came on when we were
half-way through the lake, but before it came I was glad-
dened by the sight of acres of ducks on the. water and
thousands in the air. When within half a mile of Tustin
the boat stuck on a bar, so it was 7 P. M. before the hotel
was reached. The hotel was a surprise.in such a little
hamlet. It was strictly clean, ablaze with light and thor-
oughly warm, and supper could be had, even if the boat
was two hours late. The hostess asked if it was a hunting
trip, and being told it was and thal my trunk was on the
boat, she said, ‘It must come to the house to-night,” and
started a porter for it at once. She then asked if I wanted
breakfast early enough to get on the lake before daylight,
and whether a boatman had been engaged. Telling her
no, she said, ‘‘Charlie Laubenhammer is the best one. He
lives a mile from here, but I’ll send the boy to get him to-
night.”
Next morning when I came out from breakfast Charlie
awaited me. Charlie is a young flaxen-haired German,
modest as a girl, and not a bit of deceit or dishonesty
in him, always paying strict attention to his work, and
anxious to do all he could for me. His boat house was
but a few steps from the hotel, and while he got boats
and decoys ready I looked at the lake, It was fringed
with a growth of wild rice, from a quarter to three-quar-
ters of a mile wide, all of it now fallen down, but easily
to be traced by the thin ice that covered most of it, Here
and there in the open water were large flocks of widgeon,
redheads, bluebills and a few mallards, but there were
very few flying. Charlie said it would not be long till
the shooters and fishing boats would stir them up. By
this time he had put out two boats, or rather, wide canoes,
12ft. long, 3ft. wide, sharp at both ends, witn about 4ft.
decked over at each end. They run very easy, are steady
enough to shoot from, and except that they will shipsome
water in a sea, are well-nigh perfect.
We took an observation trip of two or three miles
before locating, which we finally did in an old blind fifty
yards outside of the rice and less that half a mile from
the hotel. Decoys out and myself snug in the blind,
Charlie said, ‘“Now I'll go round and stir them up.”
Wherever ducks were in sight he paddled toward them,
pounding the decks of his boat with the paddle, and occa-
sionally firing his gun he soon put everything to flight
within a mile of us. It was evident too that other hunters
were afield. Guns were beginning to roar and clouds of
ducks took wing, till there were thousands in sight, For
the first half hour no ducks decoyed. They were inlarge
flocks and were very suspicious, but as they flew about
in an aimless way the flocks got broken, and after explor-
ing our end of the lake and finding no ducks but our
decoys began to pay attention to them, none, however,
coming near enough to shoot until two redheads alighted
two hundred yards away and swam to the decoys. It
was amusing to see those two ducks swimming among
the decoys, examining them with evident curiosity and
plainly suspicious. At last I concluded to verify their
suspicions and rose up to shoot. Oh, what a scramble
those ducks did make to get right away from there, but
one of them was too late. He did not get ten feet before
he fell dead into the water. The other one, by some
unaccountable means, got off and is probably a good
duck yet.
Some time after this a lone bluebill came in and got
killed, next some widgeon offered a long shot and one
got a shot in the head; more bluebills came and got
away; a lone mallard came and was killed; two widgeon
offered a nice double and both went scot free; next came
a mallard, too high, but try him once, knocked out a
feather anyway; and look, he is coming down and half
alights, half falls, eighty rods away. Charlie sees it and
gives chase, and it turns out a long chase, but the bird is
bagged. ee sDO ee 812.3 ‘ ‘246 5S
7,452.9 * Pet athe aes 805. 59** “244 be
DuPont’s powder, FFF., 13402. shot No. 7:
5071 lbs. equal 345 atm, 812.3 ft. equal 246 meters.
5,027.4 ** 384 ** 779.3 ** te 236 s
5,071.4 ‘t te Bos at T7270 + te 234 se
As will be seen from the figures quoted in Table H the
majority of powders will not stand the influence of a
moisture in the air of 85% under the conditions before
mentioned, and that even the DuPont's smokeless and the
E. GC, powders, which are less hygroscopic than some of
the others, after haying absorbed 2 and 237% moisture res-
pectively, lose considerably in propelling energy.
It was found that the several powders subjected to the
influence of moisture had absorbed the latter in the fol-
lowing proportions:
DuPont's smokeless pdr..2% Schultze powder....... 34%
Walsrode leaf powder...2% Schultze (Pom.) powder.3.47
Walsrode grain powder..24% 8. S. powder..........-. 4G
DuPont’s black powder. .2% American wood powder.7%
EK, C. powder, 24% :
A portion of the Walsrode leaf powder was placed in
an oven and there tried under a temperature of 205° F.
—80° G., and then tested for bursting strain and velocity.
Walsrode leaf powder, 3igrs., 14g0z. shot No. 7:
Bursting strain. Velocity.
8,070.3 lbs. equal 549 atm. 785.10 ft. equal 238 meters.
8,379.0 ** ATE Oe 858.8 * * 260 Pi
8,820.0 * 825.2 % FH O50) +
Mean velocity, 822 ft.
wu 600 as
M bursting strain, 8,423 lbs.
Tae 1 ih Variation, 73 ft.
Variation, 750 Ibs.
Table I.
Comparative Test Between No, 3 Primers and Common Primers,
Primed with 3grs. fine grain Black Powder.
Walsrode leaf powder, 31grs., 11¢0z. shot in special shells:
Bursting Straw. Velocity.
7,893.9 lbs, equal 537 atm. 852.0 ft. equal 258 meters,
The same load in Climax shells with black powder priming:
9.172.8 lbs. equal 624 atm. 799.0 it. equal 242 meters.
8,906.4 © + 612 Bobet! HO pagan <4
Schultze powder (Pompton), ddrs., in Smokeless shells, 140z. shot
Se 'g 246 7 lbs. equal 561 atm. 835.6 ft. equal 253 meters,
The same load In Climax shells with black powder priming:
4,630.5 lbs. equal 315 atm. below 650 ft.
4,498.2 ** “* 306 atm. cr GbO\s
DuPont's smokeless powder, 234drs., 1}goz. shot No. 7 in Smokeless
shells: ;
9,788.2 lbs. equal 666 atm. §18.10 ft, equal 248 meters.
he same load in Climax shells with black powder priming:
e 8,202.6 lbs. equal 558 atmo, 792.5 Tb. equal 240 meters,
8,643.6 a) ae 5RS ue 855.4 * te 259 iT
B. O. powder, 3drs., 1)goz. shot No. 7 in Smokeless shells:
5,865.3 lbs. equal 399 atm, 815.7 ft. equal 247 meters,
The same load in Giimax shells with black powder BR oueES
4,718.7 ibs. equal 321 atm, 746.6 ft. equal 233 meters,
4,586.4 ** Me diets 730.0 ** 719 ff
Walsrode powder in grains, 29grs.; 1}g0z. shot No. 7, in special shells:
6,615.0 lbs, equa! 450 atm. 799.0 ft. equal 242 meters.
The same load in Climax shells with black powder priming:
4,497.0 lbs. equal 510 atm. 782.6 ft. equal 2 7 meters.
7,408.8 * a 504, 766.0 ** toe ae te
Schultze powder, 3drs., 14g0z. shot No. 7, in Smokeless shells:
7898.0 lbs. equal 537 atm. 925.5 ft. equal 250 meters.
The same load in Climax shells with black powder priming:
4,588.4 lbs. equal 312 atm. 687.9 ft. equal 208 meters,
4,586.4 os ve 312 Ld 684.6 ae st 207 af
American wood powder, 3drs., !g0z. shot No 7, in Smokeless shells:
4,806.9 lbs, equal 327 atm. 752,10 ft. equal 228 meters.
The same load in Climax shells with black powder priming:
4,851.0 lbs. equal 430 atm. below 650 it,
4,718.7 BU et ok
BQ4
&. 8. powder, 8drs., 1}40z. shot No. 7, in Smokeless shells:
Bursting Sirain. Velocity.
7,805 7 los. equal 531 atm. 818.10 ft. equal 248 meters.
The same load in Climax shells with bleck powder priming:
6.306 3 lbs. equal 429 atm. 789.2 ft. equal 239 meters.
7,011.9 ** Ma Gite ae B24 * 243 ire
The foregoing table shows that only four of the powders
tested will stand black powder priming, and that the
bursting strains of both the No. 3 primer and the com-
mon shell, primed with black powder, are about the
same, whereas the velocities of the No, 3 primer are
superior to those of the common primer.
The DuPont’s 8. 8. and both Walsrode powders de-
veloped velocities sufficiently high to warrant a good
killing power; they can therefore, if necessary, be used
for live bird as well as for artificial target shooting, but
the velocities obtained with both Schultze, FE. C. and
American wood powders only justify the use of these
powders in common shells primed with black powder for
artificial targets. To use them also for live birds would
be equivalent with cruelty to animals.
All powders were again tested at Carney’s Point for
pattern. The gun and barrel used was a 12-bore choke.
Distance between muzzle of gun and target 40yds. The
shot charges—3866 pellets Nu. 7, equal to 140z.—were
loaded with the shot counter or trowel. All shots fired
from muzzle rest.
within the 3Uin. select circle.
Table K.—Pattern Test.
3drs. BE. C. powder, 1142. shot No. 7. in Smokeless shells:
187 243 244 217 192—1083 Average pellets 216; var. 57; cor. vel. 816ft.
3drs. Schultze powder (Pompton), 1402. shot No. 7, in Smokeless
shells:
176 111 175 205 207-874 Average pellets 175; var. 96; cor. vel. 865ft.
+ drs. Schultze powder, 1lé0z. shot No 7, in Smokeless shells:
203 229 187 211 200-1030 Average pellets 206; var, 42: cor. vel. 795ft.
32grs. Walsrode leaf powder, 11Z0z. shot No. 7, in Vienna shells:
169 159 176 197 171—872 “Average pellets 174; var 58; cor. vel. 871ft
3lgrs same powder, same shot and shells:
178 172 166 174 200-890 Average pellets 178; var. 84; cor. vel. 842ft
29ers. Walsrode powd, gran., 114z. shot No. 7, in Bischweiler shells:
17) 188 172 194 183-907 Averaye pellets 181; var, 24; cor vel. 812ft,
8drs. American wood powder, 11g0z. shot No. 7, in Smokeless shells:
261 248 247 254 109-1119 Average pellets 221; var. 152; cor. vel. 747ft.
#drs. S.S. powder 11402. shot No 7, in Smokeless shells:
169 158 189 221 206 953 Average pellets 189; var. 163; cor. vel. 734ft
2340's DuPont's smokeless powder, 1}Z0z. shot No. 7, in Smokeless
shells:
214 190 171 192 177944 Average pellets 189; var. 43; cor, vel 838ft,
In view of the fact that low velocities generally pro-
duce highly satisfactory pattern, in judging and cvonipar-
ing the pattern the corr sponding velocities must always
be taken into consideration, Applying this rule to the
results ‘enumerated in Table K, E. C., DuPont's smoke-
less, Walsrode leaf powder @igrs.) and Schultze (Pomp-
ton) powder make, with about even values, the best show-
ing. S hultze powder did well in point of pattern, but
the velocities are somewhat low and the patterns are
irregular, It takes, therefore, together with Walsrude
grain powder, the second place. S. S. and American
wood powder are out of competition, since the velocities
of both are below the requisite limit. The next table
shows the time required by tin diff-rent powders between
the moment of the pulling of the trigger and the moment
the shot quits the muzzle of the gun, or in other words,
how much quicker the ignition and combustion of the
powder charge is brought about with the No. 3 primer
than with the common primer.
Although these differences only move in fractions of a
second, they are nevertheless of importance in shooting
at fast moving game, especially if we bear in mind that
the pellets of a shot charge never reach their destination
simultaneously.. The chances of hitting a moving object
are influenced by the slower or quicker burnimg of the
powder irrespective of the primer and by the irregular
arrival of the pellets. If in addition to these two last
named factors, the ignition and combustion of the powder
is delayed on account of a weak primer, then, indeed, the
gunner will find himself handicapped to a great extent,
if he leads for instince, a quartering bird in the usual
manner, For this reason, the strong primer causing a
quick, sure and thorough transformation of the powder
into life energy, is preferable to the common primer for
the use of nitro powders.
Table L.—Primer Test.
The figures opposite the different makes of shells repre-
sent the time which elapsed in every case between pulling
the trigger and the moment the shot charge left the
muzzle of the gun: ‘
DuPont's Smokeless powder, service charge, 1102. shot No. 7, loaded
in Eley shells:
1. 0.0458 see, 2. 0.0428 sec. 8. 0.0521 sec. Ay. 0.0469 sec.
The same load in Kynoch shells:
0 0523 see. 2. 0 0419 sec, 3. 0.0495 sec. Av, 0.0479 sec.
The same load in Bachmann shells;
1. 0.0489 sec. 2. 0.0443 see, 3. 0.0917 sec. Ay. 0.0616 sec.
The same load in Smokeless shells:
1 0.0447 see. 2. 0.0469 see. 3. 0.0178 sec. Ay. 0.0464 sec.
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
1. 0.0460 sec. 2. 005 5 see. 3. 0.0465 sec. Ay. 0.0493 sec.
The sameJoad in Winchester Rival No. 3:
1. 0.0469 sec 2 0.0507 see. 3. 0.0570 sec. Ay. 0.0515 see.
The same load in U. S. Rapid shells:
1. 0.0461 sec. 2, 0.0553 sec. 3. 0.0465 sec. Av. 0.0493 sec.
Ree powder, service charge, 11g0z. siot No. 7, loaded in Eley
shells:
-1. 00523see. 2. 0,05538ec. 38. 0.0564sec, Av. 0 0546 sec,
The saine load in Kynoch shells:
1. 00411 see, 2. 00569 see, 3. 0.0519 sec. Ay. 0.0499 sec.
The same load in Bachmonn shells;
0.0353 sec, 2. 0.0548 see. 8. 0.0559 sec. Av. 0.0553 sec.
The same load in Climax shells:
1 O.0828iR¢ay 2) Ol09TRISec. ws ss... .. Av, 0.0870 sec.
The same load in Winchester Riyal No. 2. common:
1. 0.1153 see. 2. 0.1192 sec. 8. 0.1370 see. Ay. 0.1288 sec.
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
0.0627 sec. 2. 0.0573 sve. 3. 0.0594 sec. Avy. 0.0598 sec.
The same ‘oad in Smokeless shells:
1. 0.0526sec. 2 00543 sec. 3. 0.0522 sec. Avy, 0.0533 see.
The same liad in Wimchester Rival No 3:
1. U.0566 see. 2. 0.0629 see. 3. 0.0614 sec. Av. 0.0603 sec.
The same load in U. 8. Rapid shells:
1, U,0587 see. 2, 00741 see. 4. 0.0674 see. Av. 0.06C sec.
The same | ad in Crv-edmoor shells, Winchester No. 2 primer:
1, 0.0794 ee. 2. 0.0889 see 3 0.0 98 see. Av. 0 0827 sec.
Svhultze powder (Pompton), service charge, 114g9z. shot No. 7, loaded
in Ele) s ells:
1. 0.0578 sec. 2. 00599 sec. 3. 0.0718 see. Av. 0.0631 sec.
The same load in Kynoch shells:
1. 0.0789 see. 2. 0.0711 see. 3. 0.0698 see. Av. 0.0716 sec.
The 84me load in Bachmann shells:
1. 0.0642 see. 2. 0.0603 sec. 3. 0.0517 sec. Ay. 0.0589 see,
The figures quote! in the following
table represent the nuniber of pellets counted in each case
FOREST AND STREAM.
The same load in Climax shells:
1. 0.0810 see 2. 00961 sec.
The same load in Smokeless shells:
0.0885 sec.
1. 0.0543 see. 2. 0.0536 see. 3. 0.0449 sec. Ay. 0.0509 sec.
The same loed in Nitro Club shells: j
1. 0.0642 see. 2. 0.0548 see. 3. 0.0568 sec. Av. 0.0586 sec.
The same load in Winchester Riva! No. 3:
1. 0.0682 sec. 2. 0.0746 sec. 3. 0.0659 see. Av. 0.0695 see.
The same load in U.S. Rapid shells:
1. 00732 sec. 2. 0.0738 sec. 3. 0 0787 sec, Av. 0.0752 sec.
The same load in Creedmoor shells, Winchester No, 2 primer:
1, 0 0984 see. 2. 0.0864 sec. 3. 0.0933 sec. Av. 0.0910 sec.
American wood powder, service charge, 1140z. shot No. 7, loaded in
Hlev shells:
1. 00438 see. 2. 0.0407 see. 3. 0.0401 sec. Ay. 0.0413 sec.
The same load in Kynoch shells:
1. 0,0301 see. ° %, 0.0436 sec. 3. 0.0458 sec. Ay. 0.0398 sec.
The same load in Bachmann shells:
1, 0.0440 see, 2. 0 0463 see, 3. 0.0401 see. Av. 0.0484 sec.
The same load in Climax shells:
1. 0.0658sec. 2 0.0640sec. ......, trresee Av. 0.0649.Sec,
The same load in Winches‘er Rival, common;
1, 0.0689 see. 2. 0.0678 sec. 3. 0.0571 see, Av. 0.0646 sec.
The same load in Smokeless shells:
1. 00456 see, 2. 0.0528 sec. 3. 0.0396 sec; Ay. 0.0460 see,
The same Joad in Nitro Club shells:
1. 0.0648 see 2. 0.0614 see, 3. 0.0591 see. Ay. 0.0617 sec.
The same load in Winches!er Rival No. 3:
1. 0 0584 see. 2, 0.0540 see. 3. 0.0592 sec. Av, 0.0555 sec.
The same load in U. S. Rapid shells:
1. 00611 sec. 2. 0 U587 sec. 3. 0 0737 see. Avy. 0.0645 sec.
The same load in Creedmoor shells, Winchester No.2 primer:
1, 0,0681 sec. 2. 0 0732 sec. 3. 0 0607 see. Avy. 0.0673 sec.
E. C. powder, service charge, 14g0z. shot No. 7, loaded in Eley shells:
1. 00667 see. 2. 0.0608 sec 3. 0.0626 sec, Av. 0 0633 sec.
The same load in Kynoch shells:
1. 00618 see. 2 0.0601 sec 3. 0,0613 sec, Ay. 0.0610 sec.
The same load in Bachmann shells:
2, 0 0575 see 2 0 0598 sec. 3. 0.0584 see. Ay. 0.0585 sec.
The same load in Climax shells:
1. 0.0769 sec. ei eO,OLGUSCGs ae ieee Ay. 0.0777 sec.
The save load in Winchester Rival, common:
1. (08 6see. 2 O00956sec. 3. 0.0789 sec. Av. 0,0873 sec.
The sau.e oad in Smokeless shells:
1. 0,0622 see, 2, 0 0542 sec, 3. 0.0518 see, Avy. 0.0560 cee.
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
1. 0573 see. 2, 00548 see. 3. 0.0589 sec. Av. 0.0570 see.
The same load in Winchester Rival No. 3:
1. 0.0534 sec. 2, 0.0584 sec 3. 0.0698 see. Ay. 0.0605 sec.
The same load In U. S. Rapid.shells:
1. 0.0858 sec. 2, 0.0739 sec. 3. 0.0731 sec. Av, 00776 sec,
The same load in Winchester No. 2 primer, Creedmoor shells:
2. 0 0891 sec. 2. 0.0809 sec. 2. 0,0913 sec. Av. 0.0871 sec.
S. 8. powder, service charge, 1}g0z. shot No. 7, in Eley shells:
1. 0.0568 sec. 2. 0.0515 see. 3. 0.0544 see, Ay. 0.0542 sec.
The same load in Kynoch shells;
1 0.0578 sec. 2. (0.0615 see. 8. 0.0531 sec. Av. 0.0574 see
The same load in Bachmann shells:
1. 0.0409 sec. 2% 0.0544 sec. 3. 0,0598sec, Av. 0.0517 sec.
The same load in Climax shells:
1. 0.0750 sec. 2. 0.0612 sec. en) ae A flee Avy. 0.0721 sec.
The same load in Winchester Rival, common:
1. 0.0878 see. 2, 0.0842 see. 3. 0,0986 sec. Av. 0.0885 see.
The same load in Smokeless shells:
1. .0.0545 sec. 2. 0.0558 sec. 3. 0.0599 see, Av. 0.0570 sec.
The same load in Nitro Club shells:
1. + .0616 see. 2. 0.0613 sec. 3. 0.2606 see. Ay. 0.0611 sec.
The same load in Winchester Rival, No. 3:
1. 00692 sec. 2. 0.0599 sec. 3. 0.0596 sec. Ay. 0.0629 sec.
The same load in, U. S. Rapid shells:
1, 0.0724 see, 2. 0.0697 see. 3. 0.0684 see. Av. 0.0685 sec,
The same load in Creedmoor shells, Winchester No, 2 primer:
p
2. 0 0880 sec. 2, 00718 see.. 38. 0.0777 sec. Av. 0.0791 sec,
Walsrode leaf powder, Smokeless shells:
1. 0.0575 sec. 2. 0.0678 see, 3. 0.0527 sec. Ay. 0.0593 sec.
The same load in Vienna shells:
1, 0.0445 sec . 2. 0.0486 sec. 3. 0.0468 see. Avy. 0.0448 sec.
Walsrode grain powder, smokeless shells:
1. 0,0497 sec. 2. 0.0452 sec. 8. 0.0409 see. Av. 0 0452 sec,
The same load in Bischweil sHells:
1. 0.0480 sec. 2. 0.0493 see. 8. 0.0478 see, Av. 0.0483 sec.
Judging and comparing the result of the test as given
in Table L, we must consider all points at issue through a
ballistic glass and examine at the same time the figures of
the powder test in Chicago and at Carney’s Point, permit-
ting a conclusion as regards the nature and qualities of
the strong primer If wedoso, we come to the conclu-
sion that the strong primer is decidedly preferable to the
cominon primer for the use of nitro powders, We also
learn that the Smokeless shell takes the first place among
all the American shells and is unsurpassed by any im-
ported shell, Both the U. S. Rapid and Winchester
Rival No. 3 show meritorious points, and prove that but
very little is reqnired to make them suitable for all nitro
powders; they are quite adapted for some nitro powders
even in their present state.
Corrections.
THE figures pertaining to the test for bursting strain
and quoted in Table G in our last issue, show errors in
several instances. The table as corrected and revised is
here repeated:
Bursting strain test with slightly increased powder charges,
3}4drs. DuPont smokeless powder, 11402. shot No. 7:
12,936.0 lbs. equal 880 atm.
84ers. Walsrode leaf powder, 11é0z. shot No 7:
11,460.0 lbs. equal 780 atm.
34ers. Walsrode powder, granulated 11402, shot No. 7:
11,745.3 lbs equal 799 atm.
8l4drs, Schultze powder, 1}Z0z. shot No. 7:
7,98¥.1 lbs. equal 543 atm,
34drs. Schultze powder (Pompton), 1140z. shot No, 7:
11,510.0 Ibs. equal 783 atm.
8igdrs, American wood powder, 1}g0z. shot No, 7:
7 188 3 lbs, equal 489 atm,
8lédrs. 8.5. powder, 11g0z. shot No. 7:
: powes”* “44,818 8 lbs, equal 804 atm,
dsedrs, EH. C. powder, 1}40z. shot No. 7:
a Ss “°8,379.0 lbs. equal 570 atm.
34grs, Walsrode leaf powder in Smokeless shells, ligoz. shot No.7:
11,107.2 lbs. equal 760 atm.
Michigan Rabbits and Ferrets.
IRVING, Mich., Dec, 4—Editor Forest and Stream: Is
there a law in this State (Michigan) forbidding the use of
ferrets in hunting rabbits? Some say thereis, some not. I
looked out of my sitting room window Sunday and saw
three men returning from a rabbit hunt. The first car-
ried a box for the ferret, the other twohad a stick, on
which was a goodly lot of rabbits. With game growing
searce and the killing elementincreasing, how long will it
be before we will have only a mark to shoot at? Yet the
village and town stores are well stocked with rabbits. If
there is no law, then if some of your Michigan readers will
assist we will endeavor to have one. FAG
[bere is no law whatever on rabbits in Michigan. ]
| sportsmen and backwoodsmen.
[Duc, 16, 1898..
Kansas Quail for Pennsylvania.
A MEFTING was held recently in Reading to devise
measures for stocking the covers of Pennsylvynia with
quail, A committee of 1) was appointed to solicit sub-
scriptions for the purpose. The members chosen were:
William Seitzinger, Peter Texter, C. W. Potteiger, J. K.
Getz, James Smeck, Frank Swartz, Fred. Gerhart, A. C.
Buck walter, all of Reading; W, D. Filbert, Womelsdorf;
Thomas Bucher, Boyertown; Oscar Melot, ‘Fleetwood;
James Gougler, Leesport; G. M. Rick, Bethel; L. H.
Foeht, Birdsboro. The following committee was ap-
pointed to purchase birds, receive them when shipped and
provide a place for keeping them until spring: A. C,
Buckwalt-r, Frank Yost, George Ritter, Fred, Curtis and
George Scheele,
The birds will be distributed pro rata to subscribers.
The quail will probably be secured from Chas. Payne of
Wichita, Kans., who has adyised the Pennsylvania im-
porters that he can supply any quantity up to 1,000doz.,
at $4 per dozen,
Herbert Green’s motion that it be the sense of the meet-
ing to refrain from further shooting in the county during
the remainder of the season was overwhelmingly de-
feated. Those present organized themselves as the Berks
County Gunning and Fishing Protective Association.
A correspondent writes; ‘It seems to me that there
must be something rotten when Charles Payne, of Wi-
chita, Kansas, can offer to furnish any number of birds
desired, from one pair to one thousand dozen quail. I
am all for the protection and the propagation of quail and
other game birds, but | do not believe in helping to deplete
any portion of the United States. If Charles Payne’s
offer was not so astoundingly unlimited I would not have
said a word. Will you cast some light on this matter?
My opinion is that it would be far better if the members
present at the Reading meeting had voted for Mr. Herbert
Green's motion instead -of knocking it out. The example
set by the Pittsburgh Gun Club in unanimously passing a
resolution not to kill any more quail in the State during
the present season is to be highly commended, and could
be followed by all other similar organization in Pennsyl-
vania with advantage to our future prospects.”
Red Deer for America.
Mr. W. H. Root, the imiporter, exporter and dealer in
living wild animals, of Laramie, Wyo., tells us ‘that he
has just sold to Mr, Austin Corbin seventeen European red
red—tifteen females and two males, They will be shipped
in April or May by the White Star Line from Liverpool to
New York; and are destined for Mr, Corbin's Blue Island
Park in New Hampshire. There are already within the
27,000 acre inclosure, 400 elk, 800 deer, with 40 buffalo and
about as many moose.
Yellowstone Park Game,
A PARTY recently out from Fort Yellowstone in the
National Park saw about 40 buifalo near Twin Buttes;
another party saw 22 in the Hayden Valley. The last
party also saw a herd of about 1,000 elk in Hayden Val-
ley, one of which had a rope on him and was very tame.
Another big band of elk estimated at 500 was recently
seen back of Hlectric Peak.
Woodland Caribou in Montana,
JENNINGS, Montana, Noy. 23.—Kditor Forest and Stream:
Please send me the FoREST AND STREAM of Oct. 14 con-
taining portrait of the moose. Have just got Nov. 11
issue with fine portrait of woodland caribou. Quite a
number of the latter are yet to be found in this section of
country. ~ L. O. M.
The FOREST AND STREAM ts pul to press each week on Tues-
day, Oorrespondence intended for publication should reach
us at the latest by Monday, and as much earlier as practicable,
Sea and River ishing.
HOW TO CATCH PICKEREL,
Iv is well known that the pickerel has neither the stub-
born fighting power of the black hass nor the lightning
activity and gameness of the trout, but he is a splendid
fish nevertheless. Few amateur, yes, for that matter, few
prosessional fishermen ever discover the truly successful,
way toland the best fish in any waters. Study of the.
habits, food and lurking places of any fish is necessary for:
a painstaking angler who would make the most of his op-.
portunity,
Bait-fishing has long been fayored by conservative:
They have always fished
in that way and shun improvements and resent innova-
tions. You cannot call the attention of such aman tothe
fact that fully seventy per cent. of the fish that sirike get
off; that many others slyly steal the bait and leave him
with an empty hook without once tautening the line; that
live bait are a nuisance, hard to procure and very short-
lived. It is no use. He prefers to broil in the sun and
feed ungrateful but sophisticated pickered which lie under
the lily-pads and dine at his expense,
Troiling is par excellence the real way to fish. Neither
skittering with a spoon or bit of dead fish, nor still-fish-
ing, nor bait-casting can be compared with it. Itis restful,
exciting and profitable to a high degree. But if you troll
you must have some lure. Here again the conservative
man doggedly comes to the front with a piece of perch
strung on a gang of hooks that trail out behind like go
many ice tongs, He will not believe that the pickerel see
through his little game, and that though he may deceive
a few small ones, their older brothers will winkingly
scorn his wilted carrion.
The over-progressive man on the other hand frequents
the shops ever on the lookdut for some new patent bait.
Nothing is too impractical, too gaudy, too ridiculous for
himtotry. Like the novice, he procures the shiny silver
and yermillion affairs, the typical spoon hooks, highly
recommended by dealers,and named with considerable
accuracy by a veteran lakesinan of my acquaintance ‘‘fish
alarms,”
Of course any one who has ever used a trolling spoon
will never return to bait and will grow to love the sim
* Dec, 16, 1893,]
plicity and neatness of this tackle. But its failure to kill
will surely disappoint many, many times, when wind and
_ weather are most propitious and the locality known to be
a good one. I long puzzled over this, and tried all man-
_ ner of changes, but the nickel and red combination re-
mained unsuccessful. In some waters it was better than
others, however, and I wondered why.
’ A few seasons ago I fell in with anold angler, a hermit,
who had devoted much time to fishing, and particularly
to fishing for pickerel. His cabin was on the shore of a
small lake, well shut in by high wooded banks, and wild
enough to be but little frequented. It was at his invita-
tion that I bunked in the cabin during my stay, and on
the first night he told me more of pickerel ways and
pickerel lures than I had ever imagined a human being
could learn,
In the first place, he said, a man must realize that the
fish most numerous in a pond will, as a rule, be food for
the pickerel. According to what those are the lure must
vary in different locality, He always used a spoon, he
said, but made it himself, and the line and sinkers ag
well, though this latter for a casual fisherman would be
impractical. The chief trouble with the market spoons
was their undeviating sameness in coloring and shape,
and their unscientific construction. Long research had
taught Lim much as to the effectiveness and results of
different tones and tints in spoons. On a lake where
yellow perch breed plentifully they are apt to kill off the
other young fry and baitfish, and their own young in con-
sequence beconie the prey of the pickerel. Insuch water
an all copper spoon will be always attractive and will be
reliable if rightly made. Sunfish in other lakes are the
only food and here solid brass spoons are the only kind
to use. In still other localities the common “shiners”
swarm, and because of their feebleness and tender flesh
are highly prized by the pickerel. Tere you will use a
spoon of German silver—with no red anywhere about it,
The beauty of these devices is at once seen. The reddish
metallic luster of copper suggests the ruddy fins and
scales of the perch as no red paint can, and it is a steady
flash not intermittent, red and white like the painted
traps. The brass takes off well the lighter gold of the
roach or sunfish, and the silver is a perfect substitute for
the glittering shiner,
All of these spoons were small, not over an inch and
a quarter in length by three-quarters wide, and of an
even regular shield-like shape. The hooks, a grapple of
a
G >
SHIELD SHAPE AND KIDNEY SHAPE,
them soldered together, must hang on a short shank so
_ thatthe end of the spoon just plays over the points of
the hooks without catching. This remedies a striking
defect in the store spoons when the distance between the
spoon and the barbs invariably allows cross-coming fish
' to bite and fling off before being struck. Then, too, the
even shape makes the spinning perfectly regular, the
effect being that of a shining, but not of a wobbling
_ object, as the other kidney-shaped ones appear. The
hanging on a spindle must give a perfectly free swing
and the revolutions will be fully twice as quick as those
of the old-fashioned kind,
The line should be dark-colored, grayish if possible, heavy
as curtain cord and braided. You will see many out troll-
ing with 200ft. of it trailing behind the boat and even
then their spoon has not sunken well. These human rope
walks do not realize the miles of cord they handle, pulling
in every time, grass clogs the spoon or it fowls. And
these long strungout clumsy manufactured spoons will
catch in the pickerel-grass twice more than old ‘‘Tom’s”
do; let your line be of only 40ft. length, 35 is enough, and
on it place three heavy buckshot for sinkers. One 6ft.
_ Srom the spoon, another 14 or 15ft. from that, in the
middle and the third 6ft. from the boat end. Cut on the
bank ashort pole of a thumb’s thickness, not over 3 or 3}{t.
long, and fasten your line well to oneend. Select light
_ bouyant wood always, and then when you suddenly strike
a bad snag, you can at once let it go overboard and your
ole will float the line till you can back up and pull loose.
Rigged thus your spoon will play about 4ft. deep and then
the pickerel bite. Bigger fish lie deeper. For them use
twice as heavy weight and play about 10ft. down. Such
fish seldom frequent the shallows even to feed and will
not rise for to bite.
Never strike with the pole; just hold it motionless near
the surface and braced firmly. Let the rowing be gentle,
even and slow, and make no motions in the boat. Every
movement there is plainly shown by the spoon in its vi-
brations and tends to alarm the fish. When one strikes,
the spring of the pole will hook him firmly and you will
fling the short pole into the bottom of the boat and land
your fish, No kinks nor snarls to bother you, for your
line is short, and no losing a valuable spoon every time
you hookasunken log. On the lake where old Tom lived,
we used only the copper, for it was a yellow perch ground
and the spoons I noticed for another thing were, before
use, polished, even the hooks themselves brightened and
scoured. Our catches there and the unusual luck that
has followed me since with my home-made tackle, con-
vinces me that if others will try these ideas they will enjoy
Some rare sport on the lakes and ponds this season.
Harry PRESCOTT BracH,
The Little Star Gazer.
Editor Forest and Stream:
In your issue of Dec. 9 Mr. James Hyatt notes the fact
that in my ‘Adirondack Fishes,” published as an extract
from the Report of the Adirondack Survey in 1883, I in-
sert the Uranidea on the authority of Dr. C. Hart Mer-
riam. J emsidered the authority sufficient, as Dr.
Merriam had more experience in that region than I, but
a year or so later Mr, A. R. Fuller sent me a pint jar of
them taken from a stream emptying into Meacham Lake,
near his hotel. There are nine spevies of this little fish,
according to Jordan (Manual of the Vertebratas), ranging
from Canada to Georgia, and will, no doubt, be found in
most small, cool, stuny brooks. They are plenty in the
streams flowing into the Genessee River, south of Roches-
ter, but I have not met them on Long Island,
: MaTHER,
Cop Sprinc Harzor, N, ¥.
FOREST AND STREAM.
THE ONONDAGA ANGLERS’ YEAR.
THE annual report of the Anglers’ Association of Onon-
daga Cou.ity was presented to the Supervisors this after-
noon as follows :
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors of Onondaga
County:
*“We have the honor to present this annual report of
the Anglers’ Association of Onondaga County:
“The active work of Game Protector Jackson this year
did not commence until March 28. It was not deemed
necessary to incur the expense during the winter months,
but since the Legislature, at its last session, amended the
game laws (secti n 136), allowing the use of fyke nets of
not less than 1#in. bars, in Seneca River between the first
day of October and the first day of May to catch bullheads,
catfish, sunfish, suckers and eels, it will be necessary dur-
ing the time which this legalized netting may be allowed,
to Keep a protector on duty most of the time during the
winter months, so that no fish are caught and killed,
other than those named; also that illegal fyke nets of
less than 14in. bar are not used in the Seneca River.
Some concerted action should be taken, to the end that
this amendment to the game laws shall be repealed, to
It is impossible to
prevent illegal fishing and the killing of game fish if nets
the next session of the Legislature.
are allowed to be used at any time.
“The following amount of fish fry, obtained from the
State hatcheries have been put in the streams and lakes
of the county during the year: 100,000 pike in Seneca
River, 100,000 pike in Tully Lake, 100.000 muskallonge in
Tully Lake, 50,000 muskallonge in Oneida Lake, 50,000
muskallonge in Onondaga Lake, 25,000 California trout in
Onondaga Creek, 50,000 muskallonge in Otisco Lake, 8
x. This was
done under the action of the association at a cost of $70.99
for the distribution only, which was paid from the county
cans black bass in Tully Lake 6 to 12in. long.
appropriation.
‘The total amount paid this year to Protector Jackson
and assistants for salari's and expenses to Dee. 1, 1893, is
796,87. Of this amount $433.81 was paid from the funds
of the association, and $323 06 was paid from the amount
of $900 apprupriated by your honorable board for the pro-
tection of fish and game pursuant to Sec. 274, Chap. 31
of the General Laws approved May 5, 1892, subject to ex-
The
penditure by the District Attorney in his discretion.
unexpended balance of this appropriation is $105.95.
“It has been our aim to administer the funds of the as-
sociation and of the county in such manner as to obtain
the greatest possible efficiency, with the least possible
outlay of money, to protect the public waters of this
county from the depredators who, without such protec-
tion, would soon deplete the waters of its food fish which
add so greatly to the economy, comfort and enjoyment of
the people.
“The importance of increasing the quantity and cheap-
ening the price of fish food increases as the years go by.
Fish protection is for the benefit of the masses, not the
few, and it would seem to be a duty which official repre-
sentatives of the people owe to its people to provide them
with an abundance of fish at the smallest cost, whether
obtained in the markets or as the proper result of days
spent in life-giving recreation,
“The thanks of the people of this county are extended
to your honorable Board for the assistance you have
given the cause of protecting the public waters.
“This association has a membership of 305, of which
All of the revenus
are strictly applitd to the protection and propagation of
number 61 joined the present year.
food fish in the waters of Onondaga county.
“The efficiency of the work done during the year can-
not be estimated solely by the number of nets, etc., cap-
tured, or of parties arrested and convicted for illegal
fishing, The fact that a game protector is constantly on
patrol of the waters deters many parties from illegal
fishing.
“We respectfully petition your honorable Board to ap-
appropriate the same sum of money as last year, promis-
ing that our efforts shall be devoted to an economical ad-
ministration of the same.
“Annexed hereto is the detailed report of the work
done by the Protector for the year ending Dec. 1, 1893.
D, H. Bruce, President.
GEORGE B. Woop,
AMOS PADGHAM,
M. J. FRENCH,
WILLIAM EVERSON,
Syracuse, Dec, 5.
fess Committee.
Addressing the Board after the reading of the report,
Gen. Bruce said that the great object in view was the
cheapening of fish food by increasing the possibilities of
supply. The Anglers’ Asssociation had only one paid
officer; the reward of its members generally was in the
feeling of having done something for the public good.
Asa result of the appropriation made last year, and in
recognition of the enterprise shown, the.Fish Commis-
sioners of the State, the General was authorized to say,
had determined to establish a hatchery somewhere on the
northern shore of Oncvida Lake, and the consequent ad-
vantages could not be too highly estimated. What had
already been done had made the lake an especially good
fishing ground this year, more fish having been taken
from it with hook and line than in any five years previous.
Gen. Bruce concluded with an earnest appeal for the
renewal of the appropriation,
The Breaking Strain of Gut.
WE are often asked by tackle dealers, and have also
had several letters from anglers, asking us to give them
the breaking strain of gut of different thicknesses. The
names given below are well known in the trade. The gut
tested was perfectly dry, and of course would stand a
much greater pull if soaked in water for a short time.
SALMON GUT.
S122": ea 1 2, 3, 45
Strain.......... 15lbs 12lbs. 10lbs, 9lbs,
LAKE AND TROUT GUT.
Padron. Regular. Fina. Refioa. 1x Drawn. 3x Drawn.
Sibs. 7ibs, 5lbs. 4lbs. 3lbs 1b
S. ALLCOcK & Go.
Summer Homes.
A BEAUTIFULLY illustrated book; list of over 3,000 summer hotels
and boarding houses in Catskill Mountains and central New York.
Send six cents in stamps to H. B. Jagoe, Gen’l Eastern Passenger
Agent, West Shore R. R., 363 Broadway, New York, or free upon
application —Adv.
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Lishculture.
Note on Spawning Conditions of Sturgeon,
By BasarorD Dean, Columbia College, New York.
OF the breeding habits of the sturgeon (A cipenser sturio)
little has been recorded either by practical fishculturists or
by students of embryology. In the following preliminar
paper a few notes are given as to the movements of the fis
during spawning aud as to the natural conditions under
which the eggs are deposited and hatched.
Along the eastern coast of the United Statesa rich sturgeon
fishery has been becoming very generally depleted. And! in
view mainly of cultural needs an experimental study—during
the spring of 1893—was carried on by the writer in behalf of
the Governmental Commission of Fisheries. The station
chosen for the experiments was in the region of the mouth of
the Delaware at Delaware City, a point =specially favorable,
as the work of Prof. Ryder* in 1888 had demonstrated,
During the writer’s visit about 50 fish were brought in
daily to the wharves of the fishermen, and during the
Spay ines time there was abundant material for cultural
studies.
As to the mode of occurrence in this locality of the adult
fish a few notes might be-given. They are usually taken as
they pass up the river in ‘schools,’ These “schools” or
*“runs,’’ as the gill-netters state, comprise as many as 30 or
40 individuals; they occur at brief intervals, are usual at the
beginning of the tides and as frequent by day as by night.
During the season of well-marked *‘runs” the earlier fish are
of unripe ovaries (‘cow fish”), valuable, therefore, in the
making of cuviare; these, accordingly, might well be ex-
pected to pass further up the river to spawn. From a few
days to a fortnight later occur spawning fishes (‘‘runners’’),
a “‘run”’ that is surprisingly brief, often at a particular point
not longer than oue ortwodays
FISHER’s NpRO—Geo. D. Fisher’s dog (Fenwick—Cricket).
Kent’s MAaip—John H. Till’s biteh (King of Kent—
Galena),
LADY MARGARET—J. R. Purcell’s bitch (Dick Swiveller—
Countess).
FLOCKFINDER III,—J. R. Purcell’s dog (Old Staunch—
Plake of Plockfinder).
DERBY ENTRIES—SECOND FORFHIT,
ee following entries have paid second forfeit in the
Derby:
Tae Bor—W. D. Taylor’s dog (Gladstone Boy—Hcho).
SOLITAIRE—F, R. Hitchcock’s dog (Roi D’Or—Tory Dia-
mond).
AMETHYST—F’. R. Hitchcock’s bitch (Count Gladstone—
Tory Diamond).
TOPAZ—H. R. Hitcheock’s biteh (Count Gladstone—Tory
Diamond).
SANDSTONE—E. R. Hitchcock’s dog (Count Gladstone—
Tory Diamond).
Rop—F.. R. Hitchcock’s dog (Roi D’Or—Tory Petal).
CALLIE WuHiteE—Manchester & Watrous Kennels’ bitch
(Gath’s Mark—Georgia Belle).
NETTIE GLADSTONE—Manchester Kennels’ bitch(Dan Glad-
stone—Queen Novice).
FANNY Rice—Jackson & Denmark Kennels’ bitch (Glad-
stone’s Boy—Manitoba Peggy).
HARL PALMER—Jackson & Denmark Kennels’ dog (Frank
Whitley—Dulcina).
aaa THOMAS—W. H. Smith’s dog (Gladstone Boy—Bell
oster).
BLUE RIDGH MARK—Blue Ridge Kennels’ dog, pedigree
not given,
ANTON—Blue Ridge Kennels’ dog, pedigree not given.
Aticr BryaAnt—Blue Ridge Kennels’ bitch, pedigree not
iven.
LILLIAN O’B.—Blue Ridge Kennels’ bitch, pedigree not
given.
SALLIE Ross—Bob Cooper’s bitch.
Opat—G. E. Gray’s bitch (Count Gladstone—Diamond).
MARY HARLY—Patrick Henry’s bitch—Gath’s Hope—Glad-
stone’s Girl),
FOREST AND STREAM.
RuTH OBERLY—Patrick Henry’s bitch (Gath’s Hope—Glad-
stone’s Girl).
Hopn’s Prrp—E—W. A. Henesley’s bitch (Gath’s Hope—
Lulu Hill). :
Hib H,—W. A. Henesley’s bitch (Gath’s Hope—Lulu
ill),
Rop’s MARK—Greensboro Field Trial Kennels’ dog (Rod-
erigo—Mark’s Maid). ¢
Miss HArrre—Greensboro Field Trial Kennels’ bitch
(Gath’s Hope—Queen Noble),
a TEED RosALIE—P. Lorillard, Jr.’s, biteh (Hred—
08a).
SEU ee Lorillard, Jr.’s, bitch (Antonio—Daisy
unter).
BERYLE—P. Lorillard, Jr.’s, bitch (Gladstone Boy—Ruby D.)
LADY ARAMINTA—P. Lorillard, Jr.’s, bitch (Hugene T.—
Dell Rivers).
LEoNA—P. Lorillard, Jr.’s, bitch (Hugene T.—Bess of
Hatchie).
Monitor—J, W. Shreiver’s dog (Gath’s Hope—Clio E.)
May—A. L. Finney’s bitch (Gath’s Hope—Gladstone Girl).
EONS on Miss B.—Byron & Bedford’s bitch (Tremont
—Sue JJ.).
Rican, DURDEIN—H. S. Bevan’s bitch (Hugene T.—Dell
livers).
aes DorritT—H. 8S. Bevan’s bitch (Whyte B.—Andro-
meda).
rs Nt Morning—Chas. T. Field’s bitch (Field’s Antonio—
osette).
GLEAM’s PRIDE—W. W. Newsome’s bitch (Gleam—Pride’s
ell),
ee SHOUPE—C, P, Stoke’s dog (Gath’s Hope—Countess
tush).
ALLENE—C. P. Stoke’s bitch (Gath’s Mark—Ruby’s Girl).
PAULINE C.—M. F. Rogers’s black, white and tan bitch
(Breeze Gladstone—Katie Noble).
BowpREe—Avent & Thayer Kennels’ dog (Roderigo—
Novelist).
CIGARETTE—Avent & Thayer Kennels’ bitch (Roderigo—
Norah I1.).
Hester Prynn—Avent & Thayer Kennels’ bitch (Roderigo
—Norah I1.).
Toprsy’s Rop—Avent & Thayer Kennels’ dog (Roderigo—
Topsey Avent).
THALID—Avent & Thayer Kennels’ dog (Jean Val Jean—
Lucy Avent),
Fururiry—Herbert Merriam’s bitch (Gath’s Mark—Roe).
POINTERS,
WRECKER—Charlottesville Field Trial Kennels’ dog (Rip
Rap—Croxie Wise).
RipeLeE—Charlottesville Field Trial Kennels’ bitch (Rip
Rap—Croxie Wise).
LApD’s RusH—T. H. Gibbs’s dog (Rush of -~Lad—Devonshire
Belle of the Ball.)
ALICE LESLIE—E, M. Beale’s bitch (King of Kent—Bell
Randolph).
KING oF LyNN—R. Leslie’s dog (Tempest—Nadjy of Naso).
UNITED STATES FIELD TRIAL ENTRIES.
Derby B.
THE following named dogs have failed to pay second for-
feit in Derby B. P. T. MADISON, Sec’y-Treas.
POINTERS.
Bup RogERs—C., G. Steddard’s dog.
Kerntzo—H. J. Smith’s dog.
VENTURE—F’., R. Hitehcock’s bitch.
—Hempstead Farm’s dog.
FRED OF IpsTONE—Idstone Kennels’ dog,
THE FRIAR OF IDSTONE+Idstone Kennels’ dog.
BuAck BEAuTY—A, T, Latta, Jr.’s bitch.
ENGLISH SETTERS.
Rop’s Ciip—West Hnd Kennels’ bitch.
Count RopERICK—C, H. C. Mills’s dog.
GLEAM’s SAM—H. J, Smith’s dog.
JESss—F’, R. Hitchcock's bitch,
SANDSTONE—E. R. Hitchcock’s dog.
LowkoutT—Bryson & Bedford’s dog.
IGHTFIELD MUKAT—P. Lorillard, Jr.’s dog.
ALMOoNTA—P. Lorillard, Jr.’s dog.
VELMA—P. Lorillard, Jr.’s bitch.
OPHELIA—P. Lorillard, Jr.’s bitch.
DUKE of VERAGUA—L. W. Smith’s dog.
—J. H, Trezavant’s bitch.
BounNDLESsS—Captain Patrick Henry’s dog.
Scort’s Woop F'AusT—W. B. Stafford’s dog.
All-Age Stake—Trials B.
POINTERS.
Bounce—G. W. Amory’s liver and white dog (Bob—Sal).
MatystAy—G, W. Amory’s black and white dog (Main-
spring—Barmaid).
Kent Eicin—T. T, Ashford’s black and white dog (King
of Kent—Vera Bang).
Jingo—Charlottesville F. T. Kennels’ liver and white dog
(Mainspring—Queeny I1.).
Hor Nop—Charlottesyille F, T. Kennels’ liver and white
dog (King of Kent—Hops).
Rov GRAPHIC—N. T, Harris’s liver and white dog (Lord
Graphic—Winning Ways).
SoutH II.—H. 0. Damon’s liver and white dog (Robert le
Diable—Pomps).
LApD’s RusH—T. H. Gibbs’s liver and white dog (Lad of
Rush— Devonshire Belle of the Ball).
MAME S.—R. L, Shannon’s liver and white bitch (Brown
Stout—Pearl’s Pride).
LoHMAN—Jackson & Denmark Kennels’ lemon and white
bitch (Gordon—Fanny).
STRIDEAWAY—Geo. E. Gray’s liver and white bitch (King
of Kent—Pearl’s Dot),
WINNOWING—Will Laird’s liver and white bitch (Ranger
Croxteth—Cannie).
FLOCKFINDER II],—Maj. J. R. Purcell’s liver and white
dog (Old Stannch—F lake of Flockfinder).
LADY MARGARET—Maj. J. R, Pureell’s black and white
bitch (Dick Swiveler—Countess Bang),
KeEntT’s MAtp—John H, Gill’s black and white bitch (King
of Kent—Gualena).
SANDFORD DrurIp—Hempstead Farm Kennels’ black and
white dog (Econ Don—Sandford Quinn).
HEMPSTEAD DUKE—Hempstead Farm Kennels’ black and
white dog (Duke of Hessen—Lass of Bow).
HEMPSTEAD LUCK—Hempstead Farm Kennels’ black and
white bitch (Duke of Hessen—Merry Legs).
a BELLE—C, A, Cooledge’s black and white bitch (Rex
—Bird),
ENGLISH SETTERS.
_CAMILLE—D. G. Rowland’s black, white and tan bitch
(Roderigo—Topsy Avent).
DAVE —Gen. W. B. Shattue’s lemon and white dog
(Gath’s Hope—Daisy F.).
CHEVALIER—Avyent & Thayer Kennels’ black, white and
tan dog (Jean Val Jean—Lucy Avent).
LocHInvyAR—Avyent & Thayer Kennels’ black, white and
tan dog (Ohance—Bessie Avent).
Kiyeston—Avent & Thayer Kennels’ black, white and
tan doe (Chance—Bessie Avent).
BETTIE S.—Ayent & Thayer Kennels’ black, white and
tan bitch (Roderigo—Bo-Peep).
CouNT GLADSTONE—A vent & Thayer Kennels’ black, white
and tau dog (Count Noble—Miss Ruby).
) [Duc. 16, 1898. |
PAUL DoMBEY—Harry Dutten’s black, white and tan dog
(Caance—Nettie Biven).
BONNIE BoNDHU—L. Raucsh’s black, white and tan bitch
(Count Wakefield—Pearl Bondhu).
DASHAWAY—Hdward A. Waters’ black and white dog
(Leon—Julia),
DESOTO—W hyte Bedford’s black, white and tan dog (Count
Noble—F lorence Gladstone).
ZuLuU M,—Whyte Bedford’s lemon and white bitch (Toledo
Blade—Rhet),
Brss—F. R. Hitchcock’s black, white and tan bitch (Chance
—Bessie Avent).
Dick Fox—Blne Ridge Kennels’ black, white and+an dog
(Chance—Countess Rush).
Hope's MiInt—Blue Ridge Kennels’ orange and white dog
(Gath’s Hope—Dashing Lady).
BLUE RIDGE MARK—Blue Ridge Kennels’ black, white and ~
tan dog (Gath’s Mark—Ollie T.)
LILLIAN RUSSELL—Jackson and Denmark Kennels’ black,
white and tan bitch (Phillip Gladstone—Lou G.).
Crci, H.—J. L. Adams’s black, white and tan dog (Dr,
Maclin—Cossette).
DirEect—J. L. Adams’s black, white and tan dog (Gem—
Victoria Lavarack).
Miss HAtTTIE—Greensboro Ff’. T, Kennels’ black, white and
tan bitch (Gath’s Hope—Queen Noble).
Hopr’s QuEEN—Greensboro F. T. Kennels’ black and
white bitch (Gath’s Hope—Queen Noble).
GLEAM’s PRIDE—W. W. Newsom’s black, white and tan
dog (Gleam—Pride’s Belle).
BoMBAY—Will Wilson's black, white and tan dog (Chance
—Nettie Bevan).
Dot RoperrRs—P. Lorillard, Jr.’s black, white and tan
bitch (Roderigo—Gladstone’s Girl).
EUGENE T.—P. Lorillard. Jr.’s black, white and tan dog
(Count Noble—Gladstone’s Girl).
ANTEVOLO—P, Lorillard, Jr.’s liver and white bitch (Count
Noble—Trinket II.).
Miss Rupy—P. Lorillards, Jr.’s liver and white bitch
(Gladstone’s Boy—Ruby D.).
TREMONT—Bryson & Bedford’s black, white and tan dog
(Gladstone’s Boy—Speckle Gown),
Bop CooPpER—Hempstead Farm Kennels’ liver and white
dog (Roi d’Or—Miss Nelly Y,)
nee IJ.—Major J. W. Renfroe’s dog (Gleam—Tube
ose).
DAN BurGEs—G. M. Freeman’s black, white and tan dog
(Dan Gladstone—Lilly Burgess).
GLEAM’S PINK—Manchester Kennel Co,’s black, white and
tan dog (Vanguard—Georgia Belle).
GLEAM’s SPORT—Manchester Kennel Co.’s lemon and white
dog (Vanguard—Georgia Belle).
Hope#’s DIRECT—Manchester Kennel Co.’s lemon and white
dog (Gath’s Hope—Georgia Belle).
Spot CASH—A. Smithnight’s black, white and tan dog
(Vanguard—Georgia Belle).
TENNESSEE DicTAtoR—B. M. Stephenson’s black, white
and tan dog (Roderigo—Pet Gladstone),
TENNESSEE AXTEL—B. M, Stephenson’s black, white and
tan dog (oderigo—Pet Gladstone),
TENNESSEE ROD—B. M. Stephenson’s blue belton dog (Rod-
erigo—Pet Gladstone).
PEMBROKE’S GROUSE—A. L. Rice’s black, white and tan
dog (Pembroke’s Don—Sue of Hatchie).
RopDSsTONE (formerly Rodrigo)—P, T. Madison’s black,
white and tan dog (Antonio—Nelly Hope).
AcoLyTE—Dr. W. C. Duke’s black, white and tan dog
(Toledo Blade—Sue I1.).
Dogs for Private Shooting.
Editor Forest and Stream:
T mean the same class of dogs which haye been most un-
fortunately and untruly referred to as ‘plug’ dogs. The
term was first applied by a distinguished field trial man in
the heat of a personal controversy about individual dogs and
would show, if accepted literally, a want of truth and can-
dor which I feel sure that the originator is incapable of. The
dog for private shooting not only cannot be belittled, but
cannot be overrated; and it is only for his improvement that
field trials are encouraged. ‘The invidious distinction is a
mistake. It would be as just to call a horse a “plug”’ be-
cause his trotting was under a 2.10 gait, though as a fact the
useful and desirable road horse is the more desirable animal
and it is entirely for his sake that the educated trotter is use-
ful. Of course this line of statement is true of the breeding
and running of the racehorse, and is its only reason or excuse.
Entertaining these views as to the true and valuable shoot-
ing dog, I was very much interested in a statement in your
last week’s paper to the effect that the Hastern Field Trial
Olub contemplated offering a prize for private shooting dogs
to be handled by their owners. It will benecessary of course
to hem this stake in with restrictions to define the term
“nrivate shooting dogs” or whatever term may be adopted.
It should exclude all dogs that have been ever run or en-
tered in field trials, and also the employment of professional
handlers. Of course I am not elaborating details, which
must be the work of the club. I think the stake would bea
very popular one.
There is now afeeling among owners of, say, one or two
dogs, that they have no chance against large kennels, assisted
by professional handlers, and judged by rules and standards
unfitted for private shooting dogs. That the field trials
show the capabilities of dogs as races do those of the
horse, but that after all the desirable dog for use is still the
dog our fathers shot over and for whose sake trials were in-
stituted. }
Of course the rules of judgment of merit should be changed
for shooting dogs. Moderate but steady range, bird sense or
knowledge of the ways and habits of the game, perfect
breaking and obedience, and retrieving might well be substi- |
tuted for the speed and wide ranging now justly required in
our field trials, while the generous rivalry of the owner-
sportsmen managing their own dogs will add very much to
the pleasure of field trial meetings. Jet us all indorse the
scheme and make it the favorite stake. The field trial men
T have seen are unanimous in itsfavor. It will conduce to-
ward good judgment in all the stakes and goodfellowship.
Let the club offer generous stakes, good cheer and welcome,
and many pleasant times in the future are before us, NIL.
Dec. 4.
American Spaniel Club Meeting.
A MEETING of the above club was held Noy. 24 at 63 Broad-
way, New York city. Present: Messrs. A. C. Wilmerding inj
the chair, E. M. Oldham, R. P. Keasbey, Albert H. Foster,
Minutes of last meeting read and approved. Voted tha
the committees on trophy for World’s Fair show and medal
be discharged.
Moved and seconded that the communication from Mr. H
OC. Glover be answered by the secretary to the effect that
while the Spaniel Club is in accord with the proposition sub-
mitted by him, yet as they donot givedog shows, they hardl
think they are in a position to sign the same.
Voted that the Bell cup be offered at the coming Sarato
show, provided one of the club's classification be adopted.
It was then voted that Mr. Foster haying wou the Fiel
Spaniel cup the required number of times, it is now hereb:
officially awarded to him, and the secretary be ordered to re
turn his bond for the same and this fact be duly published.
On motion the president appointed the following commit
to obtain specials for the coming New York show: A. C
Wee at R. P. Keasbey and A. E. Foster. Meeting
jourued.
Dro. 16, 1898.] FOREST AND STREAM. : 827
BEAGLE FIELD TRIALS RECORD OF 1893.
eee
National Beagle Club Field Trials, at Nanuet, N. Y., Oct. 30 to Nov. 4.
Judges—B. S. Turpin, Dorchester, Mass., and Joseph Lewis, Moodus, Conn.
CLASS A—18 TO 151N.—16 STARTERS,
Prize. Name of Dog. Owner. Color. Sev. Sire. Dam. Amount. Handler.
First..... SNM Weere eee. eee Middleton Kennels............ aWalnibeyataclateurieter weer crs. eas TBORWEN ose n eons STORIMIYANMWT ER atancrnis GUC Yor cpus takee Fekete $60 Mark Lewis.
Second..: Wanderer............ Pottinger Dorsey......-....... Black, white and tan.......... ADO Sete et icra GCE. Med etc tee sets trees TREND eo eben, sr AS #40 Owner.
Wubi deen aVatG Koehn yeast nie Forest Beagle Kennels........ Black, white and tan.......... BTC hier eee Fitzhugh Lee......... INGLE ae Sosa sauobccoomee $20 H. V. Jamieson.
Reserve..Buck............-.-- Pottinger Dorsey.............. Black, white and tan.......... WO gee aaa Tecumseh.............. WENA Keen ceeiracte ene fin boy Owner.
CLASS B—131n. AND UN DER—8 STARTERS.
First..... Spot sheets tee eee GeOr Hy SRICCU merce slo rere claret oy ace Black, white and tan.......... Bitches: see Kennealy’s Lee........ SKipiee deren tee tayecne $30 Owner.
Second...Gypsey Forest....... Forest Beagle Kennels........ Black, white and tan.......... IB tC hte eee Frank Forest.......... Sie! HOLeSt. ose s2 2 cree $20 H. V. Jamieson.
Third...:Champiot Lou...... ELS ee GPCI CLOT ag.F- nln pele mercy feeeays Black, white and tan.......... IBIGGH eee ee ARGH G Wnerray hers soso sees PL VatS oe ieoe cusiresta: kbs $10 # Owner.
Reserve ..Ina.......--.--..5+ JAW ienabor ese Se a, Ee ee, Black, white and tan.......... BitGharee rears IDY hamien eRe oy beeen Oliver cere torte tets Hp eh ok ne Owner.
Pottinger Dorsey’s Pade was awarded first, but afterward disqualified.
THE DERBY—7 STARTERS.
First..... Mollie Dean......... Glenrose Beagle Kennels...... Black, white and tan.......... TBO Ms 6 save Seige ge eA pOoueUE STON Baby Dean............ $20 FF. W. Chapman.
Ss ah Vane We Beal. aes WET as RCC UGS Ts Fis opsed beset ta tse nye Black, white and tan.......... Bitch eae Fitzhugh IDS Seas LOS? esceae seer crise oe $5 ae Lewis.
peor: 1 Bil INveaiiewre 540 W.H. Hyland..........2:.005: Black, white and tan.......... Doria eens RipeViarwWitikeles. MoasNOll.o:..\.7s aeseereters $5 { Owner.
Reserve withheld.
CHAMPION STAKE.
First..... SIMO Wr sien eee Malek Middleton Kennels....(Walkover.)
Northwestern Beagle Trials, at Whitewater, Wis., Nov. 1 to 2.
Judge—John Davidson, Monroe, Mich.
THE DERBY—4 STARTERS.
First..... Mayfly ica ia iecies oe Dillingham & Remmele....... Blacktandsbanesadecs:s:c0es a Bitcheneereer Beebe’s Doc...........- Beebe’s Peg............ $8 J.Finch & H. Dillingham
Second.. ES Tins Aone rete GRAM Biuckstaiieeer esate Black, whiteand tan.. ...... IDOLY aw nnsa es Royal Krueger........ Tbe ete Meads ieee toes b $6 Owner.
Third Ve Wey igineeese nae TEOMHISTS Lei erp ins sce eee eee ae Black, white and aris CAD, SNOT DOORS Altra oa: Tony Weller........... FROPSYatelraoslse shana ( $1 Owner.
oe ba Little Coony Duke..E. Bender.................+-005 Black, white and tan.......... WOR an wa. nee Little Duke............ ROBE Gaet i despae sy oe » ESL } F Bender.
ALL-AGE STAKE—CLASS A—FOR DOGS—4 STARTERS.
Hirst. ..-. Inka coe peace ae Gav Ay BUCKStaiies te sees Black, white and tan.......... IDA SGaase nase Royal Krueger 18) bey A nto eeke eeat ean Beem e $8 Owner.
(Seroyal dys a1 Boh (eventie Goeodcadcod Dillingham & Remmele....... Black, white and tan.......... ID Yoyeathne avait ocee Spel Osram ...Gypsey Belle.......... $6 J.Finch & H. Dillingham
Third.... Royal Rover.......-. GWA Buckstalin.s os teusetsa as Black, white and tan.......... I DYoYeeint 5 SMe] = OVE Dee, ser tr acsansch tke Singer Gare eee yt $2 Owner.
CLASS B—FOR BITCHES—1 STARTER.
First..... NGGULIGAP a ences HES VV EMS CNG OT ate erst yEs eek eet Black, white and tan.......... BNO nyse none IDFAvROM OTE As Go Boo ar ot IDO ett maddie ote $2 Owner,
CLASS C—UNDER 131N.—1 STARTER
First...-. YillGW. | eosipnce obese T, Zsehetzsche:......+-.-.+-.55 Black, white and tan.......... ISH tines cosets (Sel Ome iarece as HN.s. cress IN(UE Sees poe aGroeier $2 Ovwner.
' CHAMPION CLASS—4 STARTERS i
First...:. ME ApIRyAeage or090 Jen Dillingham & Remmele....... Black, white and tan..,....... ISSR De ne ohcooe Beebe’s Doe...........- Beebe Steg. eres... Gold med..J.Finch & H. Dillingham
New England Beagle Club Trials, at Oxford, Mass., Nov. 6 to 10.
Judges—Geo. F. Reed, Barton, Vt., and A. C. Krueger, Wrightsville, Pa.
THE DERBY—6 STARTERS.
airstaete Louie Fitz Lee...... Jie vy 12% Sula by Aha ceonaces Black, white and tan.......... WOKS weceiee sein pate Lee i $40 B.S. Turpin.
Second... Buckshot ......-..-.. AR noi}. HAAUKGM OSS fee: Season A le Black, white and tan.......... Defame Goto cone Day i : a5 tes Owner.
Third....blanche.........-.--.. Rockland Beagle Kennels. .... Black, white and tan.......... Bitches ar ean Forest In awe RSIS) Mark Lewis.
Reserve. Jean Val Jean......- FAR Sere OMIT et Beran cps clerk aries Black, white and tan.......... JO yoyee Suen iees CHU Dien scenes NEV SUICHlgr writen tee ofa. Ase H. FE. Barnes.
ALL-AGH STAKE—CLASS A—13 TO 151N.—9 STARTERS.
First..... Gypsey A......-+---- Glenrose Beagle Kennels...... Tan and white .............-.- Bitches eee Kenneally’s Lee....... UboyoVey Shane BPAslaps i taceits 5 $55 H.W. Chapman.
Second... Vick R.......-----+ Forest Beagle Kennels........ Tanjand. white ........ 02.26. Bit Chives eset ees Weer wee ..3 NGS tee ean tard tact ab Ato ASate $35 J. V. Jamieson.
Third....Uouie Fitz Lee...... CAT SP eS imithie tra nevaeteate oe Black, white and tan.......... ND ORs wieatop os sas NOW Be Ana Scio Seos IIE AKG este pees eter eer $25 B.S. Turpin.
Reserve... Kitty .......--------- lbp (OM GloyweueOg tls sweets odor dec Black, white and tan.......... Bitches. .eseae The antes Shay ses ete IM ST Gy shee el ae oe Rete els Owner.
CLASS B—131n. AND UNDER—6 Srarrers.
Hirst... - Lady Novice......... yet Dy Thies wag af hth Sooeo ae Black, white and tan.......... IBIbChne een Frank Forest.......... IDEYGINE WG prt Red aia nee $30 Mr. Morse.
Second...Gypsey Forest....... Forest Beagle Kennels........ Black, white and tan.......... ISG Mewar teres UE<(E10V0) SS Hae cet Sue Horest...2......... $20 H. V. Jamieson.
Vitiihieliys + WOES Be scts saree eater Rockland Beagle Kennels..... Black, white and tan.......... BNO OG eas core MGS oh. a EAP Bade aco Joe Nien hae Gibco aoe by $15 Mark Lewis.
Reserve EL RAHEE jaa) OM eae Middletown Kennels.......... Black, white and tan.......... WOR ae oe ale ae S80) deo epee ABA SILT, vera Meee SRSA 8s | EE ta Mark Lewis.
CLASS C—BASSET AND DACHSHUNDS—1 STARTER.
First..... Rodeur .-..-----+-++ Glenrose Beagle Kennels...... Black, white and tan.......... Basset dog....Mauprat............... hottie ......: LA cete $4 FF. W. Chapman.
CHAMPION CLASS—13 TO 151N.—3 STARTERS.
First..... June Rose........... Forest Beagle Kennels........ Black, white and tan.......... IB bG Hee eererte Frank Forest.......... AUTO wee sete eae $30 H. V. Jamieson.
CHAMPION CLASS—131n. AND UNDER—2 STARTERS.
Wirst...-: liye pe creiet aeetete rete TB} pred IMU b ey OvUN A Aer GA Reo G Black, white and tan.......... ND Yoyes eee ie tr Frank Forest.......... Sue Forest............. $30 B.S. Turpin.
engeet Prizes.—Most musical voice, Rockland Beagle Kennels’ Jack Bannerman. Most accurate trailing, pokes Beagle Kennels’ June Rose. Most effective naa
H. P. Smith’s Louie Fitz Lee. Most stylish worker, Thomas Shallcross’s Buckshot. Best starter, H. A. Smith’s Louie Fitz Lee. Greatest sustained speed, H i
12 aia Louie Fitz Lee. Best Derby entry bred by owner, Thomas Shallcross’s Buckshot. Best All- Age ek bred by owner, Middleton Kennels’ Model.
Brunswick Fur Club Trials for Foxhounds, at North Acton, Mass., Oct. 23 to 27.
THER DERBY—13 STARTERS.
Judges—F. M. Whipple, W. S. Clark, W. EH. Gill, J. N. Goss, B. S. Turpin.
Strain. Age.
First..... Trent tres AA etl es = 51° os OL eNNISON., 59 45 sister. a a1 IBIE KER yaTG NWO Sie hace Ar ane IDOE ar ae INO TS.n eh Manche dc Be poh o iC OO aot Ty ie ere 17 months.
Secongd...roupe.....,--..--+- Dr. A. C. Heffenger........... IEEE rersatel th ehtly Ae yo ae dee sdee. 1 DYoyea oe Soe VAM asc ae Oe Se he Bt iri en © Reino 15 months.
IPE... a ye. 2s oe sree es G. L. Wellington.............. Blacks and Gamgk ..ccs 2. ten cont Dogars see BAIN ELT VG ets iace > Giotto cbc 0.2 scat tase! 6 OAT vf ...17 months.
ALL-AGE STAKE—Srx CLASSES DESIGNATED AS BELOW—27 STARTERS.
Judges—F. A. and C. M. Griffin, W. H. Gill, J. N. Goss, D. S. Turpin,
Hunting.
Hirsi FSAUTI Gy te aeesse | Sale aie Sandy Spring Club Hunt...... Gray, tan and NADU Shan AoA DOR een tel). epibly evade Sa ee BeNOR rt, dete wae ats, ae hee 3 years 6 months.
Second... Rock .......0..--.-+6- O. BP. Joslin ..........4.-+2+++- AW Viaharetys a0 coke fehOPe es pane reee wn ows 1D roy eae bar oe BAL Roe Moin De ea hn EY, Pte 2 years 8 months.
Mhird 5 CUOPaM hs. eeees eso Kinney & White.............. Black, white and tan.......... Dogs eek QO LET ee ee eee asters eens eee. SRV. OATS:
Trailing
Hirst: ....2 AUGRAM Gs owen pew see Kinney & White.............. Black, white and tan.......... WORF A ees 5 Pooler Me, Ee A fan ble den bicatiter oe 3 years.
aPon de. EOC Katinas ora tect fees O. F, Joslin..........-+.seeeees White and tan ................ ND ToyeR Wea we Robinson— Mat pine pee kk te \eeer kisi dee oye 2 years 8 months.
WUeiadély y SPU Asa ack es 18 ae GPL Wellington... -<% 7-5 s.4):- Blue mottled................-. Dyas ease sees J Dyayed hi obd OOo oe te Be AL Ey ORB 5 years.
Speed
EUIYSbotile AROS Eee ten istalele eles ee & BWW TGGs sue ac sere acerek Black, white and tan.......... IU ie} ehe SA Gee ) OH eT alan. nc Ps sidney clert Chain st cee cols Sees 3 years.
SECO dass VOC Kien esc: sete tele CEH O STAT yest cline ake celece White PN TG MIE NIP as Poe Aaa 6 ste J BYG)Es oe Ab AOS Rab PISon— Veep pases wets peat 4 ere 2 years 8 months.
Third....Garrett:...)..+.%6.+is SEO ter inoue ; sAemteienc Oa cer On TE ETIREY Grete noe aoe OE Ebi g ID Tefen oP se JOT Aeterna orbs Metich yeu Stee eae ae 1 year 10 months.
FEnduranee
First..... (Chey Gal Soe ADO IN, ROD er 8 ice ote tess Sen Black, white and tan.......... DORR aes Robinson—Maupin........---.. 04220. eee eee 5 years.
Second. slogans... .3...- 22+: Kinney % “White ae SA. Bape Black, white and tan.......... dB yoy tee eae ODTET Ber eee erode oe erly sisters paisa’ 3 years.
Third....Diamond............. SWE RUD Ga Tite ae sarasota a ws are Black, white and tan.......... WOR one. sates = ISBN Lela aae mem Oe noocnoa AO DO GLC Oovatidnd CSG An Lee 2 years 8 months.
; Tonguing
First. .... MoOGan hc pcsueesleee ss Kinney & White.............. Black, white and tan.......... Eee Laren en IPOOleTASS Ae Bie bs te tc sats 3 years.
Second...Clay.........--.+++-- Sle \PL 270) (Tee Bo cent Ree A Black, white and tan.......... 1D Yoyea0 SON Ae Robinson—Maupin............................5 years,
PMhiPdessSRGcks ck eS sees AGE TNO ANG Wily gee te Ben eS AR gas White and tan ..............5. TOBY ets cis ek siels FLGDISON—M Ate PIM 4G ees ne oalee ghee fea ee 2 years 8 months.
Style
First. .... TUNES op eget Sy: i ges: SRA tae Black, white and tan.......... 1D oye A os AU IEeYO ie a Aan ne aoetlo bode dt Suloocs Gon ACD OCOSEE 3 years.
Secondss-Glayt — 22a: 0... donee Ih TAL TRY ee ey sede ae bee en Black, white and tan.......... OR ees eee Robinson—Maupin.......2++...sse250- 2-2 eeee 5 years
Thirdsek SBamneye, - isa. a ctkls Sandy Sorhie Club Hunt:..... Gray, ‘tan and white........... DORE Sala aee- ANN ieee in tt eps mae SU CRA ec Aeon rary tay ae 2 years 6 months.
Best all-round hound owned outside New England and New York, and hound showing most speed and endurance owned outside N 1D;
Sandy Spring (Md.) Hunt Club’s Barney. 5 m pice Rew mgland aid Pen Mares
POINTS AND FLUSHES.
[By a Staff Correspondent.
Professionalism vs. Sport.
I THINK that the reader will grant that when professional-
ism invades the realms of sport that the latter suffers from
the effects of the invasion. The man, or men, who follow
the sport for its own sake become steady contributors to
those who follow it for the sake of the revenue deriyed from
The lovers of the sport may tolerate a reasonable or
unreasonable degree of professionalism, but there comes a
time when the amateur public has had enough of contribut-
ing to the coffers of the professional under the guise of a
competition.
When the amateur is confronted with an array of profes-
sionalism at every turn, an array so formidable that there
is almost a certainty of his losing in a competition, what,
as a sensible man,is heto do? And what does hedo? The
history of competitions will readily afford the answer.
At the outset let me state that there is nothing intended
in this communication to reflect on the standing or value of
professionalism, To professionalism the world is indebted
for its best advancement. In the kenuel world the profes-
sionals haye bred the highest class of dogs, and perfected
systems of training and conditioning which are of lasting
benefit. They, too. have attained a wonderful degree of
skill in their specialty. The need of it is conceded, Its
value is unquestioned. The only particular under considera-
tion isthe inability of the amateurto cope with professional-
sm and the consequent harm it does to sport,
Professionalism in Field Trials.
To those who have noted the development of field trials
from the tentative beginnings to the present time, it has been
apparent that the drift of the competition has constantly
been toward professionalism. i
The beginuing of field trial competition had a simple and
direct object in view, namely, to determine which dogs in a
competition were the best. The purely commercial features
were few and relatively insignificant. There were then no
regularly organized kennels which bred puppies in dozens to
supply the public demand. The stud service of a dog in most
instances was a matter of asking. The trainer commanded
no large fee on the score of having a successful field trial
record. Puppies did not sell for higher prices than horses,
Through all the intermediate changes which mark the
evolution of field trials through their years up to the pres-
ent, the professional has grown constantly more skillful and
more formidable, and the amateur of to-day is much the
same amateur as those amateurs of the intervening years
from the beginning of field trials, The amateur of to-day,
however, has been gradually driven out of competition by
overwhelming force and superior skill, He has learned by
expensive experience that he can not successfully or credit-
ably compete, hence he wisely holds aloof from participation
asa contestant. And why should he do otherwise? Why
should he match his fondness for sport against the trained
professional skill of an: expert, who has only an interest
measured by the possibility of gain? But the question is
hardly necessary in view of the fact that the amateur is not
coming in competition with the professional very frequently
in 1893. The classes are differentiated.
The Inducements to Amateurs.
What are the encouragement and inducement to amateurs?
Tn the first: place, he has opposed to him as handlers men
who have made a profession of dog training and handling
for years; mén who have been in dozens of field trials and
know how to take advantage of every circumstance, and
who know what to avoid; in short, how to make the best of
everything. These men are thoroughly conversant in the
matter of rules and field trial requirements. They know to
a nicety what quality of dog to select for a field trial compe-
tition. Many of them have a large kennel from which to
select their dogs. a
It needs no argument to establish that a man who has 100
well bred dogs to select from can produce a better lot than
the man who has but two. The man who has the 100 can
enter five or six or ten picked dogs in a field trial where the
other man can enter but one or two at the most, and with a
probability that they are inferior. With five to one or ten to
one chances against him, how much less, then, is his chance
of winning? With the success of the five or six or ten entries
of the big kennel come a good win of prize money and a
ready sale at remuneratiye prices of the remainder of the
100 puppies on the score of relationship to the ones which
won, The amateur is so far surpassed in skill and material
that there is not evena forlorn hope left to him. The purely
business phase of field trials, that is, to win purses which,
being quite large, are worthy of keen effort to capture: to
make reputations for dogs with a view solely to fees for stud
services or sales of puppies, and to win a wider reputation
and prestige which go to make up that invaluable feature of
a business called the good will—all these are well known to
the field trial supporters,
No field trial club, whose environment is such that it must
draw its chief support from amateurs, can survive if it
throws open its trials to the competition of the world, if it
puts up sufficient money to tempt the professional At this
day, there is no place in any game section of the United
States but what a professional will go to if a field-trial event
is inaugurated and money enough offered in prizes. This is
particularly true ifthe competition is largely amateur.
For Instance.
LT have in mind a club which this year held a field trial.
There was a good deal of enthusiasm in its membership. It
offered good cash prizes, enough to make them attractive.
A professional took a string of dogs to those trials, and won
all in two stakes except a trifling division in third. He made
a trip of 1,800 miles, more or less, as near as I can estimate
the distance, He won the prizes all right. He had a perfect
right to compete. There isno question whatever in that re-
spect. Butfrom the point of the amateur, what is the re-
sult? That club will probably never hold another trial.
Some of the members expressed admiration for a man who
would go so far to win their money. Others said that they
were willing the money should go, in return for the knowl-
edge of what constitutes a good dog,
But they have now the knowledge. They have a stock of
admiration. They have a knowledge that there is no chance
to will against the professional, and that knowledge keeps
them in future out of the trials, and wisely so. If that club
holds another trial, and that or a similar win is repeated—as
it probably will be—the fate of that club is a certainty.
The Philadelphia Kennel Club threw its competition open
to the world last year. What wastheresult? Fron having
been a gathering which was the embodiment of goodfellow-
ship and friendly competition, it assumed all the stern
earnestness of a competition on one line, a competition
straight to the money without any embellishment or senti-
ment. There were the usual unpléasant features and un-
pleasant responsibilities foisted om the men who followed it
for the loye it; by the men who followed it as a business.
That ended the open-to-the-world feature, This year it re-
turned tothe previous conditions, 7. €., a restriction to mem-
bership. It wasa wise move. Though urged to again re-
open its competition to the world by apparently disinterested
field trial supporters, the club had the firmness and good
sense to refuse. Thereis no very good reason why it should
devote its energies and its revenues to something in which it
is not particularly interested,
Several clubs which had arranged to hold field trials this
FOREST AND STREAM.
Nearly every one of them
| year withdrew from the venture. 2
had some special reason for withdrawing. Undoubtedly the
Rand financial year had some effect in producing such re-
sults.
The Distinction.
While professionalism has grown steadily and has been
energetically encouraged, the amateur has receiyed very
little attention. Oneein a while an amateur stake has been
arranged, which, being run with a large elemeut of specta-
tors who were professionals, was largely an event for
amusement or derision. a
The solution of the problem is the holding of trials similar
to that of the Philadelphia Kennel Club. The members 5wn
their dogs and in the competition handle them themselves
or engage professionals to handle them.
The great trials of the United States, the Hastern field
trials, the United States and the Southern trials, are almost
exclusively supported by professionals or semi-professionals.
They afford every opportunity for a professional com-
petition.
For a new club of amateur membership and support, to
frame its existence and policy on the same lines as the great
clubs aforementioned, is to court failure. Hach clubin its
policy must be governed by its support and its environment.
Clubs can be organized and their competitions arranged
for limited prizes. It is a great mistake to attempt to offer
prizes which will equal those of the great clubs which are
better known, which have the prestige which comes from
years of success and good name, and which haye trained
and skillful managers,
There is one thing certain. The man who owns one dog
and in whose nature there isa fondness for the sportina
pure form, is worth considering and encouraging. When
the competition is reduced to the great kennels alone field
trials are in their decadence. In the competition between
the great kennels some one or two kennels are sure in the
end to defeat the others, and the great kennels alone can not
maintain field trials, interest the public at large or meet the
true demand of field trial competition. After all is said and
done it is the man who owns one dog or two for the love of
them and of field sports who is the foundation of the super-
structure. He shonld be properly recognized, first because
heis engaged from a love of sport, second becanse without
him there is sure to be a cramp or a break, and third because
the whole interest would be better with him as a member
and supporter.
Dr. R. H. Tullis, of Columbiana, Ohio, writes me that the
shooting in his section is poorthis year. He is fortunate in
owning a sister to Strideaway, the pointer which made
such a phenomenal competition in the U &. trials at
Bicknell.
Manitoba Shot,
The following, in a letter from Mr. Thomas Johnson, of
Winnipeg, followed me around a part of the field trial cir-
cuit, hence was received too late for last week’s issue. It
recounts the loss of a valuable dog, a dog great in the quali-
ties which make a companion and a worker. Under date of
Nov. 27 Mx. Johnson writes: }
“You will sympathize with me I know when I tell you
that Manitoba Shot died a week ago to-day, In Shot TI had
the most pleasant shooting companion I ever owned in dogs
and I hardly ever hope to have his equal for our prairies.
He was different in disposition from ny other dog I ever
owned. He had any amount of courage, yet from the first
time he went afield, if he through accident or down wind
made a fiush, even if he was a half mile away from me, he
would feel so mean that you had to give him a friendly slap
and a word of enconuragemeént before he would again go with
his peculiar style and dash.
“7 have seen him scores of times this fall turn around on
his point to see how far I was away, and if I was a long dis-
tance, he would drop until I got near him, when he would
rise to his point again. I feel his loss very keenly, so much
so that I shall probably not take any part in field trials this
ear, :
i “T have returned Mr. Lonsdale’s dogs to Hngland, but my
own are still at Chatham. Our mutual friend Mr. Wells
will likely keep them until the end of the shooting season
there.,’’ ; ‘ ‘
I do heartily sympathize with Mr. Johnson in the loss of
so great and valuableadog; He was that great combination
in the best sense, a great field-trial competitor and a great
field dog, terms which are now commonly believed to be
contradictions. The same good sense, industry and pleasure
in working to the gun, were traits, it | remember correctly,
which were possessed by the whole litter of which he was
one,
I wellremember Shot’s first field trial competition last
year at Morris, Man, When he was placed in the Derby
there was a waillong, loud and harsh from some present
who had an interest in setters. The following day Shot ran
inthe All-Age Stake, and there was.a full attendance of spec-
tators to see What was to be seen. They saw Shot go with a
dash, an intelligence and a skillful beating out of the
grounds which either silenced completely his detractors or
excited their admiration, On birds he made that day some
brilliant performances, He was nearly a model of what
breeders should strive for in fleld performance, good sense,
endurance, industry and good temper.
Mr. John Davidson, in a letter of recent date says: “My
loneliness was relieved by a little accident lately, just by way
of variety, Lsuppose. A runaway team, dragging the front
wheels of a lumber wagon, dashed into my buggy, starting
me on an excursion toward the moon and reducing part of
the buggy into kindling wood. The bystanders stated that
I came down with such force as would have killed anything
but a mule or a Seotchman, and I am not prepared to dispute
them. I was badly bruised, but was feeling recovered in
about 20 minutes. No bones are broken, and the soreness and
stiffness are gradually disappearing.”’
There was but little difference between that accident and
meeting a disappointed exhibitor. I am glad it was no worse.
4 B. WATERS,
900 Szcuriry Burtpine, Chicago.
Akron Show.
Tt seems as if the Akron Poultry and Kennel Club is mak-
ing every effort to get up anice show in this busling Ohio
town. Mr. Peck, the secretary, writes us that everything is
looking bright, and they have secured a fine hall that will
be lighted with 100 electric lights, and will be well heated.
It is located in the center of the business part of the city, and
street Cars rut past the door every fiyeminutes. In addition
to cash specials that are in the premium list, $10 cash is
offered for the best kennel of four American foxhounds, and
$5 cash for best kennel of four beagles. The committee is
still at work on specials, and hope to secure more cash; all
arrangements have been made to take care of the dogs that
come from the Chicago show.
We received the premium list too late to be of much bene-
fitexcept to those of our readers who receive FOREST AND
STREAM on Wednesdays. The show will be held Dee. 19 to
23. The classification.is very liberal, there being 148 classes,
but as the prizes are on the percentage plan,60 and 30 per
cent. of the entry fees, the club has no direct interest in the
matter asno club money is at stake. No doubt several of
the Chicago entries will take the show in on the way home
ae Brat willeount. The entry fee is $1 and entries close
ec, 13,
[Drc. 16, 1898. 2
Irish and Gordon Setter Field Trials.
Editor Forest and Stream;
In their remarks on the unsatisfactory results of the vari-
ous field trials just finished, in the way of entries and attend-
ance, it seems to me that the papers have ignored the most
potent influence of all, viz., the last summer’s silyer panic
and subsequent ‘“‘hard times.’’ Considering the fact that
most of ns have had grim business necessities to attend to,
and but little heart or timefor the indulgence of our hobbies,
it is a matter for congratulation that we have done as well
as we have.
As regards the Irish setter field trials, when we reflect that
the Central, Ohio, and New England field trial clubs gave
up entirely this year, and look at the sparse entries of the
Philadelphia and other strong clubs, it don’t seem to me that
six Irish Derby and eleyen All-Age entries show up so badly,
It must be remembered, that there are at least five broken
English setters and pointers (combined) to every field trained
Trish setter, and that itis much easier to get ten very good
performers from fifty entries than two such from an entry of
ten. Lovers of English setters and pointers haye had twenty
years of field trials to train up to and compste in. Long be-
fore that time we Irish setter men will have the satisfaction
of seeing our favorites compete successfully in open trials,
Business ought to improve before another year rolls around,
and next autumn see a better state of affairs. So let us hope
that Dr, Davis will look at matters in this light and continue
his efficient and almost indispensable services as secretary of
our Irish Setter Club, for it was not indifference that made
him the only member that attended the late field trials at
Thomasyille, N. C.
I may be allowed to remark here that I sent my red bitch
Nugget II. to the trainer in North Carolina as soon as I be-
came her owner, last October, and ran her in the trials,
although she had then been only a short month in trainer’s
hands, and was suffering from an abscess on her neck, which
has been lanced. Perhaps that caused her to get only second
in the Derby, as she had shown, previously, great speed and
good powers for such a green pup, and, afterward, hearing
that there were likely to be so few entries in the All-Age
Stakes, Isent my red bitch Lady Alice, which divided third
last year with Currer Bell, to a North Carolina trainer,
although she hadn’t seen a bird since then and was very fat.
As she had only two weeks’ preparation she wasn’t placed
this year,
Doubtless others acted from like motives, endeavoring to
help the Irish setter field trials. If the owners of the large
Trish kennels, which now contain the best bench show win-
ners, Mr. Fowler and Dr, Sauvyeur, would also enter their
dogs, the field trial entries would foot up a goodly number.
Let us hope that they will next season.
So with the Gordon setter field trials at Fremont, Mass.,
on Nov. 20 last; which seem to have been the result of labors
of Hastern owners of Gordons who probably disliked to have
the season pass without an effort to do something. And so
they formed a Gordon Setter Field Trial Club. But. they
started too late, and didn’t announce their intention until
October. A monthis not enough time to prepare in; train-
ers and handlers are hard to gef, especially in the North and
East, and the result was that the entries had to come alto-
gether from kennels near the’ place of trial. Allusion has
been made in some of the papers to the fact that the well
known Gordon kennels of Dr. Dixon and Mr. Blossom were
not represented,
I can’t speak for the doctor, but I know that I was not in-
different. Gordons are my favorites, even over [rish setters.
Tt was not possible to run my own dogs; and, after vain en-
deayors to get a handler, I had to give up making any
entries. The two which I intended to enter were as fat as
a miller’s hogs, and hadn’t seen a bird since last year. As it
was, so short was the notice, some of the dogs made & poorer
showing because handled by strangers or anyone that could
be gotten, Pets, taken from their owners’ fireside almost,
are not ready for a creditable appearance in the field, espe-
cially if that field be bare of birds,
Let all credit be given to those that took so much trouble
in the cause of the Gordon setter; but let us hope that ample
notice will be given next time. Doubtless those present at
the field trials had “a good time; but so many excuses have
been made heretofore for the comparatively poor showing by
Gordons that I think we, their owners and advocates, should
endeavor to start them for public competition, with such
training and other timely preparation as shall give them a
chance for creditable performances as other breeds have had.
Gordon setters are probably only half as numerous as the
Irish, and while many are used for private shooting, very
few are prepared for public competition, :
Cannot we Gordon owners join our forces, and instead of
desultory and divided efforts, endeayor to get together in
time for field trials next year that shall be properly prepared
for and at timely notice?
If anything which T have said shall encourage owners of
Irish and Gordon setters, or be thé means of getting them
together for united efforts fornext year’s trials, I will be very
glad. JAMES B. BLOssom
A Member of Irish and Gordon Setter Clubs.
New York Crry, Dec. 9.
Death of Rioter,
Editor Forest and Stream:
L write to inform you and your readers of the death of that
well-known dachshund, champion Windrush Rioter. This
reat dog was found dead in his kennel this P. M., evidently
hagins died {rom a fit, though I never knew him to have one
before. Champion Windrush Rioter has met every dachs-
hund dog (except champion Jackdayw) of late. and to his
honor, it may be said, his list includes nothing but firsts,
Champion Windrush Rioter was whelped Noy, 29, 1887.,
and bred by Mr. J.G. Rayenor, Mr, F. F. Dole imported
this dog for mein the spring of ‘91. He was probably the
best known dachshund in America, he and champion Janet
having always been kennel mates and shown together. He
was sired by champion Maximus out of Polecat. His wins
are as follows: In Hngland, first_ open Birmingham 1889;
first open Liverpool, Gloucester, Southampton and Stock-
bridge 1890; in Canada, first Montreal, Hamilton, Toronto
1891; in this country, first Danbury, Gloyersville 1891. first
Albany 1892; first challenge Chicago, Jackson, New York,
Philadelphia, Washington, Pittsburg and Brooklyn 1892;
first challenge New York, 1893; specials at every show where
they were given, These are the only times shown. We feel
his loss keenly, as he was a pet as well as a show dog.
EDWARD A. MANICE,
Dec. 4.
Southern California Field Trials Abandoned.
Editor Forest and Stream:
I have been asked to notify you that the trials that were
to have been held here on the 4th have been abandoned and
am exceedingly sorry to have to write it, as I had hoped
there would be a good meeting. There are plenty of birds
on the grounds, and in fact the shooting during the past
week bas been better than at any time since the season
opened. There was, however, a lack of interest evinced
lately by the very men who should have taken the keenest
interest in the trials.
The entry, which was none too large, suffered by the death of
C. J. Miller, who would haye had five starters, and were with-
drawn after paying the second forfeit, “a pee the changing
of dates had an unwholesome effect. Had they held to the
first date choses they would at least have received the credit
of being firm in their decisions,
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FOREST AND STREAM.
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It is to be hoped that the northern meeting will be suc-
cessfnl, but as it has suffered by Mr. Miller’s death the pros-
‘pect is not charming.
_ At best the number of starters on the Coast is small, and
when four or five are withdrawn it is hard to keep the inter-
est from flagging.
_ There are numbers of birds all around us, and the duck
-shooting has been better than for years. A party returned
from the Santa Anna River on the 27th and reported ducks
in great numbers. The reports from Elsimere Lake are very
flattering, so that the sportsmen are at least haying good
sport afield. Dr. Green, of Hesperia, informs us that the
mountain quail area perfect pest in his town, and as the re-
port is reliable a party from Los Angeles and Ontario will
try them next week, [
Ve will give youa fewitems of interest shortly on the
kennel question, as there i. a very good outlook for some Al
material in pointers and setters. J. C. Collins, sheriff of Los
Angeles county, is going into pointers, and has started with
the bitch Brown Betty, who did so well at the trials last
-year, though not inthe money. There is not asingle good
specimen in southern California of either bulldog or bull-
terrier, and a kennel of either should do well. ih
OnTARIO Bracu, Cal., Dec. 2.
Smoking at: Shows.
Editor Forest and Strcam; ’
haye noticed in attending dog shows, outside of New
York, that, smoking has been allowed in all parts of the show
building, Although the chances of fire originating from a
_Segar being thrown on the floor, may besmall, it seems hardly
worth the enjoyment of 2 smoke to run therisk of such a
thing happening when there are so many valuable dogs on
exhibition.
Take the Newark show building for instance, there was
not much to the building itself, it is true, but there was
plenty of inflammable material in it, and I would yenture to
say that out of the 500 odd dogs exhibited there, not one-half
could have been remoyed in case of fire, to say nothing of the
_loss of life to those attending the show.
That the attendance is affected by it is certain. The New
York show would never have been what it is to-day, if
smoking had been allowed in all parts of the building, and
the sooner kennel clubs make a rule against it, and have it
enforced, the better it will be for all concerned.
I do not say this against the managers of the Newark
show alone, it is allowed almost everywhere, but I do say
that there is a place for everything, and thata dog show is
not the place to smoke. AN EXHIBITOR.
New York, Dec. 7.
[As far as we could judge the Newark managers were very
strict in regard to smoking in the show building. ]
DOG CHAT.
Imperator Sold.
While at. Newark show Mr. ‘Pitkin, of Hartford, Conn.,
was nibbling at Imperator (25,411), by Alton out of Hilda,
Winner in novices, but the deal fell through. Now Mr. Frank
Linck, of Newark, N. J., has purchased Imperator. Besides
this handsome dog, Dr. Lougest sold a mastiff bitch pup by
Beaufort’s Black Prince out of Gerda II., to Mr. Wm. Arnot,
of Newark, and a young mastiff dog by Ingleside Maximilian
out of Gerda II.,to J. H. Goldberg, of New York. It will
therefore be seen that the Newark show is already exerting
a beneficial influence, and that Newark citizens and fanciers
will not be content until they can show some of the best.
Mr. Linck already hasa very fair dog in Ashland Jumbo,
who should have been second to Imperator at Newark.
A Newfoundland Saves a Life.
The Newfoundland scoresagain. It is only human nature
on our part to attribute the following to a Newfoundland
proper: the vicious escapades we naturally attribute to the
big, black, enrly dogs that roam about under the same cate-
gory. On the morning of. Dec..3, about half past three,
Mener’s grocery store in Kingston, Ont., was found to bein
a blaze, The owner of the store was in the country and only
his aged mother was in the dwelling rooms at the time.
She was awakened by the dog, a large Newfoundland, howl-
ing and throwing himself against the door of herroom. The
faithful animal succeeded in saving the life of his mistress,
but was smothered himself in the smoke.
We are indebted to Mr. R, 8S. Bell, of Bedeville, Ont., for
the particulars in the case.
According to an account of the occurrence which we find
in Le Chenil it is almost as much as a man’s life is worth to
kill a dog in Turkey’s capital. Major Marini, military
attaché at the Italian Legation in Constantinople, having
killed by accident one of the dogs that infest the streets of
that city, was pulled from his horse by a Turkish soldier,
roughly handled and eventually taken before a police officer,
There, haying established his identity, he was given his lib-
erty with profuse apologies, but he promises to respect here-
after, in the same light as he would a human being, the life
of the canine pariah in the streets of Constantinople.
Saratoga Show.
The premium list of the Saratoga dog show, tobe given by
the Saratoga Poultry and Kennel Club, comes to us in good
season. The early issue gives exhibitors plenty of time to
choose their entries and condition them properly. Challenge
classes divided by sex are given in almost every breed with
$7 and diploma as prizes. In open $7 and $5 and diploma is
the rate for mastifis, St. Bernards, all setters, collies, great
Danes, greyhounds and foxhounds, both strains. Puppies
et $5 and diploma. Other breeds have $7, $4 and diploma.
he kennel prizes are club diplomas. Spaniels have Classi-
fication No. 1. Collies, spaniels and beagles are already
nicely treated in the way of specials and American foxhound
have $10 for the best. The entry fee is $8, which is rather
too much for the amount of money given, but as wins will
count this perhaps will not be considered so much. Mr. W.
A. Coster is the superintendent, and we have not seen him in
this capacity since the old show at Cincinnati, when Hugh
Dalziel judged and Mr. Coster’s patent-homemade-stick-to-
the-ribs 4/1 eat-it food soured on all ofus. Mr. C. H. Mason,
Philadelphia, Pa., is the inde. Spratts Company will bench
and feed, Mr. Lyman W. Clute, Ballston Lake, N., Y., is
the secretary.
A man has just completed a journey from San Francisca
to New York on foot. The feat becomes interesting to our
readers from the fact that he was accompanied by his dog,
which, under the conditions of the wager, he was to deliver
in this city within six months. The quedruped, however,
did not pay that strict attention to stomiachic conditions
that it should have done sid for some di-tunce after leay-
ing Toledo, O., his owner was compelled to trundle a wheel
barrow containing the dog, asthe animal had fed not wisely,
but too well, before leaving that city. The distance was to
be covered within six months and this was done with some
days Lo spare,
‘The rumor that Mr. F. Redmond had sold his crack fox-
terrier champion D’Orsay to the plucky Welsh lady, Mrs,
Lawrence, for $2,500 is denied by the Stack-Keener. Mr. Red-
mond still owns the dog. This gentleman had quite an
innings at the fox-terrier show at Wolverhampton, winning
no less than $400 with his team. This team, besides the in-
dividual prizes, won the team prize and Mr. Redmond also
took the brace prize with D’Orsay and Dickon IT, In the
competition for the team prize, Mr. Stephens spoiled his
chance by including Stipendiary, whose size marred the level-
ness of the lot. Stipendiary, however, had hisrevenge in the
stud dog competition, for with his celebratedsget, D’Orsay,
Hunton Justice and Acton Blanche he was enabled to beat
Rowton Warrant, who is himself a near relation of the great
stnd dog. Speaking of the team prize reminds us that many
of our exhibitors in showing and making up their teams for
the kennel prize attach too much importance to the individ-
ual wins of the dogs in their preyious competitions. This
should not enter into consideration so much as the general
“sortiness’” and levelness of the team, and if exhibitors
would bear this in mind there would be less grumbling when
a judge with a proper conception of his duties places a ken-
nel ahead of another whoseindiyidual members have perhaps
won mote firsts than the other. And another point is often
lost sight of, the mere fact of a dog winning a first should
not be considered alone, but the competition it had to con-
tend with in doing so.
One of the Sefton Hero—Urmskirk Dollie pups bred over
here was sent to England on the Majestic Oct. 25.
There must be a bad link in Geo, Bell’s long chain of luck,
for the other day his noted fox-terrier champion Dusky Trap
was run over by a trolly car in Toronto. Dusky Trap is,
however, a tough member and a terrier all over, for he
escaped with some bruises only.
The charges and counter-charges between Mr. H. Huber
and Hi. P. Schell, both of the Pacific Kennel Club, have not
yet been considered by the club because at the last meeting
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bably, ere this appears, be the owner of the well known bitch
Prudence, now in the Shrewsbury Kennels.
As a means tosecuring that sprightliness of action so much
desired in the ring, especially when collies and terriers are
under judgment, a mouse in acage was brought into the
ring at the Cambridge (Eng.) show recently held. This was
during the competition between Rufford Ormonde, the col
lie, and Jack St. Leger, the wire-hair fox-terrier, for best in
show. At the supreme moment the mouse was released and
Rufford Ormonde scored the run up and kill, much to the
discomfiture of both the wire and his owner, Mr. Clear.
Some of our judges who are in mortal terror when the
novice classes come in of reversing some previous decision,
may take heart of grace from the fact that such an old hand
as Geo, Raper, at this same show, withheld first from a wire-
hair fox-terrier puppy, and then in novices a few minutes
afterware awarded it first prize.
We find in Stock-Keeper that the railway authorities
have decided that if a dog’s fare has been paid he is as much
entitled to a seat as any of the carriage’s two-legged ocen-
pants. We do not know how these things are arranged
nowadays, but years ago one could purchase dog tickets on
the railroads, and one’s canine companion was allowed to
travel along in the same compartment. This has since
struck us as a most landable concession on the part of the
railroad companies. Would that the same authorities over
here had some such milk of canine kindness in their corpor-
ate systems. There are many people who would like to take
their dogs with them when traveling, but rather than con-
sign them to the dirt and tender care of the baggageman in
a crowded baggage car, leave them at home. But when our
railroad and express companies combine to charge double
rates for less attention than they give other freight, we can-
not hope for such a millenium as this. ;
a quorum could not be had. A peculiar featurein kennel! The English Stock-Keeper does us the honor of publishing
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Having learned the aboye, we stopped work on the yacht, the loss
on which, to us, Will be not tnconsideruble at the present time, as con-
siderabla inatertal has already beeo purchased and much preliminary
work done, but this may be of benefit to some yachtsman who may
wish, at short notice, a handsome and very roomy steam yacht of
about the dimensions which were, or are, 185ft, over all, 160ft. water
line, 23ft, beam with erate. draft of water, to be driven by tivo triple
expansion engines working twin screws. Respectfully,
BristTou, Dee. 4, ERRESHOFP Mra, Co,
The Journal continues: E 5
“The preliminaries were arranged in good time, and as Mr. Ream
wanted his yacht as quickly as it could possibly be built, desigher Nat
Herreshoff set to work on a model. Mr: ae had sent in his original
letter a sketch of what ha thought would be the pfdper thing in the —
way of the interior cabin of amodern yacht. Mr, Herreshoff, there-
fore, had Mr. Ream’s idea in mind when he went to work on the model.
He etarted in on Nov. 9, and when he finished bis labors he had turned
out what the Herreshoffs cotsider the finest model of a steam yacht
that he or anybody else ever created. The firm was proud of it and
Mr Ream was satisfied. The specifications of the proposed yacht
ealled for the following: 5
“Length 185ft. over all, 25ft, beam, having a draft of water of Bft.
Gin. Hull plated below water line with Tobin bronze and steel above.
Yacht to be fitted with twin screws, driven by triple expansion en-
gines, and two boilers. To have six staterooms, saloon and bath room
forward of machinery, dining room, galley and crew’s quarters aft of
machinery. Large deck saloon, with sidesof aluminum Complete
electric plant, steam steering gear and steam capstan, rigged and
equipped complete, and furnished in crew's quarters and galley, One
steam Jaunch and three rowboats. Regular speed sixteen miles per
hour, Conrpleted on or before June 1, 1894, and delivered at New
atl for the sum of 140,000, same to ba made in ten equal instal-
ments,
“Mr. Ream further stipulated that the yaeht was to be two-masted
and schooner rigged. In the matter of detail Mr. Ream said that his
yacht should have a search light; that the deck saloon should be fin-
ahead a mahogany, and the quarters of the officers and crew in but-
ernut,
“The company, at Mr. Ream’s request, began to rnsh work, and
eontracts for materials and lahor were made without delay. When
the work was stopped on Saturday and telegraphic communication
had with the parties having the contracts, asummiog up discovered
the following as the progress of the work on the yacht: The shop in
which it was to be built was 20ft. shorter than the required leneth of
the yacht, and as a preliminary to lengthening it, piles bad been driven
for the additional foundation; a number of paerns had been pre-
pared; one-third of the beams had been fitted of material on hand;
all the steel angle framies were rolled and were at the Bristol Railroad
depot awaiting unloading; castings for a duplicate engine were made,
and work on the engine was well progressed, even to the forging of
the shaft; a number of the Tobin bronze plates were rolled; one-half
of the steel plating was finished; all the deck beams and other deck
parts were rolled and cut to size; the shop had been cleared of other
boats and machinery, and a number of steel-werkers had heen em-
ployed for some time. This was practically all, but in addition a large
guug of steel-workers tad been engaged to start in yesterday. These
menu were. of course not put to work, and the others were laid off ”
Mr. Ream’s bill for two days at the Waldorf is not yet paid, and the
proprietors of the Adams House, Boston, are also looking for him.
The Rig Proclaims the Vessel.
(From the Marine Journal.)
Tue matter of improvements in rig; as well as in design of hull of
yachts and all other vessels is ahd always has been a very important
one. itis pleasant to find that our worthy contemporary ForEsT AND
SrrREAM recognizes the fact that the detailed history of such improye-
ments, 50 maby of which have been made in recent years, constitutes
a valuable record; never, perhaps, hitherto perfectly compiled, and it
has therefore in its own province as a popular weekly among yachts-
men, devoted a page anda half inits issue of Dec. 2 to areview of
the development of yachting types. It is certainly gratifying that
the incentive for such a Jengthy and attractive article was supplied
by eb incidental remark in th: Marine Journal. Wereferred to the
yacht Valkyrie as a ‘‘keel sloop."’ ForREST AND STREAM took excep-
tion to the term and, though it admits among other things that we
are “correct in saying it is the rig and not the hull which determines
the class of vessel,” it avers that “it would be a good thing if some
new term could he found 10 place of the clumsy expressions ‘sloops
cutters and yawls,’ to distinguish these various yachts in a general
way, wilhout regard to minor points of rig, centerboard, ete.”’ It
also remarks that “the whole question is so complicated that any
attempt to discuss it in a few words would lead to hasty generaliza-
tions,”’ and then proceeds to elaborate and explain the ‘‘complica-
tions.” .
This, if our yachtsmen friends will calmly consider the matter, is
exactly where the mistake is made. Our contemporary explains ex-
tensively how the present types of yachts have beeu evolved, both as
to hull and rig, but is inclined to misrepresent the fact that because of
these evolutions the sloop-rigged vessel is none the less a sloop than
her more clumsy predecessor of a century agu—that a yessel rigged
with one mast and carrying headsails is just as much a sloop now as
she ever was. Itis the rig that always does and inevitably must de-
termine ths name of the type of vessel, be her bull of the finest clipper
model or flat and full like a barge, The Valkyriawhen spoker at sea
by a passing ship was entered in the ship’s log as a sloop yacht. So
was the Navalice. So would any vessel of similar rig be referred to
by asailor. If aman went to an American shipbuilder and said: “T
want you to build me a cutter,” the shipbuilder would get at his inten-
tions by asking: ‘“You mean a keel sloop?” and the yachtsman would
answer, “Yes,” The term ‘‘cutter” is the common term in England_
As applied to yachts, it was only imported here with specimens of
“lnelish cutters,” That the English themselves deem the term wholly
a designation of the yessel’s rig is shown by the fact that though other
and larger vessels may haye hulls on exactly the same lines, the quali-
fication of ‘‘eutter’’ is never applied to them. Who ever heard of a
‘cutter schooner” or a ‘cutter ship?" Neither does any one hear of
a sloop yacht in England except the ‘American sloop.” An illustra-
tion of the fact that modifications in rig do not affect a vessel's class
is shown in the adoption of four and five masts, of double topsail
yards and other innovations of comparatively recent date on square-
rigged vessels, They are none the less ships, barks or brigs, however
many yards or patent appliances they carry. A yawl-rigged yacht
always has a jiggzermast aft and a sloop has a single mast with head-
sails. We quite fail to sea what necessity there is for altempting ta
complicate the matter, and we fear that Forms’ anp Stream has not
the sympathy of the shipping or the yachting world in its demand for
greater particularity of definition, Wherein lies the necessity for any
complications? A sloop is a sloop all the world over, and so is a ship
or a bark, barkentine, brig or schooner, according to the rig of the
vessel.
sYACHT NEWS NOTES.
The new yacht Columbia, built by the Messrs. Cramp for J. Harvey
Ladew, of New York City, left their yard on Dec. 2, under the com-
mand of Captain Sergeant, for Long Island Sound, whereshe will have
her trial trip over the American Club course, from Larchmont to New
London, a distance of eighty miles. The quickest time over this course
is held by the Jate Mr, Gould’s yacht, Aralanta, with a record of 17.21
kuots per hour. This boat, it will be remembered, was also built by
the Cramps, but the Columbia will toa certainty make a better record.
She is certainly one of the handsomest steam yachts afloat, and much
skill and care have been used in the design of her hull and in her con-
struction, which is of the stanchest character. The principal dimen-
sions of the yacht are: Length, 180ft.; heam, 23ft.; depth, 15ft.; and
displacement 400 tons, with a draft of 10ft. Her engine is of the four-
cylinder triple-expansion type, the high pressure cylinders being
211sin, in diameter; intermediate cylinder, 3lia,; the two low press-
ure cylinders each 32in, diameter, and the stroke of all pistons 20in,
With a steam pressure of 160lbs and a piston speed of about 930ft. per
minute, her engine are expected to develop about 1,800 horse power,
which will make her, in proportion to her displacement, the highest,
powered steam yacht afloat, and will certainly enable her to make her
guaranteed speed of 18 knots an hour, In all her fittings and uphol-
sterings the utmost careand taste has been the principal point, com-
bined with excellent ideas as to comfort. The electric light mstalla-
tion has been splendidly carried out, and presents certain features of
excellence not hitherto applied to marine work. She is also fitted
with the Williamson Bros’ steam steerer and the American ee
Windlass Company’s windlass. Her rig is regular steam yacht rig an.
gives ber, with the fine lines of her hull, an exceedingly graceful and
speedy appearance, and she will doubiless be awarded the honor of
being called the finest yacht in the large Heat composing the New
York Yacht Club. After the trial trip she will be ready to go in com-
mission in a yery short time.—Marine Journal.®
The report of the purchase of Vigilant by the Emperor William had |
origin in a silly joke, and is untrue.
Mr. Clapham 1s now busy with two racing craft of the Bouncer type,
a cabin cat 260. long, 10ft. beam and 12in. draft, for a member of the
Douglaston Y, C., and a sloop 20ft. long, 6b. beam, for a Cinadian
yachtsman. Mr. Olapham states that the prospects for work this
winter are very good.
Mr. Thomas Manning, of the Yacht Aveney and the American Yacht
List, has received from the Committee en Awards of the Wortd's Pair
the medal for the best arrangement and display of yachting records,
The Yonkers Y¥. ©. has elected the following officers: Com., Williat
il. Blackmore; Vive-Com., John O'Leary; Fleet Ca tain, Ong
Bloomer; Recording Sec’y, George L. Bolwell; Financial See’y, Che
E. Williams; Treas,, H. Van Alen; Meas., George Warren; Guawards
Pate James; Trustees, A. KE. Shipman, T. C. Poole and Thomas
uckey. ee fmol Ge bars
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Army Shooting Record.
Siyce 1889 the details of practice in rifle and carbine firing by the U.
§, Army has been practically unchanged, and the following data are
interesting as showing the best record reached in the several yearly
competitions held in the various Division and Department contests.
It is fair to assume that with the number of men at this drill and the
number of years over which the records reach, that these figures
represent that there is ina shooting way in the regular issue of
Trifle and carbine. ;
In rifle shooting, using the Springfield Cal. .45, the best individual
record in competitive firing including known distances and skirmish,
was made by Sergeant R. N. Davidson, Company G, 16th Infantry in
the Department of the Platte rifle competition, held at Bellevue,
Seg oF in fees 1892, The score was 630 out of a possible 800,
ua 15%.
‘he best individual record in known distance firing, was made by
Lieut. C. H. Muir, 17th Infantry, in the Division of the Missouri rifie
-competition, held at Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, in August 1890, The
Score was 348 out of a possible of 400, equal to 87%.
The best individual record in skirmish firing, was made by Sergeant
T. O'Rourke, Company G, 15th Infantry, in the Department of the
Missouri rifle competition, held at Wort Sheridan, Illinois, in
September 1893. The score was 308 out of a possible of 400, equal to
q.
The best team record (the team consisting of ten men) is 5950, this
being the total of the Department of the Missouri rifle team for 1892.
The possible score of the team was 8000 points, so the above named
total is equal to 74.384.
The shooting in the competitions is at 200, 300, 500 and 600yds.; at
the first distance the position is off-hand and standing; at 300yds.
kneeling or sitting; at 500yds. lying down prone; at 600yds. lying down
prone or on side or back,
In skirmish firing the shootingis at silhouettes target; distances
from 200 to 600yds. and the men are permitted to assume any position
they pes in firing. ;
In the Cavalry arm where the Springfield carbine Cal. ,45is the arm,
the best individual record in competitive firing with the carbine (in-
cluding known distances and skirmish practice) was made by Black-
smith A. Keiser, Troop H, 6th Cavalry, in the Cavalry competition
held at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, in August 1890. The score was 646
out of a possible 800, whichis equal to 80 75%. In this same competition
Blacksmith Kaiser also madethe best individual record at known
Coat firing; his score being 339 out of a possible 400, equal to
Ths best individual record in skirmish firing was made by First
Sergeant F. H. Toy, Troop G, 7th Cavalry, in the competition held
at Fort Levenworth, Kansas, in August 1892. The score was 323 out of
a possible 400, which is equal to 80.75%.
The best team record (the team consisting of ten men) is 5765, this
being the total of the Department of the Missouri Carbine team for
1892. The possible score of the team was 8000 points, so the above
named total is equal to 72.06%.
The distances fired over and the manner of shooting are practically
the same as those prescribed for the rifle,
Fiery shots (full size) from a machine rest without cleaning, dis-
tance 200yds., with Ballard Schuetzen rifle .38-50, lubricated bullet
weighing n8grs. Powder charge, bgrs. (weight) nitro, and balance of
shell filled with Hazard’s FG powder.
Best When He Is Alone.
Ixpro, Southern California,—California is a much larger State than
most of our Eastern friends realize; in fact, most of our Californians
themselves have only a hazy idea of its size. This station is over 600
miles southeast of San Francisco, and still it is many miles from the
outer limits of the State. The many degrees of latitude thus em-
braced within her borders imply a vast variety of climates. It is, I
believe, a general impression in the Hastern States that all of southern
California affords a fine winter climate for invalids. Thisis true to a
certain extent, but different portions vary extremely in climatic con-
ditions; for instance, Los Angeles and Riverside are towns famous for
their, healthfulness, and still asthmatic; consumptive and rheumatic
patients are fain to get further away from the moist winter weather
of the coast region.
Having suffered within a year two attacks of grip I found it very
desirable to come to a warm and dry climate, hence this letter is
written in the midst of an oasis which gems a truly desert scene,
Passing seven miles west over a flat plain overgrown with sage brush,
Inesquite and cactus, one reaches the sheer front of the San Jacinto
Mountains, which culminate about 25 miles northwest in the snow
bearing peak of the same name, rising over 10,000ft. above sea level.
Twenty miles northeast of this uplift (though seemingly in this clear
atmosphere only five miles) rises Old Baldy, the dominant sentinel of
the San Bernardino Mountains, whose altitude surpasses that of its
taighty neighbor. The plain between the ranges is very dry—about
8in. annual rainfall. To-day, Noy. 15, an aveteae Specimen for this
time of year, temperature at 6 A. M. was 60° F.; at noon, 76°; at 6
P. M., 74°; this in the coolest part of the premises.
Upon deciding that a temporary stay in the wilds was necessary, I
began to consider what ‘‘shooting irons’ would afford mé most pleas-
ure on my trip. After consideration I decided first to take a Smith
& Wesson .22 single shot, Sin. barrel target pistol, and secondly to rig
up a .25-20-86 W. C. F. single shot 28in. barrel Slbs. shotgun butt, set-
trigger, Lyman rear wind-gauge and Winchester interchangeable disk
front sight. I had some years thought a .38 the best caliber for
ih peal but soon discarded it for the .32-40. This I still use in the
rather windy climate around San Francisco; but in the still atmos-
phere of this yicinity the cute little .25 ‘‘gets there” delightfully at
100yds.. though I have not tested it at any greaterrange, I don’t
much like the .22 for general shooting, though realizing that for a
moderate range it is very accurate. The shot that gives me satisfac-
tion is not one at 40 or S0yds., but at distances much beyond that,
distances that would be wellin reach of the.25. As a minor point,
the little .25 cartridge (W, C. F.) isto my eyea thingof beauty. My
pistol BS woe is not extensive, but Iam well able to hold my own
with the best revolver shot Ihave met here. He is a middle-aged man
most of whose life has been spent on the frontier, He uses a heavy
»45 Colt, Of course he and all the locals look with considerable con-
tempt on the little .225. & W. They can see no good in anything that
doesn’t make a big hole. They like to ‘‘feel” a pistol or rifle when it
foes off, and certainly with their big jumping .44s and .45s their desire
in this direction is gratified.
Some fair rifle shots are to be found in all frontier towns, but I infer
from what I see and hear that the ayerage backwoods rifleéman is at
his best when heis alone, When he is put before a target for a string
of a dozen or so shots off-hand he isn’t ‘in it” with the experienced
clubrifieman. Unfortunately there is no gamein this vicinity to oc-
cupy the sportsman's attention. ROEEL,.
Pennsylvania Teams.
Epsrata, Pa., Dec. 2—Thursday last, Noy. 30, our elub (North End
Rifle Club) was at Lancaster City to participate in an all-day shoot, a
report of which I clipped from the Lancaster Intelligencer of Friday,
and inclose to you: The shooting was at 200yds., standing rest, Ameri-
can targets, ten for the center, and Jacob W. Balz was scorer. The
North End club showed the best shooting of the day,,and the result of
the fiye-shot and three-shot matches was as follows:
North End Club.
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JbWe AIPNLHOD Mey eee seb eee sibie eck 67 7 4 6-84 12 14 25
DP sVE NOLS U aisles. sits veneer ers Mb tebe belt 6 5 710 6—33 24 20 25
Deeks IB LOV OLN Ndr. ioie eels ottt-eielsinfeleiclare(roete 10 9 9 8 B44 25 380 27
Coatsville Club.
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practice shoot to-day and made scores appended. Conditions 200yds,,
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Greenville Rifle Club.
TWENTY-ONE members of the Greenville Rifle Club on Friday night
of last week kept the four club ranges in constant use until a late hour
in competition for the club prizes, The excellent arrangements which
are to be found in the headquarters of this club are such that ou
nearly every night of the week a large number of the members may
be found there busily engaged in perfecting themselves in the use of
the rifle, and on regular shooting nights the headquarters arecrowded
with the members and their friends. HEx-Capt. Robidoux was in fine
fettle and succeeded in putting up the high score of the night, The
scores are appended, 10 shots, 25-ring target, distance 82ft.: Robidoux
241, C. Boag 238, Geo. Purkess 237, J. Boag 286, M. Dorrler 235, Plaisted
238, Scheeline 234, Dodds 233, Spahn 28%, Collins 228, Lutz 229, Chavant
223, Gotthardt 227, Bischof 218, Agneau 209, Graef 209, Daniels 208,
Holzapfel 206, F. Wuestner 202, Hill 200, B®. Wuestner 199.
A small contingent of the regulars ventured out in the fog and rain
on Saturday last and endeavored to make themselyes believe that
there was sport in rifle shooting under the conditions present at the
time. The atmosphere was so heavily charged with mist that it was
hard to discern just where the bullseye was located. Messrs. Boag,
Collins, Plaisted and Chayant shot through the regular 50 shot handi-
cap sweep, Boag with his liberal handicap landing on top:
BORE Sak bensad dune Pataseatece Sneairece oon kiask 190 206 202 188 197-+-75—1058
WO Collins: : srsccceeieecnes te eeoec ens W8 206 192 210 197+60—1043
GOW Blaisted: os. ot asktwe atie wale 212 199 218 201 207 —1032
(OR SPIO) it Ne RRA ere eheclaetots 212 186 198 185 203440—1024
Zettler Rifle Club.
Tue annual meeting of the Zettler Rifle Club for the election of
officers for 1893-4 took place at the headquarters of the club on Dec. 5.
The old board was re-elected, viz., B. Walther, Pres.; Geb Krauss,
Vice-Pres.; Gus Nowak, Sec’y; Chas, G. Zettler, Treas.; B. Zettler,
Shooting Master. The close of the business before the club was fol-
lowed by an adjournment, after which the members gave their atten-
tion to the work of putting up big scores on the prize target and for
the champion medal. Messrs. Holges and Flach divided honors for
the best score for the medal target, and Messrs. Ross and Flach on
the prize target. During the evening there was much interest eyinced
over the rumors of the many matches that are said to be brewing
between some of our local experts. Thereis no doubt but that rifle
shooting interests in and about New York have of late taken a decided
turn for the better, and it is expected thaf when the season_of 1894
opens there will be plenty of sport for our riflemen. Scores;
Champion medal; Henry Holges 245, Louis Flach 245, R. Busse 244,
F, C. Ross 244, C. G. Zettler 242, B. Zettler 233, Gus Nowak 238, H. D.
Miiller 237, H. Strate 287, M. B, Engel 236, H. H. Kohlmetz 238, Geb
Krauss 240, R. Harmann 236,
Best 10-shot score, fiye entries: F.C. Ross 247, Louis Flach 247, H.
Holges 246, M. B. Engel 245, R, Busse 244, B. Zettler 243, ©. G. Zettler
242, H. Strate 242. Gus Nowak 238, H. D. Miiller 238, A, H. Kohlmetz
238, Geb Krauss 236, R. Harmann 236,
New York Schuetzen Corps.
THIRTY-SEVEN members of the New York Schuetzen Corps, Capt.
Offerman, assembled in the gallery of the Zettler Bros. on Friday
night for gallery practice and team shooting. This corps has inaugu-
rated a series of bi-monthly shoots for the coming season, and while
itis the first attempt of the corps in gallery practice, the prospects
are that the venture will be highly successful.
The evening was deyoted principally ta team-shooting, the members
being divided into teams of fifteen men each, ten shots per man.
First mateh:
Capt Tholke’s team,,,,,.,,,.. 3,176 Capt Lemeke’s team.......... 3,097
Second match:
Capt Webrenberg's team,....3,316 Capt Offermann’s team,......3,296
1n an individuu) contest between six of the members, ten shots each,
the following scores were made: Henry Strate 239, Fred Facompre
239, Dr. Chas. Grosch 238, Fred Feigle 238, John D. Wilkins 237, Aug. J.
Christian 237.
New York Against New Jersey.
Hditor Forest and Stream:
Byer since the championship match at Cypress Hills on Election
day, the air has been full of championship talk. The Ross-Zimmer-
mann match being off next is u much desired match between Ross and
Dorrler. But last and greatest of all is New York vs. New Jersey.
“Whoop her up, boys,’ there are lots of people looking at you and
Waiting to see that match materialize. In figuring on the possible re-
sult and taking the championship shooton Nov. 7 as a base of calcula-
tion, I find the total number of points made by the five men on the
proposed New York team (Ross, Holges, Flach, Hutch and Boyken)
to be 10,712, while for New Jersey representatives (Dorrler, Hayes,
Hansen, Schlicht and Plaisted) we have a seote of 10,725, or a lead of
16 points. Again, {aking the best 10 shot scores of each team we haye
New York 1.145, New Jersey 1.116, or 29 points in favor of New York.
The best possible way to decideis to have a match before the weather
getstoo cold. All those ‘'Jersey “Skeeters"” in the above list are of
the non-migratory sort and can be found congregated on the eastern
side of Newark Bay any sunny Saturday should any one be looking
for them, Who dares knock the chip off? R.R.
sLady Miller Club.
AFTER @ week of busy workin preparing for Thanksgiving and its
many cares, the members of the Lady Miller Club came out Monday
night prepared to put up their customary good scores in regular club
practice. The ladies shoot in three classes for medals, and on this
Occasion one of the members, Mrs. Mannheimer, presented an extra
prize suited to the boudoir, for the member making the highest score
of the night. Mrs. Mannheimer’s prize was won by Mrs. Meyns on
the creditable score of 231. Vhe scores are appended, medal winners
being marked with an asterisk: *Mrs August Meyns 231, Miss M. Miller
218, *Mrs. Boardman 218, *Miss Begerow 210, Mrs. Ahnert 209, Miss
Sanders 207, Miss Kreiger 200.
Qur Own Rifle Club.
Tus weekly gallery shoot of the Our Own Club of Hoboken on Dec.
4 brought together twelve members in competition for the club medal. _
Captain Heneken, J. H. Kruse, W. F. Dilger and Wm. Bohmcke, had a
close race for first position, and the result was undecided up to the
last shot. Kruse succeeded in pniling himself into first place over
Bonicke and Dilger by one point, and the two latter came in one
point ahead of Captain Hencken. Scores: J. H. Kruse 235, William
Bohmeke 234, W. F. Dilger 234, H. D. Heneken 233, H. Malz 233, Otto
Schmidt 230, C. Feldmann 228, Hy. Schultz 227, O. Keller 226, J. D
Sinclair 215, H. Moser 215, D. Page 214.
New York Rifle Club.
Srx members of the New York Rifle Club assembled in the St.
Mark's Place Gallery on Saturday P.M. for weekly practice. The
honors for high score of the day went to A. H. Isbell with 241. The
scores are appended, 10 shots, 25 ring target, distance 100ft.: H. H.
Isbell 241, M. Herrington 238, C. BE. Fensch 238. R. J. Young 238, HE. R.
Chadbourne 236, F. C. Hamilton 227.
Excelsior Rifle Club.
THE weekly shoot of the Excelsior Club on Dec. 5, had an attendance
of 8 members, The shooting was not up to the average of the weekly
shoots. The absence of Captain Hansen may have had a depressing
effect upon the nerves of these present. The high score of the
evening was made by lL. A. Ryor. J. Hennessy 238, W. Weber 247, R.
H. Duff 232, W. Hughes 198, J. Bims 225, Bryce 230, J. Hughes 222, L.
A. Ryor 239.
Beideman Rifle Club.
Brteman, N. J., Dec. 6.—The following shows the weekly scores of
the Beideman Rifle Club, conditions 25yds,, strictly off-hand. Targets
142in, bullseye, 14in. ring, possible 250. Week ending Nov. 25:
H. J. Mehard 245, 8. L. Gardener 245, J. L. Wood, 2387, A. Schmittman
235, A. McGowan 2385, W. Gilbert 232. Week ending Dec. 2: W. Gilbert
238, J. L. Wood 232, H. Gardiner 231. Pistol score, 50yds., possible 100:
H. J. Mehard..... Ae GUE C eect ne ct 10101010 9 9 9 6 8 8—92
WALT GILBERT, Secretary,
RIFLE NOTES.
Reproduced in another column of this issue will be found a fac-
simile of the fifty-shot target, of which we made mention last week.
Our purpose in using a combination load of this nature was to overcome
if possible the extreme fouling of the rifle barreljone gets when using
black powder by itself. .Our reader mays query as to why we did not
use nitro full chargeand done with it. Our answer is, that having had
considerable experience with nitro in shot guns and a little with the
rifle, and knowing somewhat the eceentricities of the nitro explosives
we did not care to venture too deep with the Ballard action and theold
style shell, and then agsin the sample of nitro supplied to us was too
small to have loaded enough shells for a series of shots. Allof our
lubricated cranks are well acquainted with the many perplexities
met with in shooting black powder without cleaning and how we have
all been looking forward to the time when our powder manufacturers
would come forward with a powder that_after combustion would not
leavethe interior of our ritie barrels like a Pittsburgh chimney long in
use. Oneof our old riflemen, John H. Brown, whose name is familiar
to the patrons of FoREST AND STREAM,some years ago gave con-
siderable time and study to the fuse of nitro in the rifle. His expe-
rience was much the sameas that of many others in the fact that
reliable work could not be done with the nitro using the shells and
primers then on the market. It wasthe advent of thenew Winchester
(No. 3 W.) primer that brought us back again to the subject of nitro
powder in the rifle. A few trials with the new primer from muzzle
rest and off hand gaye good results, these were followed by the fifty
shots published in this issue. We are expecting new supplies of nitro
for experimental work on or about Christmas. When the new powder
comes to hand, we shall proceed to take a little deeper dip into the
tmoysteries of it, and if we are lucky enough to come to the surface
again we shall be pleased to give the readers of FormsT AND STREAM a
little further light upon what we found,
WE note that the War Department has at last decided upon asmoke-
less powder. Report says that the Leonard Powder Co., of New York,
is the successful bidder for the first order to be placed by the Govern-
ment for 10,000lbs. of powder for ordnance and small arms purposes.
The success of an American company in securing the Government
patronage for smokeless powder is a matter of congratulation to all
true Americans, and we congratulate President John H. Brown and
his co-workers in the Leonard Powder Co. for their enterprise in push-
ing their American powder to the front. Mr. Brown is one of the
yeterans in the fraternity of rifle shooters and is best known to the
American public as the inventor of the Brown segmental tube wire
gun, now in the hands of the Ordnance Board at Sandy Hook.
At the annual ball of the New York Central Corps in Terrace Gar-
den on Thursday night of last week, many of our prominent German
shooting societies were represented, During the night a group of the
several societies represented became interested in the topic of team
shooting and the result was that a match was made to shoot a gallery
match on the Zettler Bros. ranges early in February between teams
madeup from the New York Schuetzen Corps, the New York Oity
Corps and the Harlem Independent Corps, each team to consist of ten
men, the losing team to pay for the expenses of the gallery and the
usual refreshments.
The report of the Hartford Rifle Club shoot in last week's issue, in
which H. M. Pope is credited with a total of 855 points in 100 shots on
the standard American target is highly gratifying to the many friends
of this popular sportsman, With his bicycle and his rifle Pope has got
an acquaintance that extends from Maine to the Pacific.
—The Zettler Rifie Club will hold its annual gallery prize shoot at the
headquarters on Jan. 20,21 and 22. On the prize target there will be
fifteen prizes ranging from $25 to $1, On the bullseye target there
will be ten prizes, from $10 to $1. Tickets will be three shots, 35 cents
each, or three for 1$.
At the monthly meeting of the New York Schuetzen Corps last
week three prominent riflemen, Messrs. B. Walther, Gus, Zimmerman
and Capt. A. Knobloch were made members of the society.
Grap-Shooting.
All tles divided unless otherwise reported.
FIXTURES.
If you want your shoot to be announced here
send in notice like the following:
Dec. 10-12.—West End Gun Club tournament, at Davenport, Ia.
Dec, 21.—Elliott ys. Class, 100 liye birds each, on Erb’s grounds,
Bloomfield ayenue, Newark, N. J., beginning at 10 A. M.
Dee, 25.—Union Gun Club tournament, at Springfield, N. J.; 9 A. M.
to 1 P. M, live birds; 1 P. M. until dark, targets. “Open to all.
Dec, 25.—Dexter Park live bird and target shoot.
Dee. 25.—Open sweep at live birds, on Erb’s grounds, Bloomfield
avenue, Newark, N. J.
Dec. 28.—Team of three shoot, at Willard’s Park, Paterson, begin-
ning ati0 A.M. Three men from any club, $30 entrance per team, 15
live birds per man, ooh
Jan. 1—New Year’s tournament, Towanda (Pa.) Rod and Gun Club
at Towanda, Pa Live birds and targets.
Jan, 1.—Dexter Park live bird and target shoot.
Jan. 1.—South Side Gun Club’s thirteenth New Year’s annual,
at Newark, N. J.
Jan. 9.—New Jersey vs. Kings county, team shoot, on Al. Heritage’s
grounds, Marion, N. J.
Feb. ——Reading Shooting Association tournament; two days
targets, one day live birds, at Three-Mile House, Shillington, Pa.
April 46.—Interstate Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ Association's
grand American handicap at Dexter Park, Long Island. :
April 24.27 Central City Gun Club’s tournament, Central City, Neb
May 1-5,—Arkausas State Sportsmen's Association’s tournament, a
Fort Smith, Arkansas,
May 17-18.—West Newburg CN. Y.) Gun and Rifle Association’
pring tournament,
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FOREST AND STREAM.
May 22-25.—Knoxyille (Tenn.) Gun Club thirteenth annual tourna-
ment: first days, target, $1,000 added money, known traps, unknown
angles; last day, live pigeons. Open to the world. No handicap. R.
Van Gilder, Sec’y.
June 5-7,—Kansas State Sportsmen’s Association’s fifth annual
tournament, Topeka, Kansas. J, C. Clark, Sec’y.
June 11-16.—New York State Sportsmen’s Association for the Pro-
tection of Fish and Game, thirty-sixth annual tournament, at Utica,
WN. Y., under auspices of Oneida County Sportsmen's Association.
June 19-21.—Ghamberlin Cartridge and Target Company’s first
annual tournament, at Cleveland, Ohio. $1,000 added money.
June (third week).—Atlantie City Rod and Gun Club, three days’
tournament. Address R. C. Griscom, Sec’y, Atlantic City, N. J,
Aug. 21-24—Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association annual
tournament, under auspices of Altoona Rod and Gun Club, at Wop-
sononock Park, Altoona.
Oct, 4-5.—West Newburg (CN. Y.) Gun and Rifle Association's
fall tournament.
DRIVERS AND TWISTERS.
After the Elliott-Class live bird match at Willard’s Park, Paterson,
on Dec, §, the Glass contingent seemed to he still in doubt as to the
fact of their Morristown favorite being the infericr in point of shoot-
ing ability to the expert from Kansas City. As a result, Mr, John
Leonard ot Morristown, who has financially backed Mr. Class in all
his recent matches, held a consultation with his principal, and then
proposed to Mr. Elliott a mateh on the following terms: Hach man
to shoot at 200 live pigeons for a stake of $300 a side; match to be
shot on the grounds of John Erb, Bloomfield avenue, Newark, N. J.,
on Thursday, Déc, 21; Hurlingham rules to govern except as to the
boundary, which shall be governed by the rules af the grounds; the
difference between the price of the birds and the fate money to be
paid by the loser, The above was agreeable to Mr, Wiott, and he and
Mr. Class placed $50 fofeit money each in the hands of Mr. T. W.
Morfey of Paterson, to be turned over by the Jatter to Mr. John
Riggott of Rockaway, who was decided upon as stakeholder and
referee. In case. however, of Mr. Riggott refusing to act as referee, a
referee shall be selected by the contestants on the day of the match.
The match is to be play or pay, barring rain. This match is one
which should attract a big crowd of spectators, as it will be a fine ex-
hibition of the art of shooting, and besides will be shot strictly on its
merits. John Erb, asis well known, can furnish as good pigeons as
any man in this country, and for this occasion he will try to get them
as good as can be found, The trapping and retrieving on his grounds
is done by experts, and there are never any tedious drags to test the
patience. Under these conditions there is no reason why the match
sbould not be run off in four hours, The chances are that the match
will be exciting as both men are shooting in their best form, and many
who have watched their recent work are of the opinion that, all
things equal, there is not a difference of «me bird on 100 in their skill,
An analysis of the shooting of the two men fails to show even the
above difference. In their five matches they have shot at 525 birds
each, Elliott killing 495 and Class 493, this making Plliott’s 94.285 and
Class’s 93.904, Counting in the birds which fell dead out of bounds
with those scored we find that Class hit 96.761 of his birds, against
Elliott’s 96.190. These figures do not seem to leaye much margin of
skill on either side of the ledger, and were we asked whom we consid-
ered the better shot we should be unable to cast a yote on either side.
The coming match will be the first affair at 200 birds a side shot in
Newark for many years, and those who miss the opportunity of seeing
it will mise what cannot fail to be a fine exhibition, no matter which
mao wins.
Thursday, Dec. 28, willbe a great day at Willard’s Park, Paterson,
when there will occur a contest between teams of three men each,
comprising some of the best shots in this section of the country. The
affair was projected and will be managed by Mr. Jacob Pentz of the
Newark Gun Club. The teams will comprise three men each from
auy one gun club, fifteen live pigeons per man, Hurlingham rules
except b0yds. boundary, $30 entrance fee per team, five entries two
moneys, over five entries three moneys. Shooting will begin promptly
ati0 A. M. in order that all may have the benefit of a good light,
Up to the time of going to press six teams have entered, but there
is a strong chance that more will fall in before the day of the shoot.
Entries are expected from the Riversides of Red Bank, Centrals of
Long Branch, Union Hills of Guttenberg, Emeralds of Brooklyn and
others. Below are the teams already entered:
Newark Gun Club, Team No. 1—Samuel Castle Charles M. Hedden
and Ferdinand Van Dyke, all of Newark.
Newark Gun Club, Team No, 2—Milton F. Lindsley and Eddie Collins
of West Hoboken, and Dr. P. J. Zeglio of Warrenville.
Climax Gun Club, of Plainfield—Neaf Apgar, of Ayona; Hnoch D,
Miller, of Springfield, and Charles Smith, ot Plainfield.
Trenton Gun Club.—George Cubberly, of Long Branch; Eddie Hill,
of Trenton, and Chas. Zwerlein, of Yardyille,
Cosmopolitan Gun Olub, of Plainfield —A. W. Money, of Oakland;
John Rothaker, of Philadelphia and Thomas W. Morfey, of Paterson.
New Utreclit Gun Club, of Bay Ridge.—C. Ferguson, G, E. Nostrand
_and ©. EF. Morris, all of Long Island.
On Saturday Dec. 9, some As shooting was indulged in on
the race track at Guttenberg, N. J. The afternoon was disagreeable
for sport, the light being bad and the rain coming down at times in
torrents. The eyent of most interest was the shootin which M. F.
Lindsley the famous wood powder man and J, A. R. Hilliott the
American Field champion, were pitted against Berkery and Charles
Woolmington, of Hoboken, Hach man shot at 26 live pigeons under
Hurlingham rules, except boundary which was b0yds., for a stake of
$100 aside. The birds were a good lot and would have been still better
with clear weather. All the shooters were in good form and it was
only by a narrow margin that the wood powder team wou. The
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‘tNed” Banks, the genial secretary of the Altoona Rod and Gun
Club, notifies us that the club claims August 21, 22,23 and 24 1894, as
the dates upon which will be held the annual tournament of the Penn-
sylvania State Sportsmen’s Association, The shoot will be held on
the summit of Wopsononock Mt,, near the present club grounds of
the Altoona Rod and Gun Club, Mr. Banks says: ‘Our elub will
spare nothing to make the shoot the success of the season and I
believe we can show yisitors something in the way of skyline that they
never saw before.”
The first of the series of shoots for the championship medals of the
Riverside Gun Club, of Red Bank,N. J., took placeon Dec. 8. The
scores: Event No. 1, 25 targets, John §. Hoey 22, J. C. Cooper 21, E.
M. Cooper 20, James Cooper 17, A. Whymer 11, T. L. Dayis 19, Oscar
Hesse 21, GC. E. Throckmorton 10, No 2, at 15 targets, 1. M. Cooper 14,
Hesse 12, Hoey 12, Jas. Cooper Jr. 11, N. Campbell 8, J. P. Cooper 9,
Oscar Hesse Jr. 8, L. 8S. Campbell 6.
The West End Rod and Gun Club, of Syracuse, N. Y., made the
following scores at their last shoot, each man shooting at 15 targets.
Fred Klock 11, Vinee Case 9, Lewis Simpkins 14, Edward Klock Jr,, 10,
David Papworth i2, Johu Flannery 12, James Breen 7, Marshall Hall
10, John Goodrider 8, George Steves 10, John Kelly, Edward Church 7,
P. H. Bellinger 9, H. L. Blye 8, Frank Klock 10.
The new 100-page catalogue published by Henry C. Squires & Son,
is a marvel in its way, bolh as to the number of articles described and
the low prices quoted. Thersis scarcely an article in the sporting
goods line that is not mentioned, and besides the book shows prices
on many articles useful to others than sportsmen. Copies are sent to
all who apply.
It is about time for the public to hear something about the lately
proposed live bird match between T. W. Morfey, of Paterson, and M.
F. Lindsley, of West Hoboken. The conditions were to be 50 live birds
per man and the stake $50 a side, This match could be shot at Hrb’s
ou the 2ist inst., previous to the Hlliott—Class match.
The Stroudsburg Gun Olub will hold a one-day shooting tournamen
on the club grounds near Broad street, Stroudsburg, Pa., on Dec, 25
A programme that is up to date im every respect will be arranged.
Stroudsburg is on the D.,L. & W.R.R,N. Y.8. & W. R.R. and W.
B. & h. R.R. You are invited,
Our list of fixtures for 1894 is growing apace, but there is a marked
scarcity of events previous to April. Send in your announcements as
soomas possible, so that shooters may have plenty of time to arrange
for attending your tournament. =
Wi, Tell Mitchell, of Lynch's Station, Va,, says in a private letter
that game is not as plentiful as was anticipated thus far this season.
He says his best bags thus far have been 48 and 35, respectively.
Don’t forget that open to all tourament at live birds and targets to
be held on the Union Gun Olub grounds at Springfield, N. J., on
Obristmas Day.
But a few weeks more to roll by and then will come ihat great
team match between the experts of New Jersey and of Kings county,
Louis Miller announces open to all shoot at live birds and target, to
be held at Dexter Park, on Christmas and New Year's Day.
Dorey miss the Elliott—Olass 200 bird mateh at Hrb*s, on Thursday,
Dee, 21.
Don't forget to send in the result of your club elections.
. C, H. Townsend,
Elliott Wins the Fifth Match.
ONocE more have J. A. R. Elliott, the American Field champion, of
Kansas City, Mo., and Wrank P. Class, champion of NewJersey, met
at the traps and once more has Elliott been victorious. This contest,
Garfield Gun Club.
Marcues shot Noy. 30 from 5 unknown King traps, S0yds., 10 live
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shooting match in Jersey. These matches between Elliott and Class, | Lauterbach ........,00.csysrvccecceece o2300200121—6 2222112101— 9
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nicely tempered by a clearsun. The grounds were rather heavy and | McElligott,,,...... Rene Se hdee wety see eb nL ZO Tie 1212201111— 9
sloppy from the melted snow, The bitds can be disposed in few words | Rockefeller... .......cseesesseeues . .2021011121—8 1011101101— 7
as an extremely indifferent lot, in fact, there were only 22 birds noted | Spane,.,,,, 0000110221—5 Egor epee
by the press representatives at all above the ordinary. They were the | Fleming,,. 11102—4 1121001112— 8
poorest lot as a whole trapped in the series. Forty-four out of the | Drake,,,,, 02220—23 1222212210— 9
lot were “flippers,” which merely jumped from the trap and attempted | Arnold, 12010—3 1102122122— 9
to alight within a few feet, but were killed too soon to get the chance. | Hodson aaa 20102—3 0122011111— 8
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Tt was 2:20 P, M. when the match began, C, M. Hedden, of Newark, | § Young......., moka 2121020022— 7
being chosen as referee, T. C. Wright, of Passaic, as trap-puller aud | Tefft,...,,,. Ree tad {ine WRT Seek ee 2222212120— 9
the representatives of the sportsmen’s journals doing the scoring. El- | Bowers. ...,cccsssssecucsecucssrsecsenece ce 1122112111—10
liott won the toss and shot first, killing a left-quartering driver. Class Same conditions, 6 birds:
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round, when an incoming right-quarterer got away from Class, | Adams..,,,..............211222—6 Fleming............++++..110111-—5
although it was by no means fast, On this round Class’s twelfth and | Wsman...., Cavcshadeadt 4 211021—5 Drake .o...ccevesseecesse 2elee0—b5
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and eleventh fell dead out of bounds. At the end of the round Elliott | Cop,........”* a 2 11+. 222222 6 § Young 221081 —5
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the twentieth round, when a right-quartering driver only moderately | J Northcott..,.,..,........ 110212—5 Wichs........... ye, l1112—f
fast got away from him, This left him with a straight run of 69 kills. | McHlligott,............-.. 110110—4. sy the tee
His twenty second bird, a fast driver, was hard hit but was tough.
When Ragle started for him he managed to evade the dog’s mouth,
and finally gathered strength euough to get close to the rear boundary,
Here Eagle made a jump for him, but just as the dog's jaws were
about to close on the bird he struck a slippery spot and slid over the
line, grabbing the bird not more than six inches from theline. ‘This
bid could have been gathered by 4 man. Qn this round Class lost his
third and twelfth birds. The round ended with a score of 73 for Elliott
to 69 for Class.
On the fourth round Elliott killed 25, while Class lost his eleventh
pug twenty-fourth, therace ending with 98 kills for Elliott to 91 for
ass,
We do not consider that we would be justified in adversely criticising
Class on the form he displayed, which was miserable. At least two-
thirds of his kills were “‘slobbers,” he showing very few of the clean,
centering shots made by Elliott, who was at his best. For Class’s
work there was anexcuse. Harly in the week he knocked the skin
from the middle joint of the middle finger of his right hand, put
thereon a piece of black courtplaster and supposed that would end
the matter. On the following morning, however, he was obliged to
remove the plaster, the finger having become badly inflamed and
swollen. Asit continued to grow worse he finally consulted a physi-
cian, who said he was afraid the finger had been poisoned by the black
courtplaster. On this day the finger was extremely painful and was
still badly svrollen. With this handicap a fine exhibition from him
was not to be expected.
The match was an extremely uneventful one, the shots above the
average being here noted: Elliott 34th and 85th (both fast drivers),
43d (left-quarterer), 46th (@ very fast towering driver, a nice kill), 48th
(a quick kill), 51st (ditto), 54th (ditto on fast bird), 72d (awfully fast
driver and a pretty second, but dead out of bounds by action of dog
as before explained).
Class’s 9th (twisting incomer to right, dodged both loads), 28d (fast
driver and neat first), 40th (left-quarterer, behind with first, got swift
and brought down by pretty second), 54d (fast driver, lost, shot
behind), 68d (fast left-quartering driver, good second), 69th (fast
right-quarterer and a clean second), 72d (elegant second on driver
that was awfully fast), T5th (the star shot of the day on an ex-
tremely fast driver that was yards away before the trap settled), 86th
(an ugly zig-zagger of a eR at bering driver and extremely fast, did
not course a yard and got clean away from both barrels) and 94th
(fast right-quarterer, quick first).
Class’s 12tb bird struck the wire fence and fellover, His 15th just
managed togetover. His 18th and 100th were shot on ground pur-
posely and other birds allowed. His 49th was shot on ground, but
Seemingly not noticed by the referee,
Hilliott’s 47th, 62d, 55th, 60th and 93d birds were all plainly shot
while on the ground, but none of them were called by the referee.
Elliott’s runs were 69 and 28, Class’s 23 and 12. Elliott used his
second barrel 45 times, Class 43.
The times by quarters were as follows:
a total of 2 hours.
Tn strings of 10 shots each the race ran as below:
WYHOCH. See. a naaaws tisweandeas 10 20 30 40 50 60 68 78 58 98
MOYER). 5 BIR caring Sede d 9 17 26 35 45 54 63 73 82 91
Below are the detailed scores, shown as only the greatest journal
on earth can show them:
Perth Amboy Gun Club.
PrrtH Amsoy, Dec. 1—The Perth Amboy Gun Club held a Thanks-
giving shoot at live birds and bluerocks on their grounds yesterday,
with all sorts of prizes. It was one of the best day’s sport that has
been witnessed in eastern New Jersey in many years, and was attended
by hundreds of pigeon-shooting enthusiasts from all parts of the
State, with a goodly sprinkling of New York cracks. William F.
Hartman of Perth Amboy Gun Club entered in four of thefivelive |
bird shoots, and killed every bird, making a clean score in every one
of the events. .
The first match was with the rifle, and ten contestants faced the
targets. Thomas Brantingham of the South Plainfield Gun Club was
the winner on a score of 31 out of a possible 86. He won the inimeéense
turkey. Six men faced the traps in ashoot at five live birds, con-
ditions 25yds. rise, and but one barrel to be used. James Van Brackle
of Matawan killed every bird but his second. James L. Tooker killed
every bird with the exception of his fourth, thus tieing Yan Brackla |
and William F. Hartman killed his five birds straight, taking first ©
money. The next match was at five live birds, same conditions as
first event. William Ff. Hartman and James Van Brackle killed their
five birds and divided first money. Leander B, Cambell of the River-
side Gun Club of Red Bank killed four birds and took second money,
James M. Glens and O. Brown of the home club, who killed three each,
divided third money.
The next event was a match at five live birds with similar condition
to previous match, William F. Hariman captured first money by
killing every bird. Dr. Brace of the Perth Amboy Club and Leonard
Cambell of the Red Bank Club tied for money and divided the purse.
There were eighteen entries in the fourth eyent, which was a target
shoot. Fach man had three shots with twelve points to a shot, mak-
ing a possible 36. The prize was a young pig. William F, Hartman
made a clean score and was tied by H. Jones of the Midway Gun Club
at Matawan,
The excitement was intense in this contest, as Hartman had so far
made a clean scoré in every event. In his shoot off Hartman only
made 32, and Jones scored 33 and took the young porker, A match ©
at 10 ten bluerocks followed: Conditions, 25yds. rise, both barrels
allowed. Brantingham and Fred. Mason of the Perth Amboy Gun
Club broke § birds each and divided first money. James L, Tooker
broke 7 and took second money. William Manning, who broke 6 took
third money. The last match of the day was at three live birds each
man, 25yds, rise, single barrel. William F, Hartman won first money
by killing every bird. Geo. Terry took second money by killing his
first two birds.
Central Gun Club.
Dunura, Minn. —The Thanksgiving afternoon shoot under the
auspices of the Central Gun Club, drew a large number of contestants
and spectators. There is nothing of a noyelty in a Thanksgiving Day
shoot in some climates, nor here, in ordinarily warm falls, but when ~
such a large number of entries will turn out and the thermometer
registering zero all day, it shows thab the sportis on the increase in _
this section, and illustrates to what extremes the enthusiasts will ex-
tend. While the scores were not as good as expected, nor nearly up
to the standard of some of the old time repeats the second best men
35m,, 28m.,, 32m, and 25m.,
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A WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE Rop AND GuN.
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1898.
VOL. XLI.—No. 25
+ we, 318 Broapway, New YorRE,
CONTENTS.
Tke Kennel.
Saratoga Dog Show.
A Day at Hempstead.
English Kennel Club Show.
Dog Chat,
Answers to Correspondents.
Hunting and Coursing.
Finish of the Newark Meeting.
Hunting and Coursing Notes.
Editorial.
Good Governor and the Eggs,
Railroad Routes to Cooke.
Snap Shots.
The Sportsman Tourist.
Danvis Folks.—xyIiIt.
Hunting with a Camera.
Natural History.
A Time with a Leopard.
7 rest. - Yachting:
Cougars In the Northwes A Florida Gruize.
Game Bag and Gun. Yacht Building.
Origin of the Centerboard.
The Measurement of Sail Area.
News Notes.
Powder Tests. ,
Niagara County Duck Shooting.
Washington Notes.
Experience with Deer and Moose
Canoeing.
Chicago and the West. p
National Park Road Question. ane De CEES Frankie.
Boston and Maine, ews fs
Rifle Range and Gallery.
The Revolver Championship.
Rifie Club Doings.
Rifle Notes.
Trap Shooting.
Something Anent Targets.
Great Birds at Jobn Erb’s.
Vernon Rod and Gun Club Tour-
nament. ,
Drivers and Twisters.
Answers to Queries.
Sea and River Fishing.
Angling Notes.
Fishing om Sunday. _
Buzzards Bay Fisheries.
Fishculture.
Relations of the Community to
the Fisheries. ,
The Experience of Pennsylvania.
The Kennel.
Chicago Dog Show.
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THRE COAST FISHERY CONFERENCE.
THE conference called by President Huntington and
others, to consider the subject of the fish supply of Atlan-
tic coast waters, brought together a large number of fish
commissioners, commercial fishermen,
rod and line
anglers and others interested, at the Gerlach in this city
last week. While the meeting resulted in no definite
action looking toward a solution of the question it was
called to consider, the proceedings were extremely inter-
esting, and brought amass of testimony from all sides
and a wealth of opinion and suggestion. A number of
papers were read, some of which had been put into type
for to-day, but which are withheld, pending the publica-
tion of the full official report by the secretary in our issue
of Jan, 6,
RAILROAD ROUTES TO COOKE.
THE condition of things in the National Park along the
Yellowstone River, East Fork and Soda Butte Creek this
winter is a good commentary on the plan—so often ad-
vanced—to build a railroad along these streams from
Gardiner to Cooke City. Weare informed that the con-
tractor who carries the mail between Cinnabar and Cooke
City has applied to the Post Office Department to have the
Cooke City route abandoned for the winter, because the
mail must be carried sixty miles on snowshoes, and the
work is too dangerous. For many months in the year
deep snows overlie this whole region, and no railroad
could be operated unless snowsheds were built over prac-
tically the whole route. This would require sixty miles of
snowsheds—a railroad running inside of a house the whole
distance between the two points,
On the other hand, a route from the east, such as we
have often suggested, and as is mentioned in Mr.
Gallaher’s letter, printed in another column to-day,
would have no snow to contend with, except for a very
A railroad from
Cinnabar to Cooke City, if built, would be a summer line
only, and would, therefore, be of no value whatever to
the suffering Cooke City miners, about whom we hear so
short distance through the mountains.
much.
We yield to no one in our interest in the Cooke City
mines, or in our sympathy for those who have so long
been holding claims there in the hope that they might
some time get an outlet to the world for their product, but
the relief which its true friends desire for Cooke City is a
real relief and not a pretended one, and a railway which
could only be operated for four or five months during the
year would be a good deal worse for Cooke than no rail-
road at all.
Mr. Gallaher is a civil engineer, a practical surveyor,
whose word should carry weight.
It would naturally be.imagined that Montana men and
Montana newspapers would be strenuous for the honor
of their own State, and would indignantly resent the im-
putation that any considerable class of its citizens is so
lost to all sense of rectitude and decency as to destroy
public property because legislation which suits them is
not enacted. This is not always the case, however, for
we have seen that Colonel Brackett calls Cooke City
miners, and others living in the mountains to the east of
the National Park, anarchists, and now the Livingston
Post, in its issue of Nov. 30, covertly incites law-breakers
to wreak their vengeance on the National Park. It says:
Everybody concedes that the destruction of the Park by fire would
be a public, a national calamity, and about the only way to avert such
an impending danger is for Congress to grant the reasonable request
of the people of the West by passing the:segregation bill.
However natural it might seem to hear language like
this in the slums of Paris, London, Chicago or New York,
it is a new tone to come from the free and manly West.
The Post, like the three tailors of Tooley street, considers
itself, and a few Livingston town lot speculators, “the
West,” and in its eagerness to start the hoped-for railroad
boom does not hesitate to bring disgrace on its own State.
Truly, ’tis an ill bird that fouls its own nest, and we fancy
the Montana press generally can not feel very proud of
the Post.
THE GOOD GOVERNOR AND THE EGGS.
THERE are those who will say that if Governor John P.
Altgeld of Illinois were not wanting in common sense he
would not now be occupying the extremely foolish posi-
tion he is in of having been blackballed by a sportsmen’s
club. His official record with respect to game legislation,
they will say, is a bad one, so bad that he should have
known better than to subject himself to the peril of the
rebuif given him by the Swan Lake Shooting Club of
Chicago, when he tried to get into it the other day. But
this only demonstrates anew how harshly, intemperately
and wrongly we may judge our fellow men; they who so
reason do not know Mr. Altgeld for the man he is and we
have shown him to be. If Goy. Altgeld has—to use a cur-
rent idiom of the West—‘run up against” thirty-one
blackballs, he has done so strictly within the line of his
duty as a truly Good Governor, and only in the way of
carrying out his campaign against the machinations of
the Wicked Doctor.
The story was told in these columns last summer, how
Dr. W. O. Blaisdell, of Macomb, having imported into
Illinois certain game birds, to wit, chuckor partridges,
from India, had sought to obtain a law for their protec-
tion, and how the Legislature falling into his net he
would have succeeded but for Goy. Altgeld. The Good
Governor vetoed the bill, and at the same time pulled the
mask from the plot of the Wicked Doctor. The imported
birds, he declared, had been brought into the country to
menace the liberties of the people; they were to be used
for the purpose of inveigling the people of Illinois into
jail.
The partridge plot being thus nipped in the bud, or per-
haps we should say addled in the hatching, it is a signifi-
cant fact that the Wicked Doctor has from that time
to this kept mum about whatever became of the
imported birds. And indeed he might, for well
he knew that the progeny of the chuckor fowl
were a horrid brood, more to be dreaded than harpy or
cockatrice. If the Wicked Doctor hugged to his breast
the delusion that no one but himself knew what sort of
eggs he had in his basket he was hugely mistaken. The
event goes to show that in Illinois evil may not be incu-
bated by Wicked Doctors, not so long as a Good Governor
holds down the executive chair. How the Good Governor
came to find out about the pestilential chuckor.eggs is not
known. Perhaps he was told by the Indian jugglers in
the Midway, who while they could not do Indian jugglery
a little bit, may have known something about Indian birds
and eggs. If the Good Governor got his information there
he got more for hisadmission money than most people did.
Be this as it may, whether he had it from the jugglers or
whether the same prescience which had smelled out the
bird jail plot told him the nature of the eggs of these
fowl, he knew that the eggs themselves were lurking in
unsuspected concealment, biding their time and full of
malign potency to bring humiliation upon innocent and
unsuspecting individuals.
In his praiseworthy search for the baneful eggs of the
chuckor, Gov. Altgeld has discovered thirty-one of them
in the ballot box of the Swan Lake Shooting Club. There
must be many more for him to uncover. It isa wicked
world and the seeds of evil multiply with alarming rapid-
ity. All good citizens will congratulate him upon the
success already attained, and applaud him if he shall con-
tinue the prosecution of the search. He will probably
find more eggs by seeking membership in other sports-
men’s clubs. The Good Governor must not give over
until Illinois shall have been wholly redeemed from the
plotting of the Wicked Doctor.
SNAP SHOTS.
THE full text of the opinion of the New York Court of
Appeals in the Moses Sunday fishing case is printed in
our angling columns. It is a familiar principle that the
game and fish laws apply to all waters, whether public or
private; but the New York statute violated by Mr. Moses
is not a part of these laws; it is a section of the penal
code. Its purpose is not to protect fish but to promote
the observance of the Sabbath. The court holds that the
statute applies to all fishing, private as well as public,
even though “‘it does not affect the sensibilities of any
one,” and “‘does not interrupt the repose or religious lib-
erty of the community.”
The story told by the rescued’ Carlin party and printed
in another column is a moving tale of hardship and suf-
fering made tragic by the death of the cook Colgate. It
was a terrible alternative which was presented to the
members of the little band, to abide with the helpless
man, when to stay was to be counted certain death; or to
abandon him to his fate, and if might be save themselves,
There has been some intemperate criticism of the party
because of the course they took in this extremity; but the
reading of Mr. Carlin’s own story carries conyiction that
they did the only thing left for them to do.
A Denver dispatch in last Tuesday’s papers reported
that a deputy game warden of Colorado has discovered
another small herd of buffalo, larger than the one found
in Lost Park last summer, in North Park, Routt county, a
region more isolated than any other part of Colorado.
There are said to be twodozen in the herd; and they are
very tame, being fed by some of the ranchmen of the
park. Itwas hadly prudent in the warden to make known
his discovery, although the Colorado law forbids the
destruction of the game.
We print the request of a Maryland correspondent for
evidence as to the effects of protracted close seasons for
game birds. Maryland is talking of forbidding the kill+
ing of quail for a period of years. Massachusetts is think-
ing of a like measure. What have been the practical
results of close periods of one, two, or three years, when
tried as they have been at various times in other States?
We would be glad to receive something on this point.
The annual meeting of the Maine Sportsmen’s Fish and
Game Association will be held in Bangor Jan. 2. The
New York State Association for the Protection of Fish
and Game will have its annual convention in Syracuse
Jan. 11, The Massachusetts Association for the Protec-
tion of Fish and Game will celebrate its annual reunion
on Jan. 16,
Walter Aiken, of Franklin, New Hampshire, who died
on Tuesday of last week, was a representative of the best
type of the sportsmen of New England. An active and
successful business man, he found his favorite recreation
with rod and gun, and was worthily counted among
those who dignify field sports by participation in them,
B38
FOREST AND STREAM,
- (Deo. 23, 1893.
Che Sportsman Conrist.
DANVIS FOLKS.—XVIII.
Treasure Seekers.
- THE morning after the raising, Solon and Antoine ap-
eared almost at the same time near the site of the old
eggs homestead where Uncle Lisha’s father lived and died
and where he himself was born and passed his boyhood—a
place desolate with complete desertion, telling yet its
mutely pathetic story of the years when it was stirred
with busy life,
It was told by the ruined chimney and broken hearth-
stone, the crumbling wall of the cellar, now a shallow,
shapeless pit; the sprawling lilacs and blossoming fox
lilies, long since run wild away from the sunken doorstep;
told by the leaning crotched post that once upheld the
creaking sweep of the well, to which no path led now; by
the untrimmed, sprouty-rooted cherry trees, straggling
along the fallen wall that was matted by gall-bulbed
stalks of goldenrod lopped upon it by the winter snows,
and by the rank tansy bed, the dry, brown heads over-
shadowing the young leaves that furnished no more med-
icine for the sick or garniture for the dead.
The treasure seekers turned their backs on the scene
without giving it a sentimental thought, and pressing
through the second growth that selvaged the forest began
to climb the lower slopes of the mountain. The moss-
patched and lichened-clad trunks of the ancient forest
now rose all about them, great maples, beeches and pop-
lars, with here and there a fir that had straggled down
from its brethren of the heights, and huge yellow birches
shagged with rustling manes from writhed roots to lofty
branches.
Whenever Solon drew near to one of these he held his
forked divining rod with the point upward, a prong in
either hand, with his palms turned inward, walking
slowly, while Antoine carried the grosser tools, the spade
and bar.
It was laborious traveling over the ankle-deep moss and
the loose rocks, and climbing the prostrate trunks in all
stages of decay, and scaling ledges that barred their way.
At length they reached a little plateau where flourished
a colony of yellow birches about the hoary patriarch of
their tribe.
Solon studied the place with increasing satisfaction.
“This looks as if it might be the very spot; an’ I’m goin’
tu try it thorer. You've kep’ the line, haint you, An-
toine?”
“Jes as straight as a bee was, Ah bet you head.”
Antoine sat down upon a log, dropped his tools beside
him and filled his pipe, while his companion, holding his
divining rod before him and curiously watched by the Can-
adian, marched with slow and stately steps around the
great birch,
“T know itll work on silver,” he said, ‘‘fer I hove a
quarter int) the grass in the do’yard, an’ when I come
over it, it most wrung the bark off.”
Perfect silence pervaded the forest about them, not
even the querulous cry of the ubiquitous jay or the jeer
of an impudentsquirrel was heard in their neighborhood,
and afar off above them on the mountain, only the cease-
less surging moan of the wind-swept evergreens. It
seemed, indeed, as if the invisible spirits of the under
world might be guarding here the treasure so long since
committed to their care by the old Ranger.
Solon had gone twice around the great tree, each time
widening the circle, when uttering a joyful exclamation,
he suddenly stood still and stared like one entranced on
the earth before him, to which the tip of his hazel twig
was pointing.
“Come here, Antoine,” he cried, ‘‘drive yer crowbar
rigbtin there. My goodness me! Ic’ld n’t hol’ it! It jest
flopped ri’ daown in spite on me! I dub’lieye we've faoun’
the identicle place!”
Antoine drove his bar into the ground and left it stand-
ing by itself, while he stood back rubbing his hands and
cried out joyfully:
_ “We'llmos’ gat it. Ah, Solem! Fus’ Ah ‘ll goin’ bought
it hoss ah’ waggin an’ t’ree dog, an’,watch, an’ git cap-
lock on mah gaun an’ bought it hol’ hwoman caleckko
red dress an’ kish lip [kid slippers], Ah do’ know ’f he be
yaller or red. An’ pork t’ree time a day an’ more onion
Ah ’ll min’ to, an’ mud turkey, an’ Ah’ll goin’ Canady
vis'tin’ an’ Montreal. An’ Ab ‘ll goin’ built im white
haouse wid green blindin’, an’ bought it two honded nacre
lan’ an’ set in de settlin’ room an’ see de mens work, an’
smoke all de tam w’en Ah ’ll ant heat.”
_“T haint ezackly settled in my mind haow I shall inyes-
tigate my funds,” Solon declared when he had an oppor-
tunity to speak, ‘‘but let’s duff in a-diggin’ an’ see what
we got. But you wanter remember one thing, Antoine,”
he said very impressively, ‘if ever we du strike the money
you mustn’t speak a laudible word afore we git a holt
on ’t er it ll slide intu the baowels o’ the airth.”
“Oh, no, no-no-no. Ah ’ll won’t spoke no more as
snaikes,” wherewith they fell to digging with great en-
thusiasm,
The ground was composed of loose rock more than soil,
and the digging was slow and laborious, but the crowbar
and spade clinked merrily, awaking echoes that had never
before found voice in that green solitude, and at last at-
tracted a party of jays that for a while kept up a discord-
ant and annoying outcry above the delvers and then flew
screaming away, asif to proclaim to all the forest that
strange work was going on within it.
They had sunk a little pit somewhat deeper than their
knees, when Antoine, driving his bar deep into a crevice,
it sriek something which gave forth a sharp, metallic
sound.
Solon shook his open hand at Antoine to beat back the
exclamation that the suddenly parted lips foretold, but
too late.
“O, mon Dieu, we ‘ll gat it!” he cried, and the words
were followed by a smothered clink and rumble.
“There,” Solon groaned, sinking back on the edge of
the pit and casting his spade from him as a thing of no
further use.. “‘Naow you’ye done it! It’s moved, an’ jest
on accaount o’ your darned, useless, onsensible Canuck
gabble. Darn ye tu altermuttable darnation!”
Antoine looked dismayed, then defiant.
‘Bah gosh, all feesh hooks! You s’pose mans goin’ shut
off hees head so long he’ll fregit de nowse of hees yowse?
Bah gosh, no, Ah guess not me, not for feefty, fave hon-
ded, bah gosh, fave tausan’ dollar!’
“No, you'd rather gab, gab, gab, ‘an tu hev the hull
world, you infernal, eternal, internal, external fool!”
Solon groaned and howled in despair and wrath. ‘‘An’
we most the same as hed it. Oh, by thunder! I’m as
good a minter lick ye as ever I had t’ eat!”
He made a half-threatening movement, and Antoine
scrambled out of the hole and got behind a tree, where he
looked forth with craned neck, as if expecting the explo-
sion of a blast.
‘oF Ah ll gat mad, Solem! you'll ant leek me pretty
heasy, an’ Ah ll gat mad pooty quick *f Ah’ll tried. Den
you'll wan’ ta’? careful, fer Ah ’ll was danger mans, me.
Br-0-0-0-0-o!”
He uttered a terrible growl and pranced a little way
from his cover, but was disappointed that this demonstra-
tion made no impression on Solon.
‘Ah tol you Solem,” he said in a more peaceful tone,
“°F you can fetch back dat moneys fer givin’ me leekin’,
Ah 7ll willin’. But dat ain’t gat no difference. You
leek me, it gone jes’ desem. De bes’ way was for come
aout here an’ heat aour deeny? Come.”
‘*T guess that’s a sensible idee,” Solon conceded, climb-
ing out of the hole and picking up his coat, from the
pocket of which he drew forth a packet of luncheon and
tossed Antoine’s coat to him. Then they sat down upon
a mossy log and began an amicable repast, Solon supple-
menting his companion’s coarse and meagre fare with
portions of his own bountiful supply.
““Ah an’t see mah hoss an’ dawg an’ watch an’ white
haouse, an’ Canady half so plain Ah was ~while ago,”
said Antoine ruefully.
“T tell ye what, Antoine,” Solon said between mouth-
fuls and waving his jack-knife toward the scene of their
labors, ‘‘when we get aour victuals eat, lm goin’ tu try
the rod agin. It looks philosophicable tu me ’atif you
can find it once you can agin’, an’ ef we du you can keep
your hed shet.”
“Ah’ll will, sah, Solem. What Ah’ll goin’ spoke, Ah’ll
mek notion. Shssh.” Suddenly sinking his voice to a
whisper and pointing to a little black animal moving awk-
wardly and aimlessly about the border of a yew thicket
near them, ‘“‘See dat black woodchuck. See me strike it
wid a stone.”
Stooping cautiously, he picked up a fragment of a rock
and threw it with such true aim that it struck the animal
full in the side, evoking a sharp, snarling cry of pain and
anger. Almost at the same moment there was 4 crashing
see ae the tangle of brush above as Antoine breathlessly
asked:
‘What mek dat nowse?” and a great she bear came
lunging out of the thicket with a fierce and startling
“woof, woof.”
As if simultaneously impelled by the impetus of her
charge, both men sprang to their feet and went tearing
down the ragged mountain side at a breakneck pace,
wondering at their own sureness of foot, and silently pray-
ing it might be further vouchsafed them, as they plunged
from rock to rock, snatching at trees and saplings, and
leaping over prostrate trunks that they had slowly climbed
over in their ascent.
Never did men maintain a better pace over such a
course, and it was kept up till they emerged, blown, torn
and trembling, into the clearing, and sank down on the
first cradle knoll, Coats and tools were left far behind,
nor even remembered till now they were half rested.
Antoine arose, straightening his stiffening legs, and after
listening a moment shook his fist at the mountain.
“Damn dat bears. ’F he ll come aout here Ah ’II leek
it, me.”
‘T p’sume tu say ’f you want her very bad you'll find
her up back there. I don’t.”
Then they made their way homeward, chopfallen, yet
in a measure thankful. A few days later they made an
expedition for the recovery of their things, whose disap-
pearance was causing domestic comment, and Solon tried
the magic power of his rod but it made no sign.
: ROWLAND E, ROBINSON.
HUNTINC WITH A CAMERA.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, November, 1892.—
Editor Forest and Stream: A few years ago I wrote
for the FOREST AND STREAM a short sketch of my first at-
tempt at photographing wild animals in their home in
the Yellowstone Park; and this, I think, was the first
article of the kind ever published. Last winter I made
another snowshoe trip after game pictures, hoping espe-
cially that I might get photographs of buffalo.
I fitted out at the Mammoth Hot Springs, not as com-
pletely as I wished, for I was disappointed in not getting
a long focus camera. I had to content myself with a
No. 3 Kodak, a handy little machine, but not suitable for
good game pictures. Still, hampered as I was, the trip
was very interesting, so much so that I think it may in-
terest some of your readers.
The commanding officer at Fort Yellowstone kindly de-
tailed a soldier—Private Dare—to accompany me, For
him the trip was a scout, and only one of many made by
the soldiers stationed in the Park. We spent one day
getting our outfit in shape. We had the best snowshoes
(skis) obtainable and spent part of a day heating wax, tal-
low and rosin into them with hotirons, making the wood
very smooth and waterproof. John Fossom, who acted
as mail-carrier and telephone line repairer for the Park
hotels, joined us for the start to Norris.
We reached Golden Gate about sunrise and found that
we must climb up over the rocks to the right, in order to
reach Swan Lake flat. The snow blows from the open
country, drifting over the roadway clear into the cafion,
and forming an overhanging barrier impossible to pass.
The climb over the rocks is not the easiest, as they are
nearly perpendicular, and one is hindered by his snow-
shoes, pole and the pack on his back. We all reached the
high ground safely and from here on our road was com-
paratively level to Norris Geyser Basin. As the sun
reached the noon mark it warmed up the snow, making
it very hard snowshoeing. I had not been on snowshoes
for a long time and was quite willing to rest at the Crystal
Spring Cation when we reached it. We had intended to
make this our first night’s camp, but found the cabin in
very bad condition, and anything but a comfortable place
in which to spend a winter night without any bedding.
We built a fire in the broken stove, made a cup of tea to
go with our luncheon, waxed the bottoms of our snow-
shoes and rested for two hours. By this time the snow
was very sticky, and had our shoes not been in the best
possible condition we could not have moved at all, As it
was, they would hang on to the snow in the shady places
—the snow there being colder—and we would have to
strike the sides of the shoes with the pole to knock the
snow off, Often there was from five to ten pounds sticking
to each shoe, and when one gets tired toward the end of
a long day’s tramp, he would swear that not less than a
ton clings to each shoe. All the snow under the shoes
clear to the grass roots comes up at every step; and the
snow was ten feet deep ona level. By rubbing the bot-
toms of the shoes with a candle now and then we got
along very well until about 3 o’clock, when we had no
more trouble, for then the snow got cold everywhere, and
the shoeing was easy. We reached the long hill north of
Norris early, ending the day’s trip with a splendid run of
half a mile in about 70 seconds. :
The next day we spent at Norris Hotel, resting. Here
Pete Nelson was in charge as caretaker, Pete is one of
the most expert and fastest snowshoers in the country.
He is also always having adventures with lions, bears,
and other wild animals. A short time before we reached
the station he saw a lynx go in the open door of the meat
house, and, thinking to secure it alive, he slipped up
and was shutting the door on it, when it attempted to
come out. He kicked it back, when it bit him through
his boot. Peteshut the animal in, thinking he had it se-
cure, but the next morning it was gone, having gnawed
through an inch board, where it was slivered a little.
Pete has more respect for the teeth of alynx now. Here
I was able to secure a very good negative of a Clark’s
crow during the day, shot with the camera from the win-
dow at a distance of 80ft.
Norris is one of the coldest places in the Yellowstone
Park. There is hardly a day in the year when ice does
not form. No matter how hot it may be during the day,
if the night is clear, there is sure to be ice next morning.
We were up by 4 o’clock of the morning of Feb, 26 for an
early start, Dave and I for the Grand Cafion, and Pete
for the Mammoth Hot Springs. He went to the door at
4:20 to look at the thermometer, and called out. “If I
tell those fellows at the Springs how cold it is here, they
won’t believe me.” ;
‘What's the matter, Pete; what ails you?”
“Why it’s 35° below zero.”
‘"No! Let’s see,”
Sure enough it was—35°. I had to look carefully to be-
lieve my own eyes. There was not a particle of wind, the
candle did not flicker at all, but soon began to burn dim,
even while we were looking at the thermometer, It
registered 33° below when we started at 5A. M. We did
not notice the low temperature much; the exercise we
were taking in snowshoeing was enough to keep us com-
fortably warm.
Before we were 100yds. from the hotel we noticed a
fresh mountain lion track along the snowshoe trail, In
places the animal had left the road, passed behind trees,
stumps or piles of logs that were good places to look along
the road ahead for game. It was evidently hunting for
its breakfast. Other fresh tracks covered the road in
places; now a lynx, a rabbit, squirrel, a fox, birds for a
short distance, and even mice tracks. About two miles
from the hotel the lion track became so mixed up with
older tracks that we could no longer pick it out, Here
we found a hole in the snow that led down and under a
small bridge buried under five feet of snow. The snow
around the hole was patted down with the tracks of ani-
mals. The space under the bridge was probably utilized
by some of them foraden. I could see only a short dis-
tance down. Further on we saw tracks of porcupine,
martin, and, along the Gibbon River, mink. We could see
no sign that the lion had succeeded in getting a meal, All
along the road to the cafion we found a network of tracks,
At the cafion we saw the trail of a small band of elk and
where they had been feeding. On a point overlooking the
mouth of Cascade Creek was a place that was used often
by lions to look for elk, Several fresh trails led to this,
and as long as we were about here we saw that it was
often used, but could never succeed in seeing one of these
beasts, nor could we see from any sign that the lions had
ever killed anything larger than a rabbit,
Just as we climbed the hill to the hotel we saw two
foxes. Quite a number of these animals hang around
the hotels all winter and live on the waste meat that has
been thrown away during the summer. They have to
burrow through the snow after it. I have noticed some
very beautiful specimens, some almost black, some silver
gray and some cross foxes. The most numerous were
light red. :
The man in charge of the Cafion Hotel did not go out
much and so could not tell us anything about what was
going on in the animal world around here. The Cafion
Hotel is a very interesting place, as it is on one of the
greatest game trails in the Park. A great many animals
of all kinds pass here winter and summer, because they
cannot cross the cafion for miles and miles below.
Next morning was clear and cold. We packed up
early, taking enough grub for two or three days’ camping
in a cabin. We had secured two single blankets, one
rubber blanket and one small ax. A tin cup, each aspoon
and our sheath-knives made up our camp material. We
carried all the provisions we could handily, Traveling
up the Yellowstone, we saw the usual number of tracks
along the road and to and from the river. There was
one place much used by otter. They had a slide of about
20ft., ending in the water. On a bank of snow was a
place much used by them while eating fish. I passed
this spot many times, but could not get a picture
of the animals, though I have often seen them.
The river was open most of the way; it was possible to
cross only at two or three points. All the kinds of water-
fowl that breed in the North were aera along the
river, including swan and geese. At Camp Creek I saw
a very black fox, a few gray hairs on his breast and belly,
otherwise it was jet black. :
We reached Hayden Valley a short time after sunrise.
A band of ten elk were feeding close to Alum Creek. We
were high up in the dead timber on the side hill, cutting
off a point in the trail and to get a good view of a portion
of the valley. There was a cloud of mist or steam rising
from the warm water in the creek. The elk saw us and
made for the creek, traveling in the water, except where
they could cut across from one-bend to another in shallow
snow. Iran down the hill to cut them off, or haye them
pass close by me. I reached the.creek in time, but could
\not geta picture; the elk trotted up the creek within
50yds. of me, splashing the water over each other in
showers. The steam was too thick to think of taking a
shot with the Kodak; I would have got but a blurred
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negative. With a rifle I could have easily killed several. | gulch in front of the cabin. I could not find bottom with
They passed on up the creek and disappeared in the | a 6ft. snowshoe pole.
steam. I could hear them splashing water, long after
they were out of sight. :
We had to ford the stream ‘Soon after the elk passed us,
it was rather cold work at the time, but one gets used to
such things when hunting, either with a rifie or camera.
That's a part of the programme we have to go through,
Our intention now was to make for alittle cabin on
what they call Trout Greek; a cabin built for the use of
scouts while on their winter trips. I had never seen it,
but felt sure I could find it although it was ‘‘cached.”
We struck out over the hills, taking a southwesterly
course. About a mile from where we crossed the creek,
we came in sight of the first band of buffalo; there were
twenty-seven in the bunch, five of them calves. Some
were feeding, others lying down; they were on ground
that is not quite warm enough to melt all the snow off,
but it was thin and all gone in places, To the north upa
little hot creek, we saw two very large bulls. Traveling
on I made fot a high knoll, where I dropped my pack
atid shoes, to have a rest. I went to the top and sat
down on the stinny side of a large boulder; just west of
mé aiid less than a qtiarter of a mile distant were eight
large bulls, one of them iiouse colored. I watched them
rooting for grass quite a while, when three of them Jay
down. I ate my lunch and waited in the hope that they
would change their position, as it was impossible to get a
good picture where they were. To have any sort of a
negative, I must get within 100ft. of them, I must have
the light right, but as the wind was coming from the
sun, I had to give up getting a negative of that
unch.
Off still further west I could see three buffalo on a point
of a ridge, two lying down, one feeding. To the north I
could see a large band of elk. They were just at the edge
of the timber, on the north side of Hayden’s Valley. By
carefully counting, we made out between 300 and 400 in
this band. Wespent an hour on the knoll looking around.
Besides the large game, we saw other things, and once
what we supposed to be ravens from the way they moved
around over the snow. They proved to be wolverines,
however. ‘Traveling on, we would scare up a fox or
coyote every little way. I do not know what so many
atiimals of that kind find to live on. We seldom—if ever
—saw a dead animal.
After a while we got into some broken hills, where
there were strips of timber. Here the snow was very
much drifted. From the west and exposed side the snow
would be blown to the east side, where it was in drifts
from 10 to 50ft. deep. Then, too, parts of the timber
would be full of snow. Only where the wind struck the
western edges would there be any sign of bare ground.
Everywhere we could see signs of game; their trails
through the snow—even through the deep drifts and in
the sheltered part of the timber the snow would be
tramped down by elk and buffalo, where they had spent
hours seeking shelter from some seyere storm. Some of
the exposed side hills were covered with snow only as
deep as the tops of the rye grass and sagebrush. On these
places bunches of elk were to be seen, three, four, and
sometimes five in a place. Once we came up to a little
basin or pot hole and on the side directly across from us
an old bull elk was digging away in snow 8ft. deep.
While watrhing him I noticed to my right two more bulls
not over 75rt. away. I had not noticed them at first,
as they were standing against the bare ground of
the basin’s rim, which was just their color. None
of the bulls saw us. I was getting the camera out
for a shot, although the sun had disappeared under a
bank of clouds that was coming up in the west, but just
then four more bulls made-a run from left to right
across the hole. They had not seen us, but had got our
wind before they started. They passed between the single
and two bulls, stopping for a second about one hundred
feet from us. There was no use shooting, as it was too
dark for a picture; but what a good chance it would have
been if the sun had only been shining. All the bulls left
except one of the two to the right. He did not notice
that anything was wrong, but went on feeding while we
were out of sight. At last he noticed that he was alone.
This seemed to astonish him and he looked all around,
but seeing nothing to frighten him he went on feeding
for a time, but showed by his actions that he did not
feel safe, Every few seconds he would iook up, step
around and move his ears in all directions to catch any
sound and smell of the wind for danger, Nothing was
wrong so he would feed a little more. He was a noble
animal and I disliked to go without his picture, but we
could not wait, so we commenced to climb a snowbank,
which brought us in sight. Even then he looked for
some time before he moved off. I began to think he was
partelly snow blind, although I am not sure this was
the case.
Soon after leaying the elk we were in a violent snow
squall. The air was full of snow, one could not see
twenty feet ahead. Itseemed as though it would smother
us, We sought shelter in timber while it lasted—about
ten minutes, After the squall was over we soon reached
the little valley through which the wagon road runs that
leads to Larry’s old dinner station. -Following a ridge
to the right we saw five more butfalo, two on the same
ridge, one off to our right and two on a side hill, none of
them over one hundred and fifty yards away. All were
sleeping except one on the side hill. The snow that had
just fallen covered them like a blanket. The sun was
still behind a thick bank of clouds, so there was no
chance this day for a picture, and not wishing to disturb
the animals we slid down off the ridge and turned up
Little Trout Creek to hunt up the bit of a cabin.
This we found hidden under a snowbank, all except
a bit of the front. Snow covered it completely, except a
hole where the chimney was, as it had been occupied for
two nights a month before we came. The drift bung over
the front like ashed roof. We founda lot of swamp hay
in the cabin and enough wood to lastafew hours. We
threw off our packs and set to work to make ourselves
comfortable. The cabin was 7x L0ft. inside and about Tft.
high, with an outside chimney, the fireplace in the cor-
ner. The door, asmall one with a small window in it,
gave a bit of light. We had to provide ourselves with
wood enough to last all night and this was quite a task as
we had only one little camp ax. Icutadry tree down
and into lengths handy for packing, Dare taking it to the
eabin on his shoulders, Every move we made outside the
eabin was on snowshoes; if we stepped off, down we would
go to our waists, for the snow was very deep in the litile
When we fired up, the cabin was soon full ofsmoke, but
we betiered this a little by putting pine boughs up around
the outside of the chimney. The inside of the cahin was
soon quite homelike, with a bright fire and our duds
hanging up to dry. We squatted down in front of the
fire to do our cooking and eating, and were as well satis-
fied, if not better, than in the great, empty, lonesome
hotels. They always give me the blues. I can be con-
tented ina hole in the ground better than in a deserted
hotel. We found an old tomato can, in which we niade
our tea, and out of other cans we made water buckets and
pans to warm up our baked beans. No fault was found
with the cook, food, or service; everything went. By
THE CABIN IN THE SNOW.
Amateur photo by E, Hofer.
eight we were so sleepy we were glad to turnin. We
piled up the hay in front of the fire, put a blanket down
on this, and using firewood for pillows, drew the other
blanket over us and went to sleep. The one that got froze
out first would get up and put on more wood.
In the morning we were up before daylight. We were
blackened by the pine smoke, but a wash and scrub. in
the snow made us clean and comfortable and able to stand
any amount of cold. ‘We left everything in the cabin ex-
cept the camera, and struck out for pictures, with the
canon hotel for our next camp. Going back we took a
different route. While in the open country I saw a band
of twenty buffalo, but they were where I could not get at
them for a picture, and did not disturb them, as I was in
no hurry. We followed high ridges when possible. for
these gave us a better view of the country. Away off to
the east, toward the Crater Hills, were large bands of elk,
mostly cows, calves and spikes. I did not care for a pic-
ture of these, and continued on toward the foot-bridge
across Alum Creek. Running down a long, steep hill, I
surprised a fox. How he did “‘light out,” wifh me after
him, 1 was gaining on him every second, running down
A NATIONAL PARK BUFFALO,
Amateur photo by E. Hofer.
hill, and I would have been on top of him in a moment,
but he turned sharp to the right, while I flew past. While
running he lost time looking back to see what kind of an
animal it was that could run faster than he on the snow.
He seemed so astonished that I got laughing until I came
near taking a header into a snowbank. I believe the fox
would have laughed at me had I fallen. The joke would
have been on the wrong party.
We found a lot of ducks in Alum Creek, and they flew
as though they were very fat and heavy. I took ashot
at them with the camera, but did not get anything. All
Alum Creek bottom was pawed or rooted over by buffalo
and elk. There did not seem to be a square yard of snow
that had not been disturbed. It was hard snowshoeing
along the river until we reached Cascade Creek, There
the shoes would not stick. We were three-quarters of
an hour getting from the bridge up to the hotel. This isa
hard climb, winter or summer.
After resting a day we loaded up with provisions and
struck out for the cabin. Dare went by the most direct
route, while I hunted for a picture or two, I found a
buffalo on the ridge about a mile from the Crater Hills,
before I could approach near enough to get a shot clouds
began to gather. He was on an open side hill in such a
position that I could not get clos:r to him ‘than 100yds.
As-soon as he saw me he commenced to move for higher
ground. I got two shots at him as he was making his
way through deep snow, following a trail he had traveled
839
before. I spent an hour or two looking for other ani-
mals, and saw a band of buffalo off about a mile in the
edge of the timber to the south of the valley. The clouds
were now quite thick and the light too dull for pictures.
I made my way toward the cabin, and when I struck
Dare’s snowshoe trail I found a mountain Jion’s tracks in
it; he had followed Dare for half a mile, turning off into
the timber to the right, when Dare’s trail started up the
gulch where the cabin is.
The next day I saw where the same lion, or another,
had followed my trail about as he had Dare’s, only he
had come almost up to the cabin door.
We now made a visit to the hot country on and around
Mary’s Mountain, saw signs of buffalo everywhere, but
could not finda band. On Mary’s Mountain is the first
place I ever got a photograph of buffalo.
Our provisions getting low we made another trip to the
hotel. Whata lot of stuff one can get away with on a
snowshoe expedition, When we left the hotel the morn-
ing was clear and cool; —25°. The snow was in splendid
condition for shoeing. When the sun came out the trees
and everything was covered with a thick frost that shone
like silver crystals, the frost was as thick on everything
as though an inch of snow had fallen. I took two pic-
tures with Dare in the foreground. They look cool and
wintry. j ;
I found another buffalo bull on about the same ground
as the first one. I got a good picture this time, for I had
better light. I slipped up carefully to where I had seen
him sleeping, but he was not there. Going a bit further,
I looked over the rim of a hill and saw him out in the
deep snow. He was breaking a trail to new feeding
ground, I worked around to get close to him, and as
soon as he saw me he rushed back up his trail ‘to a little
hill, passing within 50ft. of me, I ‘pressed the button”
when he was in the best position. He was going like a
steam engine through the snow. Isupposed I had a first-
class picture, but it proved that the camera could not get
there fast enough. The legs were blurred. and the nega-
tive of no use except as a memento of the hunt. Getting
negatives of this kind is like wounding an animal and
having it getaway from you. You know it will suffer
and dieand be lost to everything but the bears and wolves.
It always gives me.a sickening feeling to have it happen.
With a negative, though, that don’t come until the hunt
is over. Tne buffalo ran to the top of the knoll and
stopped. Dare was between him and higher ground.
The snow: was not much over a foot deep where he was
standing. I went around and up on the knoll with him
and took three shots at about 75ft. Wishing to get better
pictures and nearer views I commenced working side-
ways up to him, keeping my snowshoes pointed down
the hill, in case I had to run from him. At first his
head was turned from me, but as I got closer he faced
around, shaking his head now and then. I cut the focus
down to 50ft., and was just about that distance from him
when he showed decided objections to my coming closer.
Dare said, ‘Look out, he’s getting mad!”
IT said, ** Yes, and ’'m going, ton!” I pressed the button
just as he started for me and then made a break for the
deep snow. He came up to within 2dft. by short, quick
jumps, but by this time I was where the snow was 4ft.
deep. He then turned and made for higher ground, pass-
ing Dare, who had moved out of the way. I don’t think
the buffalo intended to attack me; he was only running a
bluff. But I did not care to stand there. I thought his
bluff enough for me, There was too much buffalo behind
ib. Euwoop Horr.
[TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEE. |
Blatuyal History,
COUGARS IN THE NORTHWEST.
OKANOGAN, Wash.—Editor Forest and Stream: In
your issue of Oct. 28, in the foot note to my article, you
ask what is a cougar as distinguished from a panther in
the Northwest.
The cougar is shorter both in body, neck, tail and legs;
his head is broader and his legslarger and more muscular;
he is gray and has not a red bair on him, and his tail has
a black tuft on it. The habits of the two are the same.
Hither will kill a cow when hungry.
Jim Curley and I were riding along on Clearwater once-
when I noticed, a short distance ahead of me, a cougar
crouched down behind a pine log watching a cow which
was feeding only a short distance below. The cougar
was so intent on its prey that it had not noticed us.
We stopped and watched it for a few minutes, while
the unsuspecting cow kept feeding toward the log. Jim
proposed to wait until it made its spring, but I told him I
was afraid it would kill or cripple the cow before we
could prevent it, and that we would put my dog after it.
We started to ride to it, when it soon saw us and
started for a thicket up the mountain. I put my dog
after it and he soon treed it, We hitched our horses and
went up near the tree. I called the dog to me and Jim
shot the cougar in the head. As soon as it quit kicking
T let go the dog and urged him to fight it, which he did
until we made him quit, We skinned it and had the
skin tanned for a rug. Lew WILMOT.
[The characteristics of the cougar given by Mr, Wilmot
are not such as naturalists regard as of specific value. We
haye seen panthers which were stout so as to seem short-
necked and thick-bodied, which had broad heads and were
gray in color. These we have believed to be old individ-
uals. The younger ones are much more slightly built and
seem to be longer. They are red in color, often nearly as
ted as a deer in the summer coat. There are only two
species of long-tailed large cats knownin North America;
one is the cougar, panther or puma, and the other a
southern form, the jaguar, which is spotted somewhat
like a leopard, and just crosses the Rio Grande into Texas,
No doubt our correspondent has seen grizzly bears of
many colors, but we do not imagine that he regards color
as a good specific color in the bears. The deer is red in
summer and gray in winter, yet although he has a coat of
two colors at different seasons of the year, he is still the
same animal. So,a panther may be spotted—as it is
when new born—red for the next three or four years of
its life, and after that, if ib lives so long, gray, and it
would naturally grow more muscular and heavier as it
grew older. |
540
FOREST AND STREAM.
[Duc. 23, 1898.
A TIME WITH A LEOPARD.
[Being the conclusion of the paper ‘Some Tricky Leopards,” in
dssue of Nov, 18,]
J oncr had under my care a leopard called Lucy, and
she was one of the most singular animals that I ever saw.
Lucy knew no one but the party who fed her, and he
could do about as he wished with her. In order to test
her I changed keepers, and Lucy invariably transferred
her allegiance, taking every opportunity to try and claw
her former boon companion. On returning to his old post
the original keeper hadn’t the slightest difficulty with
her after the first meal had been received from his hands,
I was so fortunate as to breed from her, and in the adjoin-
ing den a lioness had two whelps, which she refused to
suckle any longer when they were about two weeks old.
T ransacked the entire neighborhood trying to find a bitch
in milk, but was unsuccessful, and while standing in
front of the cage worrying and fretting, I ordered the
keeper to take one of the whelps and hold it in front of
Lucy, to see how she would act. He picked it up and
held it far enough away to be out of her reach. She
walked up to the grating, gazed fixedly at it, but made no
attempt to reach for or harmit. I then directed him to
advance it slowly toward her; when it reached the grating
she gently thrust her nose through the bars and began to
lick it. Giving a gulp of relief, I ordered it placed inside
the cage, when she"picked it up and softly placed it along-
side the two youngsters belonging to herself. The second
young lion was treated in precisely the same manner, and
henceforth she acted as their foster mother, giving them
the same care and attention as her own whelps.
During my connection with the Zodlogical Garden,
Philadelphia, I received the following telegram from the
city office: ‘‘Leopard loose on one of boats of the Clyde
Line from New York. Send head keeper down to catch
it.” I obeyed the order literally by sending the head
keeper, while I remained in the garden, From my pre-
vious experiences with leopards, | was perfectly willing
that the head keeper, or anybody else, might catch the
animal, and was delighted that the task had been passed
to another party. But my self-gratulation did not last
long, for later in the day a second dispatch arrived say-
ing: ‘‘Come down, as Nash can’t catch the leopard.”
On getting down on the river front, I found the pier-
heads filled with people looking out at the barge Chesa-
peake anchored in mid-stream. Taking a small boat, I
wasisoon alongside, and found that Nash, the head keeper,
was completely at his wits’ end and unable even to locate
the brute’s whereabouts on the craft. All that he knew
was that on the night previous, while the longshoremen
were unloading the barge, they came across an empty
cage, and shortly afterward a leopard appeared in the
midst of them. There was an instant stampede, hatches
closed, and the craft towed out and anchored in the mid-
dle of the river. As it was late, I determined to make no
attempt at a capture until the next day, and returned to
the Garden, where I ordered the carpenter to transform a
shifting-den into a trap-cage. The next morning I or-
dered a little Alsatian to follow me as soon as he had
completed his forenoon’s work. I had picked him up in
Batavia, Java, as a deserter from a Yankee whaler, and
selected him, asl was sure from previous experience, that
dependence could be placed on him if matters came to a
tight pinch.
Calling at the city office before going on board the
barge, I found a thoroughly demoralized board of direc-
tors, every one of whom had a plan for capturing the
animal, a major portion of which had been suggested by
some acquaintance. All were anxious to know what
course I intended to follow, and seemed much disappointed
when they were informed that I had no fixed plan, but
intended to watch and take advantage of the first op-
portunity that might present itself, and sooner than run
the slightest risk of injury to any one, would shoot the
creature. Finally, | managed to get away, but not until
the society’s actuary had been ordered by a member, who
generally carried things with a high hand, to purchase a
large jar of chloroform, and accompany me. On arriving
on board of the barge, I ordered some holes chopped
through the hurricane deck, so as to try and locate the
beast’s position below. After several trials we managed
to make one directly over him, lying well aft, on a mat-
trass, among a lot of furniture. Gently covering the hole,
my plan for capture was instantly formed, and to under-
stand it one must recollect that the hurricane deck only
reached from the stern to about three-fourths of the
length of the barge, leaving the forward portion of the
main deck entirely open, The main hatch ran completely
across the boat and I knew that all the cargo on the
main deck forward the hatches had been removed, with
the exception of one or two hogsheads. Sending on shore
I procured alot of large tarpaulins and long strips of
plank. Just as my arrangements were about completed
for the first move, a chap with a fire annihilator strapped
to his back made his appearance, and announced that the
directors had sent him to capture the leopard. On asking
how he intended to do it, replied:
‘You just drive him into a corner, place some pack-
ages around him, so that he can’t get at me, and I will
turn on the gas, which will partly asphyxiate him, and
then you can haul him into a cage.”
‘You just get him into a corner, as you describe, and T
will catch him without any asphyxiation.”
Whereupon the asphyxiator retired in a high dudgeon,
and I prepared to go on with my own plan. Gently lift-
ing back the hatches, so as to leave a slight opening for
their entire length across the deck, 1 lay down on one
side with the Alsatian on the other, both watching to
detect the animal’s move forward, when he would be
disturbed, as I had planned. Ata signal from myself a
pole was thrust into every hole which had been cut
through the deck, causing the leopard to spring forward,
with an angry snarl, and seek refuge behind one of the
hogsheads. Instantly the opening of the hatches was in-
creased, the tarpaulins lowered as so many curtains, while
the Alsatian and myself quietly dropped down and
securely fastened them at the bottom and sides by nailing
on the strips of board, while the parties on the hurricane
deck secured the upper edges in a like manner, Climbing
back on to the hurricane deck, I drew a long breath and
mentally concluded that my spotted friend had allowed
himself to be outgeneraled in the opening of hostilities.
I now began to watch for the arrival of the carpenter
with the altered shifting den, when my attention was
attracted to a boat coming alongside, containing a party
with a terrier in his arms, who responded that he had
been sent by the board to catch the Jeopard, His idea
was that the leopard, being a male, would go into a4 trap,
in which was placed his dog, which was afemale. I told
him to go down below and seta trap, with the bitch fora
bait, but he declined, saying that was my business and
not his, and he went ashore threatening to report my
stubborness to the board. In the meanwhile the carpenter
arrived, and taking him down on the main deck forward,
I showed him a door which opened directly into the
division occupied by the leopard. It hung on T hinges
and swung outwardly, making an easy job to loosen the
hinges, hoist it sufficiently for an entrance into the trap
cage and then refasten it, So soon as the hinges were
unscrewed and the door hoisted high enough to let the
light flash in, the brute charged, and it took all of my
strength to hold it against him. The carpenter clambered
up the hurricane deck, and it was some time before I}.
could induce him to return and complete the job. I then
sent a messenger ashore to the agent’s office, requesting
the attendance of one of the tugs for a short time.
While waiting for it I received two more visitors, who
had been sent by the board to catch the animal. They
belonged to some wandering menagerie and professed to
know all about capturing escaped leopards. They were to
go down alongside the tarpaulins, and by carefully pulling
aside the laps could see just the position of the animal,
and lay their plans accordingly, Just as I expected, ss
soon as a ray of light showed through the opening there
was an angry roar and a charge, which tested the strength
of the tarpaulin partition, and the would-be catchers
never stopped until they dropped into their boat along-
side, I then warned them that if they attempted to come
on board again they would he pitched into the river, and
I immediately wrote a note to the directors saying that if
I was bothered any more I would exercis@iny prerogative
and shoot the animal.
On the arrival of the tug I got the engineer to rig his
steam pump and pass me the hose pipe, which was in-
serted in the laps of the tarpaulins and the entire apart-
ment thoroughly wetted, so as to make it as uncomfort-
able as possible for its occupant, During the operation
he, again charged, but catching the full force of the
stream in his mouth, darted behind the hogsheads. So
soon as the head keeper came from the garden for the
purpose of remaining on board all night, | went ashore
and informed the agents that the leopard was secured
forward, so that the barge could be hauled in and the
balance of the cargo discharged withouf danger. This
was immediately done and the barge again towed out and
anchored,
During the night the keeper did not lack for company,
as nearly every newspaper had a reporter on board. They
made the pilot house their headquarters, and shortly after
midnight a dull thud was heard, when there was a rush
down the ladder to the main deck forward, where they
soon saw the eyes of the captive flashing behind the bars
of the trap cage. The next morning on stepping into the
agent's office I learned of my success and that the keeper
had loaded the animal on a cart and started for the
garden.
On going to the office of the Society to report and re-
ceive expected congratulations, I found only one director
present, who gave me a fearful blowing up because the
chloroform party would not be present at the transfer in
the garden. Jt seemed that he had expressed such a
wish, and was apt ‘‘to lay down the law” if matters did
net go just as he wished. Inwardly chuckling at my suc-
cess and the expected war of words, I hurried back to the
garden and found that the animal had been shifted before
my arrival. The day after the capture was Sunday, and
the Society’s receipts were largely increased by the noto-
riety given to the escape by all the city papers.
FRANK J. THOMPSON,
Gane Bag and Gun.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
SQUIRREL shooting in the woods around Washington
furnished recreation for quite a number of gunners dur-
ing October and November. Two boys were out in the
woods near Woodley very early one October morning,
and it was not quite day when they were met by a gen-
tleman, who asked them how they were making out,
The reply was, ‘‘Oh, very well, sir.” The gentleman,
gun in hand, walked with the boys to a corner of the
woods, On the way he received much advice on the sub-
ject of shooting squirrels, which was taken very good-
naturedly from the youthful wiseacres.
The corner of the woods was barely reached, when the
gentleman shot a squirrel, which one of the boys stopped
to pick up. Justas he was stooping over, the light fell
upon the gentleman’s face, and the boy, still in a stooping
posture, was fairly paralyzed on recognizing the Presi-
dent of the United States. He seemed quite unable to re-
gain his perpendicular, and the President noticing the
boy’s embarrassment, cheered him up, said the advice he
had been given was good, and wishing the boys a most
successful hunt bade them good-morning,
Hundreds of gunners from this city spent Thanksgiving
Day in the country, some going to Virginia, Manassas
being one of the principal points—others into Maryland.
Quite a number of turkeys were killed. Grouse (pheas-
ants) were scarce. Quail unusually scarce. More rabbits
were bagged than anything else,
One of our younger friends secured his bird in a very
unusual, though not unheard of, way a few days since,
just north of the city. With gun and Sport, this name-
sake of the father of ornithology in America started out.
The dog got up some birds and the shooter missed. Pres-
ently more birds were gotten up, and notwithstanding
the bad aim of our nimrod, one came to bag. It was one
of the plumpest quail of the season, and was taken by the
hand from the briers and tall grasses in which its feet
had become badly entangled, Bakr,
A White Deer.
A SHORT time ago mention was made that a white deer
was seen by hunters in the vicinity of President, this
county, and afterward at Clough’s Dam, near Marionville,
Forest county. What is thought to have been the same
deer was shot near Foxburg, Forest county, Wednesday
morning by H. A. Gilson of that village. It is the first
albino deer that has been shot in this vicinity for the past
quarter of a century, and visitors from all parts of the
country have called at the DuBois House to get a sight of
the freak of nature,—OiI City (Pa.) Derrick, Dec. 11.
(COPYRIGHTED, }
MODERN SPORTING GUNPOWDERS
In the Light of the Public Powder and
Primer Tests Carried out at Chi-
cago and Carney’s Point,
New Jersey.
BY ARMIN TENNER,
Expert in Guopowder, Guns and Ammunition.
(Concluded from page 534.)
The Summary of the Powder Tests.
Although the various tables embodied in this report
and their annexed explanations afford to every gunner
an opportunity to draw correct conclusions as to what
powder made the best showing, it can nevertheless be
assumed that a great number of sportsmen, who are not.
thoroughly versed on the subject at issue, and who are
not sufficiently acquainted with all ballistic questions,
may still not be able to follow these figures in all direc-
tions, and, therefore, expect me to express an opinion on
this subject.
lam fully aware that this is nof an easy task and that
such an attempt is coupled with a great deal of responsi-
bility, Yet, 1 must admit, that although I have tried to
make my report as comprehensible as possible, the ayer-
age reader can hardly be expected to digest all the figures
as readily as those who have conducted the experiments
and were thus able to follow the behavior of the different
powders in every particular.
In performing this duty I shall endeavor to exercise
the same impartiality and good will toward all interested,
which haye marked the powder and primer tests from be-
ginning to end, and wherein every step could be and has
been witnessed and controlled by disinterested, compe-
tent persons.
1am far from intending to wound any one’s feelings or to
harm any persons, from a business point of view; this the
more so, since I am convinced that all directly concerned
in the outcome. of these tests are, without exception, en-
deavoring hard to impart to their article of manufacture
the highest possible degree of perfection.
But if I wish to remain true to my original intention to
serve the cause of my American fellow-sporting men, I can
hardly avoid awarding, in view of the result of these tests,
a higher figure of merit to one powder than to another,
because itis but natural that in such a comparative trial
one kind of powdershould display properties not possessed
in such a high degree by others,
In judging a powder from a strictly ballistic standpoint,
one is compelled to pass an opinion frequently not in
accord with the taste and opinion of a particular indi-
vidual or a certain class of gunners, of whom many haye
their hobbies, and among them the force of habit and
theory, unfortunately, still reigns supreme. Iam further
aware that my deductions will likely find opposition here
and there, and that one possessing a greater degree of
ballistic knowledge and experience on matters of shot
shooting than I can claim for myself, even if he should
speak with angel’s tongue, would hardly succeed in re-
moving with one stroke the confused ideas prevailing now
in regard to what a propelling agent can do and should
do, and on the point of the best method of loading cart-
ridges, ete. But I hope I shall meet with the concurrence
of allintelligent sunners if I adopt for judging the ballistic
qualities of a gunpowder the following basis:
The bursting strain of a powder should be in proportion
to the effect achieved; that is, when the penetration is
satisfactory, the gun should not be subjected to an ex-
traordinary strain. The bursting strain should, under all
conditions, be as uniform as possible; it should be about
the same in wet as well as dry weather. The velocities
should always conform to a certain degree of uniformity
and should move between the limits representing on one
side a sufficient penetrative power, and on the other a '
guarantee against wild shots or bad pattern, The pattern,
too, ought to be quite uniform. The powder should not
be susceptible to moisture in the air or dry heat; ibshould
not foul the barrel to a great extent nor cause corrosion if
the gun is not cleaned immediately after use; it should
produce a light recoil only; should develop little or no
smoke; should not react too violently to highly increased
charges; and ought not to heat the barrel too quickly in
case of rapid and continuous shooting.
Translating these several qualities into figures or points
of merit, they should be valued as follows:
Points of merit.
Comparative lowest bursting strain............. dace 80
Evenness of the bursting straion...........065 at 15
Highest velocity (penetration),,,.,,....+:2+++5 totter
JOVENNESH OL VELOGIPION; 5; ae v.te tae meen vecg atte citings tkhasaak 14
Best pattern with a sufficient corresponding velocity,,,... 25
Evenness of patvern if accompanied by a sufficient velocity, 14
Non-susceptibility to MOISbUrE,,,,cceeeeesreenererenreeesuas 15
Non-susceptibility to dry heat, .......ccsesceseseseessreeccn 15
Least fouling of barrels, ...2.. secssasecnseseccsseeeustreces 8
OaSh NOGOUN snanss see siuemevesttba siete thee sieht see baarene 5
LUGS; TS refs nate dehy Pe epee pS ere py piers arty Tak ea 8
hearst heatme of barrels, {oll s cow wesan ew eeeseeesans anne 5
Least liability of causing a corrosion of gun barrel,,,..... 15
Least degree of reaction to highly increased charges ,,..,.. 8
JO Pau nD DOL COOLIO PASTA SOT Oho A 200
By awarding the corresponding figures in every division
on the face of the result of the tests, we obtain a pretty
correct and just gauge of values.
In the comparing and judging the qualities of the sey-
eral powders in regard to bursting strain, velocity or
penetration, and pattern in direct conjunction with one
another, all velocities of less than 750ft. have been thrown
out.
To place all powders on an equal footing, only the
results obtained from the Smokeless and Nitro Club shells
have been taken in consideration, for the E. C., American
wood, S, §., DuPont's smokeless, both of the Schultze
powders, and for the Walsrode powders only these ob-
tained with the special shells adapted for these powders,
As basis for comparing the velocities and patterns, the
mean values obtained with the standard (8drs. powder,
1ioz. shot) and the increased charges—stdrs. of powder
and 1}oz. of shot, of the Walsrode powders 29 and 31 and
31 and 32grs,, have been taken, with due consideration of
the behavior of the several powders in general.
The relation of the strain upon the gun to the effect
achieved is, with the different powders—taking the mean
yalues in both cases asa basis for comparison—as follows:
Dec. 28, 1893,]
FOREST AND STREAM.
B41
a Ee eee ee aS Ea =5) SS en ee
a a a ea AR AR a SS SSS SS Soo
DuPont's black powder, bursting strain 6,997lbs., ve-
locity 918ft.; American wood powder, bursting strain
6,371lbs., velocity 835ft.; E. C. powder, bursting strain
7,625lbs,, velocity 883ft.; 5. S. powder, bursting strain,
8,319lbs., velocity 900ft.; Schultze powder (Pompton),
bursting strain 8,970lbs., velocity 890ft.; Schultze powder,
bursting strain 8,970lbs., velocity 846ft.: DuPont's smoke-
less powder, bursting strain 10,810lbs., velocity 872ft.;
Walsrode leaf powder, 3igrs., bursting strain 8,009]bs.,
velocity 836lbs.; Walsrode grain powder, 29grs., bursting
strain 8,066lbs., velocity 847ft.
Dividing now the sum of the bursting strain by that of
the velocities, we obtain the best showing for the black
powder and then for American wood; they are entitled
to 30 and 29 points of merits respectively; then follows
E. C. powder, to which 28 points are awarded; next in
order are, with about the same values, 8. 8. powder and
the two Walsrode powders, which accordingly are
awarded each with 26 points; then follow the two Schultze
powders, each credited with 24 point, and DuPont’s
smokeless receives 18 points.
In reference to the evenness of bursting strains, it should
be remembered that the powder showing the best
uniformity under all conditions, ought to receive the
highest recognition.
Table M.
'
THE RELATION OF THE SEVERAL POWDERS IN REGARD TO EVENNESS OF
GAS PRESSURE,
3 : = 4
ues cline | sa Se.
ee Nee ££} 8 |a | oes
ae % 5 = S) O38
FA > $ = » §éss
a = 3 8 5 239
= $s Sh 58 § |e&$o
Powder. > % aS S 3 Sse
& 3 : 2 = = SSS
Sat aera Set ees. Nites esr ese
~ % s hal ees tase | SS
KG 8 & 2 32 3B S25
s | © | 8 | € | ss] se] Sse
Ss; 8] BR | s/s |e ls
Lbs. | Lbs. | Lbs. | Lbs. | Lbs. | Lbs, | Lbs.
American wood..,...| 4,468 | 7,926) 2,947 | 6,682) 2,214 | 4,777 | 3,458
DuPont's smokeless.) 7,952 | 13,127) 5,175 | 10,589) 6,129 | 4,161 | 10,290
(Sie Sheela ca eee 7,203 | 10,249] 3,046 | 8,726] 4,228 | 1,536 | 5,751
Walsrode leaf....,... 6,953 | 10,054) 3,101 8,503} 2,109 |....... 3,101
Walsrode granulated| 6,806 | 8,878] 2,072 | 7.842) 703 | 1,889 | 2.425
Schultze, eee 4.938 | 10,378] 5,440 | 7,909) 2,499 | 1.499 | 5,968
Schultze, Pompton, .| 5,688 | 10,787) 5,099 | 8,237] 3,827 | 4,302 | 8,121
DuPont's FFF....... 6,850 | 7,554) 704 | 4,202) 2,175 706 | 2,881
SONS, ba ghey tab nee bie 5 5,203 | 8,217) 3,014 | 6,716} 2,300 | 2,301 4,601
Taking the figures quoted in Table M as a basis, Wals-
rode grain powder is entitled to 14 points of merit, and
DuPont's black powder to the same figure (14 points);
Walsrode leaf powder is credited with 13 points; Ameri-
can wood powder with 12 points; E. C. powder with 11
points; 8. 5. powder and Schultze powder each with 10
oints; Schultze (Pompton) with 8, and DuPont’s smoke-
ess powder with 6 points.
For comparing and judging the penetrative power only
these values are taken in consideration which wereobtained
in each case with the best adapted shells. DuPont’s black
powder is credited with 20 points of merit; 8S. S. powder
received 18 points; Schultze powder (Pompton) is rated
with 20 points; DuPont’s smokeless powder with 19;
Schultze powder with 18; Walsrode grain powder with 18;
E. C, powder with 18; Walsrode leaf powder with 17,
and American wood with 17 points,
Table N.
SHOWING THE FIGURES TAKHN AS BASIS FOR COMPARING AND JUDGING
THE POWDERS IN REGARD TO EVENNESS OF VELOCITIES.
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Feet.| Feet,) Feet.) Feet | Feet.| Feet.! Peet.
American wood,,,.....++- 7138 | 878) 165] 795 | 145 7 | 235.
DuPont's smokeless,.,... 802) 891 89 | 846 | 196 | 106 | 150
BOOS some ere pacer ce wetes 779 |1,069| 290] 924 | 274 118 | 387
BSCHUILZO Nets ycetinerss 782 | 875 93 | 828 178 | 203 | 381
Schultze, Pompton....... | 802 ]1,093| 291 | 947 | 297 86} 443
DuPont's FFF.,.......... 772 \}1,041 | 269} 906 115 60 | 269
BAD gla ctale aise bE Shia ¢ dle 'zin homes 789 | 885 96} 837 | 187 71 | 268
Walsrode leaf.,........... 818 | 885 67 | 857 66 Mn 67
- Walsrode, in grains.,..... 785 | 891 106 | 8388 32 57 110
In accordance with the results shown in Table N,
points of merit are awarded as follows: Walsrode pow-
der grained and Walsrode leaf powder, each 14 points;
E. C. powder 13 points, DuPont's black powder, DuPont's
smokeless and American wood powder each 11 points;
“Schultze powder and S. 8. powder each 10 points, and
Schultze powder (Pompton) 9 points.
For comparing and judging the pattern, the corres-
ponding velocities must be taken in consideration, and
this done, we obtain the following gauge of rating:
Schultze powder receives 23 points, DuPont's smokeless
24, Schultze powder (Pompton) 24, DuPont's black pow-
der 21, Walsrode powder in grains 25, E. C. powder 24,
Walsrode leaf powder 21, American wood 28 and §., §S.
powder 22 points.
Evenness of Pattern.
: In regard to evenness of pattern the powders are classi-
fied as follows: Schultze powder (Pompton) is credited
_ with 14 points, Walsrode leaf powder 14, S. S. powder 14,
American wood 18, E, C, powder 11, Walsrode powder in
grains 11, DuPont’s smokeless powder 11, DuPont’s black
powder 10, Schultze powder 10.
_ To some gunner the smoke may appear particularly ob-
jectionable, he may consider the penetration of the
When a powder is tested with a view to ascertain if and | highest importance, and he likely may regard the sums
to what extent it is hygroscopic, such an examination
must be extended in the direction of establishing as to
what a degree the powder is capable of absorbing mois-
ture and at what point the influence of moisture begins
to exercise a detrimental effect, for the reason that one
powder will show these signs at a lower point or per-
centage of moisture than will another.
The following table shows how far the several powders
meet the demand made upon a propelling agent in this
respect from a ballistic standpoint:
Table O.
RESULT OF MOISTURE TEST.
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DuPont’s smokeless} 1,69 2 0.31 20 jover 299/ 242
earl cetctehelelebeleie eteta doe 1,7 4 2.3 121 250) 371
Schultze... 2.3.55. 1,78 3.5 1.42 64 * 196) 260
Schultze, Pompton..| 1.76 3.4 17 78 % 240) 318
Ned Sete WR an ied 1.19 245) 1.31 53 188) 241
Walsrode, in grains,| 1.68 2.25 0.57 5 38| 43
Walsrode leaf..,.... 1.66 2 0.384 | None. 44) 44
American wood..,.,| 2 tt 5 112 185} 297
On the basis of Table O points of merit have been
awarded to Walsrode leaf powder 15, Walsrode grain
powder 14, DuPont's black powder 11, E. C. powder 7,
Schultze 5, Schultze (Pompton) 5, DuPont’s smokeless
powder 5, S. S. powder 4, American wood 0.
Dry Heat Test.
The powders increased their velocities as compared with
the mean normal velocity as follows: Walsrode leaf
powder 22ft., credited with 15 points of merit; American
wood powder, increase 50ft., points of merit 13; DuPont’s
black powder, increase 56ft., 13 points of merit; Walsrode
grain powder, increase 5dft., 13 points of merit; DuPont's
smokeless powder, increase 79ft., 11 points of merit; E. C.
powder, increase 70ft., 11 points of merit; S. S. powder,
increase 130ft., 9 points of merit; Schultze powder, increase
185ft,, 9 points of merit; Schultze (Pompton) powder, in-
crease 197ft., 8 points of merit.
Test for Ascertaining in What Degree the Several
Powders Will React to Highly
Increased Charges.
This trial established for the different powders the fol-
lowing basis of rating: DuPont’s black powder, 8 points
of merit; Schultze (Pompton) powder, 7 points of merit;
Schultze powder, 8 points of merit; Walsrode leaf powder,
6 points of merit; E. C. powder, 6 points of merit; Wals-
rode grain powder, 5 points of merit; S. S. powder, 5
points of merit; American wood powder, 5 points of
merit; DuPont's smokeless powder, 4 points of merit.
Heating of Gun Barrels.
Result of test as fellows: DuPont’s smokeless and Wals-
rode grain powder, each 5 points of merit; Schultze,
Schultze (Pompton) powder, wood and Walsrode leaf, S. S.
and H. C. powders, each 4 points of merit; DuPont's black
powder, 3 points of merit.
Fouling of Gun Barrels.
The result of this test warrants the following schedule
of rating: Walsrode grain powder, Walsrode leaf powder
and DuPont's smokeless each 8 points of merit; Schultze
powder, Schultze (Pompton) powder and S. 8. powder
each 7 points of merit; wood and E. ©. powder each 6
points of merit; DuPont's black powder 1’point of merit.
Recoil Test.
The recoil test furnished a result justifying a classifica-
tion as follows: DuPont’s smokeless and Walsrode
grain powder each 8 points of merit; E. C., Schultze,
Schultze (Pompton), wood, 8. 8. and Walsrode leaf pow-
ders each 6 point of merit; DuPont’s black powder 3
points of merit.
Smoke Test.
This trial showed that the various powders should be
rated in the following rotation: DuPont’s smokeless and
Walsrode grain powders each 8 points of merit; Schultze,
Schultze (Pompton), Walsrode leaf, E. C. and S. S. pow-
ders each 6 points of merit; American wood 4 points of
merit and DuPont's black powder no points of merit.
Now, if we apply the gauge of value somewhat differ-
‘ent from the rule laid down herein for judging the various
powders, and follow in this respect the views and fancies
of the individual gunners, the ballistic properties of a
particular power will appear in a different light from
that established by our standard of merits. If, for
instance, a gunner lays no stress upon the question
whether or not a powder is influenced by moisture or
dry heat, if he does not care for smoke, recoil and heat-
ing of gun barrels, then the several powders will be
credited each with points of merits as follows: DuPont's
smokeless 113, Schultze and S. S, each 124, Schultze
(Pompton) 125, Walsrode leaf 126, DuPont's black 130,
HE. C, and Walsrode grained each 132. When we pay no
attention to the bursting. strain and the behavior of a
powder toward highly receive charges, then the pow-
ders would receive this rating: DuPont's black 117
points of merit, American wood 108, Schultze and §. 8,
each 112, Schultze (Pompton) 115, E. CG. 121, DuPont's
smokeless 122, Walsrode leaf 127, Walsrode grain 133,
allotted for these qualities as too low. Let us see how
the powders will rank if we follow his inclinations and
views. Suppose we multiply the respective figures in
each case by three, the result will then be as follows:
American wood 194 points of merit, DuPont's black 199,
S. 8. 201, Schultze 202, DuPont’s smokeless 204, Schultze
(Pompton) 206, E, ©. 214, Walsrode leaf 218, Walsrode
grain 282, :
For particularly timid souls the question as to what a
powder will likely do when the charge is considerably
increased, may be preéminent of all. He may conclude
that the figure allowed for this quality is insufficient.
Very well. Suppose we multiply this figure in every case
by ten and see now how the powders will show: Du-
Pont’s smokeless would receive 186 points of merit, 8. S.
198, American wood 199, Schultze (Pompton) 217, HK. C.
220, Walsrode in grains 225, Schultze and Walsrode leaf
each 226, and DuPont's black 229.
With the foregoing examples the different views nour-
ished and presented by the individual gunners may be
considered as exhausted, and it now remains to recapitu-
late the result of the judging from a strictly ballistic
standpoint.
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Deer and Skate-Straps.
APPLETON, Wis., Nov. 2'7.—A singular incident occurred
last Saturday afternoon about a mile downriver from the
city limits. My sixteen-year-old boy with others about the
same age were skating on Fox River, when they saw a
good-sized buck trying to cross on the ice, which was
very smooth. Of course he gotdown, and the three
‘kids’ surrounded him and in some way succeeded in
tying him head and foot with skate-straps. How they
did it beats me, as they said he ‘‘kicked like a mule,”
and ‘this feet were so sharp.” After they had him fast
they did not know how to manage him. They dared
not kill him, as my boy knew enough about the game
law to know that it was close season on such game,
Finally a man living near by suggested that they take
him home alive, which they thought was a good idea.
They got a handsled and loaded him up, but he would not
stay loaded. After repeated trials they gaveitup. The
man then offered $5 for it, This the boys thought a
good offer, but when they found he proposed killing it
they told him he would be fined $100 at least, so he
withdrew the offer. The boys then towed the deer ashore,
cast off their lines (or straps) and bid him good-bye. He
slowly ascended the river bank and then skipped. Of
course he had been driven on to the ice by dogs, Thus
it appears that deer are not yet all driven out of this
country, when they can be found within a mile of a busy
city of 15,000 inhabitants. f oH
Hunting parties did not succeed in killing the usual
number this fall. October for the open season instead of
November is what beat them. Had shooting deer been
allowed this month the hunting conditions would have
been fine, and no doubt many deer would have been eed
Green Mountain Deer.
SPRINGFIELD, Vt., Dec. 15.—It will be welcome news to
many readers to know that deer are increasing rapidly in,
this part of the Green Mountain State. Two were seen
within two miles of here this summer, and last Tuesday a
fine buck was seen on a farm by the Connecticut River,
by one of the men who gather cream for the local
creamery. Twenty-five miles north of here they are
quite plenty, and the trout streams are lined with tracks.
A wildeat was shot by one of our farmer boys last Wed-
nesday. The animal came into the yard. The heavy
snows evidently made foraging a hard matter, for it was
yery poor, WwW, W B,
542
EXPERIENCES WITH DEER AND MOOSE.
Tus is for the season of 1893 in northern New Hamp-
shire. Jacking, still-hunting and hounding are all prac-
ticed and sanctioned by law.
Mr. Bumford, proprietor of the Connecticut Lake
houses, came in to Second Lake with guests for a day’s
hunt. Going up the long dead-water of Hast Inlet in
mid-day they paddled slowly, silently, back toward the
dam for a twilight shot. They had made nearly the whole
distance, and having neither seen nor heard any game,
‘began to tire of the monotony, The ubiquitous kingfisher
was seated on the stub of a tree, and our friend, to test
his skill, fired and missed, At the instant they rounded
the last bend, three deer, a large buck and two does,
startled by the report, as they stood quietly feeding in the
stream, werespringing up the bank, and sooner than it
takes to tell it were lost to view behind the thick woods,
They were saluted in their retreat by a couple of shots,
but no damage was inflicted. It was a sad ending for
that twilight shooting. ;
But the day, or rather the night, was not yet done.
Wending their sorrowful way tothe shore of the lake, the
coming darkness made necessary a change of programme.
Wrapped in overcoats and blankets, and seated under a
brilliant head light, the guide sent the frail, but steady
Indian Rock boat noiselessly along the eastshore toward the
foot.of the waters. Shotgun had replaced rifle, as a close
encounter was to be courted. The jack was closed, the
ears were strained to catch the faintest sound, Several
boats, in fact, were at this moment hovering about the
shores in the darkness bent upon the same errand,
Feb. 27 to March 2.—Columbus Fanciers’ Club, at Columbus, 0. G.
F. Mooney, Sec’y. é -
March 7 to 10.—City of Straits Kennel Club, at Detroit, Mich, Guy
D, Welton, See’y.
March 13 to 16.—Mascoutah Kennel Club, at Chicago, Ill. J. L,
Lincoln, Ssc’y.
, at St. Louis, Mo.
March 20 to 23.—St. Louis Kennel Club
April 3 to 6.—New England Kennel Club, at Boston, Mass. D. E.
Loveland, Sec’y.
April 18 to 21 —Southern California Kennel Club, at Los Angeles,
Cal. C. A. Sumner, Sec’y.
May 2 to 5.—Pacifie Kennel Club, at San Francisco, Cal. H. W.
Orear, Sec’y.
FIELD TRIALS.
1894.
Jan. 1.—Southern California Field Trials, at Ontario, Cal. H. OC.
Hinman, Los Angeles, Cal., Sec’y.
Jan, 15.—Pacifie Coast Field Trial Club, at Salinas, Cal. J. M. Kil-
garif, Sec’y, San Francisco, Cal.
Feb. 5.—Southern Field Trial Club’s Trials, at New Albany, Miss, TT.
M. Brumby, Sec’y, Marietta, Ga,
Feb. 19.—United States Field Trials Club’s Spring Trials, Grand
Junction, Tenn, P. T. Madison, Sec’y, Indianapolis, Ind.
CHICAGO KENNEL CLUB SHOW.
ONE always associates a spirit of progressiveness and go
with the Windy City, and this seems to be carried even into
the realms of dogdom, Most, in fact all other cities content
themselves with giving one dog show in a year, and far from
feeling any great desire to repeat the venture are often glad
to rest on their laurels, and sometimes, we regret to add,
count their losses and vow never to give another. Not so
with the World's Fair city. Somebody once said Chicago
could give a show every month and still make it pay. Be
that asit may, the show held last week did not seem to be
affected in any way by those that had recently gone before,
and though the crowds that we have seen in late years were
not so evident this time, the attendance was quite large
enough to place the management in a good humor.
The show opened on Wednesday morning last with a very
fair lot of dogs, though it must be said there was in many
breeds a falling off in quality and numbers, too. ‘There were
about 430 entries, the catalogue numbering 466, but of these
thirty-six were N. F.C. The building in which the show was
held is Known as the West Side Armory and was situated
in quite another part of the city to that in which the previous
shows have been held. That the move was a happy one we
are not prepared to say, but that it did not suit the dog-
men so well is very certain. Hotel accommodation is not
good in this neighborhood, and though the building is in
the midst of a residential part of the city the crowds were not
so large, nor were there so many ‘‘smart’’ people to be seen
strolling through the aisles as we were wont to find in Bat-
tery D on the lake front. The light was not at all good and
the unfayorable condition of the weather added to the gloom
so much so that the lights were turned on most of the day.
The judging was carried on in a rather desultory manner,
but this was caused in some pee by the inability of Mr.
George Wilson to be present the first day, owing to an acci-
dent, be having fallen on the icy pavement on Tuesday and
sprained hisarm. On Thursday, however, he turned up in
fair condition and got through his classes in good order. The
Dec, 23, 1893,]
rings were not served as well as they might have been; in
fact the management was not such as one could wishin a
show of such pretensions. The attendants were not looked
after as well as they might have been, and though the aisles
were kept reasonably clean, there was a lamentable lack of
cleanliness in some of the stalls. Thereis no one iu a better
position to judge of this than the reporter who has to take
ee out of their stalls to examine them, he sees all of them
nearly, one hy one, and makes his notes accordingly. One
day not ten dogs were taken off their benches in the early
morning hours as they should have been, and clean straw
putin where needed. In some stalls we found wet straw
and “dead” feed to the depth of several inches, and the at-
tendants, when spoken to about it, covered them up with a
handful of clean straw and the eye was relieved, but not the
olfactories.
The rings also were not cleaned up as they should be after
_exercising hours, It is no good sprinkling disinfectant when
the cause for ill odors still remains and is not removed.
These are the little points which when properly attended to
roclaim good management. Mr, John Read, a man who
ape this part of the business well, was on the ground, but
as he simply attended to Spratts contract in the affair, it was
not his place to interfere, Hoough of grumbling. We do
not like the task, but feel constrained to allude to one other
feature that should be abolished, and that at once, We
allude to the row of puppies that stretched across one end of
the hall, opposite the pet dog cages, a direct and unseemly
insnlt to the feminine element that usually haye to put in
most of their time with their pets. In this row of stalls were
ointer, dachshund, great Dane, fox-terrier, St. Bernard,
rish terrier and cocker spaniel puppies, and any show-goer
may imagine the atmosphere that pervaded their vicinity
when not properly attended to. This was a direct menace to
the health of the show, and if serious mortality does not
result from it we are out in our reckoning.
To turn to more pleasant features, we were agreeably sur-
rised to find that rotation of numbers in the stalls had
een insisted upon, and the visitors and others had no difli-
culty in finding the dogs they wanted to see. This might
just as well be done at every show. Mr. Goodrich, Mr.
Hagans, Mr. John Munson and Mr. Joe Locke seemed to
have. control of affairs, and gave the show their continual
attention, Mr. Locke acting as superintendent, though we
could find no official badges to guide us as to who was who,
ae L, F. Whitman was the “‘vet,,’’ and attended well to his
uties.
We cannot commend the auction sale adjunct to the
show, it brings a class of dogs, for instance those puppies,
into a show whose presence can well be dispensed with.
Another thing, sick dogs should be removed from the main
busing: and not become an eyesore to passers-by. We
allude here more particularly to a field spaniel sent down
trom Canada that was chained on a heap of old straw in one
corner of the building, and one ey. we know fed the dog
aud bought meat for it for pure charity’s sake, It was in
wretched condition, and had every appearance of having dis-
temper, though an old dog.
A. number of Western fanciers were to be seen round the
benches. Among them we noticed C, KH, Bunn, H. A. John-
son, U. A. Pratt, A. Trickett, F. 8. Anderson, F. Bedad, Mr.
Elliott, T. G. Davey, R. E. Fishburn, H, L, Goodman, G. Prepared Blanks sent free on application,
Lady Ruth. By Riyvermount Kennels, Brooklyn, N. Y.,. for orange
and white rough-coated St. Bernard bitch, whelped Nov. 9, 1898, by
Ridgewood Don (Supurbis—Thisbe) out of Princess Vic (Leicester—
Priveess Jura).
Duke of Rivermount. By Riyermount Kennels, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
for orange and white rough-coated St. Bernard dog, whelped Noy. 9,
1893, by Ridgewood Don (Supurbis—Thisbe) out of Princess Vic
(Leicester—Princess Jura). :
Al De Ber Blizzard. By Al De Ber Kennels, North Attleboro, Mass.,
for white and sable rough coated collie dog, whelped Aug, 25, 1893, by
Bendigo (The Squire—Bertha) out of Patient (Charlemagne—Patience),
Al De Ber Bendigo. By Al De Ber Kennels, North Attleboro, Mass.,
for sable and white rough-coated collie dog, whelped Aug, 25, 1893; by
Bendigo (The Squire—Bertha) out of Patient (Charlemagne—Patience).
Lucy Blade, By James McAleer, Emsworth, Pa,, for black, white
and tan English setter bitch, whelped March 15, 1893, by Toledo Blade
(Roderigo—Lillian) ont of Rod’s Bessie (Count ete re aac Ba
Madam Raven. By the Handsome Obo Spaniel Kennel, Omaha,
Neb., for black cocker bitch (King Raven—Lady Raven),
Madam Obo. By the Handsome Obo Spaniel Kennel, Omaha, Neb.,
for black field spaniel bitch (champion Bronte—Topsey). -
Handsome Obo Kennel (tormerly the Omaha Cocker Spaniel Kennel).
By B. B. Mather, Omaha, Neb., for kennel of cocker and field spaniels.
BRED.
ES> Prepared Blanks sent free on application, i
Madam Raven—Chancellor. The Handsome Obo Spaniel Kennels’
(Omaha, Neb.) black cocker bitch Madam Raven to Raven Cocker
Kennels’ Chancellor (Xing Raven—Lady Raven), Oct. 8.
Champion Winnie Il.—Kildare Beverly. Kildare Kennels’ (Alle-
gheny, Pa.) Irish setter bitch champion Winnie (Friseo—Grouse IL) to
their Kildare Beverly (champion Elcho, Jr.—Ruby Glenmore), Noy, 24.
Nellie Trissler—Kildare Beverly. M. N. Fowler’s (Foxburg,-Pa.)
Trish setter bitch Nellie Trissler (Tipton—Pattergon’s Polly) to Kildare
Kennels’ (Allegheny, Pa.) Kildare Beverly (champion Elcho, Jr.—
Ruby Glenmore), Nov. 27. :
Dusky Diamond—Blemton Rattler. W.R. Mack's (Rochester, N.Y.)
fox-terrier bitch Dusky Diamond to L. B, Banks’s Blemton Rattler
(champion Venis Sapien Rachel),
Tivoli—Marengo II. Dr, W. 8. Bigelow’s (Boston, Mass.) Chesa-
peake Bay bitch Tivoli (Don—Net) to his Marengo II. (Boatswain—
Gladys), Noy. 25.
Lala—Mosea K. F.W. Otto's (Providence, R. I.) cocker spaniel
bitch Lala (Black Pete—Miss Nance) to J. M. Brown's Moses K. (Obo
II.— Black Bess II.), Oct, 1. :
Candour—Romulus. Chestnut Hill Kennels’ (Chestnut Hill, Pa.)
Trish terrier bitch Candour to Hempstead Farm Kennels’ Romulus,
Nov. 3.
WHELBPS.
(e- Prepared Blanks sent free on application.
Princess Vie, Rivermouut Kennels’ (Brooklyn, N. ¥.) rough-coated
St. Bernard bitch Princess Vic (Leicester—Princess Jura), Nov. 9,
eight (five dogs), by J. Wagner’s Ridgewood Don (Supurbis—Thisbe).
Patient. Al De Ber Kennels’ (North Attleboro, Mass.) rough-coated
bitch Patient (Charlemagne—Patience), Aug. 25, six (five dogs), by J,
Brett's Bendigo (The Squire—Bertha), yet
Rose. Dr. Bigelow's (Boston, Mass.) Chesapeake Bay bitch Rose,
Aug. 19, nine (four dogs), by his Marengo IT. (Boatswain—Gladys).
Chicago Fawn. J. B. Wickery’s CaP SeHaeD Pa.) English set
bitch Chicago Fawn Novy. 9, nine (fourrdogs), by Manitoba Shot.
Prairie Belle. James McAleer (Emsworth, Pa.) pointer bitch
Prairie Belle, Nov. 25, ten (seven dogs), by his Rip Rap, Jr. (champion
Rip Rap—Lonnie Bijou).
SALES.
=~ Prepared Blanks sent free on application,
Nod—Prairie Belle whelps. Pointers, whelped April 18, 1893, ae)
James McAleer, Emsworth, Pa., one lemon and white dog to EH. W.
Baston, Syracuse, N. Y.; ons orange and white bitch to W, T. Brain-
bridge, Parish, N. Y.; one orange and white dog to R. Seager, New
Waterford, O.; one liver and white bitch to J. R. George, Wilkinsburg,
Pa.; one orange and white dog to J. D. Bush, Peoria, Ill.; one liver
and white bitch to Dr, J. G. Senour, Troy, 0.; one liver and white dog
to Chas. E Fuller, Sidney Center, N. Y.; one acts aud white dog to
R. 5, Belcher, Vienna, N. Y.; one liver and white bitch ta Wm. Seager,
Fair Oaks, Pa,
Buff Lemon and white pointer dog, by Speculation out of Signa,
by Red House Farm Pointer Kennels, New London, Conn., to H. H.
Potter, same place.
Rip Rap, Jr—Shenango Patch whelp. Black, white and ticked
pointer dog, whelped July 12, 1893, by Rip Rap, Jr., out of Shenango
Patch, by James McAleer, Emsworth, Pa., to Ed. Gibson, same place.
Lucy Blade. Black, white and tan English setter bitch, whelped
March 13, 1893, by Toledo Blade out of Rod’s Bessie, by Dr. J. G.
Senour, Troy, O,, to James McAleer, Emsworth, Pa.
Prairie Belle If. Lemon and white pointer bitch, whelped April 134,
1893, by Nod out of Prairie Belle, by James McAleer, Emsworth, Pa,,
to Wm. Morgan, Reading, Pa,
Dae. 23, 1893. |
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
‘There is no charge for answering questions under this head. All
wit] relating to ailments of aogs will be answered by Dr, T. G.
herwood, a member of the Royal Callege of Veterinary Pi salse
Communications referring to other matters connected with Kennel
Management and dogs will also receive careful attention.
J. B. W., Mayfield, Pa.—You will find some of the best Gordon and
English setter strains advertised in our business columns. Wedo not
make selections.
ALB, M., Worthington, Ind.—We do notjadvise where to buy dogs.
Cousult our business columns or better still, advertise in Forest AND
Srream for what you want and you will be sure to get answers.
K. G. B., New York City.—You need not draw the milk from the
teats. Unless there are signs of fever simply rub them morning and
night with camphorated oil and keep the bitch warm and free from
draughts afterward.
H. A. R., Schenectady, N. Y.—I have a black cocker bitch, five years
old; she had pups Sept, 29, and weaned them when they were four
weeks old, I want to bench her next month but she has two teats
which are very large. Now what canI do to draw them up? In fact
her whole bag hangs; she is not ruptured but very fat, and very
rayenous in her eating and drinking. Ans, Rub them night and
morning with camphorated oil, and keep the bitch free from draughts
afterward, Hot vinegar is also another good remedy.
E. J. H., New York.—Please give pedigree or registered number of
the rough-coated St. Bernards Sentis, Cora and Solo or Zola, If none
of these are registered give number of St. Bernard bitch Also, Ans,
Sentis cannot be found. Cora (20,467), by Zeno (9005, Vol. V,) out of
Mayo, by Mingo out of Psyche, by Bruce out of Bess; Mingo, by Mico
out of Mica. We can finti no mention of Solo or Zola; perhaps you
mean Zora (20,400, Vol. VILI.), by Prince out of Greta (13,821); Prince,
by Alp IL, out of Flora, by Barry out of Righi, whelped Noy. 20, 1890.
Also is not registered, but sheis by The Baron out of Paw Paw.
Hunting and Caursing.
FIXTURES.
r Jan. 15.—Brunswick Fur Club's winter trials. Bradford S. Turpin,
ec'y.
Finish of the Great Meeting at Newark.
Second Day.
SUNDAY, Dec. 3, was one of California’s glorious days; in-
deed, no other clime on the earth can produce such weather
at this season of the year, warm, brilliant sunshine, with
sufficient soft, balmy air to prevent the rays of the sun from
being oppressively hot. Such a day, surely, is the coursing
man’s delight, and accordingly the turnout for Newark was
immense. 30in. ,
Lawley & Co. are building a stock schooner of 45ft. lw]. from
their own designs, 62ft. over all, 14fb. Sin. beam and Bft, draft, with
a@ cenlerboard under the oor. They also have threes “iknockabout"
boats nader way and a cruising 30-footer completed, and have,
pee to Make the alterations in the bow of the schooner Em-
erald,
Borden, at South Boston, is putting a new overhang and an iron
shoe of 2,500lbs. on the schooner Nokomis, owned by Com. lL. M.
Jobnson, of the Commonwealth Y. O.,and is also altering the tig ot
the schooner Coronilla, Mr, Almonu Wright; shortening the foremast
and putting in a pole bowsprit. : ‘
At Prisbie’s yard, Salem, the sehooners Leslie and Pastima
are out for alterations, the former for new bulyabks and rail and gen-
eral repairs. ‘
At the Atlantic Works some repairs have beea made on the ~
Duck and the new Fabyau stegin yacht is in frame, 7
Duo, 25, 1893.]
FOREST AND STREAM.
A Florida Cruise.
(Concluded from Page 582.)
March i,—We are steering straight for Cape Sable, the southermost
point of the main land of Florida, which we reach at 2P. M. and
auchor behind 4 sandbar that protects us irom any gale that may
come from the south or southwest. We take the dinghey and go
ashore, where we find an abandoned house and cocoanut grove. The
land was too poor and the owner or squatter gaveit up. In coming
back to the schooner we saw two large blue man-eaters—we bathe on
board to-day. a ies A { ;
Mareh 2,We left Cape Sable at midnight, with a light but fair
wind, and when we boyscameon deck we found ourselves out of
sight of land, which the Landsman” did not enjoy, for he was never
happy unless the land was in sight and the Bianche in shallow water.
We are making four knots sailing over long swells steering N.W. by N.
Occasionally we see a skip-jack, a small fish that gets up on top of
the water and with a peculiar motion of its tail fairly flies oyer the
surface of the water for 300 or 400ft., probably fleeing from some
larger fish, Weoften see the sportive porpoise as they come to the
top to breatheand blow. They belong to the mammal species, are
warm blooded and come to the surface to breath and blow like whales.
The finest watch oil is taken from their jams, aud the best shoe-
strings now in use are made from the skin of the same fish. Four or
_ five times we have seen monster loggerhead turtles. Sometimes we
see the much sought for kingfish, that will jump 6ft. into the air.
They are fine eating but hard to catch. ‘ re . ‘
Then we always have the sea gulls, with their plaintive, chicken-like
cry hovering around us, ever ready to pick up the crumbs that are
thrown overboard. But most interesting of all are the pelicans. They
enerally fly about 50ft. aboye the water, looking for any stray fish
fhat swim near the surface. The pelican will poise over such a fish,
and suddenly throwing up its wings will fall like a shot, straight as a
taut line, striking the water with a loud report, stunning the fish,
which the bird quickly secures and stows away in its immense sack—
situated under the lower jaws—and sails off in search of another yic-
tim,
March 3.—We arrive at Cape Romano at 4P.M. Wecaught some
fish, hunted shells, bathed in the surf and retired for the night.
March 4.—We have a fair wind and go booming along with the bow-
sprit pointed for Sanibel Lighthouse, which stands at the mouth of
an Carlos Bay. After running about 15 miles we ran into Naples, on
the Gulf. Made fast to the long dock and proceeded to look the town
over.
Of all the resorts along the west coast of Florida, Naples takes the
first prize. The land is high, dry and healthy, and the beach is wide,
with the sand pounded down by the surf so hard that, horses and car-
riages can be driven for miles either north or south. The great roll-
ers coniein with asweep of 1,000 miles and break on the beach with a
roar that can be heard many miles away. For purity. of air, for beauty
of beach and majestic grandeur of the breaking surf, itis the Long
Branch of the South.
It was founded by a stock company fromfLouisville, Ky., butit cost
so much to maintain it that the stockholders became weary of the ex-
pense aud sold out for asong. The proprietor of the Louisville Courier
now owns the beautiful resort in fee simple. Of course they have no
harbor, but they have a long dock that the largest ocean steamers can
land at even at ebb tide, This dock is made very substantial in order
to withstand the heayy seas that, come from the west and southwest.
A large steamer lands semi-weekly, for which luxury the editor owner
is said to pay $200 for each landing, or $400 per week. They had
about twenty-five guests at the hotel. Wesaid to the owner,''To us
this resort would be a large ‘white elephant.” He said, ‘Oh, of course
it is run at a great loss, as everything has to come by steamboat, but
the climate just suits me, and J can stay here through the winter with-
out an ache or pain, and at my age cost cuts no figure.”"
Itisa delightful place for bathing and fishing. One of the euests
told us that in one day they caught two large sharks, one large jew-
fish and a great variety of smallerfish. “‘Indeed, you can catch any-
thing but a enld,“which coincided with our experience, for we have
no colds since coming on the coast, The resort was peopled with
Louisville folks, , ,
We again put tosea with a fair wind and steered N.W. We soon
Saw a large loggerhead turtle, which the captain said would weigh at
least 4001bs. We arrived at St. James again and were glad to receive
letters and papersfrom home. Wehad only made the harbor when
a N.W. gale commenced to blow. But we were in a snug harbor and
proposed to remain here until the gale subsided.
This morning some fishermen were cleaning fish and threw the
entrails into the bay from the shore end of the dock where the water
was about two feet deep. A large shark—a blue man-eater- was
drawn to the spot by the smell of fish blood and became partially
stranded in the shallow water. The “Chief Marine” soon appeared
with a grange, which he drove into the monster's back, and then
there was an exciting fight on hand. He called for help, The com-
modore went to bis assistance and they both held on to the handle of
the grange with all of their strength. The shark meade the water and
mud boil in his frantic efforts to escape.
He finally made one fearful jump straight up out of the water. and
when he fell back the pole of the grange struck the dock and broke
short off, leaving about four feet of said pole sticking in his back,
which we could see above the surface as he made his escape out into
the bay. He was twelve feet long and was the largest and ugliest
shark we had seen on the coast. We uever saw such black, wicked
and viciouslooking eyes as this monster had on each side of his
broad, flat head. In his struggle with the boys he constantly opened
his great semi-circular mouth, filled with sharp teeth, that were set
with a slant backward, so made for tearing flesh and fish to pieces;
and he would close this mouth with a snap, that made each particu-
lar hair of our head stand on end: We took no baths io that bay,
The wind still blows too hard for us to sail up the Caloosahatchie
River, where we expect to catch some tarpon. The commodore and
the chief marine are on the dock catching fat ght They are a
gamy fish and give the BpCreaa greatfun. They haye two rows
of double teeth that arethe envy of any man on the shady side of
forty-five. They use these strong teeth in craunching the coon
oysters that cling to all sait water pilling in these latitudes, For
bait we use the fiddler crab. The commodore showed me his hook
when he was through fishing. The sheepshead had knicked, bent and
utterly ruined said hook in one hour’s fishing.
Many vessels are coming in for shelter from the northwest gale,
among them being the Oriole, owned and sailed by Commodore Colt,
of the Larchmont Y.C. He has a fine yacht, ketch rigged, fitted up
with all fhe modern improvements and carrying a naphtha launch,
which ean tow the yacht in case of a dead calm about three miles per
hour.
March 6.—We got under way this morning and ran to Punta Rassa,
a cattle station, where we anchored to wait for the tide to turn in our
favor. Punta Rassa consists of a small hotel, steamboat dock and
cattle sheds, all of which belong to one man, who is the cattle king of
Florida. He ships from this point by schooners, which he owns,
from fifty to three hundred cattle per week to Key West and Havana.
These cattle are grown andranged on a large tract of land in the
interior of the lower peninsula. : ;
There are a few tarpon fishermen stopping abt the hotel, waiting for
the tarpon season to open. In the mean time they are catching Span-
ish mackerel, bluefish and now and then a Jarge shark from the dock,
They catch many fine fish, but throw nearly all away, as they have no
ice to preserye the catch, No small part of the pleasure of catching
game fish is the fact that they are of some value to somebody, Ta
kill fish (except sharl) for the sake of killing alone is izuoble sport.
Wears now on our way up the Caloosahatechie River. In many
places the channel is very crooked, so much so that the captain is
iInuch of the time at the masthead to con her through the rocks.
We arrived at noon at Fort Myers, a town containing about 200
people, who say they live upon fish and sick Yankees. There are no
sidewalks and the houses badly need painting and repairing. A
shingle is nailed up in nearly every lot offering to sell out dog cheap.
They have fine trees, and their gardens contained ripe potatoes, toma-
toes and strawherries, Indeed, we at the North can grow no vegetable
that Florida eanonot grow in midwinter. Fort Myers is said to be the
healthiest place in Mlorida. Tn the last census the Government sent
back the death rate, thinking the official had made a mistake, The
last three doctors all left the town in debt, for they had no practice,
and were absolutely starved out.
The county court was in session and the town was full of crackers,
who had on theirstore clothes, and all had on broad-brimmed felt. hats,
though the temperature was 88 in the shade. Mr. Edison, the electri- |
cian and inventor, has a cottage and laboratory here, which his father
cares forin hisabsence We went over his grounds, which we found
laid out in good taste, Among the trees we saw 4 Japanese bamboo,
which grows a sprout in one seasou that is Zin, in diameter at the
round, running straight up in a gradual taper to its tiny tip 80ft. in
6 air.
We took a tarpon guide on board and steered for the tarpon ground
to try our luck for the famous fish. We anchored and baited our
tarpon hooks with large pieces of mullet—the tarpon bites at nothing
else—which we proceed to east as far as we can and let the bait lie on
the ground with the line left slack. We fish from two small boats
made fast to the schoonee.
9:30 A. M.—No bites, but every man on duty, saager and expectant.
10:00 A. M.—All are on duty, but the nerves. and muscles are some-
wast relaxed, and time is now taken to get into easier positions, but
no
tex.
10:30.—The Distinguished Landsman comes on board the schooner,
ties his pole to the taffrail. retires to the cabin to read a lste paper
containing the iuaigiiral of President Cleveland,
11:00.—One bite reported, causing great excitement, but atter a crit-
cal examination the paige comes to the conclusion thatit is a catfish,
Soon after this catfish bite the guide sang out, ‘‘Cast off my painter!”
He had a bite and after afew moments he strikes, and the tarpon,
finding himself fast, makes frantic efforts to get away. Down the
river goes the fish, with the guide holding the line just taut enough to
give the boat headway, then the fish turns toward the boat and the
Bie reels: in rapidly, then he jumped clean out of the water and
pee his head, trying to get rid of the hook; but the guide held him
steady.
For full one hour did the guide work him, until, from sheer ex-
haustion, he was towed quietly alongside the boat and pulled in witha
strong gaff hook. Our trophy was 6ft. long and weighed 106lbs. The
Distinguished Landsman had him set up, and wesaw the taxidermist in
his preliminary work.
Laying the fish down on its side he proceeded to cut out the
body of the fish, leaving about one inch of the muscle all over the in-
side; then the cavity was packed full of soda, which hardens the tis-
Sues until they become likea piece of bone. Atter about six weeks
this filling is taken out and another putin, and the fish is again hung
up for six weeks longer, or until there is no odor from the carcass,
when the glass eyes are put in and after mounting on a boord the tar-
on is ready for shipping, The meat of the fish is coarse, red and
Beety, something like a North River sturgeon, and not used for food.
We are on our course steering for Tampa Bay, where we shall end
the cruise. There is a heayy swell rolling from the N. W , the remains
of the late fale from that quarter. We swing gracefully over these
swells, with the shore on our right whitened by the breaking surf,
which we can see and hear plainly, though four miles away. The
lively skip-jack and the sportive porpoise keep us company by water,
and the pelicans and sea gulls are ever near us on the wing, ready to
pick up any crumbs that may be thrown overboard.
Sometimes the captain would take a piece of a string and tie a small
cube of salt pork to each end, and throw it to the gulls, one of which
would soon have have one of the cubes in its stomach and fly away
with the other piece dangling in the air, when another gull would
swallow the other cube, and the tug of war would come whem both
birds would fall to the water. The strongest bird would capture the
string and pork and fly away only to haye the same thing repeated
until the pork was torn from the strings,
March 14,—We arrive at St. Petersburg at 2 P.M , pack our dunnage,
haul down our flag and end the cruise. We have sailed 1.000 nautical
miles without an accident, and have returned healthy and happy. We
have been gone 30 days, and the expense has been just $2 per day per
man,
To people who wish to getrid of the blizzards of the North, and
especially those who are suffering with bronchial or eatarrhal troubles
during the winter months, the west coast of Florida is the piace to go
for relief. The time is not far off when this west coast will be a,pre-
ciated by all people seeking pure air, sunshine and soft, balmy
breezes. R. P, BEL.
YACHT NEWS NOTES.
The “Yacht Racing Calendar and Review” for 1893 is a compact
yolume of nearly 600 pages, compiled by Mr. Dixon Kemp from the
yachting pages of the Field during the year. Americsim yachtsmen
will find it interesting as a record of Nayahoe’s races abroad, The
price is $1.25.
The annual meeting of the North Shrewsbury River jee Yacht Club
was heldon Dec. 13, the following officers being elected: Com.,, S.
W. Morford; Vice-Com., HF. H. Ball; Sec’y-Treas.. J, B. Weaver.
Regatta Committee—C. H. Throckmorton, A. W, Haviland, Charles
Curtis. Reception Committee—Dr. Edwin Field, W..A, Cole, G. D.
Warner, T. S. Hubbard, Joseph Burrows, Sr., J. B. Weayer. House
Committee—A. W. Haviland, W.T. Conover, Walter Sutphin. The
club has accepted a challenge from the Burlington! I, Y. C, for its
pennant and has decided to put but three yachts in defense against
the challenging yacht.
On Dec. 14 the Orange LakeT, Y, ©., of Newburgh, elected the fol-
lowing officers; Com., H, C. Higginson; Vice-Com.; William Kidd;
Sec’y-Treas,, A. N. Chambers; Meas., C. A. Dixon. Regatta Commit-
tee—Dr. BH, O. Mitchell, chairman; B, B. Moore, George Beggs, Willett
Kidd, Jr., and W, P. Rayland.
The Payonia ¥. ©. has elected the following officers: Com , David
W. Kohn; Vice-Com., Frank M, Randall; Treas., Benjamin McClain;
Cor. Sec., James B. Fiskel; Fin, Sec., Wm. J. Tobin; Fleet Captain,
Louis W. Forbell; Fleet Surgeon, Dr, Louis Baumann; Meas., Albert
P. Curtis; Trustees, W. J. Kent, N, B. Pritchard, Bnoch J. Smith, W.
R, Adams and George A. Skinner. Com. Kohn has appointed the fol-
lowing committees: House—Norman L, Rowe, Louis Mittlesdorf, W.
Willis, J. J. Leonard and Dr. Van Meter. Anchoraze—A. F. Roe, A,
J. Kreymeyer and R. H. McFarland. Delegates to New York Yacht
Racing Association—l’, M. Randall, N. L. Bowe and A. J, Kreymeyer.
Anice yacht club has been organized at Red Bank, N, J., under the
name of the Junior lee Yacht Club.
The first lecture of the season before the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y,
C. will take place on Dec. 21, the lecturer being Dr. Frederick A. Cook,
an officer of Peary’s first Arctic expedition, who, during last summer,
made an independent expedition to the polar seas in aschooner yacht,
The members of the New Rochelle Y. C. are endeavoring to obtain
an appropriation for improving New Rochelle Harbor by removing
the reefs and rocks and constructing a breakwater.
Valiant, steam yacht, Mr. W. K, Vanderbilt, was reported at Alex-
andria on Dec. 12.
The annual meeting of the Douglaston Y.C,, was held on Dec. 4, in
New York, following officers being elected; Com., Hazen L. Hoyt;
Vice-Com., Charles A, Gould; Rear-Com., George N. Holt; Sec'y,
James Hixon; Treas. George A. Corry; Board of Governors: G, How-
land Leayitt, C. F. Ahistrom; Meas.,, R, F. Corry, After the election
the club sat down to the third annual dinner.
Nirvana, steam yacht, a new vessel owned by W. R. Sands, of New
Hamburg, sailed for Cuba, via, Charleston, She was designed and
built by Dr, C. D. Miller, of Poughkeepsie, and is 100fb. over all, 18ft.
beam, 5ft. draft, with engines 10, 16 and 22316 in, and a Roberts boiler,
Capt. G. W. Eaton is in command.
Columbia, Mr. J. H. Ladew's new steam yacht, has taken a berth at
Tebo’s, the attempt to make a speed trial being postponed until spring.
She is not yet fully completed.
Clermont, steam yacht, Mr. Alfred Van Santyoord, is now undergo-
ing alterations in New York.
The Manayunk Model Y. C. held its annual meeting on Dec.13, elect-
ing the following officers: Com,, Dr. W. Evans: Vice-Com., J. G.
Rosegarten; Treas., W. A. Worth; Sec'y, J. Hart. On motion of Dr.
Eyaus the measurement rule of the club was altered so that it reads.
‘tthe length shall be taken between the perpendiculars, that is, from
the foreside of the stem to the afterside of the sternpost. The length
so taken shall be multiplied by the extreme beam and again by the
mean depth. The depth to be taken forward, aft-and amidships,
counting from bottom of keel to deck, the mean of the thrée measure-
ments shall constitute the depth for measurement purposes.” After
a short discussion the rule was adopted with only one dissenting yote
White Ladye, steam yacht, has been rechartered by Mr. Ogden
Goelet, who will use her in the Mediterranean this winter.
Christmas Vacation Outings via Pennsylvania
Railroad,
Fotnowrne its yearly custom, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
proposes running a special holiday tour to Old Point Comfort on Dee.
26, leaving New York at 8 and Philadelphia at 10:20 A.M. $18 from
New York, $15 from Philadelphia, and proportionately low rates from
intermediate and contiguous points will cover hotel accommodations
railroad fare, meals en route, and, in fact, all necessary expenses dur-
ing the period of four days which will be spent on the trip. This out-
ing appeals strongly for the consideration of those desiring to spend a
few days pleasantly and profitably, and apart from the attractiveness
of the jaunt a decided educational benefit is to be derived from a
familiarity with this historic spot. The Hyzeia Hotel, famous through_
out the land as one of the finest hostelries of this country, will be the
resting place of the tourists. At the same rate will be sold another
ticket going with tour proper, including but one day’s board at Hygeia,
but good to return via Richmond and Washington, and valid for stop-
off at those cities until Jan. 4, 1894.
Two other trips deserving attention are those to Washington on the
14th and 28th of the month, Three days will be occupied on each,
affording ample time for an inspection of the most beautiful of Ameri-
can cities, with its wealth of interesting features, The wonderful
architectural studies, and the glamor always surrounding the capital
of a great country, will more than repay a visit. $12 from New York,
$11 from Philadelphia, and corresponding rates from other points, are
certainly low enough for the most modest purse. These last-men.
tioned tours will leave New YorE at 11 A. M., and 1:50 P, M., stopping
at the principal stations between New York and Wilmington —Ady,
Ganacing.
Secretaries of canoe clubs are requested to send to Formsr AND
StreAm their addresses, with name, membership, signal, etc., of their
chibs, and also notices in advance of meetings and races, and reports:
thesame. Canoeists and all interested in canoeing are requested: >
forward to ForzsT anp StrmAM their addresses, with logs of cruises,
maps, and information concerning their local waters, drawings»
descriptions of boats and fittings, and all items relating to the sport,
THE LOG OF THE FRANKIE,
The ‘92 Cruise of the Shenandoah C. C.
BY THE COMMODORE,
(Continued from Page 531).
We found the old dam at Mount Meridian quite broken out, as
had expected, and after portaging the remains of an old pile damj
above, we easily shot it. Beall’s bad luck for the day was not yet>
for in shooting a small but ugly fish dam just in front of the village
Mount Meridian, his canoe brought up all standing with a crashrig
in the middle of the shoot, and an investigation revealed the
ieee We 6in. bolt of an old ploughshare had stabbed his canoe to
eart!
There were no Scriptural quotations or ejaculations of a derogatory
character this time; the subject was too deep for utterance, and
merely remarking that he wished the nigger who had tied his fishnet
to this particular ploughshare and left it in this particular place was
elsewhere, he quietly stepped overboard up to his waist, lifted his
canoe off of the cruel shaft that impaled her, and without a word,
towed his waterlogged craft to the bank, where he bailed her out and
hauled her ashore, and for the second time that day hung himself and
peloug ies out to dry. ;
We had intended making Rippetoe’s, five miles below—for our even-
ing camp, but of course further progress was out of the question, so
the other canoes were soon out alongside of Beall’s and camp was
made, after which the damage to Beall’s canoe was easily repaired in_
the usual manner by pasting a canvas patch over the wound, and he
and Lacy took advantage of the opportunity to repair a badly smashed
bilge keel in the bottom of the Clyde, while the Colonel and I again
went fishing, I used flies this time and did not get a rise, while the
Colonel, with his helgramices, took a couple more fins bass.
We spent a pleasant, quiet evening in camp enjoying our after-
supper pipes with our camp stools placed on a limestone ledge at the
margin of the water, which plashed musically over the fish-dam just
above us, while the tiny wavelets lapped up against the ledge at our
feet, and sparkled brightly in the rays of the full moon, which smiled
benignantly overhead, The murmur of voices was brought to us on
the light breeze in a subdued undertone from the village store 100yds.
away, which, with the twinkle of a light here and there in the little
hamlet on the bank above us gave pleasant assurances of human com-
panionship, and dispelled that sense of loneliness and solitude so often
felt in our night camps along the mountain rivers.
Saturday, July 30.—We didn't have fish for breakfast this morning,
as an impression seemed to prevail‘in the party that I was to clean the
fish along with my other privileges as expeditionary cook, and as
this impression was not shared in by me they were left on the stringer
all night and were spoiled by this morniag. We gota good start and
had a pleasant five mile cruise to Rippetoe's.
This final mile and a half stretch of Middle river from Mt. Meridian
to where it mingles its waters with those of the North River is pecu-
liarly interesting to me as well asto the rest of the party, and we
dallied along the still, deep reaches, oyerarched with great sycamores
and varied by an occasional short, steep rapid, loth to leave the little
stream behind us, although fully aware of what the Shenandoah had
to offer as it stretched its silvery length invitingly before us, with its
miles and miles of swift, rocky rapids, down whose rough and foam-
ing chutes we would soon be plunging and tossing in an exhilarating
manner unknown to the Middle River,
The big fish dam half a mile above the mouth of the river detained
us an hour, as we had to portage it, and took advantage of our stop
here to enlist the services of a troop of ragged and picturesque little
colored urchins to secure usa good supply of helgramites for bait to
use at Rippetoe’s, for it was our intention to go into camp there until
Monday and enjoy the fishing to be had there this morning. Our bait
secured, we re-embarked and paddled down the last long still reach of
the river and out upon the broad bosom of the united streams, which
here at the confluence of the two make quite an imposing river in size.
A heavy rain caught us as we were leisurely paddling through the
mile and a half backset from the Rippetoe'’s dam, but with closed
hatches and waterproof aprons drawn well up over our breasts under
our oiled capes we rode the storm out without shipping a drop of
water or wetting a thread of our garments. 4
We found the dam quite badly broken out at the Jeft end, leaving a
large but very hazardous-looking shoot. The temptation to run it was
great, but as we did not like to risk wrecking a canoe or twoin the
operation, we decided not to attempt it, but to let the canoes down it
carefully by hand, so we took our stations along the edge of the shoot,
and the canoes, lightened of our weight, were sasily and safely passed.
over,
Before being passed over the canoes were lying strung out along
the inner face of the dam some little distance from the break, just as
we left them when we disembarked to reconnoitre the shoot, and Lacy
was detailed to bring them down to us, one at a time, which he did by
gingerly making his way along the steeply sloping and very slippery
sheathing of the dam, which afforded a very precarious footing and
made the operation of passing back and forth a very tedious one,
The canoes were all over but the Frankie, and Lacy had gone back
after her, when the Colonel, who was stationed at the head of the
break, sung out, “Give her a shove, Lacy,” supposing, of course that
he would give the canoe a gentle push and send her along close to the
face of the dam until within reach, when he would seize it and pass it
on down the shoot to George and me, Imagine our consternation, how-
ever, when he gave the canos a vigorous push straight outinto the
pool, and she sailed gracefully in a broad semicircle far out and
then turned and came bearing down at her own sweet will upon the
foaming shoot and entirely out of reach.
lacy saw his error when too late, and came scrambling and splash-
ing along the face of the dam as fast as the slippery and treacherous
planks would allow him, and reached the shoot ahead of the canoe,
and as she approached he dashed boldly in after her. The first stride
took him in up to his waist, the second to his shoulders, and the third
over his head, which final lunge gave him the boat, and they both
eame bearing down helplessly upon the yawning shoot, down which
he would have slid like a runaway sled on a toboggan slide, but that
the Colonel, striking out a step or two from the dam, extended him a
helping hand, which he grasped as he was vigorously swimming for
shore, and was safely drawn ashore while George secured the canoe
just as she made the plunge, and we eased her safely over.
We were soon nicely in camp at the big spring half a mile below
Rippetoe’s, where Lacy took prompt advantage of the opportunity to
enseonce himself in dry clothes, and after lunch the Colonel, Patrick
Rippetoe and I went fishing above the dam for a couple of hours,
where we had fine sport, for the Colonel took five small bass, while 1
took a 2!4-pounder and a small one,
We hurried back to camp at 5 o'clock ahead of a heavy rain, which
caused us no inconvenience of discomfort whatever, as our tents and
dining fly were all in position and proved perfectly weatherproof.
We had a royal fish supper as wellas a good supply for breakfast,
as with one accord everybody turned to with 4 will and cleaned fish.
Sunday, July) $1.—It was a bright, beautiful mornirg, and we had
a leisurely fish breakfast and a delightfully lazy time in camp, which,
being under the bluff, is densely shaded; this, with the big Spring in
our midst, and the rock floor under our canoes and tents preventing
any possibility of mud, making an ideal camping place, and which we
have frequently camped on before. We shaved, wrote letters, etc.,
and at 11 o'clock the Colonel and I borrowed a horse and buggy from
an obliging neighbor and drove oyer to Shendun, where we took din-
ner at Wright's Hotel and loitered around until 4 o'clock, when we
drove over to Dr, Mohler’s residence, where we staid to supper. We
reached camp again at 7 o'clock, when I turned to and got up a sup-
per for those two hungry mortals Lacy and George.
Monday, Aug. 1—This morning by 8 o'clock we were again afloat
and the cruise was resumed. We easily portaged the big fish dam io
the bend of the river a mile and a half below our late camp, and had a
successful and exciting run through the formidable falls that stretch
for pretty much all of the remaining mile and a half from here on
down to Port Republic, The run was made without accident, although
collisions with the rocks were not infrequent, and Lacy displayed
marked and commendable agility in jamping overboard at one ticklish
place in order to avoid a capsize. Also the Colonel broke his paddle
squarely off just as he swung around under the bridge at the toot of
the falls in a. tremendous endeavor to avoid smashing up on the final
ledge of rocks, and we were detained here at Port Republic a couple
of hours while George repaired the damage,
While here] renewed our supplies and wereceived and mailed letters.
Wetook lunch on the old camp ground opposite Port Republic, and
ot off at 2 o’clock with Three Springs, seven miles down the Shenan-
oah as our evening's objective. There can be no more beautiful
river in the country than the Shenandoah (which we begin here at
Port Republic), with its bold, rapid current, its beautiful grassy tree-
shaded banks, and most entrancing mountain scenery, and our after-
noon’s cruise was a most lusty and enjoyable one. The river strikes
B54
meas being so different from either north or middle rivers above,
that it is like taking a new start and beginning the cruise over again.
The rapids and falls are much larger, longer and rougher than any-
thing of the kindin the rivers above, with the exception of the mile
anda half of fallsin North River immediately above Port Republic,
which have already been referred to, and we found our nerve, skill
ane feel aah taxed in amost exciting manner in negotiating them
safely. :
Ycannot say that we ran any great personal danger in shooting
these falls, for when the water is rough and swiftit is generally not
deep, and as the rise is not large it would not involye much risk to
wade ashore in case of serious mishap, but the principal risk is in
getting our frail light canvas canoes through without shipwreck;
which, with the consequent loss of stores, would terminate the cruise
or seriously embarrass it. =
At the present low stage of water we were unable to shoot the Port
and Lewis mill dams, but portages were easily and quickly made so
these obstructions did not long detain us. We passed a large row
boat a little below the Governor Walker place, containing a couple of
‘gentlemen fishing, who proved to be Messrs. Thomas and Avis, of
Charleston, W. Va., who are stopping at Walkers. Mr. Thomas ex-
hibited with much pride a5lbs. bass he had just taken—it was the
largest one I had eyer seen.
We made a nice early camp at Three Springs and everybody went a
fishing, but as the bass would not rise to our flies, nobody caught any -
thing. _After supper, Messrs. Thomas and Avis came down to our
camp carrying between them a noble watermelon, a present from
Mrs. Walker. They remained with us an hour, and then hurried back
to eseape the impending rain. It rained pretty much all night, but
with the exception of a little spray which drifted in through the ven-
tilators at each end, or now and then beat through the canvas roofs
during a particularly fierce dash, our little tent proved dry and com-
fortable.
Tuesday, Aug. 2,—The rain passed over during the night, and morn-
ing dawned clear and bright and fully as hot as ever. We gota
rather leisurely start this morning, as the day’s run is to be a short
one—only to Bear Lithia Springs, some 12 or 13 miles below our
camp. While at breakfast we observed old Mr. Kyger, who lives on
top of the bluff immediately above our camp, hobbling along the
winding path down the hill, on his canes, looking more decrepit,
feeble and rheumatic than last year, but as he approached the camp
he set off a stentorian war-whoop of a hail such as not a man in our
yarty could have delivered, and which spoke volumes for the excel-
ent condition of his lungs, however his legs might be affected. The
old gentlemen was glad to see us again, and we had a pleasant little
yisit with him while packing up.
We had aneasy portage over the Shaver Mill dam, and in shoot-
_ing the stiff rapids below I beached my canoes before reaching the
foot, and, pike-pole in hand, prospected clear across the river in
search of a practicable passage for the canoes over the fringe of
rocks piled up at the foot of the bar; but, failing to find one, we all
disembarked and led our canoes down the tail of the rapid and lifted
them over the rocks without damage.
We next had an exciting shoot over the big fish dam a mile below,
where we portaged last year, followed by a rather troublesome port.
age over the broken down Riverbank dam. The dam itself is easily
shot, but the very heavy rapids below are not nayigable at the pres-
ent low stage, and we were forced to land and lift the canoes down.
The dam a mile below it was easily portaged, and we landed just be-
low it at the frout of the bluff, upon which stood a large, fine-looking
brick mansion and enjoyed our noonday lunch, smoke, etc., while
wears? improved the brief stop to catch a few fine bass with his fly-
tackle. /
We had a fine run on down to Elkton, shooting the numerous rapids
with ease, and deriving great sport therefrom, but were greatly dis-
gusted to pass a couple of good-sized creeks coming in red and muddy
from the rain of last night, which in the course of a few miles, en-
tirely changed our beautiful, clear. blue-tinted water into an ugly red,
turbid current, utterly unfit for fishing and completely spoiling the
beauty. of the stream.
We easily portaged the Elkton dam and had an exciting shoot down
the wild channel through the rapids beiow, all receiving divers and
sundry hard knocks and thumps from the sunkeu rocks with which
the chute was plentifully bestrewn, and landed 4t the bridge below
Bnd went to the mill for water and to the store for a few minor sup-
plies.
The two miles to Bear Lithia were quickly accomplished. and after
the usual exciting plunge over the remains of the old mill dam, we
were soon in camp on the old camp ground, and in due time we re-
aired to the Springs, where we took supper and spent the eyening.
We found our Staunton friend, Frank Yates, in ¢harge of the Springs,
and he gave us a warm welcome, both on our own account and be-
cause—as is usually the case—men are rather a searce article at the
Springs. They had avery nice little dance at the Springs, at which
Lacy, George and the Colonel distinguished themselves. An impres-
sion seemed to prevail that skill was not much of an object, so what
they lacked in grace they made up in agihty. We had a little supper
up in ‘‘No. 16” afterward, and it was after midnight before we finally
reached our tents.
Wednesday, Aug. 3.—The river was still quite muddy this morning,
80 as the mud was coming in from so short a distance above, and also
as Naked Creek was coming in muddy thres miles below, we decided
to remain over here all day to-day, and let the muddy water run off
ahead of us, so after breakfast at the hotel we returned to the camp,
‘accompanied by Willie Compton, Mr. Bear’s son-in law, and little
Henry Bear, and spent a very pleasant dsy in camp, where our vis-
itors took lunch with us. The canoes are lying in a very ugly place,
just at the margin of the river, but just a few yards inland from them
the ground is good and nicely adapted to lying-around purposes, and
we read, smoked, talked and fished allday. We had no success fish-
ing this morning, but by 4 o’clock this evening the water had cleared
considerably and we made a very fair catch; the Colonel took three,
while I took six. Wespent the evening yery pleasantly at the hotel
again, and the boys made an engagement with some young ladies from
Berryville and vicinity to meet us at Castleman’s Ferry, on the lower
river, in about ten days.
Thursday, Aug. }.—The river is all right again this morning, and we
congratulated ourselves on our presence of mind in stopping over a
day until the muddy water allran down ahead of us, After breakfast
pretty much the entire population of the springs accompanied us to
the river to see us start, aud were all highly interested in the canoes
and outfit, Our short stay here was a pleasant episode in the cruise,
and the cordial, hospitable treatment shown us by both guests and
management was a source of great pleasure to us.
We had a lively five-mile run to Shenandoah, as the river along here
is very rough, but no one met with any mishaps beyond an occasional
thump or hangup on a sunken rock, and the run was most exciting.
We landed at Shenandoah, where we met Compton and little Henry,
who had preceded us by wagon, and at C.’s cordial invitation we took
dinner with him at Brown’s Hotel. Compton is much interested in
canoeing, and to-day bought the frame of Gibson’s old canoe with his
tent and mymattrass, and will fit himself out and join us next year.
While here we exchanged mail and telegrams with the ones left at
homé. Much to the regret of all of us the Colonel was obliged to
leave us here, as he must be in Staunton on Monday, and after leaying
here we plunge into a wilderness remote from railroad stations, not to
reappear on the surface again until we reach Riverton, along about
the middle of the week, We were sorry to lose the Colonel and his
genial, breezy, wholesome presence was sadly missed by us through-
out the remainder of the cruise, ;
At3 P. M. George, Lacy and I resumed the cruise without him, with
Harper’s Ferry as our objeetive point. We had an uneventful but
pleasant cruise of a couple of hours, in which our colored glasses
came out strong, as the western sun, refiected in our faces from the
water, was unbearable, and went into camp at 5 o'clock at Grove Hill,
alongside of a fine spring in the bank, and were speedily doing justice
to a good hot supper of bacon, potatoes, onions and eggs. An early
camp is desirable in many ways, and we always cruise to make one
when possible. '
After supper Lacy turned in early, while George and I remained up
enjoying our eyeing pipes by a little blaze of a camp-fire and settling
of the labor question with the foreman of a detachment of bridge
builders employed on the railroad not far away, and quartered in the
farmhouse on the bluff above us, who strolled down to have a chat,
and who possessed decided views upon the great Homestead strike,
which, coming from a laboring man, interested us, and struck us as
being most practical and sensible, coinciding as they do with our own
decided anti-strike views.
[To BE CONTINUED. ]
Connecticut River Canoeists’ Club.
THE Hartford C. C. held its regular monthly camp-fire on Saturday,
Dec. 16, and besides a goodly representation from the local elub,
Messrs. Knappe, Banks, Mathewson and Bleloch, from Springfield,
Messrs. Schuster, Metcalf and Ladd, from Holyoke, Davenport and
Cox from South Hadley, and J. R. Gilfillan, of Northampton, were the
guests of the elub, Representatives from the up river clubs were in-
vited to talk up the matter of arranging for an entertainment at each
of the elbs on the river during the winter, and the G. R. ©. G.is the
result. Mr. Knappe was chosen chairman and Mr. F. W. Theis, of
Hartford, secretary, The next camp-fire will probably be held at
Spr neue’ about the middle of January This matter has been talked
of for several years, as it was expected that the bringing together of
the several clubs on the river would more fully develop the fraternal
feeling which has always existed between them. Until now no action
has been taken, but the representatives in Hartford last Baturday
showed much enthusiasm on the subject.
FOREST AND STREAM.
Rifle Range and Gallery.
The Kevolver Championship.
RounpsMAn W. E Perry is stillin the lists awaiting a challenge for
the Winans Trophy, which he has now held for one year, or half the
time necessary to make it his permanently, Since his three straight
victories over Messrs. Jantzer, Walther and Heintz, would-be revolver
SOME TARGETS BY PETTY.
champions seem scarce. We present herewith three consecutive
targets made by Mr. Petty in practice Sept. 25. They were shot on
the regular 5in. disk used in all the competitions, and on a 2léin.
and 114in. blacks at 20y.ds.
ver, 10zgrs. powder and 120grs. lead, and shot these strings without
eleaning. Thetargets are reproduced exa:t size.
Pittsburgh vs, Iroquois.
PirrspurGH, Pa., Dec. 14.—It is a long time since anything in the
Tifle-shooting line attracted so much attention in Pittsburgh as the
25yd. gallery match between teams from the Pittsburgh and Iroquois
elubs, shot Dec, 12 at the range of the former club. Gouditions were
made to suit the visiting team, and for the evening the home men
gave up their 40yd. distance and standard American (reduced) target,
substituting the old Massachusetts target at 25yds. Rounds were
twenty-five per man, in five shot scores, two men (one from each
team) shooting at a time. Stakes, a supper for thetwo teams. The
Pittsburgh Rifle Club was organized in 1879, and three of its team
have been members since that time, while the rest are almost all of
much longer experience than their opponents; but in justice to Mr.
Tttel it should be stated that he only joined the club this season, and
in age and experience had no advantage over any one of the Iroquois
team, yet he tied the old reliable Joe Huggins, a rifleman of far more
than local reputation, and outshot every other man inthe match. It
is also but fair to mention that the two captains had upon their shoul-
ders entirely too large a share of the management of the contest to do
themselves justice at the score. The striking feature of the evening
was the large attendance of spectators, which seems to promise a re-
vival of interest in the sport which is most desirable. Only the totals
of the five-shot scores are available, and run as follows:
J A Huggins,.,,..... done hs Anretsa4 Pin 1 4 5 62) 56—271
DPE eee eesiaaniere teats ot Pe er we DS?)060O64d 6 A HH 7
G@ BE Painter, J3...s.0.. ees Rhine apecete ee nD 55 bys 49 54— 270
RW Bailey: sis cons enlieh bh etercencten san, 54 50, bv) “Be 62— 266
THStai Deter tare ss ee eea eee 66 be 50 62 b1— 261
iW-_C:Galbreath: Wp .e.aekaeoe antes what 56 55 S51 54— 266
ID WoHrazees.t;
10 J BLOW, .erveeessneen L0R—2
FOREST AND STREAM,
Vernon Rod and Gun Club Tournament.
Tae Vernon Rod and Gun Club held an open to all tournament on
its new grounds, corner Enfield street and Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn,
on Wednesday, Dec. 18, and had a fair turnout. The shooting was at
bluerock targets under the rapid-firing system. Among those present
were W. R. Hobart and J. R. Osterhout of Newark, Dr. P. J. Mason
of Peekskill, Neaf Apgar of Evyona, M. F. Lindsley of West Hoboken,
and J. W. Hoffman of German Valley.
The shoot was in charge of the following committee: F. A. Thomp-
son, chairman; J. G. Wischerth, John Wright, W. H. Thompson,
Wallie Dorr. The state of the weather had a great effect on the
nerves of the shooters, asisshown by the faet that during the entire
day only two clean scores were recorded. The results follow:
No. 1, 10 targets:
JEL RDS tb oie ge pe 1111010111— 8 F A Thompson . .0101001111— 6
JIN aE ET SSpe oy a la al Ne Ds 1110101011I—_ 7 H Heyer....... 0110011000— 4
Wood..... dreesietie = 1011111110— 8 SLyon..,,..........-1110000111— 6
No. 2, 15 targets:
Hobart........-- 11111100101;11i—12 Heyer .......... 011111011101001—10
F A Thompson.11110001010010i— 8 Lyon........... 110111110010101—i1
W.H Thompson.011111110111010—11 Ferris........... 110110101011111—11
WYOGCE vac: 101171111001111—12 Levins......... .100011000111001— 7
Bennett,.......+ 011101111111121—13
No. 3, 20 targets:
Mason,.... 10171010011101011101—18 WH Thomp- -
Wood...... 11011011117101111011—16 _ son,.,,...11101110111001001111—1
Bennett, ...10001011011111111101—15 Hobart, ., ,11101101110111010111—15
¥F A Thomp- JB ccns 10011110100110111110—13
SON ....08 00000011010101001010—- 7 WPR..... 00111011110011101111—14
Heyer... ..-1110011011110011011013 Wright, ,..1000001000010000000i— 4
Levins..... 01010101000101110111—11 Craft...... 01001111110011011110—13
No. 4, 10 targets:
Bennett. ... 0.005 ee wees ATTOOLTIIAA SB. Dy Els ona tewaeae ees cer 0101111111_8
WAY PEC mvacansiea nesses 914)5-4 1111101101—8 Mason.......csccceees 1111101010—7
Little ..... Sawn aa ais 111010001I—6 Wo0d.........se.0005- 1111111100—8
TsGVIDR ica ahaa stews or 111111010i—8 F A Thompson.,... .1111100111—8
Hobart. ....sseeceeeee-MOMUIIIIOI—8 9Ferris ...........00055 1001010101—5
Qsterhout......, «++: POWATIOIN > IOTeBi. nba ee saan eee 1111011111—9
RTC VET eeisiniale sree ens 0101111101—7
1S ope ae esa a a ..1111011111—9 01 10 10 10 10—14
GUE: Je aoal qeioes ees eiseeecesrers sae 1010111011—-7_ 11 10 11 10 10—14
Apgar ...111111011i1—9 10 00 00 00 10—11
TAGE. cn nas .1101001001—5 01 10 00 11 10—10
Bennett .......... .1111101111—9 00 10 00 10 10—12
LOVEDS.. 6.2.22 .0es 85555 ...1111110110—8 10 10 01 10 1i—14
HV ACPAOMIPEGM, 60 cee emcee sma omens 1000011011—5 10 10 00 10 10— 9
Craft..... anceps dens scene ek aukh kiko 1111110111—9 11 10 00 10 14—15
Hoffman,.,.........s0+- Paar nt some ...-1101111010—7 00 11 11 10 00—12
No. 6, 15 targets:
Osterhout...... 110110101011010— 9 Bennett........ 101011000011111— 9
Hobart........+ 110101111013111—12 Craft........... 010100100000111— 6
Wood. .....-... 010011110111110—10 F A Thompson ..101110110001000— 7
APBZAL. cer eeu 111111111110000—11 Hoffman....,.. ,001011001111001— 8
OW SUES dy owes 010010110011101— 8 _ JBH........... 00101001111010i— 8
(Pins ceeepey ey Pe 110100110000110— 7 Mason....,. ....111101110111111—13
Levens... .....05 111011101011100—10
No. 7, 10 targets:
Osterhout.....ceesees 0111111111—9 Hobart....... SoEpSeoe 0110110011—6
Bennett ..ccaseecceeus 11011101118 F A Thompson........ 0101101101—6
Apgar...... Sr Tate 1111011410—8 H Heyer...... es Be 0101010111—6
Hofiman,.........5.65 AAAOMIAII—9 BE, aa ewe swesas 11110101118
Wood....... A Ea 1220111211—9 Doi... ...cccceaeeeees 0110001111—6
Little. .... Seas et sept 1110000101 —6) WP Ri... cassie ccecses 0101111111—8
BISHOP. 6. ose sede 58 0101010110—5 Craft...... Seneae seat 1111110111—9
VETS vin sa poisiessealele ,.0011000111—5 Van Sise......... «+». 0100010100—3
No. 8, 20 targets:
Hoffman ,.10111101111110111111—17 Lindsley. . .00101100101011111111—13
10111111101111011101—16 Vansin..... 11001000000000101101— 7
.1011110019111111111117 FBH,...,.. 11011111101111010010—14
..0111001100101110111113 F A Thomp-
10111110111110101011—15 SOD, ws... 10101011110001101011—11
Apgar... .-11120111111111110111—18 Mason,.... 00111001010101111111—13
No. 9, 10 targets:
Hofmann . .<.s0.4.-05 1110111110—8 Wood.,.....cscececees 1001010001—4
Apgar ...... eet 01111101118 Levins..... veniate . .0010101010—4
Hobert.....08.5 Re ahme 01001011116 F A Thompson ,.,..,.1110011001—6
Limdsley............. 1100100011—5 ~JBA....... bee tans one 1001100111—6
Osterhout..........+-- ADOMNAO—F OWP RR) coaadaesse. 1000111001—5
BDORA ene ben cate a 01011000115 “Wright. ............06 0110100000—3
No. 10, 10 singles and 5 doubles:
HOMMAND, -. con sek ne esse esas Fe 0111111111 11 10 10 11 1i—17
AIPAT OPER E EA bys ayatris selon injelsn'e aeetaete ,.--0010110011 00 11 10 10 00— 9
Reais rs carats cian whe Some dae 4s ds ~--1110001111 10 10 10 10 00—i1
DDT REASON 2.) ce swale hos revere Brie amitie ale .«e-.1111010110 10 11 10 01 11—14
ELON oe ey nee a an ss war mt ale A Pee pe doen 0112011111 O01 00 10 10 10—12
NO SUSE 5S cictere ayers e stetentve u erelaae ele wee eee™ 1111010000 11 70 11 10 10—i2
TECVENAS. yicc seas One Sey an oy ass 0001001010 01 01 10 10 1i— 9
ope lish Ms 834955 snoue lanai saheateee 1111101011 10 10 11 01 00—13
DAMA CY. ys cescansune ys oer Hees 1101701110 11 10 10 10 11—18
SPN BES. a) Se ee ea, 0111000011 00 00 00 10 00—6
Cs Rae ee eg es ayes) oe eat tt 0111111111 11 10 00 00 00—12
Peer ee er pebwena neni ose san sesees 2101010011 00.00 00 10 00— 7
No. 11, 10 targets:
“Us ee 5 1001111010— 6 Edward.............. 0111111110— 8
5 A eee baeeEKEES 0001001001—. 38 Craft............. .-»-1111111111—10
Osterhout ....,,.-.:: 0110000110— 4 Hoffmamnn........... 1111111111—10
Wesherth,..........: 0000001000 -— 1 VanzSise....... ,....0000000001— 1
STUB. Cm igeiw's enirie sine AOA TGOIO— WPI: «tana cece eae 1010111010— 6
Lindsley....... .1011101101— 7 - J BA... eae eee 1011011111— 8
Levins,......+. .....0011100000— 8 W H Thompson ,,... 1001101111— 7
No. 12, 10 targets:
Hoffman......... SOT AIOIII Bo Wares. cc sesscce 1111111101—9
Apgar..... 2 .0111001011 YF JIL... cece eens .--0111011100—6
Lansley... a yee ey es 01111011118 W H Thompson 0111010110—6
Hobart...... ana enab AS 01111000116 -WPR......000- . ,0111111111—9
No. 18, miss and out:
Apgar....... Senne ee eee ANTI — GEIB aye spews ecewge seas
Ward....... peau neek--rer ley (2 MOMS ee eee eet aeeee 11110—4
(Crates cae awesisese- 2 ae Wii—5
NO, 14, 15 singles:
Hoffman........ 111111111111011—14 Ward...... ~-«..11011111011110112
Lindsley........ 101111110101111—12 F A Thompson .001000110100000— 4
ARDIAT hs sister 011120101001011— 9 Platt......... .-.001001000190001— 4
OIF os ee 110101011010111—10
No. 15, 10 targets:
TELE? PDE Bil Septtewryccecome = * 10000001002 F A Thompson. ..... 0100100111—5
AS Wal kenckcaunese see 11101111018 Hoffman,,... ey eeee e+ 1000101101—5
Wiscbert..... fdemscse: 0111010011—6 Osterhout...........+ 01011111118
W H Thompson.,.... 1111001101—7 Lindsley, ......ceeeeee 0111010101—6
WAO nace nen 5 aeeee 00111110117 Wright... ence nee 1100110000—4
IBBOD ss) bk ctbcaanoe 0001001101—4 Apgar..........+. ..,.1001110111—7
Coney Island Rod and Gun Club.
Tun extreme cold weather which has extended over Long Island for
the past week has had a depressing effect upon the spirits of many of
our local shooters. The monthly shoot of the Coney Island Rod and
Gun Club fell on one of the extreme cold days of last week=-Wednes-
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day—and the result was that only ten members put in an appearance
to contest for the Plate diamond trophy and the extra prizes. The
Plate trophy, as we had occasion to remarkin a previous report of the
club’s shoot, isa remarkably fine piece of the jeweler’s handiwork,
and naturally all the members have a strong desireto winit. The
trophy will go to the member winning it the most nnmber of times at
the monthly shoots during the year. Thus far it has been won by the
following members: Wm. Lair twice, D. Van Zile twice, Fred W.
Pfaender once, Fred McLaughlin ones and Dr. Little once. The fact
that the previous winning of the trophy is distributed among five men,
two only of whom have won it twice, should make all future competi-
tions to the end of the shoot decidedly interesting. On Wednesday
when the members assembled on the grounds, four of the men pres-
ent were previous winners of the trophy, and each of them, no doubt,
had strong hopes that the much coveted prize would come his way.
On the first round Fred McLaughlin scored a miss; the next one of
the quartette to miss his eral was Wm. Lair, on the fifth round.
Messrs. Pfaender, Dr. Little and John C. DeFraine, the popular secre-
tary of the club, succeeded in making clean scores of seven birds each.
On the shoot off DeFraine withdrew and left Messrs. Little and
Pfaender to contest for the trophy. The result was a victory for
Pfaender on the third round, he killing three to Dr. Little's two.
Scores:
W Schumacher,,....,...111022i-6 Dr W A Little....... 11221127
FW Pfaender.........-+- STae12— Wan) LAr. oe meatal nae 1111021—6
W Schelges,..........--< 01212116 H McLaughiin,,,,. fetes 1021120—5
Dr Tay qiehig Sn inee cnearrevieae 02010114 F McLaughlin..... ewes 0121220—5
PT AV EAT ery tetera 00211024 J C DeFraine.......,,..,1121211—7
Onondaga County Sportsmen’s Club.
Tsar Onondaga County Sportsmen’s Club, who have splendidly
equipped quarters at Maple Bay, on the picturesque shores of Onon-
daga Lake, about five miles from Syracuse, is one of the strongest
organizations, financially as well as numerically, in the State. In 1892
it engineered the New York State shoot, which was one of the most
successful ever held. Included among its members are a number of
the most solid business men of the city, including A. C. Ginty, Harvey
MeMurechy, Daniel M. Lefever, A. G. Courtney, Chas. H. Mowry, Geo.
H. Mann, Geo. H. Holloway, A. C. Spangler, C. Dugard and W. H.
Hookway, all of whom are enthusiastic trap and field shots.
The club holds regular weekly shoots, each member shooting at 50
targets, for medals. The last of these contests took place on Dec. 14,
when the weather was miserably unfavorable, the day being extremely
cold, with a heavy snow storm and strong wind. The scores, however,
were fairly good despite the handicaps. A.G. Courtney, the genial
representative of the Lefever Arms Co., won the medal on a score of
44 breaks. The scores:
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1111101911191110111111111—23—44
© Dugard,....... neetukesahubbn tena .0111011111111111010111001—19
1111101111111111010111111—23—42
CAyling. geeky seas veces cece eee eey ye e011110101111111111110111—20
1111.011101111111101111101—21—41
H MeMurchy..........:. te ee ee -2410111101101011011101111—19
0111110111011110110010111—18—37
D M Lefever.,. ..cscsscccce ween eoeeee est011101111011101110111111—20
1001110110100111011011101—16—236
John GOL. can cnmedee ne “pets eee e2414010011110111110010111—18
0111110001110111111110011—18—26
D Walters... cesececeeseceeeseeyees« © Q011111311000111111101011-15
1100111100110001111011001—15—33
POF Ef ict re eee Ty) EAR Sac ae ae 0001111100101111110111101—17
1111011001011011110001010—15—32
WSN So eee mieninic mua cee eeeee ces eeee0111010111011111011001111—18
1110001011011001110001001—13—31
Geo Mann... .2.00.00000 veeueeeeee ese +1000100000111111101111011—15
1101011001101101111001101—16—31
FALLSTAFF.
North Side Gun Club.
Tue last monthly shoot of the North Side Gun Club, at the Queens
County wapeeey Park, Maspeth, L. L, on Dec. 12, unfortunately came
on avery cold day. The atmosphere had that crisp Arctic feeling
about it that unless one’s circulation was in good condition, a few
minutes’ exposure was sufficient to make the most enthusiastic pigeon
crank break for cover. But the personality of the North Side mem-
bers is of that vigorons nature that a little frosty weather only
adds to their vigorousness. The meeting on Tuesday was the last for
the year 1893; their shooting year, however, extends to and includes
April, 1894. The club events for the club medal and other prizes call
for 7 birds per man, handicap rules. The shooting on Tuesday was
noted for some good, clean kills on the part of the shooters and also
for some instances of the usual hard luck that one will fallin with at
times. C. M. Meyer, H. Heyer and M. 0. Manning seemed to find the
frosty weather just to their liking, for they shot in good form and re-
tired with clean scores to their individual credit. Messrs. Wahlen and
Mencke each missed one bird. Of the others, Messrs. Smith, J. N.
Meyer, Jennings and Duryea seemed to have a plethora of unfortunate
circumstances to cut down their seores. Under more favorable
weather conditions they will no doubt make a better showing. Scores:
Club shoot, club handicap:
CM Manning............ 1212211—? A Duryea........... ..«.-1011011—5
G SI€ME, . 2s... ce cc cec eed 0021222—5 CM Meyer........... wae 21222217
J MMen Ke foe. sccee ss aes 1111210—6 JH Wablen............. 1112012—6
JH Jennings: 7.00 ..% . 02012024 J N Meyer........... s..-7110200—4
dE GUE (ois) aes Ey 2121111—7 WK Smith..,....... wees -0122100—4
Sweepstake, 5 birds, one prize:
ER GEES ci a a s — T02S2—4. TN, Meyer. 0 an a hiazisn 1121245
W Bi Smith... .. ct csenses 01202—3 H Otten,....... eaten 2 20202—3
Phenix Gun Club.
EreuT members of Long Island’s oldest organized gun_ club, known
as the Phoenix, assembled at Miller’s Dexter Park on Dec. 12 for its
last quarterly shoot for the year 1893. To one who frequents the
meetings of the many gun clubs organized and shooting under the
rules of the present day, Hurlingham modified, etc., he longs to see a
return to the style of the old sportsmen of a generation now fast pass-
ing away. :
Barring the few brutes engaged in the trap and handle brutalities
of those days, the trap-shooting fraternity used to consider that the
birds had some rights which the shooter as a sportsman was in dnty
bound to consider, and one of the cardinal principles was that the
bird should have opportunities to be on the wing and clear from the
traps before the shooter was permitted to open fire upon his victim.
But now, with improved guns, nitrojpowders and Hurlingham rules,
the poor bird has no show whatever. The moment the trap is open
the gun is off, and in many instances the bird falls dead om the trap.
This is called sport, and our experts of the present day are able to
none — scores under the rules now adopted by 90 per cent. of our
gun clubs.
A visit to Dexter Park on Tuesday of last week to witness the shoot
of the Phoenix Club brought usin contact with a small gathering of
sportsmen who still cling to the old rules of pigeon shooting. We
found the old club on the old stand and the old members on deck,
has been occupied by
There was John Akhurst, who has been ‘‘Uncle John” to the frater-
nity of shotgun shooters for the past 25 years; he is now past hls
seyenty-fourth year. Then there was Wm. Hughes (‘‘Uncle Billy”),
from New Jersey, 4 man nearly as old as Mr. Akhurst, and as full of
interest in shotgun matters as the youngest member in the club. The
eight members were divided into two teams of four, one under the
leadership of President D. Freligh and the other marshaled under
“Unele” John Akhurst, with ‘Uncle Billy’ Hughes guarding the rear
of Uncle John’s” quartette. The race was at 15 birds per man, H
and T traps, Long Island rules, both barrels allowed. The weather
was fine, the westerly wind tempering the atmosphere to that degree
which makes outdoor exercise a pleasure at this season of the year.
The birds furnished by Mine Host Miller were a good lot, and under
the rules in force gaye the shooters plenty of opportunities for show-
ing their skill. Scores: =
Capt Akhu’t010111211111111—_13 CaptFrelighi101111112122111_14
E Madison. .011111111120211—13 J Gardner. .022020221002101— 9
H Boity. ...121011021101000— 9 J Smith..... 0111111111011. 13
W Hughes. .122202022111120—12 47 J Chambers.011001112111021—-~ -47
Unknown Gun Club.
THE monthly shoot of the Unknowns at Dexter Park on Dec. 14
brought together ten members in competition for the club prizes.
The weather was altogether too frigid for comfort when facing the
traps, and as soon as a member had shot his turn he sought shelter”
in the shooting house, where a large stove and a hot fire made it pos-
sible to keep his body in a fairly comfortable condition. Of late Mil-
ler has been able to supply some rattling good birds to his patrons
and as a consequence the live bird cranks have had opportunities to
test their shooting abilities to their fullest extent. @ birds fur-
nished to the Unknowns were no exception to the general run, and
some of the best shots of the club had to submit to the fact that the
birds at times were a little fast for the gun and the shooter. Of the
ten members engaged in the club eyent only two of them, Messrs. E.
A. Vroome and Ike Hyde, made clean scores. H. Van Staden and G.
Rankin were in hard luck throughout the shoot, each getting 2 birds
out of 7. After the club event a sweep at 3 birds was shot off. Scores:
Club event, club handieap:
G Rankin.... .2000100—2
1
E SPE Seis AE RE He
TP gets ARES Ee pete 0121021—5 H Van Staden, Sr....... 0000101—2
Sweep at 3 birds, $1 entry, 3 moneys:
Plate,...... Fone e cetenee eebes 110—2 Knebel............. seeseees O21—2
Hyer eae keeeeeaewaee ABs VOCS Ti 5S Syst ccaresad cia ee 211—3
SEidMore,.....cececeeeeees- A001 Boyd...... ae Awana bs eeaees 211—3
answers ta Qorrespondents.
No notice taken of anonymous communications
G. W. A., Boston,—I entered two dogs in the Bicknell trials—Bounes
and Mainstay. I bet $5 that Bounce would be declared the better dog,
but Bounce was sick and could notrun. Who won? Ans. The bet
should be declared off.
F. W. T. Massachusetts.—No shooting license is required of non-
residents in South Carolina, except in certain counties, for market.
shooting. You will probably find in the vicinity of Darlington quail,
woodcock, hare and deer.
J. §., Boulder, Mon.—For rules upon rifie-shooting write to Gus
Nowak, secretary Zettler Rifie Club, No. 219 Bowery, New York City.
For targets write to Geo. Schlicht, Guttenburg, N.J., stating distance
of range you desire to shoot.
E. L. §., Bath, Me.—1. Do you have for sale a book in which it tells
the difference between the many kinds of targets, such as the Creed-
moor, Massachusetts, German and military targets; and at what
price? 2. Who is the best living rifle shot? Ans. 1. ‘‘Modern Ameri-
can Rifles.” $2, postpaid, 2. Impossible to say.
T. A. R,, Minneapolis, Minn.—1, Which of three named guns below
are considered the best for balance, hard shooting and great penetra-
tion, wear, etc.: W. & C. Scott & Sons, W. W. Greener, A, Francotte &
Co.? 2. Will a 12-bore shoot as strong as al0-bore? Ans, 1. De-
pends on the individual preference of the sportsman, 2. In point of
penetration the 12-bore, if properly loaded, will equal the 10-bore.
J. M. B., Philadelphia,—Will you kindly let me know: 1. The points
of superiority—if any—an §-gauge zun may have over a 10-gauge for
duck shooting? 2. And also if its additional weight and sizeis com-
ensated for by its shooting powers? Ans. 1. An 8 gauge gun shoots |
arge shot better than a 10-gauge and will kill at considerably greater ~
ao 2. This is a question to be decided by the sportsman him-
se
C. A. G., Louisville, Ky.—Will you have the kindness to tell me, |
through your Answers to Correspondents column, the best way to
keep atent from mildewing when set up on the ground in the sum- |
mer foralongtime. Ans. Whitewash the tent with a weak solution »
of chloride of lime, Add salt to makeit stick. A are solution will |
rot the cloth. Two pounds of slaked lime to a barrel of soft water is
the right proportion. |
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Ww. C. S., Norfolk, Va.—Kindly answer the following questions
through your correspondence column: 1. Which is considered the
best bore of gun for canvasback duck shooting—8, 10 or12-bore? 2.
Will a 12-bore with 30in. barrels, full-choked, give as good results |
with No. 4 or 5 shot for duck shooting as a 10-bore with #2in. barrels,
full-choked? 3. Is it possible to have an 8-bore gun to weigh 9 or
i0lbs., double-barrel, with 34 or 36in. barrels, that will give good §
results with little recoil? Ans. 1. The 10-bore is the most popular
ducking gun. 2. No, 3. Wehardly think so, An 8-bore double gun §
should weigh 12 to 1albs.
M. L. W., Visalia, Cal—I desire to ask the pros and cons of the
paper patched bullet; whether in a sporting rifle, or one used for a
mixture of target and game shooting, a paper patched bullet has any
advantages as compared with one not so treated. Will the patched
bullet be more accurate, give any greater penetration or will the gun
be rendered inaccurate and require wiping sooner than if a lubricated
bullet is used? This is my position: [am about to buy a gun suffici |
ently accurate to be of use asa target gun and also to usefor deer)
hunting, and am in doubt whether to order one using a .40-70 Ballard,
patched, or a .40-65 Winchester, and desire your advice or that of my]
more experienced co-readers. The fact that none of the new s are’
using paper patched bullets seems to indicate that tne patch is either
useless or a disadvantage; is that true, and in which respect? Ams,
Patched bullets are considered more reliable than Inbricated if the)
rifle is cleaned after each shot. Shooting without. cleaning, the lubri
cated bullet gives the best results. For target shooting the .38-5ocal.
is the most popular among our off-hand shooters. A rifle for both)
target and hunting purposes used in acountry where large game
abounds, should be not less than 40-65cal, The .88-55 or .38-56 single
joader (set trigger), would be a good all-round rifle for target or deer.
ROM the first issue of this paper it has been
used, and for nearly twenty years this particular
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1893
VOL. XLI.—No. 26
. { we. 318 Broapwa¥, New YorE,
CONTENTS.
Edltorial.
The Coast Fisheries Conference,
The Colonels are Included.
Snap Shots.
For the Waning Year.
The Singing Mouse Stories,—ry.
Danvis Folks.—xrx.
After Toil Recreation.
Woman on the Stream.
The Hog Thief of Camas Prairie.
Duck Shooting in Oregon.
Hunting Witha Camera.
Capturing a Baby Jaguar.
Shootem Goose on Caraquet
Shore.
A Mighty Hard Tramp.
A Western Wail.
Allen Bayou and Beyond.
Utah Notes.
The Boy, the Bostonian, the Bull.
Two Wild Animal Stories,
Two Guaranteed Moose.
Trout Fishing in New Brunswick,
With the Deer in Michigan.
Quail Breeding and Wintering.
Angling Notes.
The Kennel.
American Foxhounds.
Akron Dog Show.
The Kennel.
Points and Flushes.
Dog Chat.
Answers to Correspondents.
Hunting and Coursing.
A Run with the Genesee Hounds.
National Beagle Club Meeting.
Hunting and Coursing Notes.
Yachting.
A Cheap Cruise.
Rochester Y. C.
News Notes,
Canoeing.
The Log of the Frankie.—i1.
New York C. C.
News Notes.
Rifle Range and Gallery.
Portchester Rifie Club.
Zettler Rifle Club.
Rifle Club Doings.
ifle Notes,
Trap. Shooting.
The Interstate M. and D.
Turkey Shoot at Akin.
Elliott's Great Trap Work.
Drivers and Twisters.
American Kennel Club Meeting. | Answers to Queries.
THE COAST FISHERIES CONFERENCE.
WE shall begin in our next number the publication of
the full official report of the coast fisheries conference
held in this city on the call of President Huntington of
the New York Fish Commission. While the conference
adjourned without having accomplished anything definite
toward the object for which it was called, the proceedings
demonstrated several things: First, a widespread and
growing belief on the part of the rod and line fishermen
that the supply of food fish along the coasts of the New
England and Middle States is diminishing; second, a
firmly expressed declaration on the part of the net and
seine fishermen and fish dealers that food fish are as
plentiful as ever.
Further, it was clearly shown that the rod and line
fishermen believe in stopping the use of pounds in inland
salt waters and the hauling of menhaden seines in bays,
sounds and narrow waters, while limiting the use of
pounds everywhere to the four months beginning July 1.
The commercial fishermen and fish dealers oppose these
Measures as being too sweeping and destructive of the
fishing industry, but declare their willingness to submit
to any reasonable regulations looking toward the protec-
tion of the fish and the maintenance of the supply.
The great difficulties in the way of concerted action
and satisfactory results of such meetings are immediately
apparent. The interests represented are diverse and con-
flicting, the convention finds itself powerless to act
effectively, and the data presented to establish certain
important statements are found to be unsatisfactory.
Few States have the means of collecting statistics, and
many compilations offered in evidence are discovered to
be faulty, Again, the States are usually unwilling to
unite upon any legislation affecting the coast fisheries, If
one of them has a temporary advantage of posi-
tion it generally opposes a change of regulations.
The same is true of interior waters and a case in point is
the struggle on the part of the Pennsylvania Fish Com-
mission to induce the Maryland Commissioners to unite
with them in removing fish traps from the lower fifteen
miles of the Susquehanna River.
Statistics are often misleading unless carefully handled
and adequate. There is frequently a local diminution of
food fish, although the general supply may be kept up
by developing the waters. Again, the supply may be
maintained by extraordinary increase of the nets and
pounds employed in the fishery. The Spanish mackerel,
for example, is rapidly falling off in Virginia, yet the
market supply is kept up by shipments from new waters
in the Gulf States. The catch of shad continues uniform,
but the number of pounds in some regions has been
enormously increased.
. There is no question that inquiries into the actual state
of the fisheries should continue to be made—as they have
been made year after year by some of the States as well
as the United States, It is neither necessary nor desirable
that the inquiry should be limited to practical fishermen
and fish dealers. These classes do not themselves desire a
commission so restricted. No harm can come from a
study of the life history of the fishes and of the methods
employed in the United States and abroad. The relation
of scientific research to public economy is too well known
to require explanation or defense. Let us have all the
information needed as a basis of proper legislation and as
a guide in the artificial propagation of useful fishes, and | exemplified in them does not prove that his teachings are
let all good men unite in supporting measures necessary
to protect the inhabitants of the waters. Such protection
may be secured without danger of destroying great indus-
tries and making fish a luxury which only the rich can
afford.
QUAIL STOCKING.
THe letter from our Canadian correspodent ‘‘Cinna,”
printed in another column, will be-read with great inter-
est, especially by those who have in view the restocking
with quail of sections where no birds are now found. We
have been hearing of the rearmg of quail in confinement
for lo, these many years, but the authentic cases where
success has been had could be numbered on half the fin-
gers of a single hand. From the tone of the letter which
“Cinna” quotes, it would seem that Mr. Duncan had little
or no difficulty in rearing his birds, and he looks forward
to renewed success next season. If it can be shown that
the quail can be reared in confinement, one of the shoot-
ing problems of the future will have been solved.
- Reports from northeastern shooting grounds every where
show that this autumn quail have been singularly scarce,
and wehavein mind more than one township, where birds
are usually moderately abundant, in which the total bag
for all the gunners this year does not number a dozen
birds, If itis true that the severe winter of 1892-93 is
the cause of this scarcity, it would seem that the prospects
for shooting next autumn are dismal enough.
It is apparent that before long field shooters must take
some action, either by importing foreign birds, as has
been done in some cases, or by restocking with native
species brought from long distances, This last method,
while it has been extensively tried, cannot be said to have
been successful, and of the many thousands of Southern
quail turned out in the Northern States within the past
few years, only a very inconsiderable proportion have
been shot, or have lived over to reproduce their kind.
The enterprise of restocking gur coverts is as yet wholly
in the experimental stage, and it is safe to say that we
know very little about what should be done in the matter.
PORTRAITS IN INK.
Iy.—THE PROFESSOR.
You anticipate great pleasure in meeting the Professor
of some congenial branch of natural history, for you
ichthiology, perhaps, for you have long been acquainted
with him through his charming descriptive writings,
wherein he discourses so eloquently and feelingly of the
ennobling and refining influences of field sports through
the close contact with nature to which they bring one,
In season and out of season he preaches the gospel of
outdoor sport, which, if followed in the true spirit, must
perforce make one reverent, wise, patient, generous, self-
sacrificing, modest, while bestowing the grosser gifts of
health and strength.
Hunt, Shoot, Fish and Be Good, is the grand precept of
life that he continually exhorts you to follow, to be guided
by, and in your humble attempts to follow this saintly
teacher, you have felt condemned when you caught your-
self uttering a naughty word over a fouled hook or a
missed fair shot, and almost despair of complete sanctifi-
cation when you detect yourself rejoicing more over a
heavy bag and full creel than over sky and landscape,
glorified by sunset or the twilight solemnity of the woods.
But he, serenely exalted above all such weakness and
vanity, must be the ideal true sportsman and gentle
angler, possessing all the virtues of each, which he has so
admirably set forth, and as such you have limned a por-
trait of him.
It is a pity to meet him and have it spoiled by compari-
son with the original. There is no similitude in it to this
gross, arrogant, selfish, egotistic man, who takes as of
right the easiest chair and the warmest or coolest place,
sorts the basket for the finest fruit, disparages the fare,
asserts his theories, scoffs away opposite opinions, vaunts
his achievements, patronizes nature with the air of being
her chief proprietor and only interpreter.
If you should attempt a more truthful portrait than
your ideal one, while you are in the reaction of disillusion,
you would doubtless draw it in charcoal with very few
touches of white chalk, and the result would be a carica-
ture, not a portrait, with every ugly feature exaggerated
and overshadowing the gentler ones.
Really, he is not an imposter, nor is he a bad man, but
one with two sides. Your first picture was drawn from
the better one, reflected in his writings; that it is poorly
false.
He must have felt or he could not so well describe the
refining influence of intercourse with nature, though it
has not perceptibly touched the baser of his two person-
alities. He is certainly none the worse for it, doubtless
better than he would be without it.
If you have ever been intimately acquainted with a
saint it is more than likely that you have found him
very good and very disagreeable, the fine gold of a pious
life strangely mingled with the dross of human frailties,
but such a revelation does not make religion less true,
nor the gold itself less precious, °
A bad example does not invalidate a good precept, and
if shooting and fishing have not made the Professor a per.
fect man it is no reason why you should forswear such
pastime or cease to use the rod and gun as pretexts for
going forth to nature.
THE COLONELS ARE INCLUDED,
THERE are sundry think-themselves-better-than-other
men who appear to be deluded with the notion that they
enjoy special immunity from the game and fish laws,
These statutes, they affect to hold, are all well enough in
their way as restraints upon the common herd, but we,
the possessors of handles to our names, are not bound by
them.
And not only this, but there are never wanting others
to profier their friendly services to back up the assump-
tions by these men of special privileges. Let a Chicago
Doctor of Divinity kill deer in Minnesota out of season.
and his lawlessness will be defended not alone by himself
but by apologists who hold that the Minnesota Legislature
never intended to curtail the deer slaughtering inclina-
tions of Doctors of Divinity. Let a Connecticut Adjutant
General kill deer in Mame in the close time and be
brought to book for it, and he will straightway appear
at the head of a regiment of titled Nutmeggers demand-
ing the exemption of Adjutant-Generals from the game
law. Only the other day, when one of the district
game protectors of New York brought suit against an in-
dividual who had been shooting wildfowl in a way forbid-
den by the statute, the offender, or his friends for him,
set up the impudent claim that he should be let off
from punishment because he was a Colonel on the Gov-
ernor’s staff.
Now is it not about time for all of us to understand
and comprehend so clearly that we may govern our-
selves accordingly, that there are no privileged classes
in this country with respect to game and game fish
statutes; but that we were all born free and equal be-
fore these laws; and that even the Colonels among us
must conform to them?
SNAP SHOTS.
The seventh annual dinner of the Megantic Fish and
Game Club will take place at the Vendome, Boston, on
Thursday evening, Jan. 11, at 6 o’clock. Treasurer Chap-
man writes us that it is proposed to make this dinner ex-
cel, if possible, all previous occasions.
A responsible and trustworthy Washington correspon-
dent, who because of his interest in the preservation of
wild ducks has taken pains to investigate the Treasury
records of egg importation from the Northwest, sends us
a statement which we publish in our shooting columns,
It is to the effect that there is practically no such impor-
tation whatever. His investigation was prompted by the
note of Commissioner Huntington of Ohio calling for a
protest against a proposed modification of the tariff by
which eggs would come in free; and unless the Treasury
records can be shown to supply fallacious data, it would
appear that the inroads of the eggers upon the wildfowl
supply cannot be affected one way or the other by the
Wilson bill.
Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, who as president of the
New York Society for the Suppression of Crime, has been
engaged in a crusade against the vicious classes of this
city, winds up the passing year with a complaint that he
has found the District Attorney’s office obstructive of his
efforts. If Dr. Parkhurst has been an attentive reader of
the FOREST AND STREAM he must be familiar with the
Delmonico woodcock case; and we commend to him a
review of that affair, for it will afford abundant evidence
of the encouraging truth that the unwearied prodding of
obstructive officials will in the end clear the way for
bringing wicked men to the bar of justice,
+ .B60
FOREST AND STREAM.
[Drc. 80, 1893.
For the Waning Year.
THE SINGING MOUSE STORIES.—IV.
BY E, HOUGH.
Tur fire was flickering fitfully, and painting ghostly
shadows on the wall. It was winter, and late in winter;
indeed, the season was now at length drawing near to the
end of winter, and approaching that dear time of spring,
which, beyond doubt, will be the eventual front and clos-
ing of the circle in the land where winter will not come.
Thad drawn the little pine table close to the heap of
failing embers, and aided by what light the sulky candle
gave, was bending over and trying to arrange a patch on
my old hunting coat. It was an old, old hunting coat,
far gone in the sere and yellow leaf. It was old-fashioned
now, though once of proper form and comeliness. It was
disfigured,stained and worn. The pockets were torn down.
The bindings were worn out. It was quite willing, was
the coat, to be left alone now, hung by upon a forgotten
nail, and subject to no further requisition. Nevertheless,
if its owner wished, it could still do a day or two. I knew
that; and something in the sturdy texture of its oft-tried
nature excited more than half my admiration, and all my
love. So I was gentle as I might be with the needle.
Walpurgis on the ceiling, gray coming on in the embers,
symptoms of death in the candle, a blotch of tallow on
the Shakspere, and the coat not half done. It must have
been about then, I think, that the thin-edged sweetness of
the Singing Mouse’s voice pierced keenly through the air.
I was right glad when the little creature came and sat on
my knee, and in its affectionate way began to nibble at
my finger-tips. «I was right glad. when it sat erect, its
thin paws waving with a tiny, measured swing, and in its
mystic voice, so infinitely small, so sweet and yet so majes-
tically strong, began a song which no pen can transcribe.
Thrilled and spell-bound, knowing that the awakening
must come, but unwilling to lose one moment of the
dream, I, who with one finger could have crushed the
little thing, sat prizing it more and more, as more and
more its voice swept, and swelled, and rang; rang till the
fire burst high in noble pyramids of flame; rang till the
candle flashed its thousand crystals; swelled till the walls
fell silently apart, and showed that all this time I had
been sitting ignorant of, but yet within a grand and
stately hall, whose polished sides bore speaking canvas
and noble marbles; swept upand around, till every stately
niche, and every tapestried corner, and every lofty dome
rang gently back in mellow music, all for the Singing
Mouse and me!
Thou small wizard! It was cunning of thee, I declare,
to paint that old mill dam on the wall. How naturally
the wooded hill slopes back beyond the mill! And how,
with the same old sleepy curves the river winds on back!
How green the trees—how very green! Ah, Singing
Mouse, they can’t mix that color any more, someway.
And nowhere now do wide bottom-lands wave and sing
in such seemly grace, so decked with yellow flowers,
with odd sweet William and the small wild rose. And
nowhere now on earth, I know, is there any stream to
murmur so sweetly and so comfortably, to say such words
to any dreaming boy, to babble of a work well done, to
whisper of a high place earned, to’ hintof a good, clear
conscience, and of a final happiness worth all the work-
and all the places. All that was.in the river. If J listen
very hard and imagine very high and very deep I can
almost pretend to hear them, those old words, heard
when Il wasyoung. Butitis only pretense. Ifearl have
lived too long. ‘The voices are there, I doubt not. There
are other boys, God keep them boys always; and may
they dream not backward, but ahead !
Now, that smooth, lazy pool beneath the east wing of
the dam, how smooth if looks! Yet well I know the
sunken log upon its further side. I have festooned it full
often with big hook and hempen line, with spoon and
swivel, with small hook and airy leaders. I have taken
out of that pool how many hundred bass, I would not say,
nor how multifold a band of fat and fatuous goggle-eyes,
nor how great a store of bullheads, when the water was
too high for better game. It was here my father first
taught me to loosen a hard-snagged hook, working pa-
tiently, with deft droppings of the heavy sinker, and easy
twitchings of the line. It was here my brother and I
caught the pailful of goggle-eyes. It was here we made
that fellow throw back the bass we saw him catch out of
season. It was here that we actually once slept all night,
rolled upon the bank, and woke the next morning each
with a sore throat, but with a heart full proud at such
high deed of derring-do.
‘And there’s the long wooden bridge. What a feat of
engineering did that bridgeseem to our untraveled minds!
And there, at the other end of the bridge—swimming up,
I declare, in the same old way—is the great silvery moon
whose light served us when we used to stay late by the
dam in the summer time, And those shadows of the
bridge timbers are just as long and black; and the water
over the middle break—out there where we speared the
big sucker, you know—is just as beautiful and white; and
here, right down under our feet, the moon is playing the
same trick of painting faces in the water!
There are too many faces, Singing Mouse! Will you
kindly make it clearer? Can you not bring them nearer
to the surface? And will you not stop repeating those
old lines about the “Corpus Delicti!” You make me
shudder with your song about bodies coming to the sur-
facel
What's that—what are you doing? I pray you, no
Madonnas! This river is only make-believe, you know,
and I’m not really a boy. There are no more angels on
earth, I know, than there are bass ina meadow! That
one—Pullit! Pull the slide, Isay! Do you want to kill
me, you heartless little wretch? You are so cruel some-
times that 1 know not whether most to love or hate you.
Now, that’s rather a pretty picture you've got there.
that picket fence for? What do you mean by that house,
with the little porch in front, and the green blinds and
the new look, as if it had never been lived in? What's
that got to do with the brown woods, whose doors stand
always wide and welcoming to a fellow, and whose rooms
have no ghosts in them? Pullit! Pull it, I say! What-
ever has gotten into you to-night?
I thank you, wizard. After the solemn-fronted moun-
tains, the solemn-fronted sea. If you will listen thought-
fully enough you will find that it is not all trouble that
the sea is talking about. Much more than a petty excite-
ment, fit to blot a weak man’smomentary woes, it speaks
of a sterner and stranger impulse; it throbs with the
pulse of a further shore; it speaks of a quiet tide making
out to the Fortunate Islands, and tells of a way of follow-
ing gales, and to a new Atlantis. Those are pretty lines
you haye there, Singing Mouse:
Long time upon the mast our brown sail flapped;
Our keel plowed bitter salt, and everywhere
The ominous sky in sullen mystery wrapped,
What side we looked on, either here or there,
The welcome sight of land long sadly sought;
And that Atlantis, hid within the sea,
The city with our hope and promise fraught,
We saw not yet, nor wist where it might be.
But as we sailed as manful as we might,
And counted not the sail more fit than oar,
Lo! o’er the wave there burs} a vision bright
Of wood, and winding stream, and easy shore.
Then by the lofty light which shone above,
We knew at last our voyage sad was o’er,
And we hard by the haven for which we strove,
And soon all past the need to wander more.
Then as our craft made safely on the strand,
And we all well our weary brown sail furled,
We gazed as strangers might at that fair land,
And hardly knew if it might be our world;
Till someé one took gently every weary hand,
And led us on to where still waters:be,
And whispered softly, ‘‘Lo! it hath been planned
That thou at last this pleasant place skouldst see.”
And as those dreaming, so awakened we,
And looked with eyes unhurt on that fair sky,
And whispered, hand in hand, and eye to eye,
‘Tis our Atlantis, risen from the sea—
"Tis our Atlantis, from the bitter sea!
‘Tis our Atlantis, come again, oh! friend, to thee and me!"”
“Say, about that Atlantis, now, Singing Mouse?” said 1.
Well, well, how small the voice sounded! Bless my
soul! how quickly it all snapped back to the pine table,
and the dead fire, and the burnt-out candle, and the old,
old coat!
DANVIS FOLKS.—XIX.
Misfits.
‘“‘I7’s turrible resky a-gettin’ one thing ’at’s a leetle cuter
’n the rest o’ yer belongin’s,” Uncle Lisha remarked as he
split some pegs off a block with his jack-knife.
“Oncte I got me a new awl’at put me clean aout’n con-
sait o’ my ol’ kit, an’ cost me more’n a month’s airnin’s
a-buyin’ new tools ’at I didn’t need, an’ some on 7em jest
‘useless consarns.
‘Pye knowed a feller tuagit a patch sot on a boot ‘at
looked so muth better ’n the rest on ’t’at he hed tu git a
new pair an’ then a suit o’ clo’s tu match, an’ then his
womern must up an’ hey a new ealiker gaownd, . But the
beatinest was Ros’l Drake’s door, a bran new front door
’at he bid off tu Amos Wilkinses vandue. Do’ know haow
Amos come tu hev it, but he hed it, an’ Ros’] he bid it off,
an’ took it hum an’ sot it in the barn, and at fust his
womern sputtered *baout his buyin’ of it, an’ they hed a
notion o’ puttin’ on ’t in the place o’ their ol’ front door,
but it wouldn’t fit, an’ they ca’lated if it did it *ould make
the hul haouse look humblier ’n ever. But it wouldn’t du
to waste that aire door, ’at was paneled an’ hed a big
brass knocker, an’ so what d’ they du finally but turn tu
an’ build them 2 new haouse tu fit that ’aire door, which
the ol’ one was plenty good ’nough.”
‘Wal,” he continued, after brushing the split pegs from
gage the’ place, an’ finally lost it, ol’ haouse, new haouse,
front door an’ all, an’ went off over intu Adams Gore tu
live in a lawg haouse, an’ glad ‘nough tu git sech shelter.
«Over in the Gore, the rusters don’t begin tu crow ‘fore
ten o’clock in the forenoon, an’ the hens go to rust right
arter dinner, an’ you c’n allers tell Gore folks when they
come daown herein dog days, by the’ stompin’ the’ feet
tu git the snow off on’em. That’s where the door landed
them.”
‘Dat mek me remmbler one man Canada,” said An-
toine.
‘‘Consarn ye, Ann Twine, what in tunket ’s the reason
ye don’t never tell your stories fust?”
‘Ah ll save de pie an’ kek for de en’ of de dinny,” said
Antoine with a bland smile.
«Pies an’ lies they be mostly,” Uncle Lisha growled,
and Antoine began:
“Dar was one man Canada gone off for work one
mornin’ hearly, an’ hell see it one leetly waum walkin’
aout on de road for smell de mornin’ hair.
feeshins, me. An’ he’ ll peek it up an’ go raght off an’ get
hees hookin line an’ go on de river an’ t'row hees hook,
an’ it ant more as two minute fore peckerel was took it,
O, great beeg one. An’ de log was slippy de man was
stan’ on, an’ he was pull on de water an’ all draown dead,
“So you see, sah, boy, jus’ for leetly waum datmans
was loss hees day work, an’ dat beeg peeckerel—dat was
too bad—an’ more as half hees laf-tam, for he’ll was be
young man an’ was goin’ be marre nex’ week, so he loss
many for one leetly waum, hein?”
the edge of the bench into his hand, ‘‘they hed tw mort- |
sure to fall a prey to my 10-bore.
hees waf too, an’ all de funs of de weddin’. Ant dat good
copses and green brookside banks, inviting the weary
heart and hand to rest and quiet recreation. He felt an
almost painful heart-twinge that reminded him of long
by-gone boyish anticipation.
“It can’t quite fech the ol’ spot,” he thought to himself,
“but thinkin’ o’ fishin’ an’ goin’ arfishin’ comes nigher
fetchin’ on ’t’an most anythin’.” Then speaking aloud:
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Among the large number of visitors I noticed the following oldtime
shooters: Hank White, Albert Ivans, Leander Campbell, who shoots a
find, handie and trap match next Saturday at Perth Amboy with Wm.
Hartman for $100, and Oscar Hesse, all of Red Bank; James Laird and
Harry Davis, of Wreehold; Wm. Kelsey, of Chadwicks, of clay-pigeon
and glass ball fame, also the best ducking’groundsin the State of New
Jersey in Barnegat Bay. The birds were a good lot, going with the
wind, which was blowing across thetraps, The birds at these grounds
are always retrieved by F. Worrell’s English setter Ned, pronounced
one of the best retrievers in the State.
Colt Hammerless Gun Club.
Hartrorp, Conu., Dec. 16.—At the shoot of the Colt Hammerless
Gun Club the rain fell in torrents and only five members appeared.
The medal was wou by M. F. Cook. Since the Yale and Harvard gun
clubs shot their match on our grounds the Wesleyan College, of Mid-.
dletown, Conn., has formed a gun club and intends to prepare a team.
for competition with other colleges. Also a numberof Trinity boys.
from Trinity College, of Hartford, are intending to join our club and,
see if they can get a team good enough; they have several fine shots
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Falcon Gun Club.°
Tse monthly shoot of the Waleons at Dexter Park, on Dee 21,
brought together 6 membersin the club event. The club event was
followed by ateam shoot three mena side, at 5 birds. This club is
one of the few who still cling to the old style ass of gun below the
eat k and the second barrel to count! bird. The scores are ap-
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A Begging Letter.
WNotiey, N. J., Dec. 24.—Editor Forest and Stream; As I have
just moved into my new house here (about ten miles from New York
city) I beg of all friends and sportsmen not to pass by without stop-
ping. They will find the latch string on the outside, No matter if
they shoot a $30 or a $300 un their welcome will be just the same.
In this house I intend haying one room to be known 4s the sports-
men’sroom, Forit I wanta collection of mounted birds, animal heads
skins or anything suitable for sucharoom. I am going to beg of
the sportsmen to contribute to this collection, which I will prize more
highly if their own shooting. The giver’s name will be put on each
specimen, Trusting lam not asking too much, and that you will pull
the latch string when coming this way, I am, very truly,
OaxLey House, Nutley, N. J,
Wells Fargo Express,
Oszuey,
578
THE INTER-STATE M. AND D.
Tu Interstate Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ Association held their
annual meeeing at Taylor’s Hotel, Jersey Citv, Tuesday, Dec. 19, The
meeting was called to order by President Chas. Tatham, and the eall
of roll showed the following present: Messrs. Chas. Tatham, J. A. H.
Dressel, J. Yon Lengerke, H A. Penrose and Noel HE, Money. Messrs.
George H. Sampson, O. D. Delano and Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manu-
facturing Co. were represented by proxy.
The minutes of last meeting of stockholders were accepted as read,
Report of treasurer was accepted and ordered filed. Report of man-
ager, on motion, was accepted and ordered filed. . :
The secretary was instructed to cast an affirmative ballot electing
the old board of directors. Stockholders’ meeting adjourned.
The meeting of board of. directors was immediately called to order
with Mr. Charles Tatham temporary chairman and Mr. H. A. Penrose
temporary secretary. The following officers were elected to serve
during the year 1894:
Mr. Chas. Tatham, President.
Mr. O. D. Delano, Vice-President.
Mr. J. Von Lengerke, Secretary.
Mr. J. A. H. Dressel, Treasurer.
Mr. Elmer E. Shaner was reappointed manager.
On motion the following committees were appointed:
Executive Committee: J. A. H. Dressel, J. Von Lengerke, Charles
Tatham.
Classification and Tournament Committee:
EH, Money, H. A. Penrose.
Club Organization Committee:
Noel EB. Money.
- After an informal discussion of plans, ete., for next season, the
meeting adjourned.
Manager Shaner’s report reads as follows:
The I. M. and D. A.
_ ‘YThe Interstate Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ Association was incor-
orated under the laws of New Jersey, December 27, 1892, Mr. Chas.
Tatham, Mr. J. A. H. Dressel and Mr. George H Sampson being the
incorporators. By the name the association exists until January 1,
1942. Outlined in the charter are the association's objects: To en-
courage field and trap-shooting throughout the United States and
territories by organizing and assisting to organize clubs for that pur-
pose; to give shooting tournaments and to distribute to sportsmen
advertising matter relating thereto. The association organized by the
election of the following Board of Directors: Chas. Tatham, President;
©. D. Delano, Vice-President; H. A. Penrose, Secretary; J. A. H.
Dressel, Treasurer; Geo. H. Sampson, Justus Yon Lengerke and Noel
E. Money. Elmer HE. Shaner was appointed manager.
The Great Live Bird Shoot.
The inaugural tournament for 1893 was the ‘Grand American Handi-
cap” at live birds, which was decided at Dexter Park, L. I., April 5, 6
and’. This event was at 25 live birds, $25 entrance, 2lyds. boundary
around each trap, handicaps ranging from 25 to 32yds., and the three
highest scores to take the purse, The Interstate Manufacturers’ and
Dealers’ Association added $200 to first money. There were 21 entries
and 3 forfeits. Robert A. Welsh won first money, $477.60; Noel H.
Money won second money, $16650; George Work won third money,
$111, During the tournament 1,256 live birds were trapped.
The success of this handicap led the association to decide on a sim-
ilar contest for 1894, under slightly altered conditions, viz.: 25 live
birds, $25 entrance, 50yds. boundary with a dead line, handicaps
ranging from 25 to 32yds., and $1,000 guaranteed by the Interstate
Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ Association. There is every reason to
believe that in course of time this contest will be looked upon as the
greatest pigeon-shooting event in the United States, and will attract
shooters from abroad.
J, Vou Lengerke, Noel
H. A. Penrose, J. Yon Lengerke,
On Jersey’s Soil.
The second tournament was given at Passaic, N. J.. May 19 and
20, under the auspices of the Passaic City Gun Club, and $500 were
guaranteed by the Interstate Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ Associa-
tion. Forty-five shooters took part. There were ten events each
day. Average entry first day 237,5, second day 23. 6,205 targets were
trapped in regular events. Total amount of money divided in purses
was $770. Total amount of surplus money was $41.99.
BEST AVERAGES FIRST DAY,
F EK. D. Miller, first ............+ Seemed ae vieja cae 77 per cent.
‘Class A. } Nenfeaprars seconds ssuaiawechGnuasciee scr se 76 us
B § Hddie Collins, first. i....0.. 0. sees seactesas ..71 per cent.
‘Class B. | Charles Smith, second...........-«ceuee 70 te
lass G Oscar Hesse, first..... nt, .87 per cent,
Class C, } Noel E. Money, second.........eeeseeeeeeeeees 6 Ke
BEST AVERAGES SECOND DAY.
OSE VaneDyientiteby ci geccite acs fete aalooniek ++. 08%% per cent.
Class A. { Neaf Apgar, SeCONd........-cseccceectenenssss 7834 te
B Eddie Collins, first, ..........:ccsecvcceyessees Te per cent.
Class B. | W.R. Hobart, second.,.......-- eMart 6614.
rel § J. B. Richmond, first... 2... 6. cceecepeneeeeeee 85 per cent.
Class C. 7 Gapt. A. W. Money, second .......... ee he VGs, wee
Up Among the Alleghenies.
The third tournament was given at Altoona, Pa., June 21 and 22,
under the auspices of the Altoona Rod and Gun Club, and $400 were
guaranteed by the Interstate Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ Associa-
tion; $150 were added by the Altoona Rod and Gun Club. Forty-three
shooters took part. There were ten events each day. Average entry
first day 28°,,, second day 28° 9. 1,275 targets were trapped in regular
events. Total amount of money divided in ‘purses was $1,077.75.
‘Total amount of surplus and added money was $352.76.
BEST AVERAGES FIRST DAY.
HY Vea DyKO, GU St va vss css verssjeraie ealejere eines 4.08 per cent.
Aas A- J mame Collings becond A, ccs Re 58,
W.G. Lee SRC ate siptataie a iiceats MPLS oTaree ee Sorter 70 per cent.
Class B, W. M. C. Jones, | 4
! Wellington, ith heed Sees f é
GC. Crosby, first.......... Ranta aigiathencaistevareieor etnies ae 3%, per cent.
@lass€. 4% J, Levis, second............... A elmer 9559) 644, ~=CO
BEST AVERAGES SECOND DAY.
\ ¥. Yan Dyke, first..... ceteprrpeerbrrccrerssrecObeg per cent,
Class A. + adie Coiling, second........----. she vane BSG
© Crosby, GISt sce eens eeccr ss Asmar veyernssserOerg per cent.
Class B. 1 Ww. S. King, second, ..,,,,s0+++++« SN Reg e Bes
ia W, Sands, fst... cy. csscecssevucvessess veees- 811g per cent.
Class C. SAN Ocoee & pore Son pees ores “i
Down the Ohio.
The fourth tournament was given at Hast Liverpool, O., July 12 and
13, under the auspices of the Hast Liverpool Gun Club. Four hundred
dollars were guaranteed by the Interstate Manufacturers’ and Dealers’
Association. Thirty-five shooters took part. There were ten events
each day. Average entry first day, 31°,,; average entry second day,
183,,; 6,370 targets were trapped in regular events. Total amount of
FOREST AND STREAM,
money divided in purses was $787.50. Total amount
average money was $150.55.
BEST AVERAGES FIRST DAY:
of surplus and
hepeers G. BH. Snyder, first.,..,.. Wier? Se aioe .....7445 per cent
Bes G 5) eee Oncaea ite Aver Vases
W. J. Vance, first...... apaatfles em tals Fis .. (44, per cent,
Class C. | H. C. Fry, second.,..,......... PEE eee So a we
BEST AVERAGES SECOND DAY:
Noel E. Money, first..... Tuyetvent vecesvesy+se5149 per cent.
Class B. G. Hi Snyder, second...... MEE cor eee pre
. Ritchie
Class C. 12 Jones, 3 t LIUSt aaa nacfestdkfeintte RE eyers tele ++++- 15%, per cent,
HitCa liye SCCOUG: waeusanen coeett cests crepe ely +
Three Great Days im Carolina.
The fifth tournament was given at Charlotte, N. ., Aug. 16, 17 and
18, under the auspices of the Charlotte Gun Club. Three hundred
dollars were added to the purses by the Charlotte Gun Club. Thirty
shooters took part. There were eight events each day. Average
entry first day, 21; average entry second day, 2014; average entry
third day, 17°,; 8,960 targets were trapped in regular events. Total
amount of money divided in purses was $1,266.50
BEST AVERAGES FIRST DAY:
as Noel E. Money, first........... Sdontiicting sorte er cent,
Class B. ‘dina Crow, second. ley Ashe Dee ME, 1.73 ake
. W. Hoffman, first..... cieteeeaialste eee ates cient .67 per cent.
Class C. W. M. Thomas, second......-...-.s.0e cee. 65 Poe
BEST AVERAGES SECOND DAY!
John Todd,
Class B. } Noel Money FITS, ,....cesccesssesess «2.00 percent.
A ROCOUMS 22s eee eta mle bictaensatbe Oe st
. W. Hoffman, |
Class C. 2 R. Dodge, ar HIGSE A vectacineeeae ersecaseetd percent.
IW, MSD NOMAS “SECONG..) edenskls eames wien eee OD *
BEST AVERAGES THIRD DAY:
John Todd, first ......... iN aettens aansee Nahe sists er cent.
Class B. | Noel E. Money, second........ Ct A Perernne nt
Class C A. R. Stokes, first......,... std alse npc ate ate beers 82 per cent.
ass. 1. R. Dodge, second.,.... fend ONE Ee Pe oe V7 eS
GRAND AVERAGE FOR THE THREE EVENTS:
Noel FE. Money, first......... Ate avatarh srararselyifa fa) sfosooe es recvessessef9 per cent,
ToOnNNToOda Second try sae eenapaeeds ay utes eleleieete Wve tate ot 78 Oe
Jim ‘Crow,;-third, s.0cci Sin ta ttweceuwcasce oa Ripa dee eiineee kone $
In the “Old Bay State.”
The sixth tournament was given at Worcester, Mass., Sept. 20 and
21 under the auspices of the Worcester Sportsmen’s Club; $50 were
added by the Worcester Sportsmen’s Club; 30 shooters took part;
there were 10 events each day; average entry first day 165,), average
entry second day 18; 5,300 trapped in regular events; total amount of
money divided in purses was $590.25.
BEST AVERAGE FIRST DAY.
Noel EH. Money, first.......
Class B. i E. Burns, second..
Class C,
seereee
BEST AVERAGES SECOND DAY.
W. L. Davis, first.......0.cceees wea atewcerse 80 per cent.
Class B. 1 Gapt: A. W. Money, second. ...0600 700202, 79 “
{ J. Hoyle, first..... Ap ay . 64% per cent.
Class C. 4 Ww. allison, second...) 6084.
eens
On Historic Ground.
The seventh tournament was given at Lynn, Mass., Oct. 25 and 26,
under the auspices of the Lynn Fish and Game Protective Association;
27 shooters took part; there were 10 events each day; average entry
first day 10°,9, average entry second day 12; 3,420 targets were trapped
in regular events; total amount of money divided in purses was
$363.75.
BEST AVERAGES FIRST DAY.
We Gi Davis, ISb voces eaedseser es dvccwsesinet4 per cent,
Class B. , B. Le Roy Woodward, SCCONd,.....sceeeneees “ie zs
{ Uiman, first,,...... BTSs AWC etsy eie rasta rcheteictese, ate fcr per cent.
Class C. } J. Mascroft, second............... a ee oe .522,0°~CO
BEST AVERAGES SECOND DAY.
“ None eligible.
Class B. | Not shooting in all events. ay
(oe MARtINe TI CSLs cue te neh WN eta ceete) = Meleelay eet ee per cent.
Class C. 4 ‘W. Allison, second.........cc-..cee honk coe A 5G “
Recapitulation.
Number of tournaments giveD,,....scsse0es ACCU SCRE} VE
‘ “ shooters taking Parl......:sseeetsssessteesas a3]
“ * targets trapped........s.essecsecee web veered 080
“ live: DIndsAiTAPPEMs wea ses sesueeeed se anuasuees 1,356
Amount of money divided,.......... ROD CSO passes 15,610.75
Novelty Rule.
All target events were shot under the Novelty Rule which is as fol-
lows: Five traps are used in a straight line, 5yds. apart, placed 14yds.
from the score, with 3 traps in a straight line, 10yds. apart, placed in
the field 35yds. from the 5traps. The outside traps are numbered 6,
7 and 8.. No.1 will throw a right-quarterer, No. 2 will throw a left-
quarterer, No. 3a straightaway, No. 4a right-quarterer, No. 5 a left-
quarterer, No. 6 right-quartering incomer, No.7 a straight incomer
and No. 8 a left-quartering incomer. All traps to be pulled by the
indicator and shooters get targets from any of the 8 traps. Unknown
traps, unknown angles, different distances.
With Our Kind Regards.
In closing this review we would state the foregoing is an accurate
transeript taken from the cashier’s books.
We would also announce the Interstate Manufactruers’ and Dealers’
Association will give a series of tournaments during 1894.
Clubs desiring the Association to give tournaments under their
auspices should make application early, bearing in mind that the In-
terstate Association carries all paraphernalia necessary to conduct a
first-class shootiug tournament. Respectfully yours,
THE INTERSTATE MANUFACTURERS’ AND DEALHRS’ ASSOCIATION.
The Grand American Handicap
At live birds will take place at Dexter Park, New York, April4, 5 and
6, 1894.
"The conditions are 25 live birds, $25 entrance, 50yds. boundary and
$1,000 guaranteed by the Interstate Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ As-
sociation. Programmes containing full information will be ready
Feb. 10, 1894.
(Dro. 30, 1998,
Trap at Watson’s Park.
Burwsivg, Ill., Dec. 5.—The following is the score made here to-day
by Chicago Shooting Club, 15 liye birds, new club medal, Illinois State
R B Wadsworth11222121020200i1—11 Jas Watsoh..... 221011120112101—12
Ed Bingham. . . .021022221020010— 9 Capt Anson ,., .222221002221202—12
LM Hamiline, .022122220012212-12 M J Hich........ 222222011112012—13
Dec. 13,—South Chicago Gun Club, 20 live birds, for club medal:
AW Reeves.12111122012112111112—19 Dr Larkin,.11112101012111000010—13
FE Willard12122221012112121000—16 Ike Watson21110200222112222212 17
P Miller... .12211200012110021112—15 L Willard. .21211112010111011222—17
Jno Watson11211212111210011101—18 DrFor*in’m02222212102210121002—14
Same day, 30 Peoria blackbirds, for club medal; A. W. Reeves 18,
L. C. Willard 24, P. Miller 18, Ike Watson 21, Dr. Forthingham 23.
. »2002200200—5
teeeess..2002202211—5 Geo Kleinman.,,....,2111012212—9
Same day, match between Abe Kleinman and Tom Hall, and George
Kleinman and Dick Dead Hye, 50 Peoria blackbirds per man, $2 per
man:
Abe Kleinman ,00111101111111010111111100111110100111111111001011—37
Tom Hall..... ,00001111011001111001111011110101110010101111100111—32—69
Geo Kleinman.011111011100111101111110011001101 70101110101111111—46
Dick Dead Hye00011010001001110001101110010101110111001100001000—23—59
Mr. Mott shot 50 for practice and broke 35.
Ten Peoria blackbirds, entrance $1, one money: Mott 7, Geo. Klein-
man 7, Abe Kleinman 9, Tou Hall 6, Dick Dead Eye 6.
x Sane. aot 6, Geo. Kleinman 10, Abe Kleinman 9, Tom Hall 6, Dick
ead Bye 8.
Same: Mott 7, Geo. Kleinman 7, Abe Kleinman 7, Tom Hall 5, Dick
Dead Eye 4.
Dec. 20.—Audubon Gun Club handicap shoot, allowing birds, Dlinois
State rules, live birds:
1—14 M'Caule 0220210101— 9-++-3—12
CB Dicks221201111111220—1
FA Placel102102122020112114+112 *Antoine.212121210010112 12
LHamil’e021222112200012—11 14 *Eaton.. ,002100020000121— 6
W Shep’d222222000021010— 12 *Froth'm011222100020221—10
Wadswh226201022221222—1 —12
*Not members.
Mr. Wadsworth and Mr. Place were tied in three shoots before
to-day for first place. The club gives two prizes. Following is the
shoot-off for first place:
FA Place........, 1211110101100— 9 RB Wadsworth, ,2121222221222—18
Ties for second place:
CB Dicks....... .12002220011000— 7 I M Hamiline , , ,12111122220022—12
Mr. Dicks and L. M. Hamiline were tied for second place in three
shoots before, but to-day’s result was another tie at the shoot-off.
RAVELRIGA.
Onondaga County Sportsmen’s Club.
Syracuse, N Y., Dec. 21.—No. 1, 15 bluerocks, entry $2:
M Williams,.,,.011011101011111—11 © Dugard....,,.110111111111111—14
G@ Holloway....101111011111111—13 C Fredericks , , .111111101101111—13
J Herman,,....011001110011111—10 G Mann,,,,,.,,.000101001111111— 9
W Ashton,..,..000001111111101— 9 H MeMurehy.. .111111111011110—13
M Forsythe.,... 100010110010011— 7 D King.,.......110111111110101—12
Mr Hunter..... 110011110110111—11 G Luther,....,.111111111011111—14
CH Mowry.....111111011110111—13
F La Strange, ,.111001000010000— 5
HH JOnUES. eee es 110011110011101—10
J Montgomery. .001111111111010—11
DM Lefever, .. .10%J0011111111—12
No, 2, same:
D Walters......111111111101010—12
N Ayers,.......100111111111111—18
J Cool .,......011011111111111—13
C Nowell, .......101011110000111— 9
A G Courtney, ,011111111011110—12
McMurchy,..,.. 111111011111111—14 Howell,......,-.010110110110110— 9
Fredericks...... 111111111111111—15 Luther,.,..,,...101101111110110—11
NG Tae a ae , --111011111111110—13 Barnum,,.....,.110001110011111—10
Dugard,.......- 011111111105111—12 Mowry.......,.-101011011111111—12
TRGEGVGL eerpr sre 101101101011110—10 Hunter.,..,....010110101001010— 7
Courtney....... 011111111111111—14 Forsythe ,......101111010011100— 9
Mann hices ore 010110001111111—10 Jones,,,,.....+-101100111111101—11
Walters ........111110111101101—12 Ayers ,.........111111001110111—13
Cools. sts sana 011111010111101—11_ Herman,,.,.,,,111001110110011—10
After the shoot here our club gives the visiting clubs a nice game
supper at Maple Bay Hotel in Mr. W. 8. Barnum’s best style.
No. 3, same:
AG Courtney, ,011111111111111—14
H MeMurehy. . .111111101111011—19
C Fredericks, ,..109101000101010— 6
D M Lefever. , .,001110111011110—10 r
C Dugard.......011111111111111—14 WF Lefevyer......011101111111111—13
M Williams, ,...1110111110,0111—12 Hunter.........101111001010101— 9
The proposed shoot between the professionals and amateurs did not
occur, and sweepstakes followed with this result. Next Wednesday
(Dec. 27) is the shoot with the Rochester team of 12 men, Auburn
team of 12 men and Onondaga County Sportsmen’s Club with 12 men,
three cornered shoot. Next shoot to be at Rochester, time to be stated
after this shoot. FALSTAFF,
««.110111011111111—13
«--110111011111011—11
H Jones........000111110111111—11
WN Ayres,.......111100111111111—13
G Mann..,,
D King...
Boiling Springs Gun Club,
RurserrorD, N. J., Dec, 9.—Match at 25 bluerocks, rapid-firing sys-
tem, rainy weather:
ir
CN i abncnodonr aaueo starve a's seeeeeas eee +1111011000000000100001011—10
EDUC ieee aad oo oral alalhiarerarere ce nnbia-eteranmmele(clare(ere efor 0111141111111101111101101—21
Lane... .ia.: Vedenseaeseeeens wales aeateoe ut bes 0001111111001000110000110—12
Grieiigw erent sweet seiaeses eeereueeee ene eee L011111100101110100111011—17
KGVEDSE iicilee cases cael Frac cOPml terse Foetal 1101100001110111101001111—16
Hiscock io incnwieceesns Dake te Daria Hatae rece 1111101111010111100111101—19
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place selected and not be drifted away by wind or current. It will
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parties to gather it for you.
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American Fishes. Large 4to. Goopx. Illustrated...................-.--. 3.00
American Game Fishes. SHIELDS....,..-...........--..- Sele anim eee les 2.50
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Art. of Shootane, WoANGASTER A ec... ohm woig y cteaterety eins ole ioims pseeis a 3.00
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Dog Training vs. Breaking. HAMMOND.....-......-.....-0+2..000042--- 1.00
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Dogs, Management and Treatment in Disease. ‘‘ASHMONT”....... 2.00
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House and Pet Dogs. Illustrated............ 22.0. ete e nce e eee eeeeeee 50
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Pedigree Record Book. 200 pages, fifth generation and index........... 2.50
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The Scientific Education of the Dog for the Gun.................,. 2.50
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Animal Life of Our Seashore..........-...... PNT beet Watwgeincns od nite. 50
Antelope and Deer of America. CATON.............. 0. ccc cee cece eee 2.50
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Cage Birds and Sweet Warblers.................... ek sen: 2.00
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Guide to the Study of Insects. PACKARD................0.c00e sere eee 5.00
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Naturalist’s Guide. MaAyNnarRD.......... See A oe ee techs nee eps 1.25
Nests and Ege of Birds of the United States. Grntry........... 20.00
Nests and Eggs of North American Birds. Daviis................ » 1.75
Our Common Birds and How tou Know Them..................... 1.50
OurOwn, Birds) Wey edition... 2 es ee eee 2 ee eee 1.50
Pheasant Keeping for the Amateur. Illustrated................... . 1.50
Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting. Hornapay. Illustrated...... 2.50
Taxidermy Without a Teacher. MANTON.,.........-.2..-.....-.00028 50
Taxidermists’ Manual. Brown. Illustrated; $1; paper................ 50
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Adventures on the Great Hunting Grounds of the World....... 1,00
Blackfoot Lodge 'Tales. GRINNELL...........,., .. SARE bos Ss ie oe 175
City Boys in the Woods. WELDS... 2.0.2.0. ..5 eee een tec c ates eeees 2.50
Ferrets, Their Breeding and Hunting.......,.....................-- 25
Mountain Trails and Parks in Colorado. Illustrated,............... 1.50
Old St. Augustine, Florida. Rerynoups. Illustrated................... 1.00
Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales. GRINNELL...,.............-. 1.75
Poems of the Rod and Gun. McLELLAN...............0..00 0. 0....00e 1.25
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Practical Poultry Keeping. BEALS,,... | 1,50
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